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ssg
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1779 Posts
January 31 2013 17:46 GMT
#81
On February 01 2013 02:43 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 02:43 ssg wrote:
Why is Violet considered a western Korean?

because he lives in Texas

Oh, okay. Thought it had to do with the teams since Hero and Taeja are there
IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
January 31 2013 17:46 GMT
#82
On February 01 2013 02:16 KiF1rE wrote:
How is the showdown thing based on HOTS accomplishments? How many of those players have won a tournament or broke rank 2 GM in HOTS? As ive done both(granted small tournament but w/e there isnt much atm MLG is the first big event for it lol)... Just seems like claiming " top StarCraft II players in the world based on recent performances playing StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm" is kind of flawed and its just a sheer invitational everyone that's popular or did well in MLG with WoL with that player list.

regardless was expecting for some form of announcement to make up for the lack of open bracket, And as a competitor what is my Gold membership now useful for? As clearly I cant compete or sign up for anything now... making my gold relatively useless.

"broke rank 2"
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97277 Posts
January 31 2013 17:46 GMT
#83
On February 01 2013 02:46 ssg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 02:43 Shellshock1122 wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:43 ssg wrote:
Why is Violet considered a western Korean?

because he lives in Texas

Oh, okay. Thought it had to do with the teams since Hero and Taeja are there

I think it's also considering "nonESF" teams and AZUBU is also not an ESF team.
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IdrA
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States11541 Posts
January 31 2013 17:46 GMT
#84
it's ok i broke rank 17 i deserve my invite
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Hodgyy
Profile Joined January 2012
138 Posts
January 31 2013 17:49 GMT
#85
Sad to see the invites and how crappy they are putting this out,.
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Shade_FR
Profile Joined June 2010
France378 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-31 17:49:53
January 31 2013 17:49 GMT
#86
Broadcast: February 4 –March 8: 28 Matches, 28 Days broadcast each weekday at 5pm ET and select Sundays online and Twitch. Schedule below and online.


Does it means the Beta will still be open on March 8th ? o_O Or Blizzard will let the beta opened for these MLG players ?

Can you please answer me ? I have a LAN to organize on March 3rd and I would like to know if HoTS beta will be available or not.
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ssg
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1779 Posts
January 31 2013 17:49 GMT
#87
On February 01 2013 02:46 IdrA wrote:
it's ok i broke rank 17 i deserve my invite

You drew a a toss anyway not like your invite will take you far.
VirgilSC2
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States6151 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-31 17:50:38
January 31 2013 17:49 GMT
#88
On February 01 2013 02:42 sitromit wrote:
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On February 01 2013 02:36 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:32 Pokebunny wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:29 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:28 Pokebunny wrote:
Kind of sad that HwangSin placed higher than every independent/foreign team Korean invited to the showmatches at last MLG and gets no invite. Pretty clear that this is obviously based on who is the most famous rather than any actual qualifications. Not that those players are undeserving, but...

That would be because the way the invite criteria work wasn't event RESULTS, it was event PARTICIPATION. This means that players that might not be placing as HIGHLY as other players get invited simply because the team they play for can afford to send them to more events.

So he went to an arena and three of the four championship events...

It doesn't matter.

He missed every single European Major that

MC vs Alive
Hero vs Polt
Taeja vs Violet

All 6 of these attended.

To be fair I don't even see why aLive/MC/HerO/TaeJa are even in this category considering they've lived in Korea this whole time to begin with.


And who should they have invited instead? Hwangsin and Jookto? 2 of the players on that list are in Code S, 2 are in Code A, the other two have more accomplishments in SC2 in the last few months alone, than Hwangsin and Jookto have had in their entire careers. If I as a viewer am going to pay to watch a tournament, who do you think I want to see in the category of Koreans on foreigner teams?


I was just thinking since the category is titled "Independent/Western (3) - 6 Western + Independent Korean players"

There's nothing "Western" about putting a jersey on and staying in Korea. I would think the category lends itself to Korean players who leave Korea to live abroad:

Hwangsin
StC
JookTo
Yong
JYP
PuMa
GanZi
ViOLet
Polt
etc

Otherwise why don't we just title it "Make sure TeamLiquid's Koreans can get to MLG Category"
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
January 31 2013 17:50 GMT
#89
On February 01 2013 02:41 MLG_Adam wrote:
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On February 01 2013 02:40 TBO wrote:
We wanted to have huge open online qualifiers for each region but due to HOTS beta stability we had to run only invitational activity.


I could live with that explanation if you actually had no online matches at all, but as you actually do online matches including players outside the USA (for which latency will be terrible) and a lot of time until march 15th, it's really a strange thing you came up with.

And if you don't want people to be upset, why don't you flat out say that there will be an open bracket again in the events thereafter instead of saying you will announce more later.



We are working very closely with Blizzard to ensure that the specific days that qualifying matches are happening that servers are stable and ready. That was not possible with a large open bracket across multiple regions spanning a long period of time.


