EPTBlizzcon:Who has a chance - Page 2
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Die4Ever
United States17737 Posts
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insanet
Peru439 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17737 Posts
On September 06 2013 09:31 insanet wrote: lol JD with so many points with all those second places. he's even 2nd place in points lol | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
would be awesome thx :3 | ||
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SigmaoctanusIV
United States3313 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17737 Posts
On September 06 2013 09:50 SigmaoctanusIV wrote: Chance we see a Foreigner other than Naniwa is pretty slim... Maybe Scarlett if she manages to dodge all the insanely good Koreans in NA. I don't think Scarlett is playing this season. She's taking a break for her wrists. So no chance she makes it. | ||
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Jermstuddog
United States2231 Posts
The Blizzcon championship is going to look like just another GSL. Why did we go through all this trouble to exclude all non-koreans from competing at blizzcon? | ||
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XtreMe_au
Australia412 Posts
On September 06 2013 10:19 Jermstuddog wrote: About the only positive I can see from this whole thing is that hopefully Blizzard realizes what a bad idea this whole WCS thing has been. The Blizzcon championship is going to look like just another GSL. Why did we go through all this trouble to exclude all non-koreans from competing at blizzcon? Because USA and EU got their own GSL's. It's the foreigners fault for not being clutch when required... Sorry. | ||
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fuzzylogic44
Canada2633 Posts
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
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fuzzylogic44
Canada2633 Posts
On September 06 2013 10:19 Jermstuddog wrote: About the only positive I can see from this whole thing is that hopefully Blizzard realizes what a bad idea this whole WCS thing has been. The Blizzcon championship is going to look like just another GSL. Why did we go through all this trouble to exclude all non-koreans from competing at blizzcon? They knew it would be almost all Koreans. They wanted the 16 "best players in the world." | ||
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On September 06 2013 10:19 Jermstuddog wrote: About the only positive I can see from this whole thing is that hopefully Blizzard realizes what a bad idea this whole WCS thing has been. The Blizzcon championship is going to look like just another GSL. Why did we go through all this trouble to exclude all non-koreans from competing at blizzcon? They want Blizzcon to be the 'best' tournament with the 'best' players. The system is actually fairly forgiving and gives a few foreigners a chance, while still being mostly Korean so we do indeed have the best. Naniwa has an ok shot at making it, and TBH he got pretty unlucky in WCS EU this season, also Scarlett would have a good chance if she was actually playing in S3. Also the entire RO8 from WCS EU S1 bombed in S2, so that hurt foreigners as no individual foreigner managed to bank that many WCS points even if foreigners in total got a lot of WCS points from Europe. | ||
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Dragoonstorm7
United States599 Posts
On September 06 2013 09:25 bludragen88 wrote: Sadly that's how I see it as well. I'm really hoping someone can catch fire at the right time, but the only people I can reasonably see putting it together for that many rounds are Scarlett and Naniwa, except Nani lost one of his chances (WCS) and Scarlett is dealing with the wrist issues. I suppose you could argue that TLO, Grubby, Lucifron, Vortix, Huk, Suppy, Demuslim or Jim (in no particular order) all have at some point in their career shown the requisite form, but man would it be a massive upset if any of them made it to blizzcon. I'm sure there's a few others who could belong on that list (Sase, Thorzain, etc) but regardless, I'm not holding my breath for it to happen. Techically Grubby just needs to repeat what he did in season 2 and he'll be in ok shape. Not that its an easy thing to do, but at least he has done it, and done it very recently at that. So he's right there after Naniwa and Scarlett. Naniwa NEEDS a good finish (probably top 4) at IEM to make it, then needs to hope the dice fall in his favor. Scarlette is actually one of the most straightforward circumstances imo: if she gets top 6 in AM she'll have at least 3000 points and will probably be in, if she doesnt get top 6 shes out, plain and simple. The only way any other foreigner besides those 3 makes it is if they win EU, or Jim wins AM (no, i dont think its even possible that a non-Jim/Scarlett foreigner can win ) TLO and Sase are both out of WCS so baring a TLO win at dreamhack, its impossible for them to make it. Edit: Is it really confirmed that Scarlett is out?  | ||
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Jermstuddog
United States2231 Posts
On September 06 2013 10:37 fuzzylogic44 wrote: They knew it would be almost all Koreans. They wanted the 16 "best players in the world." "almost all korean" and "all korean" are two very different things. It was already fairly well known that to find the best players in the world, all you had to do was turn on the GSL. All Blizzard has done with this is undermine the validity of the GSL while simultaneously reducing global exposure of non-koreans. It's like they're trying to deliberately kill the SC2 scene world-wide... | ||
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Larkin
United Kingdom7161 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On September 06 2013 11:19 Larkin wrote: Ryung's chance is basically gone now unless he wins Dreamhack or something. He would have to win both IEM and DH to get slightly above 3000 points. | ||
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Dragoonstorm7
United States599 Posts
On September 06 2013 11:19 Larkin wrote: Ryung's chance is basically gone now unless he wins Dreamhack or something. Ryung only has 1600 points, so even a DH win would only bring him to 2350, which to be honest is not going to be enough. Edit: whoops, totally beaten by Dodgin  | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17737 Posts
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Dragoonstorm7
United States599 Posts
On September 06 2013 11:14 Jermstuddog wrote: "almost all korean" and "all korean" are two very different things. It was already fairly well known that to find the best players in the world, all you had to do was turn on the GSL. All Blizzard has done with this is undermine the validity of the GSL while simultaneously reducing global exposure of non-koreans. It's like they're trying to deliberately kill the SC2 scene world-wide... Im sorry you feel that way. Personally I think the hype generated by WCS AM and WCS EU especially did quite the opposite. | ||
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TyrionSC2
United States411 Posts
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