On August 24 2012 05:10 Artisane wrote:
Kevin,

Make sure your voice gets plenty of rest so you can announce the GSL event like last time. Epic stuff. =D

Already in the works. :D

vorxaw

Canada245 Posts

August 23 2012 20:13 GMT

#102

Thats a lot of tournaments in 4 days, hope they dont get tired out.

Nazeron

Canada1046 Posts

August 23 2012 20:21 GMT

#103

Sweet, cant wait, hopefully the learn from TAC

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

August 23 2012 20:21 GMT

#104

If they are putting the semi's and finals as far apart as possible on the weekend I find this acceptable, much better than ro8-finals.

Dingodile

4139 Posts

August 23 2012 20:27 GMT

#105

Hello CatsPajamas,
Is there any reason why exactly from Nov 29 to Dec 2? Didn't you know that WCG 2012 has the same weekend/date?
Why not one week earlier or later (to avoid two tournaments at same weekend)?
Dont get me wrong, I am not talking ipl5/gsl but ipl/wcg.

I think we all have enough seen how it works in the past with two tournaments on different place at same weekend like MLG & Dreamhack (two times).

GumBa

United Kingdom31935 Posts

August 23 2012 20:30 GMT

#106

Nice looking forward to it ingoring IPLTAC I found IPL 4 quite good and had fun so looking forward to this

ramon

Germany4842 Posts

August 23 2012 20:33 GMT

#107

should cut the prize pool by 50% or more and up the production value
other than that sounds great

Irave

United States9965 Posts

August 23 2012 20:39 GMT

#108

Seems so far away, but time will pick up surrounding this hype!

kuroshiro

United Kingdom378 Posts

August 23 2012 20:40 GMT

#109

Guesses on the foreign nominees for the world vs korea faceoff?
I'm going:
America: Sheth, Major (eligible?)
Europe: Stephano, Naniwa, Nerchio

That's a whole lotta zerg... could be a weak point.

MCXD

Australia2738 Posts

August 23 2012 20:49 GMT

#110

Glad to hear they dropped the round of 8. Having just the GSL semis and final on the same day is significantly more reasonable.

SolidMoose

United States1240 Posts

August 23 2012 20:51 GMT

#111

Very glad to hear they got rid of GSL ro8. I think the players can handle preparing for 1 definite and 2 possible opponents.

Artisane

United States134 Posts

August 23 2012 20:57 GMT

#112

I'm wondering if there is actually any SC2 events on Thursday or if its only LoL qualifiers. The website doesn't specify it.

If its only LoL, that could save me a day of hotel. Any IGN/IPL persons around that could find that out?

CatsPajamas

United States337 Posts

August 23 2012 21:00 GMT

#113

On August 24 2012 05:51 SolidMoose wrote:
Very glad to hear they got rid of GSL ro8. I think the players can handle preparing for 1 definite and 2 possible opponents.

Oh, and the Semis and the Finals will most likely be on different days, so the semis will play out, then the competitors will have a couple of days to prepare for the finals. It's not 100% settled yet, but I'm pretty sure that's how it's going to go.

On August 24 2012 05:27 Dingodile wrote:
Hello CatsPajamas,
Is there any reason why exactly from Nov 29 to Dec 2? Didn't you know that WCG 2012 has the same weekend/date?
Why not one week earlier or later (to avoid two tournaments at same weekend)?
Dont get me wrong, I am not talking ipl5/gsl but ipl/wcg.

I think we all have enough seen how it works in the past with two tournaments on different place at same weekend like MLG & Dreamhack (two times).

The week before is Dreamhack. The week before that is WCS. The week before that is MLG. It's unfortunate that both events land on the same weekend and we do try and accommodate as best as possible given the incredibly busy schedule of events in eSports at the moment. Hopefully fans will be able to enjoy this event as much as any weekend.

chipmonklord17

United States11944 Posts

August 23 2012 21:22 GMT

#114

I'm a little disappointed that the All Star team won't have Taiwan/Chinese Seed as I'd love to see Sen there again. Or Xigua

Boucot

France15997 Posts

August 23 2012 21:31 GMT

#115

You, IPL guys, make an awesome job. IPL 3 was great, IPL 4 was, to me, a little worse but the GSTL finals were intense. I was disappointed about IPL 5 along the qualifiers and the decision to play the RO8 to finals of the GSL. You listen the community, you make great decisions and I'm sure the IPL 5 will be, through it, way better than I expected. I can't wait to see it and I'm very curious about the GSL World Championship. It's uncommon that the community and the players are considered at this point, congrats to you.

Ritchie

Canada206 Posts

August 23 2012 22:56 GMT

#116

Wow, that prize pool!

Laneir

United States1160 Posts

August 23 2012 23:29 GMT

#117

sweet hopefully this will be great event like the other ones

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

August 23 2012 23:30 GMT

#118

On August 24 2012 02:22 CatsPajamas wrote:
To everyone else, I'm checking on the ETA of hotel packages. If you have any questions at all, fee free to ask!

Can I get free airfare and accomodation to visit IPL5?

hahaha

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

August 23 2012 23:33 GMT

#119

On August 24 2012 06:00 CatsPajamas wrote:
The week before is Dreamhack. The week before that is WCS. The week before that is MLG. It's unfortunate that both events land on the same weekend and we do try and accommodate as best as possible given the incredibly busy schedule of events in eSports at the moment. Hopefully fans will be able to enjoy this event as much as any weekend.

actually afaik
nov 3-4 MLG
nov 10-11 free
nov 17-18 wcs
nov 24-25 dreamhack
dec 1-2 wcg

there's nov 10-11, but understandably that doesn't work out as well as dec 1-2 due to gsl5 ro4/finals etc

wonder if polt or taeja or mkp will qualify for both IPL5, GSL5 finals and WCG haha