EPTSomething as large and serious as TLS? No.
Will you still be interested in WoL tournaments after HotS…
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
Something as large and serious as TLS? No. | ||
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JJH777
United States4378 Posts
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
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lokes
Argentina80 Posts
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TJ31
630 Posts
Maybe I'll check IPL6 if there will be some good matches starting from RO16 or so though. Oh and I think WoL will be completely abandoned by Blizzard short after HotS release. Main team are gonna work on HotS and it's balance ofc and later, on LotV. WoL will most likely get some battle.net changes whenever HotS will get em too. And it makes sense. Pro scene and the most of casuals gonna switch to HotS, no way Blizzard will work hard to fix anything in WoL just for a few people who are still playing. | ||
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LeeDawg
United States1306 Posts
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Insomni7
667 Posts
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nooboon
2602 Posts
The finals of IPL 6 will be the exception. | ||
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midnight999
United States257 Posts
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regizer239
Guam327 Posts
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Emzeeshady
Canada4203 Posts
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
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ThePlayer33
Australia2378 Posts
mlg winter signifies a complete transition for me. | ||
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DJSub
Indonesia261 Posts
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Riner1212
United States337 Posts
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
For me it's all about the players, not which game they play. | ||
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Cyanocyst
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umelbumel
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Goibon
New Zealand8185 Posts
HotS better not be arse. Ball is in Blizzar's court. edit: definitely speaking short term, if there's a couple of WoL tournaments in the month or two after HotS release, that's fine. I'm not going to draw a magic line and say NO MORE WOL once HotS ships. That's a bit silly. HotS will take a few months to sink in i would think and in that time if there's WoL on i'm not gonna actively avoid it. Long term though, no. | ||
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figq
12519 Posts
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NokaH
Norway46 Posts
Doubt there will be any tourneys that actually choose WoL over HotS. | ||
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Greenei
Germany1754 Posts
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DaRKMaTT3r
Brazil553 Posts
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HououinKyouma
Australia152 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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DavoS
United States4605 Posts
On February 07 2013 11:43 CursOr wrote: I'm being naively hopeful that HotS will drastically improve SC2 gameplay and tactics. Now let's add a shot of optimism to this. Pros are already saying that they love HotS, and I agree. It's much easier to come back from being way behind (for now at least), the new units are fun/a bit challenging to micro and micro against. So I 'm not sure I'd care for WoL after all the changes that HotS has done to lliven SC2 up. Let me say though, if the Oracle doesn't get nerfed before the official release... | ||
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jnd
Czech Republic915 Posts
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Rorra
Australia1066 Posts
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shenlong
219 Posts
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executorx
Germany81 Posts
I will watch both Wol and HotS as often es possible. | ||
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mythandier
United States828 Posts
Other than that I'd have no desire to do so. | ||
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Trilandian
Israel78 Posts
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
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iViNtaGe
United States254 Posts
Still wish HotS was more different though. | ||
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FuzzyJAM
Scotland9300 Posts
Like. . .I get tournaments that happen just after release, but anything a month or so after it when everyone is properly transitioned is just pointless. | ||
HaN-
France1919 Posts
On February 07 2013 11:49 lokes wrote: Of course there will be wol tournaments, and of course i will watch them. It will be interesting to see how the metagame will keep changing and i hope blizzard keeps on patching wol. I think the exact opposite. It make absolutely no doubt that WoL will instantly die just like vanilla SC1 when Broodwar came out. | ||
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GWdeathscythe
Brazil1091 Posts
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Nerfed
Russian Federation1132 Posts
BW - yes | ||
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VaultDweller
Romania132 Posts
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TheJiveBuddha
United States3 Posts
This is in terms of big tournaments. I wouldn't mind small, fun and casual games in WoL every now and then. | ||
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Leetley
1796 Posts
On February 07 2013 11:49 lokes wrote: Of course there will be tournaments, and of course i will watch them. It will be interesting to see how the metagame will keep changing and i hope blizzard keeps on patching wol. I don't really think Blizzard will support WoL after HotS in terms of new patches. | ||
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Patriot.dlk
Sweden5462 Posts
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xmungam
United States1050 Posts
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GoodSirTets
Canada200 Posts
On February 07 2013 13:10 Emzeeshady wrote: absolutely WOL is in the best shape it has ever been I can't help but notice your list of players "fighting" is all zerg ;P Best shape the competitive scene's ever been in indeed. | ||
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Maitolasi
Finland441 Posts
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LowEloPlayer
United States205 Posts
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LowEloPlayer
United States205 Posts
