Map pool: close position only metalopolis, steppes of war, jungle basin, and searing crater, except now with 300% more rocks! To add excitement to the matchups, all races will be terran and you will have to kill rocks with your first 6 SCVs before you can land your command center.

Bounana

Canada54 Posts

January 25 2012 14:58 GMT

#23

Meh I think it's gonna be a better production from Blizzcon 2011, whom was a joke ! Anyway, the panels in Blizzcon are almost always a waste of time, and hype for nothing

Tommylew

Wales2717 Posts

January 25 2012 14:59 GMT

#24

please not invite!!!

Qualifier only!!!! Want to see new and old players not just the same players always being invited!!!

darkscream

Canada2310 Posts

January 25 2012 15:06 GMT

#25

On January 25 2012 23:23 pdd wrote:

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The fact that "Battle.net" is still in the title of the tourney doesn't really give me good hope for the map pool

It will be next season at least, possibly two seasons from now, and we know that we are getting some of the TL map contest maps in there by then.

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

January 25 2012 15:08 GMT

#26

Please hire some competent people to run your tournament Blizzard. No idiotic ladder maps please, or at least keep them to a minimum.

Oh, and it sounds like they're trying to squeeze out HOTS before the end of the year. That would be nice. It would certainly help me get interested in SC2 again.

GreyKnight

United States4720 Posts

January 25 2012 15:08 GMT

#27

Where will this be hosted and are they even going to try to make the map pool decent?

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES50979 Posts

January 25 2012 15:21 GMT

#28

On January 25 2012 23:47 IdrA wrote:
THE RETURN OF STEPPES OF WAR

better yet Battle Royal 2.0

Tula

Austria1544 Posts

January 25 2012 15:21 GMT

#29

It seems a fairly good decision to focus on actually releasing the games, instead of hyping them up with another convention. Preparing panels for Blizzcon most certainly took nearly a month of work from the developing teams.

Regarding the tournament I have my doubts about every tournament until the details are announced, but in addition Blizzard has the fairly sub-standard Blizzcon tournaments as a history. Let's hope they have learned their lesson, and actually have a kick ass tournament this time, but i'm not going to hold my breath for now :D

Schickysc

Canada380 Posts

January 25 2012 15:30 GMT

#30

I am personally sad because my best friend and I were planning on making our best efforts to finally go to a blizzcon this year. Been our dream since they first started running them.

Hopefully the tournament is run well.

leviathan400

United Kingdom393 Posts

January 25 2012 15:31 GMT

#31

Look good shame no BlizzCon this year

Matkap

Spain627 Posts

January 25 2012 16:14 GMT

#32

well I really liked the panels... I guess they have to do against the Dota valve tourneys...would really hope they did another WWI in france though...

RPR_Tempest

Australia7798 Posts

January 25 2012 16:19 GMT

#33

I wonder if this is going to be like the GSL World Championship. That event and the massive team event between Korea and The World was amazing.

DuBlooNz

United Kingdom103 Posts

January 25 2012 16:21 GMT

#34

I think that it will be the return of inceneration zone

but this sound pretty good

Limelights

United States219 Posts

January 25 2012 16:26 GMT

#35

Hopefully a giant prize pool like EA and Riot does for their games. Nothing attracts more attention than a million dollars imo.

ZAiNs

United Kingdom6525 Posts

January 25 2012 16:30 GMT

#36

Hopefully this time when Naniwa play against NesTea we actually get to see it.

WArped

United Kingdom4845 Posts

January 25 2012 16:32 GMT

#37

Please Blizzard, learn from last year and improve the map pool!

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

January 25 2012 16:43 GMT

#38

gonna be hyped for the whole year now ! ... ... mmm maybe not. And lets see how the ladder pool will look at the end of the year O.O . Maps might be giant, no more blue minerals x3. Only golds and rich vespin to reduce the worker count per base while keeping the eco the same, so there will be huger armys, making the control even harder xD.

But lets see ... announcing a huge tournament at the end of the year which will probably be WoL based. Yep HotS for christmas.

BlitchizSC2

United States306 Posts

January 25 2012 16:46 GMT

#39

On January 25 2012 23:47 IdrA wrote:
THE RETURN OF STEPPES OF WAR

God I laughed so hard @ this.