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trutaCz
Profile Joined October 2011
Poland686 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-30 19:44:22
January 30 2014 19:32 GMT
#1
Hello viewers, admins, players of STL. I would like to ask about delay playoffs to next Saturday. It's a little bit unfair that there's no even one week break between regular season and the playoffs. Teams dont have time to organize players, prepare strategies, discuss about the most important part of the league. I believe everyone of us would like to see/present a good quality of show in these matches. Isn't it better to end this league with the best performance of teams?
yo~.~
2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9498 Posts
January 30 2014 20:01 GMT
#2
I really think you should message the organizers directly with this and not post it in public forum.

With that said, I agree, delaying it for one week would allow teams to prepare better and in return provide us all with better games!
Moderator"We're a community of geniuses because we've found how to extract 95% of the feeling of doing something amazing without actually doing anything." - Chill
thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5478 Posts
January 30 2014 20:15 GMT
#3
[Request] Please upload the playoffs to youtube, I can't access Twitch VODs, thank you.
http://i45.tinypic.com/9j2cdc.jpg Let it be so!
Terrorterran
Profile Joined January 2009
Peru256 Posts
January 30 2014 21:03 GMT
#4
Maybe making it a bo3 could help. we play this and next saturday if score is 1-1 super ace match like old proleague style
GG
Phyanketto
Profile Joined September 2011
United States505 Posts
January 30 2014 21:21 GMT
#5
I can see why you posted here (now the court of public opinion is in your favor), but this is probably more of a message-the-mods sort of thing.

Anyway, I do have to agree with trutaCz's assessment, a little more time would be more favorable for everyone.
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LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
January 30 2014 21:37 GMT
#6
yeah, I agree completely with trutaCz, more time pls
Enjoy the game
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6556 Posts
January 30 2014 21:47 GMT
#7
Im hungry for games!!! cant wait !!!!
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 30 2014 23:10 GMT
#8
On January 31 2014 06:37 LRM)TechnicS wrote:
yeah, I agree completely with trutaCz, more time pls


I think it's wonderful how people from the same team can agree with each other so often.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
trutaCz
Profile Joined October 2011
Poland686 Posts
January 30 2014 23:19 GMT
#9
I think your opinion here is also wonderful and have so much common with the topic, go away with your offtop..
yo~.~
dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
January 30 2014 23:36 GMT
#10
Exams are coming up for me, I can't wait :D sry. On the same note, it would be nice to have the full playoff format updated (finals -> bo1/bo3/ map line up stays same, etc)
Also in terms of trading players, there was never an agreed upon rule. Is it that you can add any player who wasn't on another team or trade among teams remaining?
I don't need luck, luck is for noobs, good luck to you though
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 30 2014 23:47 GMT
#11
On January 31 2014 08:19 trutaCz wrote:
I think your opinion here is also wonderful and have so much common with the topic, go away with your offtop..


It's pretty on-topic... I mean, no other team agrees that they need an extra week to "prepare". But why would you post this anyhow? You're not the leader of the LRM.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
January 31 2014 08:34 GMT
#12
This is because no team prepares except for lagfree (if they still LAN) and half of iFU :D.
I don't need luck, luck is for noobs, good luck to you though
mEATshEILd
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden15 Posts
January 31 2014 10:51 GMT
#13
When the playoff starts, each team has played every other week for 14 weeks. Postponing the playoffs because some teams need more training is, in my personal opinion, unnecessary. All teams have the same starting conditions, in terms of time for preparation and so on.

As for the format, it will be as in the group stage, in addition to the updates of the oxide and overwatch and map order: 7 sets of Bo1 (for both semifinals and finals).

New players can be added 72 hours before the start of the matches and the line-up must be submitted to the admins before the matches start (preferably 30 min before the start of the match).

Good luck to you all!
Thank God for cold fusion!
LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 12:22:04
January 31 2014 12:08 GMT
#14
On January 31 2014 19:51 mEATshEILd wrote:
When the playoff starts, each team has played every other week for 14 weeks. Postponing the playoffs because some teams need more training is, in my personal opinion, unnecessary. All teams have the same starting conditions, in terms of time for preparation and so on.

As for the format, it will be as in the group stage, in addition to the updates of the oxide and overwatch and map order: 7 sets of Bo1 (for both semifinals and finals).

New players can be added 72 hours before the start of the matches and the line-up must be submitted to the admins before the matches start (preferably 30 min before the start of the match).

Good luck to you all!


