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Originally Posted by JimHalpert
The result is "shrug who knows time ran out thanks for watching". It's deflating. Makes it hard to get invested in stories they are telling when they give no ending/closure to it.
Haven't followed the tournament due to personal stuff, but I can see your point. I can imagine in the pre-shootout days in the NHL that people are bound to be really irritated when they spend their money, they see these great hockey players play for 60 minutes, 5 minutes of OT and that's it. Both gets a point and that's done. The game is over. There are no resolutions. Go home. I can imagine the people watching it seems very irritated in the end. I'm sure those people want, instead of a shootout, to go into more OT until next goal wins, but I don't think that idea would be too ideal from the NHL's Higher Ups perspective.
That stated, G1 Climax is a tournament where points do matter, and the cool thing is that rivalries aren't meant to be closed in the tournament and a rivalry can carry over into the Fall. From what I read in the above post, Tanahashi does not need to win in regulation to make the finals, Okada does, so of course, Tanahashi can be booked to map out a strategy to force out the time limit draw and do what he can to make Okada struggle to attempt to win. Plus with their history, there was no way that either of them can get a regulation win (all three? of their G1 matches went the time limit draw). As long as people understands that going into watching the match, I don't think people would feel as cheated at the end result.
That stated again, the 60 minute Omega/Okada match last year, I can understand where people are really irate about the end result. A big world title match is on the line, and almost 12,000 people paid to see it live, and they went the distance and no true resolution has been made (until the very next year). I say the crowd have every right to feel cheated even if the match really delivered as a main event. The G1 Climax 28 Day 17 main event? I don't think not so much.