double elimination from May 1st to 8th-9th. I think it's quite manageable with a bracket of 16 players, and there's no need to argue otherwise:cool:

Really? Of course, it's easy to play in just 8 rounds. But there aren't 8 rounds. The maximum is 6, and that's already a tight schedule with the risk of having to finish games online. Because many people are already married and need to spend a couple of days with their families during the May holidays. Many take time off work in such a way that they work on the 8th and 9th in exchange for being given extra days off on the 5th, 6th, and 7th. Thus, we have five and a half full days of gameplay. To extend the duration, you'd have to negotiate with Putin to extend the May holidays to the 15th.