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Hello everyone,
I want to share my plans for 2024 with all of you guys, after the ThaiLANd I have a lot of motivation to make new things, as well as improve everything I was doing so far. Meeting all the amazing people during the LAN and hanging out with them, gave me power and motivation to continue my path. Also I’m extremely motivated to make open LAN events like that this year - because that's what's bringing community and people together. I will work my ass out to make it happen!
Before that I want to give you a short update on my current situation as a tournament organizer:
1. Almost exactly 2 years ago I left my job and decided to become full time tournament organizer.
2. After 10 months I wasn’t earning enough on it, so I’ve set the Patreon goal to meet till the end of BSL16 - we reached ~50% of the goal - so from April I came back to my old work for half time.
3. I still hope that one day I will be able to live out of producing tournaments and content only, but for now doing it for half time is still great and is keeping the dream alive.
4. Unfortunately after the ThaiLANd LAN drama I’ve lost a bunch of Patreons - it’s my mistake and misjudgement and I have to live with the consequences of it, but if you guys like my plans for 2024 - reaching back to $1250 a month would give me a big chance to continue making events as I did in 2023, otherwise I will have to come back to my full time work, and will not have excuse to my wife why I'm spending so much time for BW ^^
5. https://www.patreon.com/Bombastic - $894 / $1250 - I don’t want to make any deadline, just do it if you can and if you think my job is worth it.
My plans:
Premier events:
- BSL Season 18 (Missing $4600, if I won’t find sponsor till the end of January, we will launch it with lower prize pool)
- BSL Season 19
- BSL Season 20* (*If I will know that I have funding for it till April [otherwise I won’t fit three seasons, not enough weekends])
- New Super Gosu event - Artosis & ZZZero event incoming
- BSL Korea - My goal is to make a regular Korean League, first for entertainment, but secondly to have contact to manage sparing and practice partners for our players (to see them into ASL finally!)
Obviously I would love to bring more events, but it's depended on sponsors and funding. I'm open for new ideas!
Major events:
- BSL Races Championships: Season 2 (2 days a week, one day EU time, one day NA/SA time, finals during the weekend)
- BSL Nation Wars (Captains / Leaders PM me please)
Minor events:
- BSL King of the Mountain / ProLeague style matches (each Wednesday/Thursday EU time)
Offline events:
- I’m planning to make at least three offline tournaments this year.
1. BSL Warsaw: - February - March (24-25.02 or 02-03.03)
2. BSL Gdańsk: - June - July
3. BSL Warsaw Finals: Polish World Championships 2024 - October - November
4. I’m willing to make an offline LAN in any place/country - as long as we will have a reasonable prize pool and my tickets/accomodation will be covered. Just PM me if you are interested.
If I won't find funding, I will make matcherino page for the events I don't have prizepool yet, I believe that there are a lot of people who will want to support an event directly and whom we will motivate to do so during the broadcast.
That’s me giving my best to the community. Now it's up to you if you share and support it if you like it.
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https://www.patreon.com/bombastic
Coinbase: dideko.o@gmail.com
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damn... thats a lot. I stay patreon 4 this
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BSL Forever!! Good job mr Bombastic
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Why is the original link titled “Bonyth is banned”?? This is reflected in the discord post you made.
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is it possible? as always the sky is the limit
would be great to see blizzard formally support these, even with limited/no financial backing -- talk to scarlett?
i heard AMD is sponsoring ASL -- would also be a great sponsor even with limited financial backing
if dewalt can show good results at ASL perhaps the foreign scene will gain some respect/attention
thank you for your hard work.
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Nation wars would be pretty cool
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Maybe reduce everything and back to 5k goal? Change format ? then less weekend or + games/ day. Maybe make public opinion research,some people why doesn't BSL support it anymore? Maybe on this point let open for Koreans players (except pro)
i supported ban Koreans because they have 10x more opportunity for practice and etc, China just x8 so it does not matter anymore and it's fair
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Sounds sick. Hope everything works out!
GL HF gentlemen 
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Amazing.
For nation wars what would be the format? Also do you accept groups of nearby countries like TDR did?
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Thank you for all your hard work last year and the update!
Organising all these online/offline leagues must be a huge logistic challenge.
The Thailand tournament looks super fun and am definite interested to see more of these LAN events.
Hope everything works out okay!
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Nice!
Gooo Zzzero! Thanks for keeping foreign BW active 
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On January 21 2024 22:11 WGT-Baal wrote:
Amazing.
For nation wars what would be the format? Also do you accept groups of nearby countries like TDR did?
My idea is to make teams: Russia, Poland, Peru, Chile, USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Rest of Europe + Thailand, Rest of LatAm
Mb Chile should be with the rest of LatAm ? I'm waiting for potential captains to PM me!
I think those would be relatively equal in terms of power, but I'm open for discussion about it. I will make a thread for each event individually though.
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On January 22 2024 22:55 ZZZero.O wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2024 22:11 WGT-Baal wrote:
Amazing.
For nation wars what would be the format? Also do you accept groups of nearby countries like TDR did? My idea is to make teams: Russia, Poland, Peru, Chile, USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Rest of Europe + Thailand, Rest of LatAm Mb Chile should be with the rest of LatAm ? I'm waiting for potential captains to PM me! I think those would be relatively equal in terms of power, but I'm open for discussion about it. I will make a thread for each event individually though.
Thanks! The list looks well balanced yes. I ll check with former NEU members if anyone is interested. I retired from captaining due to lack of time but if player are interested i ll find someone to PM you
What s the deadline?
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Looks like a great line up. Also, I think the Korean connection idea could be great. I'll support for sure.
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Does it look like there won't be any Chinese players in these competitions?
Is there a good channel to seek sponsors from China?
There are a relatively large number of sponsors for competitions in China. Sponsors who pay more for a large competition usually pay $1000 to $2000, while sponsors who pay less usually pay $100.
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Maybe chineese audience could donate/sponsor some? Lot of viewers on that side + fans. And it seems they often donate to mihu / spon games.
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That will be a real challenge to convince Chiense to donate to the laowai online/LAN tournament.
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EPT
