Things went real bad. It was somewhat reassuring to see the staff of MLG get really stressed about it. I know Sundance's apology is sincere, especially since he's been graciously taking shit from all comers all weekend. It's time for this to wash away, and let's see what changed are made for the next event. Learn some lessons from this and that's what makes you a veteran.

JimRocky

United States14 Posts

April 04 2011 22:03 GMT

#62

One thing you need to know about CEO's is that they never have bad news about their corporation. It's their job to increase stockholder value, whether it's a public corp. or a private one. (It should be mentioned that CEO's usually have a great quantity of company stock in their portfolio.)

So whatever the truth is we'll never really know from a CEO. We will only ever hear the good part in the best possible light.

My point is: Always take what a CEO says with a grain of salt.

cYaN

Norway3322 Posts

April 04 2011 22:04 GMT

#63

I just hope MLG realizes there were more problems as well. Obviously the stream was the worst, but the downtime between games when the stream was actually working was also terrible. Hope they fix both for the next event. Otherwise I won't actually look forward to MLGs anymore, which would be a shame because it has such potential.

hmunkey

United Kingdom1973 Posts

April 04 2011 22:10 GMT

#64

On April 05 2011 05:08 kawaiiryuko wrote:
Wow - a bunch of people just lost their jobs this weekend.

Does the rebroadcast means just re-streams or do we think that actual VODs will be available?

And that's how it should be. This isn't a charity and if esports is to ever be legitimate it needs to be treated as a business enterprise. If the staff at NBC botched a major sporting event's broadcast, you can bet your ass they'd be fired too.

FlamingTurd

United States1059 Posts

April 04 2011 22:11 GMT

#65

Wow that's really impressive reading that. Thanks for all the updates man.

FinestHour

United States18466 Posts

April 04 2011 22:13 GMT

#66

Nice. Good that he addressed all the problems and is working towards solving them permanently.

Mailing

United States3087 Posts

April 04 2011 22:13 GMT

#67

With how hard Dallas failed, I don't expect much from Columbus.

This is not a bad thing, it just means I will be happy with a working stream that doesn't have 30m1h downtime between games.

I don't expect amazing, just functional...

carbon_based

United States46 Posts

April 04 2011 22:13 GMT

#68

most of their problems have to do with the event being too damn popular or too damn big... really not the worst problems to have. i'm really counting on MLG to thrive, its one of the only big money tournaments out there with an open entry process (looking at you, nasl) and high exposure so i really hope they get all their shit together, cant wait for pasadena, watch out for me

Ancient.eu

Romania621 Posts

April 04 2011 22:16 GMT

#69

It's good to see this and together with the fact that Sunday was much better and we got to see the last part of the tourny and the finals as well makes up for their problems.

Hope the next one will go smooth though.

peekn

United States1152 Posts

April 04 2011 22:16 GMT

#70

It's nice to see a letter written to the fans. I really still respect MLG even though they had some technical problems.

TrANCE,

301 Posts

April 04 2011 22:20 GMT

#71

Jesus stop saying 150 countrys i want to know the actual number of people that tuned in if it's over a million fair enough how could you have predicted traffic of that magnitude if it's not then i dont have a ounce of compassion for you

N3rV[Green]

United States1935 Posts

April 04 2011 22:23 GMT

#72

I wish the stream numbers could be shown, separated by event. I want proof that halo deserves the top spot at MLG competitions......

This is a good step for MLG though, new tech team can do wonders for future events.

RationalGaze

United Kingdom121 Posts

April 04 2011 22:24 GMT

#73

Does anyone have any numbers for viewers on the streams? He doesn't give a figure in his letter. I wonder why not.

MrthePig

United States84 Posts

April 04 2011 22:31 GMT

#74

why the hell would i even ask for a refund?! i put my money in the hands of those who are dedicated to growing esports. that money went exactly where it needed to go.

and i will be buying my ticket for columbus.

short

Sweden148 Posts

April 04 2011 22:42 GMT

#75

I hope they can get it right. MLG would be fantastic if they could actually make everything work as intended.

reneg

United States859 Posts

April 04 2011 22:43 GMT

#76

On April 05 2011 07:31 MrthePig wrote:
why the hell would i even ask for a refund?! i put my money in the hands of those who are dedicated to growing esports. that money went exactly where it needed to go.

and i will be buying my ticket for columbus.

Because you paid for a service that was clearly never properly provided?

While I didn't get HD to this, nor will i be getting one for the next MLG, i am very impressed that they're offering it, simply because it's showing that they're at least TRYING to care about their customers.

If they didn't offer anything, and just kept everyone's money, think about how irate everyone would be, and how MLG would just be seen as a greedy money grabbing organization.

As it is, I'm at least willing to give them one more shot in columbus.

MajorityofOne

Canada2506 Posts

April 04 2011 22:48 GMT

#77

It's a nice article, but I'll believe things have changed when I see it. MLG has pulled this kind of trash a bit too often. Given how many competitors they have in the sc2 world I hope for their sakes they pull it together

Kiante

Australia7069 Posts

April 04 2011 22:49 GMT

#78

As long as is isn't just talk it'll be good. Seriously tho if there are problems at columbus i cant help but see mlg falling into a pretty deep hole. On the other side of that coin a good showing will renew everyones faith. Talk is cheap....

Techno

1900 Posts

April 04 2011 22:53 GMT

#79

Alright, MLG, we'll let you off this time....

venge1155

United States174 Posts

April 04 2011 22:57 GMT

#80

On April 05 2011 05:50 CidO wrote:

Do yourself a favor Sundance and set up a show match, using the same platform and technology, and get as many hiccups out of the way as possible. Octoshape, SQ, HQ I don't care, run a live open test, pack it as tight as you can... Or not and I'm a technical noob that never soaks/stress tests my products.

Will it solve every problem? No, but you will find out ahead of time what needs to be fixed and have ample time to resolve it.

The type of problems they had (tech wise) where from the hundreds of thousands of people on the streams, and the massive amount of connections between Starcraft/Black Ops/ Halo and attendees to the internet.

You will not find any issues without the same stress on the connection.

As far as I am concerned I could care less about the tech issues. Stuff happens, I have no doubt it will be fixed with shear practice from dealing with the new size of MLG. What I have issue with is the pacing of the event itself. There is no reason not to have set up stages (plenty of distance from the current main stage players so as to not distract them) near the main stage where the next set of players ( as soon as they are ready) can get all of there equipment ready. It might be easy as spiting the main stage with a small wall (from the table back so as not to obstruct any spectator's view) for the staging area.

Ether way, I only care about keeping the wait down from over thirty minuets between games (without tech issues) closer to ten. With the exception of popular match ups that we may just wait for, which can easily be filled with more than 2 question interviews.