EPTInevitable Poll
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Walls
United States172 Posts
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Draconicfire
Canada2562 Posts
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Glowbox
Netherlands330 Posts
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Walls
United States172 Posts
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Nazeron
Canada1046 Posts
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duck.fit
United States241 Posts
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0ne
Spain2464 Posts
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Sermokala
United States13888 Posts
I can't do this I'm not ready to face this question about myself yet. | ||
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Ruscour
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Milkis
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z0nk
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Antoine
United States7481 Posts
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Ysorigin
United States82 Posts
Games wise the NASL had it easily. However, like many threads are quick to point out....their production....wow....just how could that happen... My votes towards MLG Dreamhack is still amazing though, so much love to them | ||
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MrMotionPicture
United States4327 Posts
MLG has my vote. Edit: woo just realized my new portrait! :D | ||
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Andrew2658
United States356 Posts
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nekuodah
England2409 Posts
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
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Mephiztopheles1
1124 Posts
DH just felt, I don't know, too cold for me :S I wasn't excited at all during the event. | ||
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babybell
776 Posts
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babybell
776 Posts
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sevia
United States954 Posts
Production quality - Dreamhack. Game quality - NASL. The sound / stream issues that plagued the NASL finals set it a tier lower than the other events, so it was basically a toss-up between Cbus and Dreamhack. I think MLG delivered a smashing good performance to make up for Dallas, it really was an excellent tournament all-around, so my vote goes to them. | ||
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leo23
United States3075 Posts
As for the quality of games NASL has always provided epic matchups through the regular season and at the playoffs we saw many EPIC series that came down to a final game, making it so tense to watch. As for the production value Dreamhack Summer takes this one but I was REALLY annoyed by the fact that they only showed the semi-finals and finals in the studio (correct me if i'm wrong) and during most of the tournament kept the audience in a tent that really was too small for the amount of people assisting. Hopefully Dreamhack Winter expands their studio because they were PACKED and I can only predict that that audience will only grow with the next event. So with all this said, I gave my vote to MLG Columbus. Side note: I hope that the event organizers of these tournaments look at this poll and try to make their tournaments even 1000x better. | ||
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ComusLoM
Norway3547 Posts
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Marsupian
Netherlands455 Posts
gogo Lindsey! | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
Dreamhack had the best production obviously and no real difficulties in broadcasting. MC casted with Totalbiscuit. There were a lot of good series but not one was quite as good as the ones from the NASL. Huk took one home for the foreigners (though the finals were kinda weak). MLG was sort of intermediate of the above. Some problems, but a storm is outside their control. Lot of cool moments (such as idra defeating himself...AGAIN). Felt like it got more in touch with the players and tried to follow their stories throughout the tournament. Arguably better games than dreamhack. I gave it to Dreamhack just because of huk :p. | ||
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freddyy
Sweden56 Posts
Games were good but organization was way better at DH summer which gets my vote. | ||
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Bandino
United States342 Posts
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
Overall, however, all three events were very pleasant to watch. | ||
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exterminatus
Korea (North)142 Posts
MLG wins slightly ahead of DH | ||
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greggy
United Kingdom1483 Posts
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Tortious_Tortoise
United States944 Posts
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N3rV[Green]
United States1935 Posts
NASL Finals were pretty fucking sweet though. | ||
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Itzeddiieee
Korea (South)787 Posts
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Irave
United States9965 Posts
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
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Razakel
Ireland466 Posts
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Aocowns
Norway6070 Posts
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pwnopotamus
United States70 Posts
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nooboon
2602 Posts
(Also it was mostly a redemption from their previous one) Dreamhack had amazing coverrage with so many streams (Mistakes learned from the expense of MLG ) NASL had the best finals (probally one of the game 5 might be one of the best games of SC2 for a long time) bar none, but everything else was meh | ||
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pwnopotamus
United States70 Posts
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Fearlezz
Croatia176 Posts
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graan
Germany589 Posts
although, nasl was excellent | ||
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LanTAs
United States1091 Posts
It was AWESOME! MLG! MLG! | ||
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H.k[D]
United States260 Posts
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Hiltonizer
United States16 Posts
The NASL production was pretty awful, right up to the very end I was yelling fire the sound guy. Camera's were even terrible, looked like 80's home movies. They get that stuff squared up and they will be on par with MLG. | ||
