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I'm seeing a lot of comments from people who are disappointed that we did not share the exact plans for WCS 2014. To clarify, we did not intend for this to be an announcement, or an announcement of an announcement for that matter  The reality is that we are still finalizing the details of WCS 2014 with our partners, however, we did not want to wait until everything was finalized before letting you know some of the things we were discussing. We want to give the community an opportunity to provide feedback before we locked down the specific details. We have outlined most of our plans and ideas in some of our answers, but haven't fully committed to any of the decisions because we want to hear from the community. Our goal is to confirm and announce the plans for WCS 2014 before BlizzCon. That gives you at least a week to give us your input on what we've shared! Thanks again for your support! -kimaphan | ||
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NexCa
Germany954 Posts
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beesinyoface
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Yakikorosu
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On October 15 2013 15:21 looknohands119 wrote: HOLYSHIT! Why is no one talking about 3 leagues per region? That would mean that GSL and OSL are coming back! Sorry, that's not what that means. It's not 3 leagues per reason, it's just 3 leagues, like we have now. NA, EU, KR. You can tell because prior to that bullet it says that this will "still" exist (i.e., it already exists now). | ||
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Fishriot
United States621 Posts
On October 15 2013 15:01 kimaphan wrote: Hello HeavenResign, I was trying to compare the difference between doing a harsh region-lock by requiring citizenship (valid passport) within a region or doing something less restrictive, such as enforcing some residency restrictions (living in the region but not being a national citizen). We're still gauging what people are asking for when they request for region-lock and if that means citizenship requirement. What would you like to see? I'd personally like to see a "soft" region lock, perhaps with a residency requirement. This way the number of Koreans in AM could be reduced, while still keeping some of the strong fan favorites (Polt, I'd imagine Jaedong could live in the EG san fran house, etc.) Any maybe this lock wouldn't have to apply to people living in an area without it's own dedicated region (Australia, China, Taiwan). Just my thoughts! | ||
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Yakikorosu
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On October 15 2013 15:22 NexCa wrote: anyone can tell me why Mvp is called with the german name Jürgen !? Because someone decided his real Korean name (Jung Jong Hyun) sounds a little like Jurgen. Similarly, Apollo tried to champion Jean-Michel for MC (real name Jang Min Chul) but that one never caught on. | ||
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Micro_Jackson
Germany2002 Posts
On October 15 2013 15:07 Yakikorosu wrote: Wow, I guess people have different views, but that exact thing is the reason I really LIKED WCS... I do agree there was too much Challenger League content at times (which I handily solved by not watching Challenger League except the KR U&Ds). I don't really understand what's so much better about LESS Starcraft. And unless there's going to be GSLs/OSLs outside of WCS KR or IEMs/DreamHacks every few weeks, that's exactly what we'll have with fewer seasons and no Season Finals. Not doomsaying or anything, I'm actually hopeful it'll all work out, but until someone comes in and points me to some cool stuff they're filling all this new space they have from paring down WCS, it's hard to be excited... The Problem with that is that it is very hard to generate hype with that. To fully understand who is playing and which round in which region is going on right now you either have to watch a lot of wcs or inform yourself on the side or Liquidpedia. The System is too complex to be on all the time for the average, casual viewer. If you look at other sports like football or Formula1 that have long seasons they all have relative easy point and league systems. | ||
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rice_devOurer
United States773 Posts
Edit-Ahh... I forgot about Jaedong... | ||
kimaphan
United States43 Posts
The reality is that we are still finalizing the details of WCS 2014 with our partners, however, we did not want to wait until everything was finalized before letting you know some of the things we were discussing. We want to give the community an opportunity to provide feedback before we locked down the specific details. We have outlined most of our plans and ideas in some of our answers, but haven't fully committed to any of the decisions because we want to hear from the community. Our goal is to confirm and announce the plans for WCS 2014 before BlizzCon. That gives you at least a week to give us your input on what we've shared! Thanks again for your support! | ||
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Australia54784 Posts
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Yakikorosu
