MLG Anaheim - Thoughts - Page 5

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"

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 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"