IGN Pro League Season 4 Pacific Qualifiers - Page 45

On November 07 2011 22:31 robih wrote:
wtf sase lost to moon?
how in the world?

On November 07 2011 22:37 Wivyx wrote:
What happened to TargA?

On November 07 2011 22:31 robih wrote:
wtf sase lost to moon?
how in the world?

On November 07 2011 23:01 Arrietty wrote:
Just came back from the event. Some thoughts:

- The people at the ticket counter had NO idea what they're doing. I came in pretty early, they didn't know if they were still selling VIP tickets and they just dismissed me when I started asking questions. They didn't know if they should give people regular passes. They don't even know what benefits a regular pass comes with. When I voiced out my concerns in the PPSL facebook page, it was ignored then suddenly deleted. Looking at their FB page it looks like they just take down all negative comments altogether. WTF?

- When I FINALLY got my VIP ticket, I didn't get most of what came with it (i.e., meet and greet with the gamers and pictures and autographs with them). It looked like the organizers didn't actually have a specific plan for all those...like they just wrote all those things in the facebook page with no intention of actually doing it. I never even saw them try, no one ever talked to us, not once. People just resorted to ambushing Tastosis whenever they could.

- Huuuuge props to Allyn Hoang. She really did her best, tried to entertain a very tired audience, and was seriously running around trying to get shit done. She asked us off-camera during the delays what we wanted to see in the meantime. She staged the showmatches and I even saw her helping set up the camera in that teeny little dress of hers.

- The crowd wasn't as quiet as it looked like on stream. Especially from the late afternoon onwards people were pretty loud and were cheering quite enthusiastically everytime Tastosis asked them to. People went crazy during the Sen-Naniwa games. I'm not sure why the cheers weren't picked up by the camera.

- The organizers were the epitome of failure. Every after one game (not even one set), there were tech people inside the booth doing who knows what. I have no clue what was taking so long even after we knew the internet was back up. It was the IGN staff---the people who were not even in Manila and who were not even directly respoinsible for setting up the event---who were updating us from twitter and their posts here in TL! We got ZERO updates from the AZK team: not from the venue, not from their twitter and not from their facebook page. All they were posting were how awesome the games were. They had to have some serious blinders not to acknowledge all that delay.

- We had no idea all the other games in the group had already been played. No one told us. Not even a "by the way, MC won a game against so-and-so". We didn't see MC, Inca, Check, MKP, or Fruitdealer on stage. What a waste.

I'm still going tomorrow anyway. Maybe because I'm just a glutton for punishment, and maybe just because I'm holding out on the hopes that maybe we can actually see the players on stage.

On November 07 2011 23:20 red4ce wrote:
So looking at the liquipedia brackets, am I to understand that Every Korean made it through to the Ro16 but not a single player from the home country has? Ouch.

On November 07 2011 23:15 iaguz wrote:
TargA couldn't go because he had exams. We were going to send YoonYJ instead but then AZKWitchdoc decided not to let a QUALIFIED player play in the event and replaced TargA with AZKSickness.

That is fucking disgraceful and it's bullshit that AZK aren't held to account at all.

And yea, it wouldn't surprise me that AZK/PPSL is fucking things up. Any organisation that has ziek/zanooku as one of it's members is probably more slippery than an eel in a bucket of shit..

On November 07 2011 23:46 iaguz wrote:


Jabito might go through his group but it's extremely unlikely. And yea, every other Philipino player fell to the Koreans 2-0. Which isn't surprising of course; they're Korean!

Enderr, Jabito and maybe Blazer are decent players but I wouldn't rate any other Philipino player (I might be wrong of course, I do not closely follow the philipino scene.) The only South East Asian player, excluding Taiwan which is too insular for me to comment on at all, who can dance with the koreans still remains moonglade. Who managed to lose to Rossi and Yoon in the qualifiers... somehow.

On November 07 2011 23:01 Arrietty wrote:
Just came back from the event. Some thoughts:

- The people at the ticket counter had NO idea what they're doing. I came in pretty early, they didn't know if they were still selling VIP tickets and they just dismissed me when I started asking questions. They didn't know if they should give people regular passes. They don't even know what benefits a regular pass comes with. When I voiced out my concerns in the PPSL facebook page, it was ignored then suddenly deleted. Looking at their FB page it looks like they just take down all negative comments altogether. WTF?

- When I FINALLY got my VIP ticket, I didn't get most of what came with it (i.e., meet and greet with the gamers and pictures and autographs with them). It looked like the organizers didn't actually have a specific plan for all those...like they just wrote all those things in the facebook page with no intention of actually doing it. I never even saw them try, no one ever talked to us, not once. People just resorted to ambushing Tastosis whenever they could.

- Huuuuge props to Allyn Hoang. She really did her best, tried to entertain a very tired audience, and was seriously running around trying to get shit done. She asked us off-camera during the delays what we wanted to see in the meantime. She staged the showmatches and I even saw her helping set up the camera in that teeny little dress of hers.

- The crowd wasn't as quiet as it looked like on stream. Especially from the late afternoon onwards people were pretty loud and were cheering quite enthusiastically everytime Tastosis asked them to. People went crazy during the Sen-Naniwa games. I'm not sure why the cheers weren't picked up by the camera.

- The organizers were the epitome of failure. Every after one game (not even one set), there were tech people inside the booth doing who knows what. I have no clue what was taking so long even after we knew the internet was back up. It was the IGN staff---the people who were not even in Manila and who were not even directly respoinsible for setting up the event---who were updating us from twitter and their posts here in TL! We got ZERO updates from the AZK team: not from the venue, not from their twitter and not from their facebook page. All they were posting were how awesome the games were. They had to have some serious blinders not to acknowledge all that delay.

- We had no idea all the other games in the group had already been played. No one told us. Not even a "by the way, MC won a game against so-and-so". We didn't see MC, Inca, Check, MKP, or Fruitdealer on stage. What a waste.

I'm still going tomorrow anyway. Maybe because I'm just a glutton for punishment, and maybe just because I'm holding out on the hopes that maybe we can actually see the players on stage.