EPTI really want the WCS 2014 to start already.
Mike Morhaime talks WCS 2013 - 2014 - Page 2
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Noonius
Estonia17413 Posts
I really want the WCS 2014 to start already. | ||
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Zenbrez
Canada5973 Posts
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ScoutWBF
Germany641 Posts
Bob Colayco (Blizzard PR Manager): You look at something like the NCAA college basketball tournament in America, where you have teams like Duke that are ranked number one all year. But then you have the single elimination championship tournament at the end, where Cinderella can get lucky one time... It's great drama, right? Just that nobody wants Cinderella to win, but rather one of the favorites so the community can have somebody who dominates. At least that's the feeling that I got from reading the forum. | ||
Olli
Austria24422 Posts
What would you say the benefit of doing esports is? Petition to verbalize eSports. "eSporting". | ||
Lazzi
Switzerland1923 Posts
Well, every single player would rather win a grand slam than the ATP World Tour Final. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Regarding those problems, obviously you guys wanted some Koreans to be in America and Europe, since it increases the level of competition and makes it more interesting to watch. But did you anticipate that they would move over so quickly, and in such large numbers? We felt that having some number of Koreans in other regions would be good. One of the problems you had in 2012 was that most of the best players in the world were in Korea, but a lot of the viewers were outside of Korea. The time zones of the Korean matches made it so difficult, especially if you were in America, to follow what was going on in StarCraft. We wanted to expand the ability to view high level StarCraft to a global scale. We think 2013 actually did a very good job of doing that. It's sort of a knob – how many Koreans do you want outside of Korea? We still look at GSL as where the top level of StarCraft play is. I think 2014 will be able to preserve the best of both sides. For me personally i find this kind of thing the complete opposite of what needs to be done. It might just be me but i want the best players playing in the best tournament. WCS Global finals is without doubt a top top level tournament, where the best of the world travel too. BUT GSL was the best of the best before all this and the best went to Korea to play and to see if they could achieve the success. That for me is the best thing to happen, it's like the equivalent of the Champions League in football. Every club (player) wants to be in the Champions League, it's where the money is and the most prestigious trophy. But if some company came in and started making competitions everywhere and started to nationalize Europe into North South East West you still start losing the prestigious tournament as its been divided up and people are jumping on easy money/easy fame/easy path to more money. What i think should of been the idea is to keep the region locks as REGION LOCKS and not allow koreans to play outside in the WCS event, however there is still DreamHack IEM ASUS ROGs and many other tournaments out there for everyone to get in, but i think GSL has suffered and the reason Korean SC2 is not as popular is due to the best players no longer play there all the time. It seems like all of KESPA stays inside Korea for WCS KR as they have too in a sense for Pro League and all the old SC2 original players (NesTea MVP) have all gone abroad along with foreigner teams Korean players. Really do think that is a hinderance and not a positive  Pretty sure people in NA would like a HuK vs Scarlett finals opposed to a Jaedong vs Taeja? or am i wrong in that too xD | ||
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Meki
Netherlands97 Posts
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huller20
United States112 Posts
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DinoMight
United States3725 Posts
ROFL. Yeah technically it's a thing but nobody really cares about it and it doesnt get nearly as much viewership. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On December 13 2013 03:10 huller20 wrote: I wonder if Morhaime ladders... No doubt, but he is a busy guys and we shouldn't judge his ladder rank. I find is adorable and he and his wife are huge SC2 fans and work on the WCS together. | ||
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
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Assirra
Belgium4169 Posts
Works? That man IS Blizzard. He together with 2 others founded Silicon & Synapse which later became the Blizzard as we know it. He is not just a CEO placed there for show. | ||
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aZealot
New Zealand5447 Posts
Love for SC2 is strong in the Blizzard Boss. | ||
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Yorkie
United States12612 Posts
On December 13 2013 03:05 Pandemona wrote: For me personally i find this kind of thing the complete opposite of what needs to be done. It might just be me but i want the best players playing in the best tournament. WCS Global finals is without doubt a top top level tournament, where the best of the world travel too. BUT GSL was the best of the best before all this and the best went to Korea to play and to see if they could achieve the success. That for me is the best thing to happen, it's like the equivalent of the Champions League in football. Every club (player) wants to be in the Champions League, it's where the money is and the most prestigious trophy. But if some company came in and started making competitions everywhere and started to nationalize Europe into North South East West you still start losing the prestigious tournament as its been divided up and people are jumping on easy money/easy fame/easy path to more money. What i think should of been the idea is to keep the region locks as REGION LOCKS and not allow koreans to play outside in the WCS event, however there is still DreamHack IEM ASUS ROGs and many other tournaments out there for everyone to get in, but i think GSL has suffered and the reason Korean SC2 is not as popular is due to the best players no longer play there all the time. It seems like all of KESPA stays inside Korea for WCS KR as they have too in a sense for Pro League and all the old SC2 original players (NesTea MVP) have all gone abroad along with foreigner teams Korean players. Really do think that is a hinderance and not a positive Pretty sure people in NA would like a HuK vs Scarlett finals opposed to a Jaedong vs Taeja? or am i wrong in that too xD Yes, many Koreans have left GSL, but think about the overall implications on the system with no Koreans in NA or EU. The skill progression of foreigner players would slow as they would never need to play Koreans in their own WCS bubble. In addition the global finals would be an extremely one sided affair with only a few top Koreans getting to go while much weaker foreigners comprise the rest of the bracket. The goal of the system is to maintain WCS KR as the most prestigious regional tournament (which it is especially when you consider that a WCS Korea player won every global finals ans blizzcon) and have the global finals and blizzcon be the most important events of the year in SC2. With complete region locking WCS KR becomes the true tournament to win and the global finals and Blizzcon are just formalities as we wait for whichever Korean to get a fat paycheck. That's just my opinion on the matter | ||
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Maegi
Finland174 Posts
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Antoine
United States7481 Posts
On December 13 2013 03:10 huller20 wrote: I wonder if Morhaime ladders... he's said a few times that he's in the Bronze league | ||
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Noobity
United States871 Posts
On December 13 2013 02:40 TeeTS wrote: I truly believe that Mike Morhaime is a huge Starcraft Fan and that is one big reason, Blizzard still invests a lot into it. Hope this doesn´t change! I was there at Red Bull. I was within an arms length from him when those last baneling land mines hit day 1. He's very much a huge starcraft fan, and you can see it in his excitement if nothing else. Seeing these guys so excited about the game they created shows me without a doubt that all the non-constructive flak blizzard gets is just so miss-directed. They care, they're trying, they're improving. | ||
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ptbl
United States6074 Posts
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Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
He co-founded Blizzard lol. | ||
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playa
United States1284 Posts
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