Adam, I agree with everything you are saying and it might be a nightmare trying to set up an event 3 days after the release of HotS. The only thing worse than not having an Open Bracket would be trying to run one and having it crash and burn because of some problem with HotS that is beyond your control. I glad to hear you guys are focusing on putting on the highest quality show possible for HotS, rather than assuming that it will all just work day one.

Though I respect that people are disappointed, there are limits to what these MLG can do with HotS being released 3 days befor the event. It is only one event and rather than being upset that the open bracket isn't there, folks should be reassured that MLG is taking the time to make sure we get a smooth show.
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KristofferAG
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Norway25712 Posts
January 31 2013 17:52 GMT
#90
Without an open bracket I feel half the point of MLG is gone. I'm not sure if I'll tune in at all, but we'll see. It's still a stacked tournament with some badass names, but I still feel IPL is the better option for me. At least right now.
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Glon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States569 Posts
January 31 2013 17:52 GMT
#91
Creating an invite only qualifier that is not based on skill (for who is invited) hurts everyone.... we'll see what it does for viewers
@QuanticGlon https://twitter.com/QuanticGlon
ssg
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1779 Posts
January 31 2013 17:53 GMT
#92
Kind of weird that none of the EG Koreans got invited. I expected MLG to cower to them.
coL.hendralisk
Profile Joined September 2009
Zimbabwe1756 Posts
January 31 2013 17:53 GMT
#93
On February 01 2013 02:49 ssg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 02:46 IdrA wrote:
it's ok i broke rank 17 i deserve my invite

You drew a a toss anyway not like your invite will take you far.


isn't ddoro inactive? should be ok for idra despite protoss imbalance
wajd
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
240 Posts
January 31 2013 17:53 GMT
#94
why no WhiteRa ?
LoraX
Profile Joined November 2010
69 Posts
January 31 2013 17:55 GMT
#95
seems so biased and unnatural. gonna be watching IPL instead
sitromit
Profile Joined June 2011
7051 Posts
January 31 2013 17:56 GMT
#96
On February 01 2013 02:49 VirgilSC2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 01 2013 02:42 sitromit wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:36 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:32 Pokebunny wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:29 VirgilSC2 wrote:
On February 01 2013 02:28 Pokebunny wrote:
Kind of sad that HwangSin placed higher than every independent/foreign team Korean invited to the showmatches at last MLG and gets no invite. Pretty clear that this is obviously based on who is the most famous rather than any actual qualifications. Not that those players are undeserving, but...

That would be because the way the invite criteria work wasn't event RESULTS, it was event PARTICIPATION. This means that players that might not be placing as HIGHLY as other players get invited simply because the team they play for can afford to send them to more events.

So he went to an arena and three of the four championship events...

It doesn't matter.

He missed every single European Major that

MC vs Alive
Hero vs Polt
Taeja vs Violet

All 6 of these attended.

To be fair I don't even see why aLive/MC/HerO/TaeJa are even in this category considering they've lived in Korea this whole time to begin with.


And who should they have invited instead? Hwangsin and Jookto? 2 of the players on that list are in Code S, 2 are in Code A, the other two have more accomplishments in SC2 in the last few months alone, than Hwangsin and Jookto have had in their entire careers. If I as a viewer am going to pay to watch a tournament, who do you think I want to see in the category of Koreans on foreigner teams?


I was just thinking since the category is titled "Independent/Western (3) - 6 Western + Independent Korean players"

There's nothing "Western" about putting a jersey on and staying in Korea. I would think the category lends itself to Korean players who leave Korea to live abroad:

Hwangsin
StC
JookTo
Yong
JYP
PuMa
GanZi
ViOLet
Polt
etc

Otherwise why don't we just title it "Make sure TeamLiquid's Koreans can get to MLG Category"


Of the players on your list, only those on your team, Violet and Polt are now living in the US, all the rest are in Korea, aren't they? Didn't Hwangsin, theStC, Puma and JYP just play in the Code A qualifiers? Violet and Polt are already invited. So that leaves only your players. You can run a poll and ask how many people want to see Yong instead of MC, I doubt it'll turn out in your favor though.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
January 31 2013 17:56 GMT
#97
On February 01 2013 02:55 LoraX wrote:
seems so biased and unnatural. gonna be watching IPL instead

No your not, you silly. Your going to watch both, but complain about MLG. You can't fool us;-P
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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goswser
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3548 Posts
January 31 2013 17:59 GMT
#98
Wish I didn't have to play Scarlett lol. I think they should have done round robin for each region, so the top players from each region would qualify for the event.
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LockeTazeline
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
2390 Posts
January 31 2013 18:00 GMT
#99
Parting vs. Fantasy HotS. I'm appeased.
Glon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States569 Posts
January 31 2013 18:01 GMT
#100
On February 01 2013 02:59 goswser wrote:
Wish I didn't have to play Scarlett lol. I think they should have done round robin for each region, so the top players from each region would qualify for the event.



Or how about a qualifier....? In HOTS....?

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