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[MLG] Winter Season featuring Heart of the Swarm - Page 21

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dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
February 01 2013 02:58 GMT
#401
Invite only sucks for competitors, but it doesn't really matter that much for viewers since it rarely ever made it on stream and when it did, people would switch streams to watch the "big names".
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
February 01 2013 03:08 GMT
#402
surprised no one mentions that Bifrost is in the map pool. Im gonna buy a pass!
Entirety
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
1423 Posts
February 01 2013 03:10 GMT
#403
I hope Mvp can beat Curious and make it into MLG. Go Mvp, I'll root for you until the bitter end!
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10045 Posts
February 01 2013 03:14 GMT
#404
how did fenix get picked for this?
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
Elite_
Profile Joined June 2012
United States4259 Posts
February 01 2013 03:48 GMT
#405
Way to go MLG. You made HyuN sad. [image loading]
AlternativeEgo
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden17309 Posts
February 01 2013 03:51 GMT
#406
On February 01 2013 05:11 Penev wrote:
The first HotS LAN right after release; People who say they're not gonna watch are lying.


I will honestly not watch. MLG to me is this big Starcraft festival where we gather in an LR thread to cheer and fool around while the stars play, and eagerly await for some surprising reports from the open (that's the most thrilling part). I wasn't interested in the office MLG's or the other side events. I want the festival. A HotS invitational is not it.

On February 01 2013 10:35 Die4Ever wrote:
the qualification matches are probably gonna be pretty funny to watch lol, most of these guys have played like a few hours of HotS


I'm afraid that they will stick to what they know - WoL. Maybe you will see someone post the sarcastic "omg he made a hots unit!!" every fifth game or so. We have seen it before in the previous beta tournaments and now when there's serious money on the line they will play the game as they know best how to. These players are probably not the right ones for a HotS release party. Or at least that's my big concern.

Either way it will still be an event with some sick good Starcraft though. Maybe just not the kind some might hope for.
Mark Munoz looks like Gretorp
Bart
Profile Joined November 2010
494 Posts
February 01 2013 04:03 GMT
#407
I think I'm ok with there being no open bracket as I never kept up with it nor watch any of the games. I usually just look on Liquipedia and follow the path of the more famous/korean players through the open bracket. I'm ok with invitational but would have preferred a group style instead of a single elimination for the sake of fairness.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | Fan of: MKP, Select, MC, Kripp, Purge, JP, Qpad Red Pandas
orllyfools
Profile Joined May 2012
United States153 Posts
February 01 2013 04:10 GMT
#408
Am I missing something? So there wont be a WoL tourney anymore? Or is this completely different from the WoL one and everyone is just going ape shit because they still don't know what's suppose to replace the open bracket?
Squitle-MC-Parting-Major-Polt
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
February 01 2013 04:16 GMT
#409
On February 01 2013 13:10 orllyfools wrote:
Am I missing something? So there wont be a WoL tourney anymore? Or is this completely different from the WoL one and everyone is just going ape shit because they still don't know what's suppose to replace the open bracket?

Correct, it was announced long ago that this MLG is entirely HotS. This is the entire tournament.
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magicallypuzzled
Profile Joined June 2011
United States588 Posts
February 01 2013 04:48 GMT
#410
there always going to be some people that are odd choices in any invitational other wise the invites just seem boring.
is depressed
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
February 01 2013 04:54 GMT
#411
Man the pitchforks are in full motion here. Most people don't actually care about watching the open bracket but a few people were loud enough to make everyone else angry. Hilarious stuff, good job guys. ~_~
♦ My Life for BESTie ♦ 류세라 = 배 ♦
Elite_
Profile Joined June 2012
United States4259 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-01 04:59:03
February 01 2013 04:55 GMT
#412
On February 01 2013 13:48 magicallypuzzled wrote:
there always going to be some people that are odd choices in any invitational other wise the invites just seem boring.

