What to do with reserves

[iamkoolerthanu]

I have a tourny where 3 members have mysteriously dropped out, and its a big problem... I had one reserve, since the players were all premium, there were only 16 players, and the games are all 1v1, I wasn't worried about dropouts, but now there have been three, and I cannot find the 2 more reserves that I need..
What do I do in this situation? I am planning on waiting the week since I made the reserves needed thread, but after that week, if I do not have the needed players, what do I do then? I do not want to abandon the tourny, but with insufficient players, I find no other option...
Any help?

[PaulusH]

What I would do in a comparable case: send PM's with direct request to join as reserve.

With selecting a good group of people you can get 20% to 40% possitive reply's. For your need of 2 reserves you should send an invite to 5 a 10 persons.

A good group could be people from a recently abandonned tournament; seperate section at the forum.
Or people joining more often comparable tournaments. At game finding use comparable game-settings & active & tournament and simply check which names often pop-up. Use those and likely you get a reasonable possitive respond-rate.

Good luck with it

[iamkoolerthanu]

Thank you very much! I will try that as soon as I can, and hopefully I will get a good response.. I wasn't aware that I was allowed to send out PM's advertising a tourny