EPTAlthough there was a lot of problems, in my opinion it’s clear that RedBull tried to take good care of the players. They even booked nicer hotels for the players and sent all the casters/other staff to an INN (LMFAO, that’s kinda mean ><).
Hard to say. There are tons of inns out there that are easily comparable to hotels, if not better in some cases.
Apparently RedBull was surprised by the need for practice PCS as their ESports comes from a starcraft II background and their players rarely need practice PCS.
I don't buy Redbull's excuse as being surprised. With Redbull's esports background, the last thing they have is experience with Dota 2 and other sports. This sounds like a budget problem. Perhaps they should have spent less money on parties and go-karting and instead pay to ship some computers there. It's almost as if they are trying to impress you so you're more willing to choose their tournament over other tournaments in the future.
Practice PCS in the hotel was available a few days before the event started, a lan cafe was booked if players wanted to use that as well.
And people wondered if the compendiums made BTS any money at all.
They used SSDs for their PCs so setting up was really fast, we even had them used for the practice PCs which has never been done in any other tournament.
I thought TI3+ used SSDs in their PCs.
There definitely were more commercials this time but the main reason for this is the length of the games being played. If there is less game time, there will be more commercial time. That’s just how things work.
Or they could move the schedule up and have teams on standby. Like sports on TV.
As for show matches, well the players don’t want to do them.
Honestly the majority are here to watch BTS and they don't care about show matches. The only issue is that the schedule has such large break periods that the production value started to drop because there was nothing going on. This is on BTS no matter how you want to look at it. It has nothing to do with quality of games.
Well first off what exactly is a major?
Tournaments that feature as many of the top teams as they can around the world. They aren't regional based. Regional tournaments don't work for esports unless you want to segregate competition.
Anyway, if anyone from the west should be hosting a major. I truly believe that it should be BTS, I’m honestly not even being bias.
Disagree.I don't think BTS should be running a major given their background. To have a major, and be the biggest casting studio, with like 1 year of experience behind them as a group? That's rediculous. I want to see a major NA organization step up and run a major. Like MLG or Redbull. Leaving it to BTS would be like leaving it to a bunch of kids. Valve and the rest of the world have expectations here. This isn't some home grown tournament that BTS can just lay claim to no matter how good their tournament was. And you are being biased, your blog pretty much praises BTS in every single way.
3 Majors will be APAC, EMEA, Americas most likely. The 4th being TI.
