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On December 20 2017 14:20 Waxangel wrote:via InvenThe "StarCraft: Remastered School Championship" is set to be held by a Ode Inc., a concert production company. Middle and high school students will be eligible to compete, with a total prize pool of around 20,000,000 KRW (10,000,000 KRW to first place). Applications and online-offline qualifiers will be held in January, while the final live event will be held in early February. No info has been given on streaming platforms. It strikes me as a very odd tournament from a very odd company, but I'm glad someone is trying to help the BW scene out at the developmental level. I really wonder how many kids play BW these days, given the the popularity of games like LoL and Overwatch, and it will be interesting to see what level the finalists are at.
Didn't see this post before, but figured might as well have a separate thread due to stuff in the other thread being buried quickly.
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Fuck I'm old.
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Anyways I salute this idea which will bring some new blood to scene. Kids need to refrain from LoL and start playing the real game.
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i suspect someone high in the corporate ladder in that company just has an affinity for BW or their child does
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Translation with online tool roughly:
Requirement:
Korean, Age 13-18
Registration:
12/20~1/7/2018
http://naver.me/5cHaMarI
Online School qualifiers:
About 5500 middle+high schools in Korea, 1 player advances per school(?)
1/10~1/20 2018
Bo3 SE
Offline Area qualifiers:
8 areas in Korea, 1 players advance per area.
1/21~28 2018
Bo3 SE
Offline Grand Finals
8 players.
2/10~2/11 2018
Bo5 SE
Prize pool:
1st 10M KRW (About 9.2k USD)
2nd 5M
3/4 1M
5-8 0.5M
Official website:
https://schoolchamp.co.kr
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you know something's fucked up when a school championship has a 20m krw prize pool yet ATB can't be run
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Since Remastered launched organizers lesser and lesser wanna organize anything about SC because of Blizzard greediness. RIP OSL, RIP ATB. This tourney organised it before Greedzard sniffs out money they can milk out.
Shame...
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Government officials are gonna have a hell of a time trying to explain why 2018's school exam results are 30% lower than 2017's.
Excellent news though, the scene could really do with a new generation of players.
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Pretty cool to see.
On December 20 2017 16:46 GTR wrote:
you know something's fucked up when a school championship has a 20m krw prize pool yet ATB can't be run
pretty much. This isn't the first time that Blizzard has done this crap. They did it with ATB2 as well. So stupid how they are having such a negative effect on the scene while they imply that they care...
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What Blizzard have done this time?
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In Blizzard forum, it seems like Blizzard has some plans on holding some official starcraft R tournaments in the next year.
It's more likely this is true, as there is a 25 people team within Blizzard which is trying to improve starcraft R constantly.
Maybe at some point, they will announce the plans.
All of the above information is not official yet, we need someone to provide some source information.
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On December 21 2017 04:13 BigFan wrote:Pretty cool to see. Show nested quote +On December 20 2017 16:46 GTR wrote:
you know something's fucked up when a school championship has a 20m krw prize pool yet ATB can't be run pretty much. This isn't the first time that Blizzard has done this crap. They did it with ATB2 as well. So stupid how they are having such a negative effect on the scene while they imply that they care...
What happened with ATB? I tried searching the forums but couldn't find anything.
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On December 21 2017 09:02 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2017 04:13 BigFan wrote:Pretty cool to see. On December 20 2017 16:46 GTR wrote:
you know something's fucked up when a school championship has a 20m krw prize pool yet ATB can't be run pretty much. This isn't the first time that Blizzard has done this crap. They did it with ATB2 as well. So stupid how they are having such a negative effect on the scene while they imply that they care... What happened with ATB? I tried searching the forums but couldn't find anything.
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AfreecaTV CEO said ' i want to hold ATB, but Blizzard do not approve it. I dont know the reason.'
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Oh, okay. So just the usual Blizzard BS.
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Fuck Blizzard
I'm impressed that they destroy every competitive scene their games have by being involved.
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Can someone help me enter a Korean high school?
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This is awesome news!
And yeah... fuck blizz greed. One wonders why they want to destroy their own reputation again and again...
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On December 21 2017 18:22 Pippah wrote:
This is awesome news!
And yeah... fuck blizz greed. One wonders why they want to destroy their own reputation again and again...
They don't, they're just clueless about their own games and happened to luck out a lot in the past while having a real devteam, instead of the people who massacred SC2 and D3.
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Lol wut... They should be happy there are still gamers willing to compete on BW and they do that to them? WTF they hate gamers?
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Ty2 you still in high school? I'd say he has a good chance winning this. Unless they let koreans play in it.
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Where dat snitch at?37043 Posts
On December 22 2017 00:17 Alpha-NP- wrote:
Ty2 you still in high school? I'd say he has a good chance winning this. Unless they let koreans play in it.
...It’s a Korean event that’s being held in Korea...
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EPT
