Mythic Dungeon International Shadowlands Season 3 - Last Stand Tournament

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Mythic Dungeon International Shadowlands Season 3 - Last Stand Tournament
Mythic Dungeon International 2022 is here! Watch teams race through Shadowlands Dungeons for a chance to qualify to the MDI Global Finals!

• MDI Season 3 - Viewer's Guide
• MDI Season 3 - Last Stand Day 1
• MDI Season 3 - Last Stand Day 2
• MDI Season 3 - Last Stand Finals

The winner of this weekend’s Last Stand Tournament, beginning May 22 on YouTube, will secure the final invite to the Mythic Dungeon International Season 3 Global Finals!


What/Where/When to Watch The Last Stand Tournament

• Broadcast Dates: Friday, May 20 - Sunday, May 22, 2022
  
• Broadcast Time: 10:00 AM PT
  
• Format: Teams of 5 must complete all six dungeons within 15 hours spread across all three broadcast days. Fastest time in each dungeon will be added up, with the fastest cumulative team advancing to the Global Finals.
  
• Language Streams on YouTube:
  
  • English
    
  • French
    
  • German
    
  • Russian
    
  • Spanish
    
  • Korean
    

• Prize Pool: $30,000 (USD) Per Group and Last Stand Tournament
  
  • $300,000 (USD) Global Finals
    

Other MDI Key Dates & Info

• Last Stand Tournament Broadcast May 20 - 22, 2022
  
• MDI Global Finals July 8 -10, 2022

Mythic Dungeon International Season 3 Format

Over 5,000 teams registered for Time Trials, and only five tenacious teams remain (one team had to drop out last minute) to race in this weekend’s MDI Last Stand Tournament for one last spot in the Global Finals! These teams will have 15 hours spread over three days to run as many dungeons as possible. The winning team will join the six teams from the Group weekends and the top team out of China to compete in the Global Finals, with a $300,000 prize pool on the line!


Casters

Dratnos Meeix Naguura Tettles Xyronic

Special Guests: Okaymage & Naowh


Looking Ahead

After careful consideration, we’ve decided to host the Season 3 finals as online-only events. In lieu of focusing all of our efforts on a LAN event to close out the current competitive seasons, we are thrilled to have a variety of upcoming events to honor the end of Shadowlands and prepare PvE and PvP esports for Dragonflight! In addition to the MDI Global Finals on July 8 - 10, Arena World Championship will follow with the Grand Finals on July 16 - 17 and then an online cross-region tournament on July 23 - 24. We’ll also have brand-new community events, an extended Great Push tournament format, and a slew of one-off events to close out the year. Be sure to keep checking this site and to follow us on Twitter as we’ll be revealing more details over the coming months.


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[starkey]

Currently 4.9k viewers i think its time to knock this on the head no one watches this stuff, specially when Echo is going to win it anyway.

[ExtremelyCrusty]

No one cares about MDI.

[mrgreenthump]

While it's a bit meh, as no top teams on this one. I like this format better than the head to head one. You constantly have action and no sleepy moments where someone is wiping while the other team is just blasting.

[erifwodahs]

No one cares about MDI.

I do. And you did enough to comment about it.

[Flame6]

Having 4 teams at once is pretty unwatchable, considering MDI was already have to follow for all other than the most hardcore it's no surprise the viewership is pretty low - no one can honestly say they can watch this and understand everything that's happening

I agree. I went to watch the VoD and I couldn't stand the 4 at a time. Most of the time the content is so small its impossible to really absorb anything.

[Puri]

It's 2022, and we still have a 4 split as only official option to watch this. Four teams that literally are on different spot in different instances.

Why can't I click into a frame and get that team only? Why can't I click a name to see his POV with his actual UI? At least for those that are already streaming anyhow, but it shouldn't be that hard to make that stream mandatory. Quite astonishing.

[Jasper Kazai]

It's 2022, and we still have a 4 split as only official option to watch this. Four teams that literally are on different spot in different instances.

Why can't I click into a frame and get that team only? Why can't I click a name to see his POV with his actual UI? At least for those that are already streaming anyhow, but it shouldn't be that hard to make that stream mandatory. Quite astonishing.

