Well, BW is about to get a huge amount of exposure to foreign viewers, I know I'll be watching it for the first time with any seriousness, and yes I'm interested to see how it goes, and to learn a bit more about these players as they start playing SC2 as well.

How do we watch it though? it's going to be on youtube right but with no english commentary?

That seems like a pretty big failing at the start, they really need to strike while the iron is hot and they have time to sort this out surely? (if OGN LoL is anything to go by).

Who knows, maybe this is a second start for BW in the foreign community.

jubil

United States2602 Posts

May 10 2012 09:18 GMT

#546

wwhhhhyyyyy are they using ladder verisons of SC2 maps...that one neutral supply depot really does improve matchups by a ton

Ciryandor

United States3735 Posts

May 10 2012 09:25 GMT

#547

LOL That CLAM last header is hilarious.

Frankon

3054 Posts

May 10 2012 09:31 GMT

#548

Hmm another problem arises... How are we gonna LB the proleague?

BookTwo

1985 Posts

May 10 2012 09:43 GMT

#549

On May 10 2012 17:17 iKill wrote:

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I would curb my optimism if I was you. Even Flash says it'll take months, or more likely years, for him to reach his SC1 level in SC2.

All RTS is not alike, and SC2 is a different animal. You're not gonna see any SC1 pros suddenly curb stomp current SC2 pros. That said, I'm looking forward to Anaheim very much ^.^

err, yeah I think you will. flash got to masters or grandmasters without even knowing what the units actually did. give them a couple days/weeks and it'll be a roflstomp imo.

Ribbon

United States5278 Posts

May 10 2012 09:50 GMT

#550

On May 10 2012 18:31 Frankon wrote:
Hmm another problem arises... How are we gonna LB the proleague?

Liquibets might have to be me-

Oh god, Fantasy Proleague is going to be so weird now.

Steveling

Greece10806 Posts

May 10 2012 09:55 GMT

#551

Btw, this will be the last proleague with bw right? All the next ones gonna be only sc2?

Lasbike

France2888 Posts

May 10 2012 09:57 GMT

#552

"Flash (Rolster): I've become immersed in SC2 and play the game until 3-4 in the morning. It feels like when I first played SC1. I'll work hard so I can show everyone better games."

That's cool :D

elagrion

Ukraine422 Posts

May 10 2012 09:58 GMT

#553

Can we somehow reduce the shitstorm from sc2-only fans that will be like: "and this is the players that supposed to destroy everybody? But they don't even play at the level of <your favorite sc2 pro>." ?

Savern101

United Kingdom859 Posts

May 10 2012 10:01 GMT

#554

I'm excited to see how it turns out. Only thing that worries me is that the article suggests they'll be using ladder versions of SC2 maps. This is really really bad. The map pool they've got isn't too awful, but Antiga, Entombed really need to be X-spawns otherwise its not great. Also, Daybreak should be in as a 5th or instead of Entombed. Probably the best Sc2 map at the moment in terms of good games and balance.

Cool to hear how much Flash is enjoying SC2, also how honest he is about catching up to the current GOM crowd.

papaz

Sweden4149 Posts

May 10 2012 10:02 GMT

#555

On May 10 2012 18:55 Steveling wrote:
Btw, this will be the last proleague with bw right? All the next ones gonna be only sc2?

Yes.

SlayerS_BunkiE

Canada1711 Posts

May 10 2012 10:04 GMT

#556

lots of people have different takes on what's happening (understandably)
we're planning to watch this thing live in june
and no matter how good/shitty it turns out... i know we'll be screaming like crazy when the players come to their booth!

elagrion

Ukraine422 Posts

May 10 2012 10:05 GMT

#557

On May 10 2012 13:40 hacklebeast wrote:

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I don't know, Bisu loses to random progamers in qualifiers already.

In Bisu defense - so do anybody, he just kinda doing it too often.
The thing is - while bw pros will be forced to train in both games, they hardly will have chance to do really well in new game, so majority of fans could be just disappointed and leave.

Jochan

Poland1730 Posts

May 10 2012 10:06 GMT

#558

All cool, all cool, but what about the maps? Very small map pool for SC2, I like it, but why Entombed ? Did Blizzard give them some kind of GM stats or something to chose it over Daybreak? If I remember correctly Daybreak is crazy balanced, am I wrong?

iKill

Denmark861 Posts

May 10 2012 10:08 GMT

#559

On May 10 2012 18:43 BookTwo wrote:

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err, yeah I think you will. flash got to masters or grandmasters without even knowing what the units actually did. give them a couple days/weeks and it'll be a roflstomp imo.

I'm sorry to impact your porcelain belief that your childhood hero will come and cleanse the heathens of StarCraft II, but you're wrong. He's said it himself. Also, he didn't get to masters without knowing what the units did, it's blindingly obvious what a marine is or what a siege tank is. All it takes to get to masters is proper mechanics anyway. GM league is HARD, and I don't think you realize what a jump it is to go from masters to the GSL, even korean masters.

The elephant in the room is an inflatable one. Soon the BW pros will put a needle to it, and transition succesfully - but not crushingly - into SC2.

N.geNuity

United States5112 Posts

May 10 2012 10:11 GMT

#560

On May 10 2012 18:01 Pure-SC2 wrote:
Well, BW is about to get a huge amount of exposure to foreign viewers, I know I'll be watching it for the first time with any seriousness, and yes I'm interested to see how it goes, and to learn a bit more about these players as they start playing SC2 as well.

Who knows, maybe this is a second start for BW in the foreign community.

unfortunately the quality of games will deteriorate, and it saddens me that people's exposure to bw is going to be seeing the worst brood war in my time watching (at least a lot of the odt was poor; been watching since 2008).

good games will still pop up, and maybe I'm a bit skeptical, but the odt really ruined my optimism.