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gab12
Poland147 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
On December 10 2016 04:30 JimmyJRaynor wrote: anyone know how many War Chests will be available for purchase between now and BlizzCon 2017? 3? 4? some other #? They're planning on doing two seasons of War Chests per year, so basically two per year. Since next year will be the first time that they're doing it and that it's still in active development, it's possible that we may only get one next year and two every year after. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On December 10 2016 02:35 opisska wrote: I get that many people will not like the specifics, but can someone be really disappointed by this? I mean, I was honestly expecting the "no WCS in 2017" news to pop up any time soon, so the very existence of WCS 2017 with actual global finals and a dozen tournaments through they year, is strictly positive news to me and a cause for celebration. I was feeling the same way | ||
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halomonian
Brazil255 Posts
On December 10 2016 04:39 aQuaSC wrote: I mean it's pretty hard to compete financially with a scene that flourished because of illegal (super shady at least, if not just illegal) practices like gambling. Not saying that CS:GO is a bad game of course, on the contrary. well, if you think about it, gambling was the rise and fall of Starcraft in both incarnations, be it with ma jae yoon's circle of doom or life/prime thrown games. | ||
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lestye
United States4186 Posts
On December 10 2016 04:12 HsDLTitich wrote: Yeah so far this seems a WCS where W stands for "Western", I'd like to see at least a couple of tournaments in China/Taiwan/SEA... The NetEase tournaments unfortunately never get exposure/support on these type of announcements. | ||
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CrayonSc2
United States267 Posts
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
My beef with this new system is that there 4 WCS tournaments for 4 direct seeds to blizzcon and another 4 players will go there on WCS points from those 4 tournaments alone as far as I understand. This year there were 10 WCS tournaments where players fought for point up until the very last to qualify for blizzcon. 10 tournaments is a circuit. 4 tournaments is basically some grand slam tournaments without the circuit. Please tell me I have misunderstood something here. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On December 10 2016 04:58 BaneRiders wrote: My beef with this new system is that there 4 WCS tournaments for 4 direct seeds to blizzcon and another 4 players will go there on WCS points from those 4 tournaments alone as far as I understand. This year there were 10 WCS tournaments where players fought for point up until the very last to qualify for blizzcon. 10 tournaments is a circuit. 4 tournaments is basically some grand slam tournaments without the circuit. Please tell me I have misunderstood something here. WCS points can also be derived from the Challenger events, but yeah basically. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
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beerbuddha
Canada12 Posts
Overall - I like it a lot. I work early - so I don't get a chance to see GSL anymore and sometimes catching them afterwards might escape me. Setting all the DH to be sc2 driven events for WCS Circuit is a nice plus. Its not as good as the hype era of IPL, MLG, NASL, etc but at least you get to attend a Lan here and there for the region you are closest. You can plan a nice drive/flight etc if the dates are given a head. War Chest being part of the Prize pool is a nice incentive but i think thats more in tune to beef up HOTS rather to compete against prizes of LoL and DOTA2. However an official support from Blizzard via War Chest is still a welcome considering how many classic events couldnt sustain itself without sponsors and therefore medium/big tournaments was no longer possible. I will be ok for KR to be able to travel like the old days however with the big Proleague disband flying players out might be hard. I also wouldn't mind a restrictive KR invite in the western region. AS much as I would love to have KR play so that WCS Circuit players can have a challenge, if we have a total stomp of KR in each tournament it might discourage NA/EU player to keep going. | ||
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BaneRiders
Sweden3630 Posts
On December 10 2016 05:04 ZigguratOfUr wrote: WCS points can also be derived from the Challenger events, but yeah basically. Yeah, we had those this year as well for the Winter, Spring and Summer championships. I'm all for qualifiers rather than direct seeds of any kind, but the point still stands. We go from 10 WCS events to 4. This is outrageous. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
On December 10 2016 05:04 eviltomahawk wrote: I hope this isn't a final list of all tournaments that qualify for WCS points. IEM seems absent aside from IEM Katowice and IEM Korea. I hope this doesn't mean that IEM can't have one or two more tournaments that qualify for WCS points. These are the only IEM events remaining in the current IEM season, they haven't announced their plans for next year yet. I have no idea how likely it is but it's always possible that we can see another WCS event at Shanghai/Taipei, or wherever IEM ends up next season. | ||
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WhosQuany
Germany257 Posts
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JuanDi
45 Posts
On December 10 2016 02:23 Charoisaur wrote: With the advantage of the korean infrastructure gone is there any logical reason to ban koreans from tournaments anymore? if you look at other eSports and sports in general, one of the things that pulls people in are local teams/players. Just look at soccer, even those shitty teams who never win have a significant fan base. Region locking is not just about keeping koreans from getting eveything, but allowing for growth of all regions. People complain about koreans not getting enough tournaments, but do they take into account how little opportunities forteigners had before region locking? Sure they could compete in many tournaments but realistically they weren't going to win. Last year saw a massive growth in the scene, and though it is hurting korean sc2, the playing field is actually starting to balance a lot. | ||
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JuanDi
45 Posts
On December 10 2016 05:18 Ansibled wrote: These are the only IEM events remaining in the current IEM season, they haven't announced their plans for next year yet. I have no idea how likely it is but it's always possible that we can see another WCS event at Shanghai/Taipei, or wherever IEM ends up next season. Yeah, they always take longer to announce stuff because their seasons are off from WCS seasons. They are most probably going to do similar stuff to this year with a few circuit events and maybe a korean one. I really hope that last one happens. | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
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Swisslink
2954 Posts
On December 10 2016 05:44 Thax wrote: Wow, you lot are never happy aren't you? This is a lot better than I was expecting. An extra GSL season and 2 extra weekend tournaments compared to last year. That's great. Being disappointed about things that were never realistically in the cards anyway, is your own fault for having ridiculous expectations. (like the Korean region lock disappearing is not going to happen because 1) the reasons it was instated are still there. 2) it worked.) 1. Which reasons? 2. How did it work? The tournaments didn't have more viewers 2016 than before. Yes, the foreigners are closer to the Koreans than before '16, but that's also partly because the entire Korean scene fell apart. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
Guess we'll never see that dual-starleague winner after all. ByuL came close though as the only dual-finalist. | ||
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Celepharn
Mexico60 Posts
 feels bad, altho I thought it was going to be a lot worse... like a LOT | ||
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