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United States33525 Posts
via: ZOTAC Cup
The New Year is still young, but we already had to make some tough choices. There is no easy way to say this, but the time has come to look to the future and evaluate new up-and-coming gaming titles for the ZOTAC Cup. Unfortunately that also means we have to make room for these changes and let some of our beloved tournaments go. Two new tournaments, one of them for North America, will be announced in the near future, but in order to make this possible, we are forced to hold the last ZOTAC StarCraft II North America Cup on Saturday, January 25th at 3pm PST.
Even though the North American StarCraft II tournament will end in January, the European edition will still proceed and the ZOTAC Monthly Finals will also be continued for the best players on the European server.
In May 2011 the very first North-American ZOTAC StarCraft II Cup kicked off and since then we had the honor to follow a variety of players from all over the world during the last few years whilst they battled it out for money and glory.
ZOTAC wants to thank everyone who competed and followed the ZOTAC StarCraft II NA Cup. Stories developed throughout the tournament as we witnessed huge upsets and glorious moments week after week. This is also the time to honor the most successful player of the tournament. By winning 17 ZOTAC StarCraft II NA Cups, the South Korean Zerg player HyuN aka Ko Seok Hyun is the untouchable leader in the Hall of Fame.
So choose your race and let us meet on the StarCraft II battlefields to make these final two tournaments a memory worthwhile!
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It's a shame, it was a good weekly tournament for EU, NA and kor players. 
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The WC3 ones also are ending :/ they were around for so long too.
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On January 17 2014 05:52 nGBeast wrote:
The WC3 ones also are ending :/ they were around for so long too.
Really? I didn't know ZOTAC did WC3 cups, but that's really sad :/
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Didn't have access to this thread for a while. Any reason why?
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They don't even respect their tournament there is like 30 people that sign up
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On January 17 2014 06:00 Nerchio wrote:
They don't even respect their tournament there is like 30 people that sign up
I'm not sure I understand you correctly. What do you mean?
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a big shame !
Even is its a small event it is very regular and it was a nice way to spot new talents.
Also i remember it having 10 000+ viewers not so long ago (well mostly thanks to milleniumTV but still )
As long as the european one is alive its still sort of ''ok'' i guess
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sad to see one less weekly tournament but I didn't really get them having one for eu and one for na in the first place. I guess for some people playing on eu won't work but you had a lot of players that participated in both so hopefully we see more players in the eu one now instead.
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Russian Federation125 Posts
I think you people misunderstood the message. They're not closing all the sc2 cups, just the North American one.
Even though the North American StarCraft II tournament will end in January, the European edition will still proceed and the ZOTAC Monthly Finals will also be continued for the best players on the European server.
The NA cup always lacked players. I even think it only existed to bring some Koreans to the monthly finals. ;d
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On January 17 2014 06:26 Dingodile wrote:Show nested quote +On January 17 2014 05:59 Zealously wrote:On January 17 2014 05:52 nGBeast wrote:
The WC3 ones also are ending :/ they were around for so long too. Really? I didn't know ZOTAC did WC3 cups, but that's really sad :/ ZOTAC WC3 end at 25th Jan with cup# 322 It begun 2007, one time weekly without any break. a list of all winners: http://www.readmore.de/index.php?cont=articles&id=5551&coverage=285
That is a lot of cups won by FoCuS and ReMinD O.o
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On January 17 2014 06:06 Zealously wrote:Show nested quote +On January 17 2014 06:00 Nerchio wrote:
They don't even respect their tournament there is like 30 people that sign up I'm not sure I understand you correctly. What do you mean?
NA has no passion. The turnout was bad, viewership was bad. It's like every other NA event, whining and crying about the lack of them for months. Then one occurs and there's drop outs, no shows, forfeits, people who apparently can't remember that they've scheduled other shit since months before on that particular date.
NA in general just seems to have a pretty poor attitude about the whole "professional" part of professional gamer.
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On January 17 2014 06:06 Zealously wrote:Show nested quote +On January 17 2014 06:00 Nerchio wrote:
They don't even respect their tournament there is like 30 people that sign up I'm not sure I understand you correctly. What do you mean?
Only few people signed up compared to the EU one. Guess that is why they are closing it.
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nooo zotac was pretty important for wc3 scene T_T
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On January 17 2014 06:33 grs wrote:Show nested quote +On January 17 2014 06:06 Zealously wrote:On January 17 2014 06:00 Nerchio wrote:
They don't even respect their tournament there is like 30 people that sign up I'm not sure I understand you correctly. What do you mean? Only few people signed up compared to the EU one. Guess that is why they are closing it.
Yeah I misinterpreted Nerchio's comment as Zotac not respecting their own tournament. Didn't realise he was talking about the issue with low player participation.
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On January 17 2014 06:34 teddyoojo wrote:
nooo zotac was pretty important for wc3 scene T_T
not really, it was just easy money for chinese/koreans.
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So they are closing one of two existing SC2 cups (NA but not EU) but they are closing their only existing WC3 cup? Do I understand that correctly?
I think that would suck a lot and they should rather close both SC2 cups and leave the WC3 cup running because Zotac is much more important for WC3 than for SC2. SC2 has enough other tournaments but I think WC3 has almost nothing else now. And in general when I hear Zotac I immediately think of WC3, even though I never even really followed the game.
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Oh noooo, I love to check in on Zotac cup results to watch out for up and comers
I mean, the NA version had low sign ups, but it still sucks. I hope we'll be able to keep the EU one at least for a lot longer. Thanks to Zotac for doing it as long as they have though.
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EPT