The onetwo questionable invites are Jjakji... Wins a GSL Championship a year ago, falls to Code A the next season, stays in Code A for 2 more seasons, falls out of the GSL, requalifies, falls out of the GSL again, and doesn't win a single game in the Code A Preliminaries this season... Also he's never attended a MLG IIRC... Only foreign event he's been to is IPL4... Unless you count the online portion of Iron Squid 1...

and GuMiho, who weirdly accepted an invite despite saying he's not going to attend any foreign events until he's a GSL Champion.

The one questionable non-invite is soO, the MvP Invitational Champion...
Torpedo.Vegas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1890 Posts
February 01 2013 05:00 GMT
#413
On February 01 2013 13:55 Elite_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 13:48 magicallypuzzled wrote:
there always going to be some people that are odd choices in any invitational other wise the invites just seem boring.

The onetwo questionable invites are Jjakji... Wins a GSL Championship a year ago, falls to Code A the next season, stays in Code A for 2 more seasons, falls out of the GSL, requalifies, falls out of the GSL again, and doesn't win a single game in the Code A Preliminaries this season... Also he's never attended a MLG IIRC... Only foreign event he's been to is IPL4... Unless you count the online portion of Iron Squid 1...

and GuMiho, who weirdly accepted an invite despite saying he's not going to attend any foreign events until he's a GSL Champion.

The one questionable non-invite is soO, the MvP Invitational Champion...


Nobody know who was invited and turned it down for one reason or another and they certainly are not going to cheapen their own event but saying coulda woulda shoulda.
orllyfools
Profile Joined May 2012
United States153 Posts
February 01 2013 05:03 GMT
#414
On February 01 2013 03:43 MLG_Adam wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 03:41 UmbraaeternuS wrote:
On February 01 2013 03:37 MLG_Adam wrote:
Keep in mind that players from every region declined invites.


Of course they did. For example, flying from here (latin america) to the US is pretty damn expensive, and the tournament setup is really not that player-friendly... Teams or players won't risk investing in expensive air tickets and hotel reservations if they see no benefit. It's not that much of a "whoa, I don't like that tournament setup" but "whoa, what's in it for our team and me as a player, and what are the benefits?"...

Like I said previously, I think the experiment being undertaken is interesting, but too hurting to newcomers and underdogs, and most of all, to teams in general... :/



The winners of the qualifier matches are all flown to dallas and provided hotel. All 32 players will have a fully paid trip.



So you pay for every player who can pull that kind of money out of their ass gets free trips?

On February 01 2013 02:33 MLG_Adam wrote:
Again. We want aspiration, we want open qualification, we want success stories, how can you say anything different based on our track record?

This event is 3 days after a major content release. Qualification is taking place on BETA servers. We wanted to have open online qualification for this event but it was not a logistical reality.

We are not done announcing 2013 plans. Have faith.



Yet you brodcast all these games over a 2 week period a month before the actual tournament? Why not just do open brackets online during the weeks preceding the tourney. -____- I WAS gonna watch the whole weekend regardless of what you guys would announce but I think I'd rather watch any other starcraft event i see on teamliquid.net. And if there's nothing, I'll just watch some DotA or LoL ersomething. Even though i have no clue what they're doing. You wont get my tweets or views.
Squitle-MC-Parting-Major-Polt
Elite_
Profile Joined June 2012
United States4259 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-01 05:24:22
February 01 2013 05:11 GMT
#415
On February 01 2013 14:03 orllyfools wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 02:33 MLG_Adam wrote:
Again. We want aspiration, we want open qualification, we want success stories, how can you say anything different based on our track record?

This event is 3 days after a major content release. Qualification is taking place on BETA servers. We wanted to have open online qualification for this event but it was not a logistical reality.

We are not done announcing 2013 plans. Have faith.



Yet you brodcast all these games over a 2 week period a month before the actual tournament? Why not just do open brackets online during the weeks preceding the tourney. -____- I WAS gonna watch the whole weekend regardless of what you guys would announce but I think I'd rather watch any other starcraft event i see on teamliquid.net. And if there's nothing, I'll just watch some DotA or LoL ersomething. Even though i have no clue what they're doing. You wont get my tweets or views.

