Is this the most disappointing Major Venue to date?
I'm going to be perfectly honest, Siege has had majors in massive Arena's before, and even at the last few NA events we've had really cool stages, Boston for example got rightfully glazed for being absolutely stunning, Montreal also was really cool, but SLC? Everything feels....cheap, first things first the whole venue is essentially a glorified Warehouse, for those who haven't seen the on stream venue tour on the first day of playoffs everything shown outside of the entrance is in one big event hall with the stage just being cramped into one corner of the hall, then also the stage itself at least on stream looks tiny, it looks hardly bigger then a LAN center orgs might have somewhere in their headquarters (see for comparison the "Arena" at Mouz HQ) and it's ill equipped to the point the "Desk" is just three people stood next to the crowd, like, there's not even a little raised platform like that the Paris SI for Host & Analysts to stand on. And all this is beside the fact that people have rightfully pointed out that having Group Stage in Hotel Rooms feels equally cheap, they could have rented anything, didn't even have to be a big venue, for all I care just a small warehouse where those two rows of PCs plus an area for casters and one for the two Desks fits, but that proximity and ability to shout at the other team, or hear the celebrations across the Streams, felt like such an awesome way to do group stage, compared to that Hotel Rooms once again come off as cheap (even if they probably are the opposite) and the opposite of the fun vibe of the "Warehouse Group Stage"
Am I tripping, am I the only one who thinks this does not feel like a major? Or do people agree that SLC is lacking in many departments?