When qualifying for the playoffs for a somewhat meaningful league, announcing the playoff schedule to the teams one and a half days before the playoffs itself is showing, at the very very least, shallow seriousness and a major slack in the organizing process of the league.

Even more so, when one of the teams involved is heavily inactive + having at least one of its major players not show up for most of the cws (sziky) + that has given a w.o already in an important CW (against LF).

I can understand that SBWI wrongfully (but in a rush, which is very understandable) got anxious that LRM with Sziky would eventually turn the league into a stompfest (and thus allowed Scan to play even that the rules written in this manner completely forbid it). Given all that, one can get slightly suspicious that at least somebody wants Sziky to not show up again... even though that, in theory, we are still slight underdogs when he does show up.
Enjoy the game
soujiro_
Profile Joined June 2010
Uruguay5195 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 12:36:40
January 31 2014 12:34 GMT
#15
so hard to win a league when your not the organizer t.t
also the request was denied so no point in keep arguing about it
ace hwaiting!!
dsaqwe.
Profile Joined February 2011
Croatia274 Posts
January 31 2014 12:35 GMT
#16
u all guys should stop cring... 1st when Sziky still was in sas, IFU and some others was cring how format is imba for sas(sziky), then format changed and ifu got scan and LRM sziky and now LRM cring about date... its same for all
Always problem with same persons / teams .....
LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
January 31 2014 12:54 GMT
#17
Who talks about winning and other leagues?

One of the simplest organisational things to do: get information out early enough so no issues arise. One and a half days before the playoff is showing, as I said, the very least shallow seriousness and a major slack in the process of organizing. For a number of reasons, it's the better way to go.
Enjoy the game
skzlime
Profile Joined July 2005
Hungary462 Posts
January 31 2014 13:11 GMT
#18
wow tech seriously... that conspiracy :D

first of all, nobody gives a shit anymore about sziky being on lrm). also, allowing scan to play was decided before sziky switched teams. sziky is inactive because he doesn't care about your soulless team (yes i think you are all cold automatons^^), and will not be any more active next week than he is now. unless like, TLS is announced to start in 4 days.

i personally expected playoffs to start next week and was quite surprised, so i agree it was short notice. i even expressed this in the correct thread. *wink wink*
making a new thread i can understand since it will probably get you more attention, and you already got your answer from an organizer. it was worth a try, but there's no point pushing it further. it will just make you look cute and silly like ninazerg.
life is balanced, L2P
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19230 Posts
January 31 2014 14:21 GMT
#19
I will fill in for any MIA players. No level of practice will help me.
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mEATshEILd
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden15 Posts
January 31 2014 14:27 GMT
#20
On January 31 2014 21:08 LRM)TechnicS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 31 2014 19:51 mEATshEILd wrote:
When the playoff starts, each team has played every other week for 14 weeks. Postponing the playoffs because some teams need more training is, in my personal opinion, unnecessary. All teams have the same starting conditions, in terms of time for preparation and so on.

As for the format, it will be as in the group stage, in addition to the updates of the oxide and overwatch and map order: 7 sets of Bo1 (for both semifinals and finals).

New players can be added 72 hours before the start of the matches and the line-up must be submitted to the admins before the matches start (preferably 30 min before the start of the match).

Good luck to you all!


When qualifying for the playoffs for a somewhat meaningful league, announcing the playoff schedule to the teams one and a half days before the playoffs itself is showing, at the very very least, shallow seriousness and a major slack in the organizing process of the league.

Even more so, when one of the teams involved is heavily inactive + having at least one of its major players not show up for most of the cws (sziky) + that has given a w.o already in an important CW (against LF).

I can understand that SBWI wrongfully (but in a rush, which is very understandable) got anxious that LRM with Sziky would eventually turn the league into a stompfest (and thus allowed Scan to play even that the rules written in this manner completely forbid it). Given all that, one can get slightly suspicious that at least somebody wants Sziky to not show up again... even though that, in theory, we are still slight underdogs when he does show up.


The entire league can not stop just because some teams need more pratice. We were late with the announcement, that is true, but we never gave any indication that there would be a paus before the start of the playoffs.

It's not the organizers of STL:s responsability to make sure the participating teams/players are active and practicing, especially before the playoffs.

This is SBWI:s first team league, things we learn know will be part in improving the next season/project. We are committed to keep foreign-BW alive and well, our seriousness in this matter is undebatable!
Thank God for cold fusion!
LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 15:46:33
January 31 2014 15:40 GMT
#21
If that was to be true, nobody would give a shit about Sziky in LRM would be because he doesn't show up at all. But if we chose to be objective, I would be rather betting that 'nobody gives a shit' is a wrong assumption.

