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SILVERSTONE, Great Britain -- Fernando Alonso topped the timesheets on the first morning of this weeks in-season test at Silverstone.Alonso set a 1:31.290 during a short three-lap run, a time nearly half a second quicker than his qualifying time at the weekends British Grand Prix. However, he used the super-soft tyre on Tuesday morning, which is one stage softer than the softest compound available over the race weekend.Alonso was a full 1.5s clear of his nearest competitor Esteban Ocon, who was at the wheel of the championship-leading Mercedes W07. Ocon, who is contracted to Mercedes despite being a Renault reserve driver, stuck to the medium compound tyre for the entire morning session as he completed 80 laps in three and a half hours for the world champions.Third fastest was GP2 driver and Williams reserve Alex Lynn, who was a further 1.6s off the pace of Ocon and 3.1s off the pace of Alonso. He completed 38 laps over the course of the morning and finished the session with a time 0.013s quicker than GP3 and Ferrari Academy driver Charles Leclerc. The 18-year-old Leclerc was making his F1 debut for Ferrari after a successful run with Haas during first practice for the British GP.Force India rookie Nikita Mazepin kicked off the first of his two days of testing with the fifth fastest time, 0.122s quicker than Toro Rosso regular Carlos Sainz. Santino Ferrucci also made his debut in the Haas with 53 laps of the Silverstone circuit and a best lap of 1:34.866.Pascal Wehrlein swapped his Manor for a 2014 Mercedes as he embarked on 2017 tyre testing for Pirelli. Although the tyres were the same size as the current specification, the construction materials and compounds are prototypes for the new wider tyres set to be introduced next year. 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The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will go down in history as an important growth step for the game as esports on television starts gaining momentum.That said, it had its own ups and downs as a league.The GoodHigh production valuesGood personalities and analystsSolid content around playersFirst on a note of praise, it is undoubtedly true that ELeagues production was a level above that of other esports broadcasts. The team behind the award-winning show Inside the NBA brought ELeague to life. Working with the natural talent of the ELeague broadcast analysts themselves, Turner turned the final result into something genuinely funny and entertaining to watch.There were subtler aspects of production that also shined. Reaction shots of players and fans added emotional context to the in-game action. The closely contested Week 1 Finals on TBS were seasoned with timely cuts to the rowdy crowd as Cloud9 appeared to be taking down the favored former Luminosity squad. The energy in the air was nearly palpable, and it was an amazing kickoff to the live television viewing experience.In addition, highlighting the personal stories of some of the players themselves made the games more meaningful without sacrificing the pacing of the broadcast. They allowed a newer audience the opportunity to feel engaged with the players and teams.The BadFormat lacks weightHard for viewers to become invested week-to-weekDrawn-out tournament, not a true leagueUnfortunately, ELeagues choice of format undermined many of the productions efforts to add weight to the games. Essentially, ELeague wasnt a true league; instead, it was a drawn-out tournament with an unusually high number of teams and an unnecessarily inflated game count. As a result, it was difficult to become invested in any single game throughout the group stages, save perhaps the weekly Friday finals played on TBS.The draw of a league is to have the best teams play each other throughout the season in exciting matches to balance out the less-appealing games between worse teams. The advantage of a tournament is that it cuts down on the number of games in favorr of producing only the most competitive matches.dddddddddddd. ELeagues compromise between the league and tournament formats sacrificed the best aspects of the both of them to its detriment. Thankfully, the ELeague team seems to have realized this and is looking at making Season 2 a shorter affair, hopefully with a more exciting format.The UglyThe SK Gaming/Luminosity fiascoDue to a perfect storm of unfortunate events, SK Gamings newly acquired team and its former roster, now playing under Team X, were removed from ELeague and not allowed to compete in the playoffs. This was controversial partly because the new SK Gaming roster had formerly been under Luminosity Gaming and had built a reputation as the best team in the world. The disqualifications occurred because of an ELeague rule that the teams own their spots in the league and not the players, and both SK and LG broke the rules in the way that they changed their rosters.Players and fans alike took to social media to decry the ruling, but ELeague is not in the wrong for standing by its own rules. In traditional sports, the organization is the one that owns the spot to compete in the league, not the players, and Turner modeled its esports league in this fashion. Having a set of players switch banners midseason would be bad form and would also set a bad precedent that team organizations could buy their way into better spots within the league.The situation was still ugly, however, and not just because of social media. A petition from other team owners that asked ELeague to uphold the official rule came to light, which many people interpreted as evidence of shady dealings; ELeague said that the decision was based solely on its rules.In the end, everyone lost. The players of SKs current squad and the previous squad lost their chance to play out the rest of the season, both SK and LG lost exposure by not playing on television, and ELeague lost the draw of the best team in the world, fresh off of a second consecutive Major title, competing in its tournament. ' ' '