EPTWCS Winter Championship to be held at IEM Katowice - Page 2
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SC2Toastie
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TheDougler
Canada8302 Posts
 . Oh well though I'm sure I'll still tune in, I just wish it was different. | ||
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
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corydoras
161 Posts
I'm totally for the new WCS system. You might call it welfare, but without the prize money, it won't make sense at all to be a pro outside Korea. But no selfies with Zest this time: that sucks a bit | ||
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imre
France9263 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On December 19 2015 00:18 corydoras wrote: Well, at least the Polish fanatic audience will rock the building again. I'm totally for the new WCS system. You might call it welfare, but without the prize money, it won't make sense at all to be a pro outside Korea. But no selfies with Zest this time: that sucks a bit I'm fine with the wellfare but I expected that the circuit championships would get their own venue and would be standalone events. I was also looking forward to global events but if even katowice will not be one, it leaves me little hope. | ||
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SC2Toastie
Netherlands5725 Posts
On December 19 2015 00:18 corydoras wrote: Well, at least the Polish fanatic audience will rock the building again. I'm totally for the new WCS system. You might call it welfare, but without the prize money, it won't make sense at all to be a pro outside Korea. But no selfies with Zest this time: that sucks a bit Or you know, they could commit like the Koreans do and earn their prize money instead of getting it on a silver platter. | ||
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Topin
Peru10045 Posts
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Elentos
55468 Posts
On December 19 2015 00:18 corydoras wrote: but without the prize money, it won't make sense at all to be a pro outside Korea. The prize money was already way in favor of foreign players. This year, if you failed WCS Challenger you got 2000$. If you failed Code A you got 361$. If you made top 4 in Code S, you got 3600$. If you got eliminated in the Ro32 in WCS you got 4500$. Being a pro player in Korea isn't that easy, the money isn't that good unless you win something and if you're a B-teamer on a KeSPA team you're mostly there for dish-washing. | ||
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barbaTossa
23 Posts
On December 18 2015 23:15 SmykuToronto wrote: They told me to chill. This ain't a thing I'd chill about Gz to Gfinity for becoming most stacked tourney series in SC2.Yea, about that: Gfinity can not support a prize pool of at least 50k and will therefore not be a WCS Global event. That means it will award a total of 0 WCS points. Let's see if they are able to compete with all the money Blizzard is throwing at already larger organizations and paid trips for everyone. Oh and if Koreans are even willing to travel abroad to play a tournament of the difficulty just below GSL (because, let's face it, no foreigner wants to play in gfinity with the wcs changes) for a prize pool of 5000$ first place. This seems already clear to everyone here but note that IEM Taipei is part of the already planned and scheduled (as IEM Asia) IEM Season X circle. It would happen either way. It is however NOT a WCS Global event since it also lacks the required price pool. It, too, will award 0 WCS points. The 'You can read more about the event over here.' leads directly to the CS:Go event and there is no informatin about Starcraft to be found. I guess it's clear what we have to expect for the next Season of IEM and from DreamHack in terms of WCS Global events. I am simply staggered by the nonchalance pillars of the community (Apollo, messioso) say this will be fine when it's clearly not going to be and they know it. | ||
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imre
France9263 Posts
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SC2Toastie
Netherlands5725 Posts
On December 19 2015 00:27 Topin wrote: giving a ro16 blizzcon ticket for winning a tournament this early is kinda dumb imo Nobody serious about a world CHAMPIONSHIP ticket is gonna give a shit about half the seats anyways, so I honestly couldn't care less. | ||
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SC2Toastie
Netherlands5725 Posts
On December 19 2015 00:33 barbaTossa wrote: Yea, about that: Gfinity can not support a prize pool of at least 50k and will therefore not be a WCS Global event. That means it will award a total of 0 WCS points. Let's see if they are able to compete with all the money Blizzard is throwing at already larger organizations and paid trips for everyone. Oh and if Koreans are even willing to travel abroad to play a tournament of the difficulty just below GSL (because, let's face it, no foreigner wants to play in gfinity with the wcs changes) for a prize pool of 5000$ first place. This seems already clear to everyone here but note that IEM Taipei is part of the already planned and scheduled (as IEM Asia) IEM Season X circle. It would happen either way. It is however NOT a WCS Global event since it also lacks the required price pool. It, too, will award 0 WCS points. The 'You can read more about the event over here.' leads directly to the CS:Go event and there is no informatin about Starcraft to be found. I guess it's clear what we have to expect for the next Season of IEM and from DreamHack in terms of WCS Global events. I am simply staggered by the nonchalance pillars of the community (Apollo, messioso) say this will be fine when it's clearly not going to be and they know it. They're not going around in public talking about how their employer is screwing over the foundation of professional starcraft because of some complaining foreigners that prefer drama over practice? How surprising. | ||
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
On December 19 2015 00:34 sAsImre wrote: Actually what we really need is non WCS event. The problem is that way too much money is thrown at the joke blizzcon and I doubt we'll see much of these tournaments. I want to be a billionare...... i would just hold 250k$ Events in Europe without any WCS point and give 15 of 16 slots to korean qualifiers. Just because I am salty. | ||
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barbaTossa
23 Posts
They're not going around in public talking about how their employer is screwing over the foundation of professional starcraft because of some complaining foreigners that prefer drama over practice? How surprising. I am convinced they think it's the best for the scene and it might be. Who knows? But implying or maintaining the misconception that there will be even close to as many WCS Global-type events in 2016 as in 2015 if there might in fact be none is platantly lying and hoping the community will forgive them as soon as they see the changes in action. | ||
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boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
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showstealer1829
Australia3123 Posts
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TheOneAboveU
Germany3367 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
This means no Korean players at IEM WC? If so, I am so so disappointed and will not watch this. | ||
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