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Contrary to popular belief Stephano is not from the States, any mindless spam asserting otherwise after this time (19:48 KST/ 5:48 AM EST/ 10:48 GMT) will meet a moderator response. We have enough confusing spam posting in LR threads these days. Lets try to keep the love for everyone's favourite French zerg reasonable.

And as always:
- No player bashing.
- No caster bashing.
- No balance whining.

Enjoy the games.
SafeAsCheese
Profile Joined June 2011
United States4924 Posts
December 12 2011 13:11 GMT
#5121
Surprised Stephano beat DRG but lost to MC
masakenji
Profile Joined November 2011
Australia415 Posts
December 12 2011 13:11 GMT
#5122
stop crying bout stephano, hero was 0-4. CRY FOR HIM. if it was best of 3, hero would've won, DAMN THIS FORMAT... LOL
vojnik
Profile Joined October 2010
Macedonia923 Posts
December 12 2011 13:11 GMT
#5123
i am pretty sure if MC and Stephano were reversed positions and stephano advanced instead of MC there wouldn't be a single line of discussion about the "bad" tournament format, you should be ashamed of youselves
For the swarm!
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4927 Posts
December 12 2011 13:12 GMT
#5124
On December 12 2011 22:08 darkest44 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 22:02 bbm wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:58 darkest44 wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:55 bbm wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:49 darkest44 wrote:
Some players are always going to lose or win enough in a group format to determine their fate before the group play ends and "have less incentive to win or lose" their last matches, it's impossible to prevent.


The GSL's regular group stages dual tournament format avoids this by not having matches that are irrelevant. Every match will make a difference for someone between being in the grey "might get through" middle, or the assured 2-0 or 0-2 win/loss.


This is 5 players, it's completely different than 4 and what you said is impossible with 5. Do some math.

I'm aware of that, maybe they should have 2 groups of 4 and kick out two of the players? Or invite 2 more players and have 3 groups? If you can't balance for 5 players then don't do five players. It's like trying to introduce a 4th element into RPS, it doesn't work so you just shouldn't try it.



Lol yes, kick 2 players out of the tournament just to appease the Stephano fanboys with delusions that MC threw a hard fought game vs DRG. Such a joke. It was plenty balanced, the players who preformed the best advanced. Group play is a standard model used in many tournaments and only now whined about cause some Stephano fanboys are butt hurt he didn't get through. If MC won none of these kids would be whining.

Never followed any sports event? Group stage is inherently unfair at times and causes whining. No need to flame.
Bromazepam
Profile Joined August 2011
820 Posts
December 12 2011 13:12 GMT
#5125
On December 12 2011 22:08 darkest44 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 22:02 bbm wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:58 darkest44 wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:55 bbm wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:49 darkest44 wrote:
Some players are always going to lose or win enough in a group format to determine their fate before the group play ends and "have less incentive to win or lose" their last matches, it's impossible to prevent.


The GSL's regular group stages dual tournament format avoids this by not having matches that are irrelevant. Every match will make a difference for someone between being in the grey "might get through" middle, or the assured 2-0 or 0-2 win/loss.


This is 5 players, it's completely different than 4 and what you said is impossible with 5. Do some math.

I'm aware of that, maybe they should have 2 groups of 4 and kick out two of the players? Or invite 2 more players and have 3 groups? If you can't balance for 5 players then don't do five players. It's like trying to introduce a 4th element into RPS, it doesn't work so you just shouldn't try it.



Lol yes, kick 2 players out of the tournament just to appease the Stephano fanboys with delusions that MC threw a hard fought game vs DRG. Such a joke. It was plenty balanced, the players who preformed the best advanced.

Group play is a standard model used in many tournaments and only now whined about cause some Stephano fanboys are butt hurt he didn't get through. If MC won none of these kids would be whining. If Stephano had won vs MC and they forced a rematch playoff then the same kids would be whining that that's unfair and "stephano already beat him". These kids will whine about whatever prevents their favorite player from advancing in any particular tournament.


That's a very good point you're making there. Except that it's completely wrong since many people (me included) have stated that they didn't care whether DRG or Stephano got through.
Saying that something is killing esports is killing esports.
hmsrenown
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1263 Posts
December 12 2011 13:12 GMT
#5126
On December 12 2011 22:11 vojnik wrote:
i am pretty sure if MC and Stephano were reversed positions and stephano advanced instead of MC there wouldn't be a single line of discussion about the "bad" tournament format, you should be ashamed of youselves

That's untrue. Take your witty comment and leave the LR thread lol.
redviper
Profile Joined May 2010
Pakistan2333 Posts
December 12 2011 13:12 GMT
#5127
Good to wake up and see MVP and MC advance. I wish MVP had topped the group but I guess you can't have everything. Sucks for hero though, 0-4 must really hurt his confidence. How was MVP vs DRG?

