The biggest FOREIGN tournament. And yes, it's really confusing to me why such a high profile event (5k+ in prizes, offline finals in a cool location) doesn't get a ton more hype.

Q~Bert

United States663 Posts

June 14 2019 17:35 GMT

#108

On June 14 2019 23:53 Cele wrote:

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The biggest FOREIGN tournament. And yes, it's really confusing to me why such a high profile event (5k+ in prizes, offline finals in a cool location) doesn't get a ton more hype.

Probably because in 80%+ of the qualification pools there is already quite a bit of certainty on who is advancing.. It's the same players who have been winning tournaments for past 2-3 years. The Moscow LAN will be quite a bit of fun to watch I'm sure but it's still quite a ways off.

GeckoXp

Germany2016 Posts

June 14 2019 19:09 GMT

#109

On June 14 2019 23:53 Cele wrote:

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The biggest FOREIGN tournament. And yes, it's really confusing to me why such a high profile event (5k+ in prizes, offline finals in a cool location) doesn't get a ton more hype.

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Cele

Germany4016 Posts

June 14 2019 21:47 GMT

#110

On June 15 2019 02:35 Q~Bert wrote:

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Yeah Yaj i had this thought too, i'm inclined to agree with you. It can't be helped tho, the aim is to make the offline finals an event with the very top % of players. And ofc if we talk about the quotas per region, it is a factor that can dissuade participation i agree. Then we had a bit of an “underdog“ winner in EU#1. At least i didn't have Oya in my short list of likely winners beforehand, but he deserved it. In the EU region, with Eon invited, we had a very levelled playing field i think. In other regions, there are much more clear favorites.

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Norway637 Posts

June 14 2019 22:03 GMT

#111

I don't quite agree that the same players attending is the problem.

In both ASL and KSL there's more or less the same players attending, with some variances. The same can be said for top foreigner tournaments. But it's still possible to create hype. It's more about creating emotions than the actual prize pool, or the variety of players.

Q~Bert

United States663 Posts

June 15 2019 04:19 GMT

#112

I think you misunderstood me. There is no problem or issue with expecting the best and most active players to advance. It's just that this creates very little drama for the qualifiers. And no one should expect people to continually post in this thread for the next 4 months until the finals occur.

TeMiL

Peru545 Posts

June 17 2019 14:32 GMT

#113

yesterday we had the America Qualify 1.
this week will have Qualify 2.
the winner of each Qualify wins 1 paid trip? thats means theres only 2 spots for America? or if a player can afford to pay his own trip he can particiapte?

LG)Sabbath

Argentina3024 Posts

June 17 2019 23:19 GMT

#114

On June 15 2019 13:19 Q~Bert wrote:
I think you misunderstood me. There is no problem or issue with expecting the best and most active players to advance. It's just that this creates very little drama for the qualifiers. And no one should expect people to continually post in this thread for the next 4 months until the finals occur.

This is only true if you only care about the results, otherwise still some great games are played and it's fun to watch, and there are some underdogs to root for, for example I did not expect Oya to win in EU.

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1893 Posts

June 18 2019 00:22 GMT

#115

On June 17 2019 23:32 TeMiL wrote:
yesterday we had the America Qualify 1.
this week will have Qualify 2.
the winner of each Qualify wins 1 paid trip? thats means theres only 2 spots for America? or if a player can afford to pay his own trip he can particiapte?

Unfortunately not, Temil. You are, of course, welcomed to come at your expense as a spectator, and highly likely you will have a dozen of games with eleetes, but out of the tournament scope.