| PolskaGora United States. January 26 2012 15:51. Posts 471 | Profile # |
| It seems to me that the only thing meaningful I really got out of this is the fact that HotS will almost assuredly be released in 2013. Although the tournament will be great as well, I'm sure. I'm down for a tournament on (maybe even larger than) the scale of the Blizzard Cup, but run by foreigners instead. |
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| Nithix United States. January 26 2012 16:00. Posts 180 | Profile Blog # |
| I'm super glad that Blizzard decided to keep it to Wings of Liberty for the entire year. Can you imagine the extremely sad finals if it were HotS and the balance would potentially be crap? Sure, it will be hard for people to play both games to be good in this tournament, but the sanctity of balance is way more important, in my opinion. |
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| rotegirte Germany. January 26 2012 16:00. Posts 1824 | Profile # |
On January 26 2012 15:49 heartlxp wrote:
WOW the prize pool statement is a HUGE letdown, if you compare yourself to the World Cup, at least have equivalent prizes. Think about how much FIFA puts into their world championships. Riot and Valve are not pulling "stunts" when they offer big prize pools, they are showing their dedication and commitment to their product. repeating "grassroots" in hopes of someone else coming along to foot the bill is a gigantic cop-out. Especially coming from a multi-billion dollar company.
Well, what I would like to say is that there is one approach to eSports business that relies a lot on what I would call "stunts" "milking", in what you are trying to achieve is a lot of media attention minimal effort while asserting yourself in the industry. And then, we are treating eSports as a sport. We have the notion of building already built an organic, creative plan platform with Steamworks that really is global in nature and creates an aspirational infrastructure for all the countries we are operating in. That probably is the bulk of the difference between what we're trying to do here and what other competitors might be interested in doing.Last edit: 2012-01-26 16:02:16 |
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| how United States. January 26 2012 16:00. Posts 526 | Profile Blog # |
So the entire 2012 season is going to be played with Wings of Liberty, regardless of when we launch Heart of the Swarm.
I think this will create a lot of problems if HoTS is released in mid 2012. The players will either have to practice two different games, or just decide what tournaments matter more. Hopefully they just have a long beta phase, getting any glaring imbalances/bugs/glitches out, then release it just after the end of all this. |
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| iKill Denmark. January 26 2012 16:03. Posts 781 | Profile Blog # |
Will the process for qualifying for the World Championships be completely void of invitations? Will everyone have to go through the same process?
Ilja Rotelli: Everybody goes through the same process. Basically, we're trying to move away from the notion of invitationals that we used in 2011, and move into a transparent infrastructure that allows people from the outside to look in and say "Okay, if I want to go to World Championships, there's a path in front of me that allows me to qualify." It won't be Blizzard just picking people who are good for marketing purposes; it's really a sport.
Does Blizzard read TL?!
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| Roxor9999 Netherlands. January 26 2012 16:04. Posts 725 | Profile # |
| I assume some regions get more spots in the world championships, because, and I'm not starting a flame war here, South-America is probably the worst region and Asia the best so I think Asia will have 10 players (most likely all Koreans) and South-America will have 4 and Europe 8, North-America 6, and the rest of the world also 4. |
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| how United States. January 26 2012 16:05. Posts 526 | Profile Blog # |
On January 26 2012 16:03 iKill wrote:Will the process for qualifying for the World Championships be completely void of invitations? Will everyone have to go through the same process? Ilja Rotelli: Everybody goes through the same process. Basically, we're trying to move away from the notion of invitationals that we used in 2011, and move into a transparent infrastructure that allows people from the outside to look in and say "Okay, if I want to go to World Championships, there's a path in front of me that allows me to qualify." It won't be Blizzard just picking people who are good for marketing purposes; it's really a sport. Does Blizzard read TL?! This is the best news I've heard for SC2 this year. way to go blizzard
I don't know, the rape tournament style was pretty fun as well though... |
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| Dakkas January 26 2012 16:06. Posts 2379 | Profile # |
After some thought, I would have been hoping for a team tourny as well though the prospect of the 'World Cup' is exciting nonetheless
On January 26 2012 15:49 heartlxp wrote:
WOW the prize pool statement is a HUGE letdown, if you compare yourself to the World Cup, at least have equivalent prizes. Think about how much FIFA puts into their world championships. Riot and Valve are not pulling "stunts" when they offer big prize pools, they are showing their dedication and commitment to their product. repeating "grassroots" in hopes of someone else coming along to foot the bill is a gigantic cop-out. Especially coming from a multi-billion dollar company.
