EPT2019 WCS Global Finals info (venue, reduced days) - Page 2
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
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Orlok
Korea (South)227 Posts
On April 26 2019 06:46 Chris_Havoc wrote: 6 Bo5's and the Bo7 Finals in one day could be a scheduling nightmare if any technical issues arise. Event would need to start very early in the morning to get it all in within say 12-14 hours. Indeed. 4 for the round of eight, 2 for the round of four and one best of seven.... Unless they all end up in sweeps it'll be too painful of a marathon run to even contemplate hype. Not a decision I like at all. Its bad enough we're the tiny old uncle compared to Overwatch in terms of viewership, but now they're not giving us the time to put up a decent tournament. one best of 5 would if done via sweep clock into around 45-50 minutes with a break or two perhaps and assuming there's no early do or die bust cheese and it'd probably clock an hour or more if it goes the full way. A best of 7 no matter how fast it goes will definitely go over the hour, perhaps even 2 if it hits the full 4:3 score. thats looking at a max time of perhaps 8 hours of continued game time, adding an hour with breaks to hit 9 hours of continued sc2 (which could hit longer depending on the games and the match outcomes). Blizzcon isn't the super tournament, we shouldn't have to grind 4-5 best of fives on the biggest stage of the year. | ||
digmouse
China6330 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On April 26 2019 11:24 Orlok wrote: Indeed. 4 for the round of eight, 2 for the round of four and one best of seven.... Unless they all end up in sweeps it'll be too painful of a marathon run to even contemplate hype. Not a decision I like at all. Its bad enough we're the tiny old uncle compared to Overwatch in terms of viewership, but now they're not giving us the time to put up a decent tournament. one best of 5 would if done via sweep clock into around 45-50 minutes with a break or two perhaps and assuming there's no early do or die bust cheese and it'd probably clock an hour or more if it goes the full way. A best of 7 no matter how fast it goes will definitely go over the hour, perhaps even 2 if it hits the full 4:3 score. thats looking at a max time of perhaps 8 hours of continued game time, adding an hour with breaks to hit 9 hours of continued sc2 (which could hit longer depending on the games and the match outcomes). Blizzcon isn't the super tournament, we shouldn't have to grind 4-5 best of fives on the biggest stage of the year. Could be 2 stream for the round of 8, but honestly I think the WCS are generaly hype enough and those have the same number of matches. May not be ideal but it's certainly not catastrophic IMO, especially if it mean we don't have to compete vs OW. | ||
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brickrd
United States4894 Posts
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yubo56
690 Posts
I would rather have AB stream and parallel games than cut series length, fingers crossed | ||
Waxangel
United States33493 Posts
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
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JoeCool
Germany2520 Posts
Edit: Not surprised to be honest, as some of us already suggested this might be last year of SC2/WCS ever. | ||
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Zaros
United Kingdom3692 Posts
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PharaphobiaSC
Czech Republic457 Posts
Whole BlizzCon schedule is being changed so... just roll with it. I wouldn't be suprised if they shut it down after 9 years, but also i would not be suprised if they shut it down because they never got positive feedback in 9 years... | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
Opening Week, as usual, will see the Top 8 point-earners from both the WCS Circuit and WCS Korea fight it out to make the overall WCS Top 8. We will share more regarding the epic finale of WCS 2019 soon, but wanted to let fans know that this year StarCraft II’s Opening Week will not take place at Blizzard Arena. This year, Opening Week will be hosted somewhere quite different. Keep an eye on @esportstarcraft for updates—we think it’s very exciting and can’t wait to share it with you! This is good, it can't be more soulless than that no audience studio they had last few years. Though maybe it'll be something gimmicky like spacex headquarters or something. Alternatively they should host it on the place on earth that has europeans and koreans have exactly the same amount of timezone issues so we can finally put jetlag argument to bed. | ||
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XDEKSDEEXD
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Ziggy
South Korea2105 Posts
still, could be worse I guess | ||
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Kimb3r
Germany744 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On April 26 2019 12:46 Solar424 wrote: So even if the matches start at 9 AM PDT, with 1.5 hours per Bo5, the finals are going to start no earlier than 3 AM in Europe. Not the best way to increase viewership. The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say that this is intentional, so that Blizzard can justify cutting WCS by pointing to the lowered viewership. Ah, that's the math then, so I'm skipping it. No chance I'm watching Blizzcon this late. | ||
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JoeCool
Germany2520 Posts
On April 26 2019 18:00 deacon.frost wrote: Ah, that's the math then, so I'm skipping it. No chance I'm watching Blizzcon this late. Wouldn't be suprised if they'd actually play 2 games at once in the Ro8. Saves them a couple of hours. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On April 26 2019 18:13 JoeCool wrote: Wouldn't be suprised if they'd actually play 2 games at once in the Ro8. Saves them a couple of hours. Maybe that could lead to the 2013 JD fiasco again | ||
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fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium4031 Posts
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
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