Still amazing that MVP could win WCG and 24 hours later qualify through his group. Really articulates how much ahead he is of everyone in the world.
b0rt_
Profile Joined October 2011
Norway931 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 13:13:36
December 12 2011 13:12 GMT
#5128
Bah shame for Stephano. Shame he doesn't join the GSL and stay in Korea as he needs to improve.
Bromazepam
Profile Joined August 2011
820 Posts
December 12 2011 13:13 GMT
#5129
On December 12 2011 22:11 masakenji wrote:
stop crying bout stephano, hero was 0-4. CRY FOR HIM. if it was best of 3, hero would've won, DAMN THIS FORMAT... LOL


I started crying for Hero when I saw him go Nexus first in PvP. By now the tears have dried out already.

Oh wait... TT
Saying that something is killing esports is killing esports.
quancer
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada161 Posts
December 12 2011 13:13 GMT
#5130
On December 12 2011 22:10 OopsOopsBaby wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:51 Reasonable wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:30 alpsi wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:29 sitromit wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.


And how does the fact that MC actually played Stephano and BEAT him factor into your logic??

cam down he's trolling lol


I'm not trolling at all. That fact that you think I'm trolling is because there are two mathematically equal solutions to this result, and the one that is given the preference is more intuitive. I'm not a big fan of Stephano, but I respect him as a player and to invite someone to such tournament and fly him all the way to Korea and to rate by a controversial scale is rather disrespectful at least.

Here is something who hasn't slept through inequalities on algebra:
let M=MC, S=Stephano, D=DRG
M>S
S>D } -> (S>D>M or M>S) = (S>M or M>S)
D>M

I really don't see how advancement in such tournament should be based on an implication that one match result is preferred to the other. It is the first time I encounter this in sports, maybe this is a common practice somewhere. I'm sorry if I offended any MC fans with this, but I think it is just to complain about this tournament system considering the scale of the Blizzard cup


solved for you.

D 3-2
M 2-2
S 2-2
M > S


His point is that the results say M > S as well as S > D > M, which are completely contradictory. Why should we favour one over the other?

Tournaments are strictly about overall performance in that a better score regardless of who you face determines how far you go. To suddenly dispense of this in the case of ties makes absolutely no sense, especially when your choice is essentially arbitrary.
MVP, Polt, Supernova, Losira, Leenock, Morrow
pPingu
Profile Joined September 2011
Switzerland2892 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 13:17:14
December 12 2011 13:14 GMT
#5131
Just want to remind that on TL accusing players of match fixing without any proof is a good way to get banned

And I like how many people are complaining about the format but wouldn't have if MC won the game vs drg
Edko
Profile Joined September 2011
France20 Posts
December 12 2011 13:15 GMT
#5132
Too bad for Stephano. Still, he did really well in my opinion. He showed that he can compet with the very best.
Mbenga
Profile Joined April 2011
4 Posts
December 12 2011 13:15 GMT
#5133
On December 12 2011 22:13 quancer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 22:10 OopsOopsBaby wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:51 Reasonable wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:30 alpsi wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:29 sitromit wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.


And how does the fact that MC actually played Stephano and BEAT him factor into your logic??

cam down he's trolling lol


I'm not trolling at all. That fact that you think I'm trolling is because there are two mathematically equal solutions to this result, and the one that is given the preference is more intuitive. I'm not a big fan of Stephano, but I respect him as a player and to invite someone to such tournament and fly him all the way to Korea and to rate by a controversial scale is rather disrespectful at least.

Here is something who hasn't slept through inequalities on algebra:
let M=MC, S=Stephano, D=DRG
M>S
S>D } -> (S>D>M or M>S) = (S>M or M>S)
D>M

I really don't see how advancement in such tournament should be based on an implication that one match result is preferred to the other. It is the first time I encounter this in sports, maybe this is a common practice somewhere. I'm sorry if I offended any MC fans with this, but I think it is just to complain about this tournament system considering the scale of the Blizzard cup


solved for you.

D 3-2
M 2-2
S 2-2
M > S


His point is that the results say M > S as well as S > D > M, which are completely contradictory. Why should we favour one over the other?

Tournaments are strictly about overall performance in that a better score regardless of who you face determines how far you go. To suddenly dispense of this in the case of ties makes absolutely no sense, especially when your choice is essentially arbitrary.

oh ya in football at the end of the season if both teams are 8-8 and team a is 1-0 to team b, they have a playoff. oh wait! "first time i encounter this in sports"
masakenji
Profile Joined November 2011
Australia415 Posts
December 12 2011 13:16 GMT
#5134
On December 12 2011 22:13 Bromazepam wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 22:11 masakenji wrote:
stop crying bout stephano, hero was 0-4. CRY FOR HIM. if it was best of 3, hero would've won, DAMN THIS FORMAT... LOL


I started crying for Hero when I saw him go Nexus first in PvP. By now the tears have dried out already.

