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MLG_Adam
Profile Joined July 2010
United States994 Posts
November 28 2012 21:45 GMT
#41
On November 29 2012 06:44 Torte de Lini wrote:
1 TERARAN

I just laughed.


2

Flash and MKP. I think he mislabeled a player.
Twitter: MrAdamAp
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
November 28 2012 21:47 GMT
#42
Looks like it, yeah. You're right.
Still brutal for these players, how unfortunate.
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R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
November 28 2012 21:50 GMT
#43
On November 29 2012 06:39 tree.hugger wrote:
Enough of these random invitationals with no past or future storyline, please. I liked the arenas just fine.

I really liked the arenas too, it was nice to have an actual live physical event. Online only stuff just doesn't feel as compelling any more when it's all played in advance and replay casted.
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Laryleprakon
Profile Joined May 2011
New Zealand9496 Posts
November 28 2012 21:51 GMT
#44
Cool little tournament. I wish they had this sort of thing as part of the year season so players knew if they won something MLG related they qualified.

I'm glad you invited Flash for more terran's and he is Flash but it does lookout of place compared to what everyone else has done, winning a meaningless show match qualifiers you :/

Looking forward to some of the match's, sad Parting/Life got a team kill.
Zer atai
Profile Joined September 2011
United States691 Posts
November 28 2012 21:53 GMT
#45
protoss marine king!!!!!
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MLG_Adam
Profile Joined July 2010
United States994 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-28 21:58:28
November 28 2012 21:56 GMT
#46
On November 29 2012 06:51 Laryleprakon wrote:
Cool little tournament. I wish they had this sort of thing as part of the year season so players knew if they won something MLG related they qualified.

I'm glad you invited Flash for more terran's and he is Flash but it does lookout of place compared to what everyone else has done, winning a meaningless show match qualifiers you :/

Looking forward to some of the match's, sad Parting/Life got a team kill.


Not to keep defending Flash but he did have these MLG results:
-Won the KESPA Anaheim Invitational
-Made it to the Quarter Finals of MVP losing to eventual champion Soo (with a 39-9 regular season record)
-Placed 4th at MLG Dallas, winning his initial match up against eventual champion Life before being knocked out by him in a rematch, and taking out the following players: Grubby, Thestc, Naniwa
Twitter: MrAdamAp
Master of DalK
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Canada1802 Posts
November 28 2012 21:58 GMT
#47
FREE HD FROM MLG?!?! FINALLY

Also, can't wait to see MKP and soO's Toss capabilites. FOR AIUR~! ^^

Life v PartinG prolly the best match for first round, along with DRG v Flash.
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iS.Axslav
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States248 Posts
November 28 2012 21:58 GMT
#48
Sorry for the tlpd mistakes guys, fixed now.
OminouS
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden1343 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-28 23:09:18
November 28 2012 21:59 GMT
#49
On November 29 2012 06:58 iS.Axslav wrote:
Sorry for the tlpd mistakes guys, fixed now.


Can't tell you how many times I made SoO the Protoss one instead of the Zerg n.Die_soO while casting OSL BW. Or Shine (T) and Shine[kaL] (Z). These things happen
On the 6th day JF made Reavers and on the 7th day JF put his opponent to rest
Eee
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden2712 Posts
November 28 2012 22:00 GMT
#50
This is basically MLG's version of the Blizzard cup.
felisconcolori
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States6168 Posts
November 28 2012 22:00 GMT
#51
On November 29 2012 06:39 MLG_Adam wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2012 06:38 monx wrote:
running this tournament on 3 different weeks kinda kills my interest in it. Might watch the finals but other than that i dont really care. Cool idea tough but dont like the schedule


We also love our marathon viewing sessions but we are trying to find a balance of nightly programmed content. This is the first foray into more frequent FREE high level competition.


I'd recommend looking at the NASL and IPL formats; they do a lot of content frequently along the nightly program format. (Yeah, I know, they are competitors, but they do a lot of things right along those lines. Ya'll do a great job with major LAN events. There's room for improvement everywhere, and I'm sure you could come up with interesting differences and touches to make MLG an attractive choice for viewers.)

The pre-show with Axslav is a good start. Plus, you have access to a very well known player pool. Hoping to catch some really awesome games.

Question - VODs available too? :D
Yes, I email sponsors... to thank them. Don't post drunk, kids. My king, what has become of you?
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
November 28 2012 22:00 GMT
#52
On November 29 2012 06:43 MLG_Adam wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2012 06:39 tree.hugger wrote:
Enough of these random invitationals with no past or future storyline, please. I liked the arenas just fine.


I love the arenas also. I feel like there are ample storylines here: offseason mini tournament between champions of 2012.

You mentioned one storyline. Sorta. But there's not a ton of rhyme or reason to how the players were selected. I get that it's a bunch of people who won MLG events and the one KeSPA event and the one Blizzard event. Yet it's a little silly to call Flash a champion when there's no mention of viOlet who won the Spring Arena that anybody cared about.