Also thanks for the input of numerous subjective opinions and broad generalizations for the players in our team. I think they are mostly one-dimensional and/or shallow. Perhaps partly correct, mostly wrong but I don't care too much. I am sorry if I have affected you by my wording and/or the place where I post which perhaps were some of the reasons I induced the sarcasm.

The basic thing I emphasize on is simple: announcing playoffs one and a half days before the playoffs equals, at least for me, to poor organisational sense, clear misstep etc. I feel I am spot on here.

I was thinking that it's pretty normal for SBWI's first league to suffer from trial-and-error type of issues. But then again, I thought that it's not a problem that is impossible to solve, if I were in their shoes. I don't want to be understood wrong. I really like SBWI and the chance I will continue to like them is very high, but the late announcement is a completely wrong deicision on various levels. Refusing to act and correct that by delaying the playoffs by a week seems nothing more but stubborn to me.

Also, there's a decent chance I might be unable to practice at all till next week too, even to be more uncomfortable for me to attend the playoffs.
Enjoy the game
GeckoXp
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Germany2016 Posts
January 31 2014 17:13 GMT
#22
On February 01 2014 00:40 LRM)TechnicS wrote:
If that was to be true, nobody would give a shit about Sziky in LRM would be because he doesn't show up at all.


Don't get it the wrong way, but this sounds as if Eywa recruiting Sziky was an elaborate plan of sas to get rid of their weakest player.
Game
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3191 Posts
January 31 2014 17:44 GMT
#23
On January 31 2014 19:51 mEATshEILd wrote:
When the playoff starts, each team has played every other week for 14 weeks. Postponing the playoffs because some teams need more training is, in my personal opinion, unnecessary. All teams have the same starting conditions, in terms of time for preparation and so on.

As for the format, it will be as in the group stage, in addition to the updates of the oxide and overwatch and map order: 7 sets of Bo1 (for both semifinals and finals).

New players can be added 72 hours before the start of the matches and the line-up must be submitted to the admins before the matches start (preferably 30 min before the start of the match).

Good luck to you all!

LRM) was the only team who wasn't aware they were in the playoffs, hence the complaint.
SC is like sex. You should play often, but never too hard. And you should only try hard when it matters.
dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
January 31 2014 17:46 GMT
#24
All I can say was that the playoffs was anticipated to start the week or second week after the season ended, whether it was announced or not. The fact that it was confirmed to be the first week after the league ended so shortly to the weekend seems to be just an easy cop-out excuse that is now convenient for some. It's like going to a university level course and studying for a semester and all of a sudden they announce when the final will be 3 weeks before the final, are you screwed? I should hope not, you should've been studying already through-out the term. Further, you talk about inactive team and underdog, that is complete bs. LRM has been re-adding and changing line up to grab the most recently active players as the league progressed, for example: choosy (who has played about 200games in a very short time, before him was Pike who also had the same amount of gaming on fish/iccup). Finally, LRM already had most of the top 20 players in which almost all of them are capable to be ace players and the responsibility ultimately comes down to the roster, if none of your players care enough to prepare on a good schedule then you have no right to complain. Sure, everyone has a busy schedule but if you really wanted to show a good performance I'm sure it's possible to organize a few hours a week of practice.
I don't need luck, luck is for noobs, good luck to you though
Freakling
Profile Joined October 2012
Germany1529 Posts
January 31 2014 17:51 GMT
#25
I suggest every one drop personal grudges and sarcasm and if you want to discuss this, focus on the actual problem(s).
(which is defintely not a conspiracy around (or against) Sziky or any other specific player)

What it comes down to is communication, I think.
Keeping the overview about things going on, making sure things are announced in time (a minimum of two weeks notice is probably adequate), also the little things, like letting people know if you won't have much time in the near future, to answer questions or work on things, are important, so it's at least clear what's going on and to set priorities: Infos need to be out in time and it's actually not much work to it (takes one short forum post); flavour (fancy banners, texts etc.) can wait.
I am sure there will be internal discussion and organizational improvements regarding this before the next team league.

