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[Afuldan McKronik]

http://goboiano.com/...race-to-esports

Please, for the love of Mechs, don't let anything like this happen to the MWOWC Finals. Physically have a server on site with wired ethernet connections for every computer. Boot up everything in advance and troubleshoot it all. Have everything ready in advance of the Finals.

You must present the best face of MWO to the world at the Finals, or you will be shunned by the eSport community. Please don't do what they did in any shape, way, or form. Please.

[Lyoto Machida]

Wow...there were some minor issues at the launch tourney in San Francisco but nothing on this scale. Makes PGI look like pros in comparison.

[Monkey Lover]

Anyone really going to watch the finals anyway? Just going to be few teams running around in circles shooting er lasers at each other's with some airstrikes mixed in. I'm having a lot more fun watching the normal teams play.

Edited by Monkey Lover, 25 June 2016 - 10:52 AM.

[Ted Wayz]

Afuldan McKronik, on 25 June 2016 - 09:43 AM, said:

http://goboiano.com/...race-to-esports

Please, for the love of Mechs, don't let anything like this happen to the MWOWC Finals. Physically have a server on site with wired ethernet connections for every computer. Boot up everything in advance and troubleshoot it all. Have everything ready in advance of the Finals.

You must present the best face of MWO to the world at the Finals, or you will be shunned by the eSport community. Please don't do what they did in any shape, way, or form. Please.

The e-sports community doesn't know we exist. Can you be embarrassed in an empty room?

[Tarogato]

Ted Wayz, on 25 June 2016 - 11:12 AM, said:

The e-sports community doesn't know we exist. Can you be embarrassed in an empty room?

It would be like playing crazy walls on Minecraft and you expect to go kill the guy in the box next to you only to realise he somehow killed himself. =P

[TLBFestus]

From the start, the tournament is a joke.

Just look at how they organized it, the rules, the number of players allowed per team for an extended period, etc. Poorly planned and poorly executed. In the end they are simply turning the cash over to a couple of heavily favored teams who had good attendance.

If it wasn't for the fact that most of the prize money, from what I understand, isn't PGI's I'd be grousing about what a waste of cash it was too.

The "live" event still has a chance to be an anti-climatic clusterbuck of enormous proportions. Notice, I said "chance". I think it will probably go off and make about as big an impact as a fart in a hurricane when it comes to climbing the much coverted "eSport" hill.

[C E Dwyer]

E-comp *shrugs* means nothing except to those that take part.

I'm surprised that there are even sponsored teams, when from this you can clearly charge people $10 a head to take part

[Scout Derek]

Afuldan,


PGI, when doing the closed beta tourney in San Francisco, had wired connections and was on time.

I would assume they will do the same for this tourney.

[Prof RJ Gumby]

Woah there, Afuldan, you mixed up the narrative.
The proper narrative is: "PGI bad, <insert name here> good".
You can't highlight here that other companies also screw thing up more or less often, people could get confused.

[Alex Morgaine]

Procurator Derek, on 25 June 2016 - 01:31 PM, said:

Afuldan,


PGI, when doing the closed beta tourney in San Francisco, had wired connections and was on time.

I would assume they will do the same for this tourney.

Tbf from what i remember it was the gameplay that lacked, not the actual tourney setup so hopefully it is better in the gameplay category this time.
Lots of poptarting iirc and poor tools for spectating

[PhoenixFire55]

What I love the most about these topics is all the people claiming that they don't give a damn about the tournament and how it is a big joke and yadda yadda. And yet they are posting in every single thread about it. Such sad individuals.

@OP
PGI has no competition whatsoever so no matter what they do it won't change anything. Plus, their reputation can hardly be worse that it already is. That said, the article was quite amusing.

[Afuldan McKronik]

Procurator Derek, on 25 June 2016 - 01:31 PM, said:

Afuldan,


PGI, when doing the closed beta tourney in San Francisco, had wired connections and was on time.

I would assume they will do the same for this tourney.

Ok. Just would be very "egg-on-face" if it went anything like the fiasco in the article.

Prof RJ Gumby, on 25 June 2016 - 01:41 PM, said:

Woah there, Afuldan, you mixed up the narrative.
The proper narrative is: &quot;PGI bad, &lt;insert name here&gt; good&quot;.
You can't highlight here that other companies also screw thing up more or less often, people could get confused.

Eh, PGI just needs to make certain the Tourney doesn't fall flat, and this was something I could see happening without a lot of forethought.

I am taking a bit of a break, seeing as how I was just getting frustrated with the game and snapping at teammates over things that happen in group Q. Just seen the article and thought, "Wow, hopefully this doesn't happen for MWOWC."

[El Bandito]

I do hope the finals are worth watching. It was verrrry boring to watch comp teams during laser meta, unless the map was smallish. LoL finals are way exciting in comparison.

[Mazzyplz]

Frosty Brand, on 25 June 2016 - 03:26 PM, said:

Tbf from what i remember it was the gameplay that lacked, not the actual tourney setup so hopefully it is better in the gameplay category this time.
Lots of poptarting iirc and poor tools for spectating

also commentator that didn't know the first thing about the tools for spectating, or mwo... or which team was which... or any sort of tactics in general

by the end it was better but that was a rough start

Edited by Mazzyplz, 25 June 2016 - 07:18 PM.

[Scout Derek]

Mazzyplz, on 25 June 2016 - 07:17 PM, said:

also commentator that didn't know the first thing about the tools for spectating, or mwo... or which team was which... or any sort of tactics in general

by the end it was better but that was a rough start

You mean Sean Lang.

He was a newbie at it. lol.

[Xetelian]

Some very sad @#$% going down over there.

Why would they continue a tournament that had already become a disaster? When you're running hours behind and have an unbalanced playing situation you shouldn't hold everyone hostage and force losses on people.


Everyone can learn from this, not just MWO.

[Mycrus]

Afuldan McKronik, on 25 June 2016 - 09:43 AM, said:

http://goboiano.com/...race-to-esports

Please, for the love of Mechs, don't let anything like this happen to the MWOWC Finals. Physically have a server on site with wired ethernet connections for every computer. Boot up everything in advance and troubleshoot it all. Have everything ready in advance of the Finals.

You must present the best face of MWO to the world at the Finals, or you will be shunned by the eSport community. Please don't do what they did in any shape, way, or form. Please.

Well its the behind the scenes for mwhoa cup that are more interesting... im hearing massive team dropouts and outright 'no show' trolling...

[CtrlAltWheee]

Big credit to Bandit and MDM for everything they've done. Those guys are passionate.

If anyone from PGI reads this, can someone please fix the red text on the spectator view. I can't read any of that.

Also, I think it would be a huge boon if the tournament was kept front page on the mwo website so people know when the matches are and make it convenient to find vods. Some of the matches have been great and are worthy of spotlighting.

[BabyCakes666]

hope it gos well

[STEF_]

Actually I hope the biggest skillz tourn will be a utterly failure....because mechwarrior is not e-sport whatsoever, in any form.
It's only because of wretched game vision of pgi ceo mwo is doing this 6 month long event.... that is killing mechwarrior soul, killing playerbase, killing solo and group que (because a lot of good players are involved and uber busy in skrimm and comp drops).

I really hope esport will die for mwo.