EPTMLG statement on Providence Code S spot - Page 40
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YuTz
United States119 Posts
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akalarry
United States1978 Posts
On December 16 2011 14:13 YuTz wrote: Quantic only paid for Losira and the IM coach to attend Providence. MVP and Nestea had paid trips from MLG since they where both in the MLG Global Invitational. only the winner of mlg global invitational got a paid trip to mlg providence. | ||
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eScaper-tsunami
Canada313 Posts
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Soma.bokforlag
Sweden448 Posts
still sad to see them action so unprofessional though :/ but like i said, they didnt brake any stated rules so i guess its ok | ||
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Laxx
Australia61 Posts
On December 16 2011 14:17 akalarry wrote: only the winner of mlg global invitational got a paid trip to mlg providence. Er, YuTz is our COO. He's not lying; we only paid for Losira and the IM coach to attend Providence. | ||
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FlamingTurd
United States1059 Posts
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timmc
Australia16 Posts
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kickinhead
Switzerland2069 Posts
On December 16 2011 13:59 justinpal wrote: Thanks for finding this. Now those guys know why we were all ignoring them. So?.... Just cuz MLG messed up as well, does it make GomTV's mess-up less messy? | ||
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Suppression
United States5 Posts
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NHY
1013 Posts
1. GSL's 2012 format change was announced at the beginning of GSL Nov, which kicked off on October 27th. This was in between MLG Orlando and MLG Providence. This announcement stated that there would be 2 "sponsor seeds" in 2012. It has been stated by GOM that one of the reasons for these seeds were to facilitate the interconnectedness between GSL and other foreign tournaments, such as MLG, IPL, or IEM. 2. People have asked GOM whether NaNiwa's 2nd place in MLG Providence means that he would be getting Code S seed. GOM's response at the time was that it had not been decided yet and they will announce as soon as they decide what to do. This point had been covered by TIG news at the time as well. There hasn't been another announcement regarding this issue until the announcement of Idra/Sen. | ||
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W2
United States1177 Posts
On December 16 2011 14:57 NHY wrote: Few things I'd like to point out. 1. GSL's 2012 format change was announced at the beginning of GSL Nov, which kicked off on October 27th. This was in between MLG Orlando and MLG Providence. This announcement stated that there would be 2 "sponsor seeds" in 2012. It has been stated by GOM that one of the reasons for these seeds were to facilitate the interconnectedness between GSL and other foreign tournaments, such as MLG, IPL, or IEM. 2. People have asked GOM whether NaNiwa's 2nd place in MLG Providence means that he would be getting Code S seed. GOM's response at the time was that it had not been decided yet and they will announce as soon as they decide what to do. This point had been covered by TIG news at the time as well. There hasn't been another announcement regarding this issue until the announcement of Idra/Sen. In the end, we ended up falsely assuming winner of MLG Prov = Code S. Most likely a communications error, due to language barrier. Gomtv would report their decisions via TIG (before MLG Prov even started) however no one published it in English. Many news sites then reported the false information and this was read by many, which amplified the false assumption. | ||
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NHY
1013 Posts
On December 16 2011 14:39 Laxx wrote: Er, YuTz is our COO. He's not lying; we only paid for Losira and the IM coach to attend Providence. He is forgetting that 1 spot was for Blizzcon winner. MVP won both Korean qualifier and Blizzcon, so NesTea was chosen as Blizzcon invite. So NaNiwa, IdrA, Mvp and NesTea had there expenses covered by MLG to be at Providence for MLG Global invitational. | ||
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NHY
1013 Posts
On December 16 2011 15:01 W2 wrote: In the end, we ended up falsely assuming winner of MLG Prov = Code S. Most likely a communications error, due to language barrier. Gomtv would report their decisions via TIG (before MLG Prov even started) however no one published it in English. Many news sites then reported the false information and this was read by many, which amplified the false assumption. They don't report through TIG. It is a news organization, not a GomTV announcer. | ||
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Jackle
Canada859 Posts
On December 16 2011 14:57 NHY wrote: Few things I'd like to point out. 1. GSL's 2012 format change was announced at the beginning of GSL Nov, which kicked off on October 27th. This was in between MLG Orlando and MLG Providence. This announcement stated that there would be 2 "sponsor seeds" in 2012. It has been stated by GOM that one of the reasons for these seeds were to facilitate the interconnectedness between GSL and other foreign tournaments, such as MLG, IPL, or IEM. 2. People have asked GOM whether NaNiwa's 2nd place in MLG Providence means that he would be getting Code S seed. GOM's response at the time was that it had not been decided yet and they will announce as soon as they decide what to do. This point had been covered by TIG news at the time as well. There hasn't been another announcement regarding this issue until the announcement of Idra/Sen. This needs more fucking reads. I'm sick and tired of reading posts saying how GOM changed their format over night without telling anyone. Blizzard cup was announced almost 2 months ago, and the new GSL format around the same time, where it said that in the new GSL format there would be 2 International seeds. Nothing specifically about MLG. Even that ThisIsGame article asks whether Naniwa was going to be seeded through MLG or invited anyways for his recent performance. | ||
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xBillehx
United States1289 Posts
On December 16 2011 15:06 Jackle wrote: This needs more fucking reads. I'm sick and tired of reading posts saying how GOM changed their format over night without telling anyone. Blizzard cup was announced almost 2 months ago, and the new GSL format around the same time, where it said that in the new GSL format there would be 2 International seeds. Nothing specifically about MLG. Even that ThisIsGame article asks whether Naniwa was going to be seeded through MLG or invited anyways for his recent performance. Agreed. This is why I made a point earlier about a hole we have in the current esports media model. Right now we basically rely on volunteer translators to spot interesting articles and translate them for the rest of the world. MLG, ESFI, etc all have no one who monitors news from Korea, cause if they did we'd all know about this a month ago and MLG would have a decent amount of time to bring it up and figure out why. There really needs to be at least one person appointed to following news from the other side of the world for stuff like this. | ||
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striderxxx
Canada443 Posts
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Woizit
801 Posts
On December 16 2011 15:06 Jackle wrote: This needs more fucking reads. I'm sick and tired of reading posts saying how GOM changed their format over night without telling anyone. Blizzard cup was announced almost 2 months ago, and the new GSL format around the same time, where it said that in the new GSL format there would be 2 International seeds. Nothing specifically about MLG. Even that ThisIsGame article asks whether Naniwa was going to be seeded through MLG or invited anyways for his recent performance. Well there definitely seems to be something lost in translation when they decided on changing the GSL format. Unfortunately, I can't see how GOM can be blameless. They failed to inform the relevant parties of the seed change. It doesn't matter that others asked GOM, the people that mattered didn't know when they should. | ||
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NHY
1013 Posts
On December 16 2011 15:13 Woizit wrote: Well there definitely seems to be something lost in translation when they decided on changing the GSL format. Unfortunately, I can't see how GOM can be blameless. They failed to inform the relevant parties of the seed change. It doesn't matter that others asked GOM, the people that mattered didn't know when they should. It would also mean that "relevant parties"(MLG, NaNiwa, his team) didn't ask GOM about it either. | ||
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Ghostface_Killa
United States168 Posts
If you ask me Naniwa got the better end of the deal, to such an extent this matter is worth overlooking. MLG overlooked it. You should overlook it. | ||
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vuvuzela1
United States16 Posts
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