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Originally Posted by frequency

Edit: That was me in Dox's picture, as if you couldn't tell. I'm perfectly fine with having my opinions public.

Dox, you can always just message me on MSN or Twitter to talk about it, or at least let me know you did all that.

You're mistaking my overly critical abuse as something bad (well, it kinda is), but it's just the way I am - especially after being a fan of the scene for such a long time and seeing every tournament manage to **** itself up in more ways than could be detailed in the kama sutra.

My criticism isn't saying that I don't want this tournament to take place - quite the opposite, I care very, very ******* passionately about esports and I want to make sure that when there's real significant money (twenty ******* thousand dollars) that it gets used in the most efficient and best way possible (read: not what MLG did). All of your points are valid and are the exact things I think the organisers should've investigated BEFORE the tournament.

@Length: At least now they're 100000% aware that they have to do this over two or three days, because one day for a super giant tournament is really, really bad.

@The invite system: Again, at least now they know what's wrong with it and how to fix it for next time. The pictures look pretty good and I'm sure the stuff you said will happen (TV showing games etc)

@Coverage: This is my really huge gripe - you weren't employed by NRG to do coverage for them, nor was there ANYONE doing actual coverage (y'know, like, posting results in real time on an NRG-related site), so you went beyond what you had to do and I'm sure everyone is thankful. My problem, once again, is that YOU did it - not someone that was being paid to actually run the tournament.

@Advertising: Not even an official thread on TL, this is really, really bad. Even the ******* prize distribution wasn't known. The 'oh well, it's their first time' argument for this point is by no means valid.

@Money going to KR: I'd have been fine with this if they had made it known that Ace was coming to the tournament more than a week away from it. Because of the poor qualification system lots of people had to spend a fair bit of money to go to a tournament that they had a realistic shot to win - and then the IEM World Champion rocks up with an invite. That isn't fair (and for what it's worth, I have the exact same feelings towards IEM for their retarded Korean selection process for IEM world finals, but I digress...)


A huge problem I see in the scene at the moment is the huge influx of 'new' people to esports that haven't seen leagues crumble because organisers think that throwing money at a problem will fix it. They therefore see that the NASL/IGN/whoever is throwing a few hundred thousand into the pool and automatically exclaim that this is 'a good thing for esports'. If the money goes to waste, then it won't be. Judging by the feedback I've gotten from everyone post-event, the people running it did a super great job, hell, even better than MLG (although, that isn't saying much).

I tried to have a long chat with Unstable about my thoughts but he shrugged me off with a "deL and I talked about this for an hour at the event", basically my train of thought is totally baller and even deL agrees. But my basic idea is that the people running the NRG stuff are open to suggestion, and aren't going to be incredibly stubborn in how they run things, so we're able to see them as a blank canvas that will turn into something beautiful instead of something big that is trying to branch out and do a horrible job at it (MLG lololoolol).

Anyway, back to my original thoughts: I'm really looking forward to seeing how well they rectify the problems of this one, and I'm sure they'll listen to the people that they have to. Also I agree with deL 100% on the prize distribution being less top-heavy, especially since they had a long qualification process. I probably should've gone to this one if someone (cough Darren cough) had said he was going, but alas, such is life. I guess I want to go to the next one, let's hope all goes well. I sure hope this is legible, since I just wrote it at 3am, oh well!

You're an idiot.