Don't Get Fined - WCS 2014 Handbook - Page 16

On December 20 2013 23:58 Lorning wrote:

Literally Kespa

On December 21 2013 00:35 Coolhwip wrote:
Boring.

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On December 21 2013 11:00 Vindicare605 wrote:
I love all of these rules, but what I love more are the reactions to them in this thread.

I'll never understand why so many people love to watch people trash talk each other. It adds nothing as far as I'm concerned.

The shoutcaster must treat all players with respect and cannot comment negatively on the player’s overall skill or character

On December 21 2013 09:56 monkybone wrote:


just lol

wtf is this rule?

Also, exploiting bugs is reason for disqualification? That's absurd.. blizzard is responsible for the non-existence of bugs, no-one else.

On December 21 2013 11:13 KnowNothing wrote:


Why are posts like this getting warnings? Maybe it's in the rules, somewhere, but I don't care. Beyond the basic rules that protect people, both TL moderators and Blizzard should step back and let people have fun.

On December 21 2013 11:15 GolemMadness wrote:


This is pretty funny.

On December 21 2013 08:12 Grumbels wrote:
Rules similar to this have been around for a long time, so it's not like there is anything new to this. The only thing that specifically worries me is the idea that you're not allowed to criticize the tournament (is this right? I sort of skimmed most of the discussion), but otherwise the lack of in-game chat and forcing players to be on time is all harmless. If players want to show personality they can have their own blog or there can be interviews or comments on twitter and so on. But the only reason we care about these players is ultimately their ability to play the game and it's this ability that should be highlighted. I sometimes think that many people in the community are just here out of habit or they follow the scene for the drama and the players and the ambiance etc. and are only barely interested in the actual game (as is true for most sports I guess). But on some level everyone loses out when the game is no longer central. I think it's a very good idea to say that when the game start you focus on the game, period. (The "sanctity of the game", and so on.)

I don't really like the idea of e-sports too much though. I have two sort of competing ideas and I don't know how to directly reconcile them. On one hand I think that you should respect the game and that many of Blizzard's rules are in the spirit of this thought, but on the other hand I don't like the idea of e-sports as a spectacle show where we want to emulate wrestling or something, with the community not caring about playing the game, just caring about the gladiator fight between Jaedong & Flash. It's this sort of mentality that makes people think it's a good idea to have mindless thrash talking to create equally mindless drama. Since if we're going to appeal to the lowest common denominator it's better to have players that show "personality" by acting like your typical loudmouth football player. (I mean, there are plenty of people that act like Innovation and Scarlett have no personality, just because they're shy/polite) Many of Blizzard's rules are in the spirit of creating a family-friendly spectacle event as marketing for Blizzard, that just seems offensive to me on some level.

I do like competition though, it's more pure. I wish there was some billionaire that would acquire an island and invite the best 100 Starcraft players and just have them compete in a massive tournament. No broadcasting, no show, just competition and it only needs to be relevant to the people playing there. But of course, in today's world you need business models and that sort of thing to even have competition in the first place, and the powers-that-be only care about competition in the sense that it can draw in an audience.