As for the situation right now: Saying that you did not see the playoffs coming and that you are badly prepared is probably a bit exagerated - every one knew when group stages would be over after last week's maches and the idea of making any significant changes, like in the map pool, has already been droped, after all.
That being said, personally I think the request of the OP is not an unreasonable one and I cannot see any real damage that delaying the playoffs for another week would cause aside from the fact that it would be just another short term change that would be imposed on players without sufficient notice, so it wouldn't necessarily be the right (or best) decision. The problem of late public announcement is unfortunately one that cannot be solved retroactively.
Game
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3191 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 17:55:14
January 31 2014 17:54 GMT
#26
How dare LRM) add players only known clan wise to be in LRM) for years and years? What is this debauchery?!

dRaW: Consider this. iFU knew they were in the playoffs. sas knew they were in the playoffs. Peruvian team with ironic name knew they were in the playoffs. LRM) had no fucking clue, and after directly asking all organizers available to us for this league were given no response. The chat logs follow.

To Jaevlaterran:
[1/23/2014 3:39:36 AM] David Barr: are we in the playoffs?

No response.

To MeAtShIeLdAOLScReeNNamE:

[1/23/2014 1:31:40 PM] David Barr: hi, are we in the playoffs?
[1/24/2014 6:38:26 AM] mEATshEILd: well, it depends on if we decide to give all teams 4-0 vs AoV (because AoV are out of the tournament) and if PsB wins vs LaGFree with 4-0, then you are not. But the possibility of PsB 4-0:ing LaGFree are quiet low, in my opinion.
[1/24/2014 6:49:07 AM] David Barr: I see, ty
[1/24/2014 6:51:09 AM] mEATshEILd: np

We never received word on the AoV decision.

My next messages (of which I wasn't home for one day, because you know, real life):

[1/28/2014 8:34:01 AM] mEATshEILd: Congrats to your spot in the STL1 playoffs! Good luck!
[1/29/2014 8:29:47 AM] David Barr: when do they start?
[1/29/2014 8:30:30 AM] mEATshEILd: the playoffs start 19:00 CET/13:00 EST on feb 1
[1/29/2014 8:31:02 AM] David Barr: and we're finding out today?
[1/29/2014 8:31:02 AM] mEATshEILd: both semi-finals are play at the same time
[1/29/2014 8:31:27 AM] mEATshEILd: yes
[1/29/2014 8:31:33 AM] David Barr: lol k
[1/29/2014 8:32:45 AM] mEATshEILd: well, u guys played for 7 weeks, its the same map pool, diffrent order and some updates. we figured u guys had some time to practice.
[1/29/2014 8:33:02 AM] David Barr: why would we practice if we didn't know we were in?
[1/29/2014 8:33:28 AM] mEATshEILd: we do apologizes for the delay
[1/29/2014 8:36:58 AM] mEATshEILd: well, if you looked at the stats, you guy were in the playoffs two weeks ago.
[1/29/2014 8:38:56 AM] mEATshEILd: Good luck in the playoffs!

[9:35:14 AM] Jaevlaterran: I mentioned what you said in the organizing group
[9:35:16 AM] Jaevlaterran: [3:32:14 PM] mEATshEILd: it is not
[3:32:42 PM] mEATshEILd: they have played for 7 week. they have been a candidate for the playoffs for a long time
[3:33:09 PM] mEATshEILd: not our responability that they dont pratice and have players that are inactive.
[3:34:06 PM] mEATshEILd: but thats just my opinion.
[9:35:25 AM] Jaevlaterran: this is what we all agreed on
[9:37:25 AM] David Barr: You guys made no playoff announcement. As the organization, that's pretty much your only responsibility, let alone giving us enough time to clear our schedules for the playoffs. This is an old game and we're all adults with real life obligations. It's your fault as an organization that we don't have enough notice in any formality, official or not. Thus, I ask for the playoffs to be pushed back a week.

They never, until probably right now as they're reading this realize that they never communicated anything to us and thus are solely to blame for all issues arising.
SC is like sex. You should play often, but never too hard. And you should only try hard when it matters.
Freakling
Profile Joined October 2012
Germany1529 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 18:48:34
January 31 2014 18:07 GMT
#27
You are basically blaming the organizers for not being able to predict the future, i.e. whether your team would make the playoffs or not. From the info in the first log (i.e. PsB needing to 4:0 Lag Free) you could have already concluded that it would probably be a good idea to get your team prepared for the playoffs. Your response "why would we practice if we weren't absolutely sure" really doesn't cut it.
So the only flaw remaining on the organizer's side is the late announcement of the definite date, but that cannot be retroactively changed and you cannot blame your own lack of foresight on it. You had to assume that a)you were in the playoffs and b) they would start once the group satges were over, which were both known long before.
SynC[gm]
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States3127 Posts
January 31 2014 18:17 GMT
#28
I feel like there was too much assuming going on...
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LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
January 31 2014 18:43 GMT
#29
The main argument, imo, is not which team is prepared and which not. It's pretty simple organisational issue, not excuse imo. I couldn't find anywhere info in regards to playoffs schedule. The inactiveness just fuels the already necessary duty for organizers to announce earlier what's going on and when. What if someone wants to preplay a set? The time to do so is significantly hurt and narrowed. Even if nobody wants to preplay anything, it seems really off to announce one days and a half playoffs.

