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United States238 Posts
Source: http://www.fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=115391&db=issue&cate=&page=1&field=&kwrd=
I'm not going to translate the whole thing word by word; I'll just give you the cliff's note:
World Cyber Games announced officially today that StarCraft 1 will no longer be part of WCG Grand Finals lineup. In its stead, StarCraft 2 has been selected.
Reason behind it is that "We decided to remove StarCraft 1 from our games lineup after a discussion with the gamers from all over the world, as well as the partner companies. Also, as we aim to represent the world's premier gaming tournament, we chose to use StarCraft 2 -- as the game is popular worldwide."
Fomos notes, while StarCraft 1 is removed only from the Grand Finals lineup, it is not likely to be seen on any WCG events from now on.
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51480 Posts
Most logical choice from WCG.
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Australia7069 Posts
This is sad. No more BW players at wcg, they're becoming even more seperated from us foreigners 
cant say i didn't see it coming, but it still hard to swallow
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Makes sense. Barely anyone outside of Korea plays the game competitively anymore. Majority of top foreign players have moved on to SC2. How many "top" foreign players are left in BW anyways?
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Whatever foreign "competition" that used to be there have probably all moved over to SC2 already, It'll just be a battle between the Progamers that win the Korean Qualifier, like it usually is anyways...
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Less JvF... meh.
They should just make a WCG Korea tourney instead.
KCG yo ~
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So sad to see that foreign SC:BW is slowly fading out. I just hope bw remains strong in Korea for many years to come.
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I'm sad, but i guess this was bound to happen one day. No more auto 1,2,3 finishes for Korea. =[
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hopefully it'll come back one day. I'll always believe that BW will rebound in the foreign scene!
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As much as I want to disagree with WCG's choice, it's actually logical. There's virtually no foreign scene left in BW, so something like WCG would be strapped for good players. It's a shame though, I was hoping that it'd be able to pull through for at least one more year. =\
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Yeah I agree with Ideas. It'll be back. I imagine this is only temporary.
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Watching sc2 is so much less exciting than watching sc1.
I can see that they chose sc2 because of the more players, but the spectators will suffer.
I was hoping for one more year so Jaedong or Flash would make it to the hall of fame.
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5003 Posts
Saw this coming, since WCG pulled off similar promotion stunts before to make some sort of statement. It's not like WCG really has a choice this time around, anyway.
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On March 07 2011 11:53 Release wrote:
Watching sc2 is so much less exciting than watching sc1.
I can see that they chose sc2 because of the more players, but the spectators will suffer.
Agreed and I'm a sc2 player now (used to play bw)
Oh well at least proleague is the most exciting tourney to watch.
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Dammit. I really liked watching WCG Korea selection games.
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United States7481 Posts
On one hand, WCG is going to be a huge loss - it delivered awesome games every year, just last year looking at FvJ on Grand Line and Tau Cross those were 2 of the best games in all of 2010. On the other hand, the foreign scene is getting pretty weak. I'm also interested about a possible future return if bw rebounds abroad, is there any precedent in wcg for a game going away but coming back later?
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Can't say i blame them. Ah well, atleast we know that SC2 will be there.
RIP BW
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Wow this is a real shame. BW is 100x more fun to watch than SC2. Though Iove watching both.
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Hm, can't say I'm surprised. Would've loved to see them both at WCG tbh.
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