The World Cyber Games were always an important event in the foreign Broodwar scene, until it eventually changed to SC2 as well in 2011. But last year WCG happened for the last time. However, I saw today that there is now a new organization that looks like it wants to continue its legacy. It is called WECG.
It looks like they want to create something very much like WCG always was. There is also a poll right now where you can vote for games to be played. Personally I voted for BW as an RTS because I think there are already enough other tournaments for SC2. I still think it is highly unlikely that we can make them actually pick BW but why not at least give it a try.
Even if it bombs spectacularly, you all need to log onto twitter and post this everywhere #bw4lyfe, go on battle.net and iccup and put it in your profile and just tell random people to vote. You need to post it on your facebook and tell your whole family to start voting. You need create multiple IP addresses to vote over and over and over until you pass out from exhaustion.
Voted! let's spread this! I'm sure we can get BW to be played professionally again. Do the Koreans seem aware of it? Maybe post the link to afreeca streamers or something to pass around.
Having people organize country qualifiers and a sponsor to fly the players is actually much more important and difficult in terms of organization than having a main event. WCG qualifiers were already a mess during BW's prime.
It is ironic that I started out as a SC2 player and viewer but, with time, I grew to appreciate BW more and more. So of course I voted for BW now, SC2 is a good game, but, all hail the best of all time BW!
On June 21 2014 14:19 Lucumo wrote: No CS 1.6 for FPS, pff. There is not even DotA in it.
I wondered about that as well. Voted for GO instead but would have liked 1.6.
But there are no pro teams who play 1.6 any more. Same thing with Dota. Would be nigh impossible to make NIP, SK, Navi etc to fly their players across The world for a 1.6 tourney, and The small teams can't afford it.
On June 22 2014 06:22 GGzerG wrote: so if BW wins the vote, would it be only in china , or is this a global event? Voted...really happy to see this as well.
the event will be held in China but from what I understand it is a global event (it s a revamp of WCG).
Did you really believe that BW would make it over SC2? My hope is that BW will make it through regardless of SC2.
Hearthstone :/
lol sure i didnt believe that- but having sc2 as an RTS already means that chances for BW getting in are pretty bad. Well, they were pretty bad to begin with, but let's hope (;
i don't use r/Starcraft at all any more. Now i understand why we were warned that democracy differs from the rule of the masses. So, for proper minoirty protection, i just use r/broodwar (;