EPTWCS 2017 Announced - Page 5
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ivancype
Brazil485 Posts
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munch
Mute City2363 Posts
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ArtyK
France3143 Posts
Doesn't seem like the War Chest fundings are planned to be added to any of those tournaments, so where will they go? | ||
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Mugen93
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Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
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stuchiu
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:27 munch wrote: Well, dropping from 9 WCS events to 4 Circuit events is hardly ideal either Healthy as | ||
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Arceus
Vietnam8333 Posts
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ilililililililiii
United States93 Posts
TBH it seems unfair that the koreans get so much. | ||
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Elentos
55561 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:31 Arceus wrote: Does (basically) banning Korean from Circuit make the scene any better at this stage? Does Blizz ask themselves that question? Considering that the 4 tournaments they listed for the Circuit are apparently all there will be this year - yes, 4 WCS Circuit tournaments total - I'd say making sure the non-Korean players still have tournaments where they have the opportunity to earn a good amount of money doesn't make the scene worse. | ||
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Dingodile
4139 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:27 munch wrote: Well, dropping from 9 WCS events to 4 Circuit events is hardly ideal either They sound like DH tournaments. We can hope there are more IEM tournaments besides the 2 announced. | ||
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Elentos
55561 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:34 Dingodile wrote: They sound like DH tournaments. We can hope there are more IEM tournaments besides the 2 announced. They do say that the calendar is meant to be the full WCS schedule for 2017. ![[image loading]](http://d299ks0j9y7dbf.cloudfront.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WCS_2017_Calendar_rev3_Lightbox_600w.jpg) Is all we're getting for WCS relevant tournaments. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
The prize money is the same as last year, but it's balanced differently. Katowice is a $250,000 tournament. That's 5 DreamHacks. The extent to which Blizzard pays production costs is another question though. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:28 Lunareste wrote: Why keep Koreans from competing in the west when they don't have team infrastructure anymore? Well hopefully there will be some local Korean sponsors who will pick up GSL players. I'm happy to see that GSL continues instead of only weekend tournaments that are open for everybody. At least 1 ongoing league will be left this way and it is extremely needed to keep sc2 alive in Korea. Sure Koreans can't compete in the 4 DHs (without visas and living outside of Korea), but they have 6 events themselves, so I think it's okay. If there was an ongoing WCS Circuit studio league for foreigners, obviously Koreans should be allowed to compete in the DHs, but as the system is now, it seems fair. In theory it is unfair that foreigners can compete in GSL without a Visa, but in practice we will see more Koreans with visas competing in the WCS Circuit than foreigners competing in WCS Korea. | ||
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zealotstim
United States455 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany16021 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:34 Dingodile wrote: They sound like DH tournaments. We can hope there are more IEM tournaments besides the 2 announced. Considering they said it was "unfair" that not all circuit winners got a global finals seed despite all tournaments having the same difficulty I don't think there will be more. Which is fine. 4 tournaments are enough for foreigner-only tournaments. | ||
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Espartaquen
88 Posts
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Raskit
579 Posts
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digmouse
China6330 Posts
But yeah, the amount of tournaments announced here, does not strike any confidence at all. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:42 Espartaquen wrote: Is it a good time to start rioting or are we still gonna still lick blizzard´s ass? A lot of people have dedicated insane amounts of time for this game and in return they are getting nothing out of it. This really pisses me off. You have a strange idea of nothing. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On December 10 2016 03:42 Raskit wrote: RiP Team Salmon Good point, I sure hope they will joing the GSL casting team. | ||
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