On February 08 2013 05:50 xmungam wrote: YES. it's not feasible for all WOL pros to switch to HOTS immediately, it will take time just like going from BW to WOL. I will stay with WoL as long as i can because the Kespa pros are probably gonna keep playing WoL in proleague for at least a little while, and i will always follow the korean homeland :D "it will take time just like going BW to WOL" I don't think so. That was a transition between two completely different games, while this is a transition just between expansions. For one thing, Korean pros who are strictly in Korea will switch to HOTS because GSL (And OSL, I believe) will switch to HOTS, and if it was hard trying to get your name out there with mediocre results in the league everybody watches, imagine trying to get your name out there with mediocre results in a randomy undergrouns WOL league nobody watches. Most foreigners are also making the transition to HOTS. I don't honestly see any reasons to stay in WOL for any pro. The money is in HOTS. New gameplay is in HOTS. The audience is in HOTS. End of story. | ||
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Prplppleatr
United States1518 Posts
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Hermanoid
Sweden213 Posts
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oneill12
Romania1222 Posts
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Linog[e]
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yokohama
United States1116 Posts
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skatblast
United States784 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16055 Posts
TvT and TvZ remain fun match ups to watch, and the odd TvP can be really fun as well but the other match ups are absolute shadows of their former selves. (Except PvP which is about as fun as its always been... which isn't a good thing for me.) HoTS provides the shake up that's badly needed, already it looks promising and it's not even out of beta yet and the metagame is still in its infancy. I look forward to seeing where it takes us. Once the current season of GSL ends HOTS will be my only focus and WoL can retire with honor. | ||
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Vaelom
Korea (South)154 Posts
Instead of the period of wierd builds, ''broken'' game/builds. I want the best, not still testing period | ||
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Dontkillme
Korea (South)806 Posts
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Zenbrez
Canada5973 Posts
Hots seems like a glorifed SCBW to me.. it seems to childish for some reason.......... If WOL tourneys are still going on, I'll still watch them | ||
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macncheezeplz
United States93 Posts
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On February 07 2013 11:49 lokes wrote: Of course there will be tournaments, and of course i will watch them. It will be interesting to see how the metagame will keep changing and i hope blizzard keeps on patching wol. Why? That's like asking Blizzard to continue patching Starcraft 1 after Brood War? (I don't believe they did?) | ||
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lessQQmorePEWPEW
Jamaica921 Posts
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KumihO.
United States55 Posts
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ScIIWoL
Denmark2 Posts
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MHT
Sweden1026 Posts
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Ramiz1989
12124 Posts
On February 08 2013 20:21 KumihO. wrote: I Love WoL, but does anyone look back at Starcraft and not think BW was a way better game BW is still one of the best games ever made for me, and I think it is better than WoL, but I don't think that WoL is bad game at all. I think that WoL is actually a great game, it is just that people have really high expectations because they've played BW. | ||
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frostdr
Germany42 Posts
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Striborg
United States47 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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Dunmer
United Kingdom568 Posts
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
I'm also anticipating IM to make it to the finals against Startale in IPLTL. So that's something else that has me hyped for IPL6 as you can see from the bottom right corner of my posts. | ||
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JazzNL
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_Proto_
United States157 Posts
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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TommyP
United States6231 Posts
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terfand
Russian Federation119 Posts
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mhael
United States102 Posts
That would be SO fun. I'd pay a $5.00 patch or something for the new engine. You could play BW WoL HoTS | ||
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Mudkipnick
Korea (South)241 Posts
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monx
Canada1400 Posts
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Cababel
United States31 Posts
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TAMinator
Australia2706 Posts
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Gropah
Netherlands58 Posts
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TurnipThrowingPeach
United States151 Posts
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Qbyx
Romania210 Posts
On February 09 2013 21:15 TurnipThrowingPeach wrote: Wtf is this? Barely over half say yes? That's pretty shocking. It's like some people are already trying to start a "WoL 4ever" hipster bandwagon. Move on and enjoy some new content. People always so stuck in the past. >.> Sheesh. I see 21% with "Yes". | ||
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neptunusfisk
2286 Posts
 But of course, if all the pros go HotS, the best thing about WoL won't even exist, so yeah, perhaps not so interesting. | ||
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neptunusfisk
2286 Posts
Well, it's possible to win presidential elections with that kind of figure, so it's aalmost half? :p | ||
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
Watching hellbats drop kill everyone is not very fun for the moment. Nor is watching Oracle being totally unanwsered by pro players. | ||
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Dauntless3788
United States2 Posts
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crazyweasel
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Inertiaddict
United States126 Posts
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Yoshirou_Iba
Paraguay37 Posts
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neptunusfisk
2286 Posts
On February 10 2013 06:52 crazyweasel wrote: Hots appears the most boring expansion blizz could ever make. kespa wont be switching on the spot either so.... im sticking to watching FPL, i couldnt care less for the rest. Well Kespa will be switching reasonably soon, and if you're watching FPL (how do you even do that?) the actual game won't matter as much I think. | ||
