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IEM Season 7 World Championship will be HotS - Page 7
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birchman
Sweden393 Posts
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Archen
United States79 Posts
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gylka
Ukraine50 Posts
and now they have to switch fast for HotS, when they actualy could do it much-much earlier. And I dont see why people are happy about it... i mean, yeah, WoL is boring with imba shit-zerg stuff, but HotS right now is even worse... all we will see is hellbat-mine-supervac-void_ray bullshit. Actualy sad... I wanted Kas to win this  | ||
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gylka
Ukraine50 Posts
On February 16 2013 08:09 Archen wrote: For people saying its unfair for the players who have been practicing WoL, well its the player's fault for not practicing the new game. Not the tournaments. I don't see how it can ever be unfair when it was completely the players choice to practice WoL and not HOTS. Everyone assumed that if whole season it was WoL then Final IEM will be WoL, and noone said it's gonna be HotS till now... | ||
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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
On February 16 2013 08:09 Archen wrote: For people saying its unfair for the players who have been practicing WoL, well its the player's fault for not practicing the new game. Not the tournaments. I don't see how it can ever be unfair when it was completely the players choice to practice WoL and not HOTS. Yeah, shame on them because they actually wanted to do well and win games at IEM, they should have seen it coming and focused on everything but IEM. | ||
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dubRa
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stratmatt
United States913 Posts
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KingMel
France120 Posts
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absurd1883
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RaiKageRyu
Canada4773 Posts
IPL upheld it's principles and is hosting one last WoL even though it may draw less viewers. You gotta uphold principles, to keep it prestigious. | ||
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Soda-88
Croatia476 Posts
On February 16 2013 08:46 dubRa wrote: Carmac is a genius! Will watch 100% No, Carmac is Dimaga. | ||
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zergtat
Hong Kong853 Posts
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kolofome
United States96 Posts
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ReignSupreme.
Australia4123 Posts
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Assirra
Belgium4169 Posts
On February 16 2013 08:09 Archen wrote: For people saying its unfair for the players who have been practicing WoL, well its the player's fault for not practicing the new game. Not the tournaments. I don't see how it can ever be unfair when it was completely the players choice to practice WoL and not HOTS. Well this would make sense...if it was not the tiny fact that HoTS has not be released. This is not like lets say IPL where the tournament is actually after the release. | ||
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m0ck
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Noam
Israel2209 Posts
ESL always put competition first. Their qualifying system for each event was staggering with so many levels and multiple attempts for each player to qualify, ensuring the participating players are truly the best. It always had less invites compared to their flashy competitors, which seemed to base their invites on each player's amount of likes and followers, or the quality of their post-game ceremony. This approach ultimately hurt them, with less hype and lower viewer counts for every one of their events. However, it is time for business to come first. Competition will not get in the way this time. The chance to finally one-up MLG could not be passed. What's the worst thing that can happen? The casters will be forced to clench their teeth and cringe when tactics that only work on unbalanced yet-to-be released games win matches for $100,000? And Blizzard... oh Blizzard. Did anyone seriously believe you would enforce any competitive value in the amazing eSports game you produced? We saw your eyes sparkle when ESL offered to sink at least $100k into your marketing campaigns for HotS. Your accountants will be happy. The fans who lost their passion for SC2:WoL will be happy. The players who qualified for IEM WC but did not care enough about it to stick to WoL will be happy as well. The rest of us, not so much. ESL does so much to promote and build eSports from the ground up, with ridiculous amounts of prize money being handed out weekly in tournaments, available in all regions and levels. They promote eSports globally, by sending their premier event across the globe, visiting 4 continents in a single year. This time, they chose business over competition. But we can't blame them for that, because Turtle Entertainment GmbH is firstly a business. In 2 months we'll forget all about this. But in 2 years the lists of HotS champions will always have IEM as the first event. | ||
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Ethi
Germany275 Posts
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azzih
Germany98 Posts
The only thing thats important for me is that i am entertained. WoL right now is so boring to watch and stuck in always the same tactics and mechanics. Getting to see new units and strategies will be much more fun to watch than seeing mass infestors and stupid immortal-sentry allins. | ||
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rj rl
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