Good tournament overall. But definitely not perfect.
Things to improve upon:
Remove extended series. It might work for Halo but it is a stupid system to use in SC2
More chairs! The SC2 crowd is huge and will only get bigger.
Increase the in-game quality.

HEROwithNOlegacy

United States850 Posts

June 08 2011 12:01 GMT

#162

Was an amazing event, so close to perfect. Great job to MLG and sundance!

Laurence

Ireland119 Posts

June 08 2011 13:20 GMT

#163

No lag issues on the stream for me (apart from when there was a storm in Columbus but that couldn't be helped) and the casting and the format was awesome. I loved the double stream too.

Only 1 minor thing i didn't like, extended series, but that was a really really small spanner in the works of an amazingly well-run event. Oh and i barely got an ad all weekend, maybe it's because I'm not from the US idk

price

United States297 Posts

June 08 2011 14:51 GMT

#164

spawn more chairs

only gripe i had really ...

LinGz

Dominican Republic23 Posts

June 08 2011 15:03 GMT

#165

They should fix the lag thing in games the next time.. after that everything was 10/10

Freedomringer

United States34 Posts

June 08 2011 20:34 GMT

#166

An amazing event! I had 3 streams running HD all weekend. Both SC which were the same most of the time but when they weren't, it was AWESOME!!! Also watched Halo, even though SC2 was my favorite the headshots are always fun (Black Ops is ahhh doesn't really interest me). Plus the free HD is a plus. Extended series is actually fine for me. You can't just say I lost 2-0 to this guy but that doesn't matter. It's also a chance at more games! Always a plus! Hoping for an even better Anaheim maybe the first American winner of the year?!! Perfect event in the future!!!

EzPz

Scotland64 Posts

June 08 2011 22:36 GMT

#167

sure there were rooms too improve but i thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the live stream! :D

Cromniomancy

Canada32 Posts

June 09 2011 00:35 GMT

#168

Great event overall, and definitely a vast improvement from Dallas. Theres still a few things that could be ameliorated (i.e. no adds when switching stream quality, preferably remove extended series, more chairs for public etc.) But overall, i thoroughly enjoyed this MLG and absolutely loved the double stream feature. "Super awesome".

Huggerz

Great Britain919 Posts

June 09 2011 01:34 GMT

#169

On June 06 2011 22:03 hacklebeast wrote:
super awesome, but we needed more chairs.

At one point they said we needed to stop stealing halo's chairs because it was a fire hazard.

lol ^^

Damnight

Germany222 Posts

June 09 2011 05:09 GMT

#170

Really nice event. Loved it so much, and in comparism to earlier mlgs it had improved a lot. The fact that it is a three day tournament makes it even more excisting. Love the GSL, love the MLG, love Teamliquid, In Starcraft we trust :D

MapleFractal

Canada307 Posts

June 09 2011 07:57 GMT

#171

Huge improvement from the last event, really happy that MLG didn't totally miss the mark like in Dallas. Tastosis was sweet, didn't turn their stream off all weekend :D

DrivE

United States2554 Posts

June 09 2011 08:19 GMT

#172

Much, much better than Dallas. Let's hope Anaheim will be just as awesome :D

tuggiesFTW

8 Posts

June 09 2011 14:03 GMT

#173

Overall great event. A few things that would have made it much better for me as an online viewer were:
1) Commercials - I know they are needed, but having planned breaks for them in between matches, rather than just anytime a stream was loaded, would make them much nice to sit through. Also volume control so its not super loud compared to the stream itself.

2) Lag- Not sure if this is my connection or an issue with MLG. Stream would constantly jump back 15-20 seconds or pause and have to reload for a couple seconds. Not really too annoying except when it was right as some big push or drop was about to happen. Issues from weather sucked, but no real way to avoid that.

3) Extended Series- I really dislike this format. If the players/tournament coordinators like it though it works. It just seems like something MLG is doing to be gimmicky and different than other tournaments.

Just my 2 cents, and glad I can look forward to the next one after Dallas had shattered my faith in MLGs (and had me expecting this one to suck too).

Zyori.tv

United States770 Posts

June 09 2011 16:11 GMT

#174

definitely need more chairs.

MisterFred

United States2033 Posts

June 09 2011 17:15 GMT

#175

not an important enough event to be perfect. Also, ref -> player interaction issues. Fair amount of dead time on streams too. Got an awesome vote though.

Dearion

Denmark26 Posts

June 09 2011 18:58 GMT

#176

I'm dissapointed that there isn't a "Its ok.." poll choice.

Chronald

United States619 Posts

June 09 2011 20:24 GMT

#177

Once Blizzard releases B.Net in a box, MLG will be soooo awesome.

Gumbos

Canada55 Posts

June 09 2011 20:42 GMT

#178

Much improved over Dallas, but not close to perfect. The matchups and the crowd energy was fantastic, but the streams had some issues off and on. Overall pretty solid, keep up the good work!

ROOTdrewbie

Canada1392 Posts

June 09 2011 23:56 GMT

#179

columbus was most certainly super awesome

iTookiE

United States19 Posts

June 10 2011 00:30 GMT

#180

like a bunch of other people were saying chairs were the only major problem.

that and the security, at the convention center, were kicking people out when we were talking with some of the casters or something after the games..i don't know if MLG is to blame, but yea..bad