EPTWhat do you mean? That IEM might chose to be a foreigner only event instead of requesting extra money and bring in koreans for foreigner vs korean hype?
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Musicus
Germany23580 Posts
What do you mean? That IEM might chose to be a foreigner only event instead of requesting extra money and bring in koreans for foreigner vs korean hype? | ||
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pure.Wasted
Canada4701 Posts
What happens if the runnerup of SSL s1 is the runnerup of GSL s1? What does the cross finals look like then? Then they have to pull in one of the guys from the semifinals to fill in one of the spots, right? But semifinals from which tournament? GSL or SSL? And which semifinals? There's usually two per tournament. | ||
peanuts
United States1225 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17750 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:07 Dodgin wrote: The text seemed to imply that the events would be held at IEM/DH, but its possible to have two tournaments(mlg hosting WCS in 2012 at one of their events comes to mind) Not that I think thats likely to happen. ah yes, the least hyped tournament right before the real finals lol | ||
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sharkie
Austria18752 Posts
Something like IEM WC or DH Winter will probably be a Global event, not much more than that | ||
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:07 Elentos wrote: The most important part. Doesn't even matter if the tournament is called IEM/Dreamhack at that point. The option is there, but it depends how many organizations actually decide to host WCS Global Events rather than WCS Circuit Events. | ||
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Elentos
55594 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:09 pure.Wasted wrote: What happens if the runnerup of SSL s1 is the runnerup of GSL s1? What does the cross finals look like then? Then they have to pull in one of the guys from the semifinals to fill in one of the spots, right? But semifinals from which tournament? GSL or SSL? And which semifinals? There's usually two per tournament. They probably play out who gets it. Would make sense. Wasn't mentioned in the text though because they didn't think about it. | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8323 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:09 sharkie wrote: I actually believe WCS Global events will be very rare. Something like IEM WC or DH Winter will probably be a Global event, not much more than that Any particular reason you believe that? (There very well may be. This post of their's is quite confusing.) | ||
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Wintex
Norway16849 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:09 pure.Wasted wrote: What happens if the runnerup of SSL s1 is the runnerup of GSL s1? What does the cross finals look like then? Then they have to pull in one of the guys from the semifinals to fill in one of the spots, right? But semifinals from which tournament? GSL or SSL? And which semifinals? There's usually two per tournament. you make a bracket and let them fight for hit | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17750 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:08 The_Red_Viper wrote: I guess they could use the points for some sort of seeding? I'm glad they get points for 1st place even though they're seeded, this way it doesn't break WCS Wars lol, if they got no points then you wouldn't want your player to win | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:09 sharkie wrote: I actually believe WCS Global events will be very rare. Something like IEM WC or DH Winter will probably be a Global event, not much more than that Well a maximum amount of 8 per year. I am sure we will get these 8 | ||
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sharkie
Austria18752 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:11 TheDougler wrote: Any particular reason you believe that? (There very well may be. This post of their's is quite confusing.) their wording, calling it "the only time foreigners and Koreans will meet each other before the global finals" implies that these events will be something special and unique | ||
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
At least they aren't region-locking weekend events. | ||
NonY
8751 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:00 WrathSCII wrote: Then please explain it. Is much different than the rumor week ago? What exactly the good side of it? I just read it once and I'm sure someone will make some infographic or something, but simply it looks like this: For non-Koreans It is called the WCS Circuit for non-koreans There are 3 WCS Circuit Championships a year There are 6 regions that make up the WCS Circuit and each region has a qualifier ($10k prize pool) to qualify for each Championship People also qualify based on their Points These Championships and their qualifiers are the equivalent to premier/challenger etc things that we've seen in the past, but they're gonna be live events with crowds. They're more like normal non-korean events, not drawn out leagues In addition to these standard events for the Circuit, any major third party (IEM, DH, etc) SC2 tournament that pops up can ask to be put on the Circuit, which means it has to follow the region-locking and qualifier rules and live audience and commentators player booths etc that a Circuit event requires. Third party SC2 tournaments can also ask to be Global events, which means they're for non-koreans and Koreans as well. Those are also for points and have their set of format requirements (must have qualifiers, must allocate spots for certain regions, etc) and event requirements (live play, booths, live commentators, crowd, etc) Third party SC2 tournaments can also do whatever they want and they just won't count for WCS points In the end, the 3 players who win circuit championships will essentially go to blizzcon (will actually go to the week-before-blizzcon Ro16 thing) and 5 other players who have the most points will fill out the rest of the 8 non-korean slots ---- for Koreans Pretty simple, they have 2 seasons of GSL and SSL each. The 4 champions go to the week-before-blizzcon thing. 4 highest points fill out the rest of their remaining slots. They can of course attend WCS Global events as previously mentioned to earn additional points They can also become a resident with a proper visa and essentially become a non-Korean and do the WCS Circuit instead (non-Koreans also have the option of doing GSL/SSL themselves if they'd rather not do WCS Circuit, btw) Oh and the winners of GSL team up against the winners of SSL to do some crazy archon mode match for $25k edit: Oh and Blizzard is throwing a ton of financial support in for third party tournaments that do decide to be a WCS event (paying for player travel expenses, adding money to prize pool) | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:09 peanuts wrote: SC2 rules getting more complex than American football rules There is a lot of downtime between the maps, so Apollo, ToD and the rest can spend most of Q1 2016 explaining it to us  | ||
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Musicus
Germany23580 Posts
Should clear up some stuff about Global events. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
- only 2 GSL/SSL seasons? so little  - killing the old WCS league makes me very very sad - I like stricter region locking, makes for better ladders hopefully. - extra money is good I guess. - It seems circuit championships have regional qualifiers, so each will have players from each region attending? That's pretty cool. - Boosting smaller events might have a great effect. Questions: Are the spring/summer/winter circuit championships Dreamhacks? (as they use their naming scheme) What other events are there scheduled? Do we really go from a scheduled 3 season competition to just 3 planned weekend tournaments? :/ | ||
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Elentos
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stuchiu
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
On December 18 2015 07:07 BisuDagger wrote: Gotta say I'm on board with this. Also, every foreigner can try and qualify for the GSL and SSL because there is no region lock. :D No they cant, 5 weeks of travel per year, that isnt long enough for a season. | ||
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