[ToR.Arnor]

Awesome event ^_^

look forward to the next round of regionals ^_^

[iM yang]

Awesome, awesome event! Was amazing to finally meet everybody, looking forward to the cuddles I shalt receive next time ^^

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	Asrathiel:	^_^
	TASlowHands:	When we were in the car. That wasnt my elbow...

[PiG]

OMFG I just wrote a page long post and accidentally deleted it. fml

I'll summarise:

*Great tournament, shame I lost cos of tiredness (and a bit of framelag). But some of my wins were surely cos opponent was tired so I can't say it skewed the tournament results too far.
*Big thanks to everyone who helped host and organise the event: Dox, Norksman, Maynarde, Doble, Team managers and players, Vanz, Parker and co., Supporters like Asrath n Drgoose who stayed for finals, TAboys +jimdiddy gettin drunk during the semis and finals was hilarious.
*Even fraglabs bearded support guy was very nice and helpful. Not his fault the laptops were having really bad framerates.
*the Asus pcs had alot of troubles, shame they spent more time maintaining the display pcs then providing any fixes for these ones.

Thanks to yang for sick music. Targa for being cocky enough to motivate SEA players to play better. Glade for showing when he has to dig deep, he can do it.

Ninja for 4-1 his group when no1 thought he was a favourite for even 2nd place. And then after slipping up vs glade to lose 2-1 despite having a clear lead he demolished the lower bracket only to lose to Targa at 1.30am looking extremely exhausted and clearly not playing anything near his standard game. 4th place = no money, and always forgotten. But I have no doubt Ninja would have come top 2 if it the tournament finished earlier in the day when he had energy to keep competing. Bl to SQLNinja baller breakout performance of the tournament.

Vanz etc will surely improve this event next time.

My suggestions:

1) Norksman needs an underling to catch people laddering and wasting time and hurry them up.
2) Teammates forced to play first in group play when possible to avoid thrown matches, this wasn't an issue in this tournament but could be in future.
3) SC2 viewing area like on the 2nd day, set up on the first day, with volume just high enough so the audience can hear it. Makes live spetating experience much nicer.
4) Terrans and protoss train harder and make it out of groups you bastards.

Quick Comments

	Stallion:	lol or fly some nz protoss over ;)
	Asrathiel:	Couldn't see you and Dot to say bye when we left!♥
	TCPLemminks:	Underling with cattle prod
	JoFritzMD:	ninja so good <3

[Sats]

Awesome event!

Was only able to stay for about 3-4hours but thoroughly enjoyed it (and the stream once I got home was good)

Congrats on a great event and of course to Glade for taking it out!

Will definitely try to catch more of the next event.

[xGKingdelete]

Not sure if anyone else has said it, but awesome event!

The organisers and hosts (who PiG has named) did a great job, especially Dox and Norksman. Seriously, all us players have to do is play games, they do all the hard work!

Is there a playlist of the songs that were playing throughout?


Also, sorry iaguz for letting you down

Sorry to Pinder as well. I knew who you were, it was just confusing because everyone was facing the other way ><

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	ROOT`iaguz:	haha it's alright buddy
	nGenLight:	You are really cute, it's also good to see another Protoss on the scene, keep up the strong plays, me and Pinder always here to discuss strategy
	TAriiChard:

[TASlowHands]

Still in sydney, losing at the laggest net cafe in NSW and nursing a hangover T_T


This event was absolutely amazing, seeing everyone from online, new and old was ******* awesome. Once you go to one of thse events you wanna go to them all, and I didnt even play (showed up late hungover and depressed), but really meeting everyone and speccing games was way worth it.

Finally got to meet my fellow tier 4 rapist Divinity

Shoutout to Ninja, who was an absolute beast all weekend, and taking a game off a previously confident Targa

Special shoutout to Chad for looking after us all and moving us along when we caused a 'disturbance'

Pig, wish you could have drank with us and a shame the event ran so long, but I think everyone did a great job considering how long it went

Not bloody bad.

Quick Comments

	Asrathiel:	Which one were you? I need to connect names and faces :P
	ROOT`iaguz:	he is the british who is not Fenner.

[Fenner]

Awesome event, glad I came the 2nd day too even though I got knocked out. Was good fun meeting everyone - EVERYONE who came along was extremely friendly and up for a laugh, SEA community is great.

Congratz to Glade~~~~!

[EveTechtron]

Adding to this thread, I think something that is important is not delaying the bracket in order to stream games and showing high piriortity games for example "Streaming Light vs Glade" in the group stage which was amazing series

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NOM:

[dippa]

sick sickkkkkkkkkk event

first day's delays was something like the moonstar's guide to tournament management (me + chadmann's set got delayed 4 times for other games to be streamed and then a 5th time so they could get pinder to cast it) but it's all cool since we had an awesome time

just like to give a shoutout to [TA]LoSt for being such a massive vagina by asking us to peg stuff at his nuts and then dodging every time we got close

hopefully there'll be lots of replays from the event also! if not, doesn't matter, we all had a ball and everyone, you're all awesome

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	NOM:	reeeplllaaays <3
	[TA]LoSt:	Don't be jealous of my matrix skills

[NOM]

It was such an amazing event shame I was only watching the stream. stream was amazing quality, having the participants cast on occasions was fantastic, never thought some players especially tgun and deth would pull it off so well.

i think the breaks in between streamed matches should have something like a list of players that are currently playing matches off stream, or a quick preview on the brackets. Only having the acl logo and the cam on the spectators stage was a bit boring at times. Was improved on Sunday though as there was more footage of what was actually happening in the SC2 part of ACL.

