Not unless we want to completely fuck over Korea. If we region lock, which is something I support, other changes need to happen in tandem with that. Specifically, Korea needs to recieve the lion's share of the WCS points and money. If we are going to tell every Korean to go through the meat grinder that is GSL, it needs to be rewarded proportionally.

Imo, Ro8 GSL should award as many points as winning a smaller DH or Red Bull, it's at least as hard. Finalists should be directly seeded into the global final. Make Korea worthwhile, and Koreans will want to play there again.

jarod

Romania766 Posts

August 25 2014 15:32 GMT

#103

i dont know about proleague, but i`d like to see at blizz con the best players, and no offense but Hyun, Mc and Stardust are great players and deserver to be at blizzcon, but saying that these 3 are the best in the world at the moment is just stupid.
GSL should give as someone said already something like 750 points if you are top8, 1500 points top4, 2nd place around 2250 points and first place like 3000 points.. I wonder how would the standings look like.. probably soO would have 4000 something points..not 2000 something.

and yes, from somewhere.. the prizepool should me more for GSL, like it was before.. like 50k, 70k for the first place..

Ovid

United Kingdom948 Posts

August 25 2014 15:34 GMT

#104

I'm looking forward to blizzcon and when the proleague heroes get knocked out by foreign koreans sm1995 will explode.

ne4aJIb

Russian Federation3209 Posts

August 25 2014 15:55 GMT

#105

foreign koreans :D

shid0x

Korea (South)5014 Posts

August 25 2014 15:59 GMT

#106

Bad idea.
A tournament that is so close as this one shouldn't award such points, its unfair toward the rest.

TAMinator

Australia2706 Posts

August 25 2014 16:02 GMT

#107

They need to give points out in different ways then just offline tournaments. Maybe they can make ladder relevant and give official accounts a certain number of points for being top 10 GM for an extended period of time. Or even promote some online tournaments.

vult

United States9400 Posts

August 25 2014 16:05 GMT

#108

Yes this should happen. It should be by map wins, at a very small amount, that way, a top performer can get like 1000 points or so with like 35 map wins. the points payout might need balancing out, but it should be implemented.

Hunterai

Thailand842 Posts

August 25 2014 16:06 GMT

#109

why not just have more tournaments with WCS points in Korea?

purakushi

United States3301 Posts

August 25 2014 16:11 GMT

#110

Yes, please! Anything to have more Koreans/more skilled players.

m0ck

4194 Posts

August 25 2014 16:13 GMT

#111

It's a great way of ensuring that we will never see another kespa player at tournaments outside of Korea

kc2siq

United States319 Posts

August 25 2014 16:13 GMT

#112

After reading through this thread, I find it interesting that there are more people for points for PL according to the poll, but those against it seem to post and voice their opinion more than the poll would suggest.

Nothing wrong with voicing your opinion of course. Just interesting thing to note.

BronzeKnee

United States5219 Posts

August 25 2014 16:15 GMT

#113

On June 10 2014 03:25 nkr wrote:
Also the fact that the best Terran in the world isn't in the top16 because he can't farm tournaments outside the GSL only supports the argument.

Taeja isn't on a proleague team.

But I do agree that they should get WCS points. We don't get to see enough of the Kespa vs non-Kespa Koreans.

ThunderBum

Australia192 Posts

August 25 2014 16:23 GMT

#114

Team leagues and individual leagues tend to have players performing differently, and so it's easy to make an argument that team league players don't get any reward towards an individual league tournament. However, it is not exactly a secret that the top Proleague players are amongst the most skilled players in the world, and I think the best solution is to use an "invite" system, where for example the top 4 proleague players are sent to blizzcon along with the top 12 from WCS Rankings.

sibs

635 Posts

August 25 2014 16:26 GMT

#115

WCS KR should be a lot more valuable than it is, and korea should get more WCS points with other tournaments, but absolutely not with proleague, since it's a closed tournament.

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

August 25 2014 16:26 GMT

#116

Its an awful idea. Appearances in proleague are controlled by the teams and can be exploited due to that. They might choose not to send B-teamers in Proleague to prove themselves due to the need for their A-teamers to collect WCS points. Additionally WCS was always meant as an individual event. Proleague deserves to be a self contained event. Additionally Proleague is a completely locked event, so players that are on non-KeSPA teams or teamless players couldn't participate at all. Sure the point disparity due to KeSPA players not travelling is a problem, but giving points to Proleague is a terrible solution.

Elroi

Sweden5600 Posts

August 25 2014 16:29 GMT

#117

Yeah i think so. It would legitimize blizzcon and the wcs ladder too if better players got more points.

rotta

5616 Posts

August 25 2014 16:35 GMT

#118

Would be cool to see SPL finals at Blizzcon...

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

August 25 2014 16:40 GMT

#119

I don't like it. Instead, the Kespa teams should really work on sending more players to international tournaments. I would rather have an open scene, where the best players fly around the world to participate in tournaments, instead of locking themselves up in their region and staying to themselves.

Noonius

Estonia17413 Posts

August 25 2014 16:48 GMT

#120

No.
It's a team league