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.
I interpreted that to mean that Afreeca initially tried to reschedule to say, February 20th or so, but the players complained that it was too close to Katowice. Hence the move to March.
On February 04 2020 12:09 Solar424 wrote: Looks like we're only getting 2 seasons of Code S this year.
I wouldn't be so sure. Don't forget: the StarCraft year now ends with Katowice next year and not BlizzCon.
Indeed! Also the announcements from ESL's side suggest there's going to be 3 Korean majors.
A super pessimist COULD speculate and worry that this Super Tournament—and potentially more—will replace Code S as those majors, but that would only be speculation .
Well I guess this is just the way it has to be with virus not under control. Looking forward to March.
On February 04 2020 08:40 afreecaTV.Char wrote: 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.
What does this mean for Code S? And how are we in February without any announcement about Korean Sc2?
On February 04 2020 12:09 Solar424 wrote: Looks like we're only getting 2 seasons of Code S this year.
I wouldn't be so sure. Don't forget: the StarCraft year now ends with Katowice next year and not BlizzCon.
Indeed! Also the announcements from ESL's side suggest there's going to be 3 Korean majors.
A super pessimist COULD speculate and worry that this Super Tournament—and potentially more—will replace Code S as those majors, but that would only be speculation .
yeah, Cure winning Super Tour into winning IEM is a better narrative than IEM into ST
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
Vigilance is good. But imo the media is overreacting a lot (as per usual) To put into perspective: every year 500000 people die from influenza (flu). And not many people are making a fuss about that.
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.
While I do agree that the world can't, and shouldn't stop spinning due to the virus, you need to get your facts straight. My whole area (in Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul) has had stores closed for cleaning. Why? Because confirmed patients visited those areas. Confirmed patients have most definitely been in Seoul.
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.
While I do agree that the world can't, and shouldn't stop spinning due to the virus, you need to get your facts straight. My whole area (in Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul) has had stores closed for cleaning. Why? Because confirmed patients visited those areas. Confirmed patients have most definitely been in Seoul.
O_O Didn't know this, thanks for enlightening me, that really makes this news more understandable.
Stats vs Maru, hot damn that is going to be a hype.
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
Vigilance is good. But imo the media is overreacting a lot (as per usual) To put into perspective: every year 500000 people die from influenza (flu). And not many people are making a fuss about that.
Influenza has vaccines and a cure, nCov has not. Please stop
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
Vigilance is good. But imo the media is overreacting a lot (as per usual) To put into perspective: every year 500000 people die from influenza (flu). And not many people are making a fuss about that.
Influenza has vaccines and a cure, nCov has not. Please stop
nCov is being cured just like influenza (as in no 'real' cure exists, but treat the symptoms and wait it out). A vaccine might become available, but, as your own example shows with influenza, that wouldn't mean it's 'solved'.
It just grinds my gears that people pretend it's oh so likely to become a pandemic and maybe even the apocalyps. While the evidence (so far) suggests it's less dangerous than sars/mers. Which are pretty bad, but did not start any apocalyps I know of. Of course, we don't know that much about nCov yet, so it might become a lot worse, but that's very unlikely.
Not trying to derail the topic too much, but there's usually a vaccine for the active strain of flu even if there is no cure; nCoV has no vaccines. Furthermore nCoV is not as lethal at ~2% mortality rate compared to SARS(10%) or MERS (34%), but it's still significantly greater than 0.1% for influenza.
Probably a good call from Afreeca. Excited for IEM first then!
On February 04 2020 22:36 papapanda wrote: Not trying to derail the topic too much, but there's usually a vaccine for the active strain of flu even if there is no cure; nCoV has no vaccines. Furthermore nCoV is not as lethal at ~2% mortality rate compared to SARS(10%) or MERS (34%), but it's still significantly greater than 0.1% for influenza.
Probably a good call from Afreeca. Excited for IEM first then!
Afaik the mortality rate of nCov is an estimation, since we do not know how many of the infected not dead yet but not recovered either, will die from it. (whereas the mortality rate of SARS / MERS are known since they were calculated a posteriori)
It's a bit sad for us fans to have GSL delayed since we didn't see top level KR competition for so long, but it's probably for the best to stay safe. Hopefully it'll be solved after IEM and not further delayed.
That bracket is once again giving Maru Stats -;-, foreign terrans seem to be doing better recently so the top KR should be fine but I'm still kinda worried for Maru, given his history in super tournaments... TY will have to face protoss with different styles and maybe Trap, so difficult bracket as well. Cure has an insanely hard bracket :o, if he manages to win ST or even reach the finals, that would for sure prove he is for real in important competitions as well.
On February 04 2020 10:04 KappaKingPrime wrote: Some experts say that the virus will likely become a pandemic and will only reach it's peak in April. Hopefully they are wrong.
If countries are vigilant about it, the spreading of the virus can be stopped. I know it's not fashionable in many countries, but people should get used to the idea of wearing a surgical mask in public (or even better, wear an N95 mask) to not only protect yourself, but to stop the spread of the virus (wearing the mask also helps to prevent the infected from spreading it). And when you get home, wash your hands with soap because the virus can spread when you touch/open things that other people have touched/opened.
Anyways, if countries are vigilant, the spread of the virus can be reduced drastically. And I hope that the Super Tournament can be resumed once things go back to normal in Korea.
On February 04 2020 22:36 papapanda wrote: Not trying to derail the topic too much, but there's usually a vaccine for the active strain of flu even if there is no cure; nCoV has no vaccines. Furthermore nCoV is not as lethal at ~2% mortality rate compared to SARS(10%) or MERS (34%), but it's still significantly greater than 0.1% for influenza.
Probably a good call from Afreeca. Excited for IEM first then!
The fatality rate of nCoV is lower but if it mutates, then that could become a problem and the fatality rate may go up.
Sad for Jinair boys... Maru vs Stats again :/ Trap another PvP? He can pretty much forfeit he cant play it to save his life. And Rogue vs sOs teamkill. Meh At least Cure gets an easy way into his bracket side finals
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