[nirvAnA]

I agree hosting tournaments are good, but imo the organisers have the responsibility for making sure the event is promoted and run well, especially if there is a big prize at stake. Rather than just dumping marketing dollars carelessly.

For example the WCS run by Jasper was very enjoyable. The barcrafts run by Frogmite too are done really well. All these events help grow the community and when run well, make the sponsors happy too when they see a return, a win-win situation. A good turn out and publicity encourages sponsors to contribute more, thus more players playing and the standard of skill rising, having more events and the community growing further.

The problem I have is this looks like its heading in the same direction as the first alienware tournament they ran, turning a great opportunity into a wasted one cause no one organising the tournament seems to care. Also, Gamespot Singapore tried to host an invite starcraft tournament before. They wanted to market it as "Singapore's best players" but they didn't put in much effort or prizes or offer any incentive to the Singapore players. So of course these players did not want to go and they ended up having to cancel it at the last minute. Hopefully it does not happen for this tournament, I've already sent an email to them telling them to publicise it properly in TL, Reddit etc and offering help with the rules and format but they've ignored it.

I hope you guys don't end up playing unseeded best of one matches.

[PiG]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

I agree hosting tournaments are good, but imo the organisers have the responsibility for making sure the event is promoted and run well, especially if there is a big prize at stake. Rather than just dumping marketing dollars carelessly.

For example the WCS run by Jasper was very enjoyable. The barcrafts run by Frogmite too are done really well. All these events help grow the community and when run well, make the sponsors happy too when they see a return, a win-win situation. A good turn out and publicity encourages sponsors to contribute more, thus more players playing and the standard of skill rising, having more events and the community growing further.

The problem I have is this looks like its heading in the same direction as the first alienware tournament they ran, turning a great opportunity into a wasted one cause no one organising the tournament seems to care. Also, Gamespot Singapore tried to host an invite starcraft tournament before. They wanted to market it as "Singapore's best players" but they didn't put in much effort or prizes or offer any incentive to the Singapore players. So of course these players did not want to go and they ended up having to cancel it at the last minute. Hopefully it does not happen for this tournament, I've already sent an email to them telling them to publicise it properly in TL, Reddit etc and offering help with the rules and format but they've ignored it.

I hope you guys don't end up playing unseeded best of one matches.

Good effort man, it's sad that they can't even be bothered posting it on a few websites and actually making their event worth the time and money used to host it. Another great example of why e-sports is built on the backs of passionate volunteers who run events. A shame they couldn't just make a post on a forum to find some of these volunteers...