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MLGSC2 United States. February 01 2013 01:59. Posts 5

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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm™ Featured in MLG Winter Season – Details Revealed

We are excited to announce that Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm™ is featured in the MLG Winter Season via two invite-only competitions:

Online Winter Season Showdowns - Broadcast starts Monday, February 4 at 5pm ET
Exhibition Tournament at the Pro Circuit Winter Championship in Dallas, Texas: March 15 – 17

Online Winter Season Showdowns
The invite-only, Winter Season Showdowns features 56 of the top StarCraft II players in the world playing StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm before it is released to the public on March 12.
From Monday, February 4 through Friday, March 8, each weeknight, and select Sundays, at 17:00 EST[local], MLG will broadcast one Showdown at www.majorleaguegaming.com and www.twitch.tv/team/MLG. The complete broadcast schedule is available here.
The 28 players who win their Showdowns will advance to an invite-only, exhibition tournament at the Winter Championship.

Exhibition Tournament at the Winter Championship
The Winter Championship in Dallas, Texas, from March 15-17 will include an invite-only, 32-player, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm exhibition tournament just days after the game is released. The 28 players who win their Winter Season Showdowns will join the top four ( (Z)

Life,

Leenock,

Flash,

Bomber) from the MLG 2012 Fall Championship to compete in a single elimination bracket for $75,000 and a first place prize of $25,000.

All matches will be broadcast via two streams. Additional details about all events will be released in the coming weeks.

Note: the Winter Championship will not include an open-bracket tournament for Starcraft II.

Additional Details

Winter Season Showdowns Overview
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Winter Season Showdowns Broadcast Schedule
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Winter Season Showdowns Players and Matchups
+ Show Spoiler +

Winter Season Map Pool
+ Show Spoiler +

Exhibition Tournament at the MLG Winter Championship
+ Show Spoiler +

Full details available here.

YouTube.com/OfficialMLGSC2

Demonhunter04 February 01 2013 02:02. Posts 1467

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MLG Winter starts Feb 4 and ends March 12? Isn't that spring?

Last edit: 2013-02-01 02:40:11

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hoby2000 United States. February 01 2013 02:04. Posts 698

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On February 01 2013 02:02 Demonhunter04 wrote:
MLG Winter starts Feb 4 and ends March 12? Isn't that spring?

This is normal. They tend to do their championships at the very end of the season of whatever it's for. Spring will be in June, summer in September, and fall in november, maybe beginning of december.

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mrRoflpwn United States. February 01 2013 02:05. Posts 2394

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Hmm, interesting format, but its so biased to making already popular player even more popular

MC for President- Huk for VP!

Yhamm France. February 01 2013 02:07. Posts 809

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how were the showdown done? random?
Fantasy vs Parting
Ret vs Feast
Stephano vs Titan
etc

quite unfair for some players

edit: sorry, it is explained here : http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/competitions/55#event_140_winter-season-showdown-players

Last edit: 2013-02-01 02:09:18

We will have only each other at the last

mrRoflpwn United States. February 01 2013 02:09. Posts 2394

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On February 01 2013 02:07 Yhamm wrote:
how were the showdown done? random?
Fantasy vs Parting
Ret vs Feast
Stephano vs Titan
etc

quite unfair for some players

Its pretty obvious that they want a bunch of foreigners in so people watch. Pretty biased competition imo

MC for President- Huk for VP!

MLG_Adam United States. February 01 2013 02:11. Posts 670

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On February 01 2013 02:09 mrRoflpwn wrote:

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Its pretty obvious that they want a bunch of foreigners in so people watch. Pretty biased competition imo

It is clearly mapped out in the main story, regional qualification:
KESPA (5) - 10 KESPA players competing for 5 spots

Parting vs. Fantasy
Rain vs. Flying
Innovation vs. TY
Roro vs. Hero
Soulkey vs. Last

ESF (5) - 10 ESF players competing for 5 spots

DongRaeGu vs. Jjakji
MarineKing vs Gumiho
Mvp vs Curious
Creator vs Nestea
Sniper vs Seed

Independent/Western (3) - 6 Western+ Independent Korean players competing for 3 spots

MC vs Alive
Hero vs Polt
Taeja vs Violet

North America (7) - 14 NA players competing for 7 spots

Killer vs Qxc
Huk vs Sasquatch
Scarlett vs Goswser
Idra vs Ddoro
Suppy vs Maker
Fenix vs State
Vibe vs Illusion

Europe (7) - 14 EU players competing for 7 spots

Stephano vs Titan
Nerchio vs BabyKnight
Mana vs Bly
Grubby vs Dimaga
Socke vs Thorzain
Ret vs Feast
Sase vs Snute

Southeast Asia (1) - 2 SEA players competing for 1 spot

Sen vs Moonglade

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SkaPunk United States. February 01 2013 02:12. Posts 422

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Don't really want to watch it if there are no open brackets.