My first reply here was to cut out all that long stuff I had to write eventually so I just wrote some short sentence of agreement.

Also LRM is one of the most inactive teams for long time now, not just this season. I am talking facts that are valid for since mid 2008 and Choosy coming back for LRM in the recent days is a laughable and brittle argument for the opposite thesis.
Enjoy the game
dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 19:08:50
January 31 2014 19:07 GMT
#30
On February 01 2014 03:43 LRM)TechnicS wrote:
The main argument, imo, is not which team is prepared and which not. It's pretty simple organisational issue, not excuse imo. I couldn't find anywhere info in regards to playoffs schedule. The inactiveness just fuels the already necessary duty for organizers to announce earlier what's going on and when. What if someone wants to preplay a set? The time to do so is significantly hurt and narrowed. Even if nobody wants to preplay anything, it seems really off to announce one days and a half playoffs.

My first reply here was to cut out all that long stuff I had to write eventually so I just wrote some short sentence of agreement.

Also LRM is one of the most inactive teams for long time now, not just this season. I am talking facts that are valid for since mid 2008 and Choosy coming back for LRM in the recent days is a laughable and brittle argument for the opposite thesis.


I can grab many LRM players with more ladder games on both fish and iccup than other teams and I bet that will surprise you. What do you consider active? (teams practicing among themselves? I can tell you sas never did anything of the sort)
edit: Further, if you guys are so inactive then you can't request or complain for special treatment on delaying the playoffs so you may or may not prepare (how can you prepare if you guys are so inactive?)
I don't need luck, luck is for noobs, good luck to you though
ne4aJIb
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Russian Federation3209 Posts
January 31 2014 19:10 GMT
#31
finally new drama in foreign bw!
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LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 19:27:46
January 31 2014 19:23 GMT
#32
it's very well written several times already.

I will spell it out again: "The main argument, imo, is not which team is prepared and which not. It's pretty simple organisational issue, not excuse imo. I couldn't find anywhere info in regards to playoffs schedule. The inactiveness just fuels the already necessary duty for organizers to announce earlier what's going on and when. What if someone wants to preplay a set? The time to do so is significantly hurt and narrowed. Even if nobody wants to preplay anything, it seems really off to announce one days and a half playoffs."

Announcing playoffs in time is what is needed/wanted, not one and a half days before the games. Organisational etiquette. Super simple stuff.

Ofc, there will be the occasional examples of active LRM players at given time, but the overall picture for years now is such that cannot be overwhelmed by 2-5 players imho
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skzlime
Profile Joined July 2005
Hungary462 Posts
January 31 2014 19:58 GMT
#33
i think i'm starting to understand better. so basically, if we play this saturday, LRM can't field their desired lineup, because the players have other known obligations and thus can't attend, but had they known earlier they could have, or should we play next saturday, they could. is this correct?
life is balanced, L2P
L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
January 31 2014 20:17 GMT
#34
On February 01 2014 04:58 skzlime wrote:
i think i'm starting to understand better. so basically, if we play this saturday, LRM can't field their desired lineup, because the players have other known obligations and thus can't attend, but had they known earlier they could have, or should we play next saturday, they could. is this correct?


If that is the case I would definitely say that merits weight, provided that Game is correct in that LRM was not given information to realize their playoff situation.

For practicing I'm incline to accept the argument of one ought to be in practice generally, but when it comes to things like fielding lineups and people having to deal with work and stuff players cannot necessarily be asking for 2 days off on two separate weekends because playoffs might be on one of them.

I don't know what went on behind the scenes, but if LRM wasn't given sufficient notice and had no way of knowing when the playoffs would start and thus don't have time to get days off/make time to field a proper lineup that's a pretty legitimate argument.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-31 21:45:56
January 31 2014 20:34 GMT
#35
Edit: I removed the poll that I was warned for, as it was in poor taste. I was not asked to do this; I did it purely voluntarily.

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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 31 2014 20:37 GMT
#36
On February 01 2014 05:17 L_Master wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2014 04:58 skzlime wrote:
i think i'm starting to understand better. so basically, if we play this saturday, LRM can't field their desired lineup, because the players have other known obligations and thus can't attend, but had they known earlier they could have, or should we play next saturday, they could. is this correct?


