EPTAm I confused on the pricing or am I correct. Do they have some sort of bundle to get the regular tournament with it or no? I'm actually struggling with the decision, and any input would be welcome.
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ronpaul012
United States769 Posts
Am I confused on the pricing or am I correct. Do they have some sort of bundle to get the regular tournament with it or no? I'm actually struggling with the decision, and any input would be welcome. | ||
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epikAnglory
United States1120 Posts
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Dimagus
United States1004 Posts
On June 20 2011 17:34 iTzAnglory wrote: Ahhh just purchased it, kind of regret now since I promised my parents $10 tops per month... 10 week regular season + 3 additional weeks of playoffs = 3 months Tell them you got $5 off. | ||
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
I liked the old four-day model because I could follow the whole thing comfortably on the weekend, cherry-pick the best games to watch from LR threads and be finished with it. There's so much content available currently that it's getting really hard to filter out the interesting stuff, and I can't really bother any more to follow all those leagues spanning weeks or months. It was nice last year when all was new but right now, I just want to see good games and results in a reasonable time frame without having to track progress / groups / standings to know what's happening. tl;dr: Longer GSTL makes it harder for me to follow; liked older, short GSTL better; won't buy ticket. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
For those of you who don't know, the new format is as follows: On June 20 2011 15:55 GOMTV wrote: The Format
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legatus legionis
Netherlands559 Posts
Where is the option for it being a bargain/a steal. And where is the option to blanco vote? First should be really obvious, I'll explain the second because I think that might be because my country always does that in elections but it's not a global thing, not sure on that though. Blanco vote is used so that you can register voters, who do put thoughts into picking a result, but then come to the conclusion they can't or they won't. What happens is that when you get people who show up but vote blanco, it means they do care but they say for example, I cannot (I'm not qualified) to make a good decision here or I really don't give a shit what the result is but I do care about the topic. In addition to that, the results you get are not taken against the total pool of players who vote for one of the solutions, but against the total pool of voters period. I believe this gives a poll the ability to allow for more accuracy, less votes that are deluded or influenced and thus makes it overall more meaningful and useful to pursue. I want to pick, it's cheap and I'm buying. I can't. Do I now pick other? But then my buddy think it's also cheap but isn't buying it. Does he also pick other? What does other represent now? Do I want my opinion to fall in this ambiguous basket? Will I make the decision to then not handle the voting this way and choose an option that is the closest, like it's ok and buying it? Not only is that inaccurate because my real vote loses its value, when a group of people handles their vote in this manner, they don't all do it the same. Their votes get randomly spread over the different options. All those then lose it's value. In general, when you add other as an option to the poll you are basically saying, I don't care if there are other options that I should include, I'm not gonna bother to give it any thought to think about if the votes contained in other are their own vote and should be included independently. [] You liked reading this, thought it was very informative and will try to challenge other people in the future to pursue some of the goals explained in the post above. [] Other | ||
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LetoAtreides82
United States1188 Posts
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Dattish
Sweden6297 Posts
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Barbiero
Brazil5259 Posts
Soo yeah, no GSTL for me. Not like I actually have time to watch it anyways. | ||
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
I hope for a good story line within a BO7 series, within the group stage and within the playoffs. I hope for all-kills and reverse all-kills. I hope to see some champions fall while other prevail, I hope to see new players rise. As for now, the main story line is of course the fate of SlayerS. Can the champion well in the group stage? But I am concerned about the long group phase. I am afraid this will water down the matches. In the old format, every BO7 would eliminate one team. It was so tense. Every mistake could lead to defeat. Every single match won really counted. Now there is more leeway. Bad performance versus one team can be compensated with good performance versus another team. Also I remember the rise of SlayerS in GSTL February. No-one expected them in the finals. If there is a group stage now and an underdog performs well, he no longer is the underdog in the finals. | ||
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
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Alabasern
United States4005 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On June 17 2011 20:47 TheSilverfox wrote: Let me get this straight:
This for the cost of $25 or $40 without ads. Just take my money GOMTV! Hehe nice post  You should do PR for GOM! Personally, I'll definitely be buying the ticket for all of the reasons that you listed. Though I will say that I will be a saaaaad panda if tastosis doesn't cast 90% + of the games :p | ||
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Soleron
United Kingdom1324 Posts
