EPTBlizzard announces 2015 WCS changes - Page 2
| Forum Index > SC2 General |
Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
| ||
iHirO
United Kingdom1381 Posts
| ||
|
Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On November 01 2014 07:49 Zealously wrote: There is no more or less money going out to the players than before as I understand it. How does this work with 32 less spots that have prize money (presumably)? | ||
stuchiu
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
Overall I like it. | ||
|
Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
| ||
|
DJHelium
Sweden13480 Posts
So in laymans terms, does this mean the EU koreans have to go back to Korea? | ||
|
sashkata
Bulgaria3241 Posts
| ||
|
stevethemacguy
United States137 Posts
| ||
Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
On November 01 2014 07:55 Conti wrote: How does this work with 32 less spots that have prize money (presumably)? From what I heard, the total prize money will be a combination of what previously went into both regions. Obviously this means that less people will get money each season, but it will also mean that getting into Challenger/Premier will provide you with twice as large (roughly) a paycheck. With the turnover rate in top Challenger/low Premier, I don't think this will change too much. Also, keep in mind that the Koreans that previously occupied slots no longer do. | ||
|
Abradix1
Netherlands609 Posts
4 groups played in the US vs 4 in Cologne also seems like a weird solution to me, I suppose ESL America was created for WCS AM and it would be shitty to abandon them now, but is this really a better way to go about it? | ||
|
TheBloodyDwarf
Finland7524 Posts
On November 01 2014 07:59 Zealously wrote: From what I heard, the total prize money will be a combination of what previously went into both regions. Obviously this means that less people will get money each season, but it will also mean that getting into Challenger/Premier will provide you with twice as large (roughly) a paycheck. With the turnover rate in top Challenger/low Premier, I don't think this will change too much. Well, not problem for NA since they dont have alot players  But for EU  | ||
|
SNSeigifried
United States1640 Posts
| ||
|
oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
On November 01 2014 07:58 stevethemacguy wrote: Does this mean that only 2 players from Korea can now participate in WCS or is does this graphic only apply to the new "unified" NA/Europe premier league? San/Leenock/PartinG if they want to participate here and not in GSL can qualify through Taiwan, MC, MMA, ForGG, mYi, GEM guys and some else can play in EU with work visas and Polt/viOlet with arguably SuperNova and for Hydra for NA. | ||
|
Faefae
2202 Posts
On November 01 2014 07:53 Teoita wrote: How strict exactly are the new visa requirements? Yeah i wonder... earlier i saw a thread on reddit saying that forgg would not be able to keep playing in WCS EU ? that would be fucked up, the guy is living in germany since 2 years... He just went back like 2 or 3 times to korea for a month to see his family and such Otherwise that looks cool! I'm looking forward to this.. Wonder how the NA/EU balance will be ? I think the best na pro are close to the best eu pros skillwise | ||
|
Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
No more farming Korean ladder for practice if you aren't in the GSL or SpoTV League. | ||
|
stuchiu
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
On November 01 2014 08:00 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: Well, not problem for NA since they dont have alot players But for EU China and Taiwan have too few spots too. I'm not sure about Sea beyond Iaguz, Petreaus, Pig and KingKong since I dont follow it as close as the others. | ||
|
Liquid`Nazgul
22427 Posts
On November 01 2014 08:00 SNSeigifried wrote: Okay so from what i see we will now have HyuN/MC/YoDa/First/jjakji/StarDust/Sacsri/violet/Polt/ForGG/Hydra/SuperNova into this unified WCS To my best knowledge the majority of those guys (except Polt/Violet) are on working holiday visas and would never be eligible for a regular work visa. On November 01 2014 08:00 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote: San/Leenock/PartinG if they want to participate here and not in GSL can qualify through Taiwan, MC, MMA, ForGG, mYi, GEM guys and some else can play in EU with work visas and Polt/viOlet with arguably SuperNova and for Hydra for NA. Again same thing here. | ||
|
Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
On November 01 2014 08:00 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote: San/Leenock/PartinG if they want to participate here and not in GSL can qualify through Taiwan, MC, MMA, ForGG, mYi, GEM guys and some else can play in EU with work visas and Polt/viOlet with arguably SuperNova and for Hydra for NA. I'm reasonably sure most of those will have to return to Korea. I know at least ForGG has to. | ||
|
Faefae
2202 Posts
On November 01 2014 08:02 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: To my best knowledge the majority of those guys are on working holiday visas and would never be eligible for a regular work visa. Again same thing here. Yes indeed, all of the koreans living in germany have a holiday visas (super easy to have with a german-korean agreement) | ||
|
brickrd
United States4894 Posts
On November 01 2014 08:01 Lunareste wrote: "Participants are required to play all tournaments and ladder games from the country listed on the account during the tournament season. Blizzard will check IP connections at its discretion." No more farming Korean ladder for practice if you aren't in the GSL or SpoTV League. "the country listed on the account" i doubt blizz is going to prevent anyone from having a KR account | ||
| ||
