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Hey guys. My name is Creighton – I’m a big Starcraft II nerd. In particular, you guys might know me as a big GSL fan
As a foreigner living in Seoul, going to the GSL has been the highlight of my time in the country. Almost every Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon for a while now, I’ve been at the studios in Gangnam cheering for my favourite players and also Classic.
Since I am familiar with the setup and layout of the GSL, I get messages from a lot of foreigners who want to catch a match or two at the studio during their vacations to Seoul. I do my best to stay in contact with everyone who has questions and help them plan their experiences. Heck, I was lucky enough to shepherd a crowd of 15-20 folks for two of the finals last year! I’ve met tons of awesome folks, and I am glad I’m able to help demystify the GSL experience a bit. I even maintain digital calendars for the GSL and WCS events to make it easy for people to watch at home.
However, I wanted to highlight a pretty major problem for foreign viewers of the GSL. The official WCS schedule page is often just plain wrong. Usually if it is incorrect, it’s only off by an hour or two. However, for the 2019 GSL Season 1 Finals, the date is one day off. This means that if someone was taking a vacation to come see the GSL finals and booked a Sunday flight home, they will now miss the finals – the entire reason they came to Seoul.
I’ve given bad advice to several travelers who have been in this boat before and it breaks my heart. I really do go out of my way to help people have a nice time when they visit Seoul for a once-in-a-lifetime SC2 experience. If I don’t have good information to act on, I can’t make sure that they get to the venue in time or on the right day. Some other sites like liquipedia have the times up, but they can be harder to find, and sometimes aren’t up until too close to gametime for planning.
Call to action: Blizzard, please have an intern spend a few hours verifying times on your official site with your GSL team. If you can’t find someone to manage your shit, I will do it for free. I already maintain usable calendars and do general SC2 brand ambassadorship here for you, so if you’d like someone to coordinate the official website, I’d be honoured to help. Please let me help drive traffic to your live events. We all want to see SC2 keep clawing back, and this is a huge stumbling block for visitors to the GSL. We love Starcraft: Please help us love it more.
GL, and more importantly, HF.
-Creighton
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I have never been to Seoul, but if I go someday, I would definitely call you up. Thanks for the good work and the effort you put into this <3
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I planned a trip to korea to see Scarlet and failed because they changed the schedule.
I hope this doesn't fall under deaf ears !
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That's why we double check the calendar on TL.
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Hey @CreightonOlsen! I wonder if you could be of assistance.
I hope to visit Korea during season 3 of GSL. Unfortunately their accurate, match specific schedule is not yet updated at least on Liquidepia and Afreeca's website doesn't seem to contain such information. Would you happen to be able to confirm anything?
There's of course a chance that only an overall time window (07/03-09/21/2019) has been published so far since even S2 hasn't started yet. I'm thinking of booking two weeks from the start of GSL (07/02-03) forward, if nothing else. Then, I should be able to catch at least two Ro32 broadcasts. I don't mind what stage the tournament is at, for me just being there is enough, so I'm flexible in that sense.
On the other hand I'm a bit worried about weather in Korea in July. GSL is my priority and they will have air conditioning there for sure, but other than that, not sure how pleasant it will be. Though, I'm not the type that complains about weather.
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On April 12 2019 20:55 Koivusto wrote:
Hey @CreightonOlsen! I wonder if you could be of assistance.
I hope to visit Korea during season 3 of GSL. Unfortunately their accurate, match specific schedule is not yet updated at least on Liquidepia and Afreeca's website doesn't seem to contain such information. Would you happen to be able to confirm anything?
There's of course a chance that only an overall time window (07/03-09/21/2019) has been published so far since even S2 hasn't started yet. I'm thinking of booking two weeks from the start of GSL (07/02-03) forward, if nothing else. Then, I should be able to catch at least two Ro32 broadcasts. I don't mind what stage the tournament is at, for me just being there is enough, so I'm flexible in that sense.
On the other hand I'm a bit worried about weather in Korea in July. GSL is my priority and they will have air conditioning there for sure, but other than that, not sure how pleasant it will be. Though, I'm not the type that complains about weather.
Sure man! Check out below, and let me know if you have any more questions:
1) Schedule: Check the WCS Schedule page, which is the best we've got so far. I've got all these dates for your calendar apps too.
2) Weather: Yeah, Korea in July is hot. The studio is usually well-air-conditioned though, so during the matches you should be pretty comfy. Just pack sunscreen and wear some light clothing!
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On April 14 2019 11:46 CreightonOlsen wrote:Show nested quote +On April 12 2019 20:55 Koivusto wrote:
Hey @CreightonOlsen! I wonder if you could be of assistance.
I hope to visit Korea during season 3 of GSL. Unfortunately their accurate, match specific schedule is not yet updated at least on Liquidepia and Afreeca's website doesn't seem to contain such information. Would you happen to be able to confirm anything?
There's of course a chance that only an overall time window (07/03-09/21/2019) has been published so far since even S2 hasn't started yet. I'm thinking of booking two weeks from the start of GSL (07/02-03) forward, if nothing else. Then, I should be able to catch at least two Ro32 broadcasts. I don't mind what stage the tournament is at, for me just being there is enough, so I'm flexible in that sense.
On the other hand I'm a bit worried about weather in Korea in July. GSL is my priority and they will have air conditioning there for sure, but other than that, not sure how pleasant it will be. Though, I'm not the type that complains about weather. Sure man! Check out below, and let me know if you have any more questions: 1) Schedule: Check the WCS Schedule page, which is the best we've got so far. I've got all these dates for your calendar apps too. 2) Weather: Yeah, Korea in July is hot. The studio is usually well-air-conditioned though, so during the matches you should be pretty comfy. Just pack sunscreen and wear some light clothing!
Thank you very much! I kinda thought that WCS site and liquipedia would update hand in hand, but luckily I was wrong. As a more experienced guest of GSL, do you know if there is any difference in live experience between GSL Ro32, GSL vs. the world and GSL Ro16? I'm most probably gonna choose between those three in the end.
Edit: Any idea if entrance will be free and without a need of a ticket still in S2 and S3? Afaik S1 finals was first time with tickets.
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Thank you very much! I kinda thought that WCS site and liquipedia would update hand in hand, but luckily I was wrong. As a more experienced guest of GSL, do you know if there is any difference in live experience between GSL Ro32, GSL vs. the world and GSL Ro16? I'm most probably gonna choose between those three in the end.
Edit: Any idea if entrance will be free and without a need of a ticket still in S2 and S3? Afaik S1 finals was first time with tickets.
GSL Vs. The World will be your best experience, hands-down. Last year, we had to wait in line for tickets for that one, but I don't know what they're gonna do this time around!
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Awesome to know we have such a hero in the community, I've never had the chance to go and probably never will because of lack of interest in sc2 from anyone around me. No friends share my passion and neither does my wife but thank you for helping those of us that can go!
I really hope Blizzard gets the message and fixes their shit, it shouldn't be hard to invest time and interest into a companies product and spread the passion.
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