Oh wait... TT



for some reason, seeing a fellow sympathizer... easily tears me up T.T
Lord_J
Profile Joined April 2011
Kenya1085 Posts
December 12 2011 13:16 GMT
#5135
I've seen some pretty terrible whining in tournament threads, but this format whining takes the cake.
No relation to Monsieur J.
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4927 Posts
December 12 2011 13:16 GMT
#5136
On December 12 2011 22:14 pPingu wrote:
Just want to remind that on TL accusing players of match ficing without any proof is a good way to get banned

And I like how many people are complaining about the format but wouldn't have if MC won the game vs drg

Oh trust me there would have been people complaining.
Slike
Profile Joined April 2011
Greece127 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 13:18:46
December 12 2011 13:16 GMT
#5137
On December 12 2011 22:14 pPingu wrote:
Just want to remind that on TL accusing players of match ficing without any proof is a good way to get banned

And I like how many people are complaining about the format but wouldn't have if MC won the game vs drg


Stop those ridiculous posts. You have no way to know if people would complain about the format if stephano went through and you cant know if everyone posting here complaining about the format is a stephano fanboy (which they arent - at least i know i am not) . The thing is this is a very arguable format and people are discussing about it. Fanboyism is as annoying as anti-fanboyism , you know.
IamPryda
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1186 Posts
December 12 2011 13:18 GMT
#5138
Anyone who thinks that the circumstances of the final match was unfair to stephano is a moron and deserves to be shot. Even if mc was playing one of his Best friends he would have tried his hardest, and to say having head to head as a tiebreaker is wrong what method would u like them to use? Every sport in the world uses head to head when it comes to a 2 team tie. If it was a three way tie I believe Gom has the players play each other again, this was not the case mc and Steph were both 2-2 mc won the match between them therefore that is the only deciding factor . Instead of bashing mc u should thank him for giving it his all he could have just tried a fast all in and phoned it in instead he tried his hardest on a map that is second to only duel sight as the most z favored vs p. Quit the bitching and realize just because the player you wanted to win lost doesn't mean he didn't get a fair shot.
Moar banelings less qq
Ylrahc
Profile Joined September 2011
France496 Posts
December 12 2011 13:19 GMT
#5139
On December 12 2011 22:12 redviper wrote:
How was MVP vs DRG?

MVP went BFH harass, cancelled DRG B3 while DRG was going roach / mutas and actually kicked MVP's B3 right after. At the same time MVP was going meca with hellions / thors, killed a lot of mutas but got rolled by roaches (lack of tanks ?) and lost. Good game overall, it could have gone either way at some point but DRG macro, decision making and the mobility of his army made the difference.

All in one, what can be remembered of the last 100 pages of this thread, BO1 SUCKS ! Why ?
1) Endless discussions of who's better, why X got eliminated with same score as Y, etc. Less likely to happen in BO3
2) Matches decided by cheeses, semi all-ins etc. Lack of macro games makes me a sad panda.
3) Best reason, 10 games between best players in the world <<<< 20+ games. And there was plenty of time to pull that off as there is a full day per group.

====> GSL, next time, BO3 plx !!!
Shadow and dust
redviper
Profile Joined May 2010
Pakistan2333 Posts
December 12 2011 13:19 GMT
#5140
On December 12 2011 22:13 quancer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 22:10 OopsOopsBaby wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:51 Reasonable wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:30 alpsi wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:29 sitromit wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.


And how does the fact that MC actually played Stephano and BEAT him factor into your logic??

cam down he's trolling lol


I'm not trolling at all. That fact that you think I'm trolling is because there are two mathematically equal solutions to this result, and the one that is given the preference is more intuitive. I'm not a big fan of Stephano, but I respect him as a player and to invite someone to such tournament and fly him all the way to Korea and to rate by a controversial scale is rather disrespectful at least.

Here is something who hasn't slept through inequalities on algebra:
let M=MC, S=Stephano, D=DRG
M>S
S>D } -> (S>D>M or M>S) = (S>M or M>S)
D>M

I really don't see how advancement in such tournament should be based on an implication that one match result is preferred to the other. It is the first time I encounter this in sports, maybe this is a common practice somewhere. I'm sorry if I offended any MC fans with this, but I think it is just to complain about this tournament system considering the scale of the Blizzard cup


solved for you.

D 3-2
M 2-2
S 2-2
M > S


His point is that the results say M > S as well as S > D > M, which are completely contradictory. Why should we favour one over the other?

Tournaments are strictly about overall performance in that a better score regardless of who you face determines how far you go. To suddenly dispense of this in the case of ties makes absolutely no sense, especially when your choice is essentially arbitrary.


Tournaments are most certainly NOT about overall performance. Otherwise they would have a fully connected graph. There is an inherent localization in tournaments and this is clearly an evidence of that.

MC beat Stephano is more localized than Stephano beat DRG beat MC. Its quite obvious and that is why everyone uses tie breakers.
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