EPTWCS 2013 Format, Players, Prizes and Point Details - Page 11
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
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sitromit
7051 Posts
On April 17 2013 02:50 TestSubject893 wrote: GSL is now a part of Blizzard's tournament structure. To ignore the rest of the season is to simply ignore part of the prize. There was something special about the GSL, it was all about preparation. Season finals will be weekend tournaments. There's a huge difference in how much a GSL final means now, when the runner up will just get another chance at a bigger payday in a couple of weeks in a weekend tournament. Hell, with bracket luck, he may never even have to play the guy who beat him in the finals. | ||
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govie
9334 Posts
On April 17 2013 03:34 blade55555 wrote: So unless I am mistaken only 8 players can qualify per season so wow this is really retarded. Thought they were making it just like GSL but I guess not zzzzz. They will. Its just first season. They have to start somewhere ad as i see it. It's lookin good man!!:D | ||
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DeathProfessor
United States1052 Posts
Hell I bet if PandaTank qualified he would get a team based off the WCS! So there may be other ways players will make money then prizes. | ||
Wunder
United Kingdom2950 Posts
On April 17 2013 03:37 govie wrote: They will. Its just first season. They have to start somewhere ad as i see it. It's lookin good man!!:D Well for the next seasons the qualifiers will only allow 8 players in per season, that's what they've stated and showed in their graphics anyway. | ||
Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
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Pure Intention
Russian Federation18 Posts
The thing I don't like is BO1 in qualifiers, I mean some strange cheese might end some strong players run, because the game itself allows it. I know it's time consuming, but what about blizzard creating some in-game brackets and extend qualifiers (why not? why should they be played in one day?), though they have a lot of chances overall, it's 4 qualifiers for each season. But overall I'm looking forward for the tourney, it should be super fun. | ||
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IGComet
Canada8 Posts
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Kylo55
Poland64 Posts
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sitromit
7051 Posts
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LighT.
Canada4501 Posts
1st prize: 25k Play in a 2-3 month tournament where all of Korea's players are invited in a long tournament: 1st prize: 20k seems legit. | ||
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Branman
United States203 Posts
On April 17 2013 04:46 LighT. wrote: Play in an somewhat invite-only weekend tournament for MLG: 1st prize: 25k Play in a 2-3 month tournament where all of Korea's players are invited in a long tournament: 1st prize: 20k seems legit. Play in a partially-qualified, partially-invite weekend tournament for IPL 1st prize: 40k Play in a 2-3 month tournament where all of Korea's players are invited in a long tournament: 1st prize: 38k Plus, that's 21.5k guaranteed if the GSL champion just forfeits all of the matches. | ||
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scypio
Poland2127 Posts
On April 17 2013 04:46 LighT. wrote: Play in an somewhat invite-only weekend tournament for MLG: 1st prize: 25k Play in a 2-3 month tournament where all of Korea's players are invited in a long tournament: 1st prize: 20k seems legit. For a pro player it is better to have some confidence about his possible earnings. If someone manages to get into ro8 codeS and into the season finals - that's 11k $ each season without winning anything, earned just by being consistent. And with 3+ seasons each year it should be enough to make a decent living almost anywhere in the world. That seems pretty legit to me. | ||
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MCXD
Australia2738 Posts
I posted this a couple of weeks ago, anticipating that this is exactly what would happen, and it's still relevant: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=406081 Every player currently in Code B (esp Korean) is completely fucked over, and every player in Code S is laughing, no questions asked, because Blizzard refused to be intelligent and creative with their point allocations and just went for the brain-dead approach that ignored the nature of tiering. Incredibly frustrating. I feel for the progamers who have to put up with it. Here's something else to put it into perspective: A player who wins a GSL then immediately drops out of the GSL still has a decent shot of getting to the season final; if they win that then disappears from the face of the earth (retires even) they will still have more points than a player who gets 4 consecutive 2nd place finishes in the GSL. Also a player who goes 0-4 in the Code S Ro32 and 0-2 in their first Code A match to fall straight to Code B, walks away with equal amounts of points as the players who won every single Code A match that season. Consistency, eh? That makes me laugh. | ||
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xuanzue
Colombia1747 Posts
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YourAdHere
United States216 Posts
Not sure what the complaint regarding player flow is. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
== on another note, with the current trajectory of qualified players and new knowledge on the point distribution... I'm sticking to 14/16 Korean at the Grand Finals for Blizzcon =p. Maybe a full 16. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On April 17 2013 05:17 YourAdHere wrote: Code S in NA/EU gets 24 new players a season. Code A gets 24 ex Code S, ranks 9-16 Code A and top 8 Code B for a prolonged up-down tournament. Not sure what the complaint regarding player flow is. Only 8 new players can qualify at all. For example if you are in code A only 8 of those players will be knocked out instead of half like GSL. So only 8 new players can ever qualify at a time when it should be 16. Hope I was able to clarify for you what everyone is talking about ^_^. | ||
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YourAdHere
United States216 Posts
On April 17 2013 05:26 blade55555 wrote: Only 8 new players can qualify at all. For example if you are in code A only 8 of those players will be knocked out instead of half like GSL. So only 8 new players can ever qualify at a time when it should be 16. Hope I was able to clarify for you what everyone is talking about ^_^. But that's because Korea has a tremendous depth of semi-pro players whereas EU and NA simply doesn't. | ||
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Elairec
United States410 Posts
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