EPT[MLG] Winter Season featuring Heart of the Swarm - Page 23
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
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Hall0wed
United States8486 Posts
On February 01 2013 16:02 jmbthirteen wrote: so? i'm fine with single elim. It also means no extended series. And it means we get to see every game. Hey man, people are too busy pitchforking and stuff over something they normally wouldn't care about, get your positivity and logic out of here! ~_~ | ||
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Bjarne
Germany192 Posts
The invitational is nice, love to see Socke win his game, but its not even close to the awesome open bracket. IPL will take MLGs place very soon, open bracket ftw!! | ||
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ALPINA
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Ragoo
Germany2773 Posts
On February 01 2013 06:27 Plansix wrote: When you start your post off with “Not to be negative, but this is a terrible format with laughable matchups,” its not a really good start. It is pretty clear you didn’t read the thread and are only here to hate on MLG and have no real argument what so ever. People don’t know if IPL is having a true open bracket and their event is still WoL, it is pretty dumb. Also, there is no data on what is a broken or not broken map in HotS. But I am sure there are some experts out there that will tell you otherwise. There is idiotic design regardless of HotS or WoL and those 3 Blizzard maps are simply not worthy to be played. You won't find many mapmakers disagreeing with that. There is plenty of great unplayed community maps and it's not hard to ask the mapmakers to cooperate (as IPL proves, watch IPL map tournament in some hours). http://sc2melee.net/ | ||
Olli
Austria24422 Posts
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On February 01 2013 22:45 DarkLordOlli wrote: Well this seems more like a giant showmatch tournament rather than actual MLG championship competition, with open bracket missing and invite only qualifiers with mostly fan favorites. It's like MvP part 2 (which is understandable with their KeSPA deal and all that). | ||
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vthree
Hong Kong8039 Posts
On February 01 2013 14:00 Torpedo.Vegas wrote: Nobody know who was invited and turned it down for one reason or another and they certainly are not going to cheapen their own event but saying coulda woulda shoulda. Well, if you look the eSF side, I don't think anyone turned them down. And the reason Jjajki was picked because all teams on eSF got at least 1 spot (same with Kespa). The teams all sent their 'star' players Let's take a look at eSF. Life, Leenock, Bomber already in so that is 2 ST and 1 FXO NSHS 1 spot - Jjakji Prime 2 spots - MKP, Creator FXO 1 spot - GumiHo IM 3 spots - Seed, Mvp, Nestea ST 1 spot - Curious MVP 2 spots - DRG, Sniper | ||
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hellokittySC2
United States395 Posts
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ReachTheSky
United States3294 Posts
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Lukeeze[zR]
Switzerland6838 Posts
On February 02 2013 00:19 hellokittySC2 wrote: why can't they hold an online qualifier for a few spots? there are players like me who are top 20 gm on HOTS as of now, who will probably provide better games for the viewers than 1/2 of the players on here who are still playing WOL. Haha no. | ||
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
On February 02 2013 00:19 hellokittySC2 wrote: why can't they hold an online qualifier for a few spots? there are players like me who are top 20 gm on HOTS as of now, who will probably provide better games for the viewers than 1/2 of the players on here who are still playing WOL. not only that, but open bracket or an open online qualifer is a good way for people to get their foot into the door. It lets talentend players get on the radar of teams if they make it through. And it also weeds the people who should be pros and people who are stream personalities. | ||
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MysterySC
Andorra109 Posts
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Olli
Austria24422 Posts
On February 02 2013 00:19 hellokittySC2 wrote: why can't they hold an online qualifier for a few spots? there are players like me who are top 20 gm on HOTS as of now, who will probably provide better games for the viewers than 1/2 of the players on here who are still playing WOL. I agree actually, early WoL for example had tons of new player rising in the scene because they showed creative strategies (see Catz, Destiny, Spanishiwa, Kiwikaki, etc.) and it was awesome to watch as well. This could be so incredibly refreshing for the scene and for viewers but instead they're mostly inviting people who are still focused mainly on WoL who will most likely stick to WoL-esque styles instead of going batshit crazy with new units and strategies. | ||
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nomyx
United States2205 Posts
I remember a tweet / reddit post from someone at MLG and said that this format would only last one tournament, and I assume by format they meant invitational instead of open bracket | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On February 01 2013 15:05 Elite_ wrote: Announcement made 22nd of January, 2013. What's disappointing about no open bracket and no form of open qualifiers is the fact that what made MLG exciting was the combination of 3 things: The top players from previous MLGs, The best players at the time of the online qualifiers of the event, and the open bracket providing the best players that didn't qualify or get invited a chance to prove themselves. Edit - Instead of just Leenock's story, here's a list: If there was no open bracket: *Leenock would never be a champion. He would just be some Korean scrub that got 2nd place at a GSL at the end of 2011. *That legendary TvT between BoxeR and Rain on Metalopolis never would have happened. *HerO, JYP, and PuMa never would have played in a MLG without qualifying. *MKP would have never been sent to MLG by reddit and the help of his fans, proving that this community is something special. *TheStC never would have played amazing games for us to end up in 3rd place at two MLGs. *X number of Polt vs. Stephano series never would have happened. *NaNiwa never would have been a MLG Champion. *CranK never would have been sent to MLG by reddit and Axiom might not even exist. Just a few. I'm sure there's more. All these things are true, but MLG will go back to the open bracket format after this event. It is so clear that this is a one event thing due to the HotS release date. MLG has said several times that Blizzard and they have concerns that they would not be able to run a stable open bracket at the event due to stability issues. Events like this are booked months if not close to a full year in advance, so they are limiting what can go wrong. It is not like this is the last MLG ever. It is not like MLG went out of its way to screw players over. They clearly wants an open bracket, but they can’t do it for this one event. People are really acting like the open bracket is gone forver, which is just not the case. | ||
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ThePlayer33
Australia2378 Posts
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WizardMcMuffin
Norway13 Posts
He's been practicing HOTS for such a long time now! | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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MiQ
Canada312 Posts
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Jjakji... Wins a GSL Championship a year ago, falls to Code A the next season, stays in Code A for 2 more seasons, falls out of the GSL, requalifies, falls out of the GSL again, and doesn't win a single game in the Code A Preliminaries this season... Also he's never attended a MLG IIRC... Only foreign event he's been to is IPL4... Unless you count the online portion of Iron Squid 1...
soO, the MvP Invitational Champion...
