I really disagree with the no foreigner rule. I remember when Balloon won the 6th Weekly, he didn't sign up for any more for a while because a lot people hated Koreans coming in and winning SEA tournaments. I however, think the competition and variety is great. Sure we saw Value demolish the Zergs in the last 3 tournaments he played in but Rossi went 3-2 against him in games. Its not like these tournaments attract the highest levels of Koreans. I just think its sad that when the Koreans win they're "stealing our money" but this accusation would never be made if mOOnGLaDe started playing (and winning) these tournys.
I respect the fact that this is your tournament now, Baldie, but I do hope you will reconsider this rule!
Yea I did something similar a while ago requesting people to sign up with their ingame name and also their actual ID, so if someone like that played, we would know and seed them appropriately so we dont get early knockouts. With this signup method its just a matter of balancing but I think Baldie mentioned the point system to me and how it works so I think this shouldnt be a problem.
As for no foreigners, I disagree however I can understand where you come from, maybe we should leave this judgement to the guys that are higher up and usually get high in the brackets. In the end its only those people that are effected, unless of course they are being annoying admin wise >.<
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