The Truth About MLG

[DevilMaySpy]

Just a note, pretty much everything but COD it seems fell massively behind and was ran pretty badly, so this wasn't a IGAU specific thing.

We were told by a Melee player they're being treated similarly, but I've only listed the things I saw and experienced personally. Don't want to contribute to the "He said, she said" nonsense.

 

[Cossner]

My favorite moment was when Brady and Rip were looking at the monitors next to them and said "I wish I could watch that match".

Seriously guys stop trying to boycott MLG, they fucked up but when they pick up a game it's huge. We need them for MKX lol

 

[haketh]

We were told by a Melee player they're being treated similarly, but I've only listed the things I saw and experienced personally. Don't want to contribute to the "He said, she said" nonsense.

Mando talked about it on IE, smash was a couple hours behind due to things going wrong.

 

[VenomX-90]

Speaking of MLG...

 

[Euphoric]

I had fun at UFGT 10 and past UFGTs, with that said, everyone should come to Combo Breaker, @Johnny2d is gonna help host it too.

This sounds horrendous, Lol. I would not want to go to a tournament this poorly ran, considering I have to watch my stress levels for medical reasons, I'd be dying.

#shamelessplug #ThankYouKeits

 

[NRF CharlieMurphy]

I hear players paid an $80 venue fee for this tournament... not to mention the poor Australian guy who traveled 20+ hours and probably paid $1,500+ for the plane ticket to Anaheim.

People spend lots of money. They are away from their families. They take time off work.

I think it is fair to demand at least a somewhat reasonably run tournament.

Agreed.

 

[Durvalis_Maximus]

There is a lot of speculation going around, and this will inevitably be discussed by loads of angry people, so I´m just going to tell you straight up.

• The internet failed and the TOs refused to move the tournament forward without online brackets. Hey, here's some pen and paper, can we just write it in and update it later? Nope!
• Hotfix was botched because someone switched users; it's not PL's fault.
• No one informed us of anything, ever. We had to get Tom to chase down somewhat knowledgeable officials.
• Security aggressively removed us from setups and disallowed us to watch our friends play "to avoid fire hazards".
• They allowed COD players to loiter in the exact same area and turned a blind eye.
• They began to mock us when we respectfully pointed out they're taking up the same space we were kicked out of.
• I asked Ultradavid to contact Adam about this, and 5 minutes later "they've changed their minds and are allowing us to watch our friends play while endangering their jobs."
• Ultradavid is doing whatever he can to help, while others are just standing around scratching their heads.
• None of the judges are sending any matches to the stream, which leaves you with 5 hours of elevator music.
• I brought this to the attention of the guy running things and he gave the clearance to put any good match on stream.
• By this time, everyone just wanted to leave.
• N Megabytes got on a 26 hour flight from Australia because he was told MLG is the gold standard of tournaments, then got treated like garbage.
• I'm making sure things run smoothly tomorrow and you get actual gameplay instead of 3 hours of ads.

All in all, worst tournament experience of my life. Hoping to turn things around tomorrow.

Yeah they kicked a lot of people out of the injustice area. I had to fight with security practically to let me in for my match against @Syknis - the only match being played at the moment. By the way - good games to syknis! Great Aquaman I hope to play more with you in the future.

Oh and shout out to @AK Pig Of The Hut for verbally bodying security - it needed to be done.

 

[pherleece]

Mlg ran great mk9 tourneys with the help of sabin and carlos who know about the fgc. They didnt this time and they fucked up. Cut them some slack. If they fucked up mk9 I would agree and say fuck mlg, boycott their ass but honestly they dont deserve it... yet...

 

[Eldriken]

Yeah they kicked a lot of people out of the injustice area. I had to fight with security practically to let me in for my match against @Syknis - the only match being played at the moment. By the way - good games to syknis! Great Aquaman I hope to play more with you in the future.

Oh and shout out to @AK Pig Of The Hut for verbally bodying security - it needed to be done.

What did he say? I'm curious. =O

 

[DevilMaySpy]

Yeah they kicked a lot of people out of the injustice area. I had to fight with security practically to let me in for my match against @Syknis - the only match being played at the moment. By the way - good games to syknis! Great Aquaman I hope to play more with you in the future.

Oh and shout out to @AK Pig Of The Hut for verbally bodying security - it needed to be done.

Yeah, I'd like to add that they stopped everyone who looked affiliated with Injustice(Super Hero logos, FGC shirts, etc.) and allowed E Sports jackets to walk by without question.

 

[Mortal Komhat]

I think the fire hazard thing is what's baffling me the most.

I mean, how fucking disorganized are you that you either : a) sell more tickets than you can legally hold people in there (and this isn't just "the people that handled Injustice" - that's MLG planning period) or b) make a plan that breaks the fire code in the first place.

Especially with MLG who should have enough experience in that area to avoid this whole fiasco. That the stream sucks ass and fails to show hype matches? That's one guy. That their organization is ass to the point of not checking the venue's fire code? That's straight up the whole org should get bodied.

