WCS Season 1 Premier League Invite List Announced - Page 15

On April 11 2013 10:11 EleanorRIgby wrote:
on the korea invites list you have zergs like true and crazy but they didnt invite ZerO, some of these invites make no sense at all

On April 11 2013 10:42 rice_devOurer wrote:

those "invites" are Code S spots that they earned?

On April 11 2013 10:40 Mellon wrote:
I just wish Demuslim got selected for Na and White-ra+Nani for EU

On April 11 2013 10:41 TheHansBecker wrote:



Agreed. I'm VERY Happy now. The "Leaked" lists were very wrong. There's only a few Koreans in NA.

On April 11 2013 10:41 bongling wrote:
Some of you are being a bit emo about this, they had to rush this out, invites were a necessity to establish this bitch, it'll be mostly offline next year which should solve some problems. Don't be blindly patriotic, NA scene is lacking in talent, I'm excited to see NesTea and Ryung and hopefully some more bad ass koreans come through qualification, does it make a shitload of sense for them specifically? No, but it will be super sweet to see.

I'm more disappointed with the weaker, stranger invites that made it onto the NA list, don't think I need to name names. At least you know the koreans will bring legitamcy to the competition by raising the skill level, the others just baffle me. No DeMuslim is an outrage but I'd have loved to see QXC too and I'm pretty sure there could be a case made for many players over some that were picked.

All together though it's good for the game, try not to be whiney hysterical bitches about the things you don't like and forsake the entire thing.

On April 11 2013 10:49 betaman wrote:
From the Blizzard Q&A "...24 players in each region have been extended invitations to compete in WCS America and WCS Europe based on their performance in past StarCraft II tournaments."

Someone care to explain how someone like Hellykitty get picks ahead of say Taeja, aLive (who won IPL4) and Alicia (who got two 2nd place finishes in MLG tournaments in 2012)? Either players are free to play in whatever region they like or they aren't, the NA invite list makes no sense.

On April 11 2013 10:49 betaman wrote:
From the Blizzard Q&A "...24 players in each region have been extended invitations to compete in WCS America and WCS Europe based on their performance in past StarCraft II tournaments."

Someone care to explain how someone like Hellykitty get picks ahead of say Taeja, aLive (who won IPL4) and Alicia (who got two 2nd place finishes in MLG tournaments in 2012)? Either players are free to play in whatever region they like or they aren't, the NA invite list makes no sense.

On April 11 2013 11:06 Branman wrote:
What probably happened was that their methodology was bad and grouped Demuslim with the non-Americans. So Hellokitty and Capoch were taken from the "Americans" list, and Ryung, Hero, etc were taken from the "non-Americans" list. Obviously Demuslim is going to not make it on a list that has 20 Koreans on it.

However, I disagree on how they made their lists. They made their lists by citizenship and not by residency. I don't think anyone would have a problem with Polt or Demuslim coming from the "Americans" list as they went through the pains of actually moving here. Both even practice on the NA ladder. It's not like they're going to be playing the online matches from their home countries.

All it takes to fix this is to re-run their numbers and just sort by current residency instead of current citizenship.

On April 11 2013 11:03 Maesy wrote:


Because they're actually looking at the GM ladder like they said they would be? You actually have a fucking problem with somebody playing on America getting picked to play America and then complaining about there not being more Koreans in the WCS America? What the fuck is wrong with people? There should be more names from the top of the GM ladder on this list. This isn't a popularity contest. This is what this was meant to be for.