On January 17 2013 12:52 jinorazi wrote:
i was wondering how katowice was pronounced, upon googling; im so pround that my guess was correct!
my english improving XD

Katowice is in Polish :p It's a City. Also cool thing to notice is that the arena(picture on this news)is named Spodek ( UFO).

Google Pictures of Spodek Katowice.

knOxStarcraft

Canada422 Posts

January 17 2013 04:06 GMT

#25

To be expected, once HotS releases viewership and player base will rise again for sure.

Aber

Sweden332 Posts

January 17 2013 04:13 GMT

#26

casters? anyone know who? i asume apollo will be there

mtn

729 Posts

January 17 2013 04:13 GMT

#27

On January 17 2013 13:06 knOxStarcraft wrote:
To be expected, once HotS releases viewership and player base will rise again for sure.

Maybe... but Poland is much like Korea when it comes to SC2. BW > SC2, and LoL>SC2.

Advantageous

China1350 Posts

January 17 2013 04:13 GMT

#28

GOGO TLO!

ReignSupreme.

Australia4123 Posts

January 17 2013 04:21 GMT

#29

How long till group stages start approx?
Moonglade fighting!~

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

January 17 2013 04:26 GMT

#30

Eeesh, disturbing brackets for any tournament. You never want even one open slot much less... a barren open bracket. However, at the end of any phase (in this case, WoL) you get this sort of thing. Top Masters and Grand Masters have learned there's no point to sign up for an open bracket because they keep getting 2-0'd by lower tier pros. Which is fine, totally acceptable, but at this stage of the game's development... well, if you were a GM player, would you rather spend the money and time going to a tournament you're going to get decimated at? Or, perhaps, spend some time with HotS?

a9arnn

United States1537 Posts

January 17 2013 04:26 GMT

#31

Wow that's not many people O.o, also they should've moved one of scoobers/noispaxen down vs. paranoid if only 4 people are in that bracket (6-6-4-5 people groups could've been 5-5-5-6 D: )

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

January 17 2013 04:29 GMT

#32

Actually this is really sad... so open bracket 3... I'll post a few Polish high Master or GM players' tournament entry fee who's willing to play.

PM me!

FeltFace

Australia577 Posts

January 17 2013 05:04 GMT

#33

Wow no mention of Snute making his Liquid debut on the front page? Come on guys...

Zerg.Zilla

Hungary5029 Posts

January 17 2013 05:43 GMT

#34

Go Go mOOnGLaDe and jookTo! ^^

Chaosu

Poland404 Posts

January 17 2013 05:51 GMT

#35

On January 17 2013 11:52 BrokenMirage wrote:
These open brackets are so empty... Why didn't more people sign up?

As for locals, 50€ is ridiculously much for us here to join just for fun. I'm honestly surprised to see that many unknown Polish players in the open bracket.

On January 17 2013 13:29 Crownlol wrote:
Actually this is really sad... so open bracket 3... I'll post a few Polish high Master or GM players' tournament entry fee who's willing to play.

PM me!

That's a bit late. Too bad, money really was an issue for many players.

Zythus

Poland184 Posts

January 17 2013 05:52 GMT

#36

There is no much ppl in brackets, cause signing up for open bracket was for (if I remember correctyl) 50 euro, which for non-professional gamer without job, is not that small amount in Poland.

MythZero

Korea (South)102 Posts

January 17 2013 06:22 GMT

#37

R.I.P

vinsky

Poland48 Posts

January 17 2013 06:24 GMT

#38

never mind the open bracket, the main tournament will be epic!