EPTI think most people are cheering for this tournament to succeed since it's just 2 average guys who took up the ambition to run it. There has been a lull recently, but as others have said, if you guys focus on getting the qualifiers done with as soon as possible (don't worry about making things perfect), there will be a lot of interest coming back as the main ro16 bracket starts. GL
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yoshi_yoshi
United States440 Posts
I think most people are cheering for this tournament to succeed since it's just 2 average guys who took up the ambition to run it. There has been a lull recently, but as others have said, if you guys focus on getting the qualifiers done with as soon as possible (don't worry about making things perfect), there will be a lot of interest coming back as the main ro16 bracket starts. GL | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
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Forsti.henning
Germany220 Posts
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KobraKay
Portugal4358 Posts
I will comeback in a few weaks to see if tournament has started. When it actually starts I believe you will get the hype and stuff back and a lot of people will watch. | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
On August 17 2010 19:02 KobraKay wrote: I know its not your fault but stuff like this is why I hope the HDH2 wont take this long. People lose interest, move on to other big tournaments and simply forget. I forgot about this for almost a month and was thinking well they must be playing the semis already lets check it out only to find that not even the qualifiers next round (from the last I saw) was played. I will comeback in a few weaks to see if tournament has started. When it actually starts I believe you will get the hype and stuff back and a lot of people will watch. It's kinda the price you pay for having Koreans participate, I'm very curious how HDH2 will handle this. They actually have more than half less players participating and less Koreans too, but still enough to make me wonder if they'll be able to play an entire round in a day (or even a week). It's kinda sad though that players want qualifiers for everything, but that viewers don't really care about them, even when there's so many big names. Might be better to do 100% invite after all. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
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kar1181
United Kingdom515 Posts
On August 17 2010 21:55 Saechiis wrote: It's kinda the price you pay for having Koreans participate, I'm very curious how HDH2 will handle this. They actually have more than half less players participating and less Koreans too, but still enough to make me wonder if they'll be able to play an entire round in a day (or even a week). It's kinda sad though that players want qualifiers for everything, but that viewers don't really care about them, even when there's so many big names. Might be better to do 100% invite after all. I think having some qualifiers is good, but I guess you just have to be strict. If it's a european/us tournament you have to play your games in a set time or tough luck. As long as the guidelines are clear, no one can be *too* upset. And if someplayers can't make their commitments then they just have to be disqualled. Harsh, but necessary in a tournament as large as this one was/is. | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
I don't think we would've had much players left  | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On August 17 2010 22:32 Saechiis wrote: You can't compare this to a US or EU only tournament at all. It's so hard to get two players with a 12 hour time difference that both have their own schedules to play their match in time, it's ridiculous. For instance, the oGs.Zenio vs KiWiKaKi match was planned for today a half hour from now, but coincidence wants that right at this moment the US servers are down. Now it'll take at least another 24 hours, just to set a new time and date at which both players are available. So should I just DQ them because they haven't played at the set time? I don't think we would've had much players left Most of these players are pro gamers and this is a large prize pool. There is a certain point where you do have to DQ people. This tournament really has to get moving if anyone is going to care about it by the time the qualifiers are over... | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On August 18 2010 06:11 Saechiis wrote: So you are you suggesting I DQ KiWiKaKi and Zenio because the servers are down? That definitely doesn't fit into my idea of fairness. People that were showing zero motivation to play their matches have already been DQ'ed. No no I'm just talking in general. There's alot of times I see these players on. Just set a firm date or something. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
Also at this point, the tournament has been going for 1-2 months now and round 4 of qualifier games are barely starting. This tournament could be really awesome, it's just so hard to care about it when there are very few games being played, few people know what's going on, etc. | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
On August 18 2010 06:16 iCCup.Diamond wrote: No no I'm just talking in general. There's alot of times I see these players on. Just set a firm date or something. I bet they're on a lot, but when their opponents on the other side of the globe are asleep that doesn't do us any good ^^ When Americans and Koreans are involved the only viable times are from 8AM till 10AM and from 10PM till midnight. Most work in the morning so that leaves us about 2, maybe 3 hours later in the evening at which players are reluctant to play because they need to get up in the morning and can't play their A-game so late -_-' I hope we get dedicated foreigner proteams soon | ||
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Squeegy
Finland1166 Posts
On August 18 2010 06:44 Saechiis wrote: I bet they're on a lot, but when their opponents on the other side of the globe are asleep that doesn't do us any good ^^ When Americans and Koreans are involved the only viable times are from 8AM till 10AM and from 10PM till midnight. Most work in the morning so that leaves us about 2, maybe 3 hours later in the evening at which players are reluctant to play because they need to get up in the morning and can't play their A-game so late -_-' I hope we get dedicated foreigner proteams soon Yes, but the thing is, they have to play if they wish to continue playing in this tourney. This dragging on has been really bad (even unheard of, at least for me), and although it is not anybodys fault per se, you need to start setting deadlines that will hold. | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On August 18 2010 06:44 Saechiis wrote: I bet they're on a lot, but when their opponents on the other side of the globe are asleep that doesn't do us any good ^^ When Americans and Koreans are involved the only viable times are from 8AM till 10AM and from 10PM till midnight. Most work in the morning so that leaves us about 2, maybe 3 hours later in the evening at which players are reluctant to play because they need to get up in the morning and can't play their A-game so late -_-' I hope we get dedicated foreigner proteams soon The thing is this is not a small tournament. It's one of the largest ones out there. With over $2k in cash people can go to work tired one day . | ||
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Parsistamon
United States390 Posts
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thesighter
United States347 Posts
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JonnyLaw
United States3482 Posts
On August 19 2010 13:58 thesighter wrote: I want to see the capoch - ogs.ensnare games I agree. Capoch shows interesting methods of applying early pressure with proxy pylons consistently. | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On August 19 2010 13:58 thesighter wrote: I want to see the capoch - ogs.ensnare games We just brought on two new dedicated Youtube casters yesterday and Makh is back from his vacation! Tons of GGI videos to come VERY soon! | ||
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Makh
Canada143 Posts
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