EPTGSL blocked non-korean WCS players? - Page 4
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
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Elentos
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On January 25 2019 03:37 chipmonklord17 wrote: Thank god the totally existent amateur scene won't get beaten in qualifiers by NoRegret, Scarlett, Neeb, Major, and Raynor. Now they'll get beaten by MC, Taeja, Fantasy, Top, and Parting instead. #Progress I'm honestly not convinced by Top in that list. | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On January 25 2019 03:37 chipmonklord17 wrote: Thank god the totally existent amateur scene won't get beaten in qualifiers by NoRegret, Scarlett, Neeb, Major, and Raynor. Now they'll get beaten by MC, Taeja, Fantasy, Top, and Parting instead. #Progress At least those ones will compete for something because they can earn WCS Korea points unlike the others.... | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
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Brutaxilos
United States2622 Posts
On January 25 2019 03:24 Elmonti wrote: It's not Starcraft viewership. It's viewership from EEUU, France, Germany, Canada, Mexico, etc. and its the vast majority compared to the South Korean viewership. So you must have that in mind when you decide to make a move like that and cripple one or more scenes. Warchest adds 200k to IEM or Blizzcons ... Viewership is WAY more important. Like both things are not in the same league. Again, why is it okay that the money generated by viewers from, say, the USA goes to a Finnish player, but not okay if it goes to a Korean player? Why does Korea have to support itself, when all the other countries get the benefit of "foreign money". How many viewers does Finland provide? We should region lock Finland and make Blizzcon American players only!! | ||
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TheWendiGo_
Germany5 Posts
I can get behind it a little, why there were region locks, so the foreign scene wouldn't just be a Korean stomp fest. Locking each region out, will only accomplish a decrease in viewership. If anything, I think one of the stops from the wcs circuit should be in Korea. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16445 Posts
On January 24 2019 17:52 Akio wrote: I think the overall choice to make this change is good, and I'm glad the tweet Solar posted speaking for the Korean pros actually had some impact. With that being said, the announcements and communication with the public by Blizzard has been super choppy recently, I wonder what's up with that.. On January 24 2019 20:55 sneakyfox wrote: It's frankly astonishing that there is still no public announcement about these things from Blizzard. One day away from GSL qualifiers and the rule changes start seeping out, but nobody knows what's what and it only adds to the confusion. Such incompetence is incredible. If they really do force players to pick a region, it would definitely be more fair than now, but it could easily backfire because of the devaluation of Korean Starcraft as a product for advertisers, which could lead to its death -- especially if Blizzard is scaling down the financial support. I still think the best option would be to end region lock and instead support Korean starcraft as the engine that propels all of starcraft forward. We can already see this potential from the fact that NoRegret's teamhouse is so popular, and so many foreigner wants to participate in the GSL. On January 24 2019 20:55 sneakyfox wrote: It's frankly astonishing that there is still no public announcement about these things from Blizzard. One day away from GSL qualifiers and the rule changes start seeping out, but nobody knows what's what and it only adds to the confusion. Such incompetence is incredible. this is what happens when you have a brand new company prez and the company in cost cutting mode. not only do we not know what is going on... its highly probable many front line employees and mid-level management people don't know what is going on either. | ||
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Torvaltz
United States188 Posts
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33097 Posts
really hope it's just a Chinese community rumor that came out of miscommunication | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12128 Posts
On January 25 2019 07:48 Waxangel wrote: would definitely be nice to get some clarification from anyone really hope it's just a Chinese community rumor that came out of miscommunication Miscommunication? Not sure what's worse, if the silent treatment and way too close change of rules or miscommunication. Both seems to me similarly horrible. | ||
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geokilla
Canada8218 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33097 Posts
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Kalera
United States338 Posts
On January 25 2019 14:34 Waxangel wrote: Multiple foreigners including a Chinese player participating now. What's up? It looks like some non-Koreans were walked-over so they may have withdrawn last minute, but there are a couple who played so it's not clear. They may just end up forfeiting their spot if they make it. | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
On January 25 2019 04:25 Elentos wrote: I'm honestly not convinced by Top in that list. Like poetry, Top knocked out some rookie named Mafia | ||
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Waxangel
United States33097 Posts
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Snakestyle11
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Waxangel
United States33097 Posts
On January 25 2019 20:03 Snakestyle11 wrote: The fact that they strangely havent told us anything yet almost definitely points towards some big down sizing. They never had trouble giving us informations early in the past, and there shouldnt be any reason now.. Or should it? With the recent Diablo:immortal drama, the heroes of the storm league sudden shut down... They probably could not afford more negative business publicity so soon; as it would be very bad for business and stock values maybe? Seems they are waiting as long as possible..they cant afford more bad PR so soon..all at the same time would really scare off the investors maybe? I dont know much about that business but seems like the only reason. After all, the reason is almost always money in 2019, no matter what we are talking about. uhhhmmm... that's totally unrelated to what I'm talking about (whether or not WCS Circuit players can 'double-dip' into both Circuit and GSL) | ||
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Kelerher
9 Posts
On January 25 2019 19:55 Waxangel wrote: Aight so the players who have already qualified for WCS Circuit (SpeCial, Scarlett, TIME) appear to have forfeited or been walked over, while the players who did NOT qualify for WCS Circuit gave the GSL qualifiers a shot (SortOf, Cloudy). Seems like the supposed "pick-one-region" rule might really have been implemented? Actually SortOf qualified to WCS Winter EU, as I remember. With that situation looks quite a mess. | ||
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Waxangel
United States33097 Posts
On January 25 2019 20:48 Kelerher wrote: Actually SortOf qualified to WCS Winter EU, as I remember. With that situation looks quite a mess. oh whoops, missed that in that case it's really just chaos and I'm not sure what's up here | ||
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