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On October 15 2013 15:22 StarStruck wrote: Yakikorosu, To me it felt very discombobulated. I'm looking at the pieces of the whole and at the end of the day a lot of it just doesn't make sense when it came to the formatting, branding and the seasons. Finals of finals? You get what I mean. I can see why they would take those out, lol. We need better continuity. I don't like looking at sections. If I had it my way I would have the same players throughout a year. These are your Pro's who will compete for the Cup. More games between the pros more regularly. More kicks at the can. Accredited teams earning slots for their players. All that good stuff. Let them build more stats against one another. Let them build stories together. I wasn't a huge fan of the Season Finals either, and I agree that there's too much Challenger League, but you can't just select one group of players and say that for the whole year NO ONE ELSE gets to compete in major tournaments. That would completely kill the scene, players would just quit if they fail to make it in rather than wait a whole year to try again. My preference would be: Kill Challenger League (except in KR) and replace it with open qualifiers (tying to ladder in some manner is a good idea), but retain the top 16 players each season, not just top 8. Kill Season Finals (except Grand Final at Blizzcon). Use the extra time to have more WCS Premiere League seasons--5 or 6 per year. Obviously that's not happening, so I'll just sit and hope something cool develops for 2014. And I also want to thank Kim for being so open and participating on the forums. Please don't let the obligatory flamers and doomsayers get you down. | ||
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Ketch
Netherlands7285 Posts
Edit: ok read the rest... not really impressed. Have they been doing anything at all? | ||
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NeThZOR
South Africa7387 Posts
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kimaphan
United States43 Posts
On October 15 2013 09:10 beesinyoface wrote: How can you write so much but still be so oblivious to the glaring problems of WCS? Please share what you think are the glaring problems of WCS and the solutions you'd propose to help solve them. We're listening!  | ||
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philliechease
United States16 Posts
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
On October 15 2013 15:23 Yakikorosu wrote: Sorry, that's not what that means. It's not 3 leagues per reason, it's just 3 leagues, like we have now. NA, EU, KR. You can tell because prior to that bullet it says that this will "still" exist (i.e., it already exists now). I'm not talking about 3 wcs leagues per region. I'm talking about 3 leagues per region (where WCS is one of the 3 for each region). That is definitely the way that was worded. And that definitely seems to indicate that GSL and OSL are coming back. Who would be the third league in NA? Probably NASL or MLG. Who knows, but either way, its a pretty exciting prospect. | ||
Liquid`Ret
Netherlands4520 Posts
Blizzard is right here in this thread, use it! | ||
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
On October 15 2013 15:35 kimaphan wrote: Please share what you think are the glaring problems of WCS and the solutions you'd propose to help solve them. We're listening! Kim, do you mean that there will be three majors (with WCS as one of them) for each region? | ||
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Yakikorosu
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On October 15 2013 15:39 looknohands119 wrote: I'm not talking about 3 wcs leagues per region. I'm talking about 3 leagues per region (where WCS is one of the 3 for each region). That is definitely the way that was worded. And that definitely seems to indicate that GSL and OSL are coming back. Who would be the third league in NA? Probably NASL or MLG. Who knows, but either way, its a pretty exciting prospect. If you are right, I'd be very happy, but unfortunately I think that part of the Q&A is just not worded perfectly. Here's what it says: "The following will still exist: There will be three leagues operating in each of the existing regions – America, Europe, and Korea" Grammatically, I agree that this reads like there are three leagues in EACH OF the three regions, but I think the statement should have been written with a comma after the word "leagues." So the "three leagues" are just the three WCS regions. Two reasons why I'm pretty sure my reading is right: 1) The bolded words "will still exist." So the Q&A is referring to something that already exists NOW. There are definitely not three leagues in each region now. 2) If Blizzard was really announcing that there'll be three separate leagues in EACH region (so nine leagues total), that would be a centerpoint of the post, as that would be a huge announcement. It wouldn't be buried in a bullet halfway through the Q&A. | ||
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Zenbrez
Canada5973 Posts
On October 15 2013 15:43 TrutY wrote: So long of a text, and no info inside Maybe go read it again? | ||
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