I understand how you feel. Yet, it is this attitude, of lower level players afraid of being "roflstomped" by higher level players that is preventing the growth of e-Sports in Malaysia. I recently attended MLG Pro Circuit Spring Championship. They had a double elim open bracket format for their SC2 event. Among the big names who joined are HerO, NaNiWa, Hyun, Polt, Jaedong etc etc. The tournament has a max capacity of 128 players and guess what? All 128 slots were filled. The players who love the game didn't care that they're going to be roflstomped by HuK or Dear. They joined because they want to play and support Starcraft 2.

You are correct. But where is FXO now? No offense to them but going "free" is one of the main reason they bailed. 2 years later, who else is willing to spend their TIME conducting tournaments for SC2?

You have some good points here. Still, I'm sure Spotgamers is prepared for the fact that less than 32 players will join and yet the tournament will still go on, just like what happened to their Cyberfusion e-Sports league. The turnout was horrible. They made a loss, but the made sure everyone gets their deserved winnings and fun. Usually with the increase of players, the pool will also increase, but that will be left to Spotgamers to decide. Good point though.

I agree that streams should be set up. Let's see what Spotgamers decide to do.


Don't other countries have more than 2 mbps connection? I'm not sure, I don't know so I have no comment. About the PayPal, I also have no comment. Yet if the User Agreement states so, I believe Spotgamers should do something about it then.

Just because you feel that way doesn't mean the whole community feel that way.

First you mentioned FXO's tournament was for community participation. Then you said eSports is a business. After that you steer away from addressing FXO's further involvement and how they bailed. Although I agree with your point that FXO's tournament is much more well prepared, does any of this ring any bells to you? Even with great community participation, if the community continues to expect free stuff from the organizers, in the end no one will want to support the community anymore.

I very much so agree on this one. For an online tournament, streams are of the utmost importance. Currently I think that Spotgamers are lacking the manpower to do that. They have postponed the tournament to assess many issues, which one of them is this.

my bad on this part. i've been living in the states and haven't been on the SEA server lately. i am the one who is responsible for the rules. i'll update it shortly. thanks for pointing it out!

I agree that Spotgamers is underprepared to host this tournament. But know that they are one of the few who are committed to ensure that StarCraft 2 remains alive in Malaysia. The way I see it, you have a good point that this event is not ready to be launched for StarCraft 2 yet. However, I also feel that you are giving the wrong ideas to the community. In your posts, a lot of emphasis is put on free stuff and profits.

The eSports and SC2 community needs to be constantly reminded that if they themselves do not contribute their money, time, ego or even volunteering for their favorite game, and is always waiting for people to come up with exciting new tournaments with big prizes and low or free entry fee, all of these will get our eSports scene nowhere. As far as I can tell, people like you have all the right ideas. Yet, instead of just only posting them, why not get involved? Volunteer to be one of the admins. Find more friends to support the event. Help make connections. All these little actions, added with your productive comments, could definitely help make this event, and even the eSports and SC2 scene in general bigger and better.