On October 02 2013 20:57 Starbuck- wrote:
This season you can't qualify from Season 3 challenger to Premier league season 1 - 2014.
If you finish top at challenger, you get better seed for the qualifiers for Premier, so it's like that
Qualify for challenger (or drop from premier ) --- > Play and try to finish first (top 8) --------> another qualifiers only for top players from challenger.
So it's gonna be really hard to come back in Premier once your out...
I hate Blizzard, this makes rly no sense to do something like that ...

On October 02 2013 23:09 SC2ShoWTimE wrote:

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they sent an email to every player in which they explain it and also said that they will announce more changes for wcs 2014 in the near future.

@SaintSnorlax Just that season 3 challenger league won't feed directly into premier league 2014. Everything else seems uncertain
— Patrick Brix Bjerg (@WolvesBunny) October 2, 2013

Dayshi: https://www.facebook.com/sc2dayshi/posts/519242961493824

"For those who wonder why I played Random, don't panic

First of all you know that at the moment I can barely play StarCraft between 18:00 and 23:00 because of Free (french ISP) / Battle.net

Then the last Challenger League doesn't offer a direct spot in Premier League Season 4 (very few people know that, alas)

So don't worry, I'm still Terran :D"

On October 03 2013 05:32 uThermal wrote:
They are removing challenger league and only making a premier league, the results in challenger league this season will only provide seeds for the premier league qualifier.

TommyP

United States6231 Posts

October 02 2013 19:59 GMT

I think that's kind of dumb. Hopefully it's just EU

Prplppleatr

United States1518 Posts

October 02 2013 20:01 GMT

well, i'm not a fan of the current system, so i hope they do something to change things up..but we'll have to see what happens in the future as to whether this really makes sense

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

October 02 2013 20:01 GMT

Well honestly there is no reason this would happen unless they plan on doing some restructuring of the league for 2014 right? Could be a good thing.

Aeromi

France14461 Posts

October 02 2013 20:01 GMT

Players who get first of Challenger have a better seed... such a good gift.

geokilla

Canada8246 Posts

October 02 2013 20:02 GMT

Blizzard killing SC2. You heard it here first folks.

Dexington

Canada7276 Posts

October 02 2013 20:03 GMT

On October 03 2013 05:02 geokilla wrote:
Blizzard killing SC2. You heard it here first folks.

We've been hearing that all year lol

Adebisi

Canada1637 Posts

October 02 2013 20:03 GMT

Well, if they were to do something like say all the players competing in regions they don't have residency/citizenship are no longer eligible, this type of warning seems appropriate. The question is, will they pull the trigger?

purakushi

United States3301 Posts

October 02 2013 20:04 GMT

Honestly, while I agree that the WCS system is meh, I would rather Blizzard focus on improving the game itself than not focus on the biggest thing hurting the scene's -- effectively the game's -- longevity.

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

October 02 2013 20:05 GMT

#10

It's not just this Challenger Season that is not feeding into next season's Premier, even this Premier Season will not feed into next season's Premier. I think they will restart everything due to some huge upcoming changes. Possiblities would be a region lock of some sort, which will make it impossible for lots of players currently in Premier to attend next season.

Liman

Serbia681 Posts

October 02 2013 20:06 GMT

#11

So whats the point of challenger then?
Dafuq?

cladoliver

Brazil38 Posts

October 02 2013 20:08 GMT

#12

how the koreans on EU and NA premier will be back to korea?? a giant qualify for first gsl of the year?? or they are screwed?

bGr.MetHiX

Bulgaria511 Posts

October 02 2013 20:08 GMT

#13

hopefully good news

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

October 02 2013 20:09 GMT

#14

On October 03 2013 05:08 cladoliver wrote:
how the koreans on EU and NA premier will be back to korea?? a giant qualify for first gsl of the year?? or they are screwed?

They could also move to EU or NA.

edit: In the original announcement of the WCS, it was explicitely written that blizzard aims to make everything offline next year. So something like a soft region lock shouldn't come with a surprise.

PhoenixVoid

Canada32747 Posts

October 02 2013 20:11 GMT

#15

If they aren't transitioning the Challenger league players to Premier league, there must be some restructuring going on for 2014.

nkr

Sweden5451 Posts

October 02 2013 20:12 GMT

#16

maybe preparing for big changes (region lock?)

larse

1611 Posts

October 02 2013 20:12 GMT

#17

This has been talked a million years ago in Korean websites. I posted the article. Few people gave a shit back then.

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

October 02 2013 20:12 GMT

#18

So basically there's zero reason to care about this season of challenger? I guess this helped influence MVP's decision to forfeit.

geokilla

Canada8246 Posts

October 02 2013 20:12 GMT

#19

On October 03 2013 05:05 JustPassingBy wrote:
It's not just this Challenger Season that is not feeding into next season's Premier, even this Premier Season will not feed into next season's Premier. I think they will restart everything due to some huge upcoming changes. Possiblities would be a region lock of some sort, which will make it impossible for lots of players currently in Premier to attend next season.

Source? If that's true, then there's no point of Challenger league or anything to begin with, aside from getting WCS points for this year's Blizzcon and a couple hundred bucks.

Plansix

United States60190 Posts

October 02 2013 20:13 GMT

#20

Speculation on rumors about a season taking place next year. I think anyone acting like this is final might be jumping the gun.