EPTIPL6 reported to be canceled or postponed - Page 21
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onPHYRE
Bulgaria923 Posts
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
That implies they think | ||
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Prplppleatr
United States1518 Posts
This is internets, thinking has no place so sad  | ||
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Neurosis
United States893 Posts
Nah, they just like to get intelligent posters like Anomaly banned. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21957 Posts
On March 02 2013 07:41 nojitosunrise wrote: So..redbeard just about confirms that IPL6 is canceled. Riot might host a viewing party in vegas and is planning on running a make up tournament for the challenger tier times that qualified for IPL6 http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/19h14k/for_who_are_stuck_with_nonrefundable_flight/c8o25a6 | ||
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Ded808
Australia116 Posts
I guess after the parent company of IGN has done all their calculations with all the already sunk costs and reduced brand strength that they still see it as a cheaper business decision at the end of the day. | ||
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scandolouskt
5 Posts
pretty sure ign doesn't have any say in this. | ||
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neoghaleon55
United States7435 Posts
crazy! | ||
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plated.rawr
Norway1676 Posts
Where are the rumors coming from? IGN isn't saying anything, so it's not confirmed by them. In the meantime, MLG is trying a PR move to siphon business from IGN. Also, community profiles who have been known to work with competitors of IPL are pushing up on IPL's death. Community profiles are indirectly and directly urging people to change their reservations. Maybe it's just my paranoia going off, but if this was just an attempt at killing IPL to reduce competitors, I'm guessing it's already done quite a lot of damage - both to IGNs name and the IPL brand, as well as potential viewership, venue ticket sales and competitor cancellations. Of course, these are long-standing sources in the community, so them doing something like that for their own advancement is unimaginable. That said, however - as long as IGN doesn't reveal any news, remember that all the other noise are just rumors. | ||
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Xandaren
United States93 Posts
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On March 02 2013 10:29 plated.rawr wrote: You know, something doesn't sit right with me here. Where are the rumors coming from? IGN isn't saying anything, so it's not confirmed by them. In the meantime, MLG is trying a PR move to siphon business from IGN. Also, community profiles who have been known to work with competitors of IPL are pushing up on IPL's death. Community profiles are indirectly and directly urging people to change their reservations. Maybe it's just my paranoia going off, but if this was just an attempt at killing IPL to reduce competitors, I'm guessing it's already done quite a lot of damage - both to IGNs name and the IPL brand, as well as potential viewership, venue ticket sales and competitor cancellations. Of course, these are long-standing sources in the community, so them doing something like that for their own advancement is unimaginable. That said, however - as long as IGN doesn't reveal any news, remember that all the other noise are just rumors. If they were just rumors, would you think for just one second that IGN would not immediately come out and say "It's all bullshit, IPL is happening!"? Why isn't IPL vehemently denying these claims if there's even a tiny doubt that they might be completely untrue? | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On March 02 2013 10:29 plated.rawr wrote: You know, something doesn't sit right with me here. Where are the rumors coming from? IGN isn't saying anything, so it's not confirmed by them. In the meantime, MLG is trying a PR move to siphon business from IGN. Also, community profiles who have been known to work with competitors of IPL are pushing up on IPL's death. Community profiles are indirectly and directly urging people to change their reservations. Maybe it's just my paranoia going off, but if this was just an attempt at killing IPL to reduce competitors, I'm guessing it's already done quite a lot of damage - both to IGNs name and the IPL brand, as well as potential viewership, venue ticket sales and competitor cancellations. Of course, these are long-standing sources in the community, so them doing something like that for their own advancement is unimaginable. That said, however - as long as IGN doesn't reveal any news, remember that all the other noise are just rumors. yeah and these rumors have no truth to them and IPL is just letting everyone say all this because...? If it wasn't true, IPL would have come out yesterday and assured everyone the event is still happening. And if you read Slasher's article on GameSpot, you will find the sources. http://www.gamespot.com/news/ign-cancels-ipl6-esports-tournament-6404672 Sponsors of the IGN ProLeague event have told GameSpot the products they sent over for sponsorship are being returned to them. Korean-based league OnGameNet said yesterday that the IPL6 League of Legends Korean qualifiers have been canceled due to change in management policies and financial difficulties. but yeah, this is all MLG just trying to kill off IPL... | ||
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Kerwin
United States220 Posts
On March 02 2013 10:35 Conti wrote: If they were just rumors, would you think for just one second that IGN would not immediately come out and say "It's all bullshit, IPL is happening!"? Why isn't IPL vehemently denying these claims if there's even a tiny doubt that they might be completely untrue? I have to agree... The fact they haven't said anything yet completely confirms to me that there will be no IPL6 (or IGN doesn't know if there will be). I'm from Arizona, so it sucks we're losing the only SC2 event that's anywhere close to us | ||
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WoodLeagueAllStar
United States806 Posts
