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LeapofFaith
Profile Joined November 2011
United States446 Posts
June 12 2012 23:55 GMT
#81
Sheth is pretty much the only person who would talk positively about MLG's crazy rules...so manner ^^
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19144 Posts
June 13 2012 00:09 GMT
#82
he's actually a conniving mad genius bad guy

he's like that guy who you accidentally step on his toe and he's all like "oh don't worry about it" and then the next day you wake up with a horse head in your bed. You know it's him and he knows you know it's him but there's no way to prove it. And the next time you see him he'll be all smiles and bubbly and be like "oh hi sup dude?" and you just stand there and piss yourself then sheepishly reply "ohai"
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
June 13 2012 03:33 GMT
#83
Very cool blog . I never knew that MLG was so... so.. Fascist lol. Like I never really thought that it was so structured O.o.
User was warned for too many mimes.
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
June 13 2012 03:36 GMT
#84
On June 13 2012 09:09 tofucake wrote:
he's actually a conniving mad genius bad guy

he's like that guy who you accidentally step on his toe and he's all like "oh don't worry about it" and then the next day you wake up with a horse head in your bed. You know it's him and he knows you know it's him but there's no way to prove it. And the next time you see him he'll be all smiles and bubbly and be like "oh hi sup dude?" and you just stand there and piss yourself then sheepishly reply "ohai"

Tofu cake, you are my hero lol
User was warned for too many mimes.
Kommatiazo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States579 Posts
June 13 2012 04:19 GMT
#85
Sheth, you manage to put the bright side spin on most things without any bullshit. Great read on the goings on at a huge tournament and I totally agree with you that tournament organizers need to (hopefully) see the dual-tournament style as a BAD thing, I feel terrible hearing about how anyone who wanted to do WCS and MLG pretty much got spread way too thin (and thats even when their games weren't delayed 3 hours) and so the game quality went down as a result. Is it a skewed perspective to think that in the WCS and MLG brackets, the players that did both did worse than they would have if they had only done one? Part of that may be that the KR representation in the MLG side of things obviously performed well and likewise was obviously absent from the NA WCS business, but that doesn't explain why you didn't take it all (this may be fan bias but you are better than Daisuki and Vibe, not they aren't good/don't deserve what they fought very hard for)

Side note:
Sheth for Pres 2016? You'd have my vote

Side side note: When I finally make it to an event a Sheth autograph is going to be the first order of business.
"You must enemy don't know, and very good micro" - Bosstoss #Wet4Ret
Random_Guy09
Profile Joined April 2012
Canada1010 Posts
June 13 2012 05:46 GMT
#86
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.



Well it seems that MLG lets alot go from reading their rules(most recent rules being from Winter Arena) and hearing whats gone on during tournaments.

10. Players may not watch a replay while at a Tournament Station.
Doesnt seem to be reinforced very well and yet MLG is the only tournament that seems to disallow this (not counting the no replay watching when deciding regame or not)

Warm-Up Games may not be played, on Tournament Stations, outside of scheduled Warm-Up periods.
Guess warm up games means just starting a custom to make sure all the players settings are properly set up before a match. As it was said people weren't allowed to even make sure settings were proper before playing (and there were really no times for warm up periods as players were rushed)

Players may not Pause a Game unnecessarily.
So wait players arent allowed to if they have hardware problems or something but MLG officials are allowed to pause for no explained reason and restart without any sorts of countdown (Which everyone witness during the Polt v Stephano series which is honestly very unprofessional and disrespectful to the players)

Players are expected to treat all members of MLG Staff and Sponsors with respect.
If thats expected for players they should recieve the same respect but it seems that some didnt at Anaheim.

And there are other pretty much stupid rules that are flexed to the max of what they could be called broken as they shouldnt be rules in the first place




omnomMuffins
Profile Joined July 2011
United States255 Posts
June 13 2012 08:19 GMT
#87
I can't sit next to Sheth when playing mafia because he reads me way too well I miss my gossip time!

But yeah, Everize kind of totally blew it for town in every way possible. That's okay though since it was a pretty funny win.
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
June 13 2012 10:45 GMT
#88
Thank you for the balanced perspective. The delegation from MLG staff to event security makes sense. You can't pop that many employees of some other organization into an MLG and expect them to know what the rules say to do in every situation. I know there was some weird fire code enforcement/nonenforcement going on from personal experience there.

Wish I had gotten there in time to play some mafia with you all! Best of luck next event.
Great armies come from happy zealots, and happy zealots come from California!
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HeeroFX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2704 Posts
June 13 2012 12:54 GMT
#89
Sheth you should write more blogs! We(your fans) love hearing from you.
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
June 13 2012 19:16 GMT
#90
On June 13 2012 09:09 tofucake wrote:
he's actually a conniving mad genius bad guy

he's like that guy who you accidentally step on his toe and he's all like "oh don't worry about it" and then the next day you wake up with a horse head in your bed. You know it's him and he knows you know it's him but there's no way to prove it. And the next time you see him he'll be all smiles and bubbly and be like "oh hi sup dude?" and you just stand there and piss yourself then sheepishly reply "ohai"


typical mafia behavior.
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Al Bundy
Profile Joined April 2010
7257 Posts
June 14 2012 13:40 GMT
#91
Great read, nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.

I never thought I'd hear about John Nelson again...
o choro é livre
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
June 14 2012 14:11 GMT
#92
I love how Mafia keeps popping up in any blog Sheth writes.

It's kind of amusing to hear about all the bad plays you guys still make while playing mafia.

I've been lurking our Mafia section for a while and it blows me away when I see players making the same stupid mistakes time and time again. o;
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19144 Posts
June 14 2012 14:40 GMT
#93
IRL mafia is soooo much different from forum mafia. In fact, they only have a few things in common:
1. Mafia scum
2. Vanilla Town
3. Cop
4. Medic
5. Bads
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Jampackedeon
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2053 Posts
June 15 2012 14:00 GMT
#94
Thanks for the write-up Sheth! I always value hearing a player experience at one of these events, it sounds like utter chaos!
Ultrablue
Profile Joined October 2010
Finland31 Posts
June 29 2012 18:30 GMT
#95
Woah!
That was written in a really nice and thoughful way :-)
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