EPTWCS 2015: Details on Points, Prizes, and Residency - Page 2
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Brutaxilos
United States2629 Posts
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Boucot
France15997 Posts
On November 26 2014 06:03 Brutaxilos wrote: Does anyone know if the two Korean tournaments are independent leagues? Like if a player plays in GSL, is he locked in the GSL tournament and cannot play in SPOTV? Everyone can play both. | ||
ChapatiyaqPTSM
France1887 Posts
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ZiNKO
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Hassan_RO
Romania77 Posts
Also all the bashing that the community did regarding "korea doesn't have enough tournaments, give Koreans in Korea more WCS points etc" worked, now Koreans are spolied and even those without the means to go abroad can have 2 major leagues (+weeklys like Olimo etc) where they can prove their worth. This is also positive in the fact that there isn't that much of a temptation for Koreans to fill up the other servers in search of easy money. Finally i want to agree with someone above, for Korean powerhouse (KESPA) teams, it is heaven on earth. They can rack in the money from the KR tournaments, while still sending 1-2 star players to collect from worldwide LANs...... But the opposite can also be true....if any foreign team has the balls and the money to support a big pro-player living in Korea (hello mYi.Rain!!) they can also rack in some serious prize $$ from the double-leagues.. Anyway, in general very good moves imho. | ||
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Makro
France16890 Posts
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Heartland
Sweden24580 Posts
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Yakikorosu
1203 Posts
On November 26 2014 05:37 hewo wrote: Not surprised. So I guess alot of the EU koreans will remain, and the region will benefit from this if we concider the level on the ladder, but prize money will disappear to KR again... I doubt any Koreans except ForGG qualify for this rule since you have had to be a resident as of January 1 2013 or earlier. Most Koreans never resided in Europe or AM at all, they just flew in for WCS AM/EU. Even MC was still playing in Code S as of January 2013. | ||
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Elite_
United States4259 Posts
Exception for Long-Standing Residency In our original announcement, we stated that players must have a valid residency visa (i.e. work visa, athlete visa, student visa) in order to compete in a region’s WCS Challenger. While that is true for the vast majority of players, we will be waiving the requirement for players who can demonstrate consistent residency in a region starting on or before January 1, 2013. So in other words, for no players whatsoever? | ||
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KatatoniK
United Kingdom978 Posts
On November 26 2014 06:20 Elite_ wrote: So in other words, for no players whatsoever? It benefits ForGG. Also, State can participate in WCS Foreigner now if he wanted to given that he's American :D | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
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klipik12
United States241 Posts
On November 26 2014 05:37 Boucot wrote: Challengers were getting 600 $ this season and 2,000 $ next year... Okay nvm, wow I'm dumb. Was looking at points instead of $$... >.< | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On November 26 2014 06:16 Heartland wrote: No news on PL points? My guess is the top proleague players will get invites to KesPA cup, and with 3 KesPA cups this year, doing well in proleague is more important. And proleague did make a difference this year. Without the 800 points from KesPA cup, which he was invited to because of PL, herO would not have gone to Blizzcon. | ||
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vjcamarena
Spain493 Posts
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LongShot27
United States2084 Posts
On November 26 2014 06:30 Cheren wrote: My guess is the top proleague players will get invites to KesPA cup, and with 3 KesPA cups this year, doing well in proleague is more important. And proleague did make a difference this year. Without the 800 points from KesPA cup, which he was invited to because of PL, herO would not have gone to Blizzcon. Hopefully this is the kind of thing they do, giving points for performing in a team league, for an individual system is...spotty | ||
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PinoKotsBeer
Netherlands1385 Posts
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KingAlphard
Italy1705 Posts
EDIT. Reading better I suppose it was after January 1, 2013... | ||
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Nerchio
Poland2633 Posts
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Yakikorosu
1203 Posts
On November 26 2014 06:52 Nerchio wrote: That's very decent money for top32 WCS, I wonder how hard the competition will be Well now we know at the very least that a foreigner will need to take out either Polt or ForGG or viOLet (or maybe even all three if they don't play each other!) so it won't be that easy to win. | ||
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On November 26 2014 06:56 Yakikorosu wrote: Well now we know at the very least that a foreigner will need to take out either Polt or ForGG or viOLet (or maybe even all three if they don't play each other!) so it won't be that easy to win. violet really isn't as scary as he used to be... Polt and ForGG still pose a significant threat though | ||
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