Hey guise. We're playing the ro64 one match a weekday for a few weeks... Oh, and the ro64 is bo5s with the rest of the tournament being bo3s.

Next thing MLG is going to tell us is Cloud Kingdom, Ohana, Daybreak, and Entombed are staying in the map pool for the main event and Bifrost and Planet S aren't the Neo versions...
Ace1123
Profile Joined September 2011
Philippines1187 Posts
February 01 2013 05:27 GMT
#416
Siiickk!
ForGG, Mvp, MMA, MarineKing, BoxeR,
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
February 01 2013 05:31 GMT
#417
On February 01 2013 14:11 Elite_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 14:03 orllyfools wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:33 MLG_Adam wrote:
Again. We want aspiration, we want open qualification, we want success stories, how can you say anything different based on our track record?

This event is 3 days after a major content release. Qualification is taking place on BETA servers. We wanted to have open online qualification for this event but it was not a logistical reality.

We are not done announcing 2013 plans. Have faith.



Yet you brodcast all these games over a 2 week period a month before the actual tournament? Why not just do open brackets online during the weeks preceding the tourney. -____- I WAS gonna watch the whole weekend regardless of what you guys would announce but I think I'd rather watch any other starcraft event i see on teamliquid.net. And if there's nothing, I'll just watch some DotA or LoL ersomething. Even though i have no clue what they're doing. You wont get my tweets or views.

Hey guise. We're playing the ro64 one match a weekday for a few weeks... Oh, and the ro64 is bo5s with the rest of the tournament being bo3s.

Next thing MLG is going to tell us is Cloud Kingdom, Ohana, Daybreak, and Entombed are staying in the map pool for the main event and Bifrost and Planet S aren't the Neo versions...


I heard they will bring back favorites like Steppes of War, Jungle Basin, etc back to celebrate the end of WoL.
Elite_
Profile Joined June 2012
United States4259 Posts
February 01 2013 05:33 GMT
#418
On February 01 2013 14:31 vthree wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 14:11 Elite_ wrote:
On February 01 2013 14:03 orllyfools wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:33 MLG_Adam wrote:
Again. We want aspiration, we want open qualification, we want success stories, how can you say anything different based on our track record?

This event is 3 days after a major content release. Qualification is taking place on BETA servers. We wanted to have open online qualification for this event but it was not a logistical reality.

We are not done announcing 2013 plans. Have faith.



Yet you brodcast all these games over a 2 week period a month before the actual tournament? Why not just do open brackets online during the weeks preceding the tourney. -____- I WAS gonna watch the whole weekend regardless of what you guys would announce but I think I'd rather watch any other starcraft event i see on teamliquid.net. And if there's nothing, I'll just watch some DotA or LoL ersomething. Even though i have no clue what they're doing. You wont get my tweets or views.

Hey guise. We're playing the ro64 one match a weekday for a few weeks... Oh, and the ro64 is bo5s with the rest of the tournament being bo3s.

Next thing MLG is going to tell us is Cloud Kingdom, Ohana, Daybreak, and Entombed are staying in the map pool for the main event and Bifrost and Planet S aren't the Neo versions...


I heard they will bring back favorites like Steppes of War, Jungle Basin, etc back to celebrate the end of WoL.

Who knows... Anything can happen... There isn't even a lower bracket... Apparently their double elimination bracket system they've been using since MLG Raleigh 2010 is flawed...
Jv9mmm
Profile Joined September 2012
United States59 Posts
February 01 2013 05:36 GMT
#419
I'm sad that it has to be Scarlett vs Goswser because those are the only 2 from North America who have a chance at winning the MLG.
You'll die as you lived in a flash of the blade!
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12726 Posts
February 01 2013 05:57 GMT
#420
On February 01 2013 14:36 Jv9mmm wrote:
I'm sad that it has to be Scarlett vs Goswser because those are the only 2 from North America who have a chance at winning the MLG.

no, it will be a protoss. mark my word
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
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