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Go0g3n
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Russian Federation410 Posts
May 02 2011 10:34 GMT
#461
I think it's a bit silly. TL set and met a pretty high standard when it comes to hosting tournaments and making cross-realm gameplay as fair and lag-free as possible, but you can't expect everyone to follow, especially for team competitions.

I'm, however surprised, that, Liquid declined to participate in somewhat unfavorable conditions, they only would've applied to EU vs KOR games, and half of TL lineup (Ret, TLO, Tyler) would've been able to play those comfortably.

Gheed
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States972 Posts
May 02 2011 10:36 GMT
#462
After reading the rest of the thread, I'm just going to make a point that probably no one will agree with: fairness and equality are not the same.

Fairness is everyone agreeing to and following a set of rules. Equality is creating rules such that everyone is on equal footing. If EG wants to create a league where the rules are that everyone must play on the NA server, and everyone agrees to do so, then that's fair, even if the result of those rules are games where both players do not have 100% equal chance to win.

So, I think any animus toward EG is unwarranted, since it's their show, and they should be able to establish whatever rules they wish, so long as those rules are applied to everyone.
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
May 02 2011 10:38 GMT
#463
On May 02 2011 19:27 Klive5ive wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 19:05 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On May 02 2011 18:32 Klive5ive wrote:
TL really needs to drop this; it's getting really old.

Yes this is the best SC2 website by far but that doesn't give you the right to dictate to everyone what they should do with their tournaments and walk around with this ridiculous air of superiority.
The fact that the players aren't even performing makes it even worse.

Maybe if they were capable of dropping their ego down a few notches they might be able to learn a few things from other players and actually win stuff.

Old? It is the first time we ask for this as far as I am aware -_-

It's not the first time TL has told other tournaments what they should be doing. It's happened many many times in BroodWar and now in SC2; a lot of it was justified but recently it's too much.
It's good for drama, say what you want, but you have to be able to take as well as give.

The rules of this clanleague are fair. The rules are set out and apply to every team; they are consistent and therefore fair.

Do the rules makes it easy for TL to participate? No they don't.
Fair enough ask for a rule change, but then when it's denied just bow out respectfully.
To start moaning at the organisers for not accomodating your specific requirements is really un-classy.

TL the site and TL the team are two separate entities...

How this thread went was:
1) Random forum poster: Wheres TL!
2) EG: TL declined to participate.
3) Random: Why?
4) TL: Because X

Yes, some hostility from both sides, but I think explaining why we feel something is unfair is a pretty reasonable.
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Pipeline
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1673 Posts
May 02 2011 10:38 GMT
#464
Wow so much heat in this thread. It's weird to see so many get angry over a league that hasn't started yet. I just skimmed through the pages but I do agree with Jinro about the locations of the games. Switching servers to make sure the players are on equal footing in a tournament with 10,000 dollars on the line shouldn't be a big deal at all. Online tournaments need to stop this behaviour. Online leagues like NASL and now this EG tournament will guaranteed lose viewers and participants if they keep up with the stubborn NA server only play.

If you want good games, then you need the players to play with the same (or close to) conditions
Dakmaniac
Profile Joined November 2010
212 Posts
May 02 2011 10:42 GMT
#465
root for ROOT :D

srsly this event sounds awesome and comes with a promising production value :D

thumbs uP !
wisdom is earned not given !!!
nihlon
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden5581 Posts
May 02 2011 10:43 GMT
#466
On May 02 2011 19:27 Klive5ive wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 19:05 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On May 02 2011 18:32 Klive5ive wrote:
TL really needs to drop this; it's getting really old.

Yes this is the best SC2 website by far but that doesn't give you the right to dictate to everyone what they should do with their tournaments and walk around with this ridiculous air of superiority.
The fact that the players aren't even performing makes it even worse.

Maybe if they were capable of dropping their ego down a few notches they might be able to learn a few things from other players and actually win stuff.

Old? It is the first time we ask for this as far as I am aware -_-

It's not the first time TL has told other tournaments what they should be doing. It's happened many many times in BroodWar and now in SC2; a lot of it was justified but recently it's too much.
It's good for drama, say what you want, but you have to be able to take as well as give.

The rules of this clanleague are fair. The rules are set out and apply to every team; they are consistent and therefore fair.

