[Dox]

Sorry for not letting you know I posted that here, I'd just gotten home from Sydney, typed that up and went straight to bed for nearly 24 hours, heh. I think there's a much better way to present your opinion though. A public battle.net broadcast full of swearing isn't really the most delicate way to go about it.

Just with regards to advertising, the marketing guys didn't even know Team Liquid existed. They'd never played/seen StarCraft 2 before, so this was a big learning experience for them. tgun had TL open on his screen and was showing them what it is and explaining how important it was to advertise there. Nick replied with, "Cool, now we know for next time. "

It's not like they knew where to advertise but chose not to. They actually had no idea!

In the history of all Australian events in the last 12 years, I've never seen a single one where someone was employed to provide live coverage of an event. Nearly every SC/WC3/CS/UT event I can think of incorporated me manually updating a forum or a bracket somewhere with results. In most cases from my phone, since many venues didn't have any internet access (WCG, for example). The point I'm making is I really wouldn't expect it from them again next time, but nonetheless I'll be there to provide coverage anyway.

And finally in response to not knowing about Ace coming, they'd announced from day 1 that the grand finals would consist of "international masters from Korea!" or something like that. I'm sure if anyone asked specifically who that was, they'd have told us. I really don't see the big deal about Ace not having to qualify via some predefined structure. Sure, it's nice to have things done fairly and properly, etc. But really, for an event like this, it built a lot of type and it made a lot of people happy. I see no reason to be so rigid with things this early on. If BoxeR, MorroW and SeleCT get free seeds to the next event, I still don't think people will mind.