I don't know what went on behind the scenes, but if LRM wasn't given sufficient notice and had no way of knowing when the playoffs would start and thus don't have time to get days off/make time to field a proper lineup that's a pretty legitimate argument.


But even I knew LRM was in the play-offs, and I'm not even in the SBWI group or part of the league, and it seems like the only people who didn't know were LRM.
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L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
January 31 2014 21:04 GMT
#37
On February 01 2014 05:37 ninazerg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2014 05:17 L_Master wrote:
On February 01 2014 04:58 skzlime wrote:
i think i'm starting to understand better. so basically, if we play this saturday, LRM can't field their desired lineup, because the players have other known obligations and thus can't attend, but had they known earlier they could have, or should we play next saturday, they could. is this correct?


I don't know what went on behind the scenes, but if LRM wasn't given sufficient notice and had no way of knowing when the playoffs would start and thus don't have time to get days off/make time to field a proper lineup that's a pretty legitimate argument.


But even I knew LRM was in the play-offs, and I'm not even in the SBWI group or part of the league, and it seems like the only people who didn't know were LRM.


If that is correct then it will be easy to show LRM ought to have known.

What I am interested in is when the various teams knew what date the playoffs were going to be on. Anything less than a week realistically isn't enough time to get time off work/rearrange schedule.
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fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
January 31 2014 21:51 GMT
#38
On February 01 2014 04:10 ne4aJIb wrote:
finally new drama in foreign bw!


Foreign BW with no drama is no foreign BW!
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 31 2014 21:56 GMT
#39
Here is my opinion of this situation, which may be biased, but still should be valid for the following reasons:

- sas, lagfree, and ifu were already set to play at the designated time. It would be unfair to change the schedule at the point for a team claims to be largely inactive.
- LRM should have been prepared, organization-wise, to play in the post-season games, regardless of the outcome of the unresolved issues.
- LRM has a history of making frivolous complaints that would inconvenience everyone else for the sake of LRM and affiliates, often which benefit LRM.
- Despite having large rosters, ifu and lagfree have not had any "organizational issues" that they have visibly complained about on the forums. sas has the opposite problem of being under-staffed, but have not publicly launched any similar complaints.
- LRM, in all the leagues has lodged more complaints and petitions than every other team combined.
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GeckoXp
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Germany2016 Posts
January 31 2014 22:28 GMT
#40
On February 01 2014 05:17 L_Master wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2014 04:58 skzlime wrote:
i think i'm starting to understand better. so basically, if we play this saturday, LRM can't field their desired lineup, because the players have other known obligations and thus can't attend, but had they known earlier they could have, or should we play next saturday, they could. is this correct?


If that is the case I would definitely say that merits weight, provided that Game is correct in that LRM was not given information to realize their playoff situation.

For practicing I'm incline to accept the argument of one ought to be in practice generally, but when it comes to things like fielding lineups and people having to deal with work and stuff players cannot necessarily be asking for 2 days off on two separate weekends because playoffs might be on one of them.

I don't know what went on behind the scenes, but if LRM wasn't given sufficient notice and had no way of knowing when the playoffs would start and thus don't have time to get days off/make time to field a proper lineup that's a pretty legitimate argument.


Yeah, well.

First off, it was kinda a sure thing LRM would advance, regardless of what happened between LaGFree and PsB, and regardless of what would happen with AoV. You can bet your ass LRM's management would've launched a massive complaint, IF this one case would have happend - AoV's opponents getting all 4-0s and PsB defeating LaGFree 4-0 or whatever the case was. It was kinda clear for three weeks now that LRM could basically do whatever and still finish fourth.

Second, the way I think SBWI handles these things is to send out information to all parties at the same time. It really doesn't matter if that happens via Skype, MSN or TL.net posts. In case of Skype I can see how a manger can complain he would got the message relatively late, as either an SBWI official or the LRM manager was offline. That's bad luck, but it isn't SBWI's task to wait 24/7 for LRM's management to show up. Actually, that'd be poor from LRM's management.

Third, LRM's management (I really do not refer to the players, I actually think most of them are quite cool, at least the guys I interviewed) is, as Nina pointed out, quite aware of rules and these things. They've could asked openly way before, they could have given notice and all that they might need one week to arrange things for the wars. That can be expected of LRM's management, it really can. The orgas claim that LRM is a top notch foreign team, they literally bought a player, they read rules thoroughly, yet they're the guys to scream loudest to not have enough players in shape to play. You can't go around and say you're serious eSports buiz people and then not get the basic stuff done.