Because what you're describing is not readily available on any established platform. They'd have to create their own proprietary platform from scratch to facilitate that technology, and nothing they stream is even remotely worth that investment.

[Puri]

Because what you're describing is not readily available on any established platform. They'd have to create their own proprietary platform from scratch to facilitate that technology, and nothing they stream is even remotely worth that investment.

Nah, you don't have to invent the wheel here new (although that again begs the qestion why this isn't a thing yet).
YT already allows overlays that link to somewhere else, just put 4 sections up. And they could offer links to players streams in the comments or just use their chatbot to broadcast them perdiodically.

[Tiev]

Screw competitive WoW. Blizzard should focus on the regular players.

[Biomega]

Screw competitive WoW. Blizzard should focus on the regular players.

What makes you think they aren't?

You know that you can focus on regular plays AND STILL HAVE something like the MDI, right?

[Gorsameth]

Currently 4.9k viewers i think its time to knock this on the head no one watches this stuff, specially when Echo is going to win it anyway.

Why is 5k viewers bad? Its a respectable number. Sure compared to the total playerbase of WoW its shit. But for a stream about niche content presented in an almost unwatchable way 5k viewers is good.

[Danuel]

Why is 5k viewers bad?

Do you relay think is a lot? In world where random kid streaming some shitty mobile game have more viewers?

[Magical Mudcrab]

Why is 5k viewers bad? Its a respectable number. Sure compared to the total playerbase of WoW its shit. But for a stream about niche content presented in an almost unwatchable way 5k viewers is good.

5k viewers, including embeds, relative to the channel's 1.6 million subscribers is pathetically low. In this event, Blizzard has multiple casters as well as production staff who manage player PoVs shown to users and the streams, and has put up hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes for an event that generates no value. It's not interesting for most veteran players because it's the same classes doing the same routes for the same dungeons, it's not interesting for any non-WoW players as trying to divine what the ever living fuck is happening in WoW when you're not a player is painful, and it's in a format that would be best described as "headache inducing" because we have a 4-way split screen for the entire stream.

[exochaft]

5k viewers, including embeds, relative to the channel's 1.6 million subscribers is pathetically low. In this event, Blizzard has multiple casters as well as production staff who manage player PoVs shown to users and the streams, and has put up hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes for an event that generates no value. It's not interesting for most veteran players because it's the same classes doing the same routes for the same dungeons, it's not interesting for any non-WoW players as trying to divine what the ever living fuck is happening in WoW when you're not a player is painful, and it's in a format that would be best described as "headache inducing" because we have a 4-way split screen for the entire stream.

I'll add some extra perspective. If you're a streamer on YouTube, it's not uncommon to have 5k - 15k live stream viewers (being really generous with the spread on the lower end to help Blizz on this one) for a channel with 300k to 500k subscribers. For big name streamers, it can get even higher ratios. With the number of subscribers Blizz has along with their ability to advertise well beyond what average Joe streamers can afford, they should be around 30k to 50k live viewers at the bare minimum. In the grand scheme of things, getting only 5k for a live stream with the size of their channel is terrible... it's the kind of performance you'd expect from a 100k subscriber channel, not 1.6mil subscriber channel.

That being said, the layout this time around was pretty bad and not thought out. I only tuned in out of morbid curiosity at one point, and "headache inducing" would be the correct way to put it. Shortly after checking out the stream, I turned it off.

[Vandren]

The only thing worse in this game than Mythic dungeons is esports Mythic dungeons.

[korijenkins]

I do. And you did enough to comment about it.

Commenting disapproval isn't hard or a sign of caring.

[Deadite]

Who the hell came up with this format? Four small windows and multiple people talking? They seem to be actively trying to discourage people from watching so i guess 5k is pretty good.

[rpdrichard]

According to this dates. 9.2.5 would be coming end of July, early August

[erifwodahs]

Commenting disapproval isn't hard or a sign of caring.

Where was disapproval? That was just a false statement that no one cares and people expressing disapproval is clear sign of caring