On April 09 2013 04:50 HotShizz wrote:
why keep the same people? IGN dumped them for a reason. I haven't had the stomach to watch any of their content since IPL 3 because I just don't think they had the quality of personnel to make it worth my while. Cool blizzard is getting involved but is a sinking ship really where you want to place your trust? good luck to them hopefully they turn it into something worthwhile.

So funny! IPL was always my favorite tournament. So well done in most aspects.
Although their casters are definitely not my favorite CASTERS they are awesome people who do a fantastic job with eSports.

Boonbag

France3318 Posts

April 08 2013 20:09 GMT

#105

this is big wow

WolfintheSheep

Canada14127 Posts

April 08 2013 20:09 GMT

#106

On April 09 2013 05:01 Skaminator wrote:

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Well the playoffs were great, but the qualifiers not so much cmon

I wasn't talking about a single tournament. IPL produced tons of SC2 content with some of the best production value around, short of possibly GSL.

Doublemint

Austria8427 Posts

April 08 2013 20:09 GMT

#107

Good for Blizzard. Acquiring this sort of experienced manpower to build interesting content around their products will increase the longevity of their products, among maintaining good relations to the various communities of course.

I wonder whether/how this Blizzard DotA thingy can benefit from this cooperation.

Holdenintherye

Canada1441 Posts

April 08 2013 20:10 GMT

#108

Awesome good to see IPL back in the game.
Also, California becoming a hub for NA esports!

leandroqm

Netherlands874 Posts

April 08 2013 20:10 GMT

#109

Awesome!!
This could only be better if I was hired too! :D

nooboon

2602 Posts

April 08 2013 20:11 GMT

#110

:/ I'm happy that the IPL crew gets picked up but I feel that most of their work will be exclusively the WCS.This will be good for SC2 as it lets blizzard get an experienced crew to handle the tournament. But it is also a big blow to North American esports; other games have lost a major outlet/organizer.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

April 08 2013 20:11 GMT

#111

wow, very nice.

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

April 08 2013 20:11 GMT

#112

Blizz is probably one of the best companies/people to have bought this
I hope this means WCS will have better production quality next year

iMOOrtal

Canada144 Posts

April 08 2013 20:13 GMT

#113

Good and bad.

It's unfortunate that some can't stand on their own with the product, without the Blizzard parachuting in to save/absorb these brands.
At the same time, I think it's wonderful that Blizzard bought it because obviously with the WCS changes things are moving forward (not perfectly but definitely better as a result).

I guess I don't really have an opinion on this yet.

canikizu

4860 Posts

April 08 2013 20:14 GMT

#114

Hmm, IPL is involved a lot in LoL too, and it was pretty good too. Is this deal only limited for SC2, or the whole IPL in general? IPL is going to continue to run LoL tournaments on Blizzard's money?

kollin

United Kingdom8380 Posts

April 08 2013 20:15 GMT

#115

On April 09 2013 05:14 canikizu wrote:
Hmm, IPL is involved a lot in LoL too, and it was pretty good too. Is this deal only limited for SC2, or the whole IPL in general? IPL is going to continue to run LoL tournaments on Blizzard's money?

IPL doesn't exist any more, Blizzard bought IPL's assets but will not run LoL tournaments or an IPL 6.