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intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
June 09 2014 22:29 GMT
#41
I feel like they should have a bigger global teamleague system if they were to implement this, just to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to show that they were the most consistent player of 20XY.
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RainmanMP
Profile Joined October 2007
United States1698 Posts
June 09 2014 22:37 GMT
#42
On June 10 2014 04:27 caznitch wrote:
Would support this for sure. That said I'd support anything to get Flash to Blizzcon, including a rule that states, "Flash is guaranteed a spot in Blizzcon despite performance"



Amen.
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Shinta)
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1716 Posts
June 09 2014 22:42 GMT
#43
No they shouldn't get points.... The best players in ProLeague are already getting a lot of WCS points and/or traveling around the world.
We have Zest, Life, herO, sOs, soO and Rain in the top 16. Giving PL players points will turn WCS into a PL only tournament.
We already have that, it's called GSL.

Just because Flash keeps losing terribly at GSL doesn't mean he should be given sympathy points.


The reason KeSPA players don't travel more is because they need to keep in shape and maintain/build up team league strategies. That's their job, and all of the other stuff are perks.
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SpikeStarcraft
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany2095 Posts
June 09 2014 22:57 GMT
#44
On June 10 2014 03:43 Dingodile wrote:
Here we go what I said last year. Stop this silly (WCS Points) dependence of tournaments outside WCS. ProLeague, DH, Redbull, HSC, etc dont need to give WCs points. Only within WCS, nothing else.


well thats how you push every tournament out of the scene if you focus everything on WCS. If no tournament outside of the WCS system really matters, players wont travel there anymore, viewers wont watch it and tournament organizers pull out.

you get a situation like in League of Legends with LCS.
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
June 09 2014 22:58 GMT
#45
On June 10 2014 07:57 SpikeStarcraft wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2014 03:43 Dingodile wrote:
Here we go what I said last year. Stop this silly (WCS Points) dependence of tournaments outside WCS. ProLeague, DH, Redbull, HSC, etc dont need to give WCs points. Only within WCS, nothing else.


well thats how you push every tournament out of the scene if you focus everything on WCS. If no tournament outside of the WCS system really matters, players wont travel there anymore, viewers wont watch it and tournament organizers pull out.

you get a situation like in League of Legends with LCS.


except that those tournaments provide $$$
Zest fanboy.
Penguinator
Profile Joined December 2010
United States837 Posts
June 09 2014 23:07 GMT
#46
No, team leagues and individual tournaments should be kept separate.
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Philozovic
Profile Joined August 2012
France1677 Posts
June 09 2014 23:35 GMT
#47
On June 10 2014 05:30 sAsImre wrote:
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On June 10 2014 05:21 Fall.182 wrote:
On June 10 2014 03:23 Ribbon wrote:
Rain, Soo, Sos, (CJ) Hero, and Zest are all currently Kespa players in the top 16 right now. Maru is close to top 16 as well.

KeSPA players shouldn't get sympathy points because they don't feel like playing in singles tournaments.


Um your statement makes no sense whatsoever. Why would the players that you mentioned NOT want to play in singles tournaments? LOL... It's advantageous to them because they're better than most of their competition = free money and fame. It's that they CAN'T compete due to tight rules with the team and proleague. Why do you think players like innovation left a korean team? It's to be able to play more singles tournaments.


or because his team disbanded due to the fact STX had financial problems? Rewriting history is a cool hobby tho.


And that is why he end up with SKT1 like Soulkey and classic, or Jin air like sOs or IM like Trap ?
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imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
June 09 2014 23:40 GMT
#48
On June 10 2014 08:35 Philozovic wrote:
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On June 10 2014 05:30 sAsImre wrote:
On June 10 2014 05:21 Fall.182 wrote:
On June 10 2014 03:23 Ribbon wrote:
Rain, Soo, Sos, (CJ) Hero, and Zest are all currently Kespa players in the top 16 right now. Maru is close to top 16 as well.

KeSPA players shouldn't get sympathy points because they don't feel like playing in singles tournaments.


Um your statement makes no sense whatsoever. Why would the players that you mentioned NOT want to play in singles tournaments? LOL... It's advantageous to them because they're better than most of their competition = free money and fame. It's that they CAN'T compete due to tight rules with the team and proleague. Why do you think players like innovation left a korean team? It's to be able to play more singles tournaments.


or because his team disbanded due to the fact STX had financial problems? Rewriting history is a cool hobby tho.


And that is why he end up with SKT1 like Soulkey and classic, or Jin air like sOs or IM like Trap ?


or teamless like hyvaa. He is still in korea so it wasn't just for the freebies, else he'd be raping the WCS Eu. Who knows what's the deal with acer in terms of salary and co.
Zest fanboy.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27232 Posts
June 10 2014 00:40 GMT
#49
Hyvaa played in PL today for MVP though?
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Zimbu
Profile Joined June 2014
Finland2 Posts
June 10 2014 02:19 GMT
#50
I don't see why not. It's a tournament with a big prize pool.

On June 10 2014 03:50 DifuntO wrote:
No because it's like an invite only tournament(in a way),most players cannot participate which means it cannot give any WCS points.