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tanggehot
China26 Posts
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00Visor
4337 Posts
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xXFireandIceXx
Canada4296 Posts
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Sprouter
United States1724 Posts
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CAPSLOCKED
563 Posts
would rather have voted HSC | ||
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StatX
Canada343 Posts
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Rain.cz
Czech Republic227 Posts
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CurLy[]
United States759 Posts
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ICarrotU
United States254 Posts
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Xaxziminrax
United States19 Posts
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Kanil
United States1713 Posts
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smallerk
897 Posts
On July 11 2011 13:08 Kanil wrote: NASL's hilariously bad day one automatically rules it out, so between DH and MLG, I think I enjoyed DH more. My thoughts exactly. | ||
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grandkai
Canada71 Posts
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Itzeddiieee
Korea (South)787 Posts
mlgcolumbus>hsc>nasl=dh? | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
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TheDougler
Canada8304 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:56 sevia wrote: Overall atmosphere - MLG Columbus. Production quality - Dreamhack. Game quality - NASL. The sound / stream issues that plagued the NASL finals set it a tier lower than the other events, so it was basically a toss-up between Cbus and Dreamhack. I think MLG delivered a smashing good performance to make up for Dallas, it really was an excellent tournament all-around, so my vote goes to them. This guy mirrors my thoughts absolutely perfectly. | ||
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qke
Sweden60 Posts
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Jeenyus
United States109 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:36 duck.fit wrote: NASL had the best games but MLG wins in production and player interaction. are you serious? i got an autograph/picture from day 9 and sen, i sat right next to white ra and select at the hon booth. it was so player friendly at nasl | ||
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Veritask
260 Posts
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Roflhaxx
Korea (South)1244 Posts
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Meser87
United States476 Posts
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Kiyo.
United States2284 Posts
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29 fps
United States5724 Posts
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Ouga
Finland645 Posts
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Frozzen
Sweden73 Posts
Seriously a tournament that has its finals in a concert hall is below tournaments that happen in convention centers? | ||
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VTJRaen
United Kingdom238 Posts
On July 11 2011 15:34 Ouga wrote: Wow. 33% voting NASL aren't all trolls? Come on, you couldn't have followed MLG/DH if you think NASL had them. NASL had higher budget for everything, which wasn't used as well as smaller ones were in DH/MLG. I'd vote NASL as 3rd even if it was as good as others, considering what it could've been. I voted NASL, because while the production was terrible, that finals was so insane. I'm EU, so was in bed when it came on, absolutely exhausted. I edned up sat up on the edge of my bed around the mid-point of Game 2. I've never been so tense over a series than I have with that. That's why it got my vote. | ||
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forgottendreams
United States1771 Posts
Best Experience: Homestory Cup Best Games: NASL Poll is too vague as someone else mentioned. | ||
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Xswordy
United Kingdom425 Posts
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ZidaneTribal
United States2800 Posts
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Centipede
Netherlands44 Posts
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
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Fionn
United States23455 Posts
NASL had the best finals, but it's terrible first day and all weekend long audio problems ruled it out as the top choice. Columbus' crowd, constant games, low amount of filler, and the use of the casters made it the best. Dreamhack was good, but the crowd was really only used for the final. | ||
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Ojahh
Ireland728 Posts
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riderLyrae
United States45 Posts
But this is not a detraction from NASL or dreamhack. Both still ended up being fantastic events in their own rights as well. | ||
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[GiTM]-Ace
United States4935 Posts
NASL finals though was pretty amazing. I don't play P or T and generally don't even watch to many non z games. But even I was pumped up in my house for MC coming back. | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
NASL delivered on games and thats number one in my eyes. | ||
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ondik
Czech Republic2908 Posts
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UnceL
Poland73 Posts
I hope this was a kinda lesson learnt experience for the NASL and it will come back stronger in season 2. | ||
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HotShizz
France710 Posts
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Keype
Sweden455 Posts
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DisaFear
Australia4074 Posts
Haven't watched many DH games | ||
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WightyCity
Canada887 Posts
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KobraKay
