After watching 1v1 for nearly 5 years and the rare 2v2 tourney, I'm bored... I want to see something new. Haters keep the hate to yourselves. There are more than enough 1v1 tourneys to go around and there always will be as long as the game lives.

Whoever said, "don't throw serious money at this" LOL, fuck off dude. What a selfish thing to say.

MinKi

Korea (South)151 Posts

May 11 2015 23:39 GMT

#85

this is awesome, will for sure revive starcraft

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

May 12 2015 00:24 GMT

#86

On May 12 2015 06:29 brickrd wrote:

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i may not have read every post in this thread but i didn't see anyone "shitting" on this, only people (including myself) raising concerns about whether archon mode is fun to watch or has a quality observer setup for spectating. i'm not going to fawn over something i don't find interesting or exciting to artificially inflate some conception of community support. frankly i don't give about how this community compares to that of other games i don't watch, i'm posting honest feedback and honest opinions

On May 11 2015 12:33 varsovie wrote:
God please no....

On May 11 2015 12:41 showstealer1829 wrote:
I second varsovie's statement. I think Archon Mode is a cool idea but it has no place in competition, it just dumbs down the game when it doesn't need to be

On May 11 2015 12:54 Blargh wrote:
Maybe for funsy matches, but please, don't put serious money on this...

On May 11 2015 13:57 brickrd wrote:
maybe i'm alone on this, but i don't think archon mode is fun to watch at all. unless they come up with a good observer UI that helps the viewer understand which player is doing what, it's just confusing. there's no added enjoyment from watching a team of two players if the distinction between them is invisible!

On May 11 2015 19:29 KingAlphard wrote:
The hype will die really quickly once everyone will realise that archon mode does not belong in competitive sc2.
Even 4v4s or FFAs are more competitive lol.

2 progamers probably play worse than 1 in archon mode because they are more annoying to each other than they help. So the only thing it does is reducing the skill gap between the teams compared to the single players. So hype.

EAGER-beaver

Canada2799 Posts

May 12 2015 00:42 GMT

#87

I hate everything new and interesting because I fear change, if it were up to me we'd only ever play on 1 map, therefore archon mode tournaments will only lead to the downfall of starcraft and subsequently, humanity as a whole.

Circumstance

United States11403 Posts

May 12 2015 02:49 GMT

#88

I can't wait to see people who are fans of one member of an Archon and not the other blame every mistake the team makes on the player they don't like.

RoieTRS

United States2569 Posts

May 12 2015 04:21 GMT

#89

There's a lot of opportunity for commentators to insert a narrative in such matches.

j4vz

Canada976 Posts

May 12 2015 04:37 GMT

#90

We might need archon observers tho

Cascade

Australia5405 Posts

May 12 2015 06:29 GMT

#91

On top of the unit selection, it'd be cool to have the screen of each player on the minimap, so you can see how one players screen hovers over the bases and the other players screen are over the army. And how all four screens converge over the large battles. Actually that'd be neat in one in one observing as well.

quirinus

Croatia2489 Posts

May 12 2015 11:02 GMT

#92

On May 11 2015 14:02 MoonyD wrote:

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I completely agree with you. Perhaps a colour coding for each player would be good just so the audience can distinguish who is the one in control doing what. I agree with previous posts in that the game design atm is quite 'unbalanced' and there's a lot of flaws in the new units that will no doubt be abused by pro-gamers.

Nonetheless, I'm sure the event will be incredibly fun. (Even if there won't be many protoss making it to the later stages of the tournament) Besides, it's a good way for the pro-gamers to connect with the fans and to basically muck up with the new units.

BW had selection circles of a player's color around units, even though the units were of a team's color. Here's a SC2 version:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-maps/167387-team-melee

You can see red marines with different color selection circles around them, indicating who's the controller.

cutler

Germany609 Posts

May 13 2015 04:04 GMT

#93

lets see..."BW posts"..."i want 2vs2 league posts"..."i dont care but i support red bull posts"..."this will be dumb posts"..." i dont like lotv design posts"

well from my point of view i am excited to see this in action. Although it will be even more harder to keep up with all the action on the map for observers.

Mekare

Germany393 Posts

May 13 2015 13:12 GMT

#94

I really like the idea, hope they go through with it

argonautdice

Canada2722 Posts

June 26 2015 16:13 GMT

#95

On the Red Bull site:

Toronto WCS Qualifier

June 26th, 2015

Pre-Show 1:30 PM PDT

Matches Begin 2:00 PM PDT

June 26-28 Toronto Qualifier

I really hope someone will cast this.