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WCS Season 2 Regional League Finals Dates

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Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25011 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 23:39:26
July 22 2013 19:20 GMT
#1
Update: Update on Reddit from Kim Phan regarding the situation. Posted on reddit here because I guess they hate us.

We wanted to clarify a few points regarding the timing of the WCS Season 2 League Finals. Given the intricacies of coordinating schedules between multiple regions and partners, travel requirements for pro-gamers, availability of appropriate venues, and more, it's quite a challenge to align all these often conflicting priorities. Adding in the schedules of other events which we have no control over adds another layer of unworkable complexity.

So how did we arrive at the dates for the major WCS Season 2 events? What we knew is that we wanted to have ESL produce a world-class Finals event at gamescom in Germany in late August, which they'll be announcing more details about very soon. That meant working the schedule backward from that point. In order to give partners enough time to plan and execute for a global Season 2 Finals at gamescom, there was only a small window of opportunity for us to have the various regional finals.

Unfortunately this has resulted in overlaps with other major eSports events. These conflicts were certainly not intentional. This simple fact is that as eSports has grown with more events, more games, and more viewers; it's nearly impossible to avoid all conflicts. Many major weekend events already host multiple games, which are running simultaneous game streams in conflict with each other.

That said, we do understand the various concerns that players, teams, and viewers have with this particular conflict and as we have in the past, will continue to do our best to avoid this type of overlap in the future.


From the Blizzard website.

WCS Season 2 has played host to some fierce StarCraft II competition, shocking upsets, and a myriad of incredible plays over the past few weeks. Premier League has been a wild ride so far this season -and we’ve only just begun. The struggle for World Championship Series dominance is about to burn white hot in each region as the round of 16 group stage draws near for WCS America and Europe, and players in WCS Korea prepare for next week's round of eight bracket stage.

We're barreling toward the culmination of regional competition at an incredible rate, and we're pleased to announce that the Season 2 League Finals for all three regions will take place August 10 - 11 in a blowout weekend of nonstop StarCraft II action. We'll reveal more detailed League Finals information soon, but in the meantime, be sure to tune in at the dates and times listed below to catch every Premier League match leading up to each region's Season 2 League Finals.


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From August 5 – 8, the North American Star League is inviting you to join them in-person as they showcase the WCS America round of 16 group stage live from Yankee Doodles in Santa Monica, California. Entry into the venue is free, just be sure to RSVP on the official NASL Facebook page, and head here to find more venue details.

Furthermore, the Electronic Sports League is once again hosting a live studio audience for the WCS Europe round of 16 at ESL Studio One in Cologne, Germany. You can pick up a ticket here, and follow @esltv_tickets on Twitter to stay on top of ESL TV Studio show updates.

As always, if you plan to cheer on your favorite players from home, you can tune in to all WCS broadcasts for free on the WCS Portal.


The long and short of it is the WCS AM finals will be at the Red Bull studio which is pretty cool, while WCS EU will be in their normal studio (great as usual), on August 10-11. Unfortunately all three of these regional finals (NA, EU, KR) being on the same weekend will make following them a bit rough. Additionally, this is the same weekend as (Wiki)The International 2013 which, as the biggest Dota event of the year (and one that has been getting a lot of attention today for having the biggest prize pool of any esports event to date), will make for some difficult decisions for those that follow both games.
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Mattumsfox
Profile Joined April 2012
United States233 Posts
July 22 2013 19:23 GMT
#2
So do Europe and America play ro16, ro8, ro4 and the finals over the 4 days?
Ammanas
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Slovakia2166 Posts
July 22 2013 19:25 GMT
#3
Why would you do this? This means, that if you want to follow all of them (as I did last season), you have to be awake for about ~20 hours...
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States31329 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:27:40
July 22 2013 19:27 GMT
#4
hahaha overlap with TI3

twitch.tv is so dead

at least WCS KR will be watchable through Gom ^_^
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Finrod1
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany3997 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:29:12
July 22 2013 19:28 GMT
#5
How stupid is this? Many sc2 fans are dota2 fans aswell. I'm not going to miss ti3 so... thats it then.

edit: and we probably cant watch either because twitch will be dead^^
InsidiA
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Canada1169 Posts
July 22 2013 19:29 GMT
#6
oh god, will Twitch be able to handle this haha
GraphicsInsidiA | StarCraft 2 Manager for Team eLevate | Graphic Designer for Red Bull eSports & HTC | @iamjasonpun
Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
July 22 2013 19:31 GMT
#7
oh god, such terrible scheduling.
Amestir
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2126 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:32:45
July 22 2013 19:32 GMT
#8
Image doesn't load

Edit: for some reason now it does!

Also, rip twitch.
We know nothing.
RiSkysc2
Profile Joined September 2011
688 Posts
July 22 2013 19:33 GMT
#9
Twitch can't even handle normal broadcasting, gonna be completely unwatchable, gotta love dat monopoly.
havok55
Profile Joined May 2013
United States276 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:35:20
July 22 2013 19:34 GMT
#10
Well god damnit, finally live WCS AM (I always envied those WCS EU get-togethers)... but now its in CA instead of NY.

$#%$#*(*#&#@



On July 23 2013 04:25 Ammanas wrote:
Why would you do this? This means, that if you want to follow all of them (as I did last season), you have to be awake for about ~20 hours...


Challenge accepted.
Boucot
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
France15997 Posts
July 22 2013 19:34 GMT
#11
Oh shit, I will be in holidays at this time. I thought it'd be one week later. The saddest part is that I might not be able to ever see one more Stephano's competitive match.
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onPHYRE
Profile Joined October 2010
Bulgaria841 Posts
July 22 2013 19:38 GMT
#12
I can already hear the complaints about twitch crashing.
Livin' this life like it was written.
Shinoby92
Profile Joined February 2012
Spain1 Post
July 22 2013 19:38 GMT
#13
well, sry but i wont miss TI3 so gl
Kristiyan
Profile Joined December 2011
Bulgaria5 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:49:21
July 22 2013 19:39 GMT
#14
It's the only reasonable decision Blizzard could make because I can't see the starcraft people going back if they watched TI3...
Especially bad if the Koreans see it.
le fuck
TumNarDok
Profile Joined December 2011
Germany854 Posts
July 22 2013 19:39 GMT
#15
so i better take the 12th off work huh
Moltisanti
Profile Joined July 2013
Germany9 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:40:28
July 22 2013 19:40 GMT
#16
On July 23 2013 04:27 Waxangel wrote:
hahaha overlap with TI3


Whats TL3?
rUiNati0n
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1155 Posts
July 22 2013 19:40 GMT
#17
This seems like a poor decision even without TI3 overlap...
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Tortious_Tortoise
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States944 Posts
July 22 2013 19:40 GMT
#18
I'm pretty optimistic about Twitch's chances here. They deal with the 100k+ or so people cramming into that one league tournament every weekend, so WCS shouldn't be too much to handle.
Treating eSports as a social science since 2011; Credo: "The system is never wrong"-- Day9 Daily #400 Part 3
SCST
Profile Joined November 2011
Mexico1609 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-22 19:41:36
July 22 2013 19:41 GMT
#19
Seriously what the hell is wrong with Blizzard? You have to think they want to fail their own business. Stupidest decision I've seen in a while.

Twitch will be unwatchable for this. Mark my words.
"The weak cannot forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." - Gandhi
Maegi
Profile Joined January 2013
Finland174 Posts
July 22 2013 19:41 GMT
#20
Holy shit this is stupid, am I seriously not supposed to sleep for the whole weekend? Or do they expect people to only want to watch their own region's finals or something?
NaNiwa <3
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