Portugal4231 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:39 Milkis wrote: Should have waited until the hype died down lol This. I cant believe how NASL has any votes on that apart from the overhype from the great final matches. People said shit after shit after shit of the production, technical issues, people involved, schedule, etc, etc, etc.....the bo7 finals were really good and everyone forgets everything and its now getting a huge % of voting? I agree with milkis...this vote should have never been done so close after the end of the tournament, biased opinions showing right there (and yeah you can try to say im biased towards dreamhack and sad its in last place but that is just not true. I voted for MLG. I just find it odd that NASL has this many votes).Also I dont have nothing against the NASL. I wasnt in the "this is the worst event ever" bandwagon, despite having some complains, I kept them to myself because I understood that it was the first season and they were doing their best to improve and give us the better experience possible. The same way I didnt jump into the worst ever, im not going to jump to the omg it was best event ever bandwagon just because the final gave us some really exciting games. Nonetheless Im looking forward to the next NASL and Im sure a lot of improvements will be made and, by the end of next season, if the NASL gets this many votes for the best event I wont find it strange GL HF | ||
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ICA
498 Posts
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buncool
France70 Posts
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Zerum
Sweden348 Posts
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Logros
Netherlands9913 Posts
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Boxihobo
Hungary37 Posts
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Aurdon
United States2007 Posts
The question is that will MLG Anaheim ride the wave and be even bigger? I'm guessing yes. My prediction is 100k viewers all weekend long. | ||
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Chewie
Denmark708 Posts
I voted MGL though. Overall best event. The NASL finals did go a long way to make up for the bad production, but MLG had great games as well. But I really feel Homestory Cup should be in this poll. I think it has done the most to further particularly western esports. | ||
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Enox
Germany1667 Posts
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SmoKim
Denmark10304 Posts
but best tournament was Homestory cup, nothing beats that | ||
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anatem
Romania1369 Posts
mlg won production dh won delivery of content i'll have to go with DH first for the full coverage on streams, best tournament format and slightly superior games, with Columbus close second for the atmospehere, storylines and production value, and Nasl a distant third for some good commentating and semis/finals games quality. HSC3 takes the grand prize though | ||
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Art_of_Kill
Zaire1232 Posts
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laugoatse
Germany40 Posts
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grobo
Japan6199 Posts
MLG was almost on par with DH just that they had fewer streams and you had to pay for the best quality, but other than that it was almost perfect. NASL however doesn't even come close to DH and MLG, i'm not hating on their thing, i respect the hell out of anyone who is trying to get E-sports recognized but it seriously just didn't work out this time. I hope season 2 works out better for them. The entire internet flipped their shit over all the numerous issues with NASL, 1 hour breaks before the games, audio quality was atrocious, projector issues at the venue etc. How anyone can pick NASL out of these three is beyond me. As mentioned above, if this poll would have been posted a week from now when the NASL hype would have died down, the results would be completely different. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
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DwD
Sweden8621 Posts
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SgtCoDFish
United Kingdom1520 Posts
MLG: Best overall production quality, pretty good games NASL: Best finals Combine them all and every nerd will nerdgasm | ||
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The Final Boss
United States1839 Posts
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0cz3c
United States564 Posts
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
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Hassybaby
United Kingdom10823 Posts
DreamHuk, obviously. The name itself justifies it, but just the general streaming quality and minimal hiccoughs was ace. | ||
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MinoMino
Norway1103 Posts
NASL 3rd even with all the hype still around. Not looking good for them. | ||
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HEROwithNOlegacy
United States850 Posts
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VaySept
France39 Posts
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EndOfTime88
Austria259 Posts
On July 11 2011 20:56 HEROwithNOlegacy wrote: NASL finals, just because it was such an improvement from the very start of the season and the games were incredible. This has to be a troll post. Improvement??? With all those production problems??? NASL had some good games but that does not make up for all their technical issues. | ||
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seRapH
United States9756 Posts
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gullberg
Sweden1301 Posts
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Special Endrey
Germany1929 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:39 Milkis wrote: Should have waited until the hype died down lol this | ||
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BobMcJohnson
France2916 Posts
Dreamhack was kinda flawless all around, the only thing MLG may have had better was a bit more player interaction (but Homestorycup > all in this regards ) and the MLG crowd seemed a bit more enthusiastic. Compared to that, Dreamhack had a better stream quality, and more streams, and as an EU guy, the schedule fitted me best NASL well... it was NASL, Even if the production failures created some hilarious situations, the terrible format, and the schedule were kinda annoying. Still the games quality was excellent so it saved the day in the end | ||
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DruidzHistory
Sweden231 Posts
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cuppatea
United Kingdom1401 Posts
2. Dreamhack <Huge gap> 3. NASL | ||
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foen
Netherlands111 Posts
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Skoop
United States214 Posts
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zYwi3c
Poland1811 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:35 Walls wrote: NASL just put out the best SC2 event I had ever seen in my life. Then i bet u didnt see HomeStoryCup 3 or MLG Columbus ? | ||
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Joni_
Germany352 Posts