You're misinterpreting the statement there. They are pulling stunts because a large part of pulling "stunts" is about the attraction, which was one of the main purposes of the massive prizepools. They announced a gigantic amount of money to win (note that Riot announced the $2mil prize not long after Valve announced the $1mil prize for DOTA2) to give those scenes a big massive kickstart in terms of e-sports infrastructure. Of course they were going to succeed anyway however it would have been much longer before they reach the level that SC2 has in terms of global e-sports coverage.
Up until that, neither games have anything that competes with what SC2 has, MLG, IEM, DH and GSL.
That said I can agree with the sentiment, having a large prize-pool should be a main criteria for hosting a SC2 'World Cup'. It doesn't need to be as frivolous as $1mil but something considerable. Last edit: 2012-01-26 16:08:58 |
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| Yaki France. January 26 2012 16:09. Posts 4232 | Profile # | |
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| ChriS-X Australia. January 26 2012 16:09. Posts 660 | Profile # |
| wow, its like wcg, but just for sc2 and much bigger! |
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| MrMercuG Netherlands. January 26 2012 16:15. Posts 1593 | Profile # | |
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| Zic Canada. January 26 2012 16:17. Posts 31 | Profile # |
| If Blizzard keeps it's word about what they said in the interview, than it should be pretty great. |
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| McKTenor13 United States. January 26 2012 16:23. Posts 1378 | Profile Blog # |
| Thanks all that made this interview possible. I am extremely excited for this. I want a true world championship. This will finally be it. |
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| Spitmode Germany. January 26 2012 16:25. Posts 1468 | Profile # |
On January 26 2012 14:40 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Wow, this is so incredibly cool, I think all of the Blizzard haters just got served XD
No, they didn't. |
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| Ribbon United States. January 26 2012 16:40. Posts 5020 | Profile Blog # |
I'm really intrigued at this idea of as many lower level tournaments as possible leading into higher ones. Like, Next year there could be a New England tournament, and the winners of the regionals would go to the nationals.
It's a really cool idea, to build these local scenes. |
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| JujuXG United States. January 26 2012 16:41. Posts 373 | Profile # |
| Thank you Waxangel for the information and a amazing interview 2012 esport is going to be epic. |
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| cDgKargo Ireland. January 26 2012 16:53. Posts 21 | Profile # |
| I really hope there is an Irish qualifier although i doubt there will be |
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| FXOSirRobin United States. January 26 2012 17:02. Posts 223 | Profile # |
This post is blowing my mind right now. This is so incredible I wish my roommate or someone I knew was awake so I could tell them!
I love that they'll be qualifiers and not invitationals
so much awesomeness! |
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| nimdil Poland. January 26 2012 17:04. Posts 1142 | Profile Blog # |
I don't like it. in my opinion they should maybe support wcg 2012 instead of directly competing with it. Because while some organizations may be happy about this, i don't see wcg smiling. they could stick to battle.net invitational format and expand wcg which is already established.with national qualifiers.
Nothing really to be excited.about. |
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| how United States. January 26 2012 17:05. Posts 526 | Profile Blog # |
On January 26 2012 17:04 nimdil wrote:
I don't like it. in my opinion they should maybe support wcg 2012 instead of directly competing with it. Because while some organizations may be happy about this, i don't see wcg smiling. they could stick to battle.net invitational format and expand wcg which is already established.with national qualifiers.
Nothing really to be excited.about.
By competing, it forces both organizations to try harder. Why have NASL and IPL? They should just work together. |
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