why does the summit feel different this time?

TS3 feels different for several reasons: 1. Games are quick and less epic. This impacts everything. You can have the best event production in the world and if the game quality is bad or perceived as bad, it taints everything. Similarly, if you have a million problems but get a 5-game epic series, all is forgiven. The additional time dedicated to sponsors would be easily forgotten if the games were better. I can't really comment on the duration or concept or number of advertisements, that's a decision for the organizer and not an easy thing to balance. 2. There is less player fun stuff. This is almost because BTS did too good a job of taking care of players. Every single player here can have a computer to pub if they want. Because of this, they love the tournament but you rarely see them because they're practicing either in their rooms or at the hotel or whatever. It's not a surprise the only team really to go on the fun stream is Vici who advanced on day 1. Everyone else is practicing. To add onto that, people are mad that Vici sat and played poker for hours. They wanted to see more crazy fun stuff like EU Hub. Well, that's not really controllable from the organizer standpoint. What is BTS supposed to do, require teams to do fun stuff that entertains in the the way the stream wants? The players would riot. One of the biggest complaints last time from players was that there weren't enough computers and that they had nothing to do but sit in a room doing "fun" stream stuff. The community getting mad over this is essentially punishing BTS for providing better player conditions, which is kinda shitty.