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gideonj
United Kingdom11 Posts
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LunaSaint
United Kingdom620 Posts
So many amazing games at once, and flawless streaming. Homestory too : D | ||
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LittleJohn
Sweden204 Posts
voted for dreamhack, but if hsc was in the poll I would've voted for that instead. | ||
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Zorkmid
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Der_Magen
182 Posts
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Carny
Croatia284 Posts
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Maliris
Northern Ireland2557 Posts
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Pipeline
Sweden1673 Posts
People seem to have forgotten the massive problems with the first day(s) of NASL finals already.... MLG Columbus got my vote, but just barely edged out Dreamhack Summer! | ||
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
Dreamhack lacked the excitement of MLG, mainly due to that fact that only the finals were casted in front of a live audience, and NASL would have been terrible if it wasn't for a couple of the series played. | ||
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sVnteen
Germany2238 Posts
 so i voted for DH | ||
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Satoros
38 Posts
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
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Shadowcloak
Netherlands194 Posts
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grobo
Japan6199 Posts
On July 11 2011 20:56 HEROwithNOlegacy wrote: NASL finals, just because it was such an improvement from the very start of the season and the games were incredible. So the best way to run a tournament is to have an unwatchable day 1 and then improve, instead of a perfect event throughout? gotcha! | ||
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Glenwoodian
United States28 Posts
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Gladiator6
Sweden7024 Posts
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
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SolidMustard
France1515 Posts
Anyway the three events were really great ! | ||
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Skydancer
Italy249 Posts
NASL stuff had to be thankfull to MC and Puma that probably save their ass from the inevitable destruction. ;-) | ||
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Torenhire
United States11681 Posts
Overall as an event, MLG > NASL The crowd and games themselves of the NASL finals, however, beat out MLG. | ||
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JAN0L
Poland207 Posts
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Crais
Canada2136 Posts
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Doppelganger
488 Posts
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
On July 11 2011 23:07 JAN0L wrote: I dont know why Homestory Cup is not in the pool That would be unfair to these 3 events. | ||
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dignity
Canada908 Posts
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KazKamasa
Sweden186 Posts
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StateAlchemist
France1946 Posts
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InFi.asc
Germany518 Posts
NASL had the best final games tho | ||
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gladheateher1337
164 Posts
pretty simple actually its more than a "production" putting some computer-graphics on a screen (DH) doesnt make it automatically better or more professional.I mean everyone could buy these programms to make such things i think its more about the general atmosphere,the casters,the fans and the games of course | ||
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Muffinman53
571 Posts
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phisku
Belgium864 Posts
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Aerodynamic27
Canada115 Posts
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Tarot
Canada440 Posts
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Zeon0
Austria2995 Posts
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EGfanBoi!DemuFtw
United Kingdom46 Posts
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Tuk
United Kingdom223 Posts
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vanTuni
389 Posts
The player pool of the NASL finals was worse than at MLG or DH (not to speak of HSC3). The Production was horrific, both technically and in terms of scheduling. The commentators were the same as everywhere else. So what exactly speaks for NASL, other than the fact that some people cannot recall an event that took place more than 2 days ago? | ||
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ZooG
Sweden618 Posts
-free HD stream -"ok" production and minor delays etc... -it was awesome live and finals epic with HuK win :D | ||
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A Wet Shamwow
United States1590 Posts
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stevorino
957 Posts
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p0lyph0ny
United States217 Posts
Currently 1337 votes... haha awesome! | ||
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Mr.Ch4rms
Canada84 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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ilbh
Brazil1606 Posts
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Cyber_Cheese
Australia3615 Posts
accidentally voted dreamhack, definitely wanted mlg Columbus, what with tastosis djwheat and day9 nasl wasnt worth the hype sif no gsl | ||
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Inkarnate
Canada840 Posts
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DiaBoLuS
Germany1638 Posts
MLG weakpoints: The system needs to change a bit, i like the idea though. Dreamhack weakpoints: Audience. The atmosphere is missing. + the maincasters didnt cast from the main stage. huge minus. NASL Finals weakpoints: strange seedings. Soundproblems. Anna prosser sining??? and god - we dont need 2 hour breaks between bo3s. Everything else was ok though, the games itself were great - especially Sen-MC and MC-Puma A word to "HomestoryCupIII": Its simply different, you cannot cmopare it to the others. it clearly has its weaknesses as well, especially some casts... | ||
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ZenViper
Korea (South)115 Posts
GSL Dreamhack MLG NASL | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
