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BreAKerTV
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Taiwan1658 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-22 06:14:38
October 22 2013 06:14 GMT
#81
Blizzard is spending a lot of money to get the Korean players to Canada to compete.

Not trying to be entirely pessimistic. Just saying that since most of the SC2 players are Korean, or I imagine are in Korea now, it would just be cheaper to hold the WCS World Finals in Daegu, Seoul, Incheon, or Busan. Besides, I'm in Korea now :D
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Elite_
Profile Joined June 2012
United States4259 Posts
October 22 2013 06:25 GMT
#82
On October 22 2013 15:14 Enders116 wrote:
Blizzard is spending a lot of money to get the Korean players to Canada to compete.

Not trying to be entirely pessimistic. Just saying that since most of the SC2 players are Korean, or I imagine are in Korea now, it would just be cheaper to hold the WCS World Finals in Daegu, Seoul, Incheon, or Busan. Besides, I'm in Korea now :D

You mean California where BlizzCon is being held? Don't confuse the Season 3 finals with BlizzCon. Huge difference. >_>
Daswollvieh
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
5553 Posts
October 22 2013 07:45 GMT
#83
On October 22 2013 15:25 Elite_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2013 15:14 Enders116 wrote:
Blizzard is spending a lot of money to get the Korean players to Canada to compete.

Not trying to be entirely pessimistic. Just saying that since most of the SC2 players are Korean, or I imagine are in Korea now, it would just be cheaper to hold the WCS World Finals in Daegu, Seoul, Incheon, or Busan. Besides, I'm in Korea now :D

You mean California where BlizzCon is being held? Don't confuse the Season 3 finals with BlizzCon. Huge difference. >_>


Toronto Barcraft too stronk.
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
October 22 2013 08:23 GMT
#84
Whooaaa, after I stopped following WCS (I only watched the season finals so far), I'm really looking forward to Blizzcon since this is suge a HUGE bracket with so many people to cheer for! Aaaaaah I'm hyped already =)
Kamma
Profile Joined June 2011
Denmark111 Posts
October 22 2013 09:20 GMT
#85
I'd rather have bo3 (bo5 or 7 in the finals ofc) with double elimination, but as someone said, they probably don't have time for that. Really looking forward to it though, regardless!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
October 22 2013 09:42 GMT
#86
Nice Blizzard, BO5. This tournament just got even better
Only issue now is how many of the games they will stream as they only have a few streams
Just hoping for the best xD
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holmesgenius
Profile Joined February 2013
Vietnam65 Posts
October 22 2013 09:56 GMT
#87
BO5, MVP got it baby
Terran imbalance ---- Zerg wins ---- Protoss advances
diwurn
Profile Joined January 2012
Norway6 Posts
October 22 2013 10:07 GMT
#88
I would have liked to see them follow the same setup as the Season Finals (ro16 in 4 groups, then quarterfinals and onwards as single elimination bracket), but I guess they wouldn't have time for that during Blizzcon. I'm still so excited for this thing though, and imagine the story line if Naniwa qualifies as the only foreigner. He'll probably have to play either Innovation, Jaedong or Polt in the first round! Would be soooo sick if he was to qualify for Blizzcon, and then get really far into the brackets!
Aeceus
Profile Joined September 2011
United Kingdom1278 Posts
October 22 2013 10:35 GMT
#89
Thank god its not double elimination. Good choice with the BO5 too
Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
October 22 2013 10:41 GMT
#90
That's a lot of games :O
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Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4136 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-22 11:00:39
October 22 2013 10:46 GMT
#91
"We want to reward the performances of the highest scoring players by giving them the greatest advantage possible. Global Finals seeding will pit players ranked 1st and 16th against each other, 2nd vs. 15th, and so on, until all 16 competitors have been matched with an opponent."
I hope this doesnt mean a potential 1st vs 2nd at second round, especially in a single tournament.
my bracket suggestion:
+ Show Spoiler +