Do the rules makes it easy for TL to participate? No they don't.
Fair enough ask for a rule change, but then when it's denied just bow out respectfully.
To start moaning at the organisers for not accomodating your specific requirements is really un-classy.


How is "applying to all teams" + "consistent" = "fair?"

That doesn't make sense. It might or might not be fair but those two things have nothing to do with it.

Banelings are too cute to blow up
Greggor
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden119 Posts
May 02 2011 10:46 GMT
#467
Awesome to finally see a big Internatio.. ehmm.. North American team league !

Allways more exciting to watch, cool to see how 2v2 games turn out.
what ?
eGo.SiGns
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany48 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 10:52:40
May 02 2011 10:49 GMT
#468
On May 02 2011 17:14 dtz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 16:54 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On May 02 2011 13:57 Swixi wrote:
-edited-

I have absolutely nothing against TL, but the fact that you think your view of fairness is objectively the best is pretty gross. Sure, switching between servers is optimal when it benefits a good amount of people, but I don't think you can necessarily purport that as the absolute truth in this specific situation; it's easily up for debate.

... Explain how that is not the objectively fairest solution then?

Option 1: Everyone plays on NA
Option 2: EU vs NA 50/50 eu/na, EU vs KR 100% NA, NA vs KR 50/50 KR/NA

How is this not more fair?

I really dont understand why its fine for me to play in lag, but as soon as its proposed that NA players play half their games under the same conditions, its suddenly unfair?

Why?



For the spectator here is the point of view that I think has been said by various people

Option 1. Only 3 KR players have lag while Some EU players have not ideal latency but very playable according to a lot of people ( idra - playable, drewbie - zero lag). Unfair for KR. Slightly unfair for EU but ensure the highest number of players playing in as ideal condition as possible.

Option 2. Much more teams have lag issues. Frustration ensue + Lower quality of play. Option 2 also means that Team Liquid has advantage in ace matches because they will never be at a disadvantage server wise. Otherwise, fair all around because everyone who plays cross server lags.

No solution is fair at the moment because the way cross server region is coded at the moment. But option 1 will put 3 people at a disadvantage while the rest will be relatively happy. While option 2 makes everyone frustrated.


First of all, i would like to mention that you cant just ignore the lag between EU and NA.
The players you mentioned are all NA-Players and are profiting the most from the current rules. It may sound a bit "dark" but i think you are too naive if you just take their "no difference" for granted.
Furthermore the only EU player that has made a post in this thread is Naniwa and he clearly stated that even though the lag may not be as bad as KR / NA, there is a disadvantage for european players playing on NA and that given the opportunity the EU Teams would obviously choose the system mentioned by TL.net.

Regarding your "Option 2:"
It seems like most people dont understand that the only teams affected by this change would be the NA Teams. Looking at the invited teams i think one can assume that sixjaxx would not have been invited if TL had accepted their invitation...

That would mean, that while the 3 NA Teams would only lose their evident advantage, all other 5 teams would benefit from this change.

Stating things like "inconvinience" for all other teams is just wrong, as shown above most teams benefit from it anyway.


I'm sorry, but the only logical reason to hold on to their old / bad rules regarding the servers is that they want to make sure that their players have an unfair advantage above everyone else and therefore make sure the money stays in NA.

I really hope this underhanded scheme will fail and Dignitas will win this thing... a hope that is not really that farfetched imo.

Greetings,

SiGns
SayTT
Profile Joined August 2004
Sweden2158 Posts
May 02 2011 10:50 GMT
#469
On May 02 2011 11:15 Zlasher wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 10:55 BrahCJ wrote:
Oh, and also.
GO ROOT.

I think this format may suit them a little, with the history with 2v2s in BW, especially when combined with the raw stopping power of Kiwikaki, Minigun and Slush, which the tactician in TvT that is Drewbie.
I can see ROOT doing well here, which may come as a surprise to others that haven't kept track of them in previous clan-battles.


The 2v2 is probably going to favor EG the most if you ask me. Axslav and Strifecro are like, the best 2v2 team around, they went undefeated with ease in that machinima realm invitational, and they were basically top of the ladder whenever they found time to play. They were also known to be one of the best 2v2 teams in WC3.


It depends on if MyM picks up Testie. Mondi hinted on him and Testie playing 2v2 in sc2 in the future, that duo would overshadow everyone if they trained for it.
-,-
shell
Profile Joined October 2010
Portugal2722 Posts
May 02 2011 10:50 GMT
#470
Well i understand TL's point of view and also EG's.

