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WESG announced that it has cancelled the 2019-20 Asia Pacific (APAC) finals due to health concerns over the coronavirus. The event was planned to take place in Macau between February 16-18.
The APAC finals was to feature four top Koreans in Dark, Maru, Rogue, and TY going up against heavy underdogs from the Asian region. With first place prizes in other WESG regional events reaching over $10,000, the APAC finals was set to be one of the first significant live events featuring top Korean players in 2020.
No replacement event or online tournament has been announced, nor are there details regarding the WESG Grand Finals which are scheduled for March.
The APAC finals had already been postponed once from an early January date to the issues with the tournament organizers. AfreecaTV's Super Tournament was also recently delayed, partially due to concerns regarding the coronavirus.
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Oh my. Corona really starting to mess with day to day life around the globe
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Smart move, better play this safe, don't want another Spanish flu incident.
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Sad to see but in all probability a good decision :-(
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I was suppose to go to Thailand for holidays but it was cancelled because I had to pass through Shanghai airport.
Many countries have given a strict "Avoid Non Essential Travel." ban, consequently many airlines have cancelled most if not all their flights to China for the foreseeable future.
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They already announced this 2 weeks ago but I guess better to just announce it twice than not at all.
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This is the least surprising news of the year.
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Well, better safe than sorry.
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They could just play it online...
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Even though they death rate is low so far among young and healthy individuals, I think this is the right move. I'd rather have my top Koreans around and alive rather than dead. Hard to play a game when you're dead.
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What's so wrong about becoming infested? Not enough #passion!
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Canada8991 Posts
I hope the actual tournament will happen, dosen't look like it right now.
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Well, this s*xx, but for the foreseeable future Asians tournaments will have to go full online ( still way better than nothing, for players and viewers... ). Except maybe GSL (no-public but offline, only for Koreans residents ?), if Korea situation doesn't degrade too much.
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On February 06 2020 02:36 vyzion wrote:
Even though they death rate is low so far among young and healthy individuals, I think this is the right move. I'd rather have my top Koreans around and alive rather than dead. Hard to play a game when you're dead.
The most serious thing is the disease is highly infectious,even in its incubation period,which means no symptom and you don't know if someone is infected.
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On February 06 2020 07:13 xongnox wrote:
Well, this s*xx, but for the foreseeable future Asians tournaments will have to go full online ( still way better than nothing, for players and viewers... ). Except maybe GSL (no-public but offline, only for Koreans residents ?), if Korea situation doesn't degrade too much.
Making Korean tournaments non-public or online only is an insane overreaction. That's something you do only when society is forced into full quarantine and closes public transportation, restaurants, movie theaters, concerts, sporting events, and a whole lot more. That's black death level and we are nowhere near that.
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Canada8991 Posts
On February 06 2020 10:16 Boggyb wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2020 07:13 xongnox wrote:
Well, this s*xx, but for the foreseeable future Asians tournaments will have to go full online ( still way better than nothing, for players and viewers... ). Except maybe GSL (no-public but offline, only for Koreans residents ?), if Korea situation doesn't degrade too much. Making Korean tournaments non-public or online only is an insane overreaction. That's something you do only when society is forced into full quarantine and closes public transportation, restaurants, movie theaters, concerts, sporting events, and a whole lot more. That's black death level and we are nowhere near that.
I think they are already doing that for LOL, at least they are doing it in some place in China. Overall the directive there seems to be don't have big gathering if you don't need to.
Maybe there's some insurance related thing as well IDK.
Overall at least in China, the government is flexing his power to make sure to get it under control. Sure it's maybe excessive, but in another way, there's a reason why no country with a stable modern state has had an epidemic in almost 100 years, this shit works.
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Bad year for ESPORTS.
Maybe a bad decade too.
Can't do offline shows.
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Any planned China Team Championships are likely out of commission as well for the forseeable future. I'll be curious if any players get released from their CTC teams due to lack of events.
Worst case scenario is the CTC itself is dicontinued due to the coronavirus and all SC2 players on Chinese teams are let go. Hopefully that won't be the case but the situation looks bad as of right now.
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