Fourth, most players playing in this league for LRM (who I can remember) are from Europe. They'd play Saturday evening, that's rarely a time most grown up adults work. There are jobs which require you to work in this time frame (and there's no judgement in this), but if you have a job with times on Saturday evening, you most likely have had no time in the weeks before. So that's kinda... strange. I might be completely wrong here, might be that half of LRM pre-played their games, but of that I never heard a thing.

It's more like skzlime says, LRM feels like they won't get their players in time. But all other teams have to fight the same problem - all of them play on short notice. Terror politely asked to move it one week, skzlime says it'd prolly be better. Now look who storms in and throws the word bias in the room? It really looks more like superficial crying than an unsolvable problem.

Not saying it was nice by SBWI to come out late with announces, but it's for sure not entirely their fault in this situation. I agree with TechnicS' statement that this does not follow the usual procedure, but still, it's something you could deal with on both ends.
sas.ZaRaki
Profile Joined March 2012
Spain199 Posts
January 31 2014 23:01 GMT
#41
are we playing tomorrow then? i am so confused now
LRM)TechnicS
Profile Joined May 2008
Bulgaria1565 Posts
January 31 2014 23:13 GMT
#42
ninazerg, I would be glad seeing a quantitative thorough research of all the official and non-official complaints that any team in any significant league since 2006 filed, but I am sure that the efforts to accomplish that would be better put some-research-else. I understand the bias though. Perhaps I am not as anti-LRM biased since I remember the times when many other prominent teams had issues with players hacking and/or cheating, as LRM, which people maybe don't remember. I really disliked some happenings around LRM and the WGT CL and was too suspicious about players like eXecutor and I guess 1-2 more guys which IDs I don't remember which makes me understand you.

I, personally, didn't know anything about possible 4-0 for every team against AoV which would have given PsB a chance to take the spot. I was thinking we have 4th place and a match against sas locked after LRMvsSas CW. Announcing the date of the playoff is, for me, very important from organisational point of view. Yeah, I could have guessed that maybe in the next 1-3 weeks we are playing. But if we all rely on proper guessing, then why bother announcing at all? The organizer could as well not tell anybody and then wonder why there's nobody/1-2 guys in the channel.

I am not sure if it's better to have every team asking organizers at all times what happens when OR to make sure the information is not ambiguous and have the information published and/or confirmed it's read well in advance somewhere for all to see.

Which brings me to another point, in relation to ruling for who qualifies to the playoffs. It seems that this part is a bit uncompleted too. I am pretty much left wondering rather than having a stable info what's going on after reading it. We had a discussion with dRaW in LRMvsSas channel some weeks ago (perhaps Meatsheild too?) what would have happened if, given some scenarions, LRM and iFU were in a tie with same amount of CWs and cw sets won and lost. Rules don't give sufficient info to determine who gets 3rd and who 4th. Common sense would dictate a guess that iFU takes the 3rd spot and LRM the 4th since LRM lost to iFU in the head-to-head CW. But how many times we will be relying on pure guessing for such relatively important stuff? More than enough already imho.

Understand that I don't care whether I will be playing prepared or not. I don't care if I will be occupied with something else and not be able to play the playoffs at all, whether it be tomorrow or next week. I don't care as much if Sziky, dRaW or Birdie or whoever else is technically prepared to perform inside the game at the given moment. What I care about is some simple announcement, at humanly adequate time, that doesn't make me cringe for various stuff.

Also, I agree with Gecko's statement that Saturday's are easy to play on, more often than not people won't be working. I personally have enough stuff undone for weeks now that I actually planned throughout the week to do on Saturday. It's not mandatory though, I guess it will be ok, but still I really dislike being put in such a situation.
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Freakling
Profile Joined October 2012
Germany1529 Posts
January 31 2014 23:32 GMT
#43
Trying down to strip down the whole discussion to the basic facts:

