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Myrddrael
Profile Joined November 2012
United Kingdom291 Posts
July 12 2017 23:25 GMT
#81
The votes are working, the site just doesn't refresh. If you vote, close the browser and open the link again, you'll see the thanks for voting message.

Although I still can't see a way to view the results.
Vutalisk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States680 Posts
July 12 2017 23:46 GMT
#82
On July 13 2017 03:39 mizenhauer wrote:
The fact that this is a fan vote is nauseating. Let players earn the right to compete through their own merit instead of it becoming a loaded popularity contest.

I totally agree with this. As cute as the idea of fan vote is, SC2 is still a competitive esport. Let players compete for their placements.

I thought they were just gonna invite Top 8 in Korean and Top 8 WCS which is actually better than this silly voting thing.
chipmonklord17
Profile Joined February 2011
United States11944 Posts
July 13 2017 00:22 GMT
#83
The choice between watching Has do weird shit but ultimately get bodied by Koreans or watch Showtime do standard shit and stand at least a sliver of a chance is really tough
Kafka777
Profile Joined December 2015
361 Posts
July 13 2017 00:24 GMT
#84
If this is World vs Korea why cant best players play? This vote obviously disrupts the scheme. Yes, you will get old popular players but the competition is not there anymore. Sorry Blizzard this is a total fuck up (especially one spot reserved for China). Don't lie to us how you have it set up, you know in advance who will win votes. Friends of the white rabbit get spots and wcs points, really? This is fair and reasonable?
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
July 13 2017 00:27 GMT
#85
I don't particularly mind it being fan-selected, but there's something terribly wrong with Gumiho not being there to begin with...

The prize pool is quite large, too. At the very least, they are filtering out lesser players by selecting candidates based on points, so Gumiho will most certainly be among those.
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-13 00:34:41
July 13 2017 00:32 GMT
#86
People are making too much of a big deal about Gumiho not being there. There will always be that one player who was #5 with a Top 4 cutoff. And this time Gumiho drew the short straw.

Yes, the event is called "GSL vs the World" and Gumiho won the most recent GSL, but I don't see people bitching about only US, Mexican, Poland, Finland, and China being invited instead of the ~190 other countries in the World. "Korea vs Foreigners" would be a better title for everyone obsessed with pedantic semantics, but does it really matter what the name is?

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YSMS
Profile Joined April 2015
China35 Posts
July 13 2017 00:55 GMT
#87
Our current thinking is to change its weapon from doing 12 damage flat to 10 + 5 light. ?????????????
After this, collosus will become more useless.
Vutalisk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States680 Posts
July 13 2017 01:46 GMT
#88
On July 13 2017 07:12 Fango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 13 2017 06:54 zeratul_jf wrote:
I don't get why people are upset over fan voting and claiming that this guy has no right to compete. This is an exhibition event and people want to see the most popular players compete not necessarily the best. I see nothing wrong with that, especially when you consider that all the people who are voting will most likely tune in to watch their favorite player, hence increasing the viewership numbers.
This sounds like the best way to promote your game when its an exhibition match, not everything has to be 100% decide the best player right now.
This happens in almost all sports that have an allstars game, where fans get to vote for their favorite players, again not necessarily the best at that point in time.


It still sucks though. ByuN isn't on the same level as aLive, Maru, or Gumiho. Yet he gets a garanteed spot because of reddit.

If it was a simple showmatch I wouldn't mind as much, but $100K prize pool is no joke

I like ByuN and all. He is a nice guy. But just because he has a cute dog and being popular, he basically gets a free spot for 100K prize pool. That is ridiculous. It is not like we need to see more 3/5/7/9 rax reapers from him in TvZ because apparently these days he can only micro reapers and nothing else.

For Terran, I would like to see Maru, GuMiho or aLive.
Lampardjxs
Profile Joined July 2017
1 Post
Last Edited: 2017-07-13 02:03:26
July 13 2017 02:02 GMT
#89
excuse me? why not TIME?he is a GSL CODE S terran,and kr ladder 6400 points. his wcs points more than Semper and MaSa.why the voting not including him???????

seither and iaguz kr ladder only 5800 points,why they are in the vote????
FrkFrJss
Profile Joined April 2015
Canada1205 Posts
July 13 2017 03:40 GMT
#90
As much as people complain it's a popularity contest, if it was a bracket, people would complain about the seeding or the bad bracket luck.

