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What a great event that gave so many good games over the last few years.The five-year-long WTL is about to come to its end
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Wardi
England894 Posts
What a great event that gave so many good games over the last few years. | ||
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Balnazza
Germany979 Posts
Kinda ironic that the "saudi team" Team Falcons even would have a legit team to play WTL right now ._. Questionable what will happen to Team Liquid and especially BASILISK. Can imagine Liquid might downsize a bit, while Serral and Reynor might try to look for a bigger team for EWC :/ | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland22975 Posts
On November 11 2024 20:10 Nakajin wrote: Noooooooooo I was afraid it would be happening, I hate the Saudi so much right now. Killing the best Starcraft 2 competition on top of everything... I'll write the league a proper eulogy later, but I can just say it was the best of time. Well that fucking sucks, albeit I said it at the time as well. EWC was never about the wider SC2 scene’s health. Never has been, never will be People cheerleading it aren’t just ignoring certain moral quandaries, they’re ignoring that as well. | ||
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Diplomat
United States45 Posts
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Xamo
Spain872 Posts
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lechatnoir
370 Posts
Cheers to the memories, it was a good run! | ||
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Antithesis
Germany1059 Posts
Thanks to the SCBoy team for the great run and continued events! | ||
Waxangel
United States32926 Posts
I do hope that some level of team competition keeps going; maybe in the style of clar wars from the old War3 days. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland22975 Posts
On November 11 2024 20:10 Nakajin wrote: Noooooooooo I was afraid it would be happening, I hate the Saudi so much right now. Killing the best Starcraft 2 competition on top of everything... I'll write the league a proper eulogy later, but I can just say it was the best of time. I could barely ever follow the league live, and really relied on your sterling efforts on previews/reviews to keep on top of it. If others did a few, also props Many thanks for that sir! | ||
Nakajin
Canada8979 Posts
On November 12 2024 09:18 WombaT wrote: I could barely ever follow the league live, and really relied on your sterling efforts on previews/reviews to keep on top of it. If others did a few, also props Many thanks for that sir! Thanks, I'm glad you liked it  TheOneAboveU deserves a lot of praise, he's the one who started the week-in-week-out coverage of the league, I just picked it up when he had to stop. Also, as a side note, I was planning to do a Balance Council/conspiracy machination spoof for the next WTL qualifier. I can't believe so much silly drama will go unused now. | ||
Mizenhauer
United States1756 Posts
On November 12 2024 11:54 Nakajin wrote: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it TheOneAboveU deserves a lot of praise, he's the one who started the week-in-week-out coverage of the league, I just picked it up when he had to stop. Also, as a side note, I was planning to do a Balance Council/conspiracy machination spoof for the next WTL qualifier. I can't believe so much silly drama will go unused now. Marco is GOATED. I'm glad you could pick it up after him and make it your own. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain17701 Posts
The other problems are clear, of course. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland22975 Posts
On November 13 2024 09:36 Acrofales wrote: So much for Microsoft being good for SC2. Problems with authorization just seems like such a bullshit excuse, when the Blizzard-China deal problems were solved years ago. The answer from Microsoft to "do you allow us to continue running this awesome team tournament with sponsors" should be an immediate and resounding yes. The other problems are clear, of course. I doubt it’s a Microsoft problem They might not be an improvement, but I doubt they would impede it either. It’s an ESL problem, unless I see evidence to the contrary I don’t see why Microsoft would block them unduly WTL was ultimately killled by EWC, they said so, it’s obvious just looking at it that EWC disrupted a lot. I already felt it sometimes hard to really get invested due to roster churn, it became harder still when the EWC basically forced a bunch of partnership teams with no history and that was half the field. Maybe Microsoft don’t fix these problems, but I also don’t see them actively working on making them worse. | ||
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yubo56
675 Posts
On November 12 2024 11:54 Nakajin wrote: Also, as a side note, I was planning to do a Balance Council/conspiracy machination spoof for the next WTL qualifier. I can't believe so much silly drama will go unused now. Can you post a blog post? I'd love to see it for one, only if it's not too much work The memes were surely legendary | ||
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CicadaSC
United States1174 Posts
On November 13 2024 09:36 Acrofales wrote: So much for Microsoft being good for SC2. Problems with authorization just seems like such a bullshit excuse, when the Blizzard-China deal problems were solved years ago. The answer from Microsoft to "do you allow us to continue running this awesome team tournament with sponsors" should be an immediate and resounding yes. The other problems are clear, of course. what do you mean? It was leaked WC3 is getting a 2.0 and WC2 a remake. Microsoft has a history with pushing Age of Empires content as well with remakes and sequals too. It is entirely possible they plan on making a SC3 or are already working on one. I dont know what u thought microsoft was going to do for SC2 in this scenario, invest in its esports? They are making a StarCraft shooter allegedly so i think it is entirely plausible they are using that to reignite fans interest in the ip and may plan on making a StarCraft 3 after that. | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8979 Posts
On November 13 2024 09:36 Acrofales wrote: So much for Microsoft being good for SC2. Problems with authorization just seems like such a bullshit excuse, when the Blizzard-China deal problems were solved years ago. The answer from Microsoft to "do you allow us to continue running this awesome team tournament with sponsors" should be an immediate and resounding yes. The other problems are clear, of course. Microsoft has cut hundreds if not thousands of jobs at Blizzard in the last two years, so it might not even be a real issue. Sometimes things take a long time in those big companies for purely administrative/bureaucratic reasons, even more people get cut by the dozens every other day. Who knows if the ESL file is just at the bottom of a pile somewhere? However, it sounds like SCBoy is waiting on ESL for the calendar and stuff, not the OK to run their event. | ||
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ejozl
Denmark3295 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland22975 Posts
On November 13 2024 23:05 ejozl wrote: Gief moar starswar plz those were great. Fighting! I cannot see china scene going away with how many promising talents are coming up. If they change the name I’m down. Given the cultural phenomenon of Star Wars has permeated basically my whole lifespan, at times enthused me, it is SO blooming awkward to say Stars War I kid, it’s cool to see these events, not just in SC2 but WC3 as well | ||
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duckTemplar
United States153 Posts
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Kashim
Poland1066 Posts
On November 18 2024 02:49 duckTemplar wrote: is there any upcoming big games in 2025 that's confirmed? Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora is confirmed https://x.com/BGEStaraZagora/status/1857063947632885854 | ||
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