EPTIPL6 reported to be canceled or postponed - Page 20
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Jeffhesser
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TheFish7
United States2824 Posts
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Jeffhesser
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Wyrd
United States211 Posts
On March 02 2013 05:54 Jeffhesser wrote: IPLRobin is making some commentary on twitter that is miles away from official but certainly pointing towards him being absent from Vegas and insinuating that some cheering up is indeed in order. Can you link? Having trouble finding anything. Unless you mean the Brazilian buffet thing. | ||
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Bjarne
Germany192 Posts
On March 02 2013 04:12 Skirmjan wrote: It's a little strange that IPL is gonna cancel after the bookings and all, one can hope they're still discussing selling terms to someone so they cannot answer to inquiries.... still, i have to fear the worst, and it would be a giant pity @Fiwikaki I must start saying that i've never seen so much disiformation in a single poster, and believe me i saw a ton of it. You're trying to get on the good old "sc2 is dying" train, and your arguments are: You're comparing the 12k viewers of Sc2 in a moment when there's pretty much nothing going on except the Xilence Cup, which with its 200 viewers is much much less than a good streamer, to a major LoL event that is still "only" taking in 100k viewers right now.... okay, i'm gonna do a post someday this year when WCS is up and LoL has nothing so i can declare LoL's death. Then comes the "eeeh Sc2 is old" argument, so old that HotS is being launched in 11 days, and historically all of Blizzard's games have been selling at least on par, usually better after their expansions, instead of the first after-launch period (which is quite strange compared to the competition) then you go on saying that LoL does 5x-20x viewers than Sc2, LOL*! Do you really believe that? please show me the 480k-1.800k a LoL tournament does compared to the usual 60-90k concurrent viewers of the major Sc2 events, thanks ^^ *it's actually a page ago or something Are you trolling or something? Thx man, if not you, i had to write it down.... | ||
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Jeffhesser
14 Posts
On March 02 2013 06:03 Wyrd wrote: Can you link? Having trouble finding anything. Unless you mean the Brazilian buffet thing. As I said, it's far from official but responses to the MLG account suggesting they run a show in Vegas to fill a void suggesting a good place to eat seems to say a lot without saying anything at all... purely speculating though. | ||
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Wyrd
United States211 Posts
On March 02 2013 06:19 Jeffhesser wrote: As I said, it's far from official but responses to the MLG account suggesting they run a show in Vegas to fill a void suggesting a good place to eat seems to say a lot without saying anything at all... purely speculating though. Ah okay. It's a shame a period at the end of a sentence makes it look depressing. It's hard to tell. | ||
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FoShao
United States256 Posts
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
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HelloSon
United States456 Posts
On March 02 2013 05:55 TheFish7 wrote: If I was the Cosmopolitan I'd be pretty pissed off, not having those spectators will cost them casino and drink money YOu don't just book a place like that for free. You usually have some type of down-payment or deposit in case shit like this happens. | ||
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Nerski
United States1095 Posts
We all know Ziff bought up IGN from news corp recently an announced major lay offs as well as closing sites like 1up. Fun fact Ziff Davis was purchased by J2 Global ( http://www.j2global.com ) in november of 2012 because essentially back in 2008 Ziff has nearly gone completely bankrupt ( filled chapter 11) so it's unsurprising they sold the company off to J2. J2 Global's background is largely in providing internet services through 2 other companies. With all these changes I wouldn't be surprised if a largely money losing endeavor like the IPL could potentially get nixed all together. If IPL6 were to in fact be cancelled I would nearly 100% expect IPL to be canned entirely or reduced to the point it mine as well not exist. | ||
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ChuCky.Ca
Canada2497 Posts
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
Those sources have to be right, though, because otherwise I'd be expecting something out of IPL. I mean, the Gamespot article in particular would be ripe for a lawsuit (possibility of causing material harm to IPL in the form of cancellations, IF the event were not cancelled) even if Scoots might be clear. There's a lot of crap you can give Slasher, but I don't think he or his editors would potentially risk upsetting the Cosmopolitan, at the least. But they are still airing the qualifiers they played. Or were. They really need to get things figured out before people show up to check in and get very very upset. (Okay, even if IPL6 were canceled, if I had a room and flight booked to Vegas I'd still go. Because there's SOMETHING to do there, and getting your money back from an airline is a pain.) This is not the kind of event you just put a sign on the door to the ballroom saying "Sorry!" for - Kevin Knocke I'm sure will say something as soon as humanly possible but this may be J2 stepping on ZD stepping on IGN  Edit: Searching around the IGN/IPL site, still nothing. It would be a damn shame if they can't find a buyer and just toss IPL just as it may be starting a turn towards profitability. To say nothing of how much it would suck for Kibbelz, Robin, Kevin, Frank, etc. | ||
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ackbar
United States94 Posts
Hopefully people are working very hard behind the scenes to save this event and this is why we haven't heard an announcement. | ||
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On March 02 2013 06:56 felisconcolori wrote: Okay, so we now have two sources. Slasher (calling it Gamespot doesn't make it not Slasher, check that byline) and SirScoots. Plus rumor from this week's State of the Game (although, mostly that was sourced to Scoots). However, they both cite multiple sources close to the situation. -_-' There's also Artosis saying on SotG that he's heard it from multiple sources, and Kennigit saying much the same on reddit. | ||
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canikizu
4860 Posts
It all makes sense now. | ||
digmouse
China6329 Posts
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Ry2D2
United States429 Posts
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On March 02 2013 09:15 Ry2D2 wrote: damn shame. This hurts eSports too wtf how inconsiderate. They ought to at least host the event and make their profit, however marginal it may be. What profit? | ||
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Zenbrez
Canada5973 Posts
The profit outsiders think occurs | ||
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