o... my...... GOOOODD!!!!!!
I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it!
I hope it's a good time for EU!

I don't get that IM and MVP are interested. They have proleague commitment. I would have rather seen Azubu, acer or mouz. I already get to see kespa teams play.

GulpyBlinkeyes

United States1449 Posts

January 15 2014 21:47 GMT

#23

As I was reading, I thought to myself, "Man, this sounds ambitious. I hope they realize how unwieldy something like this could be." Then, pretty much the next sentence I read: "All of this sounds ambitious, but in reality it has been built from the ground up to be a sustainable model that can happen whenever is convenient for the teams." Gave me even more confidence in this event.

So many cool ideas being tried out here, and so much potential for really, really fun games. Thank you MLG and TB! I sincerely hope this is a successful experiment for everyone involved.

Cheren

United States2911 Posts

January 15 2014 21:48 GMT

#24

Wow, hybrid proleague's back!

Seriously though, this looks fun, if the website's anything to go by we should see great production value.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

January 15 2014 21:48 GMT

#25

On January 16 2014 06:43 Ammanas wrote:
The 'original' Kespa teams probably not interested, eh? That's too bad, could be amazing fun watching Fantasy playing SC2:BW or sOs playing Starbow. Maybe after Proleague ends?

In any way, even without those teams, this event seems like so much fun. I will try to not miss any of those matches

It could happen but our initial enquiries were met with the usual Kespa resistance to anything that's competing in some way with Proleague. That attitude may change once the Proleague season is over.

Pontius Pirate

United States1557 Posts

January 15 2014 21:48 GMT

#26

Bummer Acer didn't join, but I'm still thrilled to see this organized, and I'll be watching nearly every match!

superpanda27

111 Posts

January 15 2014 21:48 GMT

#27

This is something I always wanted to see. A league to exist to showcase players and teams for sponsors. Especially if a player is unable to qualify for major tournaments, teamleagues have always give a forgotten player a chance in the spotlight.
Absolutely love the inclusion of 2v2s and more custom maps. Like what was talked about on Unfiltered yesterday, new maps bring strategic diversity and is more interesting for the spectator.

I was trying to figure out what team was missing and I can't help but notice Acer is not there. Is there any reason for Acer not participating?

Uracil

Germany422 Posts

January 15 2014 21:48 GMT

#28

Sounds good. But no mouz and no acer so not that interesting to me.

nkr

Sweden5451 Posts

January 15 2014 21:48 GMT

#29

On January 16 2014 06:47 Sjokola wrote:
o... my...... GOOOODD!!!!!!
I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it!
I hope it's a good time for EU!

I don't get that IM and MVP are interested. They have proleague commitment. I would have rather seen Azubu, acer or mouz. I already get to see kespa teams play.

You make the assumption that these teams weren't ask and declined.

URLateral

275 Posts

January 15 2014 21:49 GMT

#30

Doesn't say when it starts? or does it somewhere?

ujonecro

United Kingdom846 Posts

January 15 2014 21:49 GMT

#31

Looks like a lot of fun. Interesting roster of team too. Definitely gonna watch.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

January 15 2014 21:49 GMT

#32

On January 16 2014 06:48 superpanda27 wrote:
This is something I always wanted to see. A league to exist to showcase players and teams for sponsors. Especially if a player is unable to qualify for major tournaments, teamleagues have always give a forgotten player a chance in the spotlight.
Absolutely love the inclusion of 2v2s and more custom maps. Like what was talked about on Unfiltered yesterday, new maps bring strategic diversity and is more interesting for the spectator.

I was trying to figure out what team was missing and I can't help but notice Acer is not there. Is there any reason for Acer not participating?

Acer did not confirm their participation. We also asked Mousesports and received no reply. However there is no cap on the number of teams that can participate (though we aren't going to let everyone in because that dilutes the prizepool). Teams can join and leave at will since it's not a league, so you could very well see those teams and others in the future.

Doesn't say when it starts? or does it somewhere?

Literally the first sentence

StutteR

United States1903 Posts

January 15 2014 21:51 GMT

#33

On January 16 2014 06:39 TotalBiscuit wrote:
The page indicates that we will be using at most 1 of those maps per series.

I must be blind because I don't see that.

While the majority of points in a series will be decided in 1v1s, these non-standard formats will be sprinkled in to spice up the series.

Can't wait to see it though ^^

grs

Germany2339 Posts

January 15 2014 21:52 GMT

#34

On January 16 2014 06:51 StutteR wrote:

Show nested quote +

I must be blind because I don't see that.

A year-long series of individual Clan Wars for fun and profit coming with Patch 2.1.

2xNoodle

United States201 Posts

January 15 2014 21:52 GMT

#35

I really hope that more "conventional" community-made maps get used in this tournament, not just gimmick maps. I do look forward to seeing how those gimmick maps play out, but I'd be upset if SHOUTcraft provided all this exposure for them and none for some legitimately good community-made maps that are more conventional, like Cloud Kingdom.