Eeeeeeeyore!
Make that bag queen
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I would honestly hope so, considering my first console game was a pong system from Sears Roebuck. I’m like Arnold Palmer SR. Tour level.
TLDR; like top 6 or top 8 of each class is going, big names like Ziqo, sonii, and others are all pretty much in.
A Druid that Soda actually liked pulled Sonii to the side and let him collect an ear, so the first death has technically happened.
It’s kind of scuffed due to the flat open void they’re in, so if you need to line to win, good luck.
I’m pretty sure I saw shamans, Druids, and hunters take the most Ls.
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I mean the players knew it would be full consumes with minimal rules and minimal LOS going in, so they had a chance to choose the class that would fit that rule-set. But the strong classes aren’t really that different than expected, other than that warriors are maybe doing better than predicted in a full consume environment.
Obviously the favorites are people like Snutz, Ziqo, etc. that are serious pvpers and playing strong classes (warlock, mage) that have won previous dueling tournaments. Snutz won some of the previous classic dueling tournaments (and has obviously won many other pvp competitions in many expansions). There were a lot of inexperienced pvpers who thought rogues would dominate, but they haven’t won any of the previous tournaments in classic, which generally go to frost mages and SL warlocks.
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Hes going to be big mad that someone else pointed this out lol
You clearly didnt watch it. While yes. Some of the favorites were talked about a lot, that is simply because those matches were largely good and well played.
Most of the matches the commentators were doing a good job of calling out plays and strats. Commenting on good plays or bad ones. Skills ect.
It was defiantly pretty exciting when some of the favorites won tier duels by a hair. Tomorrow’s bloodbath shough be a fun watch.
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I watched like 15 mins of it, stopped for the reasons mentioned, and then started watching more interesting non-wow stuff on Youtube.
I’m not really interested in hearing streamers go on and on and on about their other “favorite” streamers that they probably have a financial connection with too. I’ve watched a few wow classic esports, like Blizzards own Summer Bowl and Fall Conquest and thought they were interesting but that’s my opinion of this one.
Not sure why people keep replying to that post though and saying I’m wrong or name-calling. Obviously, you are the target audience for this and I’m not so my opinion on it doesn’t really matter.
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Connections are power. This is reality, networking matters almost as much if not more than actual skill.
That I agree with, and it seems to be the case here (the “favorites” also had people camping the prince for Tidal charm for them, AGM etc, giving them gold and items - and I did not hit on that in my posts - all of with which they very much get an advantage from).
The thing is that I love the networking and the social parts of classic wow but not so much the out-of-game “streamer privilege” stuff going all the way up to who Blizzard listens to with what they decide to do.
in a way, I wish that someone who just knows what they are doing and maybe doesn’t have all that privilege could win this. Someone who is down on their luck in real life and really needs the money. Someone who could really use it to turn their life around and provide for their family… and it’s pretty clear that’s not going to happen. Not that it ever really was but that would be so much better for the world than an already rich streamer being fed more.
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Yet you keep offering it.
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I inferred Mootwo’s post to speak more about etiquette and sportsmanship. And yes, showboating and unsportsmanlike conduct can be actionable offences in major league sports.
Anyway, I just want to go on record to say that Mootwo is one of the most civil and helpful regulars on these forums.
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It’s not a real MG tournament because they wanted to prevent streamers from dying early because of an unfavorable matchup. It’s cool that they tried though.
If there wasn’t normal qualifier duels there would definitely be some warlock just playing on the edge of bounds spam fearing them to farm coward debuffs and then they would play it off like it was a mistake.
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Not even on my server. DP. They all got it going on SR.
Hate to break it to you but WoW has literally never been “fair” from day 1.
Even in vanilla the top guilds were pre-formed social groups from EQ and other MMOs.
There’s nothing stopping you from having friends help you, other than your own apparently lack of friends. People with social networks and teams will always outperform those without in basically every setting. There’s always envious people who wish they had more social attention, but generally they haven’t earned it. These guys have spent years building a community and forgoing other things to play and now it pays off. Fortune always favors people who have been preparing, often with no anticipation of reward. There’s no reason someone who hasn’t put in comparable effort “deserves” anything more.
That said, if some dark horse does come in and win the event they will get a ton of attention and could probably build a streaming presence off that, particularly if they have an interesting personality to boot. Most of the streamers are people who have been rank 1 arena players, people who have won tournaments, world first raiders, etc. They’re just not random people, they earned that attention, because people want to see what the best players do, and these are players who have been notably good at some point in their gaming career. Take people like jokerd, barely anyone knew who he was before classic and now he’s one of the biggest WoW streamers. Because he had a notable accomplishment (first level 60 in classic), and then when people checked him out he had a funny personality so they stuck around.
mootwo keeps getting attacked for offering her opinion because it doesn’t sufficiently praise some streamer personalities 
Your fallacy is that you believe people are envious of these people.
You don’t watch a train wreck because you are envious of the train passengers.
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100% positive that someone like Pshero would never be allowed to compete in this with these people. He would wreck them. Gonna have them being super careful who they go up against. Having some no name nobody wreck a multiglad with dozens of ears in live stream would be a bad image. Very possible though as certain classes are hard counters to others in Classic. They will pick and choose who they go up against.
And I am very positive that they are having fixed fights as well. Watching this will be watching fragile egos with fake nerd rages.