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[Bud Crue]

I didn't watch the stream, and there is -of course- nothing posted on the tournament page that I can readily find.

So who won the tournament?

Sorry, maybe I am just not seeing the "congratulations... on winning the 2016 tournament" announcement that one would expect to see on the home page.

[Tristan Winter]

The first rule of the most high skill esport in the world is...

[RestosIII]

Wait, there are people that cared about the "World Championship"? Huh. I just thought of it as completely unnecessary padding, and stopped watching the stream as soon as the PGI presentation ended.

[Johnny Z]

Someone said Mech The Dane won. I don't know who that is.

[Bandilly]

I watched up to the big announcements. At that point 228 was already out of the tourny, losing one set to both EON and EMP, so 3rd place for them.

EON already lost one set to EMP and had to beat them two sets in a row to win. I expect that didn't happen, so I assume EMP won and EON got 2nd.

Edited by Bandilly, 04 December 2016 - 08:15 AM.

[Tarl Cabot]

EMPYREAL beat EON SYNERGY to take the championship. Not even sure if PGI staff are even awake yet It was a very late night.

[Bud Crue]

Tristan Winter, on 04 December 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

The first rule of the most high skill esport in the world is...

...you don't advertise it or use it as a PR tool or milk it in any way to try and draw some attention to your game.

RestosIII, on 04 December 2016 - 08:11 AM, said:

Wait, there are people that cared about the "World Championship"? Huh. I just thought of it as completely unnecessary padding, and stopped watching the stream as soon as the PGI presentation ended.

Care is a bit strong. Just mildly curious.

[Tristan Winter]

Bud Crue, on 04 December 2016 - 08:30 AM, said:

...you don't advertise it or use it as a PR tool or milk it in any way to try and draw some attention to your game.

Remember when our community manager posted those interviews with some of the finalists on the front page? Or when PGI let some of the commentators write up post-match weekly summaries with some highlights from recent matches, just like proper esports?

Ok, that never happened.

The most secret world championship in esports.

[rolly]

It was a lot of Canyon Network. A. LOT. Rinse and repeat Bud. There was some really good Spider piloting by EON in which they completely humiliated a few targets together. It was all Conquest and once or twice someone wiped out the team to lose by points. A lot of Kodiak boating, some pop-tarting, Hunchie boating and LL/PPC sniping. Some of it was painful to watch, a few highlights, but mostly it was a slaughter all the way to the top with Emp just cleanly slaughtering with a few minor upsets or turn arounds.

228 got slaughtered and still got a prize of 14k, Emp got 86k, EON got 43k. Essentially they all made a pretty good killing. No post-pre game interviews. No playbacks, hosts were mostly yammering and looked dead/jetlagged. Map choice was a bit of a joke. Team leads just banned certain maps and no surprises there just a lot of Canyon. It would have been more entertaining for each team to be thrown for an unexpected challenge, new map, or doing it as an actual Trial of Possession.

Everyone spent a lot of nerd hormones oogling at Tina. Which was pretty sad. This was the first time I actually watched espurts. If this is what its suppose to be like, it was pretty meh.

Edited by rolly, 04 December 2016 - 08:47 AM.

[Bud Crue]

Was there any mention of a 2017 Tournament?

[Bandilly]

rolly, on 04 December 2016 - 08:41 AM, said:

A lot of Kodiak boating,

Each team had to use 2 mech from each weight class. There was a little bit of variety in every category except assault, which wasn't referred to as their assaults but rather their Kodiaks.

[rolly]

It wasn't surprising is what I mean. There was very little variety if at all in the decks. Hunchie IIC, popping up and erPPCing, Kodiaks naturally running quad UAC's, Jenners running pulse. It was nice to see the Spiders working in awesome tandem, but nothing really out of the box or surprising.

It would have been more challenging and amusing to watch a practiced and trained team adapt to a totally new map or new variable like a stock mech fight on the new Steiner coliseum or actual Trial of Possession rules where one Team Captain chooses the map the other chooses the method. Now that would truly be tying MWO and Battletech together.

Instead it was rinse and repeat Canyon. Don't get me wrong, its no disrespect to these guys, they were excellent, but the conditions and mechs were expected. That's bland programming. If you're doing a final, as with any event, integrate surprises to wow and keep your audience captivated and think "What will they do next?" Not: "Oh look the Kodiak is doing what it always does, boat UAC and blast away on a Canyon map."

Edited by rolly, 04 December 2016 - 09:42 AM.

[Appogee]

"The Highest Skill Competition in eSports".

And the final skill is finding any mention from the organisers about who won the World Championship.

LOL. PGI are possibly the funniest company this industry has ever seen.

Bravo, I say. Oh, and well done too to EMP. You will each receive a Certificate written in Invisible Ink, and a hologram of a trophy crafted from the finest Unobtanium.

Edited by Appogee, 04 December 2016 - 09:49 AM.

[M T]

I honestly expected some huge announcement on their website, you know, something they already created before mechcon started and just had to enable with a switch, to whichever winner.

I had a hard time looking up who won too

[Tarogato]

Appogee, on 04 December 2016 - 09:46 AM, said:

Bravo, I say. Oh, and well done too to EMP. You will each receive a Certificate written in Invisible Ink, and a hologram of a trophy crafted from the finest Unobtanium.

No kidding, because PGI actually ran out of medals to give to EmP because they didn't expect EmP to bring their entire roster to Vancouver.

[Cy Mitchell]

Bud Crue, on 04 December 2016 - 08:08 AM, said:

I didn't watch the stream, and there is -of course- nothing posted on the tournament page that I can readily find.

So who won the tournament?

Sorry, maybe I am just not seeing the "congratulations... on winning the 2016 tournament" announcement that one would expect to see on the home page.

https://mwomercs.com...pionship-finals