[IPL] $10,000 Team Arena Challenge! - Page 9

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. =)

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!

On November 30 2011 08:39 s4life wrote:
Picking Millenium instead of Empire is a "wtf moment" for sure. Millenium's players acted like a bunch of thugs when they played against the Slayers team -- in an IPL sponsored event nonetheless -- that alone should've been enough to have them banned from IPL team arenas for a substantial period of time. On the other hand Empire rolled over pretty much every western team in the last couple of months and have shown the highest level of professionalism and etiquette at the same time. What were you guys thinking???