On April 11 2013 08:45 archonOOid wrote: monchi over nightend, whitera and bling?
That's correct by all means. If any of the top EU Protoss players is missing and got snubbed, it's fraer. The others haven't had notable results in like forever.
On April 11 2013 08:45 archonOOid wrote: monchi over nightend, whitera and bling?
Of course yes, winning IeSF (beating Squirtle), top 4 DH Winter (beating Nerchio, NaNiwa, DIMAGA...) What have NightEnD, White-Ra and BlinG done in 2012 ?
It's hard to really think of rhyme or reason to some of the invites.
Capoch getting invited would imply that the previous WCS national champs/WCS performers get in but Potiguar, Adj, Levin, Maker, Ostojiy all missed out. Moonglade and Sen got in so that would imply SEA gets some representation but not a single player from WCS China or G-League made it.
So i dunno. hope there's explanations to each invite. It'll suck if it turns into an NCAA Championship thing where half the conversation on Selection Sunday is guessing not which teams will get in, but why they got in.
All joking aside, there are some very questionable invites... Also the whole no region lock I think will be looked back upon as a mistake. Hopefully this is all solved by 2014. Still overall i think a good idea by blizzard, they just need to work on the execution and buff out some kinks.
On April 11 2013 08:45 archonOOid wrote: monchi over nightend, whitera and bling?
That's correct by all means. If any of the top EU Protoss players is missing and got snubbed, it's fraer. The others haven't had notable results in like forever.
Now look at that invite list, and imagine that was all you had to watch, without the Koreans... 3K viewers on a good day... By season 2 half of them will be replaced by Koreans coming from the challenger bracket.
On April 11 2013 08:56 GeneralSnoop wrote: I wish White-Ra was invited. I don't have any results or anything to back up why he should be, but think a majority would be happy if he was!
It's a better story when he swoops the qualifiers and then wins the whole thing .
On April 11 2013 08:55 AgentW wrote: DeMusliM is not pleased that TaeJa nor himself is included. He's being very manner about it.
Taeja is currently in code s and no one currently in code s can join season 1 in another region - see MC in EU, he's not on list either. They have to try out for season 2.
On April 11 2013 08:57 Lukeeze[zR] wrote: qxc should be up there for NA as well
I'm a big fan of qxc, but I don't see it with his recent performance. He'd certainly be a fun player, and a threat to qualify, but who do you kick off that list for him?
On April 11 2013 08:45 archonOOid wrote: monchi over nightend, whitera and bling?
That's correct by all means. If any of the top EU Protoss players is missing and got snubbed, it's fraer. The others haven't had notable results in like forever.
2011 called. They would like their players back.
Fraer really, really should have been in. Would have loved to see heromarine also.
On April 11 2013 08:58 sitromit wrote: Now look at that invite list, and imagine that was all you had to watch, without the Koreans... 3K viewers on a good day... By season 2 half of them will be replaced by Koreans coming from the challenger bracket.
Then the round of 32 switches to offline only and they all go back to Korea because they don't have visas.