- the organizers of SBWI should have announced concrete dates and times for playoffs sufficiently in advance. Not doing so was definitely a mistake, which unfortunately cannot be undone retroactively, but only learned from for future tourneys
- it is not merely an issue of LRM complaining, because players from other teams, like Terror from LagFree and Draw form Sas, have shown that they would generally agree with postponed playoffs
- right now the question is: What is the bigger issue - having teams having problems to put together a standing lineup for the first week of playoffs because of the short notice; or throwing it all over again on even shorter notice, although most players and teams at this point may have already planned their weekend accordingly and it is unlikely that the info will actually reach all the players before the announced playing time, which might cause even more severe confusion and frustration.
skzlime
Profile Joined July 2005
Hungary462 Posts
January 31 2014 23:43 GMT
#44
conclusion:
next season, announce playoff schedule along with regular season schedule. possibly leave out a week between the two for more pre-game El Bunker analysis and strategizing!
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dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
January 31 2014 23:59 GMT
#45
On February 01 2014 08:01 sas.ZaRaki wrote:
are we playing tomorrow then? i am so confused now

Tomorrow? Yes. Admins need to be a bit more responsive? Yes. Is it their first league and can they improve this problem? Yes. Did we need a 3 page argument stating that the whole argument was only about a late announcement? No.

Thanks to the staff/casters/anyone who helped make LRT/announcements, etc. GL HF guys.
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2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9498 Posts
February 01 2014 00:08 GMT
#46
Wow, look at the BW community being all mature and shit. I'm proud of you guys.
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traceurling
Profile Joined December 2012
United States1240 Posts
February 01 2014 01:41 GMT
#47
On February 01 2014 09:08 2Pacalypse- wrote:
Wow, look at the BW community being all mature and shit. I'm proud of you guys.

Shocker
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L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
February 01 2014 03:27 GMT
#48
On February 01 2014 08:43 skzlime wrote:
conclusion:
next season, announce playoff schedule along with regular season schedule. possibly leave out a week between the two for more pre-game El Bunker analysis and strategizing!


Jackpot.

Hard to believe this might actually be serious skzlime post. Truly such a species is said to be exceedingly rare.
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Game
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3191 Posts
February 01 2014 06:45 GMT
#49
@ ninazerg/Geckoxp:

Their tl;dr's "Personal attacking against LRM) x500. I won't talk about the issue, but rather try to tie in issues that have nothing to do with the current situation and piss poor management by SBWI to make them seem correlated."
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-01 07:16:02
February 01 2014 07:07 GMT
#50
Edit: actually, nevermind. Say whatever you want, nobody gives a fuck about what you think anyhow.
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GeckoXp
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Germany2016 Posts
February 01 2014 08:31 GMT
#51
On February 01 2014 09:08 2Pacalypse- wrote:
Wow, look at the BW community being all mature and shit. I'm proud of you guys.


Dunno if you meant me, I wasn't angry or anything, more like not understanding why the long posts from TechnicS, he made his point in the first long post, same goes for trutaCz.

On February 01 2014 15:45 Game wrote:
@ ninazerg/Geckoxp:

Their tl;dr's "Personal attacking against LRM) x500. I won't talk about the issue, but rather try to tie in issues that have nothing to do with the current situation and piss poor management by SBWI to make them seem correlated."


I wouldn't say it's piss poor, rather unexperienced. Without knowing details of the organization groups with teams, it looks like it was a hasty move, I said nothing to free them of guilt. However, once they made their decision, it's a lot of work for them to change it last minute again. It should have been communicated sooner, ideally at the start of the season. If they were to re-schedule or make some compromizes for the participating clans, they'd also have to think about re-scheduling the cast, deadlines, coverage and whatnot. For now it looks as if it was easier for the clans to adjust, given that the ruling itself isn't exactly "good", but fair in a sense that it hits all teams the same way.
iFU.ZerGgBoY
Profile Joined June 2011
Russian Federation62 Posts
February 01 2014 09:23 GMT
#52
Jesus someone ban please Lrm)Game for posting under Lrm)Technics account and several others!

Again so much drama from Lrm).

If there was a surprise for u (lrm) that u will make playoffs than u have nothing to do there => give ur spot to PsB.

Low orga and activity is ur personal problems Lrm. You think iFU has SUPER players? You think its easy to make all players attend CW? NO! Its orga job, a big hard real job. Teams with better orga always success! Get ready for ur loss. With all manipulations and dirty moves u made u still we be knocked out from league barely making top4.

I could say cya in final, but stop ))) u wont do that!

Cry me a reaaaaaaaaaaveeeeeeeeeeeeer!

2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9498 Posts
February 01 2014 09:47 GMT
#53
Man, and I just commended you for being mature. This thread has run its course now, so I better close it before starting to hand out warnings/bans.

Award for best post in this thread goes to:
On February 01 2014 08:43 skzlime wrote:
conclusion:
next season, announce playoff schedule along with regular season schedule. possibly leave out a week between the two for more pre-game El Bunker analysis and strategizing!
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