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Sundance DiGiovanni on the Future of MLG - Page 10
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Rampager
Australia1007 Posts
<3 MLG. <3 Sundance. <3 Adam. | ||
Corrik
United States1416 Posts
The guys who showed up more than once MMA, Bomber, DRG, and Boxer are all sure to qualify based on points. Are you going to use your 4 korean invites on them or are you going to invite 4 different Koreans? Surely if you invite 4 random Koreans then it's not fair they got a free pass into the Championship event, right? But, then again, if you invite the 4 who already qualified you are letting foreigners who didn't deserve the spot into the Championship pool play also. How do you intend to do things for this? The only fair way I could think for it would be to hold Korean qualifiers for the Korean spots for the championship, and the Koreans who qualified use their seeding spots. This is purely my opinion though. How will you guys handle it? It's almost a damned if you do damned if you don't spot you have put yourselves in. | ||
MLG_Adam
United States994 Posts
On September 06 2011 22:49 Corrik wrote: MLG_Adam, perhaps you could answer a question more timely and relevant to the 2011 season for us. How are you doing invites to the MLG Championship at Providence? The guys who showed up more than once MMA, Bomber, DRG, and Boxer are all sure to qualify based on points. Are you going to use your 4 korean invites on them or are you going to invite 4 different Koreans? Surely if you invite 4 random Koreans then it's not fair they got a free pass into the Championship event, right? But, then again, if you invite the 4 who already qualified you are letting foreigners who didn't deserve the spot into the Championship pool play also. How do you intend to do things for this? The only fair way I could think for it would be to hold Korean qualifiers for the Korean spots for the championship, and the Koreans who qualified use their seeding spots. This is purely my opinion though. How will you guys handle it? It's almost a damned if you do damned if you don't spot you have put yourselves in. The 4 invites will be awarded to the highest placing Korean player from each event: MMA MVP Bomber Orlando- ? | ||
MLG_Adam
United States994 Posts
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Lexxes
Sweden144 Posts
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omgbambi
Sweden54 Posts
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ladyumbra
Canada1699 Posts
On September 06 2011 23:02 MLG_Adam wrote: The 4 invites will be awarded to the highest placing Korean player from each event: MMA MVP Bomber Orlando- ? What happens if Bomber beats the you can only win your first time curse? Also while all the winners obviously deserve to be there I'm gonna be so sad if it's an all Terran group. Korean Protoss and Zergs need to step their game up for Orlando ^-^ | ||
DivinO
United States4796 Posts
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Corrik
United States1416 Posts
On September 07 2011 00:30 ladyumbra wrote: What happens if Bomber beats the you can only win your first time curse? Also while all the winners obviously deserve to be there I'm gonna be so sad if it's an all Terran group. Korean Protoss and Zergs need to step their game up for Orlando ^-^ Highest placing. I guess if Bomber wins twice they would take 2nd place from Orlando. | ||
Titorelli
2492 Posts
And the EU people reeeally complained about the broadcast time? I am from EU and have no problem with the time (at least if its an east coast MLG - Anaheim was a bit to brutal to stay up ). Are you EU guys really proposing that MLG starts at 7am local time? :D Get real man! | ||
ShadowBumble
Netherlands87 Posts
MLG really showed from when SC2 entered the Stage as a "side shows" to a real fully driven community, held high by many members of the current esport scene. From the very first MLG with SC2 till the last event, i have seen them all with Dallas as rock bottom. And what did they do blame it on someone else ? No hell it wasn't even totally their fault what happened in Dallas, yet the set out a clear plan improved and asked the community for improvements, that's not just showing the courage to admit something went wrong, that's showing you actually care about your mistakes and the let down it had on the community. That is what i like to call true spirit to improve and strife to a better performance every single event. For this i want to thank all the people at MLG, for making me as an European feel home and fully involved with the tournaments. <3 MLG. P.S. Sundance next time your sitting drunk in a bar drink another scotch and cheer for the awesome community that surrounds this scene. And if you happen to be in Amsterdam in the future be sure to let us Europeans know so we can all toast together on the future of SC2. P.P.S On the above post i don't care keep the times as they are i will watch them anyways :D | ||
Sermokala
United States13543 Posts
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sixfour
England11060 Posts
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On September 06 2011 22:16 JustPassingBy wrote: Currently, MLG still has plenty of flaws and is nowhere near perfect. Yes, they are working on it, but so is NASL and IGN. It remains to be seen which will become the most prominant tournament on NA soil. Things that are being worked on in each respective tournament (in spoilers because this is way off topic): MLG: + Show Spoiler + - current prizemoney is a joke without the code S spot on the line (which is worth at least 1,5k for dropping out of the ro32) and without them sponsoring the flight for the Koreans plus caring for them so well during the event, most of them wouldn't even consider attending the tournament - current tournament format is bad (according to public opinion) well, this has been discussed to death fixes to be expected next season, next year. :-) NASL: + Show Spoiler + - production quality despite the huge prize pool, the production quality was very poor. even the attending players realized this, the Koreans listed this as one of the reasons why they withdrew from the tournament (not that I side with them in this regard, pulling out of a signed contract is a stupid move). I understand that maybe for their sponsors it is important to have such a huge prize pool so that not much money (relatively) is left for production, however claiming that such a humongous huge prize pool for the fans was not a wise move. - scheduling despite the games not being broadcasted live, they decide to cast the games live on the spot, which results in very many scheduling conflicts and walk overs due to players not attending. IGN: + Show Spoiler + - limited to specific regions people might disagree with me here, but I don't take a tournament that excludes the best players of the world seriously. I do not expect tournaments to treat Korean players special, but excluding them by the rules is a dickass move. - general broadcasting plan making the results of the qualifier public while not broadcasting it live is a bad idea and it seems most of the people here agree with me. Either hold the results secret and broadcast it in the following week (like ESV Korean weekly), or just broadcast it live and post the results as they fly in. tl;dr: Each tournaments has its flaws and nothing is perfect yet, but everybody is working hard to improve. The players and fans can only benefit from it. Well I would also add next problems: MLG: + Show Spoiler + - broadcasting schedule problems, the break between games is way too high, and with two streams there should be at least 2x games being shown during those 3 days - when the tournament is held on the west coast most of EU can forget about following it, at least us with a family; even on a east coast it would be wonderful if the could move the starting time by 1 hour or stop having huge breaks between broadcaster games NASL: + Show Spoiler + - caster problems - bad finals tournament rules (1bo3 and you are out) IGN: + Show Spoiler + - I don't have any additional problems to add except maybe a personal one. I just don't find games that are not live as exciting, and games that are cast like 2+ weeks after they are done are just not interesting at all Altogether MLG is for me best at the moment, although IGN when they go Live have a best chance to become the best. | ||
two.watup
United States371 Posts
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Brainling
United States660 Posts
I totally get you guys want to see the games, but that's just life in a global world. I have to stay up stupid late if I want to watch GSL, it's just a fact of life. I'm not complaining to GSL that they need to change their broadcast schedule to accommodate me. | ||
Dbla08
United States211 Posts
The main difference between communities that thrive and ones that fall is that the ones that thrive learn to look past and eventually completely ignore the needlessly pessimistic, yet maintain the ability to receive and process constructive criticism. I believe the sc2 community is thriving, and I truly hope it continues along this path. What better way to assist a dragging world economy than by birthing an entire market from sheer will of a community. I <3 you all that support Esports both through words and actions. And Sundance, if ever I have the opportunity to shake your hand a beer for you will be in my other. | ||
Jampackedeon
United States2053 Posts
Sweet, and keep drinking Sundance! | ||
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