EPTFirst Glimpse: 2012 Battle.Net World Championship - Page 5
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Poland6595 Posts
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zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
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Blennd
United States266 Posts
On January 26 2012 16:06 Dakkas wrote: After some thought, I would have been hoping for a team tourny as well though the prospect of the 'World Cup' is exciting nonetheless 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. Yeah LoL doesn't have MLG, IEM, DH, and GSL, they have to settle for MLG, IEM, DH, and OGN... | ||
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Belial88
United States5217 Posts
I would've much preferred blizzcon to just another tournament. How is this going to be better than just another month of GSL? | ||
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SunTzuEU
Sweden221 Posts
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pzu
Sweden287 Posts
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iMAniaC
Norway703 Posts
Personally, the format I would love to see was that every country would have a spot if they managed to meet some requirements. Like for instance that Blizzard would only accept their representative if he was the winner of a qualifier being held through a serious national eSports site or organization, and that the qualifiers should be completely open and announced x weeks in advance. That way, even small countries would be able to compete. There could also, possibly, be some arbitrary requirement about the size of the qualifiers, say, at least 128 or 256 players. It does sound like a lot for some small countries, but it doesn't need to be 256 GM/Master players, but instead, with the spirit of the thing, 256 players of any calibre. That means that the national eSports site could write something along the lines of "OK, people, we need 256 players to play in this qualifier in order to get our national champion to the finals. Come on, you Bronze players, support eSports!". This would have three positive effects: One, low-level players would feel that they help their local hero along by joining in, even though they're virtually chanceless to win themselves. Two, it would stay true to the grassroot idea, getting more people to compete and possibly getting them interested in doing it seriously. And three, it would determine just how serious the eSport site/organization would be. If they can't even rally 256 players of any calibre in order to support their local hero, they're not doing it right. Exceptions could be made for really small countries, like Andorra etc. Finally, Blizzard should have an official page listing all the sites that have the responsibility of picking their national hero. If there's just no site for a given country and there's someone from that country who really wishes to compete, they could send an application directly to Blizzard and Blizzard would set up a fitting tournament in order to crown the champion, or, in cooperation with some nearby country, assign him to compete in his neighbouring country. Those are my 2 cents. | ||
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Micket
United Kingdom2163 Posts
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obsKura
Ireland1061 Posts
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Lemonayd
United States745 Posts
Go team amurrrica :p | ||
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ReboundEU
508 Posts
Really looking forward....judging by articles ive seen this year should be atleast double in quality compared to last year! Thumbs up are up | ||
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pdd
Australia9933 Posts
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Zorgaz
Sweden2951 Posts
The fact that Blizzard is cooperating with other companies gives me good feeling the map pool is gonna be a good one this time. Man really looking forward to this :D | ||
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ReboundEU
508 Posts
On January 26 2012 18:13 pdd wrote: Blizzard seems to really have a huge plan for transitioning SC2 into an eSports game this year. Hope they really act on pro feedback faster. Especially with HotS coming soon. What do u mean..it's already the bigest e-sport game atm (considered a true blood esport and accnowledged by everyone who watches it even once..compared to other games that still have image problems when it comes down to e-sports, not being aknowledged by everyone - ex: LoL) ...considering other games began slowly dieing a long time ago O.o No need for transitioning lol..maybe growing it EVEN MOAR!...and yea..HoTS :S can't wait for it! | ||
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pdd
Australia9933 Posts
On January 26 2012 18:19 ReboundEU wrote: What do u mean..it's already the bigest e-sport game atm (considered a true blood esport and accnowledged by everyone who watches it even once..compared to other games that still have image problems when it comes down to e-sports) ...considering other games began slowly dieing a long time ago O.o No need for transitioning lol..maybe growing it EVEN MOAR!...and yea..HoTS :S can't wait for it! I think LoL is the becoming the biggest esport game at the moment. Sad but true. For a long time Blizzard ignored a lot of the complains that people had regarding balance, the map pool, and in general support to organizers (besides Gretech). That's why we had the travesty of the Blizzcon SC2 tournament. This interview, makes it sound like they're really trying to increase their support for it to really cater less towards casuals and more towards pro-players. | ||
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ReboundEU
508 Posts
Regarding LoL... well.... sadly no comment. Next big thing Soliter Online..because 9 million secretaries all over the world cheer for it. | ||
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havox_
Germany442 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 although im not a blizzard hater... why exactly do you think so? i didnt read anything surprisingly awesome. the plan (being the producer of the game) to make a world championship is not really that surprising. Having continental qualifiers? happened before (even for blizzcon). pre-pre-qualifiers? yep, happened before. (wcg etc) they didnt announce anything unthinkable^^ Furthermore... I'm not sure about the HotS thing. Does that mean that HotS is probably not released in mid/fall 2012? cuz i cant really believe that they would wanna play it out in WoL, if HotS was released several months earlier and everybody is already practicing 100% HotS. | ||
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Dakkas
2550 Posts
On January 26 2012 17:32 Blennd wrote: Yeah LoL doesn't have MLG, IEM, DH, and GSL, they have to settle for MLG, IEM, DH, and OGN... Yes I should have corrected that. More appropriately, SC2 currently has more major tournaments though LoL is only recently starting to catch up. For those venues, SC2 was being used them long before LoL was (barring OGN) which leads me back to my point of the first place. Riot do have a game that will get bigger however that isn't purely because of the game itself being an excellent e-sport, but also to do with the amount of advertising they've also been doing and the prize-money they announced reflects that. | ||
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gakkgakk
Norway902 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. I don't think WCG has done a good job with the national qualifiers. Sure, for some countries it was cool; Germany and Russia for example. But for many of the smaller countries there really wasn't much to speak of. Very excited for this. And i'm also very happy blizzard decided to make this 100% open for everyone. Instead of the Battle.net Invitational where players we're just picked by Blizzard. In my opinion it's events like this that is good for the scene; random ladder gosu #126 will maybe be inspired to practice alot and make a name for himself through this. This is why i think ESL with the IEM is awesome. Because of their system players like Pomi, Feast, Titan and FXOTarga got a shot at playing with the celebrities. Mad love to Blizzard for doing something like this. Im sure it will be one of the coolest tournaments in 2012! | ||
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Inex
Bulgaria443 Posts
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