While it was a great moment for Huk and the non-Korean community, the games themselves were short and cheesy. Not quite as epic and tense as the NASL finals (though ending in cheese). OK nevermind this is for the whole event. -.- | ||
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iiNsAnE
Germany140 Posts
Good production and really good games NASL had too many problems imo but the games were amazing... | ||
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gm.tOSS
Germany898 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:39 Milkis wrote: Should have waited until the hype died down lol Nailed it. | ||
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Rinrun
Canada3509 Posts
(NASL games not the event itself...) | ||
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dCc
Canada86 Posts
The problem that I had with MLG was that all of the games were best of three, and the extended series if players had to meet again. | ||
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NietzscheanKant
Finland92 Posts
As for the (finals?) games, it'd be either TSL3 or NASL Season One. | ||
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Premier
United States503 Posts
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Goldomen
Sweden46 Posts
That was just horrible. | ||
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insomdapowahouz
Canada58 Posts
maybe you guys don't remember that MMA vs LosirA series but it was just as hype/awesome as the NASL finals | ||
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Alpino
Brazil4390 Posts
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mapthesoul
Trinidad/Tobago429 Posts
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gardinho
Germany368 Posts
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Soap
Brazil1546 Posts
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Coulthard
Greece3359 Posts
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Slayth
United States325 Posts
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kunstderfugue
Mexico375 Posts
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Saad
United States50 Posts
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BroodjeBaller
125 Posts
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Mr Showtime
United States1353 Posts
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Mr Showtime
United States1353 Posts
On July 12 2011 04:29 DiaBoLuS wrote: MLG > Dreamhack > NASL Finals MLG weakpoints: The system needs to change a bit, i like the idea though. Dreamhack weakpoints: Audience. The atmosphere is missing. + the maincasters didnt cast from the main stage. huge minus. NASL Finals weakpoints: strange seedings. Soundproblems. and god - we dont need 2 hour breaks between bo3s. Everything else was ok though, the games itself were great - especially Sen-MC and MC-Puma A word to "HomestoryCupIII": Its simply different, you cannot cmopare it to the others. it clearly has its weaknesses as well, especially some casts... This is a near perfect breakdown in my opinion. Well done. I do give a little more credit to NASL though. That was their first live event, and once they work out some of the kinks from the lack of experience, they have the potential to blow DreamHack and MLG out of the water. Only time will tell. | ||
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MorNin
United States443 Posts
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POiNTx
Belgium309 Posts
Otherwise I would probably have voted for Dreamhack summer if the poll said 'NASL'. [EDIT] I am a noob. Just realized 'NASL finals' was the name of the event. Should have voted for DH. | ||
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Brett
Australia3820 Posts
Anyway, personally I like MLG the most purely because of the crowd; they were going nuts and MLG were smart enough to show that to the audience at home. | ||
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Enderskmc
Canada110 Posts
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BrahCJ
Australia659 Posts
MLG was flawless. Generally at most 15 minutes between games, great variety, incredibly good production value, and a greater crowd presence. With MLG the misses knew that I would be setting the alarm for 3am, and she wouldn't be able to get sense out of me until around mid-day. With NASL, she still had an hour with me, then nothing. Its not fair on her to get her hopes up. | ||
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Walls
United States172 Posts
On July 11 2011 21:55 zYwi3c wrote: Then i bet u didnt see HomeStoryCup 3 or MLG Columbus ? When I posted that I had just gotten done watching the nasl.. now that I think about it, MLG was pretty good | ||
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TVUmK
United States91 Posts
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Clbull
United Kingdom1439 Posts
Why? MLG Columbus was a nice event but was let down by several issues such as the way the streaming system was designed, while much better than the Octoshape crap they used last time around, overly frequent commercial breaks, some of the most annoying commercials ever (i.e. the "Get real" one) and the overly large amount of hype the event got which the event didn't actually meet. It also left me questioning the planned league exchange program and whether it was actually a fair exchange, as both the GSL and MLG tournaments were pretty damn vastly different. I mean only winning MLG will actually get you an easily loseable Code S spot whereas placing 2nd - 4th will get you a Code A spot, also hard to obtain, easy to lose and quite frankly not worth the money even if GoMTV will cover living expenses and travel costs. The North American Star League was great when it actually got to the Grand Finals, and even then I found the decision to have iNcontroL and Gretorp cast the final series to be questionable considering Tasteless, Artosis and Day[9] are fan favourite casters and probably the most experienced in that field. However, the duo actually pulled through and made the final 7 games a very enjoyable experience. Also, my experience of watching the NASL has been spoiled somewhat both by the schedule which either involves me having to wait until 3am GMT to watch regular games or wait til the restream at 6pm GMT and either have the results spoiled to me via looking at the NASL site directly to watch the stream or otherwise. Also, I have questioned paying the $25 needed to watch the stream in anything that is 480p or above, or watch VODs, especially since many have complained that VODs simply aren't working. However, I appreciate it when tournaments release their replays for future analysis, casting and viewing. Both Major League Gaming and Dreamhack have done this whereas the NASL and GSL have outright refused to do so. Also, at least MLG and Dreamhack are making their VODs free with advertising, whereas to play, whereas with the GSL and NASL, you must have a premium season pass. Hence, I am afraid to say that because of all of these factors, Dreamhack is obviously my choice with MLG as a close second. | ||
