Does anybody else feel like me on this? I was tuned in for the ones in BfA, especially the Eternal Palace. But this time around, I’m just having a hard time caring about it. It’s so disorganized, with every group running at different times from all over the world. I feel like this should be more organized, then it would feel more like an actual race. If they can organize groups at the same time for arena championships and the MDI, they should do it for this as well. I just wasn’t into this time around. Not to take anything away from Limit. But the fact that some of the teams have a whole day ahead of others makes it feel less like a race to world first, and more like a race to region/country first.
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maybe but both have their advantages/disadvantages, NA has to go through bugs and don’t have anyone to copy off of , but gets a head start. EU has late start but basically gets to copy the smart kid’s hw and the trail is already cleared of sticks and branches.
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This didn’t matter until NA started winning, didn’t it?
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Well, OTK was doing it, but they are so cringe and unprofessional that I tuned out just to avoid it… And look, I know people are going to say that I’m just being toxic, I was really looking forward to watching them cast the world first, I had high hopes that they would do a good job. This is not me meaning to be toxic, this is actually how I feel about it.
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Blizz doesn’t actually get involved in the races, outside of bug fixes and tuning. It’s entirely a player run tournament and not something Blizz wants to revolve the game around by making it official or unifying resets. So they won’t do anything like that.
The day advantage also makes no difference. Limit as the first one there has to deal with bugs and formulating the strategies, but they get there sooner. Others don’t have bugs and can get the info by watching whatever Limit does, but they start later. It’s a fair trade off.
Method/Echo and Limit are usually always neck and neck with each other towards the end.
didn’t watch it myself but unprofessional isn’t also a bad thing, i mean they’re racing to see who clears a raid faster in a video game over a decade past it’s prime, it’s okay not to take things seriously. I feel like when e-sprots try to be too serious is when they come across as kind of eye rolling like they’re pretending they want to be sports so badly.
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You’re not wrong, professionalism is a bit overstated in these things, but just a smidge goes a long way.
I disagree entirely that e-sports isn’t sports. Just because someone is sitting behind a keyboard doesn’t at all mean that they don’t train for that position.
I’d love to see Blizzard step in and make the WF races more organized but i think it’s hard because raiding at its core is not really designed for competition. For it to be a fair competition the bosses would have to be completely bug free and even across the board for all teams. Blizzard can design fights and test them but will never know how the actual fight will play out until the best players in the world start beating on it. To have races won or lost due to unforseen bugs or something outside of the guilds control (which would very likely happen) isnt something i think Blizzard is willing to put their name on and i cant really blame them.
It’s not even that. This is just how I feel personally. I was glued to my monitor for the EP race and was loving every minute of it. But I just feel like it takes away some of the legitimacy of the “race” when some teams are planning their whole strategy around when other teams are sleeping. I’d like to watch an actual race, and I’m not sure why they don’t do it. I think it would be awesome to see them rent out a convention center and have like the top 10 teams all set up in different areas, and have people casting it. Obviously in a post-covidmania world.
funny the last one you liked was last one EU won. are you sure there isn’t more to this discontent you’re feeling? it’s not like Limit were sleepless monsters, they slept too while Echo did their thing. and by their thing i mean looked at limit’s thing and copied that.
if anything compromises these races I’d say it’s when a guild goes black and does secret prog while others don’t.
its already over. I really liked methods panel of “live discussions” but with Limit there was nothing but talking in the background. Its been disappointing. I quit watching it 2 days in. Glad it was over yesterday @4pm CST 12-23-2020 when they killed the last boss.
I watched both Limit’s and Method’s streams during that race, as did a few hundred thousand others. You can try and sling mud all you want, but the numbers don’t lie. The last two races viewer numbers combined didn’t even come close to EP’s viewers. That says something for how interesting an actual race is. For me it’s not about who wins, but how interesting the event is. It’s not but so interesting when only 1 or 2 teams are running at a time. It just feels so off when everyone is running at different times. Imagine trying to run a horse race where every horse ran at a different time. I’m talking time zones and everything. One team is literally a day ahead of another, so how do you really decide who truly got the world first if the two teams get a kill within a few hours of each other when there’s a 12+ hour time difference. It’s just so disorganized, that’s my point.
I’ve never understood why people care so much about a race to world first in WoW. I’d be totally miserable and probably end up hating the game if I ever tried to get a world first in WoW for anything beyond heroic.
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For the players it’s money.
For us watchers, it’s just fun. If you don’t like it no problem, I don’t like watching football or basketball.
No, I actually have never cared about any of this egotistical garbage.
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They lack coordinated creative direction…
“egotistical garbage” from the only person on the planet who has never watched a sporting event or listened to music in his life folks. One of kind take from a one of a kind person.
Cool story bro.
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Or read a book, good point. Trolling general forums must be the only thing you do. Must be super exciting.
Continuously cool story, bro. What books have you read lately?
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