EPT[GSL] Open S2 Announced - Page 3
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NerO
United States2071 Posts
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JQL
United States214 Posts
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Mortician
Bulgaria2332 Posts
On September 12 2010 13:13 backtoback wrote: wow another $85000 USD tourney winner every month... my god that is a lot of money compared to BW winners. I hope many switch and BW dies to SC2 Actually it is not, because if you dont win you dont get to eat a whole month | ||
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Plaaguu
United States406 Posts
On September 12 2010 16:25 Mortician wrote: Actually it is not, because if you dont win you dont get to eat a whole month I don't know why people keep on hoping for BW to die out. That's such a depressing thought. | ||
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numLoCK
Canada1416 Posts
On September 12 2010 16:38 edhead999 wrote: I don't know why people keep on hoping for BW to die out. That's such a depressing thought. Because they are silly new people who disrespect their history. A monthly tournament seems kinda weird to me though, compared to the OSL or MSL. How prestigious can a tournament be if there are 12 winners after 12 months? | ||
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Thurokiir
United States779 Posts
As a clarifier, the 12 winners and other high performers are selected for the GSL championships for an even bigger prize pool finals. Should be extremely intense. | ||
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sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
On September 10 2010 11:05 GenoZStriker wrote: :/ Way too early if you ask me. preliminaries are early october, so if they don't announce it now there won't be any time for foreigners to prepare... still, as previously mentioned, people don't seem to get that the three GSL tournaments this year are meant for qualification for the league in 2011 - of course not "only", but it's not like that this GSL-tourney is WCG or something; the huge prize-money makes it seem much more "special" than it is | ||
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Heimatloser
Germany1494 Posts
this is odd. | ||
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Goshawk.
United Kingdom5338 Posts
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
On September 12 2010 20:07 Heimatloser wrote: wait - no second or third place prize money? this is odd. check the liquipedia page on gom, the prizes are up to 64 players and total poll is 170k dollars. | ||
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Shika
Sweden1711 Posts
- After all three tournaments, the top 32 will become "Code S" players. - 33rd-96th will become "Code A" players. - Code S players and Code A players earn the right to participate in the GSL 2011. - If a Code S player drops out before GSL 2011 starts, the top Code A player will fill the spot etc. Hmm, so if you missed the GSL 2010 train (which alot of the worlds best players will do) there's no way to get on the train for atleast another year? | ||
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chocopan
Japan986 Posts
On September 10 2010 11:42 Mato wrote: This, regular pro games on weekday nights (being an Aussie, games starting 7pm is primetime~) is awesome. Same in Japan, 6 to 9 every weeknight, I'm in SC heaven XD . | ||
Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
On September 10 2010 12:12 Slasher wrote: preliminaries are same dates as IEM USA finals in NYC. MLG DC is the weekend after, and BlizzCon is the weekend after that. Poor decision making IMO. You can't always schedule your way around the others, are they supposed to delay everything for three weeks because of other events? That seems rather unreasonable. Yes, they allow non-Koreans to participate and have an English stream, but it's still a mostly Korean event, you shouldn't expect them to schedule around non-Korean events. | ||
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Govou
Canada1072 Posts
On September 12 2010 14:43 PartyBiscuit wrote: Sorry if I'm coming off as kind of dense here, so these 3 months of "preseasons", which has prize pools of 170k US, sets up the 2011 GSL season, with 32 Code S players, what happens in the actual season? Is it a month playoff, or do they compete until the season is "over" in which case, more random/new players can register and attempt to qualify in another set of preseasons? I dont think it says how it will be structured anywhere in web in english but I remember reading a korean article about it. If I remember it correctly, there WON'T be a GSL league game every month but rather 4~5 GSL league tournaments a year. However, in between GSL league tournaments, there will be various other events. My memory is little fuzzy but if I may try, one was called 'SC global ladder challenge' and it was going to invite top ranked ladder players from all different regions for a tournament. There were few more events but I dont remember them atm. I will try to search it and if I find it, will provide a link. Also, if I remember it correctly, even if you dont win prize in a tournament, you will be paid a money (like a salary) by just holding either code S or code A rank. I dont think it will be much though. ps I found this from korean wikipedia site - GSL will be held in Jan, Mar, Apr, Jul, and Sep - World Championship will be held in Jun, Oct - Ladder Tournament will be held in Feb, May, Aug, Nov - Blizzard Cup, in december http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/글로벌_스타크래프트2_리그 basically an event every month. | ||
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mmdmmd
722 Posts
I mean how many can continuously afford to: take a break(job/study), pay for travel, pay for accommodation, pay for meals(I doubt you can cook in hotels). | ||
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pinkranger15
Philippines1597 Posts
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Energin
Canada89 Posts
With regards to the NA tournaments, it'll make an interesting decision for our pros. I imagine those who are already living over there won't travel back here for them, but I was ULTRA impressed with how MLG ran their tournament and I plan to continue to tune into their events, that was actually the most exciting tournament I've seen so far. IEM was pretty meh, their host was someone with an agenda to whine about game balance and their coverage was broken up too much. as for Blizzcon, they stopped free streaming those a few years ago opting for PPV instead and honestly I don't think its worth it because they stopped giving good in depth opinions on topics, opting for generalized political answers instead. I remember back when someone would be like "hey, rogues aren't being used in 5v5, is anything in the works to change that?" and they'd answer with stuff like yes, we're looking to increase their mobility and to give them another offensive debuff they can put on their target. These days they'd just answer something like "its something we may be looking into" which doesn't tell anyone anything. So basically I hope that GSL doesn't overly effect MLG becuase that's a quality tournament but the other two aren't a big deal from a spectator standpoint. | ||
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Ndugu
United States1078 Posts
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Hunch
Canada336 Posts
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jrkirby
United States1510 Posts
On September 12 2010 16:38 edhead999 wrote: I don't know why people keep on hoping for BW to die out. That's such a depressing thought. I barely ever played regular SC:BW (I only played UMS) but I still love watching the pro's play BW as much as I love watching SC2. Now I only play SC2 ladders though. | ||
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