FR payed out to top 8, not just top 3. But still the difference between 1st and 2nd should still be pretty big.
Ronin Chaos, if you're still reading this thread. Here are a couple complaints made at SRK in case you haven't read them yet.
http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.ph...to-evo-atlanta-ga.147005/page-10#post-6604952
http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.ph...to-evo-atlanta-ga.147005/page-10#post-6608421
I'm sure you guys have a great staff overall. But it seems there are still issues and bias going around that needs to be addressed.
Thanks for the reply. Complaints like that really bother me because I feel like they're all things that can be addressed. Every year we hear somebody complain about something, but we always hear about it AFTER the fact. I can't do anything after the tournament is over. I can do something while the tournament is going on. We don't throw events like Final Round with the intention of pissing people off, that's why comments about that one guy getting DQ'd are so frustrating.
There are definitely lessons to be learned from this Final Round. We were understaffed and needed more space, but that's because we had a GRIP of people show up at the last minute and we didn't plan to have more resources to cover that many people. We expected overflow, but not nearly that much.
And all that stuff has been talked about internally. The people who volunteered did an AMAZING fucking job. I can't take my hat off to them enough.
We're working on something to make sure that every person who runs a pool knows if any of the players in their pool are in any other game. That way we can try and avoid any issues like some folks have mentioned in those posts you quoted.
Again, I have to stress that this kind of feedback is important to us, and we will correct issues that were had, but we have to know about them, and, especially in the case of someone like LoyalSol, who got DQd, we can't fix it if we don't know about it. I'm not sure if he talked to someone, but if he talked to me, Kyah, or Larry, that would have been taken care of, within reason.
To the other gentleman in this thread that was asking me questions, I haven't forgotten about you. I'll answer your stuff tonight.
Rice-Eater, thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it.