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Homestory Cup XXI
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JustPassingBy
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Ziggy
South Korea2106 Posts
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
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HolydaKing
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tigera6
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
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Kashim
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Heartland
Sweden24602 Posts
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ZombieGrub
United States714 Posts
On October 21 2021 23:46 tigera6 wrote: How are KRs gonna travel to Germany, especially 3 weeks before IEM, which is also offline. Imagine if the KRs gonna stay those 3 weeks with the EU guys, practice and prepare for IEM in EU, lol. In the before times this was occasionally done. Obviously it's a consideration, but it wasn't all that surprising to see someone jump back and forth within weeks. Hell, back in the MLG days I imagine there was some MLG one weekend, GSL RO8 next, IEM NY the next, etc. In regards to general travel, certainly the expectation is that return-quarantine will be a thing of the past come January. Also hell yeah more return to LANs. | ||
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najib__2
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Kreuger
Sweden850 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7145 Posts
On October 21 2021 23:46 tigera6 wrote: How are KRs gonna travel to Germany, especially 3 weeks before IEM, which is also offline. Imagine if the KRs gonna stay those 3 weeks with the EU guys, practice and prepare for IEM in EU, lol. AFAIK HomeStoryCup has always been the last skill check before Katowice or to get the competitive juice flowing after a christmas break | ||
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Haku
Germany550 Posts
I sadly don't see them get lifted/changed for the foreseeable future. Hope it works out in the end and we can have some offline SC2 back! | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7145 Posts
On October 22 2021 20:16 Haku wrote: Can't imagine how HSC21 and Katowice are going to work for the koreans with the strict quarantine rules. I sadly don't see them get lifted/changed for the foreseeable future. Hope it works out in the end and we can have some offline SC2 back! Entry from SK to Germany is actually no big deal. From what I'm reading there is no quarantine mandatory and if you are fully vaccinated you don't even need to do tests | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19330 Posts
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tommey.liang
United States363 Posts
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vyzion
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On October 22 2021 01:45 ZombieGrub wrote: In the before times this was occasionally done. Obviously it's a consideration, but it wasn't all that surprising to see someone jump back and forth within weeks. Hell, back in the MLG days I imagine there was some MLG one weekend, GSL RO8 next, IEM NY the next, etc. In regards to general travel, certainly the expectation is that return-quarantine will be a thing of the past come January. Also hell yeah more return to LANs. Considering the numbers are growing this seems like a very... optimistic view. | ||
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Chewychips
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GabrielRop
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Crocolisk Dundee
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On October 23 2021 03:24 BisuDagger wrote: If only we could get a bunch of hot influencers to post the homestory graphic as their profile image we could finally elevate this event to fyre level. Let's just do it and be legends, man. | ||
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Bomzj
Belarus24 Posts
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JustPassingBy
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On December 04 2021 03:49 GabrielRop wrote: Is this still in the planning to go ahead?? It is, Naruto just confirmed this today on the German TSL stream. But of course there's always a non-zero chance that it will be canceled or with reduced physical partiipation due to restrictions. | ||
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JJH777
United States4416 Posts
On December 04 2021 05:54 Bomzj wrote: Interesting, whether players who are going to visit are fully vaccinated, since Germany requires that. I know that it's possible to buy fake covid certificates. I'd hope StarCraft pros are smart enough to get vaccinated and know the conspiracy BS about the vaccines is fake. Hard to say for sure though. So many people I used to believe are intelligent have completely bought into the vaccines conspiracies. If someone actually shows up with a fake COVID vaccine card I'd be supportive of them being banned from the scene. | ||
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Major
Mexico539 Posts
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vyzion
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EndlessViolence
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xelnaga_empire
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On October 22 2021 01:45 ZombieGrub wrote: In regards to general travel, certainly the expectation is that return-quarantine will be a thing of the past come January. With the Omicron variant out there? I'm surprised that a possible caster for IEM Katowice is saying this ... | ||
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Schelim
Austria11528 Posts
On December 04 2021 16:31 xelnaga_empire wrote: With the Omicron variant out there? I'm surprised that a possible caster for IEM Katowice is saying this ... she said that before Omicron was discovered | ||
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Drfilip
Sweden592 Posts
On December 04 2021 16:31 xelnaga_empire wrote: With the Omicron variant out there? I'm surprised that a possible caster for IEM Katowice is saying this ... Look at the time stamp. WHO first knew about omicron November 24. ZG wrote that 1 month before the omicron variant was discovered. Using your rhetoric: I am surprised you are not understanding how time works. Things change, so people need to update their info. This means that true things said on the internet in the past is not necessarily still true. | ||
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Linnena
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By the way, any chance to re-get the HSC XX banners? I really need one!!!!! :D | ||
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GabrielRop
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It is, Naruto just confirmed this today on the German TSL stream. But of course there's always a non-zero chance that it will be canceled or with reduced physical partiipation due to restrictions. Ah thanks, in that case I'll be blocking my agenda so I can watch everything and ye I can imagine things are very insecure these times. I almost want to watch HSCXX entirely again...been so long ago | ||
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yellow123
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yellow123
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ZombieGrub
United States714 Posts
On December 04 2021 18:38 Drfilip wrote: Look at the time stamp. WHO first knew about omicron November 24. ZG wrote that 1 month before the omicron variant was discovered. Using your rhetoric: I am surprised you are not understanding how time works. Things change, so people need to update their info. This means that true things said on the internet in the past is not necessarily still true. Also what the hell does a bad prediction have to do with me casting IEM Katowice lol. Hopefully something can be worked out but once again the world is thrown into uncertainty. /: I know other esports are doing in-person play but they also have considerably more budget. | ||
