As I know, to be integrated into MLG, we need to change regular league to "best of 3" system, instead of current "best of one". Here I'd love to present my idea of how it could look like.
First of all, best of three matches will consume significantly larger amount of time, but the timezone overlap is quite narrow. If we want to keep the event's lengh with approximately same amount of teams participating, we have to split up to regional timezones.
On this picture I compare current system and possible Bo3 system, when we move from 2 random divisions, playing and streamed at the same time, to geographically-organised divisions streamed one after another, overlaping in "cross-zone" period, when cross-divisional matches can be hosted.
Every "best of 3" set is given a limit of 1,5 hours.
However, this system leads to several problems.
- will significantly split up players from different timezones. Most european players won't be able to watch later american streams, and on the earliest matches streaming chat will be almost dead.
- it loads up the administration with additional time. These people spend time on organising events for us, and we can't demand them to work a full 8-hours day on their weekend for our leisure.
- no post-show talk, which gave the tourney streams a festive touch. I am dead serious here, I am convinced that this has become important part of the league, and we can't just throw it off
- Every 2 new teams will add a week to the event's duration.
Another idea is to split the games into Saturday and Sunday.
Benefits:
- More flexibility to teams number
- More tolerant to timezones
- Less time in a day consumed by organisers
- Room for Australian/Asian players, who could join european division if they want late night time, or American, if they'd prefer earliest morning
Flaws
- NO SUNDAY EVENT (greatest disadvantage)
- Administration and streamers waste 2 weekends instead of one on this
- Poor European people who need to wake up early for work/scool/etc
The team should define their regional preference during sign-up. If there would be uneven amount of european and american team, a team would be offered to volunteer to take other region's division and given a priority in later/earlier times when scheduled.