I'll add a vote for desertfox - he's on my friends too, and he's pretty good. And active :)

But whoever fancies it I guess...

As its friday can me and haitch40's match still count as i thought friday was included?

I mentioned the tournament to that bloodthirsty Jagdflieger a few days ago, he said he didn't have time... if he does join, don't lose hope people, it's not dogfight mode here :)

If not, I think wpedra0 would be a good choice since he is on all the time. Muratsan also, though it might take a day to translate the rules cause I don't know the in-game terminology in the russki version (like what they call "strike" mode, etc)

one other thing - the sub will start with 0 points, right, and thus will have an uphill battle to qualify?

I would be inclined to make an exception for whoever takes over and let them play the first weeks matches in the second week. It's only one round, they will not get the "missed the beginning of a film" feeling and everyone involved gets to play more BoP :)

Of course it doesn't affect me, so I guess it's down to edal and the participants involved.

Yes, new participant will continue competition as is and with 0 points. Everyone in group A and C has a shot at the Eliminatory stages (see the Qualification requirements) so even if you have 0 points you will still have an opportunity to redeem yourself.
The point of this group stage is to determine who you will play against on the playoffs. I will elaborate on this later today, also, I will post additional statistics.
*with this in mind, PRACTICE, PRACTICE, AND PRACTICE, as you can see from the group standings, players are pretty much even in skill. If you practice (spotting, and controlling your plane at low altitudes so you dont crash by accident) you may be able to get far :)

"good luck on week 2"

kozzmo and philabong2, ready when you are :D

I'd like to donate a prize to the player that comes in fourth place.
I bought the god of war collection and it came with a voucher code to get the god of war 3 demo early. I already have this demo so the voucher code is of no use to me. maybe a strange prize for a tournament like this but since I have no use for it I might as well give it to someone else:)

at the end of the tournament I'll see who finished in fourth place and send him the voucher code through a PSN message.

Danny

This is a great gesture from your part, thank you. I see that you are from the Netherlands, would you like to join? We need an extra Rest of Europe participant.

I'd like to give it a try but I'm not that good of a pilot on simulator...
but what the heck, sign me up:)

BTW, about the prize, it should be noted that the creation of a US psn account is required, you can't redeem the code anywhere else... shouldn't be a problem though, it's easy to fake a US account :cool:

Awesome news. This will give more incentive for people to do better. :-P

Edal is philabong and I tied? Because we have the same amount of points and our kills and deaths equal out.