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tigera6
3516 Posts
On June 22 2022 08:44 SoleSteeler wrote: Stoked! I wonder why Rogue declined his invite? Great prize pool! As people have said in other thread, Rogue cant leave Korea because of his incoming military service, the same go for Trap, and maybe Cure as well. | ||
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On June 22 2022 06:11 zelevin wrote: Why are Korean qualifiers single elimination while the rest are double elimination? Because Koreans have been notorious for forfeiting in the lower breaket in the past | ||
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swarminfestor
Malaysia2467 Posts
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JJH777
United States4420 Posts
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Gluon
Netherlands425 Posts
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True_Spike
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geokilla
Canada8255 Posts
On June 22 2022 11:04 tigera6 wrote: As people have said in other thread, Rogue cant leave Korea because of his incoming military service, the same go for Trap, and maybe Cure as well. That means they can't play in IEM Katowice either. | ||
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On June 22 2022 22:19 geokilla wrote: That means they can't play in IEM Katowice either. If they aren t enlisted allready by that time, they might get an exception, like Zest this year or Classic before his militarry service. Appearently there are ways to work something out with Kespa and the government, because IEM is the world championship | ||
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CrowbarBarney
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QOGQOG
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On June 23 2022 03:08 QOGQOG wrote: Didn't realize they'd gone back to region-locked qualifiers From Narutos comments about HSC I assume, that ESL asked them to have regionlocked qualifiers My gues is, that the discussion about the spot distribution made them go for Server qualifiers for the last 3 spots | ||
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Liquid`Nazgul
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[PkF] Wire
France24239 Posts
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
On June 23 2022 03:16 dbRic1203 wrote: From Narutos comments about HSC I assume, that ESL asked them to have regionlocked qualifiers My gues is, that the discussion about the spot distribution made them go for Server qualifiers for the last 3 spots Wasn't ESL bragging about how last year they'd quietly removed most region-locking? Maybe I'm misremembering. But it's an ass decision regardless. | ||
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[PkF] Wire
France24239 Posts
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On June 23 2022 08:13 QOGQOG wrote: Wasn't ESL bragging about how last year they'd quietly removed most region-locking? Maybe I'm misremembering. But it's an ass decision regardless. Well they brought Koreans into the DH Main events like DH Valencia So they Kind of softend the Region lock. They still want to unsure representation from each Region apearently. From a Business standpoint I can actually understand it, they would probably lose out on viewership, if (non hardcore-) fans from outside of KR and EU didn t have a hometown hero in the tournament. | ||
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
On June 23 2022 18:38 dbRic1203 wrote: Well they brought Koreans into the DH Main events like DH Valencia So they Kind of softend the Region lock. They still want to unsure representation from each Region apearently. From a Business standpoint I can actually understand it, they would probably lose out on viewership, if (non hardcore-) fans from outside of KR and EU didn t have a hometown hero in the tournament. You are probably right about things from the business side of things in the short term. But the un-softening is discouraging to me and has to be all the more discouraging for actual KR players. It wasn't like KR players took over the last TSL or anything, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to push this on tournaments that worked just fine not pulling this shit last time. That aside, choking out the Korean scene is a bad long term choice. It's survived a remarkably long time given how they've been treated, banned from or having their participation capped in most competitions while non-Koreans have always been able to take slots in KR "regional" events. There are already very few up-and-coming KR players, and yet it's still providing most of the "depth" in tournaments. If the KR scene collapses then it's just the top 3/4 EU players trading titles around and the game really will be dead. | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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Liquid`TLO
Germany767 Posts
On June 22 2022 06:11 zelevin wrote: Why are Korean qualifiers single elimination while the rest are double elimination? Regional preference, in the past Koreans often forfeited once they were in the lower bracket. We took their feedback so now it's single elim. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7427 Posts
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