Team Fallacy

VirgilSC2 United States. February 01 2013 02:13. Posts 5743

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On February 01 2013 02:09 mrRoflpwn wrote:

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Its pretty obvious that they want a bunch of foreigners in so people watch. Pretty biased competition imo

The selection criteria alone was quite biased in my opinion.

Players like IEM Champion (T)

WW.Sting couldn't get an invite while players like retired (Z)

exQuantic-Hawk did.

EDIT: I think it's important to note that it's completely reasonable to set the invitation criteria to "Most Popular" but at least it should be noted as "Most Popular" and not "Best"

Last edit: 2013-02-01 02:17:13

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kju February 01 2013 02:14. Posts 2710

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pretty disappointing but I didn't expect anything else from MLG

IPL picked it up at least

MyFirstProbe Netherlands. February 01 2013 02:15. Posts 266

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I think I will watch it, despite there being no open bracket. An open bracket would be a bit pointless anyway imo, since not that many players will have practiced much, due to this event being just after release and not everyone having beta acces.
Edit: It feels weird, seeing parting among the kespa players.

Last edit: 2013-02-01 02:15:49

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BronzeKnee United States. February 01 2013 02:15. Posts 2625

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On February 01 2013 02:12 SkaPunk wrote:
Don't really want to watch it if there are no open brackets.

Yeah me too... this replacement of the open bracket is... well nothing really replaced it.

BisuDagger United States. February 01 2013 02:15. Posts 5459

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On February 01 2013 02:11 MLG_Adam wrote:

Show nested quote +

It is clearly mapped out in the main story, regional qualification:
+ Show Spoiler +

There's always going to be people who don't take the time to understand the information available or just choose to hate for no reason. Thankfully Adam is always awesome at replying to these post in good manner.

OT: Can't wait to watch this!

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KiF1rE United States. February 01 2013 02:16. Posts 843

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How is the showdown thing based on HOTS accomplishments? How many of those players have won a tournament or broke rank 2 GM in HOTS? As ive done both(granted small tournament but w/e there isnt much atm MLG is the first big event for it lol)... Just seems like claiming " top StarCraft II players in the world based on recent performances playing StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm" is kind of flawed and its just a sheer invitational everyone that's popular or did well in MLG with WoL with that player list.

regardless was expecting for some form of announcement to make up for the lack of open bracket, And as a competitor what is my Gold membership now useful for? As clearly I cant compete or sign up for anything now... making my gold relatively useless.

Arevall Sweden. February 01 2013 02:16. Posts 506

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I'll watch it. Will be some great matches!

Gladiator6 Sweden. February 01 2013 02:17. Posts 6821

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PartinG vs Fantasy o_O

Flying, sOs, free, Light, Soulkey & ZerO

Vindicare605 United States. February 01 2013 02:17. Posts 6487

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I'm not sure beta is in a good enough place balance wise for a major tournament yet although the championship will of course be played when the game is actually on live servers.

It's going to be exciting though that's for sure but there's guaranteed to be some frustrating games played as well. The volatility is bound to be high for a tournament like this.

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AGIANTSMURF United States. February 01 2013 02:17. Posts 1206

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I hope this is a one time thing somehow related to HOTS just being released, Following the open brackets was always my favorite part of the MLG, even if I wasnt participating.

I may check this one out, but looking forward to future events with open brackets

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avilo United States. February 01 2013 02:18. Posts 3232

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Invite only, hmm. Looks like IPL will be taking up the mantle of a tournament that wants "e-sports to make it."

This invite only bullshit gets old fast. This will stay a niche thing if organizations try and go this invite only route for "quick views" rather than actually building up the player base.

While me, and you here, and the hardcore might enjoy watching top koreans duke it out...guess what the outsider sees from their point of view?

"Oh yeah SC? I've heard of that, those asian guys play it a lot, same ones win all the time. Hey, there's a Raven's game this sunday, let's go see that."

Oh wells, we all heard IPL has an open bracket we can be interested in

Last edit: 2013-02-01 02:21:03

Sup

PhoenixVoid Canada. February 01 2013 02:19. Posts 8621

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Seems a bit limited having only invites, but I guess it keeps the quality of players at a higher level. Some cool matches are in the wings though, so I'm definitely watching.

Remember, IMMvp, not IMMVP I Lysander