[NvRossi]

Awesome event, everything seemed a bit more streamlined and i really enjoyed myself even though i played a ridiculous amount of sc2 on day 1. That was actually very enjoyable for myself.

Some feedback off the top of my head

Internet issues: Day 1 the internet on stage was ridiculously bad and my ping was over 300 to the sea server resulting in some rather questionable games. I'm not sure if this was due to the fact that everybody was playing at the same time and that was using a lot of bandwidth or the networking setup was simply not optimized yet for sc2. The first games i played were on stage and i was told this was using venue internet and was sectioned off to the stream team and stage computers whilst other sections were sharing 4g internet. From my experience the venue internet in those first few games were horrible!

After I'd lost and moved to the section next to the pc's where brackets were being updated i found the ping much more reasonable even though there were consistent drops(as i understand we were now on the 4g network) and proceeded to enjoy the event much more thoroughly.
Day 2 the internet on stage did seem significantly better as the spikes/drops of the previous day had dissipated.

Pro area:
I'm not 100% sure on the goals of the pro area but if you want players to stay in there you may need to provide them more reasons to do so. I mostly noticed it was more a place to chill briefly or to grab some lollies/snacks/drinks. Majority of it was great, I'd just recommend maybe setting up a stream or two in there in case players want to chill and watch in private.

Cleaning up & Afterparty:

I noticed this year there was less of an effort for us to help clean up the event although i don't think it was entirely our fault. The cleanup looked pretty chaotic and there was no direction for us to help in any way besides helping cleanup some chairs. I'm sure some people would have been happy to help if given some direction.

Regarding the after-party it's a great idea and it was nice to see some people there after the event that i had not talked to during. However it also did seem a bit unplanned. There were drinks setup and they were reasonably priced, however there was limited seating and no food in sight. A group of us did leave around 8 as dinner was a priority and its also a sc2 tradition to attend KBBQ after events.

other feedback:

1. Remind players to bring in ear headphones as they will need to use them on stage
2. PC's went great for the entire weekend and i saw or experienced no complains of PC lag
3. Loved the fact that map and veto system was printed out, made everybody's life easier and would even recommend increasing the amount of paper printed and adding check boxes next to the maps in order to increase their use throughout the event as well as remembering choices.
4. Projector was sick
5. tiny issue, stream team weren't using team flairs on the gameheart custom map if one player had a team and the other did not, not sure why.
6. Some sort of provision of food for open bracket players who had to fight through the losers bracket. (i played 11 series in the open bracket and was happy to keep playing and not take a break in order to delay the bracket, but it would been nice if some subway or something was possible without me asking some1 to go get it for me) The only meal i got apart from some packets of pizza shapes was some pizza that TAcosmic picked up for me and i ate that during my 10th series with NXZ. I then proceeded to finished the open bracket and then played 2 more series in the groups.(which i was happy to do, just trying to provide a timeline)
7. Replays, were these collected at all?


Thats all i can think of right now, hope it helps and look forward to the next one. Great job by vanzr, baldie, stream team, norksman, JB and the entire crew.

edit: also i forgot a little black 4gb call of duty usb at the event and wouldn't mind getting it back if anybody found it.

Quick Comments

Baldie:

Thanks for taking the time to write out your thoughts! I'll see if I can find that USB!