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Finland963 Posts
No On-Site Attendance for IEM Katowice
At 19:45 CET we were informed by the Silesian Voivodeship that our mass event license for IEM Katowice was revoked. Until that moment we had a legally binding decision allowing us to organize the event, which was reconfirmed multiple times over the last few days. The last time the decision was confirmed was several hours ago. The Governor of Silesian (Silesian Voivode) Jarosław Wieczorek issued a decision to remove their approval regarding ESL hosting a mass event in Katowice, Poland. Due to this development, Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2020 will not have any audience on-site. This means both Spodek-Arena audience as well as IEM Expo.
So the tournaments still be broadcast, but with no live audience. It's possible that scheduling might see some changes, but we'll know more tomorrow.
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Very sad stuff, but also understandable tbh.
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Horrible horrible situation, but completely out of their control.
Feelsbadman
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Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
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It's about the death rate.
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On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
I hope you at least realize it spreads a lot easier and quicker and if you let it spread the hospitals will be overcrowded fast which will make it worse than your seasonal flu very quickly.
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
Yeah, it "just" kill old people, let them die, right?
Currently we don't know if it stops with warm waether as flu, it could stay here forever. And we can guess it will stay because Iran.
But hey, why care, right?
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Russian Federation66 Posts
I am heartbroken, I dreamed of attending a big SC2 event since 2013. Should have been my 1st event ever, got a plane tomorrow in the morning and now this  FU coronavirus Seems that I have to stay home and watch it online as usual
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Bisutopia19348 Posts
Do attendance tickets cost money? If so, I hope that some people don't ask for refunds and treat it as a donations. In return, I hope IEM can provide some sort of virtual gift to would-be attendees.
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Russian Federation66 Posts
On February 28 2020 06:54 BisuDagger wrote:
Do attendance tickets cost money? If so, I hope that some people don't ask for refunds and treat it as a donations. In return, I hope IEM can provide some sort of virtual gift to would-be attendees.
There are both - you can either buy a ticket (which I did) to secure a seat before a stage or to go there without a ticket and get a free seat if available
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On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
You are clueless. It's mortality rate is a least an order of magnitude higher.
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Canada8990 Posts
On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
I'm sure the dozens of scientist, public health specialist and chief of states making those decision didn't think of that, they should just chill.
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Good call. Unfortunate but wise.
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On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
It'll die out when there's evidence that people shouldn't be worried. Here's a good idea - you should go actively try to get the corona virus, quarantine yourself for a few weeks (without getting anyone else exposed to you in the process), record the entire thing, and then show the world how it was no big deal. Put your money where your mouth is.
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Public health takes priority over video games, that's just the way it works.
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
On February 28 2020 07:06 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out. I'm sure the dozens of scientist, public health specialist and chief of states making those decision didn't think of that, they should just chill.
They are cautious because there's a lot of uknown while we know shit ton about the flu. So they are overreacting and people are hysterical(at least in Cze, which is in huge contradiction of what our safety precautions look like). But then again, it's a big unknown, let's be safer than sorry.
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On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
i don't understand how people make this argument without realizing that a new seasonal flu which we have no immunity or vaccine for is a serious problem and a serious drain on public resources, just like the seasonal flu itself is in fact already a serious problem and serious drain on public resources. either one on its own is bad, how do you not get that both combined are much worse?
i can only assume you're someone who spends too much time watching zombie shows and horror movies and thinks an outbreak of disease is only serious if millions are dead and bloody in the streets. i guess all the epidemiologists with medical expertise on this subject who say it's serious are crazy idiots?
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Was expecting something like this to happen. That's why i was rather surprised that there was no announcement prior to the 1st day. It's unfortunate but it is for the best and we just have to show ESL and the players our support as much as we can online (watching the livestreams and tweets with the right hashtags and such).
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On February 28 2020 06:43 Slydie wrote:
Bullshit. This virus is no worse than a normal seasonal flu, which actually kills 290k-650k people.
I wonder when this hysteria will fade out.
The commentary of someone who has 0 insight in epidemics...
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