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MLG Invite-Only Qualifiers: Player List & Details - Page 8

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LittleAtari
Profile Joined August 2010
Jordan1090 Posts
April 25 2012 15:56 GMT
#141
On April 25 2012 23:00 krayotek wrote:
I would watch the MLG if it has a free stream, if not I will kept to ky promise of NO support that stupid PPV format ever.

too bad this thread isnt about that.
VirgilSC2
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States6151 Posts
April 25 2012 16:03 GMT
#142
On April 26 2012 00:52 TBone- wrote:
Invite-only qualifier... Not a fan of that one bit. Especially because this puts pressure on players to attend all of their events or they'll be at a disadvantage to someone who has been to all the mlg events.

That's how it works. You get a slight edge at MLG events for having attended previous MLG events.

It's called incentive. If every player had to start at OWR1 every MLG and pool play didn't exist, you'd see a lot of players chose other events more often.
Clarity Gaming #1 Fan | Avid MTG Grinder | @VirgilSC2
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
April 25 2012 16:04 GMT
#143
On April 24 2012 07:14 LlamaNamedOsama wrote:
No Scarlett?


SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
MassHysteria
Profile Joined October 2010
United States3678 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-25 16:06:39
April 25 2012 16:05 GMT
#144
No White-Ra??

edit: I know the rules of the invites list, I am just expressing my displeasure for no Ra.
"Just ban all the J's...even jinklejoes" --unnamed source
Jank
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States308 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-25 16:22:50
April 25 2012 16:20 GMT
#145
I'm confused by which means he qualfied for the invite but whoooo go MajOr! He's teamless and has been grinding away in korea, he deserves to be flown out to a tournament! Looking at the NA player pool he should have a pretty good chance. ^^

EDIT: I guess it must have been from the open qualifiers? I should pay more attention x.x
"You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day." - Michael Parenti
Acidosis
Profile Joined April 2011
United States172 Posts
April 25 2012 16:52 GMT
#146
I don't ever remember MLG saying the winner of dreamhack stockholm had a seed in the second arena but its a great way to shoe in Thorzain. I don't think Polt would have gotten it if he won dreamhack.
“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.” -BK
lordofsoup
Profile Joined January 2012
United States159 Posts
April 25 2012 16:55 GMT
#147
Did I miss MKP and DRG? Or are they already in?
NOHUNTERS
VirgilSC2
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States6151 Posts
April 25 2012 16:59 GMT
#148
On April 26 2012 01:52 Acidosis wrote:
I don't ever remember MLG saying the winner of dreamhack stockholm had a seed in the second arena but its a great way to shoe in Thorzain. I don't think Polt would have gotten it if he won dreamhack.

They definitely announced it
Clarity Gaming #1 Fan | Avid MTG Grinder | @VirgilSC2
Holytornados
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1022 Posts
April 25 2012 17:08 GMT
#149
Yeah Fuzzy fighting in NA. I like the players list =D
CLG/Liquid ~~ youtube.com/reddedgaming
Ercster
Profile Joined August 2011
United States603 Posts
April 25 2012 17:10 GMT
#150
TT Does this mean Hero will be playing through the open bracket?
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson
TheDougler
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada8306 Posts
April 25 2012 17:10 GMT
#151
On April 26 2012 01:52 Acidosis wrote:
I don't ever remember MLG saying the winner of dreamhack stockholm had a seed in the second arena but its a great way to shoe in Thorzain. I don't think Polt would have gotten it if he won dreamhack.


April 19th actually: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=330361



I root for Euro Zergs, NA Protoss* and Korean Terrans. (Any North American who has beat a Korean Pro as Protoss counts as NA Toss)
Acidosis
Profile Joined April 2011
United States172 Posts
April 25 2012 17:12 GMT
#152
On April 26 2012 01:59 VirgilSC2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 01:52 Acidosis wrote:
I don't ever remember MLG saying the winner of dreamhack stockholm had a seed in the second arena but its a great way to shoe in Thorzain. I don't think Polt would have gotten it if he won dreamhack.

They definitely announced it


I stand corrected. Thank you.
“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.” -BK
onedayclose
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1145 Posts
April 25 2012 17:17 GMT
#153
On April 24 2012 16:58 Popkiller wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 24 2012 14:24 onedayclose wrote:
On April 24 2012 08:09 CrugerDK wrote:
this format makes no sense what so ever........

you ending up with a huge NA qualifier because of the whole top 80 thing, while leaving out many top EU players..

and why are the top 4 from this arena 1 even in this event?? surely they are already in the championship...


MLG wants the top 4 of their current event in their following event so they can create a fictional rivalry that is

DRG v MKP!!!

BOO YAH!



If MKP makes it to the GSL finals, he won't be at Spring Arena 2.


Also, will the results be posted after the tournament, or not until the broadcast? I guess it could leak...