I guess everyone should always try and make the fairest tournaments possible but in this case i guess cross servers would "benefit" TL over the other teams just because almost no NA player has played in KR atleast i think so and the koreans TLers have played in NA, so they have some edge there. I also don't think that the euros should play on the NA vs NA players but i guess that is also the easy way of doing things..

Considering everything i feel TL did the right thing by not accepting the invite and EG also because they did what they think is better for them since they are the ones that have to run it and make it work..

Liquid is not evil for not accepting, Jinro/HuK/Haypro are not the devil!
EG is not evil for not changing the rules, idra/incontrol are not the devil!

Everyone that feels this league will bring excitment and good games just watch it, everybody that hates simply ignore it!

BENFICA || Besties: idra, Stephano, Nestea, Jaedong, Serral, Jinro, Scarlett || Zerg <3
JKira
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada1002 Posts
May 02 2011 10:51 GMT
#471
On May 02 2011 19:27 Klive5ive wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 19:05 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On May 02 2011 18:32 Klive5ive wrote:
TL really needs to drop this; it's getting really old.

Yes this is the best SC2 website by far but that doesn't give you the right to dictate to everyone what they should do with their tournaments and walk around with this ridiculous air of superiority.
The fact that the players aren't even performing makes it even worse.

Maybe if they were capable of dropping their ego down a few notches they might be able to learn a few things from other players and actually win stuff.

Old? It is the first time we ask for this as far as I am aware -_-

It's not the first time TL has told other tournaments what they should be doing. It's happened many many times in BroodWar and now in SC2; a lot of it was justified but recently it's too much.
It's good for drama, say what you want, but you have to be able to take as well as give.

The rules of this clanleague are fair. The rules are set out and apply to every team; they are consistent and therefore fair.

Do the rules makes it easy for TL to participate? No they don't.
Fair enough ask for a rule change, but then when it's denied just bow out respectfully.
To start moaning at the organisers for not accomodating your specific requirements is really un-classy.


What other tournaments has TL been complaining about recently?

How does consistent and applying to every team correlate to fairness? Imagine this same league with TL participating and the rules were that every game was to be hosted on the KR server. This applies consistently and to all teams. Would you really say this is fair?

You make think TL bringing this issue out in public is childish and moaning, but they want to set a standard for how international tournaments should be handled. I think a lot of people would agree that EU and KR has a larger quantity of high quality players than NA, yet a lot of tournaments and starleagues are hosted as NA only because a lot more financial investment is coming from NA. Does that seem fair?
ArnaudF
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
France993 Posts
May 02 2011 10:53 GMT
#472
On May 02 2011 19:50 SayTT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 11:15 Zlasher wrote:
On May 02 2011 10:55 BrahCJ wrote:
Oh, and also.
GO ROOT.

I think this format may suit them a little, with the history with 2v2s in BW, especially when combined with the raw stopping power of Kiwikaki, Minigun and Slush, which the tactician in TvT that is Drewbie.
I can see ROOT doing well here, which may come as a surprise to others that haven't kept track of them in previous clan-battles.


The 2v2 is probably going to favor EG the most if you ask me. Axslav and Strifecro are like, the best 2v2 team around, they went undefeated with ease in that machinima realm invitational, and they were basically top of the ladder whenever they found time to play. They were also known to be one of the best 2v2 teams in WC3.


It depends on if MyM picks up Testie. Mondi hinted on him and Testie playing 2v2 in sc2 in the future, that duo would overshadow everyone if they trained for it.


The 2v2 team of Millenium made of Stephano and DieStar is pretty good aswell, they have a very good sinergy.
My heart aches with pain, When I see you I vomit, Die away from me
hinnolinn
Profile Joined August 2010
212 Posts
May 02 2011 10:53 GMT
#473
On May 02 2011 16:54 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 13:57 Swixi wrote:
-edited-

I have absolutely nothing against TL, but the fact that you think your view of fairness is objectively the best is pretty gross. Sure, switching between servers is optimal when it benefits a good amount of people, but I don't think you can necessarily purport that as the absolute truth in this specific situation; it's easily up for debate.

... Explain how that is not the objectively fairest solution then?

Option 1: Everyone plays on NA
Option 2: EU vs NA 50/50 eu/na, EU vs KR 100% NA, NA vs KR 50/50 KR/NA

How is this not more fair?

