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HelpMeGetBetter
United States764 Posts
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Diabolique
Czech Republic5118 Posts
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Zetter
Germany629 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:21 Diabolique wrote: No, they are not necessarily. You can win one season of the Korean league and not be the best performing player consistently. I am just sorry for someone great, who ended up second all the time. Because in the new system, he will probably not participate in BlizzCon. If he gets second all the time he'll probably make it to Blizzcon considering how many points SSL and GSL award. On December 18 2015 07:22 HelpMeGetBetter wrote: So this now guarantees Blizzcon spots to foreigners? Just dumb No it doesn't as Blizzcon will only be RO8 this year. | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:21 Diabolique wrote: No, they are not necessarily. You can win one season of the Korean league and not be the best performing player consistently. I am just sorry for someone great, who ended up second all the time. Because in the new system, he will probably not participate in BlizzCon. Theoretically someone taking second in every SSL/GSL finishes the year with over 10k WCS points and should be in the top 4 for WCS Korea excluding the champions. It's way more trouble for players who never go all the way in Starleagues, fail in the semis, or players who miss 1 season because the balance sucked or something. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:18 Elentos wrote: He got a visa to play in WCS Premier this year so he should be eligible. Hm yeah i thought so. How many koreans will play this then? violet, polt, JD, hydra Anybody else? | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:23 The_Red_Viper wrote: Hm yeah i thought so. How many koreans will play this then? violet, polt, JD, hydra Anybody else? In theory Stardust would have been able to but I'm not sure he still has a career. TRUE and DRG wanted to switch to WCS (which implies getting visa) but they started playing WCS Korea so I guess that's off. | ||
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Alucen-Will-
United States4054 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:17 Elentos wrote: Blizzcon getting together the objectively 16 best players in the world at the time was mostly a dream anyway. That is obviously an impossible dream in any theoretical world. At the very least including proleague as a way to win WCS points would lead to a more rational result in the context of picking "the best" players | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:21 kell234 wrote: bad news((( DH, IEM without korean((( Wrong. There will be WCS Global events with 50k+ as prizepool and 7500 points. Players from WCS Korea and the WCS Circuit can both compete in them and they will earn points that fit their region. IEM and DH are the most likely events to be those WCS Global events. | ||
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ivancype
Brazil485 Posts
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Sapphire.lux
Romania2620 Posts
Anyway, it will be interesting to see the interest in this foreigner only events. | ||
stuchiu
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:15 Musicus wrote: "Participants may only travel for non-competitive reasons 5 weeks per WCS competitive year outside of their WCS region" GSL/SSL are competitive I dare say  .I forgot foreigners compete in that thing and arent on vacation. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:26 Sapphire.lux wrote: We better get a lot of global events or this sucks! Only 2 seasons of both SSL & GSL AND they are locked away from IEM/DH? Anyway, it will be interesting to see the interest in this foreigner only events. IEM/DH can be global events why would they be locked edit: Oh they are rumoured to be the circuit events hmmm | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:25 Alucen-Will- wrote: That is obviously an impossible dream in any theoretical world. At the very least including proleague as a way to win WCS points would lead to a more rational result in the context of picking "the best" players This year's Blizzcon got deceptively close to the ideal, at least at the top, I will admit. | ||
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Diabolique
Czech Republic5118 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:23 Elentos wrote: Theoretically someone taking second in every SSL/GSL finishes the year with over 10k WCS points and should be in the top 4 for WCS Korea excluding the champions. It's way more trouble for players who never go all the way in Starleagues, fail in the semis, or players who miss 1 season because the balance sucked or something. Yes, this is what I meant. OK, someone making the second place twice might not make it. But it is true that the winner of any season will anyway make so many points that he will probably be in the Best WCS8, so probablythere will still be the TOP8. | ||
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MorDka
Poland543 Posts
In my opinion Finals like this will be really good for korean viewers instead of having dumb studio finals. | ||
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Alucen-Will-
United States4054 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:28 Elentos wrote: This year's Blizzcon got deceptively close to the ideal, at least at the top, I will admit. This year wasn't bad, certainly. In many ways the concept of practically picking the "best" players from a year of players is so abstract that it is almost rendered meaningless. You just have to accept some misgivings and do your best, which is close to what happened last year | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:29 MorDka wrote: I think that reason for 2 GSL and SSL events is to have the super hype matches between the champions and not having the problem of how will broadcast the matches. Will be 1 broadcasted by afreeca and 2nd one by SPOTV, if they had 3 season it would be problematic. In my opinion Finals like this will be really good for korean viewers instead of having dumb studio finals. They could have the 3rd one broadcasted by the WCS team to make it fair I liked WCS 2013 with the 3 season finals | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16710 Posts
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Wrath
3174 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:25 ivancype wrote: hopefully Blizzard took this long to announce this new system because they were also writing a "WCS for dummies" book so dumb people like me can understand it. But I still don't understand it | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
It's actually kinda exciting. | ||
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