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On August 06 2010 02:15 Jonoman92 wrote:Such a huge prize pool, very awesome. Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 19:00 Frankon wrote:On August 05 2010 18:14 l10f wrote:Earlier today, Blizzard Entertainment's partner GomTV revealed plans for an easily accessible worldwide league called the "Global StarCraft II League" (GSL). Ok so its NOT worldwide and NOT easily accessible. So looks like not such great news for western SC2 community. PS. This is the end for BW in Korea. .... but this, not that I care much, but up until the end of the OP I was thinking it'd be online or something, at least for qualifiers.
It's pretty disappointing if it's not that accessible, but the prize pool seems big enough that a lot of the top foreigners would probably risk the cost of going to Korea for the potential payout. If I understand the prize structure correctly, even making Ro64-Ro16 would be equivalent to doing well at a "standard" foreigner tournament.
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GOM should get Husky + Tasteless tbh.
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On August 06 2010 02:21 dolpiff wrote:
Maybe the players qualifed for Ro64 & up from other regions than Korean could be flown for free aboard the Korean Air sc2 planes from somewhere in the states & in europe to go play the live matches...
else it will cost too much : 580/700€ For a Paris - Seoul return flight + accomodation there, so unless you're guaranteed to podium i doubt we'll see many westerners taking part...
Well I mean honestly, almost all progamers are from Korea. Why would they hold this competition anywhere but Korea? If you are a serious gamer from anywhere but Korea you will take the flight to Seoul and compete.
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It's not like there wont ever be tournaments held elsewhere, they just kickstarted the professional scene in the heart of the gaming world.
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I'm sure we'll see sponsors over in the west running tournaments to get trips out to qualify for this, provided that advertising on a person's clothing or whatever isn't a huge issue if they get on TV.
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HOLY FUCK THE PRIZE POOL.
Winning first place is the equivalent of winning two OSLs in terms of money.
Will be VERY interesting to see how the still BW-active progamers do. That's a tantalizing amount of money dangling there. Hell, even 2nd place is pretty close to the prize pool for 1st in the OSL/MSL.
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This is going to be huge man so good
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On August 06 2010 01:53 Socram wrote:
Is there a site in english where we can follow the tournament?
right here buddy ;D
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i assume you have to be invited into this because its only 64 players, but i suck anyways.
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On August 06 2010 02:20 PanzerDragoon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2010 02:17 LegendaryZ wrote:
It's a $170,000 prize pool, not a grand prize so it's not like the winner walks home with that much. Most likely this will present a strong incentive for players without a salary or contract to switch, but I don't think higher class BW players who do have salaries would have any incentive to switch until teams are created that offer comparable contracts, facilities, and opportunities. I'd rather be guaranteed $20,000 a year with room and board than compete for $100,000 and risk coming home with nothing unless I actually place above a certain point in a global tournament at a completely new game. Certainly the higher tier BW players that have larger contracts and can, with some degree of reliability and confidence, also take home prize money from BW tournaments and competition will not have any incentive at all to switch despite this prize.
At any rate, this is certainly a good start to the professional SC2 scene and it'll definitely be interesting to see where it goes from here. Are you kidding? Except for the top level, best of the best, their salaries are not that high. Only guys like Jaedong or Flash or Bisu make big money. I would guess many of the b-teamers and lower level A-teamers are going to switch over, and without them, BW falls apart because the best guys no longer have anyone to practice with (and teams don't have the depth for any sort of team league)
Eh, I could see some B-teamers and people trying to pass courage leagues switching over... but note that its a huge gamble to get good at another game which may or may not pay out. (8,500 USD doesn't really compare for 3rd/4th place)
This is a super old set of salaries, but http://www.mymym.com/en/news/9544.html If anything, there's more money in BW now than in the past, so I would be hard pressed to find any A-teamers switching, but it'll be interesting to see how GomTV pans out in the long run
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On August 06 2010 02:34 eNtitY~ wrote:Do you signup on http://gsl.gomtv.com when registration opens?
Can't open the site here... anyone else having the same issue?
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I hope some old BW pro gamers will show to this new SC2 scene. It would be awesome to watch Xellos, Boxer, Grrrr, etc..playing SC2.
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Why are so many people surprised/angry that the preliminaries and tournaments would be held in Korea? Blizzard contracted GomTV which is a Korean company so it's obvious they would have the preliminaries in another country and spend more money.
If Blizzard contracted lets say an American broadcasting company, tournaments and preliminaries would be held in America. Same goes for any other country.
Starcraft Esports was started in Korea and the big money will be in Korea because Esports is stable in Korea. Just like major league sports in America will have the big bucks.
And yes, this was obviously catered toward Koreans since the announcement for a "Global" Tournament was announced in Korea first....which is very odd.
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Edited out "everyone" to many people before I got flamed.
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OMG Insane Tournament!! Tasteless will be back in commentary I guess =D
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I didn't see any rules against using /dance in game. That could lead to some great BM moments.
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On August 06 2010 02:45 unsmart wrote:
I didn't see any rules against using /dance in game. That could lead to some great BM moments.
I can just imagine someone trying that and accidentally typing "7dance".
Would be fun to see at least.
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On August 06 2010 02:47 HeIios wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2010 02:45 unsmart wrote:
I didn't see any rules against using /dance in game. That could lead to some great BM moments. I can just imagine someone trying that and accidentally typing "7dance". Would be fun to see at least.
Silly swedish keyboards don't have their own button for "/"?
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On August 06 2010 02:26 breathKILL wrote:
GOM should get Husky + Tasteless tbh.
D- Players are not allowed to commentate professionally.
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On August 06 2010 02:49 Gatsbi wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2010 02:47 HeIios wrote:On August 06 2010 02:45 unsmart wrote:
I didn't see any rules against using /dance in game. That could lead to some great BM moments. I can just imagine someone trying that and accidentally typing "7dance". Would be fun to see at least. Silly swedish keyboards don't have their own button for "/"?
Hey, don't judge us!
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