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William paradise
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blunderfulguy
United States1415 Posts
On February 01 2019 07:46 William paradise wrote: is there any news on rules for this year I 've been looking but still can't find any. I am getting worried Scarlett might not play tomorrow I can't see blizzard saying you can't play in both and allowing her to so I mean something has to be said at some point right? Tomorrow's match is, iirc, technically a "WCS Challenger" event which might have different rules from the rest of the WCS Circuit events, but we still don't have any information for the rest of the WCS season outside WCS Winter (tomorrow's match), *IEM Katowice, GSL S1-3, and GSL Super Tournament 1-2. Since Scarlett is in the groups for WCS Winter and GSL S1 Code S, we just have to assume that there aren't any issues between those two tournaments. We'll have to wait + Show Spoiler + and wait and wait and wait some more | ||
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Soke
United States790 Posts
On February 01 2019 07:46 William paradise wrote: is there any news on rules for this year I 've been looking but still can't find any. I am getting worried Scarlett might not play tomorrow I can't see blizzard saying you can't play in both and allowing her to so I mean something has to be said at some point right? Feardragon said "officially" that Scarlett is playing in WCS Winter. In an interview after the GSL qualifiers, Scarlett said "Because of the change in the system, this could be my last GSL, depending on how Challenger is, so I want to do as well as I can..." If Special wasn't allowed to play, they might have treated the qualifiers as the "challenger" and the ladder race could have been considered differently. | ||
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William paradise
1753 Posts
On February 01 2019 11:45 Soke wrote: Feardragon said "officially" that Scarlett is playing in WCS Winter. In an interview after the GSL qualifiers, Scarlett said "Because of the change in the system, this could be my last GSL, depending on how Challenger is, so I want to do as well as I can..." If Special wasn't allowed to play, they might have treated the qualifiers as the "challenger" and the ladder race could have been considered differently. damn maybe the last gsl does that mean leaving Korea? because thats main reason for being there. thanks for the info | ||
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Soke
United States790 Posts
On February 01 2019 12:02 William paradise wrote: damn maybe the last gsl does that mean leaving Korea? because thats main reason for being there. thanks for the info Who knows. She joined Newbee, and there's the upcoming Chinese league. She might stay in KR anyway, at least some times, whether it be to practice, play in the Chinese league, or just because she might prefer it there. | ||
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William paradise
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Elmonti
Spain299 Posts
And yes, this changes drastically the Unity House situation... it probably means they have to look for a smaller house or invite korean/chinese/SEA players to fill the place, since without GSL the europeans have no reason to go anymore. What it's obvious is that Blizzard's communication this year is just terrible... And I assume they are still working through the details, but jesus christ, announcing big things a couple of days before it happens is a huge disrespect for the pros... | ||
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William paradise
1753 Posts
On February 01 2019 17:43 Elmonti wrote: I mean, they haven't said anything about WCS Stops and their Challengers so basically she doesn't know what she is giving up when trying to qualify for GSL (unless she has privilege information or something)... If it's like last year (1.4k$ and 200 wcs max.) maybe it's worth it to try GSLs and then go to the open braket in the WCS stops... but if they change the system who knows.... Maybe this time she wants to go hard on the World WCS to "secure" the Blizzcon spot idk. And yes, this changes drastically the Unity House situation... it probably means they have to look for a smaller house or invite korean/chinese/SEA players to fill the place, since without GSL the europeans have no reason to go anymore. What it's obvious is that Blizzard's communication this year is just terrible... And I assume they are still working through the details, but jesus christ, announcing big things a couple of days before it happens is a huge disrespect for the pros... yea that what iam getting iether there talking to them but have nda or something but no anything to the public makes it more strange and no info from noregret seems like theres something going on it really sucks for them | ||
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William paradise
1753 Posts
and She has a really nice bracket for iem maybe maybe win? | ||
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William paradise
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Elmonti
Spain299 Posts
On February 02 2019 03:31 William paradise wrote: Its time SCARLETT!! The run begins and She has a really nice bracket for iem maybe maybe win? Her bracket is hard, but then again all of them are, so... She would have to win over Hero and Showtime (maybe aLive depending on the lower bracket thing). It's hard of course, but doable. | ||
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blunderfulguy
United States1415 Posts
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blunderfulguy
United States1415 Posts
*Wrong thread, oops, but I guess the right thread too. **GG, ezpz. GLGL next group stage and GSL!!! | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
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HotDOSBuns
Canada172 Posts
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Soke
United States790 Posts
We tested a rule change for players competing in Season 1 of GSL, restricting them from participating in Season 1 of WCS Challenger. Our goal was to limit the number of WCS Circuit players who would compete in the Korean tournament, but instead it caused all but one of the registered Circuit players to pull out of the GSL competition. That was not our intention, and we are rolling back this rule for Season 2 and 3, bringing the residency rules back to as they were in 2018. Well there’s the answer on region lock | ||
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Elmonti
Spain299 Posts
So basically they thought a lot of top WCS pros (uThermal, Neeb, Special, Scarlett, etc.) would try to qualify for GSL and leave Challenger, but they decided to forfeit GSL or what?... because if their goal was to limit WCS players compiting in GSL they did hit it... I mean only Scarlett, Sortof and Cloudy tried, and only Sasha did qualify...  Anyway, good news for her, right? She will be able to play WCS and the best global league also. | ||
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William paradise
1753 Posts
On February 07 2019 04:03 Elmonti wrote: So basically they thought a lot of top WCS pros (uThermal, Neeb, Special, Scarlett, etc.) would try to qualify for GSL and leave Challenger, but they decided to forfeit GSL or what?... because if their goal was to limit WCS players compiting in GSL they did hit it... I mean only Scarlett, Sortof and Cloudy tried, and only Sasha did qualify... Anyway, good news for her, right? She will be able to play WCS and the best global league also. im still confused people said that she cant compete in spring challenger since she is in gsl 1? this is confusing | ||
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Kalera
United States338 Posts
Skipping Challenger is a pretty big sacrifice. You lose not only prize money, but WCS points, a Ro32 seed (no joke, even good players get upset in the open bracket), and travel costs. Not surprised most players would choose that over GSL. I wonder if Scarlett would have picked differently if she knew that Blizzard would change the rule and make it so there is no penalty in Season 2 and 3 (so it wouldn't be her 'last'). Blizzard really made a mess of things. If they had made the annoucements in a timely manner, they would have gotten the feedback rather than last minute confusion that ruined many players plans. | ||
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blunderfulguy
United States1415 Posts
On February 07 2019 04:30 Kalera wrote: Blizzard really made a mess of things. If they had made the annoucements in a timely manner, they would have gotten the feedback rather than last minute confusion that ruined many players plans. This is what I dislike the most. Confusing everybody else is kinda whatever, but throwing a wrench in the competitors' plans, people moving all over the world, that's just... ugh. I guess things sorta kinda maybe worked out? Eh, not really... But they kinda sorta fixed it (for now) so that's fine. We'll see how the rest of the year goes, crossin' my fingers and toes for everything to go well! | ||
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