Imagine if WESG had TakeTV or O’Gaming organize

On December 08 2019 03:22 Nakajin wrote:
Altought I agree WESG qualifier are super confusing, the way Alibaba does it has the merit to throw a big pile of money to random places. Off stream asian qualifier regularly have thousands dollars of prize pools, if it was done by a competant org I feel like those would get killed asap for a more logical distribution.

It does seem to help the scene grow, the Vietnamese scene for exemple is starting to be decent, same at HK or in South East Asia in general

On December 08 2019 07:42 Wardi wrote:
You have to realise that they hired a company to run qualifiers for every game. It’s not like they just decided to say ‘screw it we’ll pick a company that hasn’t done much in SC2 before!’ They picked a company which can sort all of the games qualifiers.

Europe has no prize pool because no organization has stepped forward to run an offline event. If an organisation said they would, WESG would fund the prize pools and some of the costs. This is what happens in the other regions.

Honestly everybody is always just negative about WESG. Could it be better? Yes. Is SC2 and the western audience their main priority? No. Should we be thankful they are pouring A LOT of money into running an extra tournament for us? Yes.

Stop dreaming of a world where SC2 is the priority, because it isn’t whether you like to hear it or not. Negative threads like this will do nothing but give SC2 a bad image from the community.

On December 08 2019 20:40 JanDe wrote:
To me, WESG help more to local scenes then any WCS season in history, or all other cups.

System is cool, it's actually what wcs should be, or at least Blizzard planned it, from start. Be the best in your street, town, city, country, continent, world.

I come from a smaller country where scene was unexistant for years. From 2010 even. We had offline tournaments with 8 to 16 players. Sometimes less.
Nowadays, all guys, from gold to GM, who are from ex Yugoslavia, gathered to play this quali. We all strived to win China slot, improved, alligned to practice, etc. At the day of prequalifier cup we met bunch of players we didnt even knew that exist, much of were master players, which was unbelieveable to all of us.
Now, we organised a team, hopefully a league with all other adriatic countries, and our scene is getting sense, we all practice more, we are more passionate about game and upcoming cup/leagues.

So thanks to WESG for all of this, continue to exist and I hope qualifiers will be organized better i future. I mean, with more viewers and sponsors.

On December 08 2019 20:40 JanDe wrote:
To me, WESG help more to local scenes then any WCS season in history, or all other cups.

System is cool, it's actually what wcs should be, or at least Blizzard planned it, from start. Be the best in your street, town, city, country, continent, world.

I come from a smaller country where scene was unexistant for years. From 2010 even. We had offline tournaments with 8 to 16 players. Sometimes less.
Nowadays, all guys, from gold to GM, who are from ex Yugoslavia, gathered to play this quali. We all strived to win China slot, improved, alligned to practice, etc. At the day of prequalifier cup we met bunch of players we didnt even knew that exist, much of were master players, which was unbelieveable to all of us.
Now, we organised a team, hopefully a league with all other adriatic countries, and our scene is getting sense, we all practice more, we are more passionate about game and upcoming cup/leagues.

So thanks to WESG for all of this, continue to exist and I hope qualifiers will be organized better i future. I mean, with more viewers and sponsors.

On December 08 2019 20:52 Wombat_NI wrote:

I think WCS works fine for the tournament it’s meant to be.

I agree with you on WESG though too. The Olympics isn’t the best competitors in the world only, but the best few from each country and for some just getting to the Olympics is the achievement.

I’ve long felt eSports needs a good tournament in that vein and WCG has long ceased being that and WESG isn’t quite that either.

Ireland is a pretty small Starcraft nation too, we try to organise our own annual tournament for bragging rights but we’re all getting older and it’s harder to get everyone gathered.

So yeah absolutely tournaments like this are great for gathering scenes together, especially smaller scenes.

On December 08 2019 21:39 sneakyfox wrote:


This is really great to hear! Hope you're going to keep it going.

It's great that WESG has this effect around the world. Still think they could do with more strict planning and less changes every year, that wouldn't change that they're supporting local scenes.

On December 08 2019 22:55 hjpalpha wrote:
imo there are several things wrong with WESG:
- their organisation of the qualifiers and especially their communication about them is bad af (if you write with one admin he tells you they use format A, 5 minutes later another admin (of the same regional qualifier) tells you its a different format)
- they provided wrong information to some players
- they apparently aren’t able to write the player names correctly and thus tried to invite wrong players or can’t find information about players at all
- they completly ignore existing schedules of other already beforehand announced tournaments
- their social media requirements towards the players and teams seem a bit extreme (at least in eu region)
- the prize pool SPLIT is a bad joke
- the seeding for the main event is completely crazy
- the qualifier spot SPLIT (and also the money distributed to those qualifiers) is even worse then WCS
- in the past the hotels and flights for the participants have been a bad joke
- ...

so I can fully understand people who are not happy with WESG
and I also can fully support players that insta declined their WESG closed qualifier invites

for the above listed reasons (and some others) e.g. HeRoMaRinE (just a Global Finals participant in 2018 and 2019) will not participate in any WESG tournaments until things change.

btw. for people who want to see his on stream explanation why he doesn’t participate: twitch.tv