We work with what we have to work with, at the end of the day it is another nice cash prize tournament for the Australian StarCraft 2 tournament - of which takes alot of hard work to organise, prep, plan, and convince a lovely company to commit to.
With the complete lack of organisation and the short notice you aren't going to get the top of the SC2 community. You're going to get the few people who live close enough, or who are lucky enough to be able to make it. A prize pool that big, shouldn't be given out to any random joe who can actually make it in the 10 days notice that was given.
Kudos to the prize pool and the idea, but the execution was abysmal.
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