WCS AM 2014 S1 Qualifier Registrations Now Open - Page 50

On January 07 2014 10:02 Tamagoshi wrote:

Well, at least this will not be a problem next time

On January 07 2014 11:26 Bagration wrote:
Still goes to show how many issues we have in eSports. Maybe what we need is a global Kespa, one that really keeps the players in line. Lord knows that the players and the teams aren't capable of getting their own acts together.

I can see it now:

Global eSports Players Association, or GeSPA for short.

On January 07 2014 12:13 playa wrote:
I still find this requirement to be kinda ridiculous for NA residents/citizens. It defeats the purpose of allowing barcodes/having one. And, I don't even have one. I'm just saying, if you have around 10k games on a server, do you really need to be subject to a win requirement?

On January 07 2014 12:19 mikumegurine wrote:


cause they shouldnt count games that took place long ago

should only count games recently (ie this is an alternative to actually "currently residing in America")

you need to be currently playing on the America ladder

On January 07 2014 12:19 mikumegurine wrote:


cause they shouldnt count games that took place long ago

should only count games recently (ie this is an alternative to actually "currently residing in America")

you need to be currently playing on the America ladder

On January 07 2014 12:28 playa wrote:


The whole thing is stupid. Who cares where NA players are playing and how many wins they have? There is 0 reason for a NA resident to need as many wins per season as a Korean or even a European resident. O no, QXC only has 180 wins on his non barcode account. Seriously, who cares? If a pro wants to practice on his barcode, why should he have to "give up" his strats due to this stipulation? In the future, players with barcodes who already get more than 200 wins per season will probably say "hey, that's right, this rule is dumb and defeats the purpose of me having a barcode. Thus, I will tank my mmr and just off race/proxy 2 gate a lot."

Koreans can already do the same if they're interested in playing WCS NA. I'm just saying, in the future, this will become such a joke/mockery, that they may as well change the rules into something meaningful/logical.

On January 07 2014 09:00 NonY wrote:

Yep. I was checking wcs.battle.net every day before any info was out on WCS 2014. Finally, they came out with this article http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/articles/full-season-1-qualifier-dates-for-wcs-2014 much too late and it originally didn't even have links to register. Even several days after NASL had opened up registration, there still wasn't a link. The article stated that the article would be updated as soon as more info was available so it's giving me the impression that it's the most reliable place for information. I found out from some helpful fans on twitter about the qualifier and I promptly sent an email to esportsteam@blizzard.com telling them they need to update their page. And even when they updated it with a link to registration, they didn't update the fact that there are three qualifiers on three separate days. I couldn't play the qualifier on January 4 and as far as I knew, that was the only one. Why, on January 6, would I click the link to register for a qualifier that was on January 4? That'd be the only way I'd see that there are two more qualifiers on January 9 and 11. Finally now the article is updated with those dates as well, but too late again.

It is ridiculous in the first place that WCS's site isn't the best place for finding information on WCS. It should be. But if they want to let the community handle communicating information about WCS, then the WCS site certainly shouldn't pretend to be a good source of information on WCS. They gave the impression that they'd provide all the info I need on qualifiers and I would have missed them all if they were the only resource I used.

On January 07 2014 11:52 Sherlock117 wrote:


No, all you really need is an admin who has a little foresight to see these potential issues before the tournament starts, and figure out the answers ahead of time. I've run multi-day tennis tournaments by myself with more players and less issues than this. It's really not that difficult. I would love to get paid to run a WCS tournament.

On January 07 2014 18:53 JustPassingBy wrote:


Haha, I like how NASL tries to pretend as if the only thing happened were that players were confused about the rules due to the start of the new season, Blizzard updating the rules and them having to reschedule the qualifier and reopen the registration in the first place. No mentioning about how the bracket seeded players who aren't even elligible to participate, about how series were played that are now totally void, about how casters, player and viewers were stalled for several hours without any update.