Tournament results have been spoiled left and right thanks to TL endorsing "live viewing is the norm". I feel that the majority of the community has backed their opinion and encourages everyone to report up to the minute results from tournaments across the globe.
TheRealNanMan
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1471 Posts
April 25 2012 17:20 GMT
#154
I really like that the players who finished 9th-80th at Cbus get a chance in this, it helps to bring out more competition and show case up and coming players! Good luck to everyone battling it out for their chance at arena 2! :D
Sc2 Caster | Host of Sc2 Up & Coming | The Godfather of Team LXG | Sc2 Historian | Youtube.com/NanMan | Twitch.tv/TheRealNanMan | Twitter.com/TheRealNanMan |
onedayclose
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1145 Posts
April 25 2012 17:24 GMT
#155
On April 25 2012 18:48 LittleAtari wrote:
did everyone sign up for NA thinking that they would have an easier time? >.>
Barely anyone signed for Europe and Korea D=

Show nested quote +
On April 25 2012 18:41 R1CH wrote:
I thought a lot of the reason for the format change in 2012 was to move away from the system that rewarded people who attended MLG events consistently. I don't feel this system allows for enough rotation of players, especially those from Korea / Europe who can't afford to risk everything in the open bracket. The open qualifier only being a qualifier for the invite only is really rough considering people who attended an MLG pretty much get to the invite only for free.


Honestly, I wish that they at least used the formula that they did for the first winter arena. At least then we would have more participation from korea and europe...


MLG's idea of an regional open qualifier is to eliminate all entrys down to 8 new contestants and then seed and invite everyone who finished 9-88 at the previous event into another large "regional" tournament. Instead of footing your own bill to travel to a MLG Open Championship bracket MLG asks that you clinch top 8 in TWO tournaments, and top 16 in the offline Arena to win a free ticket. Probably going to be quite difficult!!!
CosmicSpiral
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States15275 Posts
April 25 2012 17:26 GMT
#156
On April 26 2012 02:17 onedayclose wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 24 2012 16:58 Popkiller wrote:
On April 24 2012 14:24 onedayclose wrote:
On April 24 2012 08:09 CrugerDK wrote:
this format makes no sense what so ever........

you ending up with a huge NA qualifier because of the whole top 80 thing, while leaving out many top EU players..

and why are the top 4 from this arena 1 even in this event?? surely they are already in the championship...


MLG wants the top 4 of their current event in their following event so they can create a fictional rivalry that is

DRG v MKP!!!

BOO YAH!



If MKP makes it to the GSL finals, he won't be at Spring Arena 2.


Also, will the results be posted after the tournament, or not until the broadcast? I guess it could leak...


Tournament results have been spoiled left and right thanks to TL endorsing "live viewing is the norm". I feel that the majority of the community has backed their opinion and encourages everyone to report up to the minute results from tournaments across the globe.


Which is how it should be.
WriterWovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
onedayclose
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1145 Posts
April 25 2012 17:31 GMT
#157
On April 25 2012 23:38 Proseat wrote:
I feel MLG made the system way more complicated than it had to be. Adding yet more arenas (they even have to number them now) and qualifiers to invite qualifiers to arenas to actual championships -- why? Just to have more content? This could have been achieved with a simpler system which -- as has been said before in this thread -- actually achieves what it was meant to fix: To not see the same exclusive group of players over and over again.

At times it feels like the current MLG format only exists to entertain JP and the NYC studio gang...

+ Show Spoiler +
And having your squeezed-in extra content purposefully clash with other major events and then trying to cement your status by talking other major tournaments into becoming your qualifier (to another qualifier, no less), doesn't earn you extra brownie points either.



With the current system the top 4 qualify for the next event to preserve a ficitional rivalry that is MKP v DRG.
StarVe
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany13591 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-25 18:47:49
April 25 2012 18:47 GMT
#158
On April 26 2012 02:26 CosmicSpiral wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 02:17 onedayclose wrote:
On April 24 2012 16:58 Popkiller wrote:
On April 24 2012 14:24 onedayclose wrote:
On April 24 2012 08:09 CrugerDK wrote:
this format makes no sense what so ever........

you ending up with a huge NA qualifier because of the whole top 80 thing, while leaving out many top EU players..

and why are the top 4 from this arena 1 even in this event?? surely they are already in the championship...


MLG wants the top 4 of their current event in their following event so they can create a fictional rivalry that is

DRG v MKP!!!

BOO YAH!



If MKP makes it to the GSL finals, he won't be at Spring Arena 2.


Also, will the results be posted after the tournament, or not until the broadcast? I guess it could leak...


Tournament results have been spoiled left and right thanks to TL endorsing "live viewing is the norm". I feel that the majority of the community has backed their opinion and encourages everyone to report up to the minute results from tournaments across the globe.


Which is how it should be.


It really depends on the scheduled broadcast date (and also the importance of the event). If NASL matches get played 6-8 hours before broadcast, I don't want to know the results before the show.

If MLG Spring Arena qualifiers take two weeks to broadcast, I'd rather know in advance who made it and who didn't, because I probably won't care to watch the games anyway.
NeWeNiyaLord
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Norway2474 Posts
April 25 2012 18:51 GMT
#159
how come nani is NA?
This is where we begin. Show your true self, Battosai.
Azarkon
Profile Joined January 2010
United States21060 Posts
April 25 2012 19:02 GMT
#160
On April 26 2012 03:51 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:
how come nani is NA?


He's in Korea, and doesn't want to play in the Korean qualifiers -> has to play NA.
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