I was kinda looking forward to the first HotS open bracket, you know that some noname would come out of nowhere with some crazy new HotS strategy and win the whole thing.

ChosenBrad1322

United States562 Posts

January 22 2013 23:55 GMT

#242

On January 23 2013 03:16 TheDougler wrote:
Desrow leaked this earlier. I agree it's a bad move, but as long as they have a pretty large bracket and several qualifiers it might not be the end of the world.

We don't know its a bad move until we see what the alternate plan is ^^

Shellshock

United States97277 Posts

January 22 2013 23:55 GMT

#243

Maybe they are going to do the coin flipping tournament like Dreamhack to see who gets into the groups

Holytornados

United States1022 Posts

January 22 2013 23:59 GMT

#244

Meh. Not thrilled with this. Certainly hope they show me something great instead of the open.

HornyHerring

Papua New Guinea1059 Posts

January 23 2013 00:04 GMT

#245

I have faith in Sundance. MLG always delivers.

Dingobloo

Australia1903 Posts

January 23 2013 00:08 GMT

#246

Will have to reserve judgement, the open bracket wasn't ideal just because of the player treatment issues, the scheduling and the amount of hardware required but it was one of the few ways for the non-top 16 people to track their progress and break into the scene, it also provided a non-trivial amount of money from player passes so if that's then passed on to the consumer or to the teams in a way that involves less exposure (ie an online tournament) that could be really bad.

Larkin

United Kingdom7161 Posts

January 23 2013 00:26 GMT

#247

That sucks, but it'll be for good reason. The next event will have an awesome Open Bracket and we'll be back to normal.

BigKahunaBurger

Australia334 Posts

January 23 2013 00:31 GMT

#248

And there goes the last tournament EG.Machine and EG.InControl can actually play in.

Larkin

United Kingdom7161 Posts

January 23 2013 00:34 GMT

#249

On January 23 2013 09:31 BigKahunaBurger wrote:
And there goes the last tournament EG.Machine and EG.InControl can actually play in.

Incontrol was 2 games away from getting into groups last MLG, got beaten by his teammates.

ThePlayer33

Australia2378 Posts

January 23 2013 00:37 GMT

#250

they are gonna make code a mlg

Ace Frehley

2030 Posts

January 23 2013 00:39 GMT

#251

Maybe it'll be a kespa only tournament!!!

BigKahunaBurger

Australia334 Posts

January 23 2013 00:47 GMT

#252

On January 23 2013 09:34 Larkin wrote:

Show nested quote +

Incontrol was 2 games away from getting into groups last MLG, got beaten by his teammates.

So literally everything I said was true, is what you're saying?

DarkPlasmaBall

United States46426 Posts

January 23 2013 02:09 GMT

#253

On January 23 2013 09:47 BigKahunaBurger wrote:

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So literally everything I said was true, is what you're saying?

Actually you don't know that, because we don't know what the new set up for this MLG is.

Also, it sounds condescending to single them out, out of all the other players.

skatblast

United States784 Posts

January 23 2013 02:12 GMT

#254

On January 23 2013 09:31 BigKahunaBurger wrote:
And there goes the last tournament EG.Machine and EG.InControl can actually play in.

You forgot lzgamer bro

RiSkysc2

696 Posts

January 23 2013 02:23 GMT

#255

On January 23 2013 09:34 Larkin wrote:

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Incontrol was 2 games away from getting into groups last MLG, got beaten by his teammates.

Even if he hadnt bean beaten by his mediocre team mates, he would meet some actually DECENT players in groups and wouldn't have even taken a map.

RiSkysc2

696 Posts

January 23 2013 02:25 GMT

#256

On January 23 2013 08:18 LuckyFool wrote:

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and right now I'm pretty glad I quit sc2 after the last MLG of 2012 ha.

no more being able to be bad and go to MLG's like me of 2012 LOL :D

Well, we're all glad that your life is so much better without sc2 and going to MLG's.

Elwar

953 Posts

January 23 2013 02:29 GMT

#257

Weak shit. Thats like 90% of the appeal MLG has over other tournaments.

uberism

Canada271 Posts

January 23 2013 02:38 GMT

#258

won't watch if theres no open bracket.

Canucklehead

Canada5074 Posts

January 23 2013 02:40 GMT

#259

I have mixed feelings about it. I'll miss the koreans going through the open bracket, but for the most part other than them, I never followed the faceless foreigners in the open bracket.