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Mexico675 Posts
http://copaamerica.starcraft2.com/novedades-1/comienza-la-starcraft-ii-copa-america-2013-3
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Today, Blizzard along with Localstrike unveiled a new tournament for latin america called the Copa América.
Divided into 4 seasons, each one lasting a month, each season will have 128 players from all of LA in a single elimination bracket, followed by a group stage for the top16 and playoffs for the top8, with the top4 having 950 dollars prize pool.
Signups are open for any player from LA, but each season will have a certain number of spots reserved for each country:
28 for Brazil
18 for Mexico
18 for Argentina
18 for Chile
10 for Peru
8 for Colombia
5 for Venezuela
5 for Uruguay
18 for the rest of LA
Top16 each season receive points which will count toward the end of the year, where the top8 will play live in Argentina in the Grand Finals for a prize pool of 6200 dollars.
Games will be casted in both Spanish and Portuguese by some of the most well known LA casters, including TheArgie and Predoca who have casted evens such as Dreamhack and HomeStory Cup before:
http://www.twitch.tv/team/sc2copaamerica
As a personal opinion, this is a great idea for developing the latin american scene by having a LA only tourmanet, with some real prize money, casted games, and a live finals at the end of the year. And who knows, maybe this could be the test for a future WCS LA.
Poll: Copa América: yay or nay?yay! (272) 94% nay! (16) 6% 288 total votes Your vote: Copa América: yay or nay? (Vote): yay!
(Vote): nay!
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I don't get it. But Latin America isn't that strong. Wouldn't inviting Koreans, and encouraging an influx of them, increase the skill level of LA? I think it would also push the players to try harder and take the game more seriously. Also, what's the point of having a Latin American Tournament if it's actually based on geographical locations related to the name of the tournament? That's pretty old fashioned and weak.
In seriousness, that's nice to see.
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Canada5973 Posts
Did inviting koreans to MLGs in 2011 increase the skill of the NA scene? Not really, they just got slaughtered. I also doubt a korean would be willing to travel for what's probably a 2k or less prize for first place for 6 months worth of playing
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this is sick! get to see some more Latin American exposure :D
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I'm so fucking hyped for this =)
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I think the reason they didn't invite koreans, europeans or north americans was so they could promote their compadres
I think that even simple korean in master league would wipe it all
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On June 21 2013 12:33 JP Dayne wrote:
I think the reason they didn't invite koreans, europeans or north americans was so they could promote their compadres
I think that even simple korean in master league would wipe it all
Catz, Major, Capoche, and some of the other Latin American guys (is killer still active? and that other good Mexican player) have a higher skill level than the average masters-league Korean.
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Finally!!! LA needed thissss
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On June 21 2013 12:26 playa wrote:
I don't get it. But Latin America isn't that strong. Wouldn't inviting Koreans, and encouraging an influx of them, increase the skill level of LA? I think it would also push the players to try harder and take the game more seriously. Also, what's the point of having a Latin American Tournament if it's actually based on geographical locations related to the name of the tournament? That's pretty old fashioned and weak.
In seriousness, that's nice to see.
Sorry but this is completely wrong.
What we need are more Latin Americans playing seriously PERIOD
You're suggesting having LA players play in an LA tournament that gives 0 prize pool to LA players.
It's not "old fashioned and weak", it's necessary!
Ofc it's nice to see, because its been a long time waiting for something like this^^
So excited ;D hoping everyone good can participate fully without scheduling conflicts!
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Making a local scene active is always a good move, good luck !
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I am really excited for this!
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On June 21 2013 12:52 Shinta) wrote:Show nested quote +On June 21 2013 12:26 playa wrote:
I don't get it. But Latin America isn't that strong. Wouldn't inviting Koreans, and encouraging an influx of them, increase the skill level of LA? I think it would also push the players to try harder and take the game more seriously. Also, what's the point of having a Latin American Tournament if it's actually based on geographical locations related to the name of the tournament? That's pretty old fashioned and weak.
In seriousness, that's nice to see. Sorry but this is completely wrong. What we need are more Latin Americans playing seriously PERIOD You're suggesting having LA players play in an LA tournament that gives 0 prize pool to LA players. Sorry, but you need to change your perspective. It's not "old fashioned and weak", it's necessary! Ofc it's nice to see, because its been a long time waiting for something like this^^ So excited ;D hoping everyone good can participate fully without scheduling conflicts!
You could either call that sarcasm or Morhaime talk. Given that this is what Blizzard said, verbatim, for WCS NA, perhaps this tournament will forebode some changes in the future for WCS. Obviously this LA tournament is a common sense thing. But, given that WCS is more of a making money thing, probably not. I just hope to see some more lovely fluff.
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Wow, great for the LA scene. I guess WCS left a void that this is supposed to fill.
Will this all be played on the NA server? Does SA as a whole have a decent connection to NA?
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Looks awesome! No english cast, though?  I actually would pretty interested in at least watching the ro16 on...eh, I suppose I could dust off some of that Spanish I learned.
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Mexico675 Posts
On June 21 2013 13:12 Ichabod wrote:
Wow, great for the LA scene. I guess WCS left a void that this is supposed to fill.
Will this all be played on the NA server? Does SA as a whole have a decent connection to NA?
This will be played on NA server, since the whole of the american continent plays on NA. No idea how much ping South America has, but regardless NA is the closest.
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NA server is completely playable, it is nice seeing that blizzard is investing in making the LA community grow. Maybe this will expand for the next year  .
The problem with the LA community imo is that only a bunch of players really play profesionally, I mean full time.
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is everyone missing the sarcasm in the first reply xD. This sounds amazing, I've been a fan of a lot of the top LA players for a long time.
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That's a really cool piece of news!
It's also interesting that it doesn't follow the WCS idea, but that it's strictly region-locked. Perhaps this is a way for Blizzard to evaluate what they're going to do for WCS 2014 - If the region-locked Copa América is relatively more successful than WCS AM 2013, then they would get quantifiable feedback that people enjoy wathcing their local (well, regional) heroes more than they enjoy watching Koreans compete in their regional tournament. Also, I think that the LA scene has very much potential, so it's very nice that Blizzard tries to nurture it. Lastly, I really like that there are spots for "rest of LA", so that no country is excluded from competing.
Edit: WCS AM, not WCS NA...
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That's great! Good guy Blizzard.
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