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People can say all they like about the state of the Korean SC2 scene but you can't argue against the fact that there's going to be an absolute ton of people trying to qualify for GSL tonight.
Between the foreign expansion in Korea and the return of old faces these qualifiers will probably be one of the most exciting yet their competing for less slots than previous years.
Let's not argue that the previous Code A was good. It was horrible leading to either massive upsets or more frequently lower players getting smashed with 3'0s. That being said it did offer a lot more qualifying slots for players to aspire for.
Bringing back Code A perhaps modified/expanding Code S would be amazing. Something perhaps with larger groups for the RO64 similar to the SSL/old DH style.
We've got a lot of new life coming into the KR SC2 scene and capitalizing on it/supporting it would be amazing to prevent it from fizzling out.
Thoughts?
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I'm okay with it if you pay for it.
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You know who should pay for it?
Code A[pollo]
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On June 19 2018 02:18 Elentos wrote: I'm okay with it if you pay for it.
This exactly. I also think it would be great if we brought back Quake 3 tournaments too but no one is going to pay for those either.
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Previous Code S + Code A prize pools are very close to current Code S prize pools.
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On June 19 2018 02:30 LaughNgamez wrote: Previous Code S + Code A prize pools are very close to current Code S prize pools. Thank god the only people that need to be paid when organizing a tournament are the players. I'm sure Tastosis will volunteer to cast some more Starcraft, they love the game, don't they?!
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On June 19 2018 02:35 Ej_ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 19 2018 02:30 LaughNgamez wrote: Previous Code S + Code A prize pools are very close to current Code S prize pools. Thank god the only people that need to be paid when organizing a tournament are the players. I'm sure Tastosis will volunteer to cast some more Starcraft, they love the game, don't they?!
Well aware of that, this thread is basically just to say seeing Code A back would be awesome for the scene.
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On June 19 2018 02:40 LaughNgamez wrote:Show nested quote +On June 19 2018 02:35 Ej_ wrote:On June 19 2018 02:30 LaughNgamez wrote: Previous Code S + Code A prize pools are very close to current Code S prize pools. Thank god the only people that need to be paid when organizing a tournament are the players. I'm sure Tastosis will volunteer to cast some more Starcraft, they love the game, don't they?! Well aware of that, this thread is basically just to say seeing Code A back would be awesome for the scene.
Yeah it would be awesome but those days are long gone.
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On June 19 2018 02:04 Psychobabas wrote: With what money.
The WCS Challenger money. They don't need to open the whole studio for it, just make it like they make the WCS Challenger. Then also money needs to go away from WCS Circuit events and into GSL.
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The return of Code A would further increase the time a non-Korean has to spend in Korea to participate in the GSL which is something Blizzard doesn't want, so it definitely isn't happening even ignoring the issues of money.
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On June 19 2018 02:47 Boggyb wrote: The return of Code A would further increase the time a non-Korean has to spend in Korea to participate in the GSL which is something Blizzard doesn't want, so it definitely isn't happening even ignoring the issues of money.
I doubt Blizzard is really concerned with how long foreigners are spending in Korea. There hasn't been really any issues with scheduling and if someone wants to compete in Korean leagues how long they spend in Korea is their concern.
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If the funding could somehow get managed, this would be awesome.
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People don't realize how bad is SC2 in Korea atm, literally players who don't even break WCS 32 are able to qualify for GSL code S.
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Are there enough Korean players to fill Code A? Because if we’re counting on the foreigners to fill it then we might rather add more Circuit events instead, so we dont keep feeding money to the 5-7 foreigners that milk the two regions at the same time.
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On June 19 2018 03:15 Silvana wrote: Are there enough Korean players to fill Code A? Because if we’re counting on the foreigners to fill it then we might rather add more Circuit events instead, so we dont keep feeding money to the 5-7 foreigners that milk the two regions at the same time. With amateurs and semi-retired players you could theoretically fill up Code A. Though many of them never sign up to play qualifiers, or no show if they do.
I'm not sure last Code S qualifiers had enough players to fill Code A with the 2015/2016 format.
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On June 19 2018 02:35 Ej_ wrote: Thank god the only people that need to be paid when organizing a tournament are the players. I'm sure Tastosis will volunteer to cast some more Starcraft, they love the game, don't they?! There are plenty of casters other than Tastosis who would love the exposure and do it for close to nothing
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They could always go middle ground, replace RO32 with RO48 then have groups of 6 with top 4 advancing into RO32.
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If they could get ~1,500 people to attend every event with an average ticket price of $150 I wonder if it would be sustainable?
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Average ticket price of $150? For an E-sport event? You're serious? That's headlining pop star ticket prices...
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