I really dont understand why its fine for me to play in lag, but as soon as its proposed that NA players play half their games under the same conditions, its suddenly unfair?

Why?

Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 16:51 JJH777 wrote:
I don't understand weren't people getting banned for suggest lag affected TSL results? I thought it wasn't a big deal lol? Seems kind of hypocritical...

Heres the thing: Is lag so bad that you cant win if you play from KR to NA? NO. Look at any FXOpen, every single one of them has been won by Koreans and the last one had an all-korean Top 4.

Is it OPTIMAL to only play on NA when it would be fairer, and very possible logistically, to play half the games on KR, half on NA? No, it obviously isnt.

I dont mind playing on the US that badly, I think its possible to play good still. But when its entirely possible to make the playing conditions more fair, and we offered to accomodate any team we play by providing accounts and so forth, then I dont feel that its right to not go the extra step and implement it.


Okay, so I've been pondering on this whole question for a few hours now. I believe at the current state of the game this is NOT the most objectively fair system. The most objectively fair system would be to play all games on the server that minimized the DIFFERENCE between player latencies.

This is along the same reasoning why all KR-EU matches are played on the US server. The latencies are not equal, but both players have at least a reasonable ability to play the game, rather then each player having outrageous latencies when playing on the opposing players home server.

I don't know the answer to the question of which server is best for each continental match-up, except that US seems best for KR-EU. But if you can figure it out, that seems like the best server to play all games involving those countries on.
Maliris
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Northern Ireland2557 Posts
May 02 2011 10:56 GMT
#474
as an aside to all this stuff about TL... I am pretty disappointed that 2v2 is in the league. 2v2 is incredibly boring to watch, and very unskilled... the closest you'll get to a macro game is if both teams tech for some reason or its a shared main map (very boring type of map). There is just nothing you can do against people massing units off 1 base apart from massing your own units and getting one more worker than they have, reminiscent of 4gate vs 4gate in PvP a number of months ago OR doing some sort of abusive tactic like this pylon + overlord warpin or sharing resources to mass muta, get extremely fast dt etc... (yes i know you can't share resources until 5:00, but 5:00 is pretty fast for muta/dt)
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
PopoChampion
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia91 Posts
May 02 2011 11:01 GMT
#475
I hope Artosis will play. Is that even possible? I hope so! :D
eGo.SiGns
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany48 Posts
May 02 2011 11:05 GMT
#476
I really dont understand all this hatred towards implementing 2vs2s.

Its just 1 game, while 4 games are still 1vs1.
If your teams is that much better and you win all 1vs1, you dont even need those 2vs2 anyway - even though i would assume they will play out all 5 games, at least thats what happens normally - .

Yeah, they may be some imbalances in 2on2 because blizzard cant balance 2vs2 in the same way they do 1vs1, but all those players know these imbalances and can react accordingly.

Their is no strategy in 2on2 thats completly unbeatable , even though it may force you to pit 2 players together just because you want 2 specific races playing together.

And plz, dont start with stuff like "2v2 is boring and unskilled", there are many people out there, that enjoy watching a nice 2v2 game, and if it were that unskilled, how come the same players always seem to shine in these team competitions?

IMO it actually requires more skills, because the whole aspect of working together with your partner is completly new. The skills as such may not have the same "deepth" , but you obviously need new and other skills additionally to your outstanding micro,marco, observational skills.

Greetings,

SiGns
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
May 02 2011 11:08 GMT
#477
Team leagues :D

ggogoGGOgogOGO ROOT
Jaedong :3
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
May 02 2011 11:11 GMT
#478
On May 02 2011 19:53 hinnolinn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 16:54 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On May 02 2011 13:57 Swixi wrote:
-edited-

I have absolutely nothing against TL, but the fact that you think your view of fairness is objectively the best is pretty gross. Sure, switching between servers is optimal when it benefits a good amount of people, but I don't think you can necessarily purport that as the absolute truth in this specific situation; it's easily up for debate.

... Explain how that is not the objectively fairest solution then?

Option 1: Everyone plays on NA
Option 2: EU vs NA 50/50 eu/na, EU vs KR 100% NA, NA vs KR 50/50 KR/NA

How is this not more fair?

I really dont understand why its fine for me to play in lag, but as soon as its proposed that NA players play half their games under the same conditions, its suddenly unfair?

Why?

