It sucks that Kayane and Keev were in same bracket. You know what though it was random and quite frankly still ultimately fair to all other contestants including those two. Seeding is nothing more than a preference. Start complaining about this if their was legitimate official rankings that weren't followed or something.
Regional seeding would have been cool. And most TO's would have thought about it first thing when they didn't have an official seeding process to go through. I don't see what the problem is with bringing this to MLG's attention. If you can't seed in a way based on results - do it by region. It's useful advice, and I don't really see it as complaining.
The one thing I will give you is stage select which creates all sorts of unfair shit. But to blow it up as if this one hitch makes the MLG tournament sound as bas as you guys are making it sound when it wasn't then yes your voice on the matter should be void.
But you are listening to a podcast that's interviewing the guy who did get screwed over by these rules, and then when the judge realized he'd made a mistake, he didn't allow for a rerun of the match. Which sucks, but was done, I'm assuming, to keep on schedule. Sure it may sound like a bigger deal than it is is being made out of it, but I mean, what else is he going to think?
To be quite honest the only argument anyone should have if you weren't there to support the actual event is to complain about the stream problems which people also forget to realize that MLG is professional. They have serious sponsors with large pots, etc. It's not a backwoods run event. Things are different.
Yes, I realize that MLG has sponsors, but they should be running ads and playing matches based around how quickly FGs run. Instead, they cut matches into blocks and scheduled them somewhat like their RTS and FPS matches. The blocks of time they ran ads in were really similar - or at least that's how I felt. Hopefully next time they will realize that FGs do not take nearly as long to set up and get going. Playing ads is fine - the dead space on the first day wasn't really.
To be blunt this community always complains about something and quite often its about the smallest things. Be fucking happy that your game is being picked up by MLG, SBO, etc. Stop complaining about things that don't require the level of complaining you like to dish out.
To be fair, you've accused me of complaining about things I wasn't complaining about before. I can remember in SCIV when you wanted to "resurrect" the community. I offered to help but told you that your plan was short sighted and I wanted to see if there was anything more. You pretty much told me that I was a hater and was hating on you because I am friends with Lobo (Which you only gathered because we lived in the same state at the time).
I said then, and I say now: I'm not hating. Just calling issues to attention. Because while it's awesome SCV is getting attention the way it is, if they don't run the stream well, that attention can be wasted.
These are my feelings about general complaints too.
Which is why I only was kinda sad about seeding/tourney rule problems and the stream.
It's great SCV is getting the attention, but I do think problems can be brought up if for no other reason than to say, "Hey this'll make it batter." The hate on MLG isn't really fair, but I mean, Esom did get screwed by the rules here, so of course he's salty.
