EPTBSL Season 5 - Page 3
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Hatchet_man
Russian Federation249 Posts
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iRk-AGge
Sweden400 Posts
The countdown timer on the BSL webbsite says 31 days left, but nowhere on the front page does it say "starts in 10hours", so maybe that's the confusion, for those lazy asses who havent read the whole rule section! xD Anyways, looking forward to the start of BSL today! <3 HYPE IS REAL! | ||
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arew
Lithuania1861 Posts
On October 02 2018 15:52 kogeT wrote: What do you mean by "Asia server"? Matchmaking is global so you'll anyway play 99% of games vs non-koreans. I won't. That's exactly the purpose of using VPN and what most of us are doing to play koreans in Korea server to practice.  | ||
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kogeT
Poland2041 Posts
On October 02 2018 17:16 arew wrote: I won't. That's exactly the purpose of using VPN and what most of us are doing to play koreans in Korea server to practice. Oh so you just mean using VPN, server doesn't matter for that. Unless you mean China? | ||
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TT1
Canada10021 Posts
For some reason Blizz's matchmaking algorithm prioritizes Koreans over Europeans for NA players, i live in the East coast so i dunno about West coasters. It's not that i don't like playing vs Kors, i do but a lot of the time they end up cheesing u because the games are TR16.. which becomes tiresome after a while. Out of 100 games ill hit a EU player maybe 1 or 2 times, would be nice to see that number go up a bit. But at the end of the day i can just play vs EU players via VPN if i wanted to (for something like the BSL) so it's not a huge deal. That said i wonder how this will affect the final rankings because i'm pretty sure EU players are gonna be ranking each other up (and they have a way bigger player pool) whereas NA players are gonna be hitting Koreans way more frequently. | ||
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Navane
Netherlands2751 Posts
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zaMNal
Mongolia385 Posts
can you please PM me on how you were able to acquire sponsorship from Blizzard? Whom at Blizzard can I contact on this matter? Thank you. I've also sent you a PM. | ||
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elKa-ThE-FeArEd
Sweden177 Posts
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Ikirouta
Finland739 Posts
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ZZZero.O
Poland1589 Posts
Of course foreigners who are living in Korea will be allowed to play. Like Artosis, Rapid, CadenZie,... | ||
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arew
Lithuania1861 Posts
On October 02 2018 17:27 TT1 wrote: Actually about 30%+ of my games without VPN are vs Kors, it's a bit weird because i get TR16 vs them whereas when i face a European i always get at least TR20/TR24 (TR24 mostly). It's odd because if a Korean and European player search at the same time i'll always end up hitting the Kor player over the EU player (obviously only when there's no other NA player Q'ing, which surprisingly happens very frequently). For some reason Blizz's matchmaking algorithm prioritizes Koreans over Europeans for NA players, i live in the East coast so i dunno about West coasters. It's not that i don't like playing vs Kors, i do but a lot of the time they end up cheesing u because the games are TR16.. which becomes tiresome after a while. Out of 100 games ill hit a EU player maybe 1 or 2 times, would be nice to see that number go up a bit. But at the end of the day i can just play vs EU players via VPN if i wanted to (for something like the BSL) so it's not a huge deal. That said i wonder how this will affect the final rankings because i'm pretty sure EU players are gonna be ranking each other up (and they have a way bigger player pool) whereas NA players are gonna be hitting Koreans way more frequently. Yeah, that's actually really weird but I believe good practice wise? As for BSL, I think playing on Korean/Asian server (what I plan to do) is a better advantage since you have shorter queue time which equals to more games you can play in shorter amount of time (we have 1 month). In EU server once you reach 2k MMR it might get quite hard sometimes to find a game fast enough, without waiting 5++ minutes. Even if you do find a game you might end up playing playing someone 300 MMR less than you and receiving something like 2points per victory which is not so fun. Of course, when BSL comes to action, hopefully even more people will be playing and it might not be an issue anymore! Ayyy! | ||
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TT1
Canada10021 Posts
On October 02 2018 21:47 arew wrote: Yeah, that's actually really weird but I believe good practice wise? As for BSL, I think playing on Korean/Asian server (what I plan to do) is a better advantage since you have shorter queue time which equals to more games you can play in shorter amount of time (we have 1 month). In EU server once you reach 2k MMR it might get quite hard sometimes to find a game fast enough, without waiting 5++ minutes. Even if you do find a game you might end up playing playing someone 300 MMR less than you and receiving something like 2points per victory which is not so fun. Of course, when BSL comes to action, hopefully even more people will be playing and it might not be an issue anymore! Ayyy! It's not great practice when you're playing vs early game allins most of the time  (with lag), ideally it would be cool if the matchmaking prioritized NA vs EU matchups more often (the player pool expands and the latency is actually playable). If i really wanted to play vs Kors i could just do so on a VPN, it takes 2 secs to run it.That said i'm not sure what they're gonna do with the matchmaking system once they release the 2v2 ladder. Playing games with 2 foreigners vs 2 koreans is impossible right now and i don't think the EU + NA player base is big enough to support a 2v2 ladder. Anyways i'm getting ahead of myself, that's a diff matter to discuss further down the line :D. | ||
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ne4aJIb
Russian Federation3209 Posts
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Jaeyun
United States202 Posts
Either way, hyped for BSL. Thanks ZZZero and all who are helping to coordinate! | ||
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Cele
Germany4016 Posts
On October 02 2018 05:30 Hatchet_man wrote: Answering some popular questions regarding region lock: We will check residency based on country data provided by your bnet accounts (the flags next to your nicknames). For every account with KR flag we will ask you to confirm your residency. So Players 1 and 2 can advance to the main stage, and Player3 can't. Same rule applies to the proxying. We can't stop you from doing this, and won't ban you from the tournament if system thinks you're Korean while you aren't Korean. are chinese players eligible to play? | ||
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Hatchet_man
Russian Federation249 Posts
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Hatchet_man
Russian Federation249 Posts
![[image loading]](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/461933675324375040/496803899509047317/unknown.png) But user profiles show this: ![[image loading]](http://i91.fastpic.ru/big/2018/1003/a1/02526f03349f87879be6e839ad3e8da1.jpg) Seems like ladder season still didn't change. Probably need to wait some more | ||
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Hatchet_man
Russian Federation249 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i89.fastpic.ru/big/2018/1003/bf/51265a4de50f6b25038ba0873b364fbf.jpg) OK. GO-GO-GO now! | ||
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ZZZero.O
Poland1589 Posts
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE ! Remember: TOP 20 — PROLEAGUE. TOP21–84 — CHOBOLEAGUE. Better position in ladder stage will give you advantage during maps vetos. https://bombasticstarleague.com/ <- Don't forget to sign up. | ||
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Ty2
United States1434 Posts
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