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Having stability for 3 years is a great sign
On January 07 2020 23:11 Nakajin wrote:3 years! Apolo saving us + Show Spoiler +I would have loved to keep Blizzcon tho, but what can you do Go4SC2 are back too with point attached to it! Bly to the world championship!
I think it's a good decision to take SC2 off of Blizzcon. The last few ones it felt somewhat halfhearted in the conditions the SC2-competition was given there. IEM proved to hype the shit out of their tournaments and their competitors, so I think, we won't have weird unworthy celebration scenarios like it was the case with Dark.
On January 07 2020 23:24 xelnaga_empire wrote:
So does this mean Afreeca TV backed out of broadcasting SC2? If Afreeca TV doesn't want to pick up GSL, then that's not a good sign in Korea ...
We probably have to wait for further information. It would be kind of dumb to make SC2-tournaments in South Korea without using the expertise and infrastructure of Afreeca/GSL. As I understood GSL was already almost entirely funded by Blizzard and now that IEM seems to be fully responsible of Blizzard's esport money it's their choice under what conditions the Korean competition will carry on. I think it's highly probable that they'll keep working with afreeca but perhaps they will end the GSL format? It wasn't very favorable for newcomers, so an system overhaul perhaps wouldn't be a bad thing. On the other hand it would be good to keep the system for on more year and then celebrate it's farewell.
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On January 07 2020 23:35 vik7 wrote:
ESL Hype, although ima be sad for 2021. Blizzcon was only a 30-minute drive for me ;(
it is sad to see old traditions go, but to be honest 2019 blizzcon was pretty shit for sc2, it really looked like they just wanted to rush it out of the way. I know Apollo still loves sc2 and will treat it right. Besides what made sc2 great was never blizzard, but rather the community all the way from Husky starcraft to homestory cup
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Finally someone other than Blizzard will be running sc2 esports, and ESL of all TOs sounds very promising.
I'm also absolutely fine with Katowice replacing Blizzcon, it already is the best sc2 tournament of the year.
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I'll only support this if, in his good time, and if he can, Apollo helps host/cast in some of these ESL events. I wanna hear Apollo and Kaelaris cast again.
OT: Three more years of stability for the foreign scene. Hope something equally good happens for Korea.
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Awesome to see three additional years of SC2! That makes me very happy and is more than expected, awesome job, finally I'm getting a good feeling about this year =D
On January 07 2020 23:44 xelnaga_empire wrote:Show nested quote +On January 07 2020 23:30 Elentos wrote:On January 07 2020 23:24 xelnaga_empire wrote:
So does this mean Afreeca TV backed out of broadcasting SC2? If Afreeca TV doesn't want to pick up GSL, then that's not a good sign in Korea ... I don't know how you got that from this announcement to be honest. It's right there in the announcement:
Maybe I'm just daft but I really don't understand what that phrase even means. Pretty much all the information they are releaseing are in regards to WCS. "Did not confirm" pretty much translates to: "Said nothing about". Which means they might operate under GSL brand or nor, you do realise that Appolo (or anyone else) would "not confirm" wether ESL with have any thing to do with SC2 in 2020 if you asked Before today.
Until deals are finalized nothing is made public, why does that suprise people and why in the World does some of you turn the lack of news into proof of there being news (no GSL/Afreec not interested in GSL).
Also Apollo confirmed region lock still in Place, same rules for 2020, that means no koreans in the global wcs because they have their own tournaments in korea. Either way the korean tournaments should stay otherwise they would have changed the rules.
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United States22909 Posts
Katowice did always have kind of a strange world championship vibe to it from when they made it winner take all for a while. Think it’ll be a better show for SC2 than BlizzCon. Really cool to see
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We lost blizzcon but sc2 lives on, nice
I love the new distribution of prizepools
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Finland765 Posts
The Katowice stage is better for SC2, and now with the Major Championships, I reckon a lot more fans will travel there, so the audience should be great too.
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That sounds great but will the total prize pool per year be the same, higher or lower compared to now?
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I'm not surprised to see WCS not continue with the WCS brand, or Blizzcon being replaced either.
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On January 08 2020 00:19 MockHamill wrote:
That sounds great but will the total prize pool per year be the same, higher or lower compared to now?
700K higher, altough personnally I could have lived with a similar prize pool and 500-600k more invested in tournament organizer, but still, good news!
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On January 07 2020 23:32 Durnuu wrote:
Did Apollo KILL THE KOREAN SCENE back then in order to take control of all SC2?
The irony of this is not lost on me
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Russian Federation21 Posts
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SC2 tournaments will be in a good hand of IEM. I really like that. More tournaments regardless the size will help creating a consistent competitive atmosphere in the scene which is a great news. The only sad news that will be no more BlizzCon starting 2021. Honestly, not a total bad news given BlizzCon has been underwhelming to say at least in the past couple years. Katowice is always a better tournament so it deserves its world championship title.
Given how things have been going lately, I'm glad everything works out well. Just hope for 2021, they will get rid of region-lock altogether then maybe SC2 will flourish again.
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Wow. Didn't expect the entire system to be overhauled this way. More integration with smaller events sounds intetesting.
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