haha mate!
Firstly GJ at hosting a quickdraw cup!
but... this is a cup not a tournament lol, you are confusing cups with tournaments. Tournaments take place all in one session, everyone needs to be in AG at the same time. Cups take place over a few weeks (or even months) as it takes longer to get all the games done. So get rid of all those deadlines, this isnt a tournament! You can still have deadlines for each round but they are never meant to be played all in one day. For example you have a deadline of 2 weeks for the group games to be played, then another deadline for the knockouts. Depending on how quickly games are getting played you can change the deadlines when and as you need to.
Trust me, the deadlines you are proposing WILL NOT WORK! Not only will they not work, they will also discourage people from joining the cup altogether. They are not necessary, cups are not meant to be rushed in a few days. Its good to have deadlines, but doing it the way you want to will not work, there are too many games that need to be played and people are in all sorts of timezones, use regular cup deadlines. If you dont change the deadlines this cup will be a fail, and that would be a shame seeing as it will be a long time til the next qd cup. None of us want your cup to fail, so remove all those deadlines... now!
To clarify, this cup will be a fail if you dont remove these deadlines and none of us want that.
Secondly, group games NEED to be bo3. Quickdraw NEEDS to be played with a minimum of 3 rounds, thats the nature of the scheme. Make group rounds bo3 and knockouts bo5 (finals bo7 would be good too), and then ill be playing for sure!
As Husk said, look at the last qd cup we had
https://www.tus-wa.com/cups/cup-110/ better to do it like this!
+ I made a map pack of 100 qd maps that im gonna upload to TUS, so maybe remove that link and then link the map pack when its all uploaded, cos theres only 4 or 5 maps in that link.
So yeh GJ for hosting this cup, but you NEED to remove those deadlines.
Mate if you want to be strict about the deadlines, id recommend these:
Group games (bo3): 10 days
Knockouts (bo5) and finals (bo7): 7 days
That is a tight deadline compared to most cups but this scheme isnt very well known, there wont be many players so we should be ok.