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So about that MLG thing
swimfan:
what happen to mlg play i havent heard anything about ti and i cant find goi online on the mlg site anymore what happened
Wundsalz:
we've had one tournament (the rob and dan invitational) which took place a couple of months ago. To my knowledge MLG has not been used by anyone in our community before or after that event.
swimfan:
i meant what happend why isnt goi online listed on there website at all anymore i thought mlg gaming was going to be a big thing but i guess that never happened if the community only did one tournament and its not on there website anymore.
Wundsalz:
While I haven't monitored what's going on on MLG and why GoIO was removed, my best guess would indeed be inactivity. Why should they keep dead sections on their site?
Regarding why it wasn't used, I think it was seen as an unnecessary overhead as one can simply schedule scrims without it and MLG requires some extra effort to set things up. Furthermore MLG has got very strict roster rules. Every time you setup a scrim you need to state which 8 people will play on that date and only those are allowed to play (+1 substitute which also needs to be nominated on signups, I think). If you don't show up with exactly with these guys, you've lost the scrim - even if your team has got other players ready to substitute. This contradicts the spirit in which most clans run their team in GoIO. Most teams have got a standard crew with ship-build specific role assignments. However it's always possible someone can't show up for the event on short notice and you very well might want to field a different substitute for a gunner position than for a main-engineer position. Overall we treat our teams similar to soccer teams - while we can only field 8 players per match our teams consists of way more players who are more than just bench warmers. MLG is way to focused on individuals for GoIOs needs in that regard.
Last but not least I'd like to mention that the MLG site UI is a pest. The very basics e.g. inviting/accepting new players to a team feel like a messy workaround.
Squidslinger Gilder:
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