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Originally Posted by iM tgun

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  I feel like I've covered this in the other parts of this post. However I'm going to go on a small personal rant. I love that ACL runs events constantly and is essentially one of the VERY few things keeping Australian SC2 alive. However, you can't go out and complain about not getting enough volunteers to set up when your venue is in such an awkward position for so many. For example:
  For me - 1h30min to arrive by public transport. ~50min to drive.
  For PiG - ~1h (rough guess) to arrive by public transport. At least.
  For Iaguz - probably longer than these.
  For Ninja - he stayed with PiG because his house is even further away than mine.
  A lot more people traveled interstate and thus would have likely not even been there in-time to set-up. If the venue was in a more central place (say, closer to a train station) I'm sure there would be more volunteers.

This is another good point. Back when Azz was on ETL, he made groups at ACL Brisbane. This was his score in group by the end of Day 1.

2-0 Jambi
2-1 Light
1-2 ShOckWavE

He still had to play Ninja and mOOnGLaDe to see who would advance. Advancing was unlikely for him, but still possible. However, it was like a 40-60 min drive each way for him so, coupled with a leg injury, Azz decided it wasn't even worth it to go on Day 2 (too far out of the way), thus forfeiting to Ninja and mOOnGLaDe. That's pretty shitty and disappointing and while I think that's more of an Azz problem than an ACL problem, it's worth noting.

My teammate Crumize (who doesn't play SC2 anymore but that's beside the point) who lives in Melbourne attended the ACL there. It took him two hours by train to get to the venue. So just for one day, going there and back, that's four hours.

Crumize was one Bo3 away from groups, having to play Malice, but before the games Crumize let me know that even if he qualified for groups he wasn't going to show up tomorrow. Being his teammate, I asked him why, and he said that he's not going to take another four hours of his life traveling just for a few games of StarCraft on Day 2. That's...fair enough, honestly. I was disappointed but I couldn't really fault him. Although he lost 2-1 to Malice so it ended up not being an issue, lol. Lots of other people, even some Melbourne natives, noted the odd location for the venue.

Quick Comments

	SLCN.Kez:	In brisbane the venue was in the city, what you want them to do, host it at his house?
	RuineD:	shameless etl plug