Enkindu
I'll fuck em up
This tournament was amazing. I am so thankful I was able to attend. MLG knows how to run tournaments and I have zero complaints in my experience. Esom had gotten DQ'd one game in my match for being 15 mins late to our match, but the ref gave me the choice of letting it slide, so I did.
One suggestion I'd make would be to have back to back stations to eliminate sitting side by side allowing players to listen to joystick users inputs. I've been so far out of the tournament scene with playing at home, that I had forgotten how easy it was to listen to someones inputs and be ready to react. When I was playing Kayane and Keev for example (since they both use joysticks), it was so easy to tell when they were about to attack that it felt like an unfair advantage. MLG has plenty of resources to make this happen and they already do this with SC2 so it should be something easy for them to set up.
Another suggestion I'd make is for the spectator area's speakers to be sync'd up with the tournament area so that people watching the matches happening on the stage would hear their matches being called. That seemed to be a problem with people being late in reporting for their match.
One suggestion I'd make would be to have back to back stations to eliminate sitting side by side allowing players to listen to joystick users inputs. I've been so far out of the tournament scene with playing at home, that I had forgotten how easy it was to listen to someones inputs and be ready to react. When I was playing Kayane and Keev for example (since they both use joysticks), it was so easy to tell when they were about to attack that it felt like an unfair advantage. MLG has plenty of resources to make this happen and they already do this with SC2 so it should be something easy for them to set up.
Another suggestion I'd make is for the spectator area's speakers to be sync'd up with the tournament area so that people watching the matches happening on the stage would hear their matches being called. That seemed to be a problem with people being late in reporting for their match.