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1Focus
United States409 Posts
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Jaegeru
United Kingdom676 Posts
On March 27 2012 00:11 zJayy962 wrote: So are all of these live broadcasts free? PPV or available to gold membership? The arena events are PPV and the main events are free to watch, though if you want to watch HQ for the main events you need to buy a weekend pass or have an already existing gold account. | ||
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Hakanfrog
Sweden690 Posts
Hmm, this has to mean something about Hots right? Would be awesome if they would show the pros play it or something. | ||
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Ryze
Canada234 Posts
On March 27 2012 00:44 .Focus wrote: round 6 if i counted right thats 32 people in round 5 + 16 in round 6 that are waiting for them + 8 more in the final round and then the rest is from pool play? | ||
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careohx
263 Posts
On March 26 2012 11:07 Mortalfury wrote: MLG will shock us all, and those unannounced players will be none other then BW pros, Flash and Bisu hwaiting  This. I cant imagine they would have these special invite slots for anyone else. When most big names will qualify online anyways. And it would look bad if they invited some1 who fails to qualify in the tournament. | ||
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Hunterai
Thailand842 Posts
On March 26 2012 23:02 tree.hugger wrote: Summer season will naturally see three arenas, featuring randomly chosen segments of the top 24 players from MLG Spring Championships, the top 6.5 players from MLG Spring Arena 2, the top 3 players from MLG Spring Arena 1, and several aggressive cats. There will be a prize pool of $11,568, and the players will also battle for the top five spots, who will get automatic placements in MLG Summer Championships, along with Dr. Pepper products they don't want for a year, and ownership of one of the cats. Seriously, I can't stop laughing. But yea, MLG make the event way too complicated for what's it worth. I'd rather that it be Arena - top 4 most recent event - 4 invite - 24 from Qualifier (8 x 3 regions) and keep the championship seeding as the current winter championship | ||
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careohx
263 Posts
On March 27 2012 00:01 RaiZ wrote: This whole seeding system looks way too favoring for the top finishers though... Pretty much like the old GSL. Some can argue we can't blame them since most of the tops are koreans and it's not "convenient" but meh. I'm getting really tired of seeing some players that doesn't deserve their spots sometimes... only top 4 carries over from winter to spring which is really hard to get i dont see how they could be undeserving players | ||
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Eschaton
United States1245 Posts
I doubt it will actually be that much in all honesty, but how did they think it was a good idea to release this info without prices when that is the most contentious thing about MLG atm? | ||
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AGIANTSMURF
United States1232 Posts
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Fragile51
Netherlands15767 Posts
On March 26 2012 08:22 MLGAnnouncements wrote: The Spring Season will end with the Spring Championship, June 8-10 in Anaheim, CA at the Anaheim Convention Center. That's right in Blizzard’s backyard, so perhaps there will be some surprises in store for you. Maybe the beginning of the HOTS beta? I sure hope so! :D | ||
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xtfftc
United Kingdom2343 Posts
Nova Rock 2012 – Friday 8 June 2012 — Sunday 10 June 2012 tt But then again I'll have a pretty easy time avoiding spoilers, I guess. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
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Ireniicus
United Kingdom374 Posts
On March 26 2012 17:26 zul wrote: MLG Columbus had so many problems with streams, I don`t see many people buying PPV. Especially when this amazing Dreamhack event: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=322787 is happening on one of the Arena weekends. this...stream i believe was ok in US but for Euopeans it was ropey | ||
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BronzeKnee
United States5225 Posts
On March 26 2012 09:34 Soleron wrote: It's still over 3 days with $10k in prizes and flying everyone in. They could justify $10 even. Why doesn't MLG just do this online? They could save so much money... I guess I just don't understand the whole idea of paying to fly everyone in, then not selling seats for spectators. Just do it all the Arena stuff online, I know latency is an issue, but I don't think it is worth the money for MLG. | ||
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Grimmyman123
Canada939 Posts
Hmm. I still would like to see a fucking schedule for the whole damn year to know where MLG plans to be in say... September? Any Canadian visits? Anything other than the same venue's as previous years? | ||
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FatkiddsLag
United States413 Posts
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On March 27 2012 02:42 BronzeKnee wrote: Why doesn't MLG just do this online? They could save so much money... I guess I just don't understand the whole idea of paying to fly everyone in, then not selling seats for spectators. Just do it all the Arena stuff online, I know latency is an issue, but I don't think it is worth the money for MLG. They don't do it online because cross server results don't hold much weight and meaning for most people. Although having said that, I just realized all 8 live in korea anyways, lol! | ||
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terrrrrible
United States38 Posts
The Top 32 from each of the NA and EU Blizzard Grandmaster ladders will be invited to compete The KR ladder not included in this for some reason, or just a typo? What's the cutoff date / signifying the end of the current ladder season? If KR is included, then that really only leaves 32 open spots for anyone to register. There's gotta be a validation process to prevent hackers and droppers getting into these qualifiers. Arena 1 could be fun to watch, if it is free. 2 pools with 4 players each, top 4 into a single elimination BO5/BO7 format. These players then are #1 in each of the pools for the Championship. Including the Top 4 from Arena 1 in Arena 2 seems kind of pointless, because what if they finish top 4 again? Yeah, it'll just bump the "12 players" down to 5-16th, while still keeping the quality of the player pool towards the top. But why make the lower players have to face them; just send the top 4 straight to the Championship. This will also be less travelling for those players, less interference with GS(T)L, etc... "4 additional players" for Arena 2; maybe top 4 from GSL in points that aren't already qualified? Although isn't the MLG/GSL transfer not in play this year? BW pros would make some sense with all the talk of them switching over "soon." What better time / place than MLG. Throw them to the wolves and show us what they've got. Overall it looks like it'll be a pretty good season. Lots of StarCraft coming from MLG. | ||
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ssiimm
Canada14 Posts
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Chengakz
United States163 Posts
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