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NuclearJudas
6546 Posts
I guess DreamHuk(lol) edges out the other two, due to fantastic games and casting, which is basically what I watch for. MLG had Tastosis, whis is a HUGE plus for me, but a lot of the games were lackluster, imo, and extended series is such a weird fucking rule to use. NASL was so weird and awkward most of the time, so I found it hard to get into the mood. The crazy long player intros, the super-awkward model girl interviewing people and so on greatly annoyed me. Also, the fact that Gretorp and Incontrol casted the finals with Tastosis (casted the bronze match) and Day[9], just doing nothing, was really disappointing. I'm not going to say that they didn't deserve it, as they casted the whole season and yadda-yadda, but NASL should have gone with the fan favorites, imo. Would have surely been more exciting to me. To summarize (tl;dr): 1: HSC3 2: DH:S 3/4: MLG/NASL | ||
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seansye
United States1722 Posts
1. Columbus = Most excitement/Games/eSports Drama ^^ 2.Dream Hack = Great overall. 3.NASL Finals = too much hiccups, but fantastic Finals. Might of been the best series I have ever seen. 4.HSC3 = Just not enough good games, PvP semi-finals and finals, Not that much koreans. I won't be surprised if Europeans vote for the european tourneys and NA picks MLG. | ||
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Kappa09
United States149 Posts
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
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Night Eyes
433 Posts
<3 MLG | ||
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TheHansBecker
United States117 Posts
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banana
Netherlands1189 Posts
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Asha
United Kingdom38200 Posts
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Greggor
Sweden119 Posts
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Djagulingu
Germany3605 Posts
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Frankon
3054 Posts
DH hands down. You just had to take a look the schedule. Look up what match you were interested in and press the right stream button. Perfect experience of online viewing. From the live viewers perspective: In this poll MLG columbus. The players ceremonies, running into crowds. and the crowds themselves. Dont have to add anything to it. And then we have NASL Lets check the list: - sound problems - check - time managment errors - check - depresing stage - check - toi-toi player booths - check... MLG Dallas might have lost its spot on the throne. Btw. i voted for DH cause for a online viewer it was PERFECT. | ||
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phyK
Germany73 Posts
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amatoer
Germany212 Posts
So yeah.. | ||
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grs
Germany2339 Posts
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Strike_
Netherlands704 Posts
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frogurt
Australia907 Posts
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DerBeefman
Germany226 Posts
Sadly couldn't watch the epic nasl finals completly T_T | ||
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NexCa
Germany954 Posts
voted for dreamhack tho | ||
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Diavlo
Belgium2915 Posts
On the contrary i think that the people will remember the quality of the final games (and the casting) and the memories of the problems will phase out. Just like i remember MLG Dallas from the games of IdrA vs Huk more than the rage i felt when watching a black screen or those Dr Pepper commercials. Of course you can say that idra's GG and the dancing zealots will echo through eternity but those are not the same kind of memories^^. | ||
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Happy Gilmore
Sweden2 Posts
It was the first, but hopefully not last time I ended up shouting like a girl in the middle of the night when PuMa clutched g7, just before I realized I was all covered in my own sweat which forced me to go take a shower at 3am. PUMA FIGHTING | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
MLG had just way too good stories. IdrA ragequits anyone? They were just too good. The final was very well played and the crowd was amazing. DH i don't remember that much, still it was better over all than NASL. NASL had the best final games, but other than that it sucked compared to the other two's. | ||
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Zax19
Czech Republic1136 Posts
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caelym
United States6421 Posts
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Kogan
Germany84 Posts
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
MLG for me. | ||
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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Xariann
Italy54 Posts
So games aside, I think MLG Columbus gets my vote here. I'll still follow all 3 tournaments. If they didn't improve their production as they did in their last "appearance" however, MLG would have been at the bottom. | ||
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Natsumar
United States91 Posts
 HuK barely holding that 6 pool and the hope it gave me for foreigners. | ||
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Retgery
Canada1229 Posts
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OCsurfeR
United States195 Posts
On July 13 2011 01:54 Retgery wrote: MLG the crew did their best and it showed in the production value, NASL had some of the best series of games to date. All three and an incredible community behind it, and that's all that matters. I love it when I read from a member of the Community who gets it. | ||
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Wootman
Sweden3 Posts
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Dyme
Germany523 Posts
NASL couldn't prevent their players from delivering good games, they had a stable stream and Lindsey. But sound issues and ~0,3matches/hour were painful. BO3 single elim was annoying as well. | ||
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Mr Showtime
United States1353 Posts