On June 20 2011 20:51 legatus legionis wrote: Please stop making poll threads without putting proper thought into designing the actual poll. makes me cringe every single time. How can you look at this poll and not have it scream bias in your face? How can you then look at the poll and give it's results any value? Where is the option for it being a bargain/a steal. And where is the option to blanco vote? First should be really obvious, I'll explain the second because I think that might be because my country always does that in elections but it's not a global thing, not sure on that though. Blanco vote is used so that you can register voters, who do put thoughts into picking a result, but then come to the conclusion they can't or they won't. What happens is that when you get people who show up but vote blanco, it means they do care but they say for example, I cannot (I'm not qualified) to make a good decision here or I really don't give a shit what the result is but I do care about the topic. In addition to that, the results you get are not taken against the total pool of players who vote for one of the solutions, but against the total pool of voters period. I believe this gives a poll the ability to allow for more accuracy, less votes that are deluded or influenced and thus makes it overall more meaningful and useful to pursue. I want to pick, it's cheap and I'm buying. I can't. Do I now pick other? But then my buddy think it's also cheap but isn't buying it. Does he also pick other? What does other represent now? Do I want my opinion to fall in this ambiguous basket? Will I make the decision to then not handle the voting this way and choose an option that is the closest, like it's ok and buying it? Not only is that inaccurate because my real vote loses its value, when a group of people handles their vote in this manner, they don't all do it the same. Their votes get randomly spread over the different options. All those then lose it's value. In general, when you add other as an option to the poll you are basically saying, I don't care if there are other options that I should include, I'm not gonna bother to give it any thought to think about if the votes contained in other are their own vote and should be included independently. [] You liked reading this, thought it was very informative and will try to challenge other people in the future to pursue some of the goals explained in the post above. [] Other Do your own fucking poll then. | ||
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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legatus legionis
Netherlands559 Posts
On June 20 2011 23:45 Soleron wrote: I added the poll much later at someone's request. The intention of the thread wasn't to be a 500 page whine fest but instead pointing out how expensive the GSTL could be considered relative to before. I'll say that again. RELATIVE TO BEFORE. Notice how the poll options cover the majority of those who answered. If people had a problem they should answer Other and do a post like yours explaining how they feel. Cheap = about right. The GSTL price has not gone down, so RELATIVE TO BEFORE it is either about the same or more expensive as a feeling when buying. The poll is to see whether people agree it feels expensive. I could have ten million poll options and not cover the range of feeling. The ones I did choose seem adequate for most but your complaint is valid and if you care that much you should make a new thread. Doesn't really matter why or when something is created when we are talking about what that something is or should be. I explained why that could be with two different points, not having the blanco vote and missing options. On that second point, I don't agree with that mentality, it shouldn't be something to strive for atleast, you are saying pretty much the exact same there as I did with my last point regarding shoving the option "other" in there and then just not caring. I don't think cheap = about right. Not only is about right not a measurement because it's objective (sort of right, decently ok) but just because it actually is cheap doesn't mean that although that is arguably "ok", it suddenly isn't cheap anymore. It's still cheap, people are gonna feel it's cheap, and I think those people should have the option to express that feeling. Just like those who feel it is not cheap, can express their feeling that it is not cheap. As opposed to having. Expensive = about right etc. A certain price might not have gone down, but it's a completely different product. Therefore, it didn't have a price before. So it cannot have gone down or up. For establishing what people feel about this new product and it's price, you cannot just dismiss this. This is arguably what I feel the most strong about. It's simply not comparable on a monetary value or span of the event, basis. Starting off on this premise, judging something without really looking at what it is. "The poll is to see wether people agree it's expensive." So you have no problem saying it's intentionally biased. Yet present it as if it isn't, otherwise you would have made a poll asking if they agree with you that it's expensive or if they don't agree with you that it's expensive. All the additional options don't serve towards your goal. Makes me feel they are part of a ruse. I have a problem with things like that personally. I cannot respond to the last paragraph. It's like only comprised of fallacies. | ||
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Kooun
Canada260 Posts
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sgt_cr
Costa Rica95 Posts
Gogogogo GSTL! | ||
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PartyBiscuit
Canada4525 Posts
Also, it's not really anymore expensive than before...this isn't 25$ for 4 days of games.. | ||
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
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