MLG Anaheim - Thoughts - Page 3

On June 12 2012 14:00 Shew wrote:
It seems every MLG event I learn a new and really odd rule that is strictly upheld by the tournament, here are the two that I most recently learned (one at Columbus and one at Anaheim):

1.) You can refuse to tell your opponent your race when vetoing maps.

Now, this rule seems fair and unfair. If you're a famous well-known player of X race then it is a disadvantage for you. When it comes to certain match-ups, map selection is crucial. Now I know that most people know the good players and what races they are, but there are always those really strong and unknown players at every event that have the potential to take out some big names (like Scarlett at IPL4). Say a similar player made their debut at MLG, and they could just flat out refuse to tell their opponent their race, leaving a severe disadvantage to the bigger name player across the table. I understand the "mystery" aspect to the Open Bracket where it's (usually) 200+ players and you cannot know every single one. However, I feel that this is just a silly and unnecessary rule.

2.) No replay viewing at all.

After I had just lost my match and was sent into the loser bracket, I wanted to load up the replay and see what I had done wrong. Upon loading up the replay an admin instantly teleported over to me and said "no replay viewing please exit the replay". I was kind of taken back, I explained how I had already lost the best of 3 and was out, yet apparently it did not matter. What's ironic is that I'd walk down the rows of computers and see players watching replays after their defeats all the time. I don't want to jump on the "big namers get privileged" bandwagon but most of the ones I saw were big names, and they were allowed to watch their replays.

I think you should not be able to watch a replay in the middle of a boX, but when you've lost the series and it's over, you should be able to at least watch the replay and see what happened. I can understand if it's for a time-constraint and they need the computer immediately, but that was not the case for my incident at least.

On June 12 2012 12:28 Liquid`Sheth wrote:
Anyway after we both thought that rule was a bit weird he gave us the second reason; there wasn't enough space. And that if every player had 1 spectator behind them then it would be too crowded. I can understand this rule. I'm not going to argue against it. I think there should be times its followed strictly (120+ ppl playing) and times it shouldn't be (20 people still in the tournament). Tyler thought up a cool idea of putting a few TV screens outside of the game area so that spectators can watch from there and not take up room. Putting 5 TV's of 5 of the best stations played inside the ropes so that people can watch from afar I think is a pretty amazing idea.

On June 12 2012 12:53 LuckyFool wrote:
for some reason I noticed more people complaining about being kicked out of the "pit" this time more than previous MLG's. Not sure if MLG was cracking down harder this time or if the people getting kicked out were just more vocal about it.

To be honest it always feels like there are too many unnecessary people in that area. It only really gets annoying when you're trying to watch a match being played on the inside stations and 6 people who don't even belong in there are standing around blocking the view. I really wish MLG would have more matches played on the outer rows (so many championship bracket matches not on stream are played in middle rows in the pit which makes it hard to watch the games sometimes) I'm sure MLG avoids using the outer rows too much though because then you have fans/spectators standing 2 feet behind you.

Was really crazy for a couple of the Kespa invitational matches, I was over there when Bisu/Fantasy were playing on regular stations in the pit and there were hundreds of people cramming so close event staff kept having to tell people to back up and push the ropes out a bit.

On June 12 2012 12:53 LuckyFool wrote:
for some reason I noticed more people complaining about being kicked out of the "pit" this time more than previous MLG's. Not sure if MLG was cracking down harder this time or if the people getting kicked out were just more vocal about it.

To be honest it always feels like there are too many unnecessary people in that area. It only really gets annoying when you're trying to watch a match being played on the inside stations and 6 people who don't even belong in there are standing around blocking the view. I really wish MLG would have more matches played on the outer rows (so many championship bracket matches not on stream are played in middle rows in the pit which makes it hard to watch the games sometimes) I'm sure MLG avoids using the outer rows too much though because then you have fans/spectators standing 2 feet behind you.

Was really crazy for a couple of the Kespa invitational matches, I was over there when Bisu/Fantasy were playing on regular stations in the pit and there were hundreds of people cramming so close event staff kept having to tell people to back up and push the ropes out a bit.

On June 12 2012 14:52 Nizzy wrote:
Media people should not be allowed in there, it just takes up space. They can still take pictures from outside it.

As far as coaches, they should be allowed to watch over a players shoulder in the pit, then when they have no players playing they should have to leave.

I don't know why its not that simple. I must be completely missing something.

On June 12 2012 13:32 tofucake wrote:
You're just happy because he likes you :O

@RedJustice: you were there? You should have gone anyway.

@Sheth fans: He plays mafia you should too then you can chat with him

@Sheth: I should have you sign my face next time. Also sick mafia dodge on Sunday :|