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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
 WCS 2019 Thursday, Jan 31 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) Thursday, Jan 31 7:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00) 2019 WCS Winter/Europe2019 WCS Winter/AmericasStreams & CastersFormat
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Harris1st
Germany7139 Posts
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ShAd_1337
Germany1042 Posts
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
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Legan
Finland577 Posts
On January 30 2019 04:16 BaneRiders wrote: Are the group stages played online? Are any matches played offline, and if they are, where are they played? Will it be possible to actually go and watch any games live? Unfortunately no. No where to watch games live. Games are played only online until ro6. | ||
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feardragon
United States973 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On January 30 2019 05:07 feardragon wrote: The reason why MCanning doesn't have a picture in the OP is because God is ethereal and any depiction we make of him would be an insult to his perfection. What are you talking about? It's just a bug, his face is just above where it should normaly be. | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On January 30 2019 04:56 Legan wrote: Unfortunately no. No where to watch games live. Games are played only online until ro6. ...and where are they played after that? | ||
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feardragon
United States973 Posts
On January 30 2019 05:25 Nakajin wrote: What are you talking about? It's just a bug, his face is just above where it should normaly be. No I just confirmed it with TeamLiquid admins. They said it would be offensive to some cultures to show the face of God in a less than perfect light. Definitely not exaggerating this. | ||
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Legan
Finland577 Posts
On January 30 2019 06:41 BaneRiders wrote: ...and where are they played after that? No information yet, but should be just a studio show without audience. Probably happens in previous casting studio that was used for challenger last year. | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On January 30 2019 07:06 Legan wrote: No information yet, but should be just a studio show without audience. Probably happens in previous casting studio that was used for challenger last year. That was kind of what I thought / feared. Was hoping for some confirmation that it would be in front of an audience. It seems such an incredible waste not to have this tourney live.  | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On January 30 2019 06:46 feardragon wrote: No I just confirmed it with TeamLiquid admins. They said it would be offensive to some cultures to show the face of God in a less than perfect light. Definitely not exaggerating this. Then who's this, if not the face of God? + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/ZdUhWPM.png) | ||
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Zzoram
Canada7115 Posts
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7139 Posts
That my friend, is the face of pure evil! On January 30 2019 08:58 argonautdice wrote: Got to say, the scheduling is absolutely horrid for the Asia/Oceania players, who have to play at 3-6am. When 14 out of 32 players, that is almost half of the players, are from those regions, starting at 2pm EST is setting them up for failure on top of the cross server lag to NA they have to experience. I know it's called WCS Winter Americas and the casters are in the US, but they should at least accommodate half of the Circuit by starting at, say 6pm-8pm EST or even 12pm EST is better. Just my two cents. Pretty sure they scheduled this way so they can show the games directly after WCS EU so people stay tuned in | ||
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RainStorm148
20 Posts
also, uThermal fighting! | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
On January 30 2019 18:10 Harris1st wrote: Pretty sure they scheduled this way so they can show the games directly after WCS EU so people stay tuned in That's understandable, but also consider this: the Asian/Oceanian audience won't be able to tune in to cheer for their region since it's middle of the night on a workday for them. | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On January 31 2019 02:45 argonautdice wrote: That's understandable, but also consider this: the Asian/Oceanian audience won't be able to tune in to cheer for their region since it's middle of the night on a workday for them. It's also cheaper this way, you don't have to pay the staff for the off hours and Oceania-NA time is hard to schedule in every case, I guess it could be latter but it will never be great for both East coast and Australia. | ||
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
Pretty disgusted that people are disrespecting elfi by calling another player "God". | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On January 31 2019 05:01 D-light wrote: Pretty excited for the EU group. Pretty disgusted that people are disrespecting elfi by calling another player "God". That's obscene! Those Brood War fanatics must have spread the word, they were the first to call "God" that subpar Flash guy. | ||
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
On January 31 2019 08:02 Xain0n wrote: That's obscene! Those Brood War fanatics must have spread the word, they were the first to call "God" that subpar Flash guy. Kinda disappointing that some did do that prematurely. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4F0kVxO.jpg) | ||
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KelsierSC
United Kingdom10443 Posts
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Ej_
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herwo
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Ej_
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
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Ej_
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Loccstana
United States833 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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Dingodile
4139 Posts
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D-light
