WCS 2013 Announced - April 3rd - Page 80

On April 03 2013 15:16 prplhz wrote:
as someone who is not a hardcore sc2 follower i don't understand what this actually means for me as a viewer

On April 03 2013 15:14 ShakkaFL wrote:
this is just a silly plot to let foreigners play the koreans <_<

On April 03 2013 15:31 WhiteSatin wrote:
so I am a bit confused about the casting now that OSL and GSL are doing it together.
If they're only doing 2 gsl a year it means that tastosis will only cast twice a year and the third time will be doa+ the other dude ? _O

On April 03 2013 15:35 iEatWoofers wrote:
Awesome! I hope this will be motivating for NA & EU players to really step up their game and that not too many Koreans chose to compete outside of Korea...

On April 03 2013 15:31 WhiteSatin wrote:
so I am a bit confused about the casting now that OSL and GSL are doing it together.
If they're only doing 2 gsl a year it means that tastosis will only cast twice a year and the third time will be doa+ the other dude ? _O

On April 03 2013 15:36 Arceus wrote:
Am I the only one who want the whole Code system to be eliminated? Now that there are only 3 to 4 GSL per year, everyone should have one shot at the championship every season, not every two season. Like aforementioned, people not in this April Code S has zero chance from the beginning

On April 03 2013 15:24 Clefairy wrote:
@sk__mc

No matter how I look at it, WCS's conditions are disadvantageous for Korean players. Players currently in the qualifiers can't even participate in the upcoming WCS Korea. Also the players competing in the GSL in the hardest competition will qualify as Korean representatives.

However if you don't block Korean players from going to other countries, practicing in Korea and playing in Korean tournaments becomes an idiotic thing to do.

Everyone will prefer advancing easily in EU or NA instead of Korea where there are many strong Koreans, so I don't understand Blizzard's tournament idea at all. Either make it so only that country's players can play or don't make the GSL into a WCS tournament and instead make a separate qualifier. This just makes the Korean players that are currently in the qualifiers not want to participate.

Even as a Code S player I'm having a lot of thoughts, but just imagine how it would be for a player in Code A or the qualifiers. The conclusion is I hate this format.

LG IM alone has MVP, First, Byul, Ragnarok and Seed in the qualifiers along with Nestea and Yonghwa in Code A. All these players have automatically been taken out of the running for the first season of WCS Korea. Only the 32 players determined by their WoL results are Korean representatives.

If I compared it simply to football, there's the Premier League, Chinese League and J-League. They're holding the Champions League and they want to give the top 5 teams in these 3 leagues a seed. However the clubs can pick what league they want to play in, and the second tier/third tier Premier League teams can't even participate in the Champions League while the Chinese and J-League compete with all clubs together. Then what would the strong teams such as Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool e.t.c. in the Premier League think?

And what would the lower tier Premier league teams think? Even second tier Premier teams could be top placers in a Chinese or Japanese league but why would they bother playing in the Premier League minor leagues when they can't get into the Champions League?

It would be easier to accept if they just split it up like the last WCS where Europe only has European players, America only has American players, Korea only has Korean players.

Current esports has the problem of Korean players owning every tournament and it is just natural that someone would want a player from their country to do well. If WCS Europe and WCS America is also dominated by Koreans, what American or European person would want to watch the WCS Final?