red bull instalock is a mickey mouse tournament

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kalmia

look i love watching my girlies play but WTF is this tournament.. no crowd, 3 duelist rule and a 1 map up advantage in the grand finals for being upper seed??? doing this for a scene that usually gets a single LAN a year is just fucked IMO, give our girls some actual competitive integrity, playing like this just makes the whole thing seem so unserious
EDIT: the official red bull twitch channel has now pinned that the one map advantage is because SR hasn't lost a map yet. how are they making reasons that make even less sense than the reasons that were already implied

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TheAceGamer30

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It’s the Mickey Mouse clubhouse

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ShaoFeng

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Come inside its fun inside

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laeDLaer

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SEN are the leaders of the clubhouse

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Crillgod

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true

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MeloSquids

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map advantage is crazy even the nba is scared of them

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bdyrda

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Brought this up myself an hour ago: https://www.vlr.gg/334317/thoughts-on-the-redbull-event-womens-e-sports/#3. This is not a good look for an event that is being praised as a fairly major women's e-sports event.

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kalmia

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for real being on BBC and Sky News being showcased as the UK's first women's esports event (not true) makes you think there would be some important expectations for this but the TOs have no idea how this game's competitive scene works it appears

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StalwartTiger_35

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All Red Bull events other than home ground (and home ground is arguably Mickey Mouse too) are just for fun and not meant to be taken super seriously.

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kalmia

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sure, maybe i get you for home ground, but doing this to a scene which gets a fraction of the representation that VCT does, and the scene which only gets a single LAN a year with only half the teams VCT Champions has competing just seems like oblivious mockery
even if it is "for fun", i don't know many people who enjoy watching their favourite team get an arguably unfair map advantage which would never normally happen

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StalwartTiger_35

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yeah I understand your point, but it's on riot to fairly represent the gc scene, not third parties like red bull.

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mouth_breather

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people cant have fun anymore

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goofyahh1447

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start mewing bro

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n0vi

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bdyrda

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I don't know man. It's the middle of the season, every other league is hosting serious games and GC (who wants to be taken seriously) is playing an off-season gimmick? It's horrible timing, if nothing else.

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yeah i agree that gc needs more serious tourneys, their scene is suffering hella hard, but complaining about this one isnt going to do anything since its redbull

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jnm16

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What is this one map advantage?

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kalmia

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SR has started one map up versus G2

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BruteAXE

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i mean name is instalock so of course they have 3 duelists and 1 map advantage is crazy for even for mickey mouse clubhouse tournament

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TM06Nick

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It feels like a Ludwig beer tournament with the gimmicks lmao

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TM06Nick

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It's like they want GC to be a joke compared to VCT

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every redbull event is mickey mouse anyways