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First Glimpse: 2012 Battle.Net World Championship - Page 6

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Wildmoon
Profile Joined December 2011
Thailand4189 Posts
January 26 2012 09:47 GMT
#101
I really like what Blizzard is doing than Valve and Riot that just throwing money at each other.
sodapop
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden189 Posts
January 26 2012 09:50 GMT
#102
I really like this.
Mawi
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden4365 Posts
January 26 2012 09:50 GMT
#103
this will be intresting.. gonna wait and see if it turns out good
Forever Mirin Zyzz Son of Zeus Brother of Hercules Father of the Aesthetics
BigLighthouse
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom424 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-26 09:59:50
January 26 2012 09:57 GMT
#104
I guess this is cool. Its not so different to a lot of events atm so I cant see why people are wetting themselves about the concept of a national champion
Mekare
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany393 Posts
January 26 2012 10:33 GMT
#105
Sounds pretty damn amazing and like they've put quite some thought into it. I like it. Hope it turns out to be as cool as it sounds.
eurTsItniH
Profile Joined January 2012
887 Posts
January 26 2012 10:36 GMT
#106
Seems interesting, but gief HotS!
Jayson X
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Switzerland2431 Posts
January 26 2012 11:01 GMT
#107
On January 26 2012 18:23 pdd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 18:19 ReboundEU wrote:
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) ...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.


Stop bringing LoL up all the time. I don't care about it. Apples and oranges. Dota games are absolutely pointless and boring to me, but if they get to be a successful E-Sport game I say good for them! It has absolutely nothing to do with Starcraft. I don't care for who has the biggest or longest.

I do agree with your view upon Blizzard's lack of support for their game and Battle.net compared to others. Then again I don't instantly fall asleep when watching SC2, they did at least something right.

This is good news. 2012 might shape up to be an ever better year for SC2.
WArped
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom4845 Posts
January 26 2012 11:01 GMT
#108
Their approach to eSports and competition is the correct way to go about it for me. Yes, you can throw millions at the competition, but you need that structure and organisation that will help grow the industry in the coming years. Glad to hear they listened to all the negative feedback at Blizzcon too. I can't see Heart of the Swarm coming out before the World Championship though.
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3748 Posts
January 26 2012 11:14 GMT
#109
On January 26 2012 17:05 how wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

NASL and IPL can compete.

But how can you compete with Blizzard? It's their game. It's their battle.net. Competing against Blizzard is competing against someone who has huge advantage.

While I agree WCG could do better job, I don't think Blizzard should just throw super-global-tournament. It's really hard to tell whether it will stimulate the pro scene for SC2 or eclipse everything else (and make everything else worse).
Severian
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia2052 Posts
January 26 2012 11:21 GMT
#110
Hopefully this is the beginning of Blizzard giving more than half an ass about SC2 as an eSport, based on the interview. In a world where Riot have supported LoL so much (not just with money, but also with integration between the playing experience and the competitive world), Blizzard have seemed to be slacking. There's so much they could do in their position, and I hope they realise this.
ZenDeX
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Philippines2916 Posts
January 26 2012 11:21 GMT
#111
On January 26 2012 20:14 nimdil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 17:05 how wrote:
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.

NASL and IPL can compete.

But how can you compete with Blizzard? It's their game. It's their battle.net. Competing against Blizzard is competing against someone who has huge advantage.

While I agree WCG could do better job, I don't think Blizzard should just throw super-global-tournament. It's really hard to tell whether it will stimulate the pro scene for SC2 or eclipse everything else (and make everything else worse).

Competition is always good for the international scene. You know that they say, "The more the merrier."

The only thing to worry about is scheduling these events so they don't conflict each other. Nobody loses that way IMO.
marcelluspye
Profile Joined August 2011
United States155 Posts
January 26 2012 11:42 GMT
#112
On January 26 2012 14:17 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:
How would the release of Heart of the Swarm in the middle of the year affect the competition?
Ilja Rotelli: We had that conversation and we had to decide. Obviously we don't have a release date announced yet for Heart of the Swarm, and we had to decide how eSports would behave in 2012 for StarCraft II. We felt that any form of switch whenever the date would be, from Wings of Liberty to Heart of the Swarm, would betray the nature of the sport. I can't tell a bunch of professional players because of marketing that "You know, you need to promote Heart of the Swarm, could you show up next month and switch the game you're playing?" So the entire 2012 season is going to be played with Wings of Liberty, regardless of when we launch Heart of the Swarm.


This sounds to me like something that could very well backfire. If other tournaments switch to HotS immediately, and Blizzard isn't using HotS at all, then players would have to practice two separate [albeit similar] games, and if some switch and some stay, can Blizzard really say that whoever wins the championship is the best SC2 player in the world, and not just the best WoL player?

Or worse, other teams might be considering switching to HotS, but once they see that Blizzard isn't doing it, they'll scrap their plans of using it and HotS wouldn't be played at all. This is assuming Blizzard isn't flexible in their plans, but considering that in most other answers they said that they were flexible/discussing the issue and in this one they state clearly that HotS will not be used, I have a bad feeling that they may not be flexible at all.
lambda-
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany147 Posts
January 26 2012 11:46 GMT
#113
This sounds really amazing.
I always liked the concept of WCG as a global championship and i'm glad that this returns in some way.
This approach from Blizard has IMO a great potential to be the most important Tournament, or at least the most prestigious one, out there.
Serimek
Profile Joined August 2011
France2274 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-26 11:51:08
January 26 2012 11:50 GMT
#114
Well, Korean national championship will be a world cup into a world cup in terms of level of playing. (Sweden one also in a way.)
SC2 is the best game to watch and was the best to play before I grew old and slow...
Elem
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden4717 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-26 12:02:10
January 26 2012 12:01 GMT
#115
On January 26 2012 20:50 Serimek wrote:
Well, Korean national championship will be a world cup into a world cup in terms of level of playing. (Sweden one also in a way.)
You never know. Can't beat back the Koreans with that mentality, that's for sure tho!
#freeshauni
Flowjo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States928 Posts
January 26 2012 12:05 GMT
#116
I'm really really worried about the map pool ]: someone tell them before it's too late.... no abyssal caverns please
IMNestea's biggest fan.
NekoFlandre
Profile Joined March 2011
United States497 Posts
January 26 2012 12:14 GMT
#117
This looks.....really....really....neato
Kitty Flandre....even more scary..
tapk69
Profile Joined January 2011
Portugal264 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-26 12:21:46
January 26 2012 12:20 GMT
#118
great idea.. and i really love the fact that they name it World championship..

To all the LOL lovers , dont compare LOL with Starcraft ... LOL is an easy and free game , aimed for the 12-18 year old, SC2 is more mature and the skill level is so so so so high compared to moba games. Everyone can play moba games without much problems , as for viewership , while the kids are interested you get 200k viewers and things like that but its not eternal , Moba games are boring to watch...

SC2 will have new maps , new expansions and new players... Also SC2 actually requires pro players to devote their lives to it, like normal sports so when we see MVP play we already know that is impossible for us to play like him .

P.S : im in for Steppes of War or zelnaga caverns again !
ja foste
Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
January 26 2012 12:28 GMT
#119
Incredibly cool news! <3 Blizzard. Thank you for caring about your game!
Iatrik
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany159 Posts
January 26 2012 12:31 GMT
#120
Just amazing.
But even more interesting for me: HotS in 2012 baby
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