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The main reason why i cramped it over 2 weeks instead of 4 was so we didnt compete with GSL who run at that exact time slot as us (5pmSGT/6pm KST) when their new season starts again. I feel we will lose up to 90% of our viewers if we compete directly with them. Any suggestions to work around this will be great.

Logistics wise, with a longer tournament it also means that
-Casters/Admins will have double duties, havent gone into detail but there might be manpower issues.
-Based on the above format players have to keep 5 days free as opposed to one for the group stage and everyone in their group has to keep those same 5 days free as well which is a logistics nightmare.

I like the feedback so far but i think it can be refined further so heres what i have to add:
1) i think we can make the tourney longer by a week at most, stretching the tournament over 3 weeks instead of 4 so it ends before next seasons ro16 GSL.
2) we can come up with a better match/day format than above that requries players in the group stage to just keep 2 days free instead of 5.
Perhaps Day1-2 will be group 1 games, day 3-4 group 2 games etc. So the group stage + up/down matches will be streched over the first 2 weeks instead of 1 week.

Yea i myself know that it will be super awesome to have a longer tournament for sponsors, more games, fairer results etc just that the format was made based on the circumstances and logistical issues we had to deal with. If you guys have any ideas how to work around them it will be great, and i will do my best to incoporate them.
Great feedback so far, thanks phoenix for leading that longer tourney format suggestion.

Also guys continue with the predictions, that was the purpose of this thead !
Hmm, i probably should move the format suggestions to the existing feedback thread we have.