(Wow, this post was saltier than I intended. Still tired from last night I guess.)



Okay, that's fine and all, but that still doesn't justify the worst problems that happened this salty suite.



Who thought the idea of having doubles DURING the salty suite was at all a good idea? The event was already late due to poor organization, so who thought stalling the event longer would be something that people wanted? Not saying GIMR is entirely at fault for this one, but airing doubles right after Mango v Leffen instead of before was a huge failure of the night.



Speaking of organization, an event like this should always be tightly organized. The amount of downtime between each match was painful. GIMR is flat out wrong if he thinks a salty suite where anyone can come up and play is something to get hyped over. Something that CAN and SHOULD be replicated from the Apex SS is the structure. Instead of 10 matches between people with no real beef, it should be a few genuinely salty matches. That way the hype won't die down and people won't be wondering why two of these guys are even on stream.



And you might say that the Evo salty suite was never supposed to be like the Apex one, but seeing how much TK was trying to hype up the crowd, the constant footage of the Apex salty suite beforehand, and the fact that there was a "main event", all seem to say otherwise. It doesn't take a bachelors in marketing to see that the Evo suite was trying to ride the hype wave set by the Apex one. Even if GIMR did try to stop this misconception from happening, he only really followed through in word but not in action since all the advertising was clearly screaming "Apex Salty Suite 2.0".



Finally to end my little rant, I think we need to consider what we as a community actually want from the Salty Suite. The Apex SS was easily the most hype SS I personally had ever seen, and given the overwhelming disappointment last night, I think the same can be said for many if not most people.



So my biggest problem here is, why not try to make the Apex salty suite the new standard? As we all saw last night, having friendlies on stream and calling them salty is obviously the wrong way to do things. It's boring, and if GIMR thinks that last night was how things should be, then he deserves all of the people calling him out on it.



And I'm not talking about hosting it in a the main room, because 30 people can easily be loud and hype enough to emulate that bigger environment. If the crowd is into it, unlike last night, then the stream really won't be able to tell the difference between 30 and 300 people.



As I mentioned before, quality matches over quantity is a must. A few, well advertised matches between salty people is better than pulling a bunch of people from the crowd and expecting everyone to get hyped for it. Doing it this way will also help keep the event more organized. The context of the match is important and just having them do an "anime" call out beforehand isn't enough for the crowd.



Because at the end of the day, it's the matches, and not the suite itself, that are the heart of the Salty Suite. Once you start advertising individual matches beforehand, people will get hyped for watching those matches and not assume the whole Suite will be like Leffen v Chillin.



Easily the two best matches of the night were between Mango/Leffen and Kage/Bizz (although the latter was hurt by being pushed back so late), and, like I'm saying, both of those matches were heavily advertised in advance. In opposition to what GIMR said last night, the salty suite SHOULD be just a series of a few main events. Sure, maybe have some fake salty friendlies in between, but the pacing of last night was terrible with Mango/Leffen at the beginning, then Kage/Bizz 2 whole hours later, and then finally nothing for the rest of the night.



All in all this Salty Suite WAS a disappointment and SHOULD be seen as a failure. It was misadvertised, and held onto an obsolete formula which, in addition to the lack of salt that night, ended up being a bore fest. GIMR definitely has the skill and talent to pull off successful salty suites, but he needs to realize it's not up to him what the community wants to see.