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No lans? Bad online tournaments?
 

Okay so as everyone has seen and witness this year has been dead for stracraft 2, expecially in the sea scene for lans and just for the local community itself, Eddie has been running these OSC tournaments and trying to hype up the SEA scene and improve it but has done the complete opposite.

Everyday you see loads of tournaments or just stuff happening that is "tournament" based with osc and it looks good and all but is it really?, From all the tournament results i would say no, unless they are SEA based events only, You dont ever really see a SEA player doing well or placing first 2nd or 3rd, I think before the Scene is completly Dead there needs to be a change and a big one.

For starters you need to stop the mass production of tournaments for other players outside of SEA to win, for For example most of the tournaments weekly based are for everyone around the world which the SEA scene in general do not want, It looks good and all having all these tournaments but the players of SEA dont want to allways play against others outside, we are to small of a player base and we only really enjoy playing against ourselfs which honestly we were doing fine with, Some players like to play against other top players around the world but there is other tournaments out there that do that.

There needs to be more SEA only tournaments and MUCH more less of these other tournaments constantly being played and showed around the scene, In the top 32 of the osc rankings 22 of the 32 players in the top arnt even from the SEA scene, like seriously that is bad considering you want to support the SEA scene, its way to easy for these outsiders to come in play 1 or 2 tournaments win it and be placed in the top 32 soooo easy,

I feel osc should be more focused on helping the SEA scene and should be supporting our players rather then the players in other countrys who are just better then all of us, and its a true fact we are to small and honestly most of us in the top 16 of SEA are casuals who work go to uni, tafe etc, we dont play fulltime like the rest of the world.

So there needs to be a change on how this osc shit is and just the Scene in general otherwise give it another 6 months and this scene will be completly dead, For example https://strivewire.com/tournament/7398/grid < 5 players showed up to a "sea" based event that just shows how pathetic and small this community is, unless its a ESL cup with $1000 or WCS noone in the scene cares anymore. they dont try its pointless, i feel OSC is for the rest of the world to benefit from, not talking $$ im talking just fun and in general our scene gets crushed by the skill of others.

If you look at the pigsty cup, pig has been running literally the smallest pool of prizes just fun prizes and a small pig trophy, (which is awesome nice job pig) it had a total of 40+ players at the event? Without alot of the "pro" SEA players attending apart from the few who live in sydney or did fly over, That just shows there is a scene still out there willing to attend events or even play the game everyone here wants to play, but it has to be for the right reason, these online tournaments are not for the right reason noone wants to play against these "pro" americans, koreans, chinese, europeans, its not fun its not worth the time to go 0-2 or 0-1 or just get flogged, the scene loves to play against each other.

I feel if ACL or ESL or someone wants to do a lan with even a $500 prize pool at a proper place like ACL has done, the turn out of players would be amazing 50+ if it was in sydney i would say, So lets hope ACL or ESL or someone does that and keeps it in the SEA region, Even eddie save some money instead of investing all this money into others who arnt in our country save a few tournaments and invest into a big LAN tournament? i think everyone would attend if you are throwing 100k+ at osc i think a 1k tournament or even 2k? lan tournament people would attend and it would be awesome.

If the scene is to be revived again which would be dam hard to do considering its very dead atm, you would need to stop 90% of these tournaments for other countries and actually invest in on the SEA scene only, I will say it again, We are way to small and way to casual to play against these other countries, there are tournaments we can go play but most of us dont because we enjoy playing against each other, its more fun and gets hype between the scene, you open us up to the world and we just die.

I know i have said i hate this scene etc, but ive been apart of it from nearly the beggining and it would be sad to see it die because of these OSC tournaments, Lets fix the scene and make it more SEA based again like the old times when this site and the scene thrived.