EPTSHOUTcraft America postmortem - Page 4
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schuss
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As far as internet goes - just get somewhere that isn't Time Warner. They're utterly terrible. | ||
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Recoil
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Penev
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On May 24 2013 01:51 TotalBiscuit wrote: I don't think you understand what competitive means. Wow, that's a bit harsh. Maybe you should explain it to him then? Or is there some bad history between the two of you? | ||
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HeavenResign
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kolbendk
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But I also think you need more help running it. It was really showing that you were stressed out, and despite being watchable, it seemed that it could have been a lot better if you had just a little bit of help with some ad hoc stuff. One can only stretch so far  Also bring IdrA back on in the future, as he was a very positive surprise not knowing him to be casting beforehand. Despite you say that you were exploiting the situation, he really delivered. TY and I will be a viewer of future shows. (Maybe make a branch in EU  . | ||
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On May 24 2013 02:37 HeavenResign wrote: This is great TB. Question, how much work was there when giving the invites to the top 16 ladder that they were all legitimate players? I imagine not too much, but then again WCS NA dropped the ball when players like PhysicsLee took awhile to get kicked out, then players like Hyun who were in WCS Korea but were just knocking out players just to be removed later on. Just interested in hearing your perspective and if something like ladder ranking feeding into WCS is sustainable given Blizzard's (possible) lack of player knowledge. 512 man open qualifier vs verifying 16 people. Completely different issues. | ||
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HeavenResign
United States702 Posts
On May 24 2013 02:40 TotalBiscuit wrote: 512 man open qualifier vs verifying 16 people. Completely different issues. Yeah I agree, I guess I was asking if you thought ladder ranking (outside of requirements like being masters or having 1200 points in masters), was ever a viable way to seed into WCS based on how this tournament went. | ||
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MatsNorway
Norway13 Posts
I also kinda like the idea of using the ladder for qualy, and the report in first post was fenomenal. after reading this i thought.. i wanna quit my job and work on this. To me this shows great promise for the future. My only worry is that it might not be the best idea to do things out of idealism, at least when it comes to the business side. And yes. Dreamhack is fenomenal. Best in the biz.. appart from certain pause songs.. "put your ass up in the air" ?? really.. And i really like the recent efforts from many to ensure that casual viewers (like me) gets to see the player in the red corner and with their race and all that. One thing that would be great now is to position their cams to the side they spawned. Red player, red on the mini map and has the person camera on the side he/she`s starting on in relation to the mini map. Only issue then is maps with top or bottom spawn.. I can live with that challenge. | ||
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On May 24 2013 02:42 HeavenResign wrote: Yeah I agree, I guess I was asking if you thought ladder ranking (outside of requirements like being masters or having 1200 points in masters), was ever a viable way to seed into WCS based on how this tournament went. I think it should be a factor certainly | ||
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HeavenResign
United States702 Posts
Blizzard is getting there in terms of properly managing the ladder pool, hopefully with more co-ordination from tournaments all WCS regions can have the same (great) map pool. | ||
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Barbiero
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StillRooney
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Crownlol
United States3726 Posts
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mcleod
Canada350 Posts
hope you guys dont give up and continue on with this format | ||
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Oukka
Finland1683 Posts
Great to see your ideas about the tournament. I personlly tuned in for SHOUTcraft over WCS EU because of exactly the values you guys wanted to promote. Seeing players like HelloKitty, Drunkenboi, State and Kane to compete was really fun to watch, these less known players produced good games and by watching them I felt like I could actually support players who I cannot see anywhere else but who would be a great great addition to international pro-scene. I can only wish that you and Genna end up continuing this series, or at least something similar. For this tournaments where there are no "guaranteed money finishing Koreans" are of huge importance for supporting these lesser known players both financially and also publicity-wise. Additionally your broadcasting hours were really nice. I understand the critique about broadcasting an American tournament during the working hours in NA, but still your choice allowed following the tournament from Finland (GMT +2), which is no small feat. Usually any NA events are practically dead for me, as the broadcasting hours would mean staying awake basically all night. And what's better than showing these great American platyers to European audience, when we usually would have really hard times getting to see even a glimpse of this boys playing. Thanks for the tournament! | ||
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On May 24 2013 02:55 Crownlol wrote: Can we close the other thread and just link responses here? That'd be cool, that thread is obsolete now because the information it was based on was incomplete and old | ||
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