1st vs 16th
8th vs 9th

5th vs 12th
4th vs 13th

3rd vs 14th
6th vs 11th

7th vs 10th
2nd vs 15th

with this bracket, all top8 from wcs points can be in top8 at this tournament, all 4 in top4.
This is a very balanced bracket: everthing is 17 (1+16, 2+15 etc). If all on left side wins, everything is 9 (1+8, 5+4 etc)
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Arno
Profile Joined June 2011
Norway3 Posts
October 22 2013 11:06 GMT
#92
Seems to me that NaNiwa is not going to make it.
First of all only two of Oz/soO/Dear needs to get 1000 pts (8th place or better) at the Season Finals.
(Less likely but not impossible(?): Vortix 1500, Byul/Trap/Genius/Hack 2000 pts.)
If that happens both Naniwa and Revival are out.

I think Revival gets (atleast?) 25 more pts in CL (when are those games played btw???)
25 puts him equal to Naniwa and they could play that BO5 offline at Blizzcon, IF only one of the aforementioned "Season Finals"-players get the points they need.

No, not looking good for the swede imho.
Lorch
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany3685 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-22 11:12:49
October 22 2013 11:10 GMT
#93
I'm actually really happy about this. One single-elim 16 man bracket to decide the best player of 2013. Sounds pretty epic to me, especially given that all 16 have been competiting and farming points all year long. You can say about wcs whatever you want, and it has a lot of flaws, but imho focusing the entire year on that ONE event at blizzcon is pretty awesome to me.

As much as I love jaedong and I don't want anything more than for him to finally win a star 2 event, mvp getting back to back blizzcons and still being the king in 2013 would just be wayy to epic.

Couldn't care less whether nani makes it. I enjoy his play but I enjoy watching pretty much any top 20 player play, I really don't see a point in wanting somebody in solely based on nationality, seems kinda racist to me.
ffadicted
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3545 Posts
October 22 2013 12:14 GMT
#94
On October 22 2013 19:46 Dingodile wrote:
"We want to reward the performances of the highest scoring players by giving them the greatest advantage possible. Global Finals seeding will pit players ranked 1st and 16th against each other, 2nd vs. 15th, and so on, until all 16 competitors have been matched with an opponent."
I hope this doesnt mean a potential 1st vs 2nd at second round, especially in a single tournament.
my bracket suggestion:
+ Show Spoiler +

1st vs 16th
8th vs 9th

5th vs 12th
4th vs 13th

3rd vs 14th
6th vs 11th

7th vs 10th
2nd vs 15th

with this bracket, all top8 from wcs points can be in top8 at this tournament, all 4 in top4.
This is a very balanced bracket: everthing is 17 (1+16, 2+15 etc). If all on left side wins, everything is 9 (1+8, 5+4 etc)


You must not have read the whole thing, that's exactly what they're doing and even linked a diagram to it lol
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Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
October 22 2013 12:26 GMT
#95
Bo5, no group stage:
Bow down to MVP, your one and only king
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GGDeMoN
Profile Joined April 2011
109 Posts
October 22 2013 12:30 GMT
#96
im confused.. is this tournament the top 16 wcs ranked points? because on the TL calender it has players like vortix & byul?
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6330 Posts
October 22 2013 12:35 GMT
#97
On October 22 2013 21:30 GGDeMoN wrote:
im confused.. is this tournament the top 16 wcs ranked points? because on the TL calender it has players like vortix & byul?

The event on Calendar is WCS Season 3 Finals, what we are talking about here is WCS 2013 Global Finals, different thing.
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GGDeMoN
Profile Joined April 2011
109 Posts
October 22 2013 12:37 GMT
#98
thats why im confused and not seeing innnovation on this list :D
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
October 22 2013 13:03 GMT
#99
storyline-wise, I'm really hoping for naniwa to make it to blizzcon, and of course win the whole thing against all odds. that would be so huge :D
Firestorm
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Canada341 Posts
October 22 2013 13:12 GMT
#100
On October 22 2013 22:03 boxerfred wrote:
storyline-wise, I'm really hoping for naniwa to make it to blizzcon, and of course win the whole thing against all odds. that would be so huge :D


Jaedong vs Naniwa in the finals, viewership would go through the roof.
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