On June 18 2013 13:02 MonkSEA wrote:
Extended series is a FAIR advantage for the winning player, it's not impossible to comeback against. In the end you either watch MLG and support them or you don't, and we'll see if it's the minority complaining about this or the majority.
Why is it fair?
The players are meeting again under new circumstances. And if you would really make it "fair" you would have to take every series between player A and player B into account. Those lucky newbies wont have anything "on the record", but the serious pros would have to play "bo25" or something similarly ridiculous.
Extended series is awful for the tournament schedule, because a bo3 can "mutate" into a bo5 potentially.
On June 18 2013 13:02 MonkSEA wrote:
Leave extended series as it is, it's tried and tested and works.
... right until Goody plays a slow-mech bo5 match against someone else who isnt in a hurry and the whole thing turns into a 3 hour marathon.
Extended series is a PENALTY for all players involved if they have to play more than 3 games, because MLG is a "marathon" and not a "Korean one match per day" tournament. Thus it is in no way fair and clearly doesnt work.