Polt to military, leaves EnVyUs, BlizzCon reseeded
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Kovzirg
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Elentos
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On October 17 2016 00:45 Kovzirg wrote: I don't understand both of these Blizzcon withdrawals (Polt and Hydra). You literally just have to show up and are guaranteed a nice chunk of change. Maybe... oh I don't know... it's not so easy to "just show up"? You think Hydra could just be at the event on the 28th to play and then fly to Korea to get married the on the same day with severe jetlag (if he's even there on time because of time zones)? You think the military would have just let Polt go to Blizzcon but he decided to forfeit anyway? That's pretty optimistic. | ||
Blargh
United States2069 Posts
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PharaphobiaSC
Czech Republic457 Posts
On October 17 2016 00:45 Kovzirg wrote: I don't understand both of these Blizzcon withdrawals (Polt and Hydra). You literally just have to show up and are guaranteed a nice chunk of change. Have you ever been on wedding? It's not like you plan this in one day... | ||
Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
On October 17 2016 01:45 Blargh wrote: If I had to guess, these players will still receive the minimum prize money, as they did qualify but had to forfeit. I doubt it. Then what would their replacements get? There's not magically gonna be more price money because some people forfeited. | ||
Chidoriiiii
United States21 Posts
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On October 17 2016 00:45 Kovzirg wrote: I don't understand both of these Blizzcon withdrawals (Polt and Hydra). You literally just have to show up and are guaranteed a nice chunk of change. I feel Hydra should have scheduled his wedding for early October whenever he started planning a date, but Polt I don't think had a choice. Just from reading he has to do Military, Korea won't let him delay any further as he's 28 years old. So it sucks for him as I don't think there's anything he could have done to delay it. | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
On October 17 2016 01:45 Blargh wrote: If I had to guess, these players will still receive the minimum prize money, as they did qualify but had to forfeit. I am stabbing in the dark here because I do not know Blizzard's internal conversations on this but that seems incredibly unlikely. | ||
intotheheart
Canada33091 Posts
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MoonyD
Australia191 Posts
From a spectating point of view though, it would've been nice if he was replaced by another Terran. But there's not many good foreigners that play Terran | ||
FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
On October 17 2016 13:18 MoonyD wrote: I'm sure everyone in Group A don't mind Polt being replaced by a PittDrogo. Since for them it'd mean 1 less matchup to prepare for. From a spectating point of view though, it would've been nice if he was replaced by another Terran. But there's not many good foreigners that play Terran Well, there's MarineLord, Masa, and uThermal. But unfortunately, they didn't play well enough to make the 10th spot. I would say, that uThermal has been a pretty good Terran throughout LotV, and Masa's been getting better. It's just that Europe is dominated primarily by Zerg, and their Protoss has kept up but their Terran has not. And then for NA it's like Neeb, Masa, and Scarlett (and Puck and Pili among others) who are the top. | ||
Blargh
United States2069 Posts
I could see them not doing that too, since they are not actually playing the Ro16 at all, but I feel that would be a much more fair system. After all, the replacement players are still having their trip paid for, so they have little to lose. | ||
antigravity
29 Posts
On October 15 2016 09:28 uThermal wrote: Getting completely crushed by someone much better than you is still called a curse? I'll take it Forget curses, uthermy - you beat Neeb in IEM finals and then lose to Harstem at WESG qualifiers... How?? (No Benelux VODs.) Gotto think you would've made it in to top 8 at WESG Euro quals -- DeMusliM did! -- and then it's $400,000 to top 8 at WESG finals with only 2 Koreans... | ||
Nakajin
Canada8738 Posts
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Jj_82
Swaziland419 Posts
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PtitDrogo
France160 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17415 Posts
On October 17 2016 14:52 Nakajin wrote: I don't want to complain, but is there any special Blizcon preview comming up? I've been looking out for this too, we're less than 2 weeks away and usually they start coming up earlier than that I think | ||
FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
On October 18 2016 02:24 PtitDrogo wrote: Well duh It's life And this is why you're my favourite French Protoss whose name starts with a "p" who has won a tournament in the 2016 WCS season, is ranked 10 in the WCS standings and plays on myi. But more seriously, Drogo has been playing better as of late than he was around mid-2016, so if he practices a lot, then he might be able to show some good games (even if he doesn't necessarily make it out of the group). | ||
Swoopae
Australia339 Posts
Thanks for the memories Captain America | ||
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