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DrunkenJedi
Germany175 Posts
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
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TelecoM
United States10705 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On December 15 2021 12:50 TelecoM wrote: This is amazing, I hope that Covid doesn't put a stop to this amazing event... It seems like more and more restrictions have been being put into place especially in the EU. Let's go HSC!! it's hard to predict, for example our numbers are currently lowering and we're doing nothing IIRC. So maybe Germany will get the trend soon as well. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7145 Posts
On December 15 2021 18:44 deacon.frost wrote: it's hard to predict, for example our numbers are currently lowering and we're doing nothing IIRC. So maybe Germany will get the trend soon as well. X-Mas will probably up the numbers a bit, which means we will have some very high numbers two weeks later (mid January) at which point they might do a new ruleset. I really hope they find a way to make at least offline play happen with no/ minor live audience | ||
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
Currently numbers are declining but that is mostly because of reporting issues on top of maxed testing capacity. We don't have enough vaccine to booster everyone, and about 16% of eligible people without any vaccination. On top of that, Omikron is much more infectious. Christmas travel brings this virus mutation into every part of Germany. While we are still not having Delta under control. | ||
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Husyelt
United States837 Posts
On December 16 2021 11:19 [F_]aths wrote: Not sure why Take is not up to speed about Corona. Omikron is in Germany, with massive infections expected in January. Currently numbers are declining but that is mostly because of reporting issues on top of maxed testing capacity. We don't have enough vaccine to booster everyone, and about 16% of eligible people without any vaccination. On top of that, Omikron is much more infectious. Christmas travel brings this virus mutation into every part of Germany. While we are still not having Delta under control. Omicron is more infectious, but isn't it also less dangerous? Germany is up to almost 70% full vaccination rate. | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
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[PkF] Wire
France24238 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7145 Posts
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HolydaKing
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Kinda off topic: On December 16 2021 13:04 Husyelt wrote: Omicron is more infectious, but isn't it also less dangerous? Germany is up to almost 70% full vaccination rate. Yes your first statement is likely true. Your 2nd however is not. We know that the 2nd vaccine loses protection after a while (we knew that from Israel a long time ago). So given how late Germany started with booster vaccines, I'd say somewhere between 33% (current booster) and 71% of Germans could be considered "fully" vaccinated, it's tough to say and depends on what you think is when the 2nd vaccine loses good protection from getting sick (I'd say it's somewhere between 3-6 months). From what I know it'll still protect from getting severely ill and getting hospitalized pretty well even then though. And with Omicron getting infected is even easier so having the best possible protection is important - even if it's less dangerous (we will see about how dangerous it really is in the future). | ||
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tigera6
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AmericanUmlaut
Germany2594 Posts
I have a hard time believing that the situation is going to be improved enough by March. After so many Covid waves, I'm starting to lose hope. But if we really do turn the corner by spring, I'm looking forward to heading down to Kassel to watch in person. | ||
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Geoube
Canada67 Posts
On December 22 2021 19:48 tigera6 wrote: This actually make me worry more for IEM being offline, because in some sense this HSC was supposed to be the "dry run" for IEM 3 weeks later. Not to say its impossible now, but I think the chance just get smaller for offline global event. Yeah. I think the possibility of stand alone offline events is off for a while. Probably the only achievable thing would be to ask players to spend 2 months in a single country and set up multiple events - but that doesn't work with the way sc2 is as a competition. PUBG just had a really successful offline 3-week championship event in Korea (with 2 week quarantine) but it was a set 32 teams for the whole thing and, of course, PUBG still has money to support that sort of logistical cost. | ||
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KT_Elwood
Germany1146 Posts
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HolydaKing
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Silvanel
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tigera6
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TaKeTV
Germany1200 Posts
On January 13 2022 01:22 tigera6 wrote: At this rate, they might just push it all the way to June/July to match the ESL schedule. Yea EPT announced ones are 21+22 | ||
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Drfilip
Sweden592 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7145 Posts
So July 21-24th is HSC21 and Dec 15-18th is HSC22? I guess there will be no Stay@HSC Cup in the meantime? | ||
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dragoon
United States695 Posts
On December 04 2021 07:15 JJH777 wrote: I'd hope StarCraft pros are smart enough to get vaccinated and know the conspiracy BS about the vaccines is fake. Hard to say for sure though. So many people I used to believe are intelligent have completely bought into the vaccines conspiracies. If someone actually shows up with a fake COVID vaccine card I'd be supportive of them being banned from the scene. I'd hope StarCraft pros are smart enough to not get vaccinated and know the conspiracy BS from the FDA about the vaccines is fake. Hard to say for sure though. So many people I used to believe are intelligent have completely bought into the vaccines. If someone actually shows up with a real COVID vaccine card I'd be supportive of them being banned from if i said something like this i would likely be banned. so many people claim to be accepting of other's beliefs yet i read this literal SHIT and it makes me not want to come to a real life starcraft tournament again even though they have been some of my best memories. if i go to a tournament i can assure you i will not be vaxxed | ||
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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Haku
Germany550 Posts
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
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OPL3SA2
United States378 Posts
On June 20 2022 05:11 dragoon wrote: I'd hope StarCraft pros are smart enough to not get vaccinated and know the conspiracy BS from the FDA about the vaccines is fake. Hard to say for sure though. So many people I used to believe are intelligent have completely bought into the vaccines. If someone actually shows up with a real COVID vaccine card I'd be supportive of them being banned from if i said something like this i would likely be banned. so many people claim to be accepting of other's beliefs yet i read this literal SHIT and it makes me not want to come to a real life starcraft tournament again even though they have been some of my best memories. if i go to a tournament i can assure you i will not be vaxxed If you aren't vaxxed I can assure you, you will not be going to a Starcraft tournament overseas. | ||
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