[nirvAnA]

This feedback thread is for the SEA SL.

Do not talk about the CODE S selection process, that will be handled in due course in another feedback thread when the season is over. Right now lets spend our efforts focusing on how to run things best from this point foward.

I want to the run the tournament the best i can and am open to well thought out feedback and suggestions.
E.g Benjis suggestion to run one tourney earlier for ANZ, i realised my mistake and changed the timing to make one tourney earlier instantly.

Please feedback constructively like below.

Two main issues:

SEA SL Qualifications C & D.

Problem: 15%-20% no-shows.

Suggested solution: Im planning on voiding all current signups for C&D and making a new thread. One for C, one for D. This sign up thread will open one day before the tournament starts. Will this be too confusing for people? Will they be aware of the change? Just leave it as it is with the noshows? Apply a check in system? How? I expect the no shows to be more because its 1 week instead of 2 days from registration to playing and more people are gonna forget about it.

Other issues: Top 16 Seeding, Bo3 format etc, discuss what can be improved and keep in mind the logistics required to implement the solutions.

For the top 16 seeding elaboration-

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i had done the previous two seedings. For bracket A i seeded deth#1 pig#2 pinder#3 fah#4, etc For bracket B i seeded ggAzz#1, ngenmaster#2, jimdiddy#3, iaguz#4. For bracket A seedings were mostly accurate with fah/pig/pinder all being in the final 4 but bracket b was abit messier - (azz/master lost in first rounds, jim's sc2 was corrupt because of localizer and coudlnt come online) but iaguz ended up winning.

I know im not the best judgement of skill and i dont know everyone so I could open the seedings up to a neutral panel but i wounder who else would have seeded fah and iaguz so high? pple would have just laughed at me for seeding them at #4 and they both won the tournaments. Also the logistics worry me as we allow registration till 1 hour before start time so the neutral panel has to all be on at that time and all decided on the top 16 within 10-15 mins. And its mostly the top 16 seeding which is most important which i feel im capable of accurately determining since everything after that is a bo3.

Code S Group Stage

Potential Problem: How do we seed the groups accurately with the top 12 "Code S" players?

Suggested solution: Votes? / Random draw on stream? The only thing im certain of now is Code A winners should be the #4 seed in all the groups as they are coming from "Code A" into "Code S". Right now im leaning towards a random draw for the top 12 like how most competitions do it with some pontential "groups of death" being possible but thats inherent with the random draw process and everyone in the top 12 is a strong player. Is the bo1 format still ok?

Potential Problem: Timing considerations. If Code S group matches start at 7pm SGT its 10pm for Sydney midnight for NZ

Suggested solution: Make it 5pm SGT as the singporeans qualified are students who are not working. But how about thailand? What will be a suitable time? Worse case scenario is to cast from replays but i dont want it to come to that.

Any other feedback related to the running of the tournament from this point foward - be it casters, tournament date etc feel free to feedback but do it constructively