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thickertom
China612 Posts
On December 12 2015 13:58 Dumbledore wrote: So...Chinese players, etc, aren't allowed to play in any tournys blizzcon related? Without IEM X - Shenzhen, this year, in Mainland China, there is no premier tournaments. In fact, there are only two well-known Mainland Chinese players who I know in foreign countries with a work (study?) or P1 athletic visa. x5.  Pigeon and PSISTORM Gaming.CNProtoss | ||
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kagamin
United States191 Posts
Our sources also indicated that the competition run by TakeTV, the HomeStory Cup, was to be part of the WCS Circuit component as well. This reputedly didn’t come to pass after the organiser, Dennis “TaKe” Gehlen, rejected the idea that South Korean players would essentially be excluded from his event if he agreed to be part of the circuit. Moving forward, the HomeStory Cup shall no longer have WCS ranking points as part of its prize. Good man TaKe. | ||
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nanaoei
3358 Posts
there's two lines of thinking; one where you're not going to watch anything but the best possible starcraft, and the other where you feel most connected to players you like--regardless of if they're necessarily the cream of the crop. in the latter, people are going to discredit the championship wins at first. "you had an easy path". in the former, they are going to lose interest because in fact, all of these tournaments are at KR times. luckily, we have fulltime english commentators for the scene over there. if you recall, the earliest sc2 tournaments happened to be mostly foreigner-based. MLG's etc. those were exciting even in the case of there being one player named ActionJesus who only had 1 strategy involving 6-pool. eventually, the players moved into korea to want to participate in the best of the best. later into the life cycle of the game, foreigner players stopped doing this completely. it's not that they're contented with the international events, or the ones closer to home. it's a factor of how they can get the practice in the first place. if the stakes are high, and the possibility is there, that's where players will put in 120% and get hungry again--possibly even realizing they have an edge in the overall international scene, and moving into korean starcraft territory again. this is basically what you guys asked, in having less events each year. you may have gotten used to it by now, but it doens't mean you can't adapt back to how it used to be. as far as i'm concerned, change is good. | ||
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seopthi
401 Posts
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12542 Posts
edit: anyway TB appears to say this is bullshit so we should wait | ||
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Popkiller
3415 Posts
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Cricketer12
United States14003 Posts
On December 12 2015 14:52 kagamin wrote: Well, guess I won't be watching any IEM, Dreamhack, or Red Bull events next year. Good man TaKe. Hey guys and welcome to koreans outside of korea, because im a badass that enjoys good games | ||
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12542 Posts
On December 12 2015 15:37 Popkiller wrote: TB is saying that its not true that WCS won't continue, but branding the Korea tournaments as WCS Global and the NA/EU tournaments as the WCS Circuit and then having a WCS finals at Blizzcon is technically a way for WCS to continue, while still making this article true. It's not his style to speak against a notion if he doesn't believe the notion is false. Especially "technically". And given how he's always been against region lock and for more presence of koreans (as his ideas to improve ladder demonstrate), I'm inclined to think he wouldn't react this way to the new system as it is presented here. Don't you agree? | ||
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insitelol
845 Posts
If true i'm actually amazed how much time did it take blizzard to acknowledge the inevitable. Organizing a huge and expensive 3-season event for 50k people is beyond any sense. | ||
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Daswollvieh
5553 Posts
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Togekiss
Canada154 Posts
If things go forward this way it will give me even less motivation to support the scene outside of Korea, not to mention the overall skill gap between foreigners and Koreans will likely continue to grow without the necessary competition of Koreans at "Foreign" events. The sad thing is that I can't see these proposed changes helping SC2 at all. They will additionally hurt the Korean scene by providing players less opportunity to play unless they are good enough to make consistent runs in GSL/SSL or be top four on their team to even be fielded in PL. I'm crossing my fingers and praying these changes will not be as they are currently stated in the OP, because if they are in fact set in stone, it's yet another move by Blizzard to segregate and divide the community, not strengthen it by bringing it together. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46478 Posts
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digmouse
China6331 Posts
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Wrath
3175 Posts
What kind of shitty news to wake up on? Like for real? This is even beyond garbage. I have no idea what to call this... | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
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aRyuujin
United States5049 Posts
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stevorino
957 Posts
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Noonius
Estonia17413 Posts
I mean, Blizzard can't be that fucking stupid. | ||
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Nerchio
Poland2633 Posts
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iloveav
Poland1483 Posts
On December 12 2015 16:41 Noonius wrote: this is a joke, right? I mean, Blizzard can't be that fucking stupid. There are two things infinite: The universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the first one (Albert Einstein). | ||
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