Top 8 felt soulless outside of the actual matches. It took way longer than necessary, D1 and Blur were completely unnecessary and the thing with Frendrick made me sick to my stomach because it just felt so corprate and fake (plus Melee doesn't need a hype man anymore). Melee is an awesome spectator sport because of the game itself. You don't have to try and make it more approchable or interesting, it does it my itself. Making top 8 take 3 hours is rediculous and it didn't have to take that long.

I felt like you guys were really disrespecting yor fan's time. I live on the west coast and it ended at 11 but all around the world people needed to go to bed and some had to miss it for work the next day, ext. inagine spending all weekend watching an awesome tournament and then having to miss the final matches for Singles.

Spend that extra money on better audio equipment, cameras, more songs (the music was dope, but it felt like there was 4 songs and I got bored of them by day 2) and experienced production members. There was this one shot on day 2 pools, steady cam guy did a wide sweeping shot of the crowd before a match started, crawled up on the stage behind the players with the shit focused on the tv, the players fist bumped and pressed start, and the camera guy zoomed into the screen and we racked focus to the high definition/clean version of the match. It was the sickest transition melee has ever seen. And you should go find it and take notes.