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Pipeline
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1673 Posts
October 28 2011 22:51 GMT
#41
Awesome read as per usual! I love all TLs article writers. Great work!!

I haven't paid much attention to the MLG finals being terrible. But now that you guys mentioned it I cannot help but to agree. The MLG format has some huge flaws but I still think the biggest flaw isn't the extended series rule, it's the schedule. There needs to be more matches on Friday and Saturday and less on Championship Sunday. Having watched every MLG out there I got to say that the players look extremely tired on Sunday, especially those who are placed in the first round of the loser bracket on Championship Sunday.

Surely the MLG events would be more smooth if the championship bracket started its play on Saturday instead of Sunday.
emecee
Profile Joined September 2010
United States222 Posts
October 28 2011 23:00 GMT
#42
hey great article.
but MKP didnt make a heart sign, he made a reddit upvote sign. please correct this.
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
October 28 2011 23:02 GMT
#43
sad zealot no more? haha
[TLNY]Mahjong Club Thread
bittman
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia8759 Posts
October 28 2011 23:03 GMT
#44
Haha, the Polt paragraph about Fionn having to cry whilst rewriting the Power Ranks made me laugh =D

And wouldn't MC be more likely to campaign for presidency era 2030 not 2040? Debatable I guess

Thanks for the write up + recap.
Mvp - Leenock - Dongraegu - MC - Gumiho - Keen - Polt - Squirtle - Jjakji - Genius - Seed - Life - sC - Dream || LG-IM - MVP - FXO
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11077 Posts
October 28 2011 23:06 GMT
#45
Love the zealot lol
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
duckyR
Profile Joined September 2010
United States93 Posts
October 28 2011 23:12 GMT
#46
Nice nice, I thought boxer placed higher . Great write-up!
Wings of Liberty
Archile
Profile Joined June 2011
United States403 Posts
October 28 2011 23:16 GMT
#47
Great write up

i laughed and teared up a bit after the huk story xD
Just a bad player trying to be a little less bad
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
October 28 2011 23:21 GMT
#48
I'm sad we didn"t see Polt at all.
I still don't know what happended against Growser ;(

Comon MLG, you can't not show a single game of a former GSL Champion..
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
Ahtiven
Profile Joined May 2009
Malaysia159 Posts
October 28 2011 23:39 GMT
#49
Thanks Heyoka and Elly the ESPORTS Elephant for another pleasant read! <3 <3

Keep it up guys and Elephant!
Life is a gift, don't waste it.
infinity2k9
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom2397 Posts
October 28 2011 23:41 GMT
#50
Why is Idra vs Bomber such an overrated series? First game IdrA was 80 supply ahead at one point.. it didn't seem close at all, just IdrA's playstyle means he stretches the game out for ages. Second series was pretty much over when the mass marine didn't work early on.
StatikKhaos
Profile Joined January 2011
United States214 Posts
October 28 2011 23:43 GMT
#51
You can complain about extended series and the finals but it makes sense, shouldnt the person the won the winners side get rewarded for that? And shouldnt you get rewarded for beating someone earlier? You still have to win 2 games to win extended series (if you're the winner), and the players have to get the same amount of wins against each other. Would you remove extended series and winners bracket advantage completely? or how would you change it?
Those Bitches
mordk
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Chile8385 Posts
October 28 2011 23:56 GMT
#52
On October 29 2011 08:43 StatikKhaos wrote:
You can complain about extended series and the finals but it makes sense, shouldnt the person the won the winners side get rewarded for that? And shouldnt you get rewarded for beating someone earlier? You still have to win 2 games to win extended series (if you're the winner), and the players have to get the same amount of wins against each other. Would you remove extended series and winners bracket advantage completely? or how would you change it?


The problem with extended series imo, is completely different when talking about finals, and all the rest of the matches:

a) About regular matches: In many situations it's stupid. For starters, pool play shouldn't mean any advantage if those 2 players meet again, this makes for some truly bad scenarios in the brackets. Then, on later stages, the advantage is so huge it barely makes any sense to even play the games. Only players like boxer have made any extended series exciting.

b) About finals: The player who has the extended series advantage has such an obscene advantage that, even if it makes sense, it makes the finals predictable and terrible. In the closest example I can think of, the real finals in Orlando imo, was the series between MC and StC for the Code S spot. HuK was evidently the winner way before that, and the finals was made really boring because of that.

In 99% of scenarios, extended series degrades from the viewer experience, it's just plain bad, EVEN in the cases it makes perfect sense.
koolaid1990
Profile Joined September 2010
831 Posts
October 29 2011 00:07 GMT
#53
tbh, orlando was only fun cuz of MC.... and idra's game against bomber, and slayersboxer...i mean how can you be the champion of this mlg without even vsing the hardest opponent, bomber....
huk manages to avoid bomber twice, at dreamhack and at MLG. He won both of them... but what if he vsed bomber in both? he would only have his homestory cup trophy to really show off....
Avan
Profile Joined March 2011
Brazil121 Posts
October 29 2011 00:24 GMT
#54
Oh, Tassadar, forgive me! But I love a Terran player called Slayers_Boxer.

Forgive me, Tassadar, but he is just too awesome... One can't stop loving him.

ALL HAIL THE MOTHAFUCKIN EMPEROR! \,,/
"I have never tasted Death, Zeratul. Nor shall I". Liquid'HerO FIGHTING!
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
October 29 2011 00:52 GMT
#55
im surprised they didnt cover idra vs boxer?

wow so many good series (according to this)

I guess i should start watching xD

thanks for op!
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
Ruscour
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
5233 Posts
October 29 2011 00:56 GMT
#56
SaSe vs Bomber should be there! The sickest series.

Great read as always.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
October 29 2011 00:59 GMT
#57
yeah that must be disappointing for polt

Also, hurray for boxer under the winners.

Really I just do not understand, why is boxer so interesting to watch? (Day9 make an analysis pl0x?) Haha. What if people played with boxer's genius but with MVP's macro. Bonjwa yea? Maybe it's just cus he takes such epic, calculated risks.
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
October 29 2011 01:04 GMT
#58
Poor Polt. How many GSLs will he have to win before people think he's a good player?

Haha why am I not surprised that HuK greeted you in this way? Also seems like something TLO would say.

Oh, if HuK's around the answer: Parisian girls or Korean girls?
Starleague Forever. RIP KT Violet~
Nokarot
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1410 Posts
October 29 2011 01:08 GMT
#59
Small correction, forbes stole the photo and then took it down after I called them out on it Now they stole a photo from myeg.net, but at least they learned their lesson and credited.
beep beep boop
Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
October 29 2011 01:14 GMT
#60
The article is wrong. Polt played Alive (a Code S Korean) and destroyed him 2-0. ~_~

Should have contacted me, the Polt Expert.
Writerhttps://twitter.com/FionnOnFire
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