T0mTomsmziThe money should have just been given to those teams instead of making them fight for it since the chance of choking in an online qualifier is always there.
Then give the money to lego, publiclir etc so they can go to lan? Im sure those teams will have a fundraiser for them to get players there. Or if serpents need more money due to flights from russia being more. You can back up your words with actions here.
Why should they? The prize was the money and a spot at dreamhack. Its pointless to restrict the money only for going to dreamhack as it will be an arse and pointless to track what the money is being spent on.
Regardless of how teams performed and teams not being able to attend then its pretty simple. Give the spot to a team that can and if they need money to travel well they should of come first in one of the 4 tournaments.
The money was clearly meant to help the teams get to dreamhack, the whole point of this was to try and get the best 4 teams possible to lan. I liked the way ozf did it where the top team can take more money if going to i58. The big lans are what people have been asking for a long time. Yet in a situation where we are trying to get the best teams to lan but teams are signing up with no intention to actually go hurts the tiny potential tf2 has. Now we end up with two top teams and whichever two teams already live close enough or have enough money to go anyway rather than 4 top teams just because people signed up with no intentions of going.
As for how to fix this maybe only give half the money now and half when they get to dreamhack? That way if teams want to just play for 500 they can but if they want more money and the chance to get more they have to turn up tolan and actually do something to help tf2 rather than just leave again. Dont get me wrong I love seeing players come back but when they come back for a week then go away again it is very disheartening and im not even the one running the event.