Honestly any tournament will have its issues. Learning to build a big event is hard and takes trial and error. A lot of times it takes years. Lets look at gripes from tournaments of the last year we've all come to know and love:
NEC: had some bracket issues
UFGT: A lot of stream timeslot/fairness issues, caused a big ruckus
CEO: Issues with some systems not having the current hotfix, almost all the way through pools
EVO: Issues with switching tournament rules in the middle of a game bracket
And some of these tournaments have been around for years and years. They were all still fun experiences despite any screwups.
How do you think most of the TOs you respect, like Jebailey, 9.95, etc. learned to run a good tournament? Through trial and error. Getting out there, having stuff go wrong, making mistakes, and learning from them for the next event they did. It's growing pains, and it's an important part of the process.
The difference was that a lot of these guys started small, wheras VxG has been in the spotlight and scrutinized the entire time, since it aimed to be really big and well publicized from the get go. So VxG has had to grow up in the spotlight, faster than anyone else.
To Rolando
the_vxg: understand that the reason VxG was criticized so harshly is that people haven't built trust for the event yet. Believe me, people snapped just as critically after things that occurred at UFGT and CEO (with some players threatening not to come back in the case of UFGT), but the community has gotten to know those tournaments and organizers over some years, so there's a basic level of trust and familiarity to go underneath the scrutiny and the usual trolling.
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