EPT[TSL 9] - Week 1 - Page 5
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
On July 31 2022 23:44 dysenterymd wrote: Still, I don't think downsizing is a great solution for all tournaments. I think it's good when qualification for bigger tournaments is something peripheral players have a chance to play for. Maybe the solution is to just have an A and B stream for earlier rounds in tournaments like TSL? In a tournament like GSL downsizing makes sense because we expect all matches to be streamed, but the same isn't true of a tournament like TSL. Qualifiers are vital. They're the lifeblood that allows new talent to have a chance to grow. We just need to learn to accept as old time fans that if we want tournaments that give any chance to new talent then we have to accept that some matches are going to be lopsided and stompy. It happens. We COULD avoid that with round robin formats, that's sort of the reason they exist, but then we bump into other problems of massively uneven groupings (fucking IEM) and matches losing their meaning after a while because groups get decided early. There are other things we can try, we should NOT be downsizing the tournaments though. | ||
Waxangel
United States33192 Posts
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Athenau
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
On August 01 2022 00:50 Athenau wrote: How the hell is Ryung so good at TvP and so terrible at TvZ? Ryung has only ever understood 2 match ups in his career. TvT and one of the other ones. They've shifted around a bit. I remember he used to be an absolute liability vs Protoss earlier in his career and pretty decent vs Zerg. He's always been a good TvT player. Slayers used to use him as a sniper for it back in the day. He's never been as consistent in any other match up. | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
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M3t4PhYzX
Poland4165 Posts
On August 01 2022 00:15 Vindicare605 wrote: Qualifiers are vital. They're the lifeblood that allows new talent to have a chance to grow. We just need to learn to accept as old time fans that if we want tournaments that give any chance to new talent then we have to accept that some matches are going to be lopsided and stompy. It happens. We COULD avoid that with round robin formats, that's sort of the reason they exist, but then we bump into other problems of massively uneven groupings (fucking IEM) and matches losing their meaning after a while because groups get decided early. There are other things we can try, we should NOT be downsizing the tournaments though. Agreed. | ||
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EmoBacon
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