EPTrun the tournaments. My prediction is like 12/16 spots in WCS finals will be korean.
WCS 2013 Announced - April 3rd - Page 85
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xluik
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run the tournaments. My prediction is like 12/16 spots in WCS finals will be korean. | ||
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nucleo
292 Posts
A plauer like polt or even demuslim should be able to play on NA but they both need to know the decision they are making. Same goes for a player living in Korea. There will be korean players left out of the finals that are better than foreigners in it, but this will also be the case when a Code A level player gets in from North America while a Code S level player gets knocked out in the GSL\OSL. Isn't WCS supposed to be composed of the best players from each region? Not a game of "musical chairs". I feel some leniency is good and so is strictness in this case. | ||
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mongmong
Korea (South)1389 Posts
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MHT
Sweden1026 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On April 03 2013 16:56 GoingGoingGone wrote: Just a few of my thoughts: 3) It will be interesting to see which Korean players (and teams) will choose to play the Korean region and which will play EU/NA. I am excited, but skeptical. It could be amazing. It could fail. Let's grab some popcorn, wait and see. Alot, in fact, almost all of them. Becaues if Code S is really the qualifier for the WCS Korea, then the qualifiers for WCS Korea is only limited to the Code S players, which means that every other Korean progamer must search for their luck on another server. | ||
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Eury
Sweden1126 Posts
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jackslater
Russian Federation604 Posts
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zefreak
United States2731 Posts
On April 03 2013 16:59 Canucklehead wrote: It's going to be the same amount of tastosis. Originally there were 4 code s this year. Now there's only 3 code s and 1 osl. Tastosis will cast the osl, which makes up for the missing gsl. So in the end, they will still be casting 4 KR tournaments this year as originally planned. 2 GSL's and 1 OSL, and they are actually the same tournament just different names. GSL qualifiers apply towards the next WCS season (OSL) and so on. The korean scene is being gutted I fear and they are the ones that are pushing the scene forward. | ||
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Insoleet
France1806 Posts
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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
Furthermore, I'm guessing NASL, IEM, MLG and DreamHack will still be running their regular events, and it seems the pros will have extremely busy schedules if they want to participate in everything. I think it would have made more sense if they were limited by geography, rather than choosing a location willy nilly. What's the point of having 3 out of 5 American or European finalists residing and playing from Korea? I mean, ForGG, ReaL, Polt, and the Clarity Koreans are going through through the extra expense of living abroad to be able to compete in EU/NA, so a ton of Koreans can do the exact thing from home? If its an EU League, they should at least be temporarily living in the EU. | ||
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Clefairy
1570 Posts
Wish Blizzard didn't bother butting in. | ||
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
On April 03 2013 17:06 Insoleet wrote: It would be cool if ESL and MLG could have studios in EU and NA where players would come to play. Like Take does in Germany. was thinking about this too. perhaps ESL could work something out with Take for the EU one, would be awesome. | ||
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nucleo
292 Posts
On April 03 2013 17:04 Eury wrote: From what I have heard ESF/KeSPA players picked their region last Friday already so I doubt we will have a huge influx of Koreans in the West this year. And next year hopefully everything will be done on location and not online. Might be a problem with such big continents and such different infrastructure (referring to that of esports, team houses etc). | ||
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
Players must pick what region they wish to play in, and are not restricted by nationality. It is possible for Korean players to choose to play in the NA/EU online leagues if they qualify. ?? | ||
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Elroi
Sweden5585 Posts
1) They should have a system like in the world cup in football: people can only qualify through their region, but the koreans get more spots in the tournament. (ie, OSL and GSL shouldn't be devaluated because of Koreans trying to find easier leagues to qualify from.) 2) They should have made GSTL and PL into one big team league and give out points for wins towards the global tournament. Team leagues are a very important part of Starcraft and they shoudn't be underrated. | ||
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Eury
Sweden1126 Posts
On April 03 2013 17:09 nucleo wrote: Might be a problem with such big continents and such different infrastructure (referring to that of esports, team houses etc). Hence why Blizzard said that if this year is successful they will invest way more money into it. | ||
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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
On April 03 2013 17:06 Insoleet wrote: It would be cool if ESL and MLG could have studios in EU and NA where players would come to play. Like Take does in Germany. ESL do have studios in Cologne, they hold tons of tournaments there, like EPS Germany, WCS Germany, WCS Combined European Finals and lots of tournaments for other games. MLG might be doing something as incontrol hinted in San Francisco no? | ||
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labbe
Sweden1456 Posts
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EnderSword
Canada669 Posts
On April 03 2013 17:06 jackslater wrote: Wow prize POOl IS AWESOME! I'm a little mixed on the Prize pool...to be clear, this is 1.6 Million for the Year...spread over 13 different events. Some of the events it's replacing have prize pools of 100k or so anyway. So I mean, yes, its cool, it's an increase, but just keep in mind its replacing the normal Code S and so on prize pools. | ||
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Veldril
Thailand1817 Posts
On April 03 2013 16:59 guruPanda wrote: Is SC2 still going to be played in the normal MLG Pro Circuit? I take it that the Season Finales held in NA will be hosted by MLG, but that is only one offline-event a year. And as far as Dreamhack and NASL are concerned, at least for dreamhack we can say that offline-events will still have thheir place outside of WCS, the only thing I see greatly affected here is that maybe NA-players will be less inclined to travel (more like Koreans nowadays.) As for NASL, maybe they have to change their Format. There will still be normal MLG Pro Circuit that take place during the weekend. The WCS is another tournament that is separated from the current MLG. On April 03 2013 17:07 Clefairy wrote: This is lame. I was just really looking forward to an awesome GSL with a revitalized game without Broodlord Infestor... Then having the GSL champ assert his dominance by destroying MLG, IEM, Dreamhack, Iron Squid, NASL e.t.c. Wish Blizzard didn't bother butting in. Huh, we still have that. It just GSL/OSL are used to contribute to a bigger system but we would still have the same GSL, MLG, IEM, etc. | ||
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