Yeah, I'd like to add that they stopped everyone who looked affiliated with Injustice(Super Hero logos, FGC shirts, etc.) and allowed E Sports jackets to walk by without question.

Anything else to say for those of us who still want to support MLG?

* * *

At this point I'd just like to say that ultimately I really don't care whether they succeed or not. I'd even say kudos if they manage to make a salvageable event out of this mess. However, I really don't think the org. is needed for a game to be successful. MKX will be successful with or without MLG.

 

[CCVengeance]

WTF is MLG run by babies?
IF you want to walk around acting like you have a 12 inch cock and being the epitome of profesionalism fucking act it.
Abscent minded judges? Security bullying players? What the fucking cock? They are supposed to be PROFESSIONALS, as in, they get paid to do this!
So you walk up and ask questions and they insult you and spit at your feet? Oh yeah that happens all the time in the adult world which they seem to PRETEND to be part of.
What the fuck FUCK? Are they open carry bastards or something? JESUS CHRIST I'm PISSED!
Jesus................

I can accept things being run slow because of the judges mistakes but I cannot, WILL NOT accept security acting like high school bullies to THIER customers!

 

[RelentlessOhio]

Gotta act hard to compensate for the fact they work security at a video game tournament. Y'know, in case of drive-bys, gang riots and shit. We go hardcore when we roll in.

 

[MidTierHarley]

Sounds like injustice was treated pretty badly. But having said that Theres a 7k pot. Just gotta do what they say. You go to MLG to get paid. You want a fun experience? Then go to a grassroots event.

Im officaly done with TYM after seeing the most outright fucking retarded thing ive ever seen said. I was going to miss going to my beachhouse for this shit thank god im lazy as fuck.

 

[Shaazzyam]

Gotta act hard to compensate for the fact they work security at a video game tournament. Y'know, in case of drive-bys, gang riots and shit. We go hardcore when we roll in.

"We ride together, Die together

Nobody fucks with us" - MLG Security

 

[RiBBz22]

Thanks I was waiting for a summary thread like this. Good shit @Cal-EL

 

[RelentlessOhio]

I wanna go to the beach. I'd rather see bitches in bikinis and blue water than pizza and a logo burning an image in my screen. Just assuming a repeat of yesterday, but I'm subconsciously thinking positive thoughts.

 

[Eldriken]

I'm definitely tuning in today just on the off chance that they get their shit together today.

Definitely going to have side things to do in case we're plagued with fucking advertisements throughout the day again.

 

[Roachthroat]

I'm definitely tuning in today just on the off chance that they get their shit together today.

Definitely going to have side things to do in case we're plagued with fucking advertisements throughout the day again.

When and where should I tune in I'd like to catch some of that too

 

[Eldriken]

When and where should I tune in I'd like to catch some of that too

http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/

Then just click on the Injustice stream to the right. You'll see a list of the streams and that's where it's located.

If you're watching from your PC, make SURE you're using an ad blocker or you will likely be plagued with ridiculous amounts of ads.

 

[RelentlessOhio]

Yep, glad I got AdBlocker a long time ago. Thing is magical.

 

[Johnny2d]

I had fun at UFGT 10 and past UFGTs, with that said, everyone should come to Combo Breaker, @Johnny2d is gonna help host it too.

This sounds horrendous, Lol. I would not want to go to a tournament this poorly ran, considering I have to watch my stress levels for medical reasons, I'd be dying.

#shamelessplug #ThankYouKeits

Wait what? My friend @Rocksteady is hosting it, I hope to be along for the ride

 

[True Grave]

What time does Injustice go down and what channel?

 

[aj1701]

No, I should feel responsible for this. I'm the one who convinced him to spend hundreds, likely thousands of dollars, to make it out to our country for tournaments that I felt he would enjoy, having experienced them myself. I kept up this relentless encouragement for months on end, only for Megabytes to be greeted by an experience that was more than bad - it was downright terrible.

We've seen tournaments of all varieties experience issues in the past, not just MLG, so I should not have been so naive as to think that MLG would be any different just because the one time I went to MLG turned out well. If I had only taken this possibility into account, this experience might have been avoided.

As it stands, I have to take my share of responsibility where it is due. Hopefully I will be able to make it up to Megabytes for having steered him wrong, albeit unintentionally.

At the end of the day he's an adult and choose to attend. There was recently a judge Judy like this, a guy did something irresponsible and broke someone's car. it was actually the owner that encouraged him to be reckless. Judy said at the end of the day he made the choice to listen and should have understood the risk and it was fully his responsibility. Same here.

I do feel for the guy but no one could have known this would happen and its not the first mlg event. based on past history the risk of a bad time was low, but theres always a probability for something to go wrong. Shit happens, but hopefully the other players show him a good time anyway. Hut its not your fault, and I'm sure theres more to going to something like this than just playing the game.

 

[Roachthroat]

http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/

Then just click on the Injustice stream to the right. You'll see a list of the streams and that's where it's located.

If you're watching from your PC, make SURE you're using an ad blocker or you will likely be plagued with ridiculous amounts of ads.

Thank you sir