343 needs to stop hitting shitty TOs.
MLG and ESL do good work but I wonder if the budget isn't there to hire them for small events like this one.
I just don't see how it's a budget thing when Gears has MLG.
When MLGs head officer , who post regularly on Team Beyond H5 threads, says that his company has never even been given an opportunity to bid on running these events, i can't imagine how anyone could suggest they cost too high ....
This is super frustrating for me because I know before the first Open event, it came out in a forum conversation between ESL and MLG execs, that MLG wouldn't participate the open circuit because MLG wanted Opens w/ AMs and Pros, while ESL thought that opens should be AM only. We ended up having no opens at all that season.
The following season, someone at ESL and 343 realizes that MLG was absolutely right (probably because this is what AMs,Pros and Fans had been asking for all along) but in planning the opens, MLG doesn't even get a phone call.
Now I've loss count of how many tournaments we've had that were subject to horrendous technical and logistical issues that directly impact the quality of the viewing experience AND the integrity of the competition.
Granted, I don't know that an MLG H5 production would be any better (maybe H5 is just cursed), I really doubt it would be any worse. I'd certainly think it's option worth exploring.