EPTGood: Back to 16 slots.
Bad: 5 of them in inferiour regions. I can understand 1 slot for NA, but 3 for NA and 2 for ME, while the gods in China and Korea only have 4?
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
Good: Back to 16 slots. Bad: 5 of them in inferiour regions. I can understand 1 slot for NA, but 3 for NA and 2 for ME, while the gods in China and Korea only have 4? | ||
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Mafe
Germany5966 Posts
Just guessing possible explanations: Maybe they want to have the same amount of qualification places per region for all of their games? Or maybe, as they are sponsored by some government (iirc), they are obliged to host an international or even worldwide event, and therefore make sure everyone in the world gets a real shot at qualification. Remember, at the olympics, even the best countries only get 2-3 qualifying places per event, so it is not something unheard of. Pick any sport at the olympics and there are always 10% or more hopeless competitors and a nation that could enter hundreds of athletes better than this bottom 10%. | ||
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
On March 06 2017 20:37 Mafe wrote: Would be interesting to get an insight into the thought process of whoever it is who runs WCA and makes such decisions. Any sources available? Just guessing possible explanations: Maybe they want to have the same amount of qualification places per region for all of their games? Or maybe, as they are sponsored by some government (iirc), they are obliged to host an international or even worldwide event, and therefore make sure everyone in the world gets a real shot at qualification. Remember, at the olympics, even the best countries only get 2-3 qualifying places per event, so it is not something unheard of. Pick any sport at the olympics and there are always 10% or more hopeless competitors and a nation that could enter hundreds of athletes better than this bottom 10%. Yeah, they want the spirit of the WCG, apperantly the chinese love that concept. And we still got 1 more european and 2 more koreans then last year. But even for the olympics you need to be able to hit certain times/points to be allowed to go to olympia (outside of wild card invitations by the NOCs). And I dont know if there is any ME player who would fit. But the reason, why it is Korea, China, EU, NA and ME should be rather simple: Possible sponsor out of that new region and WESG, who also used ME/Africa. But even if we say, why NA 3 slots, why ME at all, lets not forget: Highclass Warcraft will be seen in Korean, Chinese and Europe Qualifiers, alot of money and exposure will be given out by WCA over the course of the year and the year will end with a big bang. The Groupstage is back to 16 players and the playoffs should be back to 8 players, maybe again double elimination like 2015, WCA is again kicking ass in bringing high class content. At least if they again do everything with B2W and increase the quality of the production of the main event a little bit, like they do step by step improvements from year to year it seems. | ||
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Tchado
Jordan1831 Posts
On March 06 2017 19:48 B2W.Neo wrote: you'll learn that you can care less, since we're having a middle east qualifier OMG ! They are actually doing the middle east qualifier ? FFS WCA what are you doing ! I am saying this as a middle eastern Warcraft 3 fan , this is so wrong , it's gonna fail hardcore , either because there aren't enough players or because the quality of games will be garbage....to be honest I expect both to happen ! For real , all the top middle eastern Warcraft 3 players who could keep up with the Europeans and Americans have all moved to different games , and the ones I talked to are not interested in WCA at all....I do not see any positive in this ME qualifier, unless they are going for the whole WCG style thing , or because they want the ME players in other games like DOTA2 or HS ....and we have some good players in those ! | ||
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Tchado
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mrwhite-
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http://tft.w3arena.net/news/details/363/Gera Cup 100/ | ||
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B2W.Neo
287 Posts
FoCuS & LawLiet vs. Fly & Xixi TeD & Hainiu vs. Yumi & WFZ http://twitch.tv/back2warcraft | ||
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mrwhite-
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Mafe
Germany5966 Posts
I've been occasionally making melee maps, and as some people here showed some interest a few years (?) back, maybe you want to have a look at it. It's over there at www.hiveworkshop.com, with some screenshots etc. I've been mapping mainly for my own entertainment, but it's always interesting to have some feedback. So feel free to let me know what you think  | ||
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lestye
United States4163 Posts
Liquipedia has the prizepool at 3500 but I think Neo said on stream its up to 6k now. | ||
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Thaniri
1264 Posts
Glad to see that the community is making somewhat of a comeback! | ||
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B2W.Neo
287 Posts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXVhuKDtlTeWuIFzO4qFfenbjPN7RdO0c @Thaniri: if you have any question, feel free to ask. we're more than happy to help returning players | ||
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lestye
United States4163 Posts
The patching system is the foundational method for delivering content to the players and the old system has been causing significant problems (The BNUpdate patcher was written in the 1990s with very different architectural goals compared to today's world). For example I fixed the command bar button problem a long time ago (about the same day the community found it) but the old system is so unstable that we couldn't release it without breaking other things. It's like putting on roofing shingles on a house with a nail gun vs a manual hammer; sure the result is the same in the end but one will produce better results much faster. Source: https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/warcraft-3-1-28-pre-patch-psa.292717/ | ||
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Thaniri
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lestye
United States4163 Posts
On March 20 2017 10:43 Thaniri wrote: Just stick with patch 1.26. What they mean by architectural goals is to have continuous patches like in the battle.net 0.2 launcher that can't be skipped and are often pseudo DRM. Regardless we're sticking with 1.26 because the game is unplayable on 1.27 if you're not on netease. | ||
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Spaylz
Japan1743 Posts
Not so sure for w3arena though. It's a great platform but nothing short of a purgatory for newer players and people who aren't very good. I'm mostly interested in this prospect due to the increasing rumours of BW HD. WC3 could be next if that happens, but I'm no longer expecting anything. | ||
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HsDLTitich
Italy830 Posts
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B2W.Neo
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Yurie
11854 Posts
On March 20 2017 20:31 B2W.Neo wrote: https://twitter.com/Back2Warcraft/status/843767746324316161 Thought they might consider a small Overwatch thing but guess the "E-sport" portion of the game isn't there yet. | ||
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B2W.Neo
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http://www.gosugamers.net/news/43720-there-will-be-no-blizzard-games-at-wca-2017 | ||
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