Let's wait and see what the next few days bring us. Thank you for addressing the issue, Carmac. Let's not forget that IPL 3 had some horrendous Internet problems, yet they still managed to pull off one of the best LAN tournaments of 2011. There's hope yet.

synd

Bulgaria586 Posts

January 19 2012 22:52 GMT

#62

No such problems would exist if Blizzard included or would include LAN Support.
At least they can do the same as with WoW. Just make a server client for tournaments and everyone will be happy.

iSZOphiL

Germany11 Posts

January 19 2012 22:52 GMT

#63

Hope the best for the next Days ....

Labbetuss

Norway568 Posts

January 19 2012 22:52 GMT

#64

Today was pretty damn disappointing. At least you have the balls to write a statement to clarify what happened behind the scenes, Carmac. Hopefully tomorrow will be a lot less sad that what was shown today.

Tiazi

Netherlands761 Posts

January 19 2012 22:53 GMT

#65

being transparent. Yes.

Thank you!

GL with the rest of the tournament!

fujins

Romania23 Posts

January 19 2012 22:53 GMT

#66

i also was one of the people who was mad about the lag when i watched IEM KIEV , but after i cooled down cause in every tournament are problems and the play was good i hope that in the next days you will fix the problems and will not be a decideing factor in the games

Tomba

Norway106 Posts

January 19 2012 22:54 GMT

#67

I had a good time, 1080p with no lag!
Felt really sad for Nightend tho, when he lost to Zenio 3rd. game.

RusHXceL

United States1004 Posts

January 19 2012 22:54 GMT

#68

Nice job HUK

Noocta

France12578 Posts

January 19 2012 22:54 GMT

#69

Nice from you to react and talk about the problem.
Live event can be a bitch to make happend without any problems. I hope people won't be bitching at IEM too hard because they follow blindy players opinion. Everyone is trying to do the best for the community and the game. It's okay to bitch about thing, just don"t be a dick about it.

I just hope Blizzard would release LAN one day.. Man i hate that we're playing a competitive esport with a game from a corrupted designer. Damn you Activision you evil bastard.

Lupita

United States290 Posts

January 19 2012 22:55 GMT

#70

It effected way more players than just two. It was a large factor in the Nightend vs Zenio match for example. It seemed as though the internet at the venue was just completely unstable throughout. You say that you made mistakes and you will correct them, and that's nice, but IEM is established and has held many tournaments of this nature before. It's not like this is your first time, and it's just really easy to say oh well, we'll do better next time. All of the games in question should be replayed in my opinion, and if that ends up costing the organizers of the tournament more money, then that's on you.

Nazeron

Canada1046 Posts

January 19 2012 22:57 GMT

#71

hmm, dont really blame IEM for connection issues, but they said they will improve and i trust them

Debarbie

Sweden204 Posts

January 19 2012 22:57 GMT

#72

still a great tour, hope for some good games to come

nimdil

Poland3759 Posts

January 19 2012 22:57 GMT

#73

On January 20 2012 06:39 Adebisi wrote:
WhiteRA calling it "playable" is just wrong IMO. Any amount of lag is just unacceptable, I really think Blizzard needs to step in and provide some kind of portable LAN functionality or tournament servers, I don't understand how people can take SC2 seriously when thousands and thousands of dollars are riding on games where there is lag, it devalues the competitiveness of the game.

I really feel this is more Blizzard's fault than IEMs...

Props to Carmac for being transparent on the issue.

Exactly what I wanted to say.

Blizzard - just give us LAN.

Atoissen

Norway1737 Posts

January 19 2012 22:57 GMT

#74

I am sure everyone appreciate your statement, and the fact that you can controll everything is very true.

But its just so sad for the professional players, most of them train so hard, and to be able to lose because of lag just hurts, im so glad Nani came back, but I am also afraid that NightEnd went out of the tourney bacuse of this, it was like 5 sec or something when he couldnt micro he's stalkers vrs Broods because of a spike.

Darksoldierr

Hungary2013 Posts

January 19 2012 22:58 GMT

#75

Well, the only mistake you had was not switching computers fast enough, but everything else was out of your reach. Its mostly Blizz fault for not having lan, not yours, but you cannot change it, so, i would say, you shouldn't be worried about this that much, everyone has a bad day, lets hope it wont happen now anymore