WCS America - Challenger League Qualifier Results - Page 3

On May 06 2013 14:34 ragz_gt wrote:


With all the Chinese players qualifying kinda make the lag issue moot.

On May 06 2013 16:41 skatblast wrote:
its a shame they wouldn't even let xigua compete in the challenger Cool to see demuslim in there, i see him as one of the "challengers" of the challenger league.

On May 06 2013 16:55 digmouse wrote:

AKA me.

On May 06 2013 12:13 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:
The WCS America Challenger League qualifiers concluded with sixteen players earning spots in the Season 1 Challenger League. These players will have a chance to earn spots in next season's Premier League.

Qualified Players:
iG.jim
c.Bails
ROOT.Puck
iG.MacSed
Quantic.HwangSin
TOP
ROOT.Sage
Liquid`TaeJa
Xenocider
EG.DeMusliM.RC
FXONeeb
iG.Xy
FXODrunkenboi
EG.Jaedong.RC
MYi.Tilea
YoeIM.Ian

Also, many notable players failed to qualify through the qualifiers, such as former Code S runner-up Quantic.HyuN (eliminated by Puck and Sage), Proleague regulars EG.JYP.RC and Liquid`Zenio, and number of popular players such as ROOT.CatZ, EG.iNcontroL.RC, NonY and coL.qxc. Check Liquipedia for the full list of eliminated players and brackets.

On May 06 2013 15:12 wklbishop wrote:


You bring up a great point about popular Korean and I feel like that relates to how these days lag isn't talked about as often. I suspect it has to do with the fact that mid-tier Koreans are playing more often than JUST high-level/well-known ones. 2 years ago, only top level Koreans would be playing, I mean... MC, Losira, MMA at MLG Columbus is like... the present-day equivalent of SoS, Leenock, and Flash being the only ones to go to a foreign tournament.

If Flash played cross-server in EU instead of Finale... that is going to be one messy LR. I mean... if we had a repeat of TSL3 only with Innovation and Life losing (in place of MVP and Nestea), the shit will go crazy.

THEN AGAIN, to play Devil's advocate against myself. Macro has become increasingly important and maps have grown exponentially bigger which kind of downplays some of the effects of lag. Also no more 4 gate PvP where every shot counts nor Taldarim style ZvZ (as much). And actual experience with dealing with lag as argued by Jinro probably has a factor as Koreans played more on NA.

And another counterpoint to my devil's advocate is the fact that ROOT specifically stated one of the reasons they moved to California was for better ping to the KR server; moving for better ping says a lot in of itself about pros opinions of lag.

Haha, Anyways, I have no real argument. Just that, it's a clusterfuck mess that people go too much of one direction typically. xD

On May 06 2013 12:16 Wunder wrote:
Jimcredibleeeee! Happy so many Chinese players managed to get in.

On May 06 2013 19:53 Larkin wrote:
Only 4 Americans...

On May 06 2013 15:36 [Erasmus] wrote:


Tilea is the female being referred to here...

On May 06 2013 18:03 Greendotz wrote:


Two days ago MC was knocked out of the EU Challenger qualifiers (ironically) by a player called noname. During that qualifier MC was playing from Germany and I believe he had been for a couple of days (if it’s not ping-lag it’s jet-lag -_-). If he had been in Korea could you imagine what the hysteria the fanboys would whip up over lag issues?

It seems like such a shame that when the foreigners can bring an upset there’s a worryingly high number of people who’s sole job seems to be reminding everyone that they’re worthless and they only won due to unfair advantages.