Honestly I can't remember the last time I was this hyped about the opening round of a tournament. WCS Winter is out of control from the get-go and I have a feeling we're going to see some wild stuff these first few games.

IMO games to watch: Bunny vs Has, XiGua vs ViOLet, and Polt vs Lambo

MiniFotToss

China2430 Posts

February 23 2016 05:22 GMT

#11

On February 23 2016 14:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

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It's both the first of the three WCS Circuit Championships and also IEM Season X.

Where's PartinG, INnovation, Classic and soO then, it's not IEM (technically)

NyxNax

United States227 Posts

February 23 2016 05:23 GMT

#12

On February 23 2016 13:48 evolsiefil wrote:
no koreans dont care. grats to hydra in advance.

Pretty cold... EU happens to be one of the most entertaining regions right now with some incredibly fun games(imo). Korea's been amazing entertainment as well, but this tournament looks like a blast. Give it a shot! (unless your going to go in with a completely negative mindset; then might as well skip it)

oh yea... $150,000 prize pool!!!!!!!!!

I was going to say I think it's miscategorized because it's offering 11,000 WCS points when Global events, which combine the 2 WCS regions(WCS Korea & WCS Circuit), only offer 7,500 points. But then ya look at a season of GSL Code S, which offers 24,800 points... So it does kind of balance out. Still though.. It is called "IEM season X World Championship"... I'm just guessing there wasn't a big enough tournament being put on in this time frame to call it a Winter Circuit Championship, so they had to go with this one?

MistakeSC2

2 Posts

February 23 2016 05:53 GMT

#13

On February 23 2016 13:48 evolsiefil wrote:
no koreans dont care. grats to hydra in advance.

Just like last time right?

EleMenTfiNi

Canada107 Posts

February 23 2016 05:57 GMT

#14

On February 23 2016 14:53 MistakeSC2 wrote:

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Just like last time right?

Come on neeeeeeeb!

Charoisaur

Germany15866 Posts

February 23 2016 06:00 GMT

#15

On February 23 2016 13:48 evolsiefil wrote:
no koreans dont care. grats to hydra in advance.

Polt will have a word to say on this.

OSCEWiNtER

Hungary19 Posts

February 23 2016 06:20 GMT

#16

(T)Polt vs (Z)Lambo
(P)PtitDrogo vs (T)Dayshi
(Z)Serral vs (Z)FireCake
(T)Bunny vs (P)Has
(P)MaNa vs (P)PiLiPiLi
(P)HuK vs (Z)PiG
(P)ShoWTimE vs (Z)Nerchio
(P)Lilbow vs (Z)SortOf
(P)puCK vs (T)MarineLorD
(Z)XiGua vs (Z)viOLet
(T)MaSa vs (P)Harstem
(T)MajOr vs (Z)Snute
(T)Happy vs (Z)Hydra
(T)Kelazhur vs (P)Neeb
(Z)VortiX vs (Z)Elazer
(Z)iAsonu vs (Z)TLO

(T)Polt vs (P)PtitDrogo
(Z)Serral vs (T)Bunny
(P)MaNa vs (Z)PiG
(Z)Nerchio vs (P)Lilbow
(T)MarineLorD vs (Z)viOLet
(P)Harstem vs (Z)Snute
(Z)Hydra vs (P)Neeb
(Z)Elazer vs (Z)iAsonu

(T)Polt vs (T)Bunny
(P)MaNa vs (Z)Nerchio
(Z)viOLet vs (Z)Snute
(P)Neeb vs (Z)Elazer

(T)Polt vs (Z)Nerchio
(Z)Snute vs (P)Neeb

(T)Polt vs (P)Neeb

Yorkie

United States12612 Posts

February 23 2016 06:34 GMT

#17

Some of these matches are vastly different in terms of the level of players. Unfortunately, the sc2 community still insists that any kind of subjective seeding is the devil and ruins competition, despite the fact that Dota 2, CSGO, and Smash all use it consistently with great success. I feel bad for players like Showtime/Happy.

Yiome

China1687 Posts

February 23 2016 06:43 GMT

#18

On February 23 2016 14:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

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It's both the first of the three WCS Circuit Championships and also IEM Season X.

Well it does make a difference to Chinese audiences
If it's considered an IEM, then HuomaoTV has exclusive broadcast right... which kinda of sucks
If it's considered a WCS event, then maybe I can see it on Douyu with better casting

ejozl

Denmark3325 Posts

February 23 2016 07:05 GMT

#19

Please Happy! you have to do this!

All bo5 from the get go, I hope they don't skip too many matches.