[syfChadMann]

Originally Posted by NXZ

I don't believe it was from the beginning, only after they decided to add MMA over sen. I can understand them adding MMA over sen because technically mvp could take the blizzcon spot, leaving a gsl ranking spot open for mma. Which means the only way they figure this is that nestea takes blizzcon spot. MVP takes the wcg spott and polt/mma take the two leftover GSL spots. Obviously, this isn't that fair for sen and xigua but if they took this standpoint then if polt and mma weren't included it wouldn't be fair to them. Ideally they would have had mma vs sen and polt vs xigua to determine the seed.

The way they went about it, by saying that polt was the wcg seed and mma is the blizzcon seed is stupid though.

That is just my opinion on the topic

yeah fair opinion.. but the cup was for the first place finishes for selected events... Mvp qualified for his BlizzCon finish. Then the next top three GSL points finishers were invited (NesTea, MC and MMA)...

The only player that came close to qualifying that didn't - might have been xigua, but they stated that if someone doubled up on qualifying they would invited the next GSL ranked player... which means Polt got preference over xigua. And imo the best players in the world were invited.

[SLCN.NXZ]

Originally Posted by ChadMann

yeah fair opinion.. but the cup was for the first place finishes for selected events... Mvp qualified for his BlizzCon finish. Then the next top three GSL points finishers were invited (NesTea, MC and MMA)...

The only player that came close to qualifying that didn't - might have been xigua, but they stated that if someone doubled up on qualifying they would invited the next GSL ranked player... which means Polt got preference over xigua. And imo the best players in the world were invited.

Even then, who's to say sen isn't better than polt or likewise for xigua. Obviously they're less proven but Hapyro (even more unproven) beat nestea at MLG. I just think that the way they went about it was more for the benefits of the GSL, rewarding players for doing well there instead of the tournament that the seed is for. I would've been perfectly fine if they assumed MVP wins WCG, Nestea takes blizzcon and then Polt and MMA get the two GSL ranking spots (albeit it being slightly unfair) but afaik they just added the next two GSL ranking points regardless which I think is unfair. Although maybe it would be because maybe someone MVP eliminated in the ro8 or ro4 would've beaten xigua and got a spot, so perhaps this is the fairest way to go about it.

They still could've done it my way though and I think there would be a lot less controversy.

@PiG I actually like Polt for one reason. I remember way back in season 1 when he played MC in ro64. Tastosis were hyping MC, highest ladder points, first to 2000 points, coach pointed him out. Then I remember the mealopolis game where he just perma denies MC's 3rd with marauder drops and attacking the third at the same time. Killed like the 3rd 2 times, the main once and the nat once too. I really enjoyed that, destorying MC with better multitask. Apart from that though he's just another good terran.