maybe this can pave the way for future 3/5 injustice tournament. when you start pools on time, and you cut the down time of in between pools and even run top 32 maybe for Sunday i don't see why injustice shouldn't be 3/5 by the time NEC rolls around.
3/5 is still questionable. In order to do this we need to run at least one more pool at a time with equally as many additional setups, and have another bracket runner. This would mean 3 pools at a time for the first two, and then 2 pools at the end, run in bigger blocks, and possibly doing top 16 Sunday but since we never know the exact time we're going on, we still have to budget accordingly. If we had enough setups we could run 4 pools at a time, and queue all the stream matches but this gets extremely difficult when you have multiple game players.
If we have an 11AM start, we cannot run 16 through 8 on Sunday, if it's 3PM we can absolutely do that. An entire tournament 3/5 could be possible at NEC with the planned more setups but I have to talk to Big E about that. Another factor is top 8 stream time. 3/5 adds at least a half hour to the stream, no matter what, minimum and upwards of 90 minutes. That's a LOT to ask especially since we still draw only half the numbers of Marvel and AE. There's absolutely no way we can ask for over 2 hours of stream time and you can't drop to 2/3 for the first 5/8 of top 8.
If I can convince spooky to run 3/5 we can always do top 8 as 3/5 at the very least because it's very controlled and I think that's fair, which then would mean that at our discretion, we could also run top 16 at 3/5 which I think is more than fair. Players also need to think outside the box of their game and realize that while you want a more competitive situation, a game like Marvel has matches that end in seconds due to the completely random BS in the game. You will never see an Injustice match end in less than 30 seconds as a Clash itself is 8 seconds and the God damn victory animations are too long on top of that. There NEEDS to be a tournament mode that cuts to rematch faster and stage recycle. There's far too much waiting. I have argued with TOs that Injustice matches take way longer than they think.
Definitely the best tournament I've been too. The hype was cray, pools ran smoothly and on time, BIG ASS ROOM, etc.
I'm praying NEC will be like this.
NEC should be even better, as we have plans for more setups at this event. We'll see how that pans out. The room is definitely bigger than the ECT room, I don't know if it's quite as big as TFC. I'm glad you enjoyed this event and got to see how we really do things, as I know you've had quite a number of bad experiences at tournaments but have never complained.
