Diamond Quest CVIII

[Dakota Street]

I can finally enter one of these things so count me in.

DS

[Ria Graziano]

DQ happened! We had a full 16 show up for what turned out to be a barn burner of a Quest! Former Diamonds showed up! New Emeralds showed up! So did the winner of DQ 107, Michelle Montoya! Here were the participants, in seeding order, for this double elimination tournament.

1 Eden
2 Michelle
3 Jaycy
4 Karma
5 Sal
6 gatito
7 Droet
8 Caleb
9 Maggie
10 Gren
11 Amaris
12 Haru
13 Ebon
14 Dakota
15 Matt
16 Kheldar

Round 1:

Eden def. Kheldar, 5-3.
Caleb def. Maggie, 5-3.
Ebon def. Karma, 5-2.
Sal def. Haru, 5-4.
Michelle def. Matt, 5-0.
Droet def. Gren, 5-4.
Jaycy def. Dakota, 5-4.
gatito def. Amaris, 5-4.

Round 2:

Upper bracket -
Eden def. Caleb, 5-1.
Ebon def. Sal, 5-4.
Michelle def. Droet, 5-2.
Jaycy def. gatito, 5-3.

Lower bracket -
Maggie def. Kheldar, 5-2.
Karma def. Haru, 5-4.
Matt def. Gren, 5-4.
Dakota def. Amaris, 5-4.

Eliminated: Kheldar, Haru, Gren, Amaris

Round 3:

Upper bracket -
Eden def. Ebon, 5-2.
Michelle def. Jaycy, 5-2.

Lower bracket -
Maggie def. gatito, 5-1.
Droet def. Karma, 5-4.
Matt def. Sal, 5-3.
Caleb def. Dakota, 5-2.

Eliminated: gatito, Karma, Sal, Dakota

Round 4:

Upper bracket -
Michelle def. Eden, 5-3.

Michelle wins the upper bracket.

Lower bracket -
Droet def. Maggie, 5-2.
Caleb def. Matt, 5-4.

Eliminated: Maggie, Matt.

Round 5:

Upper bracket -
Michelle

Lower bracket -
Droet def. Ebon, 5-1.
Caleb def. Jaycy, 5-4.

Eliminated: Ebon, Jaycy

Round 6:

Upper bracket -
Michelle

Lower bracket -
Caleb def. Droet, 5-4.

Eliminated: Droet

Round 7:

Upper bracket -
Michelle

Lower bracket -
Eden def. Caleb, 5-3.

Eliminated: Caleb

Eden wins the lower bracket.

Finals 1:

Eden def. Michelle, 5-3.

FINALS:

Michelle def. Eden, 5-2.

Michelle shines on with back-to-back Diamonds and wins DQ 108! Congrats Michelle and thank you to all the competitors and patrons!

(( Bracket here: https://challonge.com/ctd27dwa ))