IPL6 reported to be canceled or postponed - Page 3

On March 01 2013 11:27 Masq wrote:
scoots showing how real esports journalism do

On March 01 2013 11:36 ssg wrote:
Still on front page of Cosmo:

http://www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com/experience/event-calendar.aspx

On March 01 2013 11:39 bduddy wrote:
No way. Not only would it probably cost more at this point to cancel the event than to run it (like the contractor guy said on page 1), it would be a ton of bad publicity towards IGN and pretty much destroy any chance they have of selling the IPL brand. Scoots is being a bad troll again.

On March 01 2013 11:50 isaachukfan wrote:
They've got a Vegas giga-hotel booked after running one of the most successful events in SC2 history, I think there is too much already invested here to cancel it now, also, all the players mention it in their interviews so I'm assuming there is nothing we know that they don't. I think IPL switching to HOTS is worst case scenario.....I hope....

In the interests of potentially saving people time and money, i'll take the hit.

Pretty much every team and news group is either holding off on booking travel or changing their plans (keeping the flights/hotels but doing other stuff).

We don't have confirmation from IGN that IPL6 is cancelled...but we all have REALLY good sources/"confirmation" outside of IGN who believe that it's either cancelled or postponed. I think it's public enough at a "everyone in the know" level that there's a responsibility to let fans know: "Check how much advance you have to give to a hotel to cancel" or "Can i rebook this flight" IF it is cancelled/postponed. Teams can eat the costs if things are going where we think they may be going.

Again, it's not 100% cancelled, but it's the common belief amongst everyone in the know that it is somewhere between 0 and 99.9999% not happening as planned.

Then again IPL could be bought tomorrow and the whole thing goes off without a hiccup!

Parse that as you will

On March 01 2013 12:01 svefnleysi wrote:
They can't just cancel/postpone it... So many teams have already made travel investments, right?

On March 01 2013 11:56 StarVe wrote:

How much is too much? Yes, canceling is expensive but it would still be cheaper than to run the event, they just would turn the positive PR they'd get from the event into a lot of negativity towards IPL but if they needed to cut costs severely, they'd probably cancel.

Seeing how they just announced a new 8,000$ showmatch with Polt and Hyun, it's not too likely that they need to cut costs severely, unless that's already a result of the reallocation of resources meant for IPL6.