EPTFirst Glimpse: 2012 Battle.Net World Championship - Page 4
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PolskaGora
United States547 Posts
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Nithix
United States184 Posts
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rotegirte
Germany2859 Posts
On January 26 2012 15:49 heartlxp wrote: WOW the prize pool statement is a HUGE letdown, if you compare yourself to the World Cup, at least have equivalent prizes. Think about how much FIFA puts into their world championships. Riot and Valve are not pulling "stunts" when they offer big prize pools, they are showing their dedication and commitment to their product. repeating "grassroots" in hopes of someone else coming along to foot the bill is a gigantic cop-out. Especially coming from a multi-billion dollar company. Well, what I would like to say is that there is one approach to | ||
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United States538 Posts
So the entire 2012 season is going to be played with Wings of Liberty, regardless of when we launch Heart of the Swarm. I think this will create a lot of problems if HoTS is released in mid 2012. The players will either have to practice two different games, or just decide what tournaments matter more. Hopefully they just have a long beta phase, getting any glaring imbalances/bugs/glitches out, then release it just after the end of all this. | ||
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iKill
Denmark861 Posts
Ilja Rotelli: Everybody goes through the same process. Basically, we're trying to move away from the notion of invitationals that we used in 2011, and move into a transparent infrastructure that allows people from the outside to look in and say "Okay, if I want to go to World Championships, there's a path in front of me that allows me to qualify." It won't be Blizzard just picking people who are good for marketing purposes; it's really a sport. Does Blizzard read TL?! This is the best news I've heard for SC2 this year. way to go blizzard  | ||
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Roxor9999
Netherlands771 Posts
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United States538 Posts
On January 26 2012 16:03 iKill wrote: Will the process for qualifying for the World Championships be completely void of invitations? Will everyone have to go through the same process? Ilja Rotelli: Everybody goes through the same process. Basically, we're trying to move away from the notion of invitationals that we used in 2011, and move into a transparent infrastructure that allows people from the outside to look in and say "Okay, if I want to go to World Championships, there's a path in front of me that allows me to qualify." It won't be Blizzard just picking people who are good for marketing purposes; it's really a sport. Does Blizzard read TL?! This is the best news I've heard for SC2 this year. way to go blizzard I don't know, the rape tournament style was pretty fun as well though... | ||
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Dakkas
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On January 26 2012 15:49 heartlxp wrote: WOW the prize pool statement is a HUGE letdown, if you compare yourself to the World Cup, at least have equivalent prizes. Think about how much FIFA puts into their world championships. Riot and Valve are not pulling "stunts" when they offer big prize pools, they are showing their dedication and commitment to their product. repeating "grassroots" in hopes of someone else coming along to foot the bill is a gigantic cop-out. Especially coming from a multi-billion dollar company. You're misinterpreting the statement there. They are pulling stunts because a large part of pulling "stunts" is about the attraction, which was one of the main purposes of the massive prizepools. They announced a gigantic amount of money to win (note that Riot announced the $2mil prize not long after Valve announced the $1mil prize for DOTA2) to give those scenes a big massive kickstart in terms of e-sports infrastructure. Of course they were going to succeed anyway however it would have been much longer before they reach the level that SC2 has in terms of global e-sports coverage. Up until that, neither games have anything that competes with what SC2 has, MLG, IEM, DH and GSL. That said I can agree with the sentiment, having a large prize-pool should be a main criteria for hosting a SC2 'World Cup'. It doesn't need to be as frivolous as $1mil but something considerable. | ||
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Yaki
France4234 Posts
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ChriS-X
Malaysia1374 Posts
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MrMercuG
Netherlands2389 Posts
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Zic
Canada32 Posts
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McKTenor13
United States1383 Posts
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Spitmode
Germany1510 Posts
On January 26 2012 14:40 GhandiEAGLE wrote: Wow, this is so incredibly cool, I think all of the Blizzard haters just got served XD No, they didn't. | ||
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Ribbon
United States5278 Posts
It's a really cool idea, to build these local scenes. | ||
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JujuXG
United States373 Posts
2012 esport is going to be epic. | ||
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cDgKargo
Ireland21 Posts
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SirRobin
United States269 Posts
I love that they'll be qualifiers and not invitationals so much awesomeness! | ||
nimdil
Poland3748 Posts
Nothing really to be excited.about. | ||
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United States538 Posts
On January 26 2012 17:04 nimdil wrote: I don't like it. in my opinion they should maybe support wcg 2012 instead of directly competing with it. Because while some organizations may be happy about this, i don't see wcg smiling. they could stick to battle.net invitational format and expand wcg which is already established.with national qualifiers. Nothing really to be excited.about. By competing, it forces both organizations to try harder. Why have NASL and IPL? They should just work together. | ||
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