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Arbee
United States58 Posts
The one thing that is an effect of it being announced so late, and I do wonder if it was someone's intention, is that it will make it tougher for international (aka Korean), and average scrub players to attend this late in the game. I will be interested to see if this ends up overall as a good, primarily NA tournament. Also, I will mention that Aware Gaming is definitely recruiting good players for this and willing to help with some support  . So get in touch asap, if you are serious. | ||
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Maasked
United States567 Posts
Atleast that is how it seems to me | ||
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Kompicek
Czech Republic245 Posts
 What other major event has one stream? We will be enjoying open bracket via liquidpedia, yahooooo. | ||
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Usagi
Spain1647 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:18 BronzeKnee wrote: There was a time when MLG had 4 streams... it was amazing. 1 stream is a huge disappointment. Not like they sinchronized in a way that allowed to see more content properly that in they only had 1. If they cut downtimes they should be able to show us almost the same. | ||
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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Mormel
Netherlands57 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:29 sitromit wrote: This really sucks. I don't know why people are happy about full open bracket like this. They could have at least had separate group stage for invites and open bracket for sign-ups feeding into a championship bracket like old MLGs. All this is going to give is shitty 1 sided games until the latest rounds and bad players trying to all-in every game hoping they can get a lucky win. They can't use invites because they may not get WCS points if they do and they have to have an open bracket to get WSC points. With no previous non-invite event this year for HotS, they have no ability to seed people into the groups stage fairly. Also, MLG has said that running open brackets for SC2 cost a lot with little pay off. It is hard to stream the games with good production and even harder to get them on all done in a reasonable period of time. I am surprised they even have one at this event, personally. | ||
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1handsomE
United States199 Posts
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TestSubject893
United States774 Posts
I'm worried about the implications of this format. Hopefully it turns out better than what I'm envisioning. | ||
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teddyoojo
Germany22369 Posts
also if there isnt a good pricepool, means not the top koreans are coming means the only thing that made mlg attractive before is now gone | ||
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Shiori
3815 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:37 Plansix wrote: They can't use invites because they may not get WCS points if they do and they have to have an open bracket to get WSC points. With no previous non-invite event this year for HotS, they have no ability to seed people into the groups stage fairly. Also, MLG has said that running open brackets for SC2 cost a lot with little pay off. It is hard to stream the games with good production and even harder to get them on all done in a reasonable period of time. I am surprised they even have one at this event, personally. Actually MLGAdam said on Reddit that you only need to have 25% of the tournament be open bracket (and it can be online) to get WCS points. So the decision to not have groups/invites was an MLG decision. The prize pool is lowers because, according to Adam, they're shelling out 100k for WCS a few weeks before. I was under the impression Blizzard paid for WCS, though? | ||
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Irre
United States646 Posts
I feel like the scaled down event will be more for the "little guys". It will make less top Koreans/EU guys want to come over for it. Meaning it will most likely be shitty games. Oh well at least they gave the open bracket everyone wanted I guess. | ||
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Lukeeze[zR]
Switzerland6838 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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sitromit
7051 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:37 Plansix wrote: They can't use invites because they may not get WCS points if they do and they have to have an open bracket to get WSC points. With no previous non-invite event this year for HotS, they have no ability to seed people into the groups stage fairly. Also, MLG has said that running open brackets for SC2 cost a lot with little pay off. It is hard to stream the games with good production and even harder to get them on all done in a reasonable period of time. I am surprised they even have one at this event, personally. They could have used invites if they wanted to, they chose not to. From reddit: MrMLGAdam Not true at all. Only 25% of the spots need to be 'open' for Tier 1, and open can be via online qualifiers. MLG chose to do an Open bracket. | ||
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drugsarebad
20 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:38 Shiori wrote: Actually MLGAdam said on Reddit that you only need to have 25% of the tournament be open bracket (and it can be online) to get WCS points. So the decision to not have groups/invites was an MLG decision. The prize pool is lowers because, according to Adam, they're shelling out 100k for WCS a few weeks before. I was under the impression Blizzard paid for WCS, though? I did not see that, but it makes sense. Blizzard is covering the 100K, but they don't deposit a fat amount of money in to the "MLG account for WCS" and tell them to take it out when necessary. The contract Between Blizzard and MLG likely has a set date when they get paid each season. | ||
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Zaphid
Czech Republic1860 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:31 liberate71 wrote: Nailed it  But hey, people are quick to bitch. I'm glad there is an open tournament and people get a chance to qualify and play on the big stage, or at least play against established legends of the game. More Starcraft 2 is a good thing, not a bad thing!  People are quick to bitch because if you want to play/see offline SC2 event in USA, it's MLG only. NASL has no plans, IPL is dead. EU has ESL doing killer job with WCS, Dreamhack is also upping their game every event. MLG has no pressure to outdo itself. I'm sure their employees aren't going "meh, that'll do", but it's hard to shake that feeling. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On June 01 2013 00:39 sitromit wrote: They could have used invites if they wanted to, they chose not to. From reddit: I just saw that and I am ok with no invites. I am tired of MLG catering to top players and Kespa by inviting them to events. Its a new game and everyone can struggle through the bracket like everyone else. | ||
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Negius
Netherlands290 Posts
I think tournaments like MLG will have to step back a bit, to make sure the WCS system can grow (yes, I like the WCS system now, even with its flaws). Maybe they will go all out during the WCS Global Finals Season 3. That seems to me a pretty good reason to keep the SC2 sector at MLG events a bit lower. Remember, MLG is also a big part of WCS, so maybe it isn't cost-effective to host two large tournaments. | ||
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