Hope they do one giant tournament at the end of the year to celebrate all 3 companies coming together with a super huge prize pool. Something so big it makes E sports waves

gOst

415 Posts

November 16 2012 19:54 GMT

#342

On November 17 2012 00:50 NiRvAnA22 wrote:
Hope they do one giant tournament at the end of the year to celebrate all 3 companies coming together with a super huge prize pool. Something so big it makes E sports waves

This would be awesome! It would make sense since they'r making a combined ranking.

Nerski

United States1095 Posts

November 16 2012 20:24 GMT

#343

Great to see these organizations coming together to form a single 'league' of sorts. Obviously still separate entities, but coming up with a common ranking, competitive format, and schedule will do worlds to fix a lot of issues that everyone runs into.

Obviously with other groups not involved there will still be some conflicts, but at least this is a step in the right direction.

Meki

Netherlands97 Posts

November 16 2012 20:46 GMT

#344

On November 16 2012 02:09 MLG_Adam wrote:

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No PPV

Nice! (dont' get me wrong, nothing is for free, but maybe Blizzard could give a bit back to the community, seeing what money they make from games such as WoW)

Pimpmuckl

Germany528 Posts

November 16 2012 21:20 GMT

#345

oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy, shit's pretty BIG!

lamiller

United States92 Posts

November 16 2012 21:57 GMT

#346

This is a huge step for eSports... KeSpa already has partnership with MLG so thats why it isnt included but you will not see a partnership with GOM or IPL because IPL and GOM are their own partnership... which sucks for IPL and GOM because the name recognition of MLG and DreamHack is so much larger than that of IPL or GOM.. Since IPL and MLG are competitors I wouldnt plan on seeing a partnership anytime soon even though I can see it being phenomenal... Tighter community means that there is high production value all across the board in every tournament... I think KeSpa would take to school any other organization when it comes to production value... KeSpa nails it..

More importantly I would love to see a partnership between GOM and Kespa where we could start seeing team leagues and such with sc2 and BW teams

BuddhaMonk

781 Posts

November 16 2012 22:03 GMT

#347

Glad to see it, this is a good step forward.

NotoriousBig

Germany301 Posts

November 16 2012 22:10 GMT

#348

actually i think the "partnership" will end in giving seeds to players who are doing in the other events good, so maybe all events could now include too many koreans in high seeded positions, which isn´t so fun to watch as someone who cares a lot about for example the european scene and likes to watch also some european games and the not Mlg typical everyone get stomped by the 100 korean style of tourneys.

Bobster

Germany3075 Posts

November 16 2012 22:40 GMT

#349

That's incredible.

Fantastic to see, a unified ranking that's accepted by players and organisers is exactly the kind of thing you'd want at this point.Consolidate and move forward from there.

BoYoB

France83 Posts

November 17 2012 00:02 GMT

#350

Now get a cooperation with Iron Squid and please make 5 Grand Slams every year :
2 in the USA
Stockholm Paris
Seoul.
And Masters opens for the rest of the year !

Sylfyre

Australia222 Posts

November 17 2012 00:57 GMT

#351

This is awesome, especially after seeing how well DH did recently, it was amazing, hopefully the others can learn something from that, and hopefully all the tournaments can learn something from each other.

stenole

Norway868 Posts

November 17 2012 01:10 GMT

#352

I have my positive hat on today, so I will take this as very good news. I imagine there are lots of opportunities in such a partnership. The fans will get a more cohesive esports season in the foreign scene. We'll get a better idea of who is actually the best. Players may be able to better coordinate travel and accomodation. And maybe the tournament organisers will be able to pool their worker resources better so that you can in general have more experienced staff at all the tournaments.

I'm excited to see the outcome of this...

Corrupted

United States1255 Posts

November 17 2012 05:43 GMT

#353

Brilliant. Will definitely benefit all involved, as well as the players.

SmoKim

Denmark10305 Posts

November 17 2012 17:51 GMT

#354

Best news to hit Esports scene, Ever.

I always hoped this would happened, but i never dared to think it could.

blae000

Norway1640 Posts

November 17 2012 19:49 GMT

#355

This sounds really awesome.. Like REALLY awesome! XD Beginning of an era.

executorx

Germany81 Posts

November 17 2012 19:53 GMT

#356

really awesome news!

Xpace

United States2209 Posts

November 18 2012 02:19 GMT

#357

First order of the day:

Get the DH creative team to school the MLG guys.

iTzSnypah

United States1738 Posts

November 18 2012 02:34 GMT

#358

I hope this doesn't cause a total monopoly on non-Korean tournaments that attract Koreans. It will be nice to not have [large]tournaments overlap though.