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SGL - Zepph's view
 

Below are the major things I think could be improved for the next time (: .



1. Internet connection.
Of all things I did not expect this to be a problem. I guess it's one of those things that you can't really foresee but shortly after I arrived at the event I recall the entire center's net dropping out. It was dealt with quickly, but for the whole 2 days it was extremely laggy. We all know the frustration of lag when you're trying to control your units or even just keep up your macro and I think some games could have gone a lot differently had there not been this constant ridiculous lag.


2. Running things according to schedule.
Everything ran late in relation to Starcraft II. Now most of these kinds of things never stick completely to the schedule because you can never tell how long games take to play out + the added time of vetos etc. In short the tournament was supposed to start at around 6pm I believe. No one really knew who was in charge at all and at 8pm the guy casually rocks up to finally start registrations. Matches still started quite a while after that because brackets had to be made. Plat/Diamond league started way late also, and BSG ended up being postponed until the next morning because of the amount of disorganisation.


3. The brackets.
Swiss format.....really? It took far too long to get through which ended up meaning that the top 8 had to play their best the next day on next to no sleep (even those who went home to sleep got a tiny amount due to 10am start with travel time and so on). Aside from that the point system meant that a strong player like moonglade wasn't able to compete in top 8 despite doing just as well as some of the other players in his group (going 3-2).

See the brackets here: http://sgl.challonge.com/sgl6sc2gmm

They also needed to fill a spot some random platinum player got put in and let's be honest, that's a free win for any GM player that gets to face them. With only 5 rounds it means that not every player gets a free win like that. I will mention however that this is my first experience with the Swiss bracket and I do think part of the problem wasn't so much with the bracket but with the way it was done/used. I don't understand it too well though and I'm sure someone else like Chris or Dox could explain how it's supposed to work much better than I ever could.

(Side note: thanks to that player who did volunteer to fill the gap though. That was pretty cool of you )


4. Barcraft.
????? This didn't even happen?





I guess I sound quite critical of this event now but it was pretty fun mostly due to the people that showed up. It's always nice hanging out with your fellow sc2sea inhabitants ^.^ Some of the games were really really good as well. No doubt some of the replays will end up on this site so you should definitely check them out when they're uploaded!

That about wraps up my blog :3. Thanks for taking the time to read and of course gg wp to all the players involved, and congratulations to tgun for winning it .