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Adventurekid
Sweden505 Posts
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
On March 06 2012 10:08 Magic_Mike wrote: whaa so jelly. OMG. I want to go to vegas so badly.My wife bought me tickets for my birthday. My first time in Vegas and my first live Starcraft event. So effing excited. | ||
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Hrrrrm
United States2081 Posts
On March 07 2012 05:05 zul wrote: will the GSTL Finals be free to watch on the IPL streams or only via Gom player in the bad Gom TV quality? I would think it's similar to Blizzcon where the GSL Finals was on the main Blizzcon stream. At least I hope so... would be strange to take the event to Las Vegas at IPL 4 and then not have it be shown on IPL's main stream. | ||
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Season
United States301 Posts
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IGNProLeague
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hansmuff
United States23 Posts
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Ktk
Korea (South)753 Posts
must_go event. | ||
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sephuys
United States43 Posts
On March 07 2012 05:43 hansmuff wrote: Will the freshly knighted Mill.Dragon be playing in the open bracket? Yes, you can see it if you click spoiler tag for open tourny participants. | ||
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IGNProLeague
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Sm1Le
United States179 Posts
Is there anyway to get my money back possibly, and open another spot for anyone else that wanted to play in it? Thanks | ||
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MeFAT
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Audemed
United States893 Posts
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Alex.IGN
United States1050 Posts
On March 07 2012 14:08 Sm1Le wrote: i am competitor at IPL, but due to last minute problems I won't be able to make it. :/ Is there anyway to get my money back possibly, and open another spot for anyone else that wanted to play in it? Thanks Yes you can request a refund through eventbrite, or if you are having issues, email iplevents@ign.com | ||
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cari-kira
Germany655 Posts
dont misunderstand me, i watch gsl regulary, but for a foreign tournament i want the "clash of the cultures" and not a "koreans play a tournament, thats by accident _not_ in korea". with all the invitees its an awful small competition for an extraordinary price pool. where are the reginal qualifiers to make sure every audience is involved? if IPL really want to impress and create emotions and memories, they need to rethink their design i guess. | ||
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onedayclose
United States1145 Posts
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onedayclose
United States1145 Posts
On March 07 2012 14:40 cari-kira wrote: i think there are too few foreigners. dont misunderstand me, i watch gsl regulary, but for a foreign tournament i want the "clash of the cultures" and not a "koreans play a tournament, thats by accident _not_ in korea". with all the invitees its an awful small competition for an extraordinary price pool. where are the reginal qualifiers to make sure every audience is involved? if IPL really want to impress and create emotions and memories, they need to rethink their design i guess. I am pretty sure that IPL ran regional offline qualifiers across the globe. Yes, I do agree that IPL is the anti-NASL. The Koreans outnumber the foreigners. Mass Koreans is making IPL look like 'GSL West' I do not know if this was IPLs intent but we can see where it is going. As long as IPL makes this a tournament ANYONE can enter, has qualifiers whether they be on or offline, continues to have a HUGE prize pool and it continues to occur infrequently THERE WILL BE many many Koreans. Will IPL ever leave the US and host finals in other countries? I do not know. I feel USA at the moment is the only country that could EVENTUALLY turn IPL into a profitable business. | ||
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sevhil
7 Posts
On March 07 2012 14:40 cari-kira wrote: i think there are too few foreigners. dont misunderstand me, i watch gsl regulary, but for a foreign tournament i want the "clash of the cultures" and not a "koreans play a tournament, thats by accident _not_ in korea". with all the invitees its an awful small competition for an extraordinary price pool. where are the reginal qualifiers to make sure every audience is involved? if IPL really want to impress and create emotions and memories, they need to rethink their design i guess. I don't feel like I agree with this at all. Personally I don't think Idra should even be invited to this event.Naniwa or Ret are both much stronger foreigners. They could run a World vs Koreans like tournaments but the matches would hardly be worth watching because the gap in the level of play. Certain tournaments already do this and fail to provide compelling games, such as IEM and Blizzard cup. Sure there is room for change with the way they qualify, but by hosting a live qualifier they give local talent a better chance then those that have to travel and adjust to the time difference. GSL has already shown what happens when you invite foreigners to a tournament against Koreans, they almost always fail. So give the spots to those that are truely amazing and let the live qualifier determine the rest. | ||
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Jampackedeon
United States2053 Posts
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Nighthawks28
United States232 Posts
On March 07 2012 14:40 cari-kira wrote: i think there are too few foreigners. dont misunderstand me, i watch gsl regulary, but for a foreign tournament i want the "clash of the cultures" and not a "koreans play a tournament, thats by accident _not_ in korea". with all the invitees its an awful small competition for an extraordinary price pool. where are the reginal qualifiers to make sure every audience is involved? if IPL really want to impress and create emotions and memories, they need to rethink their design i guess. I agree. If I wanted to watch the best of the best (all koreans), then I'll watch the GSL (which I do love). But for foreign tournaments, I like to see a mixture of best foreigners and the best koreans. Even though most likely the koreans will stomp the foreigners but having a good mixture would atleast give hope about a foreigner beating a korean. People like watching upsets when a foreigner beats a korean. And the open bracket will be dominated by koreans, especially since the GSTL teams that will fly over has a chance to play in the open bracket. I'm not saying they should invite a bunch of foreigners into the groups. I liked what MLG did by having regional qualifiers. MLG still got the top koreans and foreigners too. We got to see many upsets like Demuslim taking down Nestea, Ret beating MVP, and Naniwa's great run. If those foreign players actually had to qualify for MLG w/ tons of koreans in the bracket (instead of regional qualifiers), then we would've never seen this happen b/c the koreans would've won all the qualifiers (like IPL4 qualifiers). | ||
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Miwa
United States13 Posts
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