Finland7364 Posts
Such an iconic duo. Even in WCS. | ||
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DieuCure
France3713 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On February 01 2019 03:02 D-light wrote: uThermal and ragequitting. Such an iconic duo. Even in WCS. I miss the time when uThermal, Nerchio and Scarlett would come raging in tl thread between games | ||
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CoupdeBoule
73 Posts
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Poopi
France12911 Posts
What did the patch change | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On February 01 2019 03:30 Poopi wrote: What happened to TvP? I saw uthermal whine even more than usual on twitter What did the patch change He went 4-2 overall playing TvP only and advancing as first in his group. | ||
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yht9657
1810 Posts
On February 01 2019 03:30 Poopi wrote: What happened to TvP? I saw uthermal whine even more than usual on twitter What did the patch change Nothing happened to it, obviously the matchup has been unplayable for Terran for the entirety of the last 8 years according to Battle.net forum or r/starcraft. | ||
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Duckman
United States158 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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Musicus
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yht9657
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Elentos
55570 Posts
On February 01 2019 05:00 yht9657 wrote: Juanito's micro seems non-existent in part of this game Micro is definitely not his biggest strength. | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On February 01 2019 05:11 Nakajin wrote: Does someone knows how good Toodming is these day? I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years. I think he is the second strongest Chinese player after TIME. At least he got second in GPL. Maybe Cyan is better? Hard to say, but TooDming is definitely in form again. | ||
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Elentos
55570 Posts
On February 01 2019 05:16 Musicus wrote: I think he is the second strongest Chinese player after TIME. At least he got second in GPL. 4th place in the Chinese qualifier for WCS Winter. I think some of that is facilitated by iAsonu not being anywhere close to full-time. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On February 01 2019 05:18 Elentos wrote: 4th place in the Chinese qualifier for WCS Winter. I think some of that is facilitated by iAsonu not being anywhere close to full-time. Yeah iA definitely fell off it seems. But with XY, Shana, Jieshy, Cloudy, Cyan, TIME, BreakingGG etc. the chinese scene seems pretty deep I have to say. Too bad there is no english coverage for most of it. Really hyped about that team league though. | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On February 01 2019 05:22 Musicus wrote: Yeah iA definitely fell off it seems. But with XY, Shana, Jieshy, Cloudy, Cyan, TIME, BreakingGG etc. the chinese scene seems pretty deep I have to say. Too bad there is no english coverage for most of it. Really hyped about that team league though. The chinese scene has a rich and long history of being both deap and vibrant and inexorably average so I can't say I'm that exited, Jim is the only trully "great" players China ever gave us no one else was really a tournament contender level player., I hope it change someday but I think their server situation really hurt their grow. Maybe if they get to play on their server in the proleague they could turn out better then I thought. | ||
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yht9657
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On February 01 2019 07:48 vult wrote: Wow I can’t believe mcanning is about to play the decider match here LOL And he's the favorite in it  | ||
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Topin
Peru10110 Posts
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_Darwin_
United States2374 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
Wtf | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16121 Posts
But done this way, we can spread out the content better, make each match feel more meaningful, and do something for the foreign scene that it hasn't had EVER: make series/group preparation as important as it is in GSL. I feel like, as long as we're going to be doing Region Locked tournaments. THIS is how it should be done. | ||
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Xamo
Spain886 Posts
On February 01 2019 08:58 Vindicare605 wrote: I have to say, I think this format is much smarter and more sustainable long term. Sure offline matches have a certain sexiness to them, and who doesn't love big LAN events. But done this way, we can spread out the content better, make each match feel more meaningful, and do something for the foreign scene that it hasn't had EVER: make series/group preparation as important as it is in GSL. I feel like, as long as we're going to be doing Region Locked tournaments. THIS is how it should be done. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 2019 we get three mostly online WCS winter / summer / autumn + 2 week-ender small super-tournaments, one in Europe and one in Canada. That is, a mirror of Korea. | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16121 Posts
On February 01 2019 09:13 Xamo wrote: I wouldn’t be surprised if in 2019 we get three mostly online WCS winter / summer / autumn + 2 week-ender small super-tournaments, one in Europe and one in Canada. That is, a mirror of Korea. I do love the idea of having offline finals and semifinals with a big cross over Super Tournament between seasons. The big cost is travel expenses, and if Blizzard just flew everyone in a single region to a single studio say ESL in Europe, Blizz Arena in NA but only had to fly out 4-8 people per region I think it can be doable. That would be ideal for me IMO. But.. if the pencil pushers at Activision-Blizzard are still concerned about costs, then making the WCS Seasonal events all online wouldn't be the worst way to do it as long as we had at least 2-3 Offline events per year not including Blizzcon. | ||
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Odoakar
Croatia1837 Posts
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