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On April 13 2013 09:41 larse wrote:
Is it possible that Korean pros just give NA/EU qualifiers a shot in Season 1 but just don't show up later?
Because they are allowed to play in NA/EU qualifiers while staying in Code A/S at the same time, they may just give it a shot.
And then later on when their Code S/A games go well, they may not show up in NA/EU leagues. Is it possible?
Those who are in GSL were allowed to pick another region for season 2, but have to play in the qualifiers for that region (hence MC in code S and EU qualifiers) AND are locked into the 2nd region for the rest of the year (season 3 as well).
Sign up soon, if you want in...less than 100 open spots left!
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Looking at the notable partcipants list, Hyun.......I remember what he did in fight club....
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Signed up, probably won't last long.
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Axiom seems to be on board - guess we wont be seeing them in GSTL next season.
No obvious EG-TL signups so i suspect they will focus on proleague - and i hope blizzard finds a way to compensate them since they screwed EG-TL players out of CodeA qualifiers with such misleading info.
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Only problem i see is that if we have Axeltoss + Axslav casting premier league view counts are going to be low.
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On April 13 2013 09:45 Elairec wrote:
No they have to commit to one region for the first season, then they can switch afterwards. For instance, either they drop out of Code S/a and then go into the qualifiers or they continue with Code S/A and skip the first season qualifiers. It is my understanding though that they can compete in the 2nd season qualifiers for NA/EU if they commit to switching regions after the first season.
Not exactly.
Because you can't qualify and play in Code S in the same season and you have to go through Code A first, they gave players who were in Code S in GSL the option to forfeit their spots at the end of the season, while playing in the qualifiers for NA or EU now.
The way it works, Taeja plays in the NA qualifiers, while playing in Code S in the GSL. He qualifies for Code A/NA, plays in Code A/NA and Code S GSL at the same time. At the end of this season, regardless of his results in Code A/NA and Code S/KR, he is out of the GSL for good. If he has managed to qualify for Code S/NA through his Code A matches, he plays in Code S/NA next season. If not, he continues in Code A/NA.
Players in Code A forfeit their spots immediately, and play in the qualifiers for Code A/NA or EU. If they qualify, they play in Code A NA/EU this season. If they manage to make it into Code S, they play in Code S NA/EU next season.
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Wait, something is wrong here. This is the qualifier for the 8 spots in season 1 of NA Premiere, not Code A, right? How can Hyun play in this, when he's still in the GSL? Is he forfeiting his Code S matches?
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On April 14 2013 00:27 sitromit wrote:
Wait, something is wrong here. This is the qualifier for the 8 spots in season 1 of NA Premiere, not Code A, right? How can Hyun play in this, when he's still in the GSL? Is he forfeiting his Code S matches?
I noticed this as well.. hmm.. I can't fathom forfeiting my spot in code S.. maybe i'm just weird 
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On April 14 2013 00:05 theacox wrote:
Only problem i see is that if we have Axeltoss + Axslav casting premier league view counts are going to be low.
I would expect day9 being in cali maybe cast with catsPJS ? I mean even so that is a ton of games for axslav and axeltoss to cast. Course casting would mess up the daily for day9....
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On April 14 2013 00:27 sitromit wrote:
Wait, something is wrong here. This is the qualifier for the 8 spots in season 1 of NA Premiere, not Code A, right? How can Hyun play in this, when he's still in the GSL? Is he forfeiting his Code S matches?
Good point. But also remember that anyone can use any name, so while someone is signed up with the team name hyun, it may not actually be hyun.
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I wonder how hard it will be for the Koreans to play a tournament which goes from 2:00 AM KST until noon KST. That's going to be very hard on one's sleep schedule. EG-TL has a match earlier that day, so at best players would be able to get a power nap in the afternoon/early evening before an all-nighter.
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
I don't understand why anyone is getting upset over less than 20 dollars. It's not a lot of money, if you have a shot at getting through I imagine either you or your team can spare the money, and it keeps the amount of no-shows low. And so what if they keep the money? It's not like they'll be swimming in cash after this anyway.
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On April 11 2013 15:41 dream-_- wrote:
The entry fee should be encouraged rather than scorned. The people entering these tourneys should be at least serious enough to shell out $20, and it brings money into our community.
What? It brings money into MLG, nothing else...
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On April 14 2013 00:57 Zealously wrote:
I don't understand why anyone is getting upset over less than 20 dollars. It's not a lot of money, if you have a shot at getting through I imagine either you or your team can spare the money, and it keeps the amount of no-shows low. And so what if they keep the money? It's not like they'll be swimming in cash after this anyway.
1. The entry fee was removed.
2. The better question is why does NA have to pay to play, and no one else, when all the prizes are the same.
Someone at Blizzard or MLG saw this as a problem and fixed it. End of story, no entry fee.
The objective of WCS is to encourage more people to be interested in SC2, not put up barriers. An entry fee or league requirement for a tournament are barriers, even though there are valid reasons for them. Case and point, GSL has been running one of the best tournaments around and are the WCS KR; no entry fee and no league requirement. Although they do have a priority if things fill up (which I hope MLG uses, but they have only said it is first come first serve, after reserves).
http://www.gomtv.net/forum/view.gom?topicid=300190&cid=0&kind=8
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On April 14 2013 00:55 Branman wrote:
I wonder how hard it will be for the Koreans to play a tournament which goes from 2:00 AM KST until noon KST. That's going to be very hard on one's sleep schedule. EG-TL has a match earlier that day, so at best players would be able to get a power nap in the afternoon/early evening before an all-nighter.
Another reason why i suspect EG-TL to pull most of their players from WCS NA after being forced into this rush-decision.
Coach Park, the rumoured proleague entry fee, korean house... quite a big investment to throw away.
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On April 14 2013 02:23 rename wrote:Show nested quote +On April 14 2013 00:55 Branman wrote:
I wonder how hard it will be for the Koreans to play a tournament which goes from 2:00 AM KST until noon KST. That's going to be very hard on one's sleep schedule. EG-TL has a match earlier that day, so at best players would be able to get a power nap in the afternoon/early evening before an all-nighter. Another reason why i suspect EG-TL to pull most of their players from WCS NA after being forced into this rush-decision. Coach Park, the rumoured proleague entry fee, korean house... quite a big investment to throw away.
Axiom-Acer should think about the same thing too.
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On April 14 2013 02:23 rename wrote:Show nested quote +On April 14 2013 00:55 Branman wrote:
I wonder how hard it will be for the Koreans to play a tournament which goes from 2:00 AM KST until noon KST. That's going to be very hard on one's sleep schedule. EG-TL has a match earlier that day, so at best players would be able to get a power nap in the afternoon/early evening before an all-nighter. Another reason why i suspect EG-TL to pull most of their players from WCS NA after being forced into this rush-decision. Coach Park, the rumoured proleague entry fee, korean house... quite a big investment to throw away.
Yeah, I doubt they'd abandon that. They know more than us, so maybe they are sure that in 2013 there will not be as much offline games involved that they could not manage both PL and WCS NA.
Or they'll forfeit their WCS NA spots once they'd be required to be present more often than a weekend end per season.
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nice, now that they removed this horrendous fee i can feed my 7 kids again
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Signed up even though I'm diamond and bad. But the signup process is ridiculous. And I'm not even sure if I signed up. That whole creating a team and then registering your team in the tournament rather than just your bnet account is confusing and stupid. So, for all I know, I registered a "team" with no active players or something. I'm at work, so I can't really look into it much to make sure I did it right, but it's convoluted as hell as far as I'm concerned.
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