Originally posted by SteelersInsider
Originally posted by lukin83
Originally posted by CTap
Originally posted by lukin83
I believe you are misunderstanding his statement. By "ZERO respect" he is not saying "ZERO representation."
I know that Oceania got no respect when SI started naming teams for this tourney. The Caninites were then on a 35+ game winning streak and even outleveled some of the teams that SI already had mentioned as worthy (I am not saying that level is greater than build and game planning, as I think we have already disproved that in this tournament). Anyway, several Caninites players and myself posted in the thread multiple times asking for a shot at making the cut, but yet were not added to the list. Some other Oceania teams/players came in and spoke on our behalf (as well as on the behalf of several other Oceania teams). It wasn't until then that an Oceania team was even added to the list.
In all fairness, SI did bump us up his ranking once we were added, but only one other Oceania team even made the original field of 64 (a replacement team was later added).
So he meant "very little respect" not "ZERO respect". Honestly I was not privy to the selection process, as we had no intentions of entering. I just took his "zero respect" to mean no representation. If a league had any representatives, I would say it had some measure of respect, little as that might be. Semantics? Perhaps... but SI was trying to get what he personally considered to be close to the top 64 teams in GLB into this thing. So any team being invited was respected, I would say.
Thus, yes, to me zero respect, especially in caps like he put it, would only mean truly ZERO representation. Even taking only a league champ meant he considered at least one team from the league to be among the potentially top 64 teams in ALL of GLB... which should be considered a nice compliment (again, understanding this was based merely on his own opinion of said teams).
That is just how I interpreted it. Being from Oceania, I know that we are often overlooked because we are not in a "prominent" region. The OP in question has a player in Oceania (on a very good team) and GMs a SE Asia team, which leads me to believe that he was dramatically saying that these other regions get a lack of respect in comparison to USA and Canada.
I believe that Africa was the only region not represented, but that was to be expected.
OK I didn't read all the posts yet, but this seems a little off to me. First of all, alot of teams were complaining about their ranking and stuff when I hadn't even started ranking yet. I started with the leagues I was most familiar with (USA and Canada) and then moved on to the others. I obviously didn't reject your team because in my FIRST official rankings, I had you at #25:
http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=618172
If you are talking about me "rejecting" you for my first overall top 30 teams list, then that is only because you hadn't played anyone good. A team with 150 straight wins in BBB wasn't going to qualify either.
Based on level alone, you aren't top 30. And you aren't in a top 10 league. Without being in a "good" league, then there is no way to judge your builds or tactics.
Now we at least havesome non-league games to judge you on and it seems you are certainly worthy of that #25 ranking (or better).
It wasn't disrespect to your team at all. It was very un-biased in my opinion and you can even look at the rankings my level if you don't believe me.
Let's not pull the disrespect card. You didn't get in because of someone arguing with me. You got in because you deserved to be in. It just took me some time to do all the research on all the leagues I wasn't familiar with.
I probably had 40 teams tell me that I disrespected their team by where they were ranked or how they were left. There is an excellent team in Canada Pro who just got done beating our asses (OOTP Ballers) who got pissed off and quit because they weren't invited in the original 64. Even though no one nominated them and I wasn't familiar with any Canada AAA teams. They got overlooked and they are now in my conference in my League. So I don't think it was just League.
Anyways, I'm glad I discovered your excellent team and you were able to join us. 
I wasn't necessarily pointing a finger at you. The biggest concern was your lack of a response when we were mentioned in the initial thread. I think we may have been mentioned in close to a dozen posts before you finally acknowledged us and added us to the "just missing the cut" list. We actually did outlevel, a couple teams that were listed among the elite...hell, we outlevel our next opponent, the Bullies. OPL may not be one of the top leagues in GLB, but I have my doubts about it not being a top ten league. There are some very good teams over there who also did not make the original field of 64, but could have made a splash in this tournament: Brantford Mustangs, Canberra Strike, Brisbane Heat, West Scranton Invaders...
We honestly were honored to even be mentioned among the elite in GLB because everyone always talks about how great USA Pro and Canada Pro are. We were even more honored when you started putting the teams in order and we climbed to #25. That is all Oceania is looking for is some respect from the rest of GLB. I guarantee that if we made it this far in the tournament, there are other OPL teams that should have made the cut but did not. The likely reason is a lack of respect for Oceania.
