SHOUTcraft Invitational 2 - Electric Banelinggoo - Page 110

On July 26 2011 19:05 Grimmac wrote:
Suggestion:

- You can immensely decrease the time between matches by playing the replay, instead live. From my noob spectator point of view, there is no different what so ever.

- Thinking better now, you should never invite people from past SCI (or at least not the winner), it will be more exciting to have always fresh people, also cleaning the path (no one should win twice) for the SCI9 - Winners from the past.

On July 26 2011 21:31 Full.tilt wrote:
I fear change, I like it just the way it is. A regular, exciting, compact 8 player invitational that rewards all the players that are chosen by TB and team.

People can make player suggestions all they like but will viewer numbers or their enjoyment significantly change much because several hundred people vote for their favourite players to be included?

On July 26 2011 21:58 Asymmetric wrote:
I still think you can easily fit a nice small team league into 1 or 2 days if your going to run a second event.

Invite 4 teams from a list like this:

Liquid, Diginitas, Mouz, Empire, Millenium, Team Acer, Fanatic, FXO, EG, Reign, Complexity, Sixjax, etc.

Have 2 bo7's on day 1.

Losers play losers in bo7's for 3rd and 4th place at the start of day 2. Winners player winners in a bo7 afterwards for 1st and 2nd place.

No 2v2's. No ace matchs. Just straight up winner stays on, loser picks map format.

On July 26 2011 21:29 Nifel wrote:


There's always another side to the coin though. A lot of people still want that "live" feeling they get from knowing that the games are played right there and then. While replays eliminate a lot of technical difficulties and speeds up the process, you miss out on epic moments such as "CHILL GET OUT".

And personally, I kind of like seeing the former champions defend their titles. Also you can see how a player has developed since last time and, of course, should the previous finalists end up facing each other again I feel it automatically adds some extra tension. Not to mention it adds a little extra to the prize knowing you're ensured a spot in the next invitational.

On July 27 2011 01:57 Athox wrote:
DO NOT extend the tournament. Keep it as it is. Two days with 8 players picked by TB & crew.

I also liked how you went for the final match even though it was getting towards midnight and still a Bo7 to do...

I've suggested it earlier in the thread... 4 NA and 4 EU players, separate brackets until the final/bronze match. That way you can start off with two EU Ro8 matches, and then two NA Ro8 matches.

This solves two problems: No realm switching in the Ro8 and Ro4, and no "too late, can't play today" problems on day 1, since it would still be quite early in NA even if the Ro8 goes long.

There's still the problem of day 2 going long. Admittedly a lot of it was because of technical problems, but the games still went long. I think it would be nice if you started earlier and took into account the fact that every game may last for 30 minutes.

A lot of people went to bed before the final match because they thought it would be rescheduled (i stuck it out, but i wasn't really awake at work on monday). It's better to finish too early than too late. There's also the risk that the players will do like morrow in the final of SCI #1 and essentially throw the game because it's really getting late. Whether he threw it or not, he was definately not playing his best there.

On July 26 2011 19:05 Grimmac wrote:
Suggestion:

- You can immensely decrease the time between matches by playing the replay, instead live. From my noob spectator point of view, there is no different what so ever.

- Thinking better now, you should never invite people from past SCI (or at least not the winner), it will be more exciting to have always fresh people, also cleaning the path (no one should win twice) for the SCI9 - Winners from the past.

On July 27 2011 09:13 WolfgangKies wrote:
First of all: great tournament with great casting and outstanding series (in particular Nerchio vs. Socke, + Show Spoiler + A huge thank you to TotalBiscuit and his team, dApollo and everyone in the community who made this event possible (the no adblocker stream viewers and the generous donators)

A view points regarding future SCIs and the 5000$ prize pool cap (aka what to do with all the cash):
- It seems to me like a lot of fans/viewers/contributers/donators (including myself) really would like to see future invitationals with prize pools exceeding the 5000$ limit.

- This is because it seems that the majority of the donators weren't even aware of this limitation and provided money (in some cases ridiculous amounts) in order to create the biggest and best tournament there ever was.

- The reason behind this would be that the SCIs are entirely funded by the community and therefore they are our tournaments (I know of course that they are primarily TBs tournaments but to some extent they belong to us ) and it is the most natural thing if you want your own tournament to grow and to have the best players in the world participating in it... a way to achieve that is by big ass prize pools..

- This brings us to the 5000$ limit... In the case of the SCIs I really believe Blizzard should make an exception to their policy because honestly I don't really know if they considered something like community sponsored events (as far as I know it's pretty much unheard of)

- Anyway whatever happens with the available money, I'm sure it's gonna be awesome (I'm absolutely confident that TB will organize some great events in the future)

On July 29 2011 02:35 DeSam wrote:
where can i find the replays?