Week 2 Friday/Saturday
by Ajig on 10/18/22Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden - New YorkRating: 4 out of 5It was an amazing experience. I went with 2 friends we’re all been playing from beta, even before that if you include DOTA from WC3TFT. We couldn’t have been more excited to go. Have worlds we took the train back from and talk about our experience. Another group of people (4) over heard us and joined in, they had just spent week2 Thursday-Saturday and this was the general consensus. Everyone had an amazing time watching the matches. We all felt that the seating wasn’t conducive for talk people. In this now group of 7 talking there was 5 people over 6 feet tall and found the seating almost unbearable. The hype guy from stage seemed now to be able to reach the middle to rear of the lower seating making them basically on eligible to get any of the free merch he was tossing to the fan’s and the “hype team” was on the path separating the lower seating to the upper seating only doing the upper seating. Witch on our first day affected us witch totally sucked, maybe feel after awhile there was no point in getting amped up because you knew there was no way you’d have a shot at getting anything. Secondly we could the merch selection you could purchase to be extremely small, and there wasn’t a spot to get any team merch. We felt that to be a total miss play. You just watched GAM take down TES and like man, I wanna get some GAM merch but couldn’t. There seemed to be plenty of room on the left and right side of the theater as you walked down to your seats from the “main lobby.” We also felt that it would have been cool to have the players individual stats going vertically in front of the computer they were stationed at on the monitors surrounding the tables. We felt that the table monitor definitely could’ve been used for some type of statistics instead of just a blank information with the team’s color. Also, that the screens behind the players could have been used for something as well. For example, maybe but the play by play called up there, so you could see how hyped they were getting after an amazing play happen/replay when they had one going durning a “down” turn in the game like they do when you watch from online. Over all I’d say a solid 8 outta 10. Can’t wait for Worlds to come back to NA hopefully in a bigger stadium. See ya on the Rift!