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TLO, HerO, HuK, Demuslim, Suppy on WCS 2013 & 2014

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Slasher
Profile Joined September 2007
United States1095 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-25 06:11:43
October 24 2013 22:06 GMT
#1
I interviewed many pro players at IEM NYC including TLO, HerO, HuK, Demuslim, Suppy, Revival, Life, HyuN, QXC and Sasquatch regarding WCS 2013 and 2014. Their thoughts on playing this year's WCS in their respective regions and how the format affected them, and what they would like to see next year. Region locking was in favor of the NA players and HerO, while the other Koreans didn't mind too much.

:
Slasher
Profile Joined September 2007
United States1095 Posts
October 25 2013 03:51 GMT
#2
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-25 04:07:57
October 25 2013 04:04 GMT
#3
The Life segment is not in this video, right? It's in the other, because I can't find life in here only Curious .

Oh it's in the last 5 seconds, lol @ response
snorlax1
Profile Joined April 2011
Singapore233 Posts
October 25 2013 04:05 GMT
#4
On October 25 2013 12:51 Slasher wrote:
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.

wow, thats hurt
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
October 25 2013 04:06 GMT
#5
On October 25 2013 12:51 Slasher wrote:
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.


Burned a bridge. True journalism reached.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 25 2013 04:10 GMT
#6
On October 25 2013 12:51 Slasher wrote:
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.

Good reporting. I'm sure you will get the access you want later. Seriously, it's one thing to report, it's another to brag about the bridges you burned.
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kochanfe
Profile Joined July 2011
Micronesia1338 Posts
October 25 2013 04:14 GMT
#7
On October 25 2013 12:51 Slasher wrote:
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.

That's almost unimaginable!
Some interesting bits in here for sure though. May need to watch it again when I'm less tired.
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." - Lao Tzu
Dradugun
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada9 Posts
October 25 2013 04:17 GMT
#8
I appreciate the interviews Slasher!
Hero's English is incredibly good, it's a shame that he's fairly shy for post game interviews :/

For the actual responses I think Sasquatch's idea is the best about having ladder seed into Premier or Challenger, thus directly introducing major competition into the very top. At the tippy-top, if you watch DeMuslim's stream when he was #1 NA, its very, very easy to lose ladder points, but alsoa lot of games to get those points back up. More high level games on ladder, the better.
Mahanaim
Profile Joined December 2012
Korea (South)1002 Posts
October 25 2013 04:18 GMT
#9
Pretty sure there is another story behind what you said
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askmc70
Profile Joined March 2012
United States722 Posts
October 25 2013 04:25 GMT
#10
On October 25 2013 13:04 Pandain wrote:
The Life segment is not in this video, right? It's in the other, because I can't find life in here only Curious .

Oh it's in the last 5 seconds, lol @ response

what was the response? it was too fast to hear.
warshop
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada490 Posts
October 25 2013 04:29 GMT
#11
Interesting viewpoint from Qxc, definitely another side.
AxionSteel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States7754 Posts
October 25 2013 04:30 GMT
#12
Lol @ Life.

very good interviews overall. Would find it interesting if the ladder became more important for WCS as well.

dgwow
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1024 Posts
October 25 2013 04:35 GMT
#13
Like the idea about ladder having some effect in seeding into WCS, having players play only on the server for the WCS region they want to enter, and Demu & QXCs responses.
Don't let those anti-cheese advocates tell you what to do. Rush to meet life head on!
vesicular
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1310 Posts
October 25 2013 04:38 GMT
#14
I like locking players to the regions ladder. That alone might be enough to "force" region lock to half the Koreans.
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-25 04:50:32
October 25 2013 04:46 GMT
#15
Nearly unanimously, the players said they would like some type of region locking for 2014, including the Korean players.
That seems pretty misleading to me. I didn't see any of the Koreans say that they would like region locking. The only one to make reference was Hero, who said it was a system that benefited him and not foreigners (which isn't the same as asking for a region lock). The Koreans mostly complained about reductions in prize pool and increasingly limited options within Korea. Again, not the same as a region lock (and it's not unreasonable to expect that prize pool inside Korea won't change much under a region lock, if anything the amount of money earned by Koreans will decrease overall).

Hell, Hyun even said that he hope things don't change because it will screw over a bunch of Koreans.

qxc's opinion on WCS was interesting and well thought out. Clever guy!
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dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-25 04:53:26
October 25 2013 04:47 GMT
#16
On October 25 2013 12:51 Slasher wrote:
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.

Let's be fair here; it's you. I imagine you've harped constantly on the issue, and this was the last straw rather than the first trigger.

It is normal to close -certain- channels of communication when you're being inundated with the same message from everywhere. I have a lot of experience with having to do this, and I'm not even somebody who is remotely important in anything. It's only human.
Weird
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States832 Posts
October 25 2013 04:50 GMT
#17
On October 25 2013 12:51 Slasher wrote:
A certain Blizzard member deleted me off Skype today after showing him this video.


Good for him/her.

The more people in the industry that delete you the better.
nextstep
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada705 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-25 04:50:51
October 25 2013 04:50 GMT
#18
interesting to see how some pros feel about WCS system.

thanks for the interview!
go KHAN! TBLS <3
Darkdwarf
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Sweden960 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-25 04:52:51
October 25 2013 04:51 GMT
#19
Qxc said things best in the video. More opportunities to compete with the koreans, not less, is what is needed.

Region locking WCS would really FUCK the korean scene, and that is not needed. Having koreans across the world help WCS keep some level of quality across the board, while the foreigners can slowly feed in, like we're somewhat seeing with players like JonSnow, FireCake etc. Again, like qxc said, what's needed is just more moments where these foreigners get that chance.

And as always, more money is always nice, of course...

Edit: Also, my dream scenario is that GOM gets to do all of WCS KR next year and that OGN will do several more open tournaments as the highest tier of non-wcs tournaments (even though I'm still not sure if I like that phenomena at all (the rich get richer etc).
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Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 25 2013 04:51 GMT
#20
Slasher was the Life answer focused around region-locking or WCS as a whole?
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