On June 18 2012 07:08 GeorgeForeman wrote:
Look, that's fine in a world where there aren't world-class events like MLG, IEM,a nd Dream Hack. But if you want to host a relevant, live tournament, there are some things you need to get straight. One of them is having your internet working. (Which, BTW, means you aren't relying on a 3rd party like a school to supply it, and if you are, you make damn sure they know it's going on and don't have some random person turn it off.) Another one is having a tournament realm ALREADY set up. IEM games are on a tournament realm. So are MLG's. I would imagine DH is the same way. It boggles the mind that GESL's weren't to begin with.
Look, this was a nice idea for a nice, low-budget tournament with some good teams. But it went to shit, and when things happen that the organizers hadn't anticipated, it's their fault for not anticipating them. Simple as that.
They did ask for Tournament Realm access from Riot. http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/v70u2/statement_from_gesl/
They only got it after the live servers went down completely. This is Gigabyte's first LAN. They got no real help from Riot at all until today. They still managed to bring in tons of sponsors. They're being blamed for things that are outside of their control (like the internet going down or the servers crashing). Like I said originally the only thing they could've done better was ensure they had a second streaming computer.
On June 18 2012 07:16 Abenson wrote:
Show nested quote +On June 18 2012 06:51 overt wrote:
On June 18 2012 06:46 GeorgeForeman wrote:
On June 18 2012 06:43 little fancy wrote:
On June 18 2012 06:36 DragoonTT wrote:
Just switched over from EURO/DreamhackLoL, was 3rd place match already played?
Not yet because GESL used NA live servers until those crashed. They then delayed the schedule and got the tournament realm. CLG vs TD and CLGb vs TSM are played simultaneously right now. Unfortunately, we can't watch either of those two yet because 3rd place match is not streamed yet and for the finals the spectator client just crashed. But feel free to enjoy ALL the ads.
Fantastic tournament.
Day 1 they don't have internet. This wasn't the tournament organizers fault, in fact they had been making sure their internet worked just the day before. Someone on campus unrelated to the event shut the internet off where the LoL portion of the tournament was suppose to be held. Hardly their fault. Also on Day 1 their computer used for streaming broke, which is admittedly at least partially their fault but hey that kind of shit happens. Day 2 went off without issues. Day 3 NA live servers are down, which sucks but they can't really do anything about that. Riot hooks them up with Tournament Realm and the Tournament Realm's spectator mode crashes. Literally the only thing that they could've done better was to have a second streaming PC prepared or something. Everything else that's plagued this tournament has been out of their control.
How is having their internet shut off not their fault? As the organizers of the tournament they should have at least talked to the campus to make sure they're aware of this event.
They did do this. They were checking to make sure the internet was fine for a week prior to the event. They checked the internet the day before. The day of the event someone, no one knows who, shut the internet off. This could literally happen at any venue ever for any tournament lol.
Your statement is just really silly. They should have "at least talked to the campus to make sure they're aware of this event," as if they just like waltzed onto campus and hosted the event without letting anyone know.
I'm not gonna deny that it sucks how bad things went at this tournament. But honestly most of it was just really horrible coincidences. The only thing I could really fault them for was how little information was spread on day 1 during all of the delays but they worked really hard to give fans something to watch and enjoy despite all of the horrible circumstances. | 
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itsjustatank United States. June 19 2012 03:33. Posts 3325
