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On January 23 2013 06:28 L3g3nd_ wrote: can everyone chill out? they havent even announced what the new thing is yet for crying out loud
The Open Bracket was amazingly awesome. I honestly can't think of a better replacement and that is the problem.
We'll see what happens.
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Hope desrow gets a direct seed!
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Woah, I really don't like that, That was my favorite part of MLG I enjoyed playing in it way more than watching.
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Their format was always terrible. Fridays wasn't worth worth watchin - I hope they change to something more mainstream.
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I'm always suspicious of announcements of announcements. This is one.
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I really miss the MLG2011 format with open bracket, the 4 winner of the open bracket went into 4 6man group and the (other) 4 runner up played against 6th placed player from the 6man group etc. MLG2012 format was really boring for me.
I hope the MLG 2013 format is much better than the 2012 one.
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"in order to play in the tournament: you must beat ST_Bomber"
wondering what they're going to do though...
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I hope there is some kind of open online qualifier and not an invite tournament.
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no open makes it boring, the most intresting players come from the opens, perhaps he make online qualifiers ? no idea still bad
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I have a spoil, 100% sure. They will be online qualifier or something like this.
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The open bracket was one of the most interesting things about MLG. ._.
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No open bracket sucks, it makes it not worth travelling too, but hopefully Sundance pulls of something like a Kespa/GSL/Dreamhack side tournament for the tournament grounds to be more lively.
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On January 23 2013 06:30 BronzeKnee wrote:Show nested quote +On January 23 2013 06:28 L3g3nd_ wrote: can everyone chill out? they havent even announced what the new thing is yet for crying out loud The Open Bracket was amazingly awesome. I honestly can't think of a better replacement and that is the problem. We'll see what happens. so because you cant think of it means it doesnt exist? thats incredibly short sighted.
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Hrm, I dont like the no open bracket idea.... but I will reserve judgement until I see this new "announcement"
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On January 23 2013 06:48 Holcan wrote: No open bracket sucks, it makes it not worth travelling too, but hopefully Sundance pulls of something like a Kespa/GSL/Dreamhack side tournament for the tournament grounds to be more lively.
I wholeheartedly hope this isn't his plan. I've gotta agree with IdrA, it's pretty unfair to players to expect them to perform in more than one tournament simultaneously.
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I'm glad, these huge open brackets have always been a complete failure.
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This mlg will be a single elimination tournament, beginning with 16 players. Instead of a best of x for each match, there will a best of 2*n+3, where n is the number of times the players have played eachother in previous offline tournaments. This will create extra mindgames and revitalises storylines of the past.
on a more serious note:
On January 23 2013 06:27 BronzeKnee wrote:Show nested quote +On January 23 2013 05:01 Hrrrrm wrote: Color me not surprised. MLG doesn't want to deal with unknowns beating established pros because of the early volatility of HOTS. Why would MLG forbid an unknown player comes up with a solid build out and starts taking games off Koreans in a new game? Would that not bring drama and excitement (viewers) to the scene? I think an open bracket would indeed fit this situation even better then normal.
But maybe their alternative is better, i'm pretty curious as to what they're doing instead.
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Open tournaments are extremely beneficial to the scene and to eSports as a whole. So they announce the lack of open bracket, but do not announce its replacement or whatever it will be. Classy move MLG.
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On January 23 2013 03:23 mute20 wrote: I am taking a guess it will be some super extended series -_-
It will be one 500000 minute long match where players are taking over from each other every two minutes on the fastest map possible.
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On January 23 2013 06:27 BronzeKnee wrote:Show nested quote +On January 23 2013 05:01 Hrrrrm wrote: Color me not surprised. MLG doesn't want to deal with unknowns beating established pros because of the early volatility of HOTS. Why would MLG forbid an unknown player comes up with a solid build out and starts taking games off Koreans in a new game? Would that not bring drama and excitement (viewers) to the scene?
One of the highest viewed moment of the last MLG (might have been the highest) was Flash vs Naniwa. Darkhorses dont draw viewers. People dont tune in to see people they havnt heard of, they tune in to see hyped matches and that was a hyped match.
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