EPTOn June 06 2011 22:15 ChronoCat wrote:
Yep because elevators get stuck all the time, right?
Yep because elevators get stuck all the time, right?
Infinity more often than stairs do.
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Zorkmid
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Infinity more often than stairs do. | ||
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dragoon
United States695 Posts
On June 05 2011 03:50 micronesia wrote: Yeah from your perspective that really sucks, and obviously goes to show being early always helps. Kinda sucks the competition ended late the night before but that's life I guess. As for how MLG handled it... I really can't fault them if they were sticking to a policy they had made public before the event (assuming they were but I have no idea). Legitimate sporting events have strict rules for a reason. If a professional baseball or american football player was in the same situation/elevator with you while trying to get to a game, the game would not wait for him. It would make sense for MLG to change their rules slightly though to be a bit more accommodating without having to sacrifice much... like having a rule where you sacrifice a game every x minutes etc... They DO sacrifice a game after every x minutes. I attended mlg also and had an opponent not show up. After a while th ref's told me that I won game 1 by default. BTW this was also in loser round 1 | ||
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muse5187
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Xeris
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Frankon
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Get a lawyer. Sue the hotel for the lost of possible profit due to their faulty maintenance on the elevator. Get rich fast.... Ok jokes aside. I fell sorry for you. That must have sucked. Good think you weren't claustrophobic | ||
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zeru
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StarStruck
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Lots of people take stairs not just for health benefits. There's always some risk involved with outside factors. | ||
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spacemunkee
United States51 Posts
You also have to look at it from MLG's perspective. 250 players in the open bracket. They have to get each round started only after every player in the previous round is finished. Then they have to publish matchups, get people seated, checked-in, etc... They don't have time to provide exceptions to their rules. The open brackets were running late as it was (as you stated in your first paragraph). In my eyes, MLG didn't exactly as they should have. | ||
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Complete
United States1864 Posts
On June 07 2011 01:50 StarStruck wrote: The point is anytime you take an elevator you leave it up to chance. Lots of people take stairs not just for health benefits. There's always some risk involved with outside factors. What a stressful life you must live O_O | ||
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spacemunkee
United States51 Posts
Yeah OP, you should learn how to repair elevators that are stuck while being stuck in them. Jeez. This is the typical response made by a 15 year old. Learn to think critically. Xeris is absolutely right. - 256 players - OP stated that he was aware open bracket was running late as it was. - OP admitting to not even leaving the hotel until 15 minutes before his match begun. While the situation sucks, poor planning contributed to the situation. Period. | ||
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kNightLite
United States408 Posts
I heard about another guy was DQed because he used a PS2 keyboard with a PS2-USB adapter. So even though he had his keyboard plugged into a USB port he was still DQed for not having a USB keyboard =/ | ||
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bongjwa
United States199 Posts
On June 07 2011 02:11 kNightLite wrote: Wow that sucks. It's a stupid rule, but its still a rule. I think MLG should try to fix that for future events, but I think you're SOL for Columbus. I heard about another guy was DQed because he used a PS2 keyboard with a PS2-USB adapter. So even though he had his keyboard plugged into a USB port he was still DQed for not having a USB keyboard =/ haha that's just silly now | ||
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dudeman001
United States2412 Posts
 I can't say I fault either you or MLG in this situation, it's just an unfortunate circumstance. But I guess you learned a life lesson out of it: never leave ANYTHING to chance.But odds are I'll still be riding elevators just as much as I always have even after hearing your story. :3 | ||
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FabledIntegral
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Phant
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
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Tleaf
Canada181 Posts
I feel for you, some of these comments suck and I think your offer to play 1 game down is reasonable, sucks EDIT: I dont feel so bad if you play terran! (just kidding) | ||
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maahes`ra
United States255 Posts
The tournament they run is huge in scale, though, so I can't really fault them for enforcing their policies. Perhaps talk to a referee directly instead of just telling your friends to be your envoys - being a passionate arguer, I'd make sure that guy said 'it'll be no problem' before I hung up. :D @ Everyone discussing planning, relax. The guy had bad luck, that's the end of it - no need to take a shot and let him know that given this particular set of variables, if he had left 30/45min earlier it would've been fine. He knows that. It's amazing that hotel staff were able to get the elevator to recover instead of the Fire Department having to come in and perform rescue by the books which would've taken hours, not 30 minutes - what's the message then? Find out what station you're playing at the night beforehand and sleep in the chair? ?_____? So silly. | ||
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Ero-Sennin
United States756 Posts
Edited: By the by, I show up at 5:10 PM, and spend the next 20 minutes in 2 different lines, going back and forth between the 2 because they somehow didn't have my name on the list, and then they just slapped a competitors wrist band on me and I got to play ;D I was on the bracket and everything, they just.. didn't have my name on the competitor list for whatever reason, so I almost missed my first round in the open bracket because of that. | ||
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Diamond
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