WCS Age Restriction

On April 11 2013 23:19 th3rogue wrote:


Only when necessary. The age restriction for WCS is set by Blizzard for all WCS regions.

On April 12 2013 00:07 th3rogue wrote:

According to what we have been told, yes. It's possible that exceptions have been made for him/WCS Korea for this season, as WCS Korea "took over" the running GSL

On June 19 2013 03:39 Plansix wrote:

And that is likely based on local laws and differs from region to region(like everything else). You should look the rules up yourself, rather than demanding people do the work for you.

On June 19 2013 03:58 SinCitta wrote:


I don't even know which law I have to look for. Youth protection law, minors in TV law (is TwitchTV even considered TV under the German law?), employment laws, gambling laws? There are certainly people that are more qualified for this. Maybe we get a statement from German law student/ESL/Blizzard/EG/mouz?

The second quote from my updated post above (here) says pretty unambigiously that the age restriction of 16 should be applied to all WCS regions.

On June 19 2013 03:54 Mormel wrote:
MaruPrime is also 15 and he's playing in the WCS

On June 19 2013 03:42 monk wrote:
I'm not sure where you heard this rule. I just know that ESL, the league that runs WCS EU, has always had this age restriction. That might be where the misconception comes from.

On June 19 2013 04:08 Plansix wrote:

I meant why don't you look up the WCS rules for each region and find out. There are somewhere out there.

Also, linking to another post in TL from a random person claiming how the rules work for WCS does not prove anything. It's not really that big of a deal. Since a 15 year old couldn't enter without a parents approval in the US, WCS is likely aware of his age.

On June 19 2013 04:28 SinCitta wrote:


The random person is the ESL Community Manager for SC2 and some posts earlier you find the statement of the ESL Headadmin. They explicitly say that the restriction has not been set by ESL (and yes, I know other ESL events have an age restriction set by ESL themselves) but in this case they were told by Blizzard that there is one.

And I couldn't find a complete rulebook for WCS if there is one. Just some rules on blog posts, FAQs and copy-pastes on the tournament system's rule pages.

On June 19 2013 04:12 Lunchador wrote:
Age restriction for WCS Korea is 12. I think all the regions have their own rules when it comes to this.

On June 19 2013 04:36 Plansix wrote:

Well it has been answer above. The WCS KR is 12 years old and I don't know what NA is, but I bet it allows 15 year olds to play. Its a Germany thing.

On June 19 2013 04:38 grs wrote:

You are very stubborn in not reading, it is not and has been explianed multiple times now, no matter how much you would like to ignore it.