[IEM] Grand Finals World Championships 2014 - Page 112

On March 17 2014 01:19 TotalBiscuit wrote:


Let me count the ways.

1) Players should actually get paid for their work and their achievements. Winner takes all is the complete antithesis of that. The least player friendly format you can possibly have

2) Running a winner takes all tournament during a period of noted imbalance is a sure fire way to piss off the viewers and rile people up.

3) Winner takes all tournament with single elimination format. The mind boggles.

4) This whole thing was a viewership gamble by ESL. It was contrary to Carmacs own thoughts on sustainability and the eSports "middle class", even if it was just a one off. The gamble didn't pay off. Viewership spiked in the finals for all of the 20 minutes it took for those finals to end. There was literally more downtime than games and it left everyone with a sour taste in their mouths. The viewership during the actual event was often lower than Cologne, which doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me, but whatever the case, the purpose of the winner takes all was to drive viewership and it failed to do that. If it had succeeded, I'd get behind it, sometimes viewership is more important even for the players and the teams, that exposure, that sponsorship ROI, super important (though not that ESL did anything to help that really since they're not even using team logos in Gameheart let alone the sponsor overlays), but in this case since it didn't achieve that objective either I'd consider it a failure.

SC2 is in a fragile state and in order to make sure it can be sustained, we need tournaments that use fair, sustainable models. ESL said this was a one off, I hope it remains a one off.

On March 17 2014 01:19 bo1b wrote:

lol what, triple bunker rush?

On March 17 2014 01:27 Drake wrote:


dont say players and fans
there was players liking it
i liking it too (first kor vs kor final i watched since 2011)

so plz dont generalize !

On March 17 2014 01:28 Musicus wrote:


IEM cologne games were just as good imo and a better final. Players will try just as hard for 40k as for 100k.

On March 17 2014 01:25 Godwrath wrote:

eve
He has no soul.

On March 17 2014 01:29 Godwrath wrote:
I am amazed, i didn't know there were LoL players more awkward than sc2 players.

On March 17 2014 01:29 Snake.69 wrote:Them soundproof booths for sure stopped the cheeses.

On March 17 2014 01:30 AlternativeEgo wrote:


Leenock beat girl and made girl smile and laugh. The Leenock difference.

On March 17 2014 01:28 KaiserJohan wrote:


People always complain about imbalance.
Single elim is more exciting to watch.
If it wasnt such a shitty finals, I'm sure would voicing their opinions here would do a 180. It's unfortunate we didn't get a TvZ finals.

On March 17 2014 01:29 Godwrath wrote:
I am amazed, i didn't know there were LoL players more awkward than sc2 players.