EPTBlizzard Q&A on WCS 2014 - Page 3
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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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Killmouse
Austria5700 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On October 15 2013 09:02 Raziers wrote: ugh, still EU Korean champion and NA Korean champion Even if they were to re-brand the tournament I'm afraid you still wouldn't understand that region means nothing and they're just qualifiers. | ||
Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
Didn't get too specific on this. Basically all we know is that there are changes coming, but they said they won't be drastic.  | ||
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geokilla
Canada8244 Posts
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hansonslee
United States2027 Posts
Seriously, some of you guys expect too much! Let the WCS grow slowly and organically! Also, wait till Blizzcon! We'll see what Blizzard has in stores (although it would be nice, if they have a place where the community involving tournament organizers, players, and team managers can place their feedback onto the WCS system). | ||
tree.hugger
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
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digmouse
China6330 Posts
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zephiK
United States372 Posts
On October 15 2013 09:23 Killmouse wrote: best solution would be offline ro 32 and onwards + gm requirment on the server of your chosen region Wouldn't work because a GM requirement would mean that the players would have to play without being barcoded. Blizzard should incorporate a Anonymous ladder where it hides your name or something. | ||
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iLevitate
United States225 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On October 15 2013 09:25 tree.hugger wrote: No details here, but I'm sure Blizzard wants control over that announcement. Overall, this gives us a good portrait of Blizzard's mindset. I'm not sure what I think of it yet. Plenty to agree with, plenty to disagree with. What's the point on conducting a Q&A when they don't answer anything? We might as well say, "Sorry guys we tried to get some questions answered but they didn't really give us anything of worth." | ||
Waxangel
United States33479 Posts
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
On October 15 2013 09:26 iLevitate wrote: wait so, what exaxtly did we learn??? 3 seasons instead of 4, no season finals in their current form, and we learned some of their intentions of what they might do in wcs 2014. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On October 15 2013 09:27 Waxangel wrote: looks liek getting top eight this season was pretty important! Wax did you conduct the interview? | ||
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Idmaif
United States42 Posts
Koreans are all people too, we shouldn't change the rules around, just in response to them being really good. If Americans want to get far in WCS, they should learn to play better than the Koreans. I think players should be praised for their overall level of skill, not for how good they are for where they come from. | ||
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isaachukfan
Canada785 Posts
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Ero-Sennin
United States756 Posts
I particularly like that it'll only be 3 seasons. I think that's good for a number of reasons, obviously gives players more room and other events some room to do things that they want to do which won't interfere. | ||
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BillGates
471 Posts
This will be the end year tournament that will have the best player in the world as winning the 1 million dollar tournament is going to be the highest priority for all the players and the best one will win. This WCS crap where you don't know when it is, the studio is extremely small and feels so small in scope, there are too many regions, too many tournament, too weird of a situation with players from other continents playing in other regions, etc... Just a giant mess that is destroying 3rd party tournaments like Dreamhack, eswc, MLG, NASL, Totalbisquit tournaments and smaller tournaments. | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33479 Posts
I organized the questions, but the questions themselves were from TL staff and just scrapping around the community | ||
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Clawfinger
Canada221 Posts
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