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This is an indirect translation of the Korean Dailyesports's (DES) article: http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/read.php?id=77286
DES editorial: SPL finals makes way for LoL
Normally SPL finals will be one week after the semifinal playoffs. They leave an one-week gap because SPL finals were normally held in a big venue with tons of audience so they need to use that one week for marketing and promoting the event. And of course, teams need time to prepare the finals so they can show good games.
However, this year, DES leaks that KeSPA's schedule shows that the SPL finals are in the same week as the semifinal playoffs. The semifinals playoffs are during the weekdays and SPL finals are during the same weekend. If the semifinal playoffs are played a full BO3, then there will be even less time in between.
DES thinks that the reason of this situation is that the scheduling of SPL finals are giving its way to LoL. One week after the semifinal playoffs, there will be a LoL event that is held by Seoul's city government, and one week after that, there also will be an important LoL match. OGN is not going to have enough resources to do both at the same time. If the finals are three weeks later, then the hype will decline significantly. Therefore, KeSPA can only tighten the schedule of SPL.
But KeSPA's staff refuses that this is caused by the problems of the scheduling of television broadcast. But DES insists on their speculation and argues that in the past KeSPA always said the one-week gap is for promotion and marketing but now suddenly there is no need for promotion and no need for teams to prepare?
DES urges KeSPA to admit the problem and admit the depression of SC2 and the contraints caused by LoL, so that at least they can have some honesty and get some sympathy from fans. Otherwise, KeSPA should anticipate a SPL finals with historically smallest audience size.
translated from http://www.playsc.com/forum/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=362295&extra=page=1
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Wow, all of a sudden even more incentive for Stars to cement their number 1 spot.
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Well, it's not like last week's proleague schedule wasn't changed by LoL(as well as the timeslot change for the whole season), so there's precedence that there's a preference for LoL.
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United States33647 Posts
OGN has multiple obligations, LoL is their bigger draw by far, what ya gonna do?
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I just hope in 10 years we have all moved on from mobas.
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On May 28 2013 01:55 Eury wrote:
I just hope in 10 years we have all moved on from mobas.
Do you really? I mean imagine what kind of games would become the casual standard then. :/
Honestly though, it's really not hard to understand why OGN have made this choice, nor do I think they are to blame for it. I just hope the games will be satisfying to watch.
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On May 28 2013 01:55 Eury wrote:
I just hope in 10 years we have all moved on from mobas.
Not likely. Moba seems quite a good concept for both casual and hardcore gameplay and and also for spectator experience.
Dota and LoL are rather bad implementations with the Dota just randomly evolving out of WC3 heroes getting it accidentally rather right... and LoL copying the concept without really improving much.
Im thinking Dota as Dune2 and LoL as c&c 1 of moba's.
One day, there will be a moba that will be something between Broodwar and Starcraft2 of moba's. And it will bring progaming to mainstream.
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Well that's just sad. Never thought KeSPA would give in to LoL of all things.
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Is there a prize for being the first to guess that this thread will turn into a "Starcraft II is dying" thread?
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On May 28 2013 02:28 IcedBacon wrote:
Well that's just sad. Never thought KeSPA would give in to LoL of all things.
Did you even read the fucking article?
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smart choice by OGN considering how few people show up to SPL
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Lol event run by the city government wtf? Thats the real story in this article.
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United States33647 Posts
On May 28 2013 02:59 Sermokala wrote:
Lol event run by the city government wtf? Thats the real story in this article.
Seoul has held http://estarsseoul.org/ since 2007 as a multi discipline event
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I don't see why this is a problem at all? Or even worth a thread?
You have two events that will compete directly for viewership, you are free to schedule them whenever you like. Do you schedule them simultaneous? Or on different weekends?
What is it with people who think that because LoL is getting good viewers, SC2 is somehow in dire straights? The WCS EU finals had over 100,000 viewers. Seems to me like SC2 is doing just fine.
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No biggie, LoL is just bigger, so it's natural that SC2 has to move a little and it's not like it's being cancelled. I just hope they get a decent live viewership 
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The power of keSPA to ogn is obviously declining, even though multiple lol teams are keSPA teams.
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On May 28 2013 06:13 larse wrote:
The power of keSPA to ogn is obviously declining, even though multiple lol teams are keSPA teams.
I'd say the power of Kespa is declining and the power of OGN is rising, since OGN holds all the (LoL) cards in Korea. Kespa doesn't have any say in how the OGN LoL tournament is run.
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On May 28 2013 03:08 Acrofales wrote:
What is it with people who think that because LoL is getting good viewers, SC2 is somehow in dire straights? The WCS EU finals had over 100,000 viewers. Seems to me like SC2 is doing just fine.
Of course sc2 is doing fine worldwide, and people understand that. It just saddens people see to what has happened to starcraft in the place it was beyond massive
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United Kingdom14103 Posts
This makes sense, doesn't seem out of place to ease the load on resources.
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EPT