On May 02 2011 16:51 JJH777 wrote:
I don't understand weren't people getting banned for suggest lag affected TSL results? I thought it wasn't a big deal lol? Seems kind of hypocritical...

Heres the thing: Is lag so bad that you cant win if you play from KR to NA? NO. Look at any FXOpen, every single one of them has been won by Koreans and the last one had an all-korean Top 4.

Is it OPTIMAL to only play on NA when it would be fairer, and very possible logistically, to play half the games on KR, half on NA? No, it obviously isnt.

I dont mind playing on the US that badly, I think its possible to play good still. But when its entirely possible to make the playing conditions more fair, and we offered to accomodate any team we play by providing accounts and so forth, then I dont feel that its right to not go the extra step and implement it.


Okay, so I've been pondering on this whole question for a few hours now. I believe at the current state of the game this is NOT the most objectively fair system. The most objectively fair system would be to play all games on the server that minimized the DIFFERENCE between player latencies.

This is along the same reasoning why all KR-EU matches are played on the US server. The latencies are not equal, but both players have at least a reasonable ability to play the game, rather then each player having outrageous latencies when playing on the opposing players home server.

I don't know the answer to the question of which server is best for each continental match-up, except that US seems best for KR-EU. But if you can figure it out, that seems like the best server to play all games involving those countries on.

Well I would be open to trying Sea as a middle ground in future events.
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Nerchio
Profile Joined October 2009
Poland2633 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-02 11:18:04
May 02 2011 11:17 GMT
#479
It's biased opinion but i guess Empire is a better team than half of those invited(someone mentioned Empire being 7-8 in GPCL, i think this point is not valid since there is me and Happy that joined after that league, maybe Beastyqt too but i am not too sure). Still i am looking forward to watching some of the matches and as some people already mentioned i prefer like KOTH system where 1 person can win with whole team(it's just more exciting to watch).
Progamer"I am the best" - Nerchio , 2017.
deL
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Australia5540 Posts
May 02 2011 11:18 GMT
#480
On May 02 2011 20:11 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2011 19:53 hinnolinn wrote:
On May 02 2011 16:54 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On May 02 2011 13:57 Swixi wrote:
-edited-

I have absolutely nothing against TL, but the fact that you think your view of fairness is objectively the best is pretty gross. Sure, switching between servers is optimal when it benefits a good amount of people, but I don't think you can necessarily purport that as the absolute truth in this specific situation; it's easily up for debate.

... Explain how that is not the objectively fairest solution then?

Option 1: Everyone plays on NA
Option 2: EU vs NA 50/50 eu/na, EU vs KR 100% NA, NA vs KR 50/50 KR/NA

How is this not more fair?

I really dont understand why its fine for me to play in lag, but as soon as its proposed that NA players play half their games under the same conditions, its suddenly unfair?

Why?

On May 02 2011 16:51 JJH777 wrote:
I don't understand weren't people getting banned for suggest lag affected TSL results? I thought it wasn't a big deal lol? Seems kind of hypocritical...

Heres the thing: Is lag so bad that you cant win if you play from KR to NA? NO. Look at any FXOpen, every single one of them has been won by Koreans and the last one had an all-korean Top 4.

Is it OPTIMAL to only play on NA when it would be fairer, and very possible logistically, to play half the games on KR, half on NA? No, it obviously isnt.

I dont mind playing on the US that badly, I think its possible to play good still. But when its entirely possible to make the playing conditions more fair, and we offered to accomodate any team we play by providing accounts and so forth, then I dont feel that its right to not go the extra step and implement it.


Okay, so I've been pondering on this whole question for a few hours now. I believe at the current state of the game this is NOT the most objectively fair system. The most objectively fair system would be to play all games on the server that minimized the DIFFERENCE between player latencies.

This is along the same reasoning why all KR-EU matches are played on the US server. The latencies are not equal, but both players have at least a reasonable ability to play the game, rather then each player having outrageous latencies when playing on the opposing players home server.

I don't know the answer to the question of which server is best for each continental match-up, except that US seems best for KR-EU. But if you can figure it out, that seems like the best server to play all games involving those countries on.

Well I would be open to trying Sea as a middle ground in future events.

In general, I think SEA would have a favourable ping for Korea over the others, and be quite poor for both EU and NA participants. Maybe only as bad as NA-EU though so I guess it's worth a shot, it gets lonely on SEA sometimes :3
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