MLG, it's stupid of you to make a fully invitational tournament. It stops better players from breaking through. Please stop with this invitational bullshit, for the best of eSports.

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

January 20 2012 00:14 GMT

#503

On January 20 2012 09:13 epicdemic wrote:
MLG, it's stupid of you to make a fully invitational tournament. It stops better players from breaking through. Please stop with this invitational bullshit, for the best of eSports.

reading comprehension or.... You do know they still have open brackets and large events like last year right?

facepalm yourself now

Wafflelisk

Canada1061 Posts

January 20 2012 00:15 GMT

#504

So I noticed the general theme of your post was "MLG Vancouver this year", right?

Muffinman53

571 Posts

January 20 2012 00:17 GMT

#505

MLG Columbus, gogo~!
I can't freaking wait! I'll be there <3

RuMCaKe

United States559 Posts

January 20 2012 00:21 GMT

#506

So is the Columbus event going to be open format similar to last years in the sense that x number of players will be able to sign up? Or is the Columbus event invite only to?

GenesisX

Canada4267 Posts

January 20 2012 00:27 GMT

#507

YES MLG!!!
canada gogogo!

zerious

Canada3803 Posts

January 20 2012 00:28 GMT

#508

MLG can't screw over MVP this time...

epicdemic

Netherlands137 Posts

January 20 2012 00:30 GMT

#509

On January 20 2012 09:14 zaii wrote:

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reading comprehension or.... You do know they still have open brackets and large events like last year right?

facepalm yourself now

So far, 4 of the past 13 MLG events were 100% invitational. As for the other MLG's:

4 were invited from GSL.
16 were invited from previous MLG's.

These are put into a advantageous position. If you qualify you have to go through open bracket + championship bracket. If you are seeded / invited you don't have to go through open qualify.

By the way: Incontrol is saying the exact same I am on State of the Game now.

This is an interview with Carmac (from ESL / IEM) commenting on the MLG system:

Brotatolol

United States1742 Posts

January 20 2012 00:31 GMT

#510

Nice to see an MLG event in NY, I'll be going for sure! (I live in NJ)

odder

United States405 Posts

January 20 2012 00:32 GMT

#511

JP stated on SotG, KR/EU can play in the NA qualifiers, whats the point of regional qualifiers then?

Fubi

2228 Posts

January 20 2012 00:33 GMT

#512

So... about extended series being removed...

labbe

Sweden1456 Posts

January 20 2012 00:35 GMT

#513

So is extended series still there as some practical joke of some sort?

Noro

Canada991 Posts

January 20 2012 00:37 GMT

#514

Oh man i'm so excited. It seems like it has been forever since an MLG ><

masterbreti

Korea (South)2711 Posts

January 20 2012 00:44 GMT

#515

so I'm so confused. from what I understand, there is no open bracket for mlg 2012, so if you don't win any major tournaments or have any big performances in 2011, you cannot particapte in any mlg events in 2012? unless you get magically invited to these arenas?

is there a idoits guide to the new format. the jpg doesn't solve much

LimeNade

United States2125 Posts

January 20 2012 00:45 GMT

#516

zzzz this kind of sucks i diddnt have money or a chance to really participate in 2011 but because of that i cant participate or have a shot at any online qualifiers? zzzz

LimeNade

United States2125 Posts

January 20 2012 00:46 GMT

#517

On January 20 2012 09:44 masterbreti wrote:
so I'm so confused. from what I understand, there is no open bracket for mlg 2012, so if you don't win any major tournaments or have any big performances in 2011, you cannot particapte in any mlg events in 2012? unless you get magically invited to these arenas?

is there a idoits guide to the new format. the jpg doesn't solve much

there is no open bracket for the qualifiers or the arena. But there is an open qualifier for the once in a blue moon season open bracket for the massive tourney

CatNzHat

United States1599 Posts

January 20 2012 00:51 GMT

#518

I very much dislike the fact that there's so much "invite only" business going on here, I want to see more qualifiers, and fewer invitationals, the open bracket system at past MLG's made it extremely difficult to place well if you didn't do so last time, and difficult to do poorly if you placed well previously, this led to a stale player-pool and squashed the prospects of players having a breakout performance at an MLG (without a good bit of luck and a huge amount of stamina).

avilo

United States4100 Posts

January 20 2012 00:52 GMT

#519

So I have read the OP like everyone else, and it is looking the same or worse than it did in 2011.

Now, instead of "pool play" or being kept in there forever, you are "invited" to "qualifiers."

In other words, there are no qualifiers to actually qualify for these events. You are invited. How does this change anything from 2011 in terms of making it so the same players don't show up?

Apparently the "invites" to the TOURNAMENT (not qualifiers) are people that already are popular players/tournament players that have had the money to travel to events previously or are already very known.

So basically, MLG replaced the pool "elite" with an even worse system where they are literally picking who they want in their tournament with an invite system.

...

Is this serious? Yes, there is still an open bracket...but none of those players will have an opportunity to have a paid trip/hotel like the auto-invited already popular elite players...

If they are going to bastardize their tournament even more, they need to stop calling them qualifiers because they aren't qualifiers - they are a completely 100% invite tournament, which is ridiculous.

pdd

Australia9933 Posts

January 20 2012 00:53 GMT

#520

On January 20 2012 09:32 odder wrote:
JP stated on SotG, KR/EU can play in the NA qualifiers, whats the point of regional qualifiers then?

Doesn't it say that your flight won't be paid for if you are not in the region you qualified at? That means if Player A (say random Korean A), participated and got Top 8 in EU or NA qualifiers, he's qualified, but has to find his own way there, something which itself will deter a lot of Koreans from participating.

EDIT: Even the $400 stipend isn't enough to draw Koreans IMO.