MLG 2011 map pool announced - Page 15

On March 02 2011 00:13 Rokk wrote:
I applaud MLG for taking steps to balance Blizzard's maps such as neutral depots and preventing close spawns. That said, I wish they would have been a bit more adventurous in their map choices, especially if these are to be the maps used all year (last year they showed reluctance to change the pool mid-season). Why they chose Crossfire over any of the GSL maps is beyond me. But seeing iCCup get some recognition is really cool.

On March 01 2011 11:56 MLG_Lee wrote:
We do listen. Really, we do. :D As a league, I know we will always be under scrutiny, but hopefully this goes a little way to showing the community that we pay attention and that we often have reasons for the things that we do.

Along those lines, I see a lot of questions about why we chose Crossfire vs some of the other GSL maps. Personally, I love Crevasse, but we're also under some serious time constraints due to our bracket size and format. The average time in all the major competition replays we could get our hands on showed Crevasse exceeding our cut off. Unfortunately, so we really couldn't risk having a map that might delay the progress of the tournament. 5mins more every round ends up being a 3hr+ delay by the end of the weekend. And the schedule is already REALLY long for the players.

Crossfire, while not as good in allowing the macro-game to be played out as some of the other larger maps these days, has some really exciting elements to it that I'm looking forward to seeing on the main stage at Dallas.

On March 02 2011 00:23 MLG_Lee wrote:


From my post earlier in the thread Rokk:

On March 01 2011 11:56 MLG_Lee wrote:
We do listen. Really, we do. :D As a league, I know we will always be under scrutiny, but hopefully this goes a little way to showing the community that we pay attention and that we often have reasons for the things that we do.

Along those lines, I see a lot of questions about why we chose Crossfire vs some of the other GSL maps. Personally, I love Crevasse, but we're also under some serious time constraints due to our bracket size and format. The average time in all the major competition replays we could get our hands on showed Crevasse exceeding our cut off. Unfortunately, so we really couldn't risk having a map that might delay the progress of the tournament. 5mins more every round ends up being a 3hr+ delay by the end of the weekend. And the schedule is already REALLY long for the players.

Crossfire, while not as good in allowing the macro-game to be played out as some of the other larger maps these days, has some really exciting elements to it that I'm looking forward to seeing on the main stage at Dallas.

On March 02 2011 00:27 Rokk wrote:
Sorry, I didn't have the time to read the entire thread. Thanks for the response, Lee. Since I have you for a second, are you guys planning to keep the same map pool for the year or has that not been decided yet?