WCS Season 2 Regional League Finals Dates - Page 12

On July 23 2013 06:48 c0ldfusion wrote:


Way to generalize, are you a statistician or do you just enjoy arguing over the internet?

My main point is that people are vastly overreacting in this thread. Lacking statistically data, I can only use my understanding of both games to infer that an overlap in spectators for the two games should not be significant.

On July 23 2013 06:44 AgentW wrote:

I think Blizzard's basically going to say that this is a logistical issue that was unfortunate but necessary.

On July 23 2013 06:53 Plansix wrote:

They could a bit, but TL is a pretty bad sample group, since the site supports both games. There are other people who watch SC2 and others who watch Dota 2 that do not overlap, that is for sure. I know the Giant Bomb community will be tuning in and they don't give a shit about SC2.

On July 23 2013 06:53 tribulator wrote:
I hope blizzards announcement is something to the liking of "After having received over 250 emails from valve addresses only containing the text "hahahahah", we have decided to reschedule for the weekend after".

Sadly they'll just say "Too bad everyone, have fun explaining to your sponsors why your exposure was so low for the finals weekend. Blizzard Allstars coming soon".

On July 23 2013 06:29 Plansix wrote:

I kinda do and my social life as well. The girlfriend will not approve of 20 hours of SC2 followed by the TI3. She would be totally into one, but both is asking for trouble.

On July 23 2013 06:54 schaf wrote:


How stupid. If they didn't know beforehand (haha), they were doing a bad job. If they were knowing it, why not include that in their announcement? They can't hope noone notices it...

On July 23 2013 06:59 Plansix wrote:

Why put it the first annoucement when you can just respond to the people who care? There is a large section of the SC2 community that could give 2 shits about TI3.

All 3 finals on 1 weekend is bad enough (audience will have fatigue at the end) but you are also polarizing your viewership. People will absolutely choose one or the other whereas if they had 2 different weekends to watch they'd go with both TIL3/WCS finals. Even if in some odd world blizzard said "We can win vs that 2+ million dollar super bowl event for a mega popular game with our seasonal regional finals" they will ONLY hurt themselves EVEN IF they "hurt" TIL3 more (I know they won't). It's bad competitively, it's bad selfishly, it's bad for the scene(s)...
I know blizz folk follow me/read my tweets/posts and what not but I cannot possibly pretend I am not absolutely disgusted by this. We are supposed to be beyond the itzik phase and into the happy new world where we are getting better as a community/scene.
Come the fuck on.
EDIT: Worth mentioning not to long after this post I was contacted/had a conversation with a blizz employee that is pretty high up (just don't want to name drop) and we discussed this. Blizz is aware, things are complicated but they are working on solutions. I posted emotionally and while I did that because I fucking love this game and get really upset/sad when i think things are done poorly I need to remember I have a big platform to speak from. Basically, this isn't good. Blizz knows/cares and is working to communicate their thoughts and make things better moving forward. I will still be here and I have faith things can/will get better.