Originally Posted by Dragenus
The teams weren't DQ'd. Instead of taking the ratings from July 3rd, when the tournament ended, they seem to have taken the ratings from June 26th, when it started. I had wrote down the names of the top 10 teams of the previous week and when I went to each server and asked the previous top 5 they all made it, however 3 of the top 5 rated teams on July 3rd received no invite (they were not in the top 5 on June 26th).
So congrats to blizzard on screwing up yet another tournament. Would be nice if they would at least respond to one of the 500 posts on their forums about this issue.
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If this is true, then it's just unbelieveable. You'd think maybe someone would have checked things over before sending out information/invitations.
I now head up the software department for a midsized credit card bank, and anything we send to customers goes through weeks of compliance testing, before going through about 50 signatures before getting sent out. The idea is that someone in the chain of custity will catch silly errors like this, Blizzard just seems to do things on the fly then doesn't either A) back them up, or B) explain themselves. Shocking for a company of it's size and stature.
Don't get me wrong, I love the game (I'd put it a solid number 3 all time behind Techmo Superbowl and EA Hockey 93), but I wonder if this sort of blatent incompetence is in all branches of the company. Things like the resiliance bug make me think that it's at the very least affected their QA division.
The obvious solution is to expand the tournament to include teams that didn't qualify that should have, and keep the teams that shouldn't have qualified but I guess they don't feel the same way.
07/12/07, 1:32 AM