On July 13 2011 01:12 sjschmidt93 wrote: It's easy to forgot how much of a disaster NASL after the amazing finals -- but they were still a disaster. MLG for me. It's also easy to forget that it was only their first go at a live event given how large the production was | ||
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Tjoepieboy
Netherlands1 Post
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-VanQuisH-
9 Posts
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trixter
Denmark3 Posts
Sexism aside, NASL had great games (Sen ftw) and a nice lineup of players and casters. NASL production had some speed bumps, but it was nothing big, it was still enjoyable (though I may've felt differently, had I paid the $10, don't know). Dreamhack felt a bit rushed and I had the impression players just turned up to get a shot at the prize money, not to play some good matches. MLG was great, but not fresh in memory, my impression is a less impressive lineup but good production. | ||
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Daniello
Poland127 Posts
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Vaelone
Finland4400 Posts
Voted MLG. | ||
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Alabasern
United States4005 Posts
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knyttym
United States5797 Posts
Dreamhack best delivery (so many effing streams) NASL best finals/ semi Ranked importance in that order | ||
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question
Czech Republic509 Posts
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Hikko
United States1126 Posts
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CanadianHero
Canada20 Posts
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genius_man16
United States749 Posts
MLG: 94/100 NASL: 80/100 NASL had great semi's and finals but that was about it, the first round was a massive yawn fest and the production was bleargh. I picked Dreamhack over MLG because i felt that almost every series was epic and had awesome storylines, whereas MLG had a few yawners, not very many, but enough to make it 2nd. This poll isnt really fair cuz NASL is fresh in peoples minds. I bet if you waited a month to make the poll NASL wouldnt get very many votes. | ||
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Phayze
Canada2029 Posts
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Nifarious
United States42 Posts
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busbarn
Sweden984 Posts
DH inv > MLG COL > DHS > IEM World > HSC > IEM Kiev > Assembly > NASL > MLG Dallas | ||
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ovi.b
Romania2 Posts
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aDd3z
Germany885 Posts
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chaokel
Australia535 Posts
But if i had to pick i would have to say dreamhack, just because they seemed to run pretty smoothly had good casters and great matches. | ||
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
Needs more Homestory Cup ! | ||
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loazis
Netherlands381 Posts
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dapierow
Serbia1316 Posts
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Circos
United Kingdom115 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:35 Walls wrote: NASL just put out the best SC2 event I had ever seen in my life. Wha-, no.... What? The games were amazing, but the actually aspects attributed to the organisers were terrible. So as an EVENT, NASL was not anywhere near close. | ||
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mecavity
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iamho
United States3347 Posts
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12oz
United States6 Posts
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FenneK
France1231 Posts
Hack/ | ||
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Rawkclayton
Denmark43 Posts
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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susySquark
United States1692 Posts
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ClysmiC
United States2192 Posts
Wasn't able to watch any of Dreamhack unfortunately, so I can't comment on that. Hear it was great though. | ||
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probob
Germany227 Posts
NASL and DH tie on 2nd, both had good games and really cool moments but also some flaws. | ||
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L3g3nd_
New Zealand10461 Posts
was a tough call between DH and MLG | ||
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Chibithor
Brazil514 Posts
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SichuanPanda
Canada1542 Posts
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cari-kira
Germany655 Posts
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ScaSully
United States488 Posts
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xDAYMANx
United States29 Posts
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NkWolff
Canada5 Posts
commentated by d.Apollo & day[9]. =) | ||
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tripledoubles
Australia213 Posts
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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Fubi
2228 Posts
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oDDable
United States54 Posts
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sLothh
Sweden38 Posts
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Latty
Germany567 Posts
Single Elimination bo3 is just crap in ro16 MLG was super nice but Dreamhack owns all the way. | ||
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CaptainApe
Germany100 Posts
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DeSBLsempavieh
Germany62 Posts
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Krogan
Sweden375 Posts
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Slaptoast
Canada134 Posts
I actually enjoyed homestorycup the most though. | ||
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PHiZH
Denmark40 Posts
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happyness
United States2400 Posts
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Duravi
United States1205 Posts
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
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dark0dave
179 Posts
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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Nesto
Switzerland1318 Posts
