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South Korea2105 Posts
AfreecaTV announced that Super Tournament 1 will be postponed to March, after IEM Katowice, due to the recent coronavirus outbreak. At the time of writing (February 4th KST), there were 15 confirmed cases in South Korea.
The official tournament bracket has also been revealed.
On February 04 2020 08:40 afreecaTV.Char wrote:
Just to add onto this, it is also due to many of the players participating at IEM Katowice.
This tournament was not planned to be a weekend tournament, but take a schedule more like the GSL. It would still be four days long, but spaced out and not in consecutive days.
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What, why. The world can't stop spinning just because of the corona virus, the fifteen cases so far found in south korea isn't even close to seoul.
Damnit that really sucks.
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51463 Posts
Seems like a bit of a cop out given other Afreeca events like the ASL are running as scheduled.
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It's not just Starcraft 2, many physical sports leagues in China and South Korea along with LOL had to postpone their league in China indefinitely and the LCK + Show Spoiler +for those of you who don't know, it's called the League of Legends Championship Korea
I don't think AfreecaTV wanted the Super Tournament to play out without a live audience, which is why it is postponed.
On February 04 2020 08:20 GTR wrote:
Seems like a bit of a cop out given other Afreeca events like the ASL are running as scheduled.
Do we know that for sure? Maybe they just haven't announced it yet.
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South Korea2105 Posts
On February 04 2020 08:20 GTR wrote:
Seems like a bit of a cop out given other Afreeca events like the ASL are running as scheduled.
they still have time to postpone the asl, its only due to start in ~2 weeks :d and i guess halting their pc bang business would be too big of a financial hit so no point in cancelling the qualifiers
also the qualis took place a few days ago when there were only 4 confirmed cases of the wuhan virus in SK
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Canada8989 Posts
Huh, maybe it's a thing with foreigners going to watch it?
I didn't think governmental response was that strong in Korea, someone knows if the schools and university are still open?
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United States337 Posts
Just to add onto this, it is also due to many of the players participating at IEM Katowice.
This tournament was not planned to be a weekend tournament, but take a schedule more like the GSL. It would still be four days long, but spaced out and not in consecutive days.
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On February 04 2020 08:40 afreecaTV.Char wrote:
Just to add onto this, it is also due to many of the players participating at IEM Katowice.
This tournament was not planned to be a weekend tournament, but take a schedule more like the GSL. It would still be four days long, but spaced out and not in consecutive days. Ok that makes more sense.
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There are 15 confirmed case in South Korea already. I also heard news that for the 368 Korean citizens evacuated from Wuhan, 5 of them have the virus. There are also large number of Korean citizens who lives, or recently traveled to China who may contacted any infected persons.
Since it is reported the virus can spread from non-symptoms or possibly even non-detected-yet, if they decide to postpone any gathering of large number of unprotected people, there is no reason to opposite it.
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Well I think the caution is understandable and necessary,unless you are sure that you can protect all the people present from the virus's threat.
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Some experts say that the virus will likely become a pandemic and will only reach it's peak in April. Hopefully they are wrong.
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Hope the problem got solved as soon as possible so we still have great starcraft matches to watch. And damn Wuhan and Hubei government.
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China6329 Posts
Reasonable decision, at least for now.
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Looks like we're only getting 2 seasons of Code S this year.
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On February 04 2020 08:17 Shuffleblade wrote:
What, why. The world can't stop spinning just because of the corona virus, the fifteen cases so far found in south korea isn't even close to seoul.
Damnit that really sucks.
If we have learned something from, say the spanish flu, is that we absolutely need to take these things with extreme caution. One of the reasons it was able to spread so much and so fast is that both the US and europe were actively denying its threat level because they didn't want to seem weak in the war. We don't want anything even remotely similar from happening again
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Damn that means no offline sc2 action until late this month, this is gotta be one of the longest breaks in the history of sc2 esports.
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On February 04 2020 08:40 afreecaTV.Char wrote:
Just to add onto this, it is also due to many of the players participating at IEM Katowice.
This tournament was not planned to be a weekend tournament, but take a schedule more like the GSL. It would still be four days long, but spaced out and not in consecutive days.
Surely it was not planned to drag out that far. The teaser on Naver had the 15th as end date. That's still over a week before Katowice. Can't be near as important as Corona.
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