EPT[IPL] $10,000 Team Arena Challenge! - Page 8
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MrMotionPicture
United States4327 Posts
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
On December 01 2011 00:11 00Visor wrote: Yeah, Empire should have gotten an invite instead of Dignitas/Millenium/Reign. I hope IGN will reconsider if there's a second edition of this team league. The posts in this thread show that there is clearly a demand. | ||
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Pirat6662001
Russian Federation949 Posts
On December 01 2011 00:35 StarVe wrote: I hope IGN will reconsider if there's a second edition of this team league. The posts in this thread show that there is clearly a demand. Yeah, its not even that all of us are huge fans of them, its that results show that they deserve to be one of the top invites to any team league at the moment | ||
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
On December 01 2011 00:45 Pirat6662001 wrote: Yeah, its not even that all of us are huge fans of them, its that results show that they deserve to be one of the top invites to any team league at the moment True, showing good results consistently should be rewarded with invites (more than popularity). | ||
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Takezou
United States320 Posts
On December 01 2011 00:35 StarVe wrote: I hope IGN will reconsider if there's a second edition of this team league. The posts in this thread show that there is clearly a demand. I do think that Empire seems to be universally under rated for some reason, however using the 10-15 posts in this thread as proof of Empire demand seems a stretch. Anyway, it is 8 spots and no matter what there would be upset over some team or the other not being included. | ||
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AIOL!
France962 Posts
I just want to expose some points: - The MilleniumTV streams like 10h a day with an average of 1,5k viewers and 4k for the bigger events like MSIprocup, Boblegob (a caster who did a 24h marathon streaming SWTOR) slept for 4hours last weekend in front of the screen and had like 700 viewers... - They got a HUGE community of fans, maybe the biggest behind EG and TL, but they don't speak on TL mostly because a french do not speak english  - I cannot figure how they did to be as BM-related in TL. I think it is mostly because of lalush and Adel who are quite BM-ish but not more than Idra, Naniwa or Nerchio... - They are currently first of the 4pl team league beating 4-1 Acer. Since Stephano + Stephano-Diestar 2v2 are unbeatable they are quite strong in a team league. - Empire absolutly deserves a slot and i think they will got it next time thanks to your reactions, this was such an "underrated_team_by_américans_before_they_beat_EG", now they show to the world that you cannot ignore them but since the invitations were send a long time ago i don't blame IPL for not knowing Empire. I hope Millenium will show us good-mannerism and will be invited to the next big team competition because i'm a fucking biased horrible Millenium french fan and everytimes you don't invite Stephano in an event a baby cat dies horribly. | ||
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
On December 01 2011 00:49 Takezou wrote: I do think that Empire seems to be universally under rated for some reason, however using the 10-15 posts in this thread as proof of Empire demand seems a stretch. You gotta spice it up a bit!  I just think that they have good, hard-working players who are very present and successful at least in the online tournament scene and yet, as beastyqt said in this thread, they almost never seem to make the cut when it comes to invites and I don't really understand why. Even for GCPL - a league which they won in the end - Empire had to win a spot through qualifiers because they weren't invited in the first place (although that was more due to poor placement in the first season). And that's just team leagues, I don't see Kas or beastyqt getting many invites for individual competitions as well, although Kas is possibly - in my opinion - the best Terran in Europe at the moment. | ||
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Santiago4ever
Sweden299 Posts
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confusedcrib
United States1307 Posts
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AIOL!
France962 Posts
On December 01 2011 04:15 confusedcrib wrote: Is it clear if the teams are going to use the Korean's available to them? Or do they not want to try and coordinate time zones and lag issues? I honnestly don't think koreans involved with foreign teams will compete, or maybe 1 or 2 B team players. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On December 01 2011 04:24 AIOL! wrote: I honnestly don't think koreans involved with foreign teams will compete, or maybe 1 or 2 B team players. $500 isn't enough to call out the big guns for koreans in the bounty team league they do, but this is a 10k prizepool. I think that's big enough to call out, mvp, nestea, drg, etc for those teams. However, they may still feel they don't need to call them out, since you'll recall the IM coach's wacky choices during gstl. I still seeing them using koreans though. | ||
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ilikeLIONZ
Germany427 Posts
i enjoyed the first "season" a lot and i'm looking forward to watching the EU broadcast | ||
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1Eris1
United States5797 Posts
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hallx
Pakistan163 Posts
On December 01 2011 00:45 Pirat6662001 wrote: Yeah, its not even that all of us are huge fans of them, its that results show that they deserve to be one of the top invites to any team league at the moment That makes sense. They have shown results. | ||
Joshy.IGN
United States530 Posts
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Pirat6662001
Russian Federation949 Posts
On December 01 2011 06:17 1Eris1 wrote: Jeez guys stop the hate. Sorry they weren't able to accomadate 100% of 100% of people's desires. Be happy with what you got, or just don't watch. It's fine to make a suggestion, but theres no fucking need for pages of the same post. havent being seeing much hate besides this post. How else can people let know if they want something if they dont post it and evidence that their desires are justified? 1 guy saying something gets 0 attention, 10-20 warrant the post from IGN (who are awesome by the way, much love). | ||
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TemplarCo.
Mexico2870 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On December 01 2011 06:42 Joshy.IGN wrote: Of course we will take considerations for peoples' wishes in the future. We read TL and Reddit all the time (it's all I did even before I worked here) and take suggestions constantly. I will tell you that this is a big event ($10k prize pool isn't a frequent thing) and we sent invites and tried to secure teams before Millenium vs. SlayerS was played AND before Empire won the other events. We didn't have all the information that we have available now to make our decisions with. As someone else stated, there are only 8 slots and no matter what, a team or two will be left out in the cold. We apologize, but please appreciate the tournament that we DO have and enjoy the games. =) Now I understand that putting out such a team tournament with such a prize pool is a large step to take, but if this tournament is successful, which I see is very likely, could IPL please do some more of these types of tournaments? I think that the team aspect in SC2 is also very important, and would love to see a team league tournaments from the IPL. Right now outside of Korea we have team tournaments like the EG Master's Cup and the GCPL, but if IPL were to run such a tournament, there would be huge interest, especially since other major tournaments like MLG, Dreamhack, IEM and NASL have not yet expanded into this "market". Keep up the good work IPL! | ||
Alex.IGN
United States1050 Posts
On December 01 2011 07:23 Bagration wrote: Now I understand that putting out such a team tournament with such a prize pool is a large step to take, but if this tournament is successful, which I see is very likely, could IPL please do some more of these types of tournaments? I think that the team aspect in SC2 is also very important, and would love to see a team league tournaments from the IPL. Right now outside of Korea we have team tournaments like the EG Master's Cup and the GCPL, but if IPL were to run such a tournament, there would be huge interest, especially since other major tournaments like MLG, Dreamhack, IEM and NASL have not yet expanded into this "market". Keep up the good work IPL! If it's successful (if people tune in, tweet, and post about it) then I can justify doing more of these events, hopefully in even bigger and better ways! | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On December 01 2011 07:29 Alex.IGN wrote: If it's successful (if people tune in, tweet, and post about it) then I can justify doing more of these events, hopefully in even bigger and better ways! Awesome, I will definitely be tailgating these games with some friends of mine. Go IPL! | ||
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