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Official Blizzard Announcement
Starladder Source
It seems like Dreamhack is no longer hosting all WCS events this year.
Instead StarLadder will be hosting WCS Spring and Summer in Kiev.
The first of the two Kiev WCS events will be held from the 17th to the 19th of May, while the second one will take place from the 12th to the 14th of July.
WCS Fall wil be hosted by Dreamhack and will happen in Montreal from the 6th to the 8th of September.
Note: Finally, the full Circuit will be presented in 1080p resolution for the first time!
Residency Requirements
"We tested a rule change for players competing in Season 1 of GSL, restricting them from participating in Season 1 of WCS Challenger. Our goal was to limit the number of WCS Circuit players who would compete in the Korean tournament, but instead it caused all but one of the registered Circuit players to pull out of the GSL competition. That was not our intention, and we are rolling back this rule for Season 2 and 3, bringing the residency rules back to as they were in 2018."
WCS 2019 outline:
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/sxlonOn.jpg)
More info provided by Aeromi:
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South Korea2107 Posts
Standalone events, not part of Dreamhack or anything bigger, right?
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On February 07 2019 03:13 Ziggy wrote:
Standalone events, not part of Dreamhack or anything bigger, right?
Stand alone events in the Kiev Cybersport Arena it seems.
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Very disappointed with the region lock announcement.
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On February 07 2019 03:16 Musicus wrote:
"We tested a rule change for players competing in Season 1 of GSL, restricting them from participating in Season 1 of WCS Challenger. Our goal was to limit the number of WCS Circuit players who would compete in the Korean tournament, but instead it caused all but one of the registered Circuit players to pull out of the GSL competition. That was not our intention, and we are rolling back this rule for Season 2 and 3, bringing the residency rules back to as they were in 2018."
I don't understand this part. The goal was to limit the number of WCS Circuit players in GSL, but instead it limited the number of WCS players in GSL? Didn't it do what it set out to accomplish? So now they're reverting back to 2018 rules? I guess the Unity house survives.
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Our goal was to limit the number of WCS Circuit players who would compete in the Korean tournament, but instead it caused all but one of the registered Circuit players to pull out of the GSL competition.
They realize something is wrong with the rules and change them. The change causes a reaction they didn't expect (for some reason), so they go back to the start. Which is to say, there's something wrong with the rules and Blizzard knows. Okay.
Also this is blatantly untrue. Scarlett was the only one who qualified but she was not the only one who tried.
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Two events in Kiev? Hard to see this as anything but cost-cutting by Blizzard.
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On February 07 2019 03:27 Kalera wrote:
Two events in Kiev? Hard to see this as anything but cost-cutting by Blizzard.
Well sure they might be trying to save money, as they did with WCS Winter as well, but if StarLadder is good enough for CS and Dota majors, it's good enough for WCS! Honestly I am a bit excited, every WCS event being a Dreamhack was getting boring.
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On February 07 2019 03:31 Musicus wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2019 03:27 Kalera wrote:
Two events in Kiev? Hard to see this as anything but cost-cutting by Blizzard. Well sure they might be trying to save money, as they did with WCS Winter as well, but if StarLadder is good enough for CS and Dota majors, it's good enough for WCS! Honestly I am a bit excited, every WCS event being a Dreamhack was getting boring.
Yeah, just the same production issues every time. Now finally we can look into some brand new eastern European issues instead.
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United Kingdom10443 Posts
Glad multiple organisations are involved WCS
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Note: Finally, the full Circuit will be presented in 1080p resolution for the first time!
Already Starladder > Dreamhack for me
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Well, that would be unfortunate.
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Added the full schedule and the new warchest money allocation, provided by Aeromi. Really good news, top16 of each region will get Warchest money.
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Finally! Basically no news at all, except for the two WCS Circuit stops at Starladder. Anybody knows anything about them?
Really weak that they went back on their attempt at modifying region lock. At least now they have acknowledged the problem and are working at a solution which will be announced for next WCS season, right? :|
Just end region lock completely already
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On February 07 2019 03:40 sneakyfox wrote:
Finally! Basically no news at all, except for the two WCS Circuit stops at Starladder. Anybody knows anything about them?
Really weak that they went back on their attempt at modifying region lock. At least now they have acknowledged the problem and are working at a solution which will be announced for next WCS season, right? :|
Just end region lock completely already
Starladder has organized the European part for WESG since its inception IIRC.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Wait they said you couldn't compete in WCS challenger and go for GSL Season 1. So why is Scarlett playing in both?
Edit - i know they are now reverting the rule making it exactly like 2018, aka Koreans stick to GSL but foreigners can go there and play if they want etc. But original point stands.
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Maybe they meant season 2?
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Why the hell are they reverting the region-lock change? It's seriously pretty blatantly obvious that Blizzard is playing favorites here.
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On February 07 2019 03:54 Pandemona wrote:
Wait they said you couldn't compete in WCS challenger and go for GSL Season 1. So why is Scarlett playing in both?
Seems like she decided to skip challenger and will fight through the open bracket instead. Honestly she (and sortof) has guts. Didn't want to miss GSL and was willing to go the harder route in WCS for that.
And WCS Winter has no challenger, so she can play that too. She will only have a disadvantage for WCS Spring.
If she appears in WCS Spring Challenger, then it would be bullshit, but she won't.
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So is the prize money the same as last year or not?
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