First Details of MLG 2012 Pro Circuit! - Page 29

On January 20 2012 16:20 Syrupjuice wrote:
The ARENA events should be interesting since they are strictly streamed events (not something you can go to). But, as long as the production value is top notch I think they should be really awesome. I think the games will go alot smoother as well, seeing as there should be less variance in everybody's schedules. Though, I do wonder, who will end up casting all of these events? That's A LOT of things to go for somebody like Tastosis (Although, I imagine Artosis might be sitting out from a few events this year because of his newborn).

On January 20 2012 11:15 Xeris wrote:
Avilo -- your information is incorrect.

The invites for the qualifiers is only to determine the pool play. The MLG Winter Championship will be like any other MLG... there wil be 16 people in pool play, and an Open Bracket... so effectively it doesn't change anything. All that it does is gives like FIVE tournaments per season, rather than 5 tournaments per year,.

It's awesome oo! I love the format.

On January 20 2012 13:32 MLG_Lee wrote:
The current invite format for the online qualifiers is set up due to the compressed timeframe from announcement to the first Pro-Circuit event. That doesn't mean they'll be invite only for the rest of the Seasons this year. Stay tuned for those details.

Second, to the folks talking about prize money, the announced Prize Money is for the Arena events only, which are a completely NEW event that didn't exist last year in MLG's structure. It does NOT include the Pro-Circuit Championships for each season (which is what you all watched last year at Anaheim, Columbus, Providence, etc). Those details will be announced shortly as well.

Edit: Also keep in mind that we're funding travel 32 + 16 = 48 times for players from all over the world. That is NOT a trivial amount of funding. And each player is getting booked a room to themselves for the Winter Season, so if teammates want to stack up in a room, they can do that. I hope that's viewed as the gesture of support to the teams that it's meant to be. Even the more successful teams will not be carrying the weight on their sponsorship budgets for that travel. EG, for example, has two players in the top 8 from Providence (Huk and Idra), so that's quite a bit of support just to them. In addition, if you're an unaffiliated player and qualify in, you don't need to provide that support or get it from someplace else.

Edit 2: "stay tuned" and "shortly" are vague deliberately. Sorry folks, but there is a timeline here and it's not just because we're trying to hype the hype. There's reasons for this (and deals, and commitments to partners) which we have to finalize before can share them all. And no, i can't tell you what the reasons are :D

Edit 3: (sorry for the wall of text now) The Pro-Circuit events STILL HAVE AN OPEN BRACKET. Anyone can register and play in those. The Online Quali's > Arena are for placement into the Championship Pools at the Pro Circuit Championship.

Edit 4: No spectators in the venue because we don't have room. It's a studio shoot.

On January 21 2012 02:14 CeroFail wrote:
Seems like they're trying to limit the amount of koreans by having the regional qualifiers.

On January 20 2012 14:37 Asrathiel wrote:
Why no SEA online qualifiers for the Winter thing?

On January 21 2012 07:01 phanto wrote:
which events was this tourny overlapping?

On January 21 2012 07:09 y0su wrote:

ASUS ROG at Assembly winter

On January 21 2012 07:58 carloselcoco wrote:
Top Questions About the 2012 Season Answered:

http://tv.majorleaguegaming.com/videos/80421-top-questions-about-the-2012-season-answered


Added the link to the OP and if someone can embed it to the forums please do so! I am pretty sure you can't embed anything apart from YouTube videos to TL.