Too many to personally keep track of all the them, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just maybe some of the better one's with better production and casting may be overshadowed and not get the recognition they deserve due to bigger prize pools of other tournaments being easier to advertise.

Koshi

Belgium38799 Posts

July 01 2011 08:27 GMT

#82

In the last 6 months there were so many events that I feel I need to take a step back. I probably wont purchase NASL S2 and I already didn't subscribe on the GSL July. In the past I bought every SC2 pass I could get my hands on.

I feel that watching the GSTL/MLG/Dreamhack/HSC/TSL and streams are enough for me atm.

Yamulo

United States2096 Posts

July 01 2011 08:53 GMT

#83

It is funny how you can complain about a good thing, I mean personally you won't be able to watch all the tourneys ect, but if their is more events that means esports is growing. So really what is boils down to is that maybe there is a lot of tourneys and events, but is that in any way bad.... No!

Drazerk

United Kingdom31255 Posts

July 01 2011 09:00 GMT

#84

Needs to be more

Even if there is too many it is pretty easy to keep track of the ones you want to and read the LR / watch vods from the others.

sushiman

Sweden2691 Posts

July 01 2011 10:06 GMT

#85

Far too many and often. It's good if you just want to watch random SC2 games, but the scheduling is so cluttered that it's hard to dedicate to a specific one. And even then, games tend to be so close in time that I can't really get any attachment to the players.
Almost exclusively watch BW now since it's easier to follow.

AmericanUmlaut

Germany2578 Posts

July 01 2011 10:18 GMT

#86

The more the better and too many to keep track are both true. I could never keep up with all the tournaments that are taking place at any given time. On the other hand, I have no trouble keeping track of the few players I'm a particular fan of. This is similar to any other sport - even the biggest soccer fan in the world isn't going to sit down and watch every tournament game that was played each day.

dankh

France15 Posts

July 01 2011 10:34 GMT

#87

I want to see more of the "sports" in eSports. Fewer events with better quality. More commentary prognostics, interviews before and after each event. If there are fewer "big" events the players will also be prepared better for each one.

SiNoCiDe

Turkey67 Posts

July 01 2011 11:13 GMT

#88

Actually I think the number of events is just fine.

Personally watching the main events in each region is perfect.

NA = MLG
Europe = Dreamhack
Korea = GSL/GSTL

I really appreciated HSC so I will be looking forward to HSC4 as well. If these main events increased in frequency (MLG and Dreamhack) that would be perfect. Not to interested in any other events tbh (but more events would be better for the scene).

StarStruck

25339 Posts

July 01 2011 11:43 GMT

#89

The more the better for the game, but the reality of the situation is events will start to thin out because of the overabundance. Sponsors will put the advertising dollars into the ones that have the most viewership instead of wasting money.

Golden Ghost

Netherlands1041 Posts

July 01 2011 11:44 GMT

#90

There are to many events for me personally to keep track of but that's not a bad thing per ce.

For example look at soccer. There are games played everywhere at almost any time.
However most of the people only follow the top league from their home country and a bunch of games from the Champions League or equivalent on other continents.

Then there is a set of people who also follow the top leagues from other major soccer countries like the Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A (Italy), Primera division (Spain), Premier division (England) and a set of people who follow the lower ligues from their country.

There is also a set of people who go week in week out to the villageclub to sheer them on. Not everybody can see the joy of watching these amateur clubs battle it out but for the people watching those clubs are their passion and pride. Playing against a club from the village next to them for the pride to be best of the region.

Ow and then there are a few nuts who follow nearly everything

I see the same principal happening for SC2 at the moment. There are a lot of smaller (weekly) tournaments that are watched by perhaps not the biggest crowds but loyal crowds non the less. And for the up and coming players these are the first tournaments where they can prove themselves and make a name for themselves.

Then there are the bigger weekly tournaments (Craftcup/Gosucup/Zotac etc.) and medium sized tournaments (the HomeStory Cup is a bit of an outsider here because it had the size and prize money of a medium tournament but the playerfield of a toptournament)

And above that you have the top tournaments like GSL/TSL/MLG/Dreamhack/ESL and weeklies like TLOpen/NASL to name a few that draw big crowds and where the best players compete against eachother.

Each category has it's own niche and viewers. And as long as the amount of viewers roughly reflects the prize money/prestige there shouldn't be a problem. The problem begins if/when smaller tournaments start handing out more prizemoney as would be justified by the amount of viewers they have and get into trouble because they can't cover the costs anymore.

bITt.mAN

Switzerland3693 Posts

July 01 2011 11:56 GMT

#91

Go take a look at the TL upcoming events list. It's absolutely FLODDED by SC2 events, I can NEVER find the upcoming BW ones I'm looking for. It's great that eSports is growing, but I'd love it if R1CH could implelemt an option where you can filter out all the SC2 events.

nucLeaRTV

Romania822 Posts

July 01 2011 12:49 GMT

#92

The more the better but there are too many to keep track (but that's a good thing for a new game, because it's popularity increased a lot and it wasn't a first month game and them everybody quits and starts playing fifa or cs or something else).
Of course, most of the 1 month players quit already but it's good to see that people are still playing and getting better and better and the game is having more and more success.

Paladia

802 Posts

July 01 2011 13:00 GMT

#93

Pretty silly alternatives. Yes there are too many to keep track but why would you want to keep track of everything though?

Just check football for example. Pretty much every country in the world has at least 5 or so leagues (divided into skills) with tons of teams each and a lot of cups. There are by far too many to keep track of, but why would you? What you want to keep track of are the more high profile events and leagues.

I doubt anyone (except perhaps people from the US) would say that there are too many football events, however. Just like there arent too many Starcraft 2 events (despite you being unable to keep track of them all).

pallad

Poland1958 Posts

July 01 2011 13:40 GMT

#94

More is better , sc2 scene is growing..
More big sponsors comes to sc2 , its very good thing.. but im little pissed , because sometimes i cant track all matches live that i wanna , we must chosse to watch stram live , and chose between some players then we love.

Only bad thing is that in finals or high round matches like ro8 ro16 etc is to many protos players :D

pallad

Poland1958 Posts

July 01 2011 13:41 GMT

#95

On July 01 2011 22:40 pallad wrote:
More is better , sc2 scene is growing..
More big sponsors comes to sc2 , its very good thing.. but im little pissed , because sometimes i cant track all matches live that i wanna , we must chosse to watch stram live , and chose between some players that we love.

Only bad thing is that in finals or high round matches like ro8 ro16 etc is to many protos players :D

Spicy Pepper

United States632 Posts

July 01 2011 13:43 GMT

#96

The more there are, it means there are more brush fires of interest sparking up around the world. It's basically a sign of continual growth, and as time passes and the people organizing these events gain experience, then the audience's experience should improve.

If it gets to the point that there are so many events, along with a demand to track them, then someone will eventually take advantage of that opportunity.

JudgeHolden

Canada11 Posts

July 01 2011 14:03 GMT

#97

This is a perfect example of another thoughtless TL poll question.
You could answer each as 'yes' and no answer would contradict another.
Each opinion on the matter is completely unrelated to the others.
This site needs some decent editors.

SaetZero

United States855 Posts

July 01 2011 14:08 GMT

#98

too many to follow, but that is not necessarily a bad thing

Quadans

Germany24 Posts

July 01 2011 14:14 GMT

#99

how is having many tournaments bad? OFC MORE !

Sewi

Germany1697 Posts

July 01 2011 14:14 GMT

#100

I would say the more there are the better, although I cannot keep track of them.

The reason is that the more there are, the bigger the chance that there will be really great events that will last long enough to make a name for themselves.