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SaintFrancis
Canada46 Posts
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Farmer Poopy
258 Posts
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xbertssmiler
Germany14 Posts
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Zorkam
Sweden2 Posts
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Greendotz
United Kingdom2053 Posts
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Leviance
Germany4079 Posts
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Jaevlaterran
Sweden578 Posts
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Sc2Wrath
United Kingdom58 Posts
I guess it will be all i watch once HotS is out, but with the current state of the game, I'm not interested in tournys atm. Feels very lacklucster, | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
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Garoodah
United States56 Posts
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kith
Greece20 Posts
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achan1058
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
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Foxyshazam
United States38 Posts
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Big-t
Austria1350 Posts
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AGIANTSMURF
United States1232 Posts
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rtem
Finland54 Posts
I guess lot of my interest in hots is gonna ride on how effectively Blizzard can nail down the balance before and after the launch. | ||
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ppshchik
United States862 Posts
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AneYe
Russian Federation9 Posts
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dirtydurb82
United States178 Posts
Also, I'm not so sure about HOTS!!! Call me nuts, but the games haven't proven it will be a fun watch! TvT is Reaper into Hellbat drop (OP and boring) ZvT is blah WM play. PvT and PvZ really aren't that different! The only truly great change IMO is PvP, which has always been a really cool mirror (again, IMO), but will now be VERY exciting to watch, with quite a few varied builds. Seeing the stuff Grubby, White-Ra, and others are doing PvP-wise is very exciting. | ||
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niilzon
Belgium105 Posts
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mcdoobyland
United States18 Posts
i think blizzard is failing to please their players and personally i think better companies are taking over. | ||
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NKB
United Kingdom608 Posts
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pigmanbear
Angola2010 Posts
On February 07 2013 19:10 HououinKyouma wrote: HoTs units are so gimmicky imo. Agreed 100%. I'm not going to play a game (or take one seriously as a fan) with crappy, childish units like the Viper and Swarm Host. I've tried to give HotS a chance, but it's just so dull to watch, nothing like WoL in the beta. Sadly WoL is very stale, but this is just a symptom of the game mechanics: Things like warp-in, force-field, and fungal growth (mainly the first of the three) mean that you can only go so far with new maps. Add in mechanics that allow for hard-core powering on any map (MULE, inject larvae), and all the games look the same after a while. Happily we have BW, and the scene seems to be perking up recently. | ||
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KookyMonster
United States311 Posts
BW is a different game completely than SCII, so it still makes sense to play that. Not much of reason to play or watch SCII:WoL after HotS is released. | ||
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cerb
Germany215 Posts
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ViTaLiTy17
Canada16 Posts
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telfire
United States415 Posts
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
so scattered they should just make 1 addon and fast after the release of the original (like BW) and then just balance the shit out of it.. I bet it would be awesome that way | ||
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Mongoose
United Kingdom190 Posts
Games have turned into 1 base mine/hellion drop, where you use light-speed medivacs to drop mines over the entire half of the enemy base in 2 seconds and try to destroy all workers. That's just cheesy, the whole game shouldn't be decided in 5 seconds of luck based micro. | ||
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KazmA
United States117 Posts
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lynchkin
United States14 Posts
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Myusen
Germany29 Posts
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jakethesnake
Canada4948 Posts
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SamanthaRain
United States37 Posts
The sad part is that HotS will be exactly the same as WoL in that aspect. Something will be overpowered for a year, then something else becomes overpowered for a year. Blizzard Entertainment™, | ||
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frozzz
Croatia118 Posts
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jaaacckz
United States26 Posts
HotS will be a great game for sure ! | ||
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markrevival
United States222 Posts
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Koltronn
United States29 Posts
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ChoDing
United States740 Posts
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Dvriel
607 Posts
I think we should stop calling it "HotS" and begin talking about "SC2".The WoL ladders are actually almost dead.In my league we are 70 and only the first 30 got more than 4 games this season...If any organizer want to make WoL event after 12.12, they should know,almost nobody will watch it and the most Pros will not go... | ||
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iiGreetings
Canada563 Posts
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Koltronn
United States29 Posts
On February 18 2013 22:55 Dvriel wrote: There will be no sense for anyone to continue with WoL.Why should any Pro train WoL if almost every tournament will be HotS? I think we should stop calling it "HotS" and begin talking about "SC2".The WoL ladders are actually almost dead.In my league we are 70 and only the first 30 got more than 4 games this season...If any organizer want to make WoL event after 12.12, they should know,almost nobody will watch it and the most Pros will not go... I think that it will be just called "SC2" again after it comes out in march and Wol is officially over. | ||
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Phanekim
United States777 Posts
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