Tournament invites are already helping out the non-KeSPA Koreans so much that a few points from a KeSPA-only tournament seems only fair. Asus RoG and HSC are 80% invite only and they mosly invite non-KeSPA (Solar in RoG is the only exception this year). The invites are also going to the same players every time. HerO, for example, hasn't gone through qualifiers to play in a major tournament since IPL 5.

On June 10 2014 03:29 Ace Frehley wrote:
Next they will want the same for ATC

If ATC had 10X the prize pool and was an offline tournament from the beginning, then I would support WCS points for ATC as well.
Vasoline73
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States8074 Posts
June 10 2014 02:34 GMT
#51
On June 10 2014 06:19 sM.Zik wrote:
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On June 10 2014 06:15 Drake wrote:
so you just wanna get sure it will be 16 koreans ? isnt that fair cause its a korean only tournament (since there are the korean teams in it) its like having a local teamleague in usa and use it ... nono i rly would dislike it and i am 100% sure it wont happen


I think most want the top 16 best sc2 players, and yes that would most likely mean almost 16 koreans. Honestly I give no fuck about nationality of a player, I want to watch the best.

This pretty much. Why shouldn't PL players get points? Some of the highest level of play...
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
June 10 2014 02:37 GMT
#52
Dunno how I feel about this.
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
Holytornados
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1022 Posts
June 10 2014 03:12 GMT
#53
I don't agree with this. Teams could be influenced just to stack certain players in the games to encourage loading the points onto just a few players.
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BrassMonkey27
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada616 Posts
June 10 2014 03:47 GMT
#54
On June 10 2014 03:29 nkr wrote:
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On June 10 2014 03:29 AWalker9 wrote:
I think maybe one solution would be to give more points to the GSL that allows for Kespa players to build up more over the course of the year.


True, this is also a possible solution.



Aren't there going to be enough Koreans at Blizzcon anyways? Much like last year?
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Jampackedeon
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2053 Posts
June 10 2014 13:40 GMT
#55
On June 10 2014 04:55 Musicus wrote:
No, the players don't even have a say in who gets to play. What about the b-teamers? WCS tournaments have to be open to everyone. Proleague is a closed system where the coaches decide who gets to play. I'd rather see WCS points gone from all the other tournaments like DH and IEM.


Not to mention, not all players can even choose to be in PL. It just takes what is a distorted environment, because none of them will ever be perfect, and distorts it further and makes it harder for up and comers to break through.
Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-10 14:20:35
June 10 2014 14:11 GMT
#56
While I do think these guys deserve WCS points both skill wise as well as competitive wise I'm not sure if this can work.

I assume we all think Proleague should be a competition where decisions by coaches are made that have the teams' best interest in mind. However what happens if a player who is underperforming for the past three months is really close to having enough points for the WCS Globan Finals and they decide to line him up in order to get some more WCS points? Do we want WCS points to have influence over who gets lined up based on their ranking instead of the merits of their skill?

I am not sure if this is a feasible idea. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
June 10 2014 16:34 GMT
#57
On June 10 2014 23:11 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
While I do think these guys deserve WCS points both skill wise as well as competitive wise I'm not sure if this can work.

I assume we all think Proleague should be a competition where decisions by coaches are made that have the teams' best interest in mind. However what happens if a player who is underperforming for the past three months is really close to having enough points for the WCS Globan Finals and they decide to line him up in order to get some more WCS points? Do we want WCS points to have influence over who gets lined up based on their ranking instead of the merits of their skill?

I am not sure if this is a feasible idea. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?


The only remotely feasible thing to do would be to give points to the teams according to their performance, not to individual players. Then each player of the team who is a WCS finals contender would get a bonus added to his pool based on his team (with clear rules about changing teams). It would of course have to be a fairly small amount of points in order not to completely screw up the standings with people who haven't accomplished anything at all. (And me saying this doesn't change the fact that I am against giving any weight to PL at all, because I don't think it really correlates with individual player skill that much.)
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Nine Gates
Profile Joined November 2012
Finland198 Posts
June 10 2014 16:42 GMT
#58
The solution to non-WCS tournaments favoring players outside Korea is Korea having more individual events. The lack of tourneys in Korea has been a problem for a long time. The only event of any prestige one can participate in is Code B. More open events in Korea would give more points for top proleague stars and give more oppoturnities to the wealth of talent outside codes S and A.
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Xoronius
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany6362 Posts
June 10 2014 16:43 GMT
#59
No. PL is 100% invite only. If you award points for PL, you must award points for invitationals. If you award points for invitationals, players with high popularity have an edge over better players with lower popularity. If blizzcon attendance is based on popularity, the system is flawed. I think giving out higher points for WCS korea wouldn't be that bad, since the competition in there is still the best IMHO, but we can't start giving out points for an invite only teamleague.
Trasko
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden983 Posts
June 10 2014 16:49 GMT
#60
This is pretty difficult to do imo. Fair vs Unfair arguments can be made for both sides. Same thing could be argued for ATC. Some players who play there also don't have a lot of points
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