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Solar424
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
United States4001 Posts
August 06 2016 22:20 GMT
#61
On August 07 2016 01:55 rockdj911 wrote:
Why here is only 3 pages? Why so few exited...?! I mean........ We got one MORE BIG tournament this year! Isn't that exciting, guys?...

Chinese tournaments never get the viewership or interest they deserve. Just look at NSL: huge prizepool, top players, barely over 2k viewers on English stream.
Andamanen
Profile Joined October 2010
Netherlands915 Posts
August 06 2016 22:44 GMT
#62
To be fair, the production and commentary quality isn't as high as the big Korean and international tournaments.
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
August 06 2016 23:06 GMT
#63
On August 07 2016 07:20 Solar424 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 07 2016 01:55 rockdj911 wrote:
Why here is only 3 pages? Why so few exited...?! I mean........ We got one MORE BIG tournament this year! Isn't that exciting, guys?...

Chinese tournaments never get the viewership or interest they deserve. Just look at NSL: huge prizepool, top players, barely over 2k viewers on English stream.

NSL is pretty poorly advertised, and casted by a community caster at a very bad time for NA viewers. It's sad that the viewership is low but Chinese tournaments aren't really concerned with non-Chinese viewership.
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Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17725 Posts
August 07 2016 04:46 GMT
#64
that is SO MUCH MONEY, jesus, I hope Maru goes far in this!
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Lappen.464
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany42 Posts
August 07 2016 06:59 GMT
#65
wow!!!
HsDLTitich
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Italy831 Posts
August 07 2016 09:02 GMT
#66
On August 07 2016 06:00 GreenMash wrote:
why the fuck does Africa and Middle East get 3/24 spots when their scene is close to non existent?


Same reason why WCS Global Finals reserves 8 spots for foreigners, I guess.
I used to organize tournaments for ESL Italy and referee Go4SC2s, WCSs, and IEMs for ESL SC2.
zakadar
Profile Joined December 2015
Germany409 Posts
August 07 2016 17:03 GMT
#67
well but is in a good time for european community which is more important for viewer then NA
TY my boy gogo
misterxy1994
Profile Joined July 2013
Germany53 Posts
August 08 2016 07:32 GMT
#68
Reminds me of the old sc2 world Championship system.
And the price money is really impressiv
PPN
Profile Joined August 2011
France248 Posts
August 08 2016 08:30 GMT
#69
It feels like WCG is back, just when WCS has been disappointing to me so far this year. I'm very happy but it feels so unreal :o
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
August 08 2016 09:13 GMT
#70
On August 07 2016 00:08 Lillekanin wrote:
Would have been better to see a bigger price split than just top 3 to support a larger amount of progamers. With that amount of prizepool for Qualifiers there should be price for top 8 atleast - and verry atleast top 4.

standard asian prizepool distribution
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Liveon
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Netherlands1083 Posts
August 08 2016 10:02 GMT
#71
On August 08 2016 18:13 Dingodile wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 07 2016 00:08 Lillekanin wrote:
Would have been better to see a bigger price split than just top 3 to support a larger amount of progamers. With that amount of prizepool for Qualifiers there should be price for top 8 atleast - and verry atleast top 4.

standard asian prizepool distribution

I might not understand the argument you both are making, but there is a prize for the top8 right?
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VanCaspel
Profile Joined July 2010
Netherlands250 Posts
August 08 2016 18:39 GMT
#72
Looking forward to this a lot! Will try to promote it to as many Dutch players as I can reach.
Dutch StarCraft League - www.DSCL.nl
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
August 08 2016 19:03 GMT
#73
One thing that makes me wonder is whether this was known to the players in the Africa region before the announcement here - because if not, it's not very nice to just give them a week's notice to sign up for the possible biggest thing they have had ever a real chance to compete in, which then includes the prospect of travelling to Dubai etc... I really wish that in general tournaments started announcing themselves on longer notices, even with the risk of having the announcement not that bombastic and all at once.

Is it also clear how many Koreans will be in this? If there are 6 spots for the whole region, it's either 6 Koreans and bad luck for everyone who happens to be in the same region, or less than 6 Koreans. In either case, the potential for Korean-Western confrontation is quite diminished both by the small amount of Koreans and by the presence of players from irrelevant regions. The concept of "world games" simply doesn't work well with how the good players are geographically distributed.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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Alex007
Profile Joined December 2010
Ukraine211 Posts
August 08 2016 19:20 GMT
#74
Take a look at our Africa & Middle East regions split. If you still have questions about certain countries being not involved in this region, please let us know.
+ Show Spoiler +

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LongShot27
Profile Joined May 2013
United States2084 Posts
August 09 2016 00:19 GMT
#75
On August 09 2016 04:03 opisska wrote:
One thing that makes me wonder is whether this was known to the players in the Africa region before the announcement here - because if not, it's not very nice to just give them a week's notice to sign up for the possible biggest thing they have had ever a real chance to compete in, which then includes the prospect of travelling to Dubai etc... I really wish that in general tournaments started announcing themselves on longer notices, even with the risk of having the announcement not that bombastic and all at once.

Is it also clear how many Koreans will be in this? If there are 6 spots for the whole region, it's either 6 Koreans and bad luck for everyone who happens to be in the same region, or less than 6 Koreans. In either case, the potential for Korean-Western confrontation is quite diminished both by the small amount of Koreans and by the presence of players from irrelevant regions. The concept of "world games" simply doesn't work well with how the good players are geographically distributed.


Nah a weeks notice is fine
If all men were created equal there would be no reason to declare it.
ElPres1dente
Profile Joined February 2016
89 Posts
August 09 2016 08:29 GMT
#76
HYPE
Hope there will be more than 2 koreans
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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
August 09 2016 15:07 GMT
#77
Holy shit that is a ridicolous amount of money for a Starcraft tournament o.O
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
Aegwynn
Profile Joined September 2015
Italy460 Posts
August 09 2016 23:08 GMT
#78
I signed up but honestly didn't understand anything about the tournament system
Alex007
Profile Joined December 2010
Ukraine211 Posts
August 10 2016 14:02 GMT
#79
I signed up but honestly didn't understand anything about the tournament system

You're TOP2 in your regional qualifier - you advance to Dubai, UAE Regional LAN finals
Senior Product Manager for ESL SC2 Pro Tour
nobo
Profile Joined July 2016
Ukraine5 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-14 15:30:40
August 10 2016 14:23 GMT
#80
unusual format
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