they have clearly stated that this only applies to the winter season and not the rest of the year. Sundance tweeted "This is just for the winter arena - other season may have different structures and higher frequency of activity". this is definitely not all they have in store for the whole year.

4 Seasons = events = championships, This has been hinted for a long time now. Also on JP's interview with ESFI or Dignitas he confirmed less events then last year, Which had 6.

TheToast

United States4808 Posts

January 21 2012 02:02 GMT

#63

On January 21 2012 08:22 zaii wrote:

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Yes theres only 4 live events, I already miss the old MLG format of having 5-6 events per season, But hey a lot ppl hated the system.

Yeah I really liked the format they had last year, the seeding system was f-ed up and the grand finals needed pool play, but other than that I really liked it. Damn reddit kids ruin everything with their whining...

On January 21 2012 08:39 Clank wrote:

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Hmmm alright I'll put the pitchfork back in the closet.... for now. But I think it would be even more annoying if MLG changed formats twice this year.

ES_JohnClark

United States1121 Posts

January 21 2012 02:08 GMT

#64

Oh.. lol. I was waiting for someone to do this. Thank you. I am sure I would have figured it out..but the very fact that each time they release a format.. none of which are normal or make 'competitive' sense... someone has to create a graphic so people can understand it.

Pretty sad really.

motbob

United States12546 Posts

January 21 2012 06:31 GMT

#65

Oh good, I don't have to do anything.

Vindicare605

United States16121 Posts

January 21 2012 06:44 GMT

#66

Looks like it's going to be even more difficult for players in the open bracket, but other than that this looks to be an improvement over last year's format. Thanks for the graphic I hope MLG releases more details soon.

CPTBadAss

United States594 Posts

January 21 2012 06:57 GMT

#67

Are you sure MLG didn't make a mistake in firing you? This picture is awesome. Simple and easy to understand. The color coding is awesome. Thanks a lot!

Gofarman

Canada648 Posts

January 21 2012 08:26 GMT

#68

I would just like to say that I'm already getting hype just looking at the top 8 from providence.

1 Leenock
2 NaNiwa
3 DongRaeGu
4 Mvp
5 HuK
6 MC
7 HayprO
8 IdrA

4 Koreans
2 Swedes
1 American
1 Canadian

:D

BANJO HWAITING

Trunkers

Belgium17 Posts

January 21 2012 10:22 GMT

#69

On January 21 2012 15:57 CPTBadAss wrote:
Are you sure MLG didn't make a mistake in firing you? This picture is awesome. Simple and easy to understand. The color coding is awesome. Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the positive response. I'm a statistical programmer, and coded this up during my lunch break. I can understand MLG's perspective in not wanting the content writers anymore, as I don't think our articles had a very good ROI compared to streaming important matches.

Articles have historically served two purposes:
1) Capturing the community
2) Reminding people that an event was going to occur

Unfortunately for MLG, it's pretty much impossible to capture the SC2 community. The Starcraft community lives on TeamLiquid and on Reddit, and I imagine the average SC2 fan doesn't visit the MLG site much when there are no matches going on. If you look at the mlgpro.com forums, it's pretty much a ghost town in the SC2 section.

The same thing happened years ago with the Smash community. MLG's response was to buy Smashboards. The reason these moves are good for MLG is that they can leverage a much higher ad rate than a single site. We all heard during the SOPA stuff that MLG moved 100 sites off of GoDaddy, and this includes things like Smashboards, Gamebattles, etc.

As far as needing to remind people that events are going on, Reddit and TL do a pretty good job of that already.

To get the eyeballs, they need more tournament matches. Matches that matter. There are dozens of weekend and online tournaments that come and go, but other than the GSL, none of them have any lasting impact. Some player gets some more fame, a few memories are created, some cash passed around, but they don't have the significance of say an Up and Down match.

With the new structure, MLG gets to cast matches that have impact throughout the year. One tournament is feeding into another, and they're going to anchor their seasonal championship events with huge prize pools (I would around 100K+, but prize pools don't actually bring viewer, a feeling of significance does).

MLG has chosen to be more like a traditional sports league. Host the competition to get the eyeballs, and let ESPN-like organizations provide the coverage.

Of course I'm sad they closed their writing department, as they were a great company to work for, and run by people who truly GET competitive gaming. If a spot opened up I'd jump right back in a heartbeat.

roymarthyup

1442 Posts

January 21 2012 10:28 GMT

#70

the only problem with this system is that at every live MLG sc2 event with a massive crowd, there needs to be an open bracket , period

its what makes MLG , MLG

its what adds an element of amazing to it

the "winter arena" whatever it is needs an open bracket. anyone willing to fly there and pay to enter can enter it. if they think they are good enough at SC2 to possibly win that first place spot and they spent money to fly there to do it, then by dammit i wanna see them play

EDIT: lol, just read it more closely. the winter arena will not have a massive crowd

then dangit, i guess the problem is that MLG is now hosting less events in 2012 than in 2011 (that have massive crowds) thats lame!

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