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At the media day held on the 4th, a few things were announced that may pique the interest of people;
- Opening Day (8th December) will begin with EG-Liquid taking on KT Rolster, followed by STX Soul vs SK Telecom T1. The next day will have reigning champions CJ ENTUS against Woongjin Stars, and Team 8 vs Samsung KHAN.
- There is a total prize pool of 300,000,000 KRW for the whole season (approximately $275,000 USD). It is the largest prize pool offered for Proleague in its history.
- The new maps to be used this round are Planet S, Caldeum, Arkanoid and Bifrost. It is unknown which ladder maps have made the cut.
- Games will broadcast at mid-day on OGN during weekends, while SPOTV begins their broadcast at 5pm KST on Monday and Tuesdays.
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United Kingdom12032 Posts
- The new maps to be used this round are Planet S, Caldeum, Arkanoid and Bifrost.
Oh my got KT please play Flash on Arkanoid, that'd be sooo sick! :D
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Who will be in korea from team EG other than Puma & Jay Why Pee?
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your Country52797 Posts
Idra vs flash please. 
idra is playing right?
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(approximately $275,000 USD)
mind = blown
Insane first match!
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That's a lot of freaking zreos.
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wow the pricepool o-O, hopefully the stream is 480p onwards
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Prize pool distribution known?
That's a freaking huge prize pool, bigger than the BWC.
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On December 04 2012 21:12 GTR wrote:
- There is a total prize pool of 300,000,000,000 KRW for the whole season (approximately $275,000 USD). It is the largest prize pool offered for Proleague in its history.
I'd thought that proleague was doing worse since they switched to Sc2, but the highest prizepool might suggest otherwise?
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On December 04 2012 21:14 Manimal_pro wrote:
Who will be in korea from team EG other than Puma & Jay Why Pee?
iNcontroL has been rumored to be TLEG's ace player.
With that said, really cool they're upping the price pools a lot. That's a quite crazy sum right there.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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This shit just keeps getting insane!! EG-TL have an awesome chance of doing well in this as well, considering it's all SC2 and they have decent squads. No wonder EG are sending over the big guns to the EG Lab (EG Korean House) if the prize fund is $275,000!!!!!
And to top it off they are opening up vs KT!!!
Flash vs Hero/Taeja/IdrA/Stephano....oh please make that happen!
New maps going be interesting, i hope EG send it's players over pretty quickly so they can practice on these maps ASAP
On December 04 2012 21:14 Manimal_pro wrote:
Who will be in korea from team EG other than Puma & Jay Why Pee?
DeMuslim
IdrA
Stephano
ThorZain
and one more player yet to be announced.
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China6331 Posts
The diablo theme map is Caldeum, not Planet S I guess, Caldeum is the city name in Act II of Diablo III.
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On December 04 2012 21:17 Zealos wrote:Show nested quote +On December 04 2012 21:12 GTR wrote:
- There is a total prize pool of 300,000,000,000 KRW for the whole season (approximately $275,000 USD). It is the largest prize pool offered for Proleague in its history.
I'd thought that proleague was doing worse since they switched to Sc2, but the highest prizepool might suggest otherwise?
Blizzard might has helped with prizepool? Don't know for sure though.
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So many zeros!
So many new maps!
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I can't wait.
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On December 04 2012 21:17 Zealos wrote:Show nested quote +On December 04 2012 21:12 GTR wrote:
- There is a total prize pool of 300,000,000,000 KRW for the whole season (approximately $275,000 USD). It is the largest prize pool offered for Proleague in its history.
I'd thought that proleague was doing worse since they switched to Sc2, but the highest prizepool might suggest otherwise?
Well, the companies behind it can inject quite a lot of money in it if they want to. The real question is whether the investment will pay off for them enough to continue doing so.
Btw foreigners so lucky, getting the easiest opponent in the first round. 
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Well Flash vs Idra should be awsome 50min game
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That prizepool. Kespa surely are seriously about sc2.
Looking forward to the opening match, should be great.
Any news on english commentators?
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Can I assume that Planet S is retexture Desert Flower?
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But Taeja, HerO and Demuslim are all going to be at NASL. Not sure this is going to work out as well for EG.Liquid as one would like to see. Other news, I'll be watching this :D.
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