Wasn’t worth the trip, imo.
Smash tournament looked like it was extremely well ran aside from lasting for 6 hours straight, I loved how large it was and how many projectors they had set-up for everyone to play. If we had that many people and that many projectors, it would be even more amazing.
All of the console tournaments looked like they were pretty well ran and overall very successful, with games like Soul Caliber 3 having the smallest turn-out and games like CoD4 being extremely popular. The amount of TV’s and screens they had were amazing though, it seemed their amount just completely dwarfs ours.
The PC tournaments were nothing short of terrible though, as most of them didn’t even start remotely on time, much less ran and moderated well. Giving byes to teams that didn’t deserve byes and pairing WCU’s teams either up against each other to knock one out early by one of our own or up against the tournament favorite is pretty biased and *edited*ty. Their CS: S tournament was run shoddily at best, with a turnout of maybe 5 teams, 3 of which consisting of people who looked like they played 24/7 and looked sketchy at best. The TF2 tournament was run just as bad, as the WCU teams were obviously paired off against each other to ensure that it would be an App vs. WCU final. The matches were run sub-par with console commands not even known and large breaks between games given to the App St. team, even though they should have just been run back-to-back.
Decent ideas came from going to their lan though, but I don’t think I’m going again.