How does this even happen? The eSports scene has laid all the groundwork you needed to do this right. Why not copy Korean LoL setups and adjust them accordingly? They've already been through all this trial and error stuff so you wouldn't have to with Starcraft. Sound proof booths ARE necessary. A vuvuzela shouldn't have ever been heard to distract the player in the first place. Remove ALL sightlines to screens from every player seat. Setup LAN's to ensure the safety of your connection. There's no excuse for cutting corners and/or being lazy in a $2 million tournament. This is madness.

but on the TSM/AZF, woong looked at the minimap and even pinged ingame.

I guess the headsets aren't soundproof

I hope long-term you guys are also considering some kind of automatic backup of the current game state. I didn't mind the pauses too much - hardware can fail, there's no way to absolutely prevent it, but that a 59 min (!) game had to be remade was a real bummer.

I mean: infos about things like player position, which items they bought etc must be stored somewhere in the server memory, right? It might cost too much server performance to store these things on the hard disk every x miliseconds for all games, but you could at least do this in tournament draft mode, I hope.

Why does everything have to be veiled in political correctness? Why can't you just say the truth, guys?

"We ****ed up."

I would actually respect you as a company if you admitted it.

This has got to be the most disappointing thing i have ever witnessed in esports.

if you want professionalism look to the international.

this is not to start a dota/lol fight. the international was one of the best run events in all of esports to date.

No more live crowd for the rest of the playoffs...? Are you serious? That is the best part of your broadcast 90% of the time (with Deman being the other 10%). Why not just annouce the venue you will be hosting the semi's at and make it free admission?

I love the irony of this post. (TSM noted AF's tendency to do this exact thing which they sent a 5-man gank to counter and grab FB in game 1, but the peek during the pause ruined the surprise for AF's support)

That isn't to say that they would have won the match (they were ahead early in G2 and still lost), but there's nothing to say they wouldn't have won and gone into match 3.

That's basically what they said.

What, is it suddenly more legitimate if they made it curt and swore in it?

I was disappointed in S2 Finals too, especially since I was watching it with a friend that I had not been able to hang out with for a long time, but things happen, they'll pay the consequences. No need to jump on their gun for semantics sake.

gibe 5k rp give 5k rp riot pls