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B.Net National Qualifiers - Q&A with Ilja Rotelli - Page 2

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FinalForm
Profile Joined August 2010
United States450 Posts
April 19 2012 05:55 GMT
#21
Honestly rather Blizzard just work on supporting other tournaments and ESPORTS than doing this. And using ladder is a joke.
xSilverx
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden76 Posts
April 19 2012 06:08 GMT
#22
Sooooo....... Sweden? how do i see the swedish qually?
TheRealFluid
Profile Joined June 2011
United States501 Posts
April 19 2012 06:16 GMT
#23
Good to see Fenix active again.
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xSilverx
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden76 Posts
April 19 2012 06:24 GMT
#24
Igues the finals will be Korea vs Sweden=)
RyF
Profile Joined October 2011
Austria508 Posts
April 19 2012 06:39 GMT
#25
Austria?

what about the smaller countries which are not listet? did i miss something?
lambda-
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany147 Posts
April 19 2012 07:04 GMT
#26
So why does ukraine only get 2 and sweden only 3 finals slots but germany 4.
Only because there are more german players on the ladder?

Seems a bit unfair too me, considering sweden and ukraine got more top players than germany.
Hyge
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland138 Posts
April 19 2012 07:07 GMT
#27
Pure awesomeness
I play 1v1 SC2 because I've heard there are people who are currently better than I - and that pisses me off.
onedayclose
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1145 Posts
April 19 2012 07:35 GMT
#28
Hooray ESPORTS!
blacksheepwall
Profile Joined June 2011
China1530 Posts
April 19 2012 07:44 GMT
#29
Nice to see the mandatory free stream. Otherwise there doesn't seem to be too much new information here or very much specific informaion at all, which is odd since these events are already in progress in some places.

Maybe it's just because the "established" scenes across the world are so diverse that they can't really release binding world-wide information on anything below the National Qualifiers.
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Sphaero
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany1697 Posts
April 19 2012 08:22 GMT
#30
On April 19 2012 16:04 ZeitgeisT wrote:
So why does ukraine only get 2 and sweden only 3 finals slots but germany 4.
Only because there are more german players on the ladder?

Seems a bit unfair too me, considering sweden and ukraine got more top players than germany.


I think it is a matter of the perspective. From Blizzards perspective, Germany is a greater market due to the bigger gaming population (and potential buyer of HOTS), so they cater more to this scene.

From the perspective of skill (and amount of full time pro´s), a different distribution like Sweden 4/ Germany and Ukraine 3 seats would be more logical, though.

The positive aspect about it is, that the national finals of Sweden, Ukraine and Netherlands (only 1 seat) will be pretty exciting.


opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 19 2012 08:24 GMT
#31
What a masterpiece of journalism is it to ask the most convenient questions! This really did not have to be an interview, it would be enough to present a press release from Blizzard. Otherwise I cannot put my mind around how you managed to be so completely silent about the issue of people that are unable to participate because of their nationality.

I know that nationality-based competition is an old concept from "ordinary" sport but that does not make it less stupid. Even more stupid is the situation, where for a global event, people are divided into two groups: can participate = happens to liven a country chosen by Blizzard, cannot participate = rest of the world.

Interestingly, divinding people accroding to what kind of passport they hold, ooks like a big fun to everyone. Would you be so cheerfull if they made a tournament only for white people?
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xSilverx
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden76 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-19 08:42:34
April 19 2012 08:41 GMT
#32
On April 19 2012 17:24 opisska wrote:
What a masterpiece of journalism is it to ask the most convenient questions! This really did not have to be an interview, it would be enough to present a press release from Blizzard. Otherwise I cannot put my mind around how you managed to be so completely silent about the issue of people that are unable to participate because of their nationality.

I know that nationality-based competition is an old concept from "ordinary" sport but that does not make it less stupid. Even more stupid is the situation, where for a global event, people are divided into two groups: can participate = happens to liven a country chosen by Blizzard, cannot participate = rest of the world.

Interestingly, divinding people accroding to what kind of passport they hold, ooks like a big fun to everyone. Would you be so cheerfull if they made a tournament only for white people?


You are being kind of unreasonable... So what you say is that we can´t have a world championship because all countrys doesn´t play starcraft? That´s just stupid. Although i see you point and blizzard should at least fix so all the countrys, in for example Europe, who aren´t participating should merge togheter and do an online qualifyer where in it´s turn leads to a biggertournament in the middle of Europe. That way everyone who is willing are allowed to play. Also you´re talking about other countrys being inferior to others? well ofc have you seen GSL? In Code S there is only koreans gamers for the one time exception of one swedish gamer.

On the other hand i believe this is a huge step for ESports. This and the recently announced CSL scholarship are going to revolutionate the Starcraft we know today. I can´t wait untill i get to see the outcome of HOTS!

EDIT: sorry about my english^^
JimmyHollow
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom249 Posts
April 19 2012 08:46 GMT
#33
Holy... will be epic :D
Darksoldierr
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary2013 Posts
April 19 2012 08:55 GMT
#34
No hungarian tournament :\
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Darksoldierr
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary2013 Posts
April 19 2012 08:59 GMT
#35
On April 19 2012 15:39 RyF wrote:
Austria?

what about the smaller countries which are not listet? did i miss something?


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Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
April 19 2012 09:02 GMT
#36
On April 19 2012 08:33 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:
The remaining slots will go to top ladder players from every nation.


So... I just need to play 5 placement matches then.
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
April 19 2012 09:52 GMT
#37
this will be great!!! cannot wait!!!

wonde rif the is one for the UK?
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bbm
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1320 Posts
April 19 2012 10:16 GMT
#38
On April 19 2012 18:52 Tommylew wrote:
this will be great!!! cannot wait!!!

wonde rif the is one for the UK?

There are qualifiers every sunday for the next 8 weeks, no details have been given yet though.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4871777/
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PlosionCornu
Profile Joined August 2010
Italy814 Posts
April 19 2012 10:21 GMT
#39
It is nice that they are stepping up in the e-sport department as a developer.

Still, mr Rotelli, holding the national finals in Naples got to be the worst decision of this century, seriously do they expect any attendance at all from this?

As a premise, I live by the south, but still, Naples is the worst city in the entire country, stained by high criminality rate, garbage dumping problems, poverty and illegal immigrants, with an overall technological advancement deficit compared to the rest of Italy, let alone Europe. (Terrible internet connections, yeah).
Not really the best place to hold an esports event, innit? Milan,Rome or even Florence would've been MUCH much better.

Funny thing is, Cloud is being forced to go there, even though he expressed multiple times to "dislike" (to put it kindly) southern Italy, being from Miland and all.
mnck
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark1518 Posts
April 19 2012 10:23 GMT
#40
What a nice interview! Very interesting to hear about the new plans for the world championship
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