EPTIEM Season 7 World Championship will be HotS - Page 8
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rpgalon
Brazil1069 Posts
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sashqinCho
Russian Federation131 Posts
this IEM someone will win with hellbats, and they will be nerfed! IEM is hurting e-sport  | ||
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Kiyo.
United States2284 Posts
On February 16 2013 16:30 Noam wrote: It is such a bold move from ESL to forsake the single strong point they have compared to the other SC2 premier tournaments. Their flagship tournament's competitive value. 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. Well said and completely agree with everything except the last sentence. I don't know about most people, but I consider Fruitdealer the first WoL champion, not Idra or Morrow from beta. I feel like both the IEM and possibly even MLG winners next month will be in that same category as Idra/Morrow, not Fruitdealer. | ||
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4tre55
Germany330 Posts
The more tournaments switch to HotS asap, the earlier all players get a chance to get good at it. It's mostly those tournaments that that stay WoL where they could switch the hurt their players. | ||
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furo
Germany449 Posts
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ALPINA
3791 Posts
I personally am completely done with Wol and have no interest in it anymore, and i am sure many players feel the same. After all, a lot of players watch tournaments to improve themselves and watching Wol does not help in that regard. | ||
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Mariosatr
294 Posts
On February 16 2013 00:13 Ballack wrote: IEM just uppercutted MLG. I'm really excited, gogo SNUTE! Haha, this  I'm rooting for Kas/Snute here. | ||
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elanobissen
Denmark244 Posts
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ALPINA
3791 Posts
On February 17 2013 20:31 elanobissen wrote: Kas recently said that he is practicing WoL as he thought that IEM would be WoL. He along with the other players must feel so screwed now:< Screwed why? It's not like someone else was noted earlier about this than him. Everyone is equal in this position. | ||
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saksy2
Norway520 Posts
On February 17 2013 20:46 ALPINA wrote: Screwed why? It's not like someone else was noted earlier about this than him. Everyone is equal in this position. Most of the other qualified players had at least started to transition into HotS. Mainly Kas, Snute, and Vortix has been exclusively been practising WoL the last month. | ||
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ALPINA
3791 Posts
On February 17 2013 20:54 saksy2 wrote: Most of the other qualified players had at least started to transition into HotS. Mainly Kas, Snute, and Vortix has been exclusively been practising WoL the last month. Why does it matter who was practicing what? Everyone was noted at the same time about IEM being hots. | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12024 Posts
On February 17 2013 19:49 ALPINA wrote: Excellent decision imo and happy that Blizzard supports this with their private servers. I personally am completely done with Wol and have no interest in it anymore, and i am sure many players feel the same. After all, a lot of players watch tournaments to improve themselves and watching Wol does not help in that regard. Pretty much the same as me. I've had a lot of problems actually enjoying proleague/GSL since I got into the HoTS beta as I find it a hell of a lot more entertaining to play/watch streams of. This is a great move and it guarentees atleast people like me will tune in. I wouldn't have bothered if it was WoL. I mean I'm still going to watch the last season of WoL GSL, only the games I want to though, same goes for Proleague. | ||
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Cubu
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Godwrath
Spain10135 Posts
On February 17 2013 21:14 Cubu wrote: If heart of the swarm becomes imbalanced, will they switch back to wings? Hmm no. | ||
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habeck
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Pimpmuckl
Germany528 Posts
On February 17 2013 21:14 Cubu wrote: If heart of the swarm becomes imbalanced, will they switch back to wings? OH HELLO REAPERS! Early Wings reapers, best reapers! | ||
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sitromit
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magnaflow
Canada1521 Posts
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azzih
Germany98 Posts
On February 18 2013 00:20 magnaflow wrote: It's too early to be pushing HotS tournaments IMO, especially of this caliber with that much money on the line. We are going to be seeing some abusive boring games There were tournaments soon after SC2 vanilla was released, and the imbalance at that time was much bigger then now in HOTS beta. At that time maps were so good for terran tank abuses and reaper rushes it was a joke from our today's perspective. Never the less we all had fun watching and i think we will have fun watching early HOTS tournaments even if balance isnt that perfect now. | ||
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Shadow_Dog
Canada427 Posts
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