[Baldie]

I've read through all your responses so far - thanks to those who have contributed and please continue to contribute. I have picked out a few responses I want to answer.

Originally Posted by ToRPox

My only complaint is the open bracket seeding - I'm not sure how it was done, but Blysk and Fighto got screwed over pretty hard. It's obviously a subjective issue but I think anyone who knows anything about our competitive scene would agree the brackets were very lopsided.

To clarify the seeding of the open bracket it was done through ACL yearly points. Anybody with 0 ACL yearly points were seeded randomly among other 0 point earners. From there the two brackets were split effectively into an odd group and an even group aka 1st seed into group A, 2nd seed into group B, 3rd seed into group A, 4th seed into group B etc. It's just an unfortunate turn of events which meant that a lot of the big names ended up being on the same side of a bracket. I cringed when I saw the brackets but there's nothing I can do without being subjective.

Originally Posted by Metalcore

To much dubstep. There are other genres you know. I know GSL has always blown me away with their playlists.

This is purely a music rights issue. GSL pay royalties for many of their songs and song rights are not cheap. As we are representing brands we don't want to do anything illegal or potentially damaging to a sponsor's image. I do acknowledge more time could be spent into sourcing a variety of royalty free genres and I'll try rectify this moving forward.

Originally Posted by Drinksarlot

possibly the best solution I can think of is to have a community B stream run from home that broadcasts other games - similar to what dreamhack does.

I reached out to the community in the ACL Sydney thread asking if anybody wanted to community cast to contact me and I had no responses. With everything I'm doing in preparation for an event of this scale, I don't have the time to chase something like this. The community needs to take initiative. And don't wait for me to reach out to the community before you ask me anything. If you have an idea tell me, ask me to do something even demand it - I won't bite your head off. The worst I will do is tell you I can't do it and I'll try to guide you in the right direction.

Originally Posted by Blysk

The referee staring at me while playing doesnt help stage fright, change positions of on-stage player seating.

The reason the stage admin was in the position he was in was to ensure there was no cheating given the location of the stage and the projector screen. Only the person on the left of stage had any possibility of looking up at the mini map so that's why the admin was there the whole time. Usually an admin will stand to the side. So while I apologise you (and perhaps others) had this experience my hands were tied.

Originally Posted by fray`ChadMann

Another thing I'll say, and this is feedback to the players I've always noticed there is heaps of ******* around at ACL. Play your games, get off the PCs and report results straight away. If you are waiting for PCs to play, get your opponent ready and hang around the admin area, as soon as someone reports result, ask admins to take their PCs and play your games!

This 1000000%. My admin team and I will always do what we can to reduce the amount of things players have to do but as anybody at the event would have seen we don't exactly sit on a seat all day sipping a latte and watching the stream. At the end of the day the more we all work together the faster things move and ultimately the more my tournament admin will be in control which in turn frees me up to be able to make more of an impact on things like stream downtime.