[Opinion/IPL4] Much Ado About Nothing - Page 3

On April 20 2012 20:57 Kreb wrote:
On the topic of (possibly) lacking open bracket coverage: I think the problem is rather that the tournament is too big to be covered. I mean, GSL is a much much much smaller tournament player-wise, but they still manage to produce content for several hours 5 days a week for like 1.5 months. With open brackets of 100+ players and double elimination brackets which increases the amount of games massively, its just not possible to cover. Tournaments have evolved into running first 2, the 3 or 4, and now up to 6 streams at once, but even then its not enough. And the solution is hardly to run 15 streams, there comes a point when its too many and I think we're about to reach that point already.

Im not saying the solution would be smaller tournaments though. Having an open bracket is good for many reasons. Im just saying that you cant really expect a very well covered tournaments when its being played in 3 days and consists of a simply massive amount of games and possible storylines. You probably have to choose one or the other, and IPL chose the large format.

I do agree that foreigners performed better than many try to make it look though, that part was well written.

ToD losing 1-2 to two Code S players

On April 20 2012 20:48 Lysanias wrote:
Nice article to read, and i do agree, IPL gave us great games and a taste of korea's deep player pool. Where foreigners like Illusion slipped under the radar a bit by all the Korean foreigner bashing going on that weekend.
I also fully agree players like White-Ra and Idra should not be seeded, IPL changed so much and how can you justify 1 year old results.

"What's truly behind this Korean 'domination' is a rather a silly tournament structure, terrible streaming, short-sighted choice of invites, and simple math."