IPL 3: Origins - Online Qualifier #3 - Page 11

On September 11 2011 07:45 Vehemus wrote:
IGN, these brackets should not be spoiled ahead of time.

I enjoy watching your content and I also enjoy you being forthcoming about the winners of the qualifiers but you'd get twice as many people watching the qualifiers if people didn't actually already know the outcome of every game.

It's absolutely human nature to care less about something competitive if you already know the outcome. It's the reason people will go so far out of their way to avoid spoilers of a football game they couldn't watch but are going to go home later for on their DVR. Or avoid all their favorite forums until they watch the GSL finals because they don't want them spoiled.

I understand you can't do the qualifiers live, I understand that I don't have to check to see who won if I don't want to, and I understand that people will probably find a way to find out through match histories who won anyway.

But damn, these players and games are awesome, why do you tell us who won every match a week before we get to watch them? My two cents.

On September 11 2011 07:49 Canucklehead wrote:


Because they tried to hide results from qualifier 1 and the results got leaked right away. They realized it's pointless to try to hide results since then and most people want to know who qualified, so it's better to give live results.

On September 11 2011 07:56 m0ck wrote:
I still think it's a pity that they haven't set up a "live" cast of the qualifier from replays. Would keep the live feeling while not making the time between matches and casts drag out to weeks. This qualifier will be done before we get to see the late (and most interesting) matches from the last one. Not the best way to keep peoples interest peaked.