EPTWESG 2016 StarCraft 2 announcement - Page 2
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
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[PkF] Wire
France24238 Posts
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LongShot27
United States2084 Posts
On August 06 2016 07:41 [PkF] Wire wrote: looks too awesome to be true They said that When SC2 was announced | ||
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invisigoat
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Alarak89
United States882 Posts
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Dove94
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Clbull
United Kingdom1439 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
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Alchemik
Poland7124 Posts
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Yiome
China1687 Posts
Well not expecting it to be good the 1st time to begin with | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19345 Posts
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mrarthursimon
United States55 Posts
I love this announcement. Thank you for the massive infusion into the SC2 scene. It was necessary and needed. I have one concern though: why is this event not a WCS Global event? It's surely got a big enough prize pool to have WCS points on the line. Is it just that you guys didn't want to have to work with the requirements and control that Blizzard wants in order to make your event a WCS global event or was it not something that you guys even thought about while planning? Only asking because inclusion inside of an existing system always makes the scene stronger. Doing something unique, which this certainly is, but also allowing that unique thing to be done inside of the context of an existing system makes the system bigger and more inclusive as well as giving more press and legitimacy to the unique event. On August 06 2016 07:39 Blargh wrote: It's clear they have a lot of money for them to not even bother researching the regions and identifying where relevant players reside. I mean, I'm not against supporting those scenes -- I'm sure they need it, but it's really just sort of ridiculous. I agree and disagree with you. I think that their intention was to establish something that the SC2 scene, and in eSports in genera, are both lacking currently: regions that are deeper and allow for more player diversity and inclusion, similar to that of the International Olympic Committee. Say what you want about the IOC, the rules that were set up for the Olympics and the way in which countries and regions compete with one another is incredibly inclusive and allows the greatest number of excellent performers to rise to the top, despite not being from one of the more powerful or prominent regions. It provides a more level playing field for anyone that wants to participate, I feel. Not to be overly critical of you Blargh, but the impact of what you were saying, from my perspective was "I don't want to see those regions compete, I want to see my favorite regions and players competing, despite the fact that I acknowledge that the regions that don't get attention need the attention." I'm sure that wasn't your intent with what you said, but it sounds like you're playing favorites when this tournament doesn't just want the typical players to come out and play, they want everyone that plays StarCraft to come out of the woodwork and try their best to reach that giant prize pool. On August 06 2016 10:28 Yiome wrote: These slots allocation makes 0 sense to me... Well not expecting it to be good the 1st time to begin with What doesn't make sense about them? Do you mean that you wouldn't organize the slots that way because you're asserting that some regions perform better than others and as such those regions should be allowed more slots because you want to see more of those players? Or are you saying that it doesn't make logical sense deriving from some other reason? China, being the host of the tournament gets 1 slot that their players won't have to compete with the rest of Asia-Pacific group in order to get to the main event (there are 15 different regional qualifiers for the regional LAN that has only 1 spot feeding into the main event http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/World_Electronic_Sports_Games_2016/Asia-Pacific/China/Shanghai) If the other regional qualifiers are as DEEP as the China ones are, there's no way we won't get an absolutely amazing main event. It's not like there are going to be 50 scrubs and 1 good player at the event. | ||
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suddendeathTV
Sweden388 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17491 Posts
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Elentos
55571 Posts
On August 06 2016 12:58 sd_andeh wrote: I'm guessing if they were to make it a WCS event, Koreans wouldn't be allowed. So it's a good thing that it's not a WCS event They have the money to make it a WCS Global event (one with Koreans and non-Koreans). I reckon the reason it's not is that the main event is after Blizzcon. | ||
Olli
Austria24422 Posts
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rockdj911
14 Posts
Could we watch all qualifiers on Twitch? Does Russia has a spot? /excited for SC2 | ||
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mindjames
Israel433 Posts
...And if not, my diamond ass is going to China. | ||
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Liveon
Netherlands1083 Posts
1. Not entirely sure yet, the asia-pacific qualifiers will be run by imbatv while we run NA/Africa/EU. 2. We will try to stream as many quali's as we can, but can't guarantee we stream them all. 3. I think Russia is included in CIS (so Europe-CIS). | ||
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