The awkwardly cute interviews were great, but there should of been a bigger variety of interviews, :P too many people got interviewed more than twice and livi and cheeky duck run out of things to say.i suggest interviews for after matches only. maybe a few quick words before they play.
Didn't really like the interviews done on the CoD players on Sunday though, they really didn't say much and it was pretty awkward (not in a funny/ cute kind of way)

Congrats to Nv.Mopglade, Shame i wasn't awake enough to watch 4 hours of zvz (not my cup of tea)
also a clap for Targa and PiG. Techtron, Iagus, & Yang for some of the amazing games I watched on teh streams. and a for deth, and all the acl staff.

edit: extra for infeza's korean casting.
FIIRST BLOOD!

[crAzerk]

Only caught snippets of it here and there (i.e. yoon v jazbaz), but I really loved the whole showing-players'-reactions-after game : Those who were watching should recall jazbas' expression of jubilation - a look of disbelief his face with his hands behind his head, a broad smile uncontrollably spreading across his face - after he beat yoon in the final game.

Never knew deL had such a sexy voice too lol!

EDIT: Thanks guys fixed the silly error

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	ROOT`iaguz:	I didn'
	nGenLight:	except he never played iaguz
	iMSystem:	I don't think he played iaguz

[Cordance]

Lots of people have said awesome event but I would go so far as to say Epic. Clocking in at almost 30 hours of streaming out of the weekends 42 a mammoth effort.
Advise for next time, give people times till next game as accurately as possible on the stream. I noticed the stream would always slowly decay on breaks between sets with no known time they didnt know when to come back. I know this is hard but it will help keep a lot more viewers for the majority of the stream rather than watch one set then go somewhere else. Side note the second day when you had the names of people seemed to hold more people.
Advise for sponsors have a nice quick link to the featured product of advertisement on your front page well the event is running. Example Fraglabs having quick link to ACL laptops build somewhere in the laptop section or sponsored events section so we can see this and maybe impulse buy it. I checked out a few of their websites and it was somewhat of a challenge to work out what the featured product of advertisement was at ACL. Also on this note to the casters try to limit speaking of non sponsor things. There wasnt much but there was a little.

All in all a great event can not speak highly enough of the work people have done to achieve this. Not just those mentioned as directly working on ACL but all of the SEA community supporters. It really is a testament to how awesome the gaming community is in Australia and SEA. Remember if you buy a product sponsoring ACL let them know you noticed the advertisement from ACL. It helps make numbers add up and turn numbers into faces.

[ROOT`iaguz]

**** hit enter before I finished.


I didn't play Jazbas, yoon did.

[iMSystem]

My only complaint is that I was not there!

Great show ladies, whens the next one

[Dox]

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I'll be replying to all the posts on this page when I wake up in a few hours.

[nGenLight]

Staff were friendly, hardworking (working around the clock). There should be name tags next time so it will be easier to show our appreciation for the staff, and for the players/staff to communicate more efficiently. We know who Dox and Vance are, but there were a few familiar faces whom I don't even know the names of, that were putting in a mighty effort the entire time.

Production was absolutely FAN-TAS-TIC. Maynarde & Co putting a terrific and lengthy effort definitely deserves props.

Organisation/scheduling was abit flimsy - I am slightly abit more critical about this as I happen to be the biggest victim of such(Tied first-place in group, no time for tiebreaker). But I do understand it was caused by unexpected events. However, ofcourse these things can be prevented in the future.

Dissappointed in my own play but the more experienced(I refuse to say better to keep the drama flowing) players got the better of me in some really crazy series. Also a little dissappointed for myself personally that I didn't get to play in any streamed games, or do any pre/post game interviews.

Was great to see everyone and meet a few new faces.

In terms of competition, MG still the man to beat, Ninja solidifying his place as most improved of 2012 so far and one of the few names capable of taking away MG's throne. Good to see Delete coming from the open bracket to rep Protoss, saw some great games with him vsing Pokerface - Protoss winning a base race against Mutas, WTF LOL? Top 8 Zerg was a little dissappointing, with the Terrans and Protosses barely missing out - definitely need to step it up! Although getting LAN would help, ALOT.

Despite all these great things, Iaguz stays European, rendering the entire event a big dissappointment.

[Reere]

IMO the production was really international standards GG WP~!

I had Dreamhack, MLG, and ACL streams open over the weekend, but I found myself spending more time and enjoying ACL the most. Perhaps its the abundance of the swarm but nevertheless, great job to all players + casters + crew.

Hats off to you all~

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ACL VaNzR:

Thats awesome!

[TAScarecrow]

Great quality stream, player reactions, roaming camera and casting. Just wanted to echo the others that the downtime would be alot easier to manage if you could put up an approximate time for the next game. The only other issue was the lack of results coverage of games not on stream. Dox did a decent job of updating individual results in the OP. However, he had so much on his plate you really needed a dedicated updater as well as up to date group standings so we could see how our mates are doing relative to their groups without having to write it out ourselves (I ended up updating TLPD groups off dox's updates in frustration at how behind it was). It'd also be nice if the casters could mention other results and group standings more often during the casts.

This is all nitpicking though, from watching the stream it was far and away the best sc2 event australia's had to date so kudos to the ACL team and helpers (even with the zzz ro8)

[iMSystem]

Originally Posted by TAScarecrow

It'd also be nice if the casters could mention other results and group standings more often during the casts.

This is easy to do without the casters saying a word, something like what I did during Master's Cup, just have some text that you can update that scrolls of whatever saying updates and information.

The stream this time was such a great improvement than GC and all that remains is the little things, which can be easily fixed in a heartbeat!

[crAzerk]

Lol sorry I meant Yoon of course!! Oops. When I think 'terran' the first player that comes to mind is iaguz hence I typed that =x