Or they would complain about how one of the lessrr Koreans makes a bracket run and somehow makes it to the top four.

Personally, I was fine that they got the top four of both standings, which means that the relative top four of both sides get in.

I'd be worried if it was a total popularity contest.

"Keep Moving Forward" - Walt Disney
highsis
Profile Joined August 2011
259 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-13 03:47:35
July 13 2017 03:46 GMT
#91
I don't care if a popular player who sucks plays at an *exhibition* event. I don't understand the fuss about it.

If only the best should compete, we shouldn't be seeing any foreigners in Koreans vs Foreigners event, should we?

I just don't like how foreigner team will have 4 Zergs. If the Chinese player is Zerg they should have picked more protoss or terran player in the invitee spots.

I would rather not see all Koreans RO8 so I hope they break down foreigner and korean brackets apart so foreigners can reach higher rounds.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
July 13 2017 03:46 GMT
#92
Voted Classic, Solar, Gumi, Drogo, Elazer, Kelazhur.

herO, Dark and Showtime were pretty close in mind. Too bad ByuN or Maru will probably get voted in.
Vutalisk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States680 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-13 04:07:33
July 13 2017 03:59 GMT
#93
On July 13 2017 12:46 highsis wrote:
I would rather not see all Koreans RO8 so I hope they break down foreigner and korean brackets apart so foreigners can reach higher rounds.

Why? Because Korean players are better so they always win vs foreigners? It is a competition. Let the better players win. It doesn't matter if they are Korean or not. Have some faith in foreigners as well.
negativedge
Profile Joined December 2011
4279 Posts
July 13 2017 04:27 GMT
#94
I don't know why people are salty about sOs. his form doesn't mean anything, you all know damn well he could show up to any weekend event like this and win. would it really surprise anyone?
Alarak89
Profile Joined January 2016
United States882 Posts
July 13 2017 05:23 GMT
#95
On July 13 2017 13:27 negativedge wrote:
I don't know why people are salty about sOs. his form doesn't mean anything, you all know damn well he could show up to any weekend event like this and win. would it really surprise anyone?

His true form will release on 22nd, so I don't know yet, but so far it's not very optimistic for sure.
However, this vote is based on fans' choice, so I see no reason to not vote for him if you like his play style.
BTW you shouldn't be bothered by the salty guys (and you should know whose fanboys they are), let sOs in is the best response you can ever have.
sOs is THE ONLY player I pay attention to
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
July 13 2017 05:51 GMT
#96
I feel like people don't realize how bad sOs actually is this year, just have a look at the win% and you might get a better grasp of it.
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yht9657
Profile Joined December 2016
1810 Posts
July 13 2017 06:16 GMT
#97
For those who complain about China having a spot reserved, be noted that the only alternatives are either making Chinese players candidates in voting or excluding them entirely, and neither would end up well considering the huge fan base in China.
iamho
Profile Joined June 2009
United States3347 Posts
July 13 2017 06:20 GMT
#98
Something's wrong with the webpage, can't vote even after logging in.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
July 13 2017 06:42 GMT
#99
I voted Has for all 3 races
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Alarak89
Profile Joined January 2016
United States882 Posts
July 13 2017 06:55 GMT
#100
On July 13 2017 14:51 The_Red_Viper wrote:
I feel like people don't realize how bad sOs actually is this year, just have a look at the win% and you might get a better grasp of it.

You still don't get the point, assuming he is bad right now, he might not go to Bilizzcon because of this, but he might go to GSL vs world because of large number of fans since bad form and fans' preference are not strongly related, and this event does not offer WCS points anyway.
You should only think about why your favorite players got less fans if they didn't get in, maybe they should change their play style to match majority of fan's preference to have a better try next time, or just go to Blizzcon to gain some cash (and that's where the big money is) if they are really better players like you said.
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