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During the Winter Championship, we revealed details for the Spring Season of the 2012 Pro Circuit. The season will culminate with the Spring Championship in Anaheim, California, June 8-10 at the Anaheim Convention Center. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is confirmed for the Spring Season and we will announce additional games over the coming weeks.
To recap, the Spring Season for StarCraft II will feature multiple stages of competition leading into the Spring Championship. Please read the full announcement for details of each stage. The events are as follows:
- Open Online Qualifiers – March 30-April 15 – Online Only, Not Broadcast
- Spring Arena 1 – April 20-22 – NYC – LIVE Broadcast
- Invite-Only Online Qualifiers – April 27-30 – Online Broadcast (Note: broadcast dates TBA)
- Spring Arena 2 – May 18-20 – NYC – LIVE Broadcast
- Spring Championship – June 8-10 – Anaheim, CA – LIVE Broadcast and in-person spectators
We listened to your feedback, and you now have a variety of viewing options.
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Buy a Spring StarCraft II Season Pass
- FREE: Standard definition streaming during the Invite-Only Online Qualifiers and the Spring Championship remains free.
- Spring Season Pass – $30: By far the best deal we offer. The Spring Season Pass gets you full HD access to all streams at all Spring Events at a substantial discount – 40% off what you would pay if you purchased each Event individually.
- Get 1080p access to all streams at Spring Arena 1, the Spring Invite-Only Online Qualifiers, Spring Arena 2 and the Spring Championship.
- Gold Members – Special Discount: Gold Members, who already have full HD access to the Spring Championship, get a special discount on full HD access to all other events in the Spring Season. The entire Spring Season leading up to the Championship (Spring Arena 1, Spring Invite-Only Online Qualifiers, Spring Arena 2) will cost you just $15. That is half what it will cost non-Gold Members.
- Note that Gold Memberships are no longer available online, but they are available at GameStop and Toys “R” Us locations in the US. If you don’t have a Gold Membership, the Spring Season Pass is your best option.
- A La Carte HD: If you want to pay for full access to each event individually, prices are as follows:
- $10 for Arena 1
- $20 for the Invite-Only Qualifiers + Arena 2
- $20 for the Spring Championship
We hope you join us this Spring as we make MLG StarCraft II even bigger and better.
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I'd say 30$ is extremely fair. Thanks MLG
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Great prices for me! <3 gold membership.
...That said I don't know how many people are going to spend 10 bucks on an eight player tourney for arena one but the spring pass as a whole is FANTASTIC (especially for us goldies)
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Very reasonable price for gold members. Will be buying for sure.
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On March 30 2012 05:55 wichenks wrote:
I'd say 30$ is extremely fair. Thanks MLG
i'd say gold guys have more events that they cant watch even thou they paid for whole season ^^ trololol from mlg.
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I agree, 30 dollars seems like a fair price for the arena,qualifiers, arena 2 and the championship.
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Glad I picked up a gold membership :D
I'm not sure I agree with the pricing, but I'm willing to pay anyway, never regretted paying for MLG's events.
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Nice to see some progress made on the pricing. The package price is a great deal and once again I am glad I am gold.
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*Hmm, not sure which thread will stay open, I'll go ahead and post here as well.*
Glad to see a good discount for Gold members. 15 bucks for 2 ppv arenas and HD qualifiers is an awesome price.
For those wondering:
If you paid for the season pass each season, you will be pay $120 for the year for all events and HD.
If you have gold membership for the year, you will pay $90 for all events and HD. (includes $30 for a year of gold)
If you do a la cart every season you will pay $200 for the year for all events and HD.
* Of course this is assuming similar number of events and similar pricing structure each season.
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Sounds great, glad I have a gold Membership. If possible I think you guys should look into coming up with a better VOD directory system as it will soon be stuffed full of content from all of your events (a good problem to have)!
Will be purchasing my spring pass today.
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I don't see anything fair about that, maybe fair for mlg measures but not compared to the general tournament footage.. I don't understand why mlg has to be the only tournament to not stream for free, I mean premium passes for higher quality or earlier vod access can still be offered. Apart from that 10$ is still too much money for an Arena.
The competetive Starcraft scene is far away from being ready for pay tv, don't understand this at all and I think the people who make MLG are seriously money-grubbing.
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are the arenas still not open to the public to watch on site?
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On March 30 2012 06:05 nface wrote:
I don't see anything fair about that, maybe fair for mlg measures but not compared to the general tournament footage.. I don't understand why mlg has to be the only tournament to not stream for free, I mean premium passes for higher quality or earlier vod access can still be offered. Apart from that 10$ is still too much money for an Arena.
The competetive Starcraft scene is far away from being ready for pay tv, don't understand this at all and I think the people who make MLG are seriously money-grubbing.
Well it is a good thing you can still watch two of their events on a free stream, with the VOD's for the PPV being free after the event!
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On March 30 2012 06:05 nface wrote:
I don't see anything fair about that, maybe fair for mlg measures but not compared to the general tournament footage.. I don't understand why mlg has to be the only tournament to not stream for free, I mean premium passes for higher quality or earlier vod access can still be offered. Apart from that 10$ is still too much money for an Arena.
The competetive Starcraft scene is far away from being ready for pay tv, don't understand this at all and I think the people who make MLG are seriously money-grubbing.
Wanting to at least make a profit after years of not isnt exactly money grubbing.
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On March 30 2012 06:07 Kralic wrote:Show nested quote +On March 30 2012 06:05 nface wrote:
I don't see anything fair about that, maybe fair for mlg measures but not compared to the general tournament footage.. I don't understand why mlg has to be the only tournament to not stream for free, I mean premium passes for higher quality or earlier vod access can still be offered. Apart from that 10$ is still too much money for an Arena.
The competetive Starcraft scene is far away from being ready for pay tv, don't understand this at all and I think the people who make MLG are seriously money-grubbing. Well it is a good thing you can still watch two of their events on a free stream, with the VOD's for the PPV being free after the event!
^^ Said well. And their VOD archive is very smooth. I love stealing MKP's builds after these :D
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I have Gold, this price is fair, unfortunately will not be buying due to exams.
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lol at Virgil sniping the MLG post
Again, $30 is ridiculously cheap. Def buying.
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i'm not excited about the arenas as i was let down big time watching the winter arena. I associated arena with special effects, a large venue and a massive crowd. The arena i spectated was like a LAN party in an office building with people working running around although the view of Manhattan was magnificent. Until the Arena experience is fully developed i will wait patiently.
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What is a Spring Arena? And are the actual MLG <Location>s still going to be free to watch? (I guess that's the Spring Championship right?)
I don't plan on paying for MLG (or any SC2 tournaments) and I doubt I ever will, but this does seem like a reasonable price.
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This is one of this moments, where we can be happy that we have a great community who make all the event great.
Especially the Russian and polish sc2 community...
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