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On September 22 2012 03:16 Takasu wrote:
Wait...so in the playoffs, proleague and mlg dont play each other until the finals. Does that mean Kespa doesnt play mlg players at all though the regular season as well? O_o
That would be really weird, to only have one series between pro-league and MLG...
Yeah totally agree. More info would be helpful. On the fence on whether to purchase it right now. Though this probably means Scarlett gets free money again because she only has to run through NA until the semis :D.
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I'm buying it for the VOD's if nothing else. Ten bucks for some high quality PL stuff is fine with me.
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so 10 dollars to watch foreigners get stomped?
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I thought MLG gave up this shit? PPV again?
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On September 22 2012 01:21 Assirra wrote:Show nested quote +On September 22 2012 01:21 FakeDeath wrote:
Wait is this a LAN event or an online event?
I was wondering the same, i always thought it was a LAN event but now people are talking about it being an online tourney.
It cannot be a LAN considering it has Stephano and all these KESPA players and various American-based players
too. A LAN would require them all agreeing to travel to some venue to compete. We would have known by now where this venue was. So it has to be online.
I am looking forward to the Groups being released.
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Ah bloody hell...
I've never done PPV for a SC2 event, but I'm dying to see the Kespa players.
A couple of questions I have first though:
1. Will the games be casted from replays?
2. Will the casters be in the same place while casting? I really dislike the obstacles that come with casting from replays when the casters aren't sitting side by side. (alla TSL)
3. Have Axslav and Axeltoss casted together before? Bad synergy between casters can really be a HUGE detriment to an event + Show Spoiler +(I won't name names, but I think most people know what I'm talking about here).
The only other reservation I have is that I'm kind of a caster snob. Since I haven't really had a chance to watch Axslav or Axeltoss casting, I don't know if I want to pay for it. Bad casting (it just has to be bad imo**) really ruins an event for me personally. I guess I might have to try to find some of their more recent casts and see.
Either way, its a sick sick player list. GL
Edit: Wait... wat???? There's guaranteed to be no cross-regional matches until later in the tournament? That's so crazy.... Why not just randomly group all of the players together? That is incredibly unfair because, lets be honest, EU and KR as a whole are stronger regionally = harder road to the finals. You can definitely count me out simply because of the forced Proleague vs Proleague and guaranteeing a NA player enters the quarterfinals.
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On September 22 2012 07:05 ref4 wrote:
so 10 dollars to watch foreigners get stomped?
Don't count out the foreigners entirely. Rain is by far the biggest of the bunch and probably the only one we know for sure will deliver Code-S level play, and even then he's still mortal and can potentially lose to outliers like Stephano, however unlikely. Not to mention the fact that most people will know what he's capable of and what he goes for. I'm willing to bet a lot of people were caught very off guard by his play. Not that I think he would've ended up losing in the end, but it was still a pretty major factor in his victories.
As for the rest, I'd say both sides will have one-sided matches, with the Koreans pulling around a 60-70% win rate overall. They're good, but so are we.
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Considering it was a special event to begin with. It was safe to assume this would be a PPV.
Online PPVs though, meh. ;/ I don't really like the format either, but considering they have to do it online it sort of makes sense. Their only selling point is the KeSPA players, but they're still going to play against one another until it counts.
I wonder how their buy rate is going to go, lol.
This isn't really a good measuring stick of anything either.
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online event and players not flown around...i find it hard to justify paying 10 dollars for this.
the greed indeed!
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if there is no free stream to watch jaedong i will be a sad rainbow sheep 
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On September 22 2012 07:26 MigzR wrote:
The greed..
Yeah! Everything should be free, right? Rainbows and unicorns and...shit.
Looks good to me. I think I'll be buying a pass.
It's MLG tournament so production should be great. Great player lineup. I hope that Axeltoss and Axslav work well together since I haven't really had the chance to watch them casting that much. Maybe MLG will give us a chance to watch first match free or something to check it out.
Pretty cool...
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I go from being insanely excited to laughing at MLG when I heard about the paywall. Dreamhack and IEM shell out much better products and they're free. No thanks.
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On September 22 2012 07:47 xrapture wrote:
I go from being insanely excited to laughing at MLG when I heard about the paywall. Dreamhack and IEM shell out much better products and they're free. No thanks.
great comparison... considering MLG already gives their big tournaments that happens on one weekend free streams...
10 dollars for this pass is actually pretty good for weekly content.
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Such a shame that it's PPV, after listening to the confrence today they had a good point that it's too early to do PPV for starcraft. There'll probably be something else to watch anyway.
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I thought the PPV thingy was off the table. *sigh*
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the PPV model worked so well that they didn't have to use it so that they could use it
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meh, i got no problems with the PPV part, but if you are going to feature BW progamers the worst possible way is to do it with online cross-sea competition, just so meh, it will put an asterisk next to the event because every game will be questioned with "latency" or "not offline so doesn't matter"
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On September 22 2012 01:38 MisterTea wrote:
saying it's not worth 10 dollars is imo pretty stupid some of these matches are going to be insane and its 5 weeks worth of content for only the price of a pizza
I can't afford 2 pizzas, and I'm not gonna give up the pizza to watch some sc2 with an empty stomach.
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