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Originally Posted by ship
not that i have explicit knowledge of their infrastructure, but why wouldn't they be? have you ever been to a business office of any sort? they're probably running the show out of an office space filled with desks cubicles computers and a couple of offices for management. they're running a company for profit. one of the ways u maximize your gains is by keeping overhead expenses low. it would literally be ******ed to have 7 different offices to handle things that could be consolidated into one office. so yes, they almost assuredly are 'all in the same room'
For a smallish company (< 50 employes) this is probably true about the space.
But you're overlooking an important fact. This is the internet age. Telecommuting is dirt cheap. Also, not everyone is in the office all the time. People like to have lives outside of work. WPN HQ is in the Philippines, which is 11 hours ahead of the East Coast. That means when the WPN kicks off at 3pm EST, it will be 4 AM at WPN HQ. People are home, asleep, with cell phones possibly out of hearing.
For a major tournament like this, you'd be inclined to think "well why the hell isn't everyone in the office regardless of the time?!?!" but what do you think a major tournament looks like to a system admin or an executive when it's running smoothly?
BORING. It's watching player counts and chip sizes. Yawnsville.
If all has been running smoothly the big decision makers are gonna be in bed sleeping. Now back in Dec it *hadn't* been running smoothly, of course, but even in my department where I work (IT department in customer support) if that were the case we'd have a few key technical people and a manager watching things.
The big decision makers - our director, our VP, our CIO - they wouldn't be hovering. When those guys hover we (the techies) yell at them for getting in the way.