On March 02 2013 01:24 aike wrote: Starcraft 2: $6,865,805.70 in prize money over 696 tournaments. League of Legends: $4,186,941.01 in prize money over 80 tournaments, with $1,970,000.00 (47%!) of that from Riot's Season 2 finals. Pretty interesting... most of that league prize money is from Riot, while almost none of the SC2 money is from Blizzard. I'd say SC2 is pretty healthy, and not dying  I just thought this post went unaddressed, I think its very hypocritical for Blizzard to act like they are about eSports and then add nothing too it. What the heck Blizz, can't ya at least chip in some prize money, we have companies dyin here and so couldn't you all chip in a couple million? How about a The International for SC2 with a million prize pool sponsored by you guys? That would be huge hype! This sounds bad... but honestly I am happy some are going under, I love watching games but the amount was crazy, also I felt confused about what was happening, and tournaments are horrible at explaining the meaning of their games to people. My dream that IGN going under is now we can institute a regular season and playoff system run by MLG, GSL and NASL and Dreamhack. MLG would be a invitational open like USOpen in Golf, GSL for Koreans, NASL NA players only, Dreamhack for European Players. At the end is the top 4 from each making a Sweet 16 players at Blizzard Cup for 1,000,000 dollars. Also Iron Squid would be in there somewhere, more like a All-Star game in NBA where the best come around, extremely comedic, great music, fun times not related to regular season and purely for fun competition. This is purely selfish but I would love a 2v2 or FFA league too those are hilarious. If we organized SC2 people would love to follow it like a sport. Also if they made a NA league people would start to support the NA scene a lot more. Please think about it NASL.SC2 viewer numbers would grow because it would stop being a thing you do to kill time and be more like a pasttime, following your best NA players to Blizzard Cup would be a real thing people do and people would love the first chance to see Korea vs. Euro and their would be some good hype as they haven't played each other for a long year of HotS rather than every week. | ||
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
On March 02 2013 11:32 WoodLeagueAllStar wrote: I just thought this post went unaddressed, I think its very hypocritical for Blizzard to act like they are about eSports and then add nothing too it. What the heck Blizz, can't ya at least chip in some prize money, we have companies dyin here and so couldn't you all chip in a couple million? How about a The International for SC2 with a million prize pool sponsored by you guys? That would be huge hype! This sounds bad... but honestly I am happy some are going under, I love watching games but the amount was crazy, also I felt confused about what was happening, and tournaments are horrible at explaining the meaning of their games to people. My dream that IGN going under is now we can institute a regular season and playoff system run by MLG, GSL and NASL and Dreamhack. MLG would be a invitational open like USOpen in Golf, GSL for Koreans, NASL NA players only, Dreamhack for European Players. At the end is the top 4 from each making a Sweet 16 players at Blizzard Cup for 1,000,000 dollars. Also Iron Squid would be in there somewhere, more like a All-Star game in NBA where the best come around, extremely comedic, great music, fun times not related to regular season and purely for fun competition. This is purely selfish but I would love a 2v2 or FFA league too those are hilarious. If we organized SC2 people would love to follow it like a sport. Also if they made a NA league people would start to support the NA scene a lot more. Please think about it NASL.SC2 viewer numbers would grow because it would stop being a thing you do to kill time and be more like a pasttime, following your best NA players to Blizzard Cup would be a real thing people do and people would love the first chance to see Korea vs. Euro and their would be some good hype as they haven't played each other for a long year of HotS rather than every week. Are you being sarcastic or did you miss the WCS? | ||
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Grimmyman123
Canada939 Posts
It wouldn't be the first time a company went under due to a single peice of untrue press directing affecting sales and business. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On March 02 2013 09:40 Gorsameth wrote: This was posted in the LoL thread but it impacts Sc2 aswell so just reposting it here. This is pretty much confirmation and the final nail in the coffin. Riot just stated the lcs games will now be played at their studio. Riot would know if ipl 6 was canceled or not, so they confirmed it without explicitly stating ipl 6 is canceled as they're leaving that up to IPL to announce themselves I suppose. | ||
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Albinoswordfish
United States108 Posts
I really hope IPL isn't dead. | ||
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Badboyrune
Sweden2247 Posts
On March 02 2013 12:19 Albinoswordfish wrote: This looks pretty grim for IPL6 happening. This is gonna really take a hit on IPLs worth if a major event ends up being canceled at the last minute. Hopefully IPL doesn't have to shutdown altogether and only has to scale down. The fact that they're being shopped around means the owners of IGN/IPL definitely don't want this event to happen. I'm not sure if this is best way to go about it though, since your trying to sell IPL forcing the organization to cancel a major event without much notice will only plunge IPL into a hole that it might not recover from. I really hope IPL isn't dead. If they do end up cancelling I'd say IPL is pretty much dead. I can't see any organizations being very keen on sending their players to an tournament organizer who has completely cancelled an event with such short notice. At best organizations would be very hesitant of sending their players, at worst they would straight up boycott them. Lot of time, money and effort has probably gone into the planning of the event for the teams, all of which would go down the drain with very short notice. Same goes for viewers. There's probably quite few people who already set plans for the event. Booked flights, hotels, rescheduled things and all that sort of stuff that goes into attending an event. All of it for nothing, some of it probably not refundable. So if they do end up cancelling they can hardly expect any support from teams or viewers if they choose to organize another event. I'd be very surprised if the IPL management thought anything else. I'm pretty sure they realize that cancelling the event at this point is the death of IPL, regardless of whether they run another event or not. | ||
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iLoveKT
Philippines3615 Posts
Im not really familiar with IPL thing but if the previous ones were not profittable or just broke even why do they still hold it in Vegas? | ||
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