I mean, this is great content, and I'm sure it'll be fun to watch, but it doesn't mean anything. Anyone can give out X amount of money and find players who are champions of something to play a tournament. What does this tournament mean? Does it crown a champion of the 2012 MLG Season? If so, why is it such a low key event? Does it kick off the 2013 season by giving out seeding or something? Clearly not.

So what is it? It's a time sink. It's a way to get eyeballs on your stuff with minimal effort or interest. People will tune in, if you guys are lucky there'll be good games, and it'll get more attention. But I (personally, I'm not speaking for anyone else here) am really exhausted from events like this. It just cheapens the real tournaments. If DongRaeGu and Flash meet in some LAN, it's that much less epic because tournaments like this essentially say; "Hey guess what, we can just pick whoever we want, get them to play each other, and be done with it."

This is the one night stand of tournaments, except it takes three weeks.
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speknek
Profile Joined February 2012
758 Posts
November 28 2012 22:00 GMT
#53
drg, mk, leenock, life
zvz finals
"yay"
MLG_Adam
Profile Joined July 2010
United States994 Posts
November 28 2012 22:01 GMT
#54
On November 29 2012 07:00 felisconcolori wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2012 06:39 MLG_Adam wrote:
On November 29 2012 06:38 monx wrote:
running this tournament on 3 different weeks kinda kills my interest in it. Might watch the finals but other than that i dont really care. Cool idea tough but dont like the schedule


We also love our marathon viewing sessions but we are trying to find a balance of nightly programmed content. This is the first foray into more frequent FREE high level competition.


I'd recommend looking at the NASL and IPL formats; they do a lot of content frequently along the nightly program format. (Yeah, I know, they are competitors, but they do a lot of things right along those lines. Ya'll do a great job with major LAN events. There's room for improvement everywhere, and I'm sure you could come up with interesting differences and touches to make MLG an attractive choice for viewers.)

The pre-show with Axslav is a good start. Plus, you have access to a very well known player pool. Hoping to catch some really awesome games.

Question - VODs available too? :D



We plan on having a lot of league specific content for our 2013 season, but this is a one off, off season event. January 2013 we'll be rolling out a very awesome league related broadcast schedule
Twitter: MrAdamAp
Aber
Profile Joined March 2012
Sweden332 Posts
November 28 2012 22:04 GMT
#55
thanks for free HD stream, but i doubt i´ll be watching this.

gl hf
Trying is the first step towards failure
StarGalaxy
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany744 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-28 22:06:29
November 28 2012 22:05 GMT
#56
On November 29 2012 06:50 R1CH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2012 06:39 tree.hugger wrote:
Enough of these random invitationals with no past or future storyline, please. I liked the arenas just fine.

I really liked the arenas too, it was nice to have an actual live physical event. Online only stuff just doesn't feel as compelling any more when it's all played in advance and replay casted.

I think if they build in some interesting content it could be great.
I actually prefer online tournaments in HD over offline PPV events.
Seems like a lot of wasted money to fly in all the players for a small event.
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MLG_Adam
Profile Joined July 2010
United States994 Posts
November 28 2012 22:05 GMT
#57
On November 29 2012 07:00 tree.hugger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 29 2012 06:43 MLG_Adam wrote:
On November 29 2012 06:39 tree.hugger wrote:
Enough of these random invitationals with no past or future storyline, please. I liked the arenas just fine.


I love the arenas also. I feel like there are ample storylines here: offseason mini tournament between champions of 2012.

You mentioned one storyline. Sorta. But there's not a ton of rhyme or reason to how the players were selected. I get that it's a bunch of people who won MLG events and the one KeSPA event and the one Blizzard event. Yet it's a little silly to call Flash a champion when there's no mention of viOlet who won the Spring Arena that anybody cared about.

I mean, this is great content, and I'm sure it'll be fun to watch, but it doesn't mean anything. Anyone can give out X amount of money and find players who are champions of something to play a tournament. What does this tournament mean? Does it crown a champion of the 2012 MLG Season? If so, why is it such a low key event? Does it kick off the 2013 season by giving out seeding or something? Clearly not.

So what is it? It's a time sink. It's a way to get eyeballs on your stuff with minimal effort or interest. People will tune in, if you guys are lucky there'll be good games, and it'll get more attention. But I (personally, I'm not speaking for anyone else here) am really exhausted from events like this. It just cheapens the real tournaments. If DongRaeGu and Flash meet in some LAN, it's that much less epic because tournaments like this essentially say; "Hey guess what, we can just pick whoever we want, get them to play each other, and be done with it."

This is the one night stand of tournaments, except it takes three weeks.


Violet and Taeja declined to participate.

I could spin this the opposite way from how you painted it, but I don't think it will do any good. I will say that we're incredibly excited to hold this event and we do feel it is a valid tournament with valid reasoning on why the competitors were selected.
Twitter: MrAdamAp
Sea_Food
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Finland1612 Posts
November 28 2012 22:07 GMT
#58
What?

4 months more untill next MLG event?
Kinsal
Profile Joined August 2011
United States66 Posts
November 28 2012 22:07 GMT
#59
awe thanks for the birthday present! :D
DJHelium
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden13480 Posts
November 28 2012 22:10 GMT
#60
What is the map pool?
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