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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.
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hey great article.
but MKP didnt make a heart sign, he made a reddit upvote sign. please correct this.
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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.
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United States93 Posts
Nice nice, I thought boxer placed higher  . Great write-up!
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Great write up
i laughed and teared up a bit after the huk story xD
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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..
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Thanks Heyoka and Elly the ESPORTS Elephant for another pleasant read! <3 <3
Keep it up guys and Elephant!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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....
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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! \,,/
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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!
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SaSe vs Bomber should be there! The sickest series.
Great read as always.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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United States23455 Posts
The article is wrong. Polt played Alive (a Code S Korean) and destroyed him 2-0. ~_~
Should have contacted me, the Polt Expert.
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