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RIP BW =( no bickering please! | ||
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Wildmoon
Thailand4189 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10292 Posts
Sorry BW fans. I know this is probably really devastating. I could see esports growing like this but didn't quite expect BW to die so fast. Well, I'm a BW fan too, but I like SC2 as well, so it's not that much of a loss for me. | ||
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Stress
United States980 Posts
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cablesc
United States1540 Posts
Kespa really botched the timing on this transition. If they're going to switch to SC2 for the OSL, then why get locked into a full 3-4 month season of hybrid Proleague. The Kespa players have absolutely no chance to get good enough at SC2 in that short amount of time, especially since they're splitting time with BW. There's a very real possibility that no Kespa players will advance out of the qualifiers of this OSL. Which basically defeats the purpose of trying to transition to SC2 gradually. They should have restricted the OSL to Kespa players for the first season, and then open it up when Proleague switches over completely. Or they could have squeezed in one more BW OSL, and have the full transition of Proleague and OSL happen at the same time. Even a full transition to SC2 for Proleague instead of hybrid format would have made more sense. Once again, they've chosen the worst of both worlds approach. | ||
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itsjuspeter
United States668 Posts
On June 06 2012 11:40 TBone- wrote: One of my favorite things I'll miss about professional brood war were the hype videos, which are almost void in sc2. I mean damnit why can't we have this in sc2 t.t + Show Spoiler + thiss omgg, I watched these over and over the moment i caught wind of them on youtube. | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
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Hadley_
Germany157 Posts
WOW NICE! BW and SC2 players can play together! No not really. BW players won't be able to qualify, because they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD! | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
So works life  | ||
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Condor Hero
United States2931 Posts
On June 06 2012 13:15 cablesc wrote: Lolwhat? Kespa just going to hand over all the prize money to the GSL guys. Kespa really botched the timing on this transition. If they're going to switch to SC2 for the OSL, then why get locked into a full 3-4 month season of hybrid Proleague. The Kespa players have absolutely no chance to get good enough at SC2 in that short amount of time, especially since they're splitting time with BW. There's a very real possibility that no Kespa players will advance out of the qualifiers of this OSL. Which basically defeats the purpose of trying to transition to SC2 gradually. They should have restricted the OSL to Kespa players for the first season, and then open it up when Proleague switches over completely. Or they could have squeezed in one more BW OSL, and have the full transition of Proleague and OSL happen at the same time. Even a full transition to SC2 for Proleague instead of hybrid format would have made more sense. Once again, they've chosen the worst of both worlds approach. They haven't said when the next OSL will start right? Could be a long long time, the gap between last last and Tving was a long time. A few months will give a lot of the players a good chance to catch up. | ||
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
Anyways, I am sad that BW had to go but I guess thats just a sign of our times. At least SC2 will do better in Korea I guess. BW had a hell of a run and I think we all should be happy that it did last so long and provided us with so many memories | ||
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_Book
United States51 Posts
On June 06 2012 13:18 Condor Hero wrote: They haven't said when the next OSL will start right? Could be a long long time, the gap between last last and Tving was a long time. A few months will give a lot of the players a good chance to catch up. The preliminaries are in July. It says in the OP  But i agree with what Cablesc wrote. Its too fast for the BW players. | ||
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Veldril
Thailand1817 Posts
On June 06 2012 13:18 Condor Hero wrote: They haven't said when the next OSL will start right? Could be a long long time, the gap between last last and Tving was a long time. A few months will give a lot of the players a good chance to catch up. They said the prelim will start mid or late July, so it's not that long unless they mean July next year  | ||
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MegaFonzie
Australia1084 Posts
Otherwise it's just gonna be a shitty bo3 opener before a sc2 series and ace match. That just doesn't seem right to me. | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
On June 06 2012 12:56 High[5] wrote: RIP BW! finally! BW was holding back SC2 soo much! :D LONG LIVE SC2!! :D On June 06 2012 13:07 Hadley_ wrote: Finally! A 800x600 2D Game still shown on TV in 2012... where the fuck we are living. Nothing is lost and nothing will be remembered. LMAO you trolls have to try harder!  | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
On June 06 2012 13:06 polyphonyEX wrote: Now BW people can start feeling the same way us WC3 players felt when SC2 first came out. >.< Actually, there's a pretty real possibility that War3's going to outlive BW (in China that is). It really depends on how the BW scene develops after the OSL and KeSPA drops them and what the players who still decide to continue playing BW decide to do with themselves, if any sponsors will drop money to support the remainder of the scene on smaller prize pools, if KeSPA will allow that to happen (I'm unsure of what rights they have over BW and how far they'd go to discourage this), etc. I'll just say that if there are still players in Korea who can make a living off playing War3, then I'm positive that it's possible for BW players who have a much larger following in Korea. | ||
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Sanguinarius
United States3427 Posts
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endy
Switzerland8970 Posts
On June 06 2012 13:27 babylon wrote: Actually, there's a pretty real possibility that War3's going to outlive BW (in China that is). It really depends on how the BW scene develops after the OSL and KeSPA drops them and what the players who still decide to continue playing BW decide to do with themselves, if any sponsors will drop money to support the remainder of the scene on smaller prize pools, etc. I'll just say that if there are still players in Korea who can make a living off playing War3, then I'm positive that it's possible for BW players who have a much larger following in Korea. RTS are pretty much dead in China. The last league is the G-League, for both SC2 and W3 and it isn't what it used to be... SC2 is a huge flop and is only played by former competitive BW/WC3 players. It's all about Dota. | ||
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SpeaKEaSY
United States1070 Posts
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Azzur
Australia6253 Posts
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