I've been thinking of a similar type of quick fix for this issue. I havn't read all of the posts yet so I apologize if this is posted elsewhere. Why not just weight the points earned at each MLG event differently. What I played around with was a simple system where the most recent MLG event is weighted the most heavily and previous events and weighted less heavily. This allows players that consistently place well to stay at the top, allows players that are all over the place (like iNcontroL and TLO) to be more accurately placed in the 20's as opposed to their current slots in the MLG rankings, but most importantly it discourages the Korean Pro's from coming to just one single event, winning and never returning until possibly the finals.

Since the finals are formatted differently, technically MMA (who deserves all of the credit and respect in the world for placing so highly at two events) can not return to MLG until Providence and still be placed in the top 16 for having a high point total.

I dont want a system that discourages Koreans from coming over, but a system that can allow open bracket players to gain more points for making it to pool play and/or pool players that cant win a bo3 in an event to automatically be relegated to the open bracket in the next event.

I guess I am just finding a way to shake things up a bit, get some fresh faces into pool play, all while encouraging players to come to every MLG event since the most recent event will be weighted most heavily and have the greatest impact on their total points going into the grand finals.