such an amazing venue
super professional
except for one thing
which happens in every tournament
especially since sheridan opted for a reprieve of TOing
we needed kevin paul to play less friendlies and do more ordering around. that's what the mic's for, man! when you're a TO, you have to make a decision: do i want to be a great TO or not? if i do, i need to realize i won't be playing many friendlies. as simple as that.
i swear i did 4 or 5 of my pools match and then let other people do pools. i go around cheering my friends. THIRTY MINUTES LATER the same people are playing pools matches. no, not other people in the pool they need to play. THE VERY SAME PERSON THEY WERE PLAYING WHEN I LEFT. wtf dude? did you just friendly all day? i go to get sfat and he's playing friendlies with dajuan after his teams match when he has everybody in his pool to play.
i doubt my pool was the only one like this.
irresponsible smashers can't do **** unless THE MAN is ordering them around. well **** dude, i paid my venue fee like everyone else. run the tournament!
if pools is going to take this long then we simply shouldn't have them. to run pools efficiently i think you need to make everyone stay at their stationed pools TVs until the ENTIRE POOL is done. no food, no friendlies, no teams matches. finish teams 100%. while we're waiting for teams, we enjoy our friendlies. as soon as pools is made, super aggro dictator mode to finish pools. it'll only be for 90-120 minutes. then soon after bracket gets going we have tons of friendlies going on again as people spectate the bracket matches
i had a lot of fun at this tournament but i simply can't make the time commitment and lose all the sleep, so i highly doubt i'll go to one of these again.
that said great seeing everybody, wish we got to hang out more away from smash. talking about interests away from smash and getting to know my comrades is the best part
real shoutouts when the results are posted