imho they just got lucky, that they had awesome games in the final, which can't be attributed to the organizers, but apart from that, the production was incredibad, seriously: - Massive delay at start - 1 hour+ breaks between each BO3? - awkward interviews - sound problems all weekend, - switching on Day9's mic like 20 times when he wasn't on stage - 10 Minute intros for each player in almost every round - Single elimination (Hey Ret, how about you fly over to the US and play 2 games ?) In comparison, DH and MLG Columbus were such awesome events. Can't wait for the next ones. | ||
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ceaRshaf
Romania4926 Posts
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SteffoDeffo
Germany48 Posts
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seroxat
Austria20 Posts
Even the music was great the whole time... lol | ||
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x2mirko
Germany245 Posts
Overall it's all REALLY close. I loved all three events and i think it's awesome that we get this kind of entertainment edit: oh, and the homestorycup really was the coolest event of all. Really loved the whole chilled atmosphere and the pros casting | ||
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EnSky
Philippines1003 Posts
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Larryx
Poland148 Posts
NASL finals were fine too Incontrol and Gretorp did awesome job at final match, but i didnt like hiring blonde chick for filling time, waste. | ||
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Trym110
Norway1 Post
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LuckedOut
77 Posts
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Belano
Sweden657 Posts
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Arakash
Germany124 Posts
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Arcanian
Sweden13 Posts
Dreamhack and MLG were pretty equal to me, both really awesome, but I'm swedish so I'll have to say Dreamhack | ||
NonY
8748 Posts
On July 15 2011 12:05 Duravi wrote: It is a little bit disingenuous to compare just the finals of one event to the entirety of two other events. The poll would probably look much more lopsided if it was simply NASL vs MLG vs Dreamhack. All three took place over one weekend. If you include NASL's regular season, then it becomes a very weird comparison. NASL's 16 person single elimination bracket certainly has a lot less games than MLG and DH formats, but that was NASL's choice. | ||
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MuseMike
United States1339 Posts
On July 11 2011 09:40 z0nk wrote: hm ... what about TSL3? It wasn't that long ago either Lan events do not compare to TSL3, they are very different. | ||
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Wintertime
Canada64 Posts
Zing. | ||
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Chronald
United States619 Posts
Did you not watch the stream?? Frankly NASL was the worst out of these by far. MLG and DreamHack were both close, but DreamHack was just a better event. | ||
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btlyger
United States470 Posts
Dreamhack was great in production value, but I never got that into the matches | ||
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doctor_
Poland10 Posts
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DMXD
United States4064 Posts
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Tegin
United States840 Posts
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BIGFOOT_202
Germany30 Posts
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r4pture
United States397 Posts
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stafu
Australia1196 Posts
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
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Zevah
Argentina187 Posts
MLG colombus or dreamhack were better events overall. I won't "forgive" NASL for all the problems they have during the season... the production for the finals was not good enough either, also i think they laugh at me when they select incontrol and gretorp to cast the finals instead of tastosis.... I voted for MLG | ||
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
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xi Tempest x
Scotland340 Posts
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Krymming
Sweden38 Posts
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rUiNati0n
United States1155 Posts
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doffe
Sweden636 Posts
.A merge between MLG and DH would be like the most awsome thing ever possible, probably would be to much for me to handle. | ||
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lollyz
218 Posts
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Xevious
United States2086 Posts
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Barett
Canada454 Posts
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Rauff
Denmark18 Posts
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scTrigger
Australia23 Posts
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GeForceFX
Lithuania101 Posts
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InFi.asc
Germany518 Posts
On July 18 2011 22:45 GeForceFX wrote: No offense to NASL, but 27% voting for nasl over dreamhack and mlg? Holy god. What is this reality. Oh well. Anaheim is gonna be epic, can't wait for that. :3 that's because the final was so damn good and poeple were/are still hyped about it when the poll was published | ||
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Crt Balorda
Slovenia16 Posts
then its NASL then Dreamhack for me | ||
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zyglrox
United States1168 Posts
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Tarias
Netherlands480 Posts
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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DyEnasTy
United States3714 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + its easy to figure out | ||
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LXR
357 Posts
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Dream-
United States20 Posts
On July 19 2011 12:59 DyEnasTy wrote: wth is with people? the most epic series we've seen in SC2 to date and people its not winning? + Show Spoiler + its easy to figure out I didn't see the finals of TSL3 as an option to vote for. NASL had the best semis/finals by far, but the quality of the tournament throughout was rather spotty. MLG definitely wins this, however none even compare to TSL3. | ||
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ZaYo
Poland6 Posts
It had tons of "stars" there, casted live, on tons of streams. And most important of all - they didnt had problems with sound like NASL had, and they were streaming higher quality for free. | ||
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