On April 15 2013 14:14 lichter wrote: Best of One...? =/
It started in the ro1024 so it was bo1 until the ro128 I believe
Yeah but man, this is the first season, with open qualifiers straight into Premier division, so I was expecting them to try and avoid as much randomness as possible. For the next seasons they can do Bo1, fine. But this is the first season so I was hoping for more.
Anyway Bo3 starting Ro128 isn't so bad. Thankfully with the GSL format, anyone who lucks their way into Premier/Challenger and doesn't deserve the spot will be weeded out quickly. Hopefully all of the best players make it eventually.
I would not make a big deal out of it. Its not like we will observe it in the future. Those direct-to-premier qualifiers are a one time event. They had to do something, to fill the remaining 8 spots in the beginning. Of course they could seed all 32 spots, but it could create community outrage.
Like you said, given time, situation will settle down on its own thanks to the unforgiving format, season after season we will get to the best player base possible.
It was a good day yesterday, unfortunately there were some problems with the streams. Hopefully today things will run smoother. And hopefully a zerg will qualify
On April 15 2013 14:14 lichter wrote: Best of One...? =/
only realistic thing that they can do given the size of the field and every single tournament's outright refusal to use anything other than a straight knockout
Empire Happy is epic and Dayshi is on fire ! Who will be next ? It would be cool if BratOK qualified maybe a protoss would be good too...Bling played really well yesterday so why not ?
guys i think the only way to make it fair is to do 1024 player round robin to seed all of the players with everyone playing each other twice just to make up for fluke wins. then do bo7 quintuple elimination brackets
Seriously, with half of the matches being Bo1 it took 9 hours to complete. Now imagine it would be all Bo3... it would take like 12-14 hours just for one qualifier...
On April 15 2013 15:11 teddyoojo wrote: i dunno, why are people surprised that the koreans didnt make it through?
I think people assume they would roflstomp a lot of players and take all the top spots. Frankly, I thought they would do the same lol but I'm happy to hear that EU can hold its own. I doubt NA can tbh XD
On April 15 2013 15:10 Canucklehead wrote: They could always do the qualifiers over 2 days to avoid bo1. Better to take longer and do it right than have bo1 for such an important tournament.
They are doing 4 qualifiers to make up for the BO1s early on.
If you lose in a BO1 4 times, you really have no excuse.
On April 15 2013 15:11 teddyoojo wrote: i dunno, why are people surprised that the koreans didnt make it through?
I think people assume they would roflstomp a lot of players and take all the top spots. Frankly, I thought they would do the same lol but I'm happy to hear that EU can hold its own. I doubt NA can tbh XD
No suprise EU can hold its own. KauP also took a map from finale. We might not have the players that can reach the Koreans peak, but EU has a lot of depth and a lot of players that know how to play the game. Now take into credit that the Koreans also play with lag and you shouldn't be suprised if they lose at all.
Doubt it will work out as well on NA, because a) NA is inferior to EU and b) there are more Koreans and c) lag isn't as bad as KR/EU.
There's really just DemusliM I hope for. He would really deserve a spot in my eyes.
Glad to see both these guys qualify cause Happy has always been one of the best in Europe and people forget and Dayshi was getting really good at the end of WOL
On April 15 2013 14:29 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: I got confused by how the Koreans could get knocked out... and then I read that they lost in Bo1s -.-'
Well I guess their opponents can't be blamed lol. Do what you gotta do to win.
finale lost straight up to beastqt :o
Gotta make excuses for korean players somehow ^.^
On April 15 2013 15:03 Shellshock1122 wrote: guys i think the only way to make it fair is to do 1024 player round robin to seed all of the players with everyone playing each other twice just to make up for fluke wins. then do bo7 quintuple elimination brackets
I don't know, did you account for random power spikes creating unplayable lag for the korean players that somehow doesn't knock them out of the game, forcing them to play through it? Thirty five times in a row? You should really take that into account. Bo9 might work better.