I'm glad they removed it instead of WC3.

because WCG has always been considered a minor tournament for BW, its overshadowed by OSL and MSL, whereas WCG has always been the #1 tournament for Warcraft 3. Also WarCraft 3 desperately needs any tournament it can get..

Mr. Wiggles

Canada5894 Posts

March 07 2011 06:05 GMT

#203

This kind've makes me sad. I never really got into the BW scene, but I'm really into SC2 now, and have started watching more BW in addition. I think the BW scene is really awesome, so it's sad to see it fading now that I've finally discovered it.

gamecrazy

United States421 Posts

March 07 2011 06:06 GMT

#204

I think BW will never die, and there will always be tourneys out there for it, but WCG wants to grow their fanbase around the world. To do so, they felt they needed to cut out BW, which is a onesided rofl-stomp that generally discourages international participation in WCG. I can see the logic in their decision, and I'm glad I got to watch the LAST WCG finals that included SC:BW. I hold out no hope that they'll reverse this decision.

edit: Sure, BW is being somewhat supplanted by SC2 here, but I don't think it's anything about SC2. BW would fade away without foreigners ever wanting to pick it up and play it if SC2 doesn't exist anyway. I just think WCG wants to make their entire grand final experience more "international" and having BW in the tourney is just not conducive to that. Doesn't really mean BW is dieing.

jayGroove

United States15 Posts

March 07 2011 06:06 GMT

#205

On March 07 2011 14:55 Chimpalimp wrote:
I wonder if they removed WC3 from the line up too. If WC3 and BW were replaced by SC2 and LoL, I will honestly have no reason to watch WCG. It will be a hollow tournament.

The article mentioned that WC3 remains in the line-up. Don't worry.

devilshootsdevil

Canada122 Posts

March 07 2011 06:07 GMT

#206

Good. WCG has always been global and SC2 is obviously more popular outside of South Korea.

Babaganoush

United States626 Posts

March 07 2011 06:10 GMT

#207

Good for WCG. It's time to move on.

I know there's a lot of people who are still into BW but if you do a side-by-side comparison with the *international* SC2 fans, then they're most likely outnumbered. While Koreans dominate BW, I think foreigners have a better chance in competiting with Korea in SC2.

Highways

Australia6120 Posts

March 07 2011 06:10 GMT

#208

End of an era for BW, but Starcraft 2 is the future.

Looking forward to it.

HeIios

Sweden2523 Posts

March 07 2011 06:17 GMT

#209

I'm glad to see that at least SC2 will be in the line-up, but what happened to the whole "samsung to pull all blizzard games from WCG" thing? Surely it couldn't already be resolved?

Kal_rA1

160 Posts

March 07 2011 06:20 GMT

#210

shame.. well as long as proleague msl and osl are still on im happy

Loser777

1931 Posts

March 07 2011 06:21 GMT

#211

It's the most sensible decision for WCG right now in terms of money... we'll see in a few years what happens in terms of popularity.

kisoso

Bulgaria105 Posts

March 07 2011 06:21 GMT

#212

On March 07 2011 11:49 HKriceboy88 wrote:
I'm sad, but i guess this was bound to happen one day. No more auto 1,2,3 finishes for Korea. =[

Yeah, probably not 'auto', but more or less Koreans will dominate.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

March 07 2011 06:23 GMT

#213

On March 07 2011 15:17 HeIios wrote:
I'm glad to see that at least SC2 will be in the line-up, but what happened to the whole "samsung to pull all blizzard games from WCG" thing? Surely it couldn't already be resolved?

Samsung said that they would pull funding and sponsorship if WCG decided to include Blizzard games.

Now, we just need to wait to hear about Samsung's response, which probably won't be good. I expect them to pull their sponsorship while WCG attempts to find another sponsor.

LumberJack

United States3355 Posts

March 07 2011 06:23 GMT

#214

On March 07 2011 11:49 HKriceboy88 wrote:
I'm sad, but i guess this was bound to happen one day. No more auto 1,2,3 finishes for Korea. =[

... what was the IEM finishes again?

potatomash3r

Australia417 Posts

March 07 2011 06:25 GMT

#215

I understand why they are doing this but its still a sad thing to see happen this soon. It hasn't even been a year since starcraft 2 was released D:

Leetley

1796 Posts

March 07 2011 06:25 GMT

#216

On March 07 2011 15:05 Mr. Wiggles wrote:
This kind've makes me sad. I never really got into the BW scene, but I'm really into SC2 now, and have started watching more BW in addition. I think the BW scene is really awesome, so it's sad to see it fading now that I've finally discovered it.

Exactly my thoughts. I wish I would've been here before the SC2 release.

ranma1202

Vietnam62 Posts

March 07 2011 06:25 GMT

#217

NOW CAN WE SAY THAT BLIZZARD KILLED BW? OR AM I GOING TO GET ANOTHER WARNING?

User was temp banned for this post.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

March 07 2011 06:26 GMT

#218

On March 07 2011 15:23 LumberJack wrote:

Show nested quote +

... what was the IEM finishes again?

Here's hoping that Ret, Jinro, and Huk represent Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada respectively. It would be a disservice if they had to qualify with the Koreans.