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I'm so very happy premium tournaments finally continue!
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Are the group stages played online? Are any matches played offline, and if they are, where are they played? Will it be possible to actually go and watch any games live?
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On January 30 2019 04:16 BaneRiders wrote:Are the group stages played online? Are any matches played offline, and if they are, where are they played? Will it be possible to actually go and watch any games live?
Unfortunately no. No where to watch games live. Games are played only online until ro6.
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The reason why MCanning doesn't have a picture in the OP is because God is ethereal and any depiction we make of him would be an insult to his perfection.
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On January 30 2019 05:07 feardragon wrote: The reason why MCanning doesn't have a picture in the OP is because God is ethereal and any depiction we make of him would be an insult to his perfection.
What are you talking about? It's just a bug, his face is just above where it should normaly be.
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On January 30 2019 04:56 Legan wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 04:16 BaneRiders wrote:Are the group stages played online? Are any matches played offline, and if they are, where are they played? Will it be possible to actually go and watch any games live? Unfortunately no. No where to watch games live. Games are played only online until ro6.
...and where are they played after that?
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On January 30 2019 05:25 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 05:07 feardragon wrote: The reason why MCanning doesn't have a picture in the OP is because God is ethereal and any depiction we make of him would be an insult to his perfection. What are you talking about? It's just a bug, his face is just above where it should normaly be. No I just confirmed it with TeamLiquid admins. They said it would be offensive to some cultures to show the face of God in a less than perfect light. Definitely not exaggerating this.
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On January 30 2019 06:41 BaneRiders wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 04:56 Legan wrote:On January 30 2019 04:16 BaneRiders wrote:Are the group stages played online? Are any matches played offline, and if they are, where are they played? Will it be possible to actually go and watch any games live? Unfortunately no. No where to watch games live. Games are played only online until ro6. ...and where are they played after that?
No information yet, but should be just a studio show without audience. Probably happens in previous casting studio that was used for challenger last year.
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On January 30 2019 07:06 Legan wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 06:41 BaneRiders wrote:On January 30 2019 04:56 Legan wrote:On January 30 2019 04:16 BaneRiders wrote:Are the group stages played online? Are any matches played offline, and if they are, where are they played? Will it be possible to actually go and watch any games live? Unfortunately no. No where to watch games live. Games are played only online until ro6. ...and where are they played after that? No information yet, but should be just a studio show without audience. Probably happens in previous casting studio that was used for challenger last year.
That was kind of what I thought / feared. Was hoping for some confirmation that it would be in front of an audience. It seems such an incredible waste not to have this tourney live.
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On January 30 2019 06:46 feardragon wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 05:25 Nakajin wrote:On January 30 2019 05:07 feardragon wrote: The reason why MCanning doesn't have a picture in the OP is because God is ethereal and any depiction we make of him would be an insult to his perfection. What are you talking about? It's just a bug, his face is just above where it should normaly be. No I just confirmed it with TeamLiquid admins. They said it would be offensive to some cultures to show the face of God in a less than perfect light. Definitely not exaggerating this.
Then who's this, if not the face of God? + Show Spoiler +
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Hopefully the other WCS events will allow audiences
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Got to say, the scheduling is absolutely horrid for the Asia/Oceania players, who have to play at 3-6am. When 14 out of 32 players, that is almost half of the players, are from those regions, starting at 2pm EST is setting them up for failure on top of the cross server lag to NA they have to experience. I know it's called WCS Winter Americas and the casters are in the US, but they should at least accommodate half of the Circuit by starting at, say 6pm-8pm EST or even 12pm EST is better. Just my two cents.
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On January 30 2019 08:04 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 06:46 feardragon wrote:On January 30 2019 05:25 Nakajin wrote:On January 30 2019 05:07 feardragon wrote: The reason why MCanning doesn't have a picture in the OP is because God is ethereal and any depiction we make of him would be an insult to his perfection. What are you talking about? It's just a bug, his face is just above where it should normaly be. No I just confirmed it with TeamLiquid admins. They said it would be offensive to some cultures to show the face of God in a less than perfect light. Definitely not exaggerating this. Then who's this, if not the face of God? + Show Spoiler +
That my friend, is the face of pure evil!
On January 30 2019 08:58 argonautdice wrote: Got to say, the scheduling is absolutely horrid for the Asia/Oceania players, who have to play at 3-6am. When 14 out of 32 players, that is almost half of the players, are from those regions, starting at 2pm EST is setting them up for failure on top of the cross server lag to NA they have to experience. I know it's called WCS Winter Americas and the casters are in the US, but they should at least accommodate half of the Circuit by starting at, say 6pm-8pm EST or even 12pm EST is better. Just my two cents.
Pretty sure they scheduled this way so they can show the games directly after WCS EU so people stay tuned in
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guess i'll try to stay up for WCS America this time. I wanna see how far PsiArc will go.
also, uThermal fighting!
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On January 30 2019 18:10 Harris1st wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 08:58 argonautdice wrote: Got to say, the scheduling is absolutely horrid for the Asia/Oceania players, who have to play at 3-6am. When 14 out of 32 players, that is almost half of the players, are from those regions, starting at 2pm EST is setting them up for failure on top of the cross server lag to NA they have to experience. I know it's called WCS Winter Americas and the casters are in the US, but they should at least accommodate half of the Circuit by starting at, say 6pm-8pm EST or even 12pm EST is better. Just my two cents. Pretty sure they scheduled this way so they can show the games directly after WCS EU so people stay tuned in
That's understandable, but also consider this: the Asian/Oceanian audience won't be able to tune in to cheer for their region since it's middle of the night on a workday for them.
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On January 31 2019 02:45 argonautdice wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2019 18:10 Harris1st wrote:On January 30 2019 08:58 argonautdice wrote: Got to say, the scheduling is absolutely horrid for the Asia/Oceania players, who have to play at 3-6am. When 14 out of 32 players, that is almost half of the players, are from those regions, starting at 2pm EST is setting them up for failure on top of the cross server lag to NA they have to experience. I know it's called WCS Winter Americas and the casters are in the US, but they should at least accommodate half of the Circuit by starting at, say 6pm-8pm EST or even 12pm EST is better. Just my two cents. Pretty sure they scheduled this way so they can show the games directly after WCS EU so people stay tuned in That's understandable, but also consider this: the Asian/Oceanian audience won't be able to tune in to cheer for their region since it's middle of the night on a workday for them.
It's also cheaper this way, you don't have to pay the staff for the off hours and Oceania-NA time is hard to schedule in every case, I guess it could be latter but it will never be great for both East coast and Australia.
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Pretty excited for the EU group.
Pretty disgusted that people are disrespecting elfi by calling another player "God".
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On January 31 2019 05:01 D-light wrote: Pretty excited for the EU group.
Pretty disgusted that people are disrespecting elfi by calling another player "God".
That's obscene! Those Brood War fanatics must have spread the word, they were the first to call "God" that subpar Flash guy.
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On January 31 2019 08:02 Xain0n wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2019 05:01 D-light wrote: Pretty excited for the EU group.
Pretty disgusted that people are disrespecting elfi by calling another player "God". That's obscene! Those Brood War fanatics must have spread the word, they were the first to call "God" that subpar Flash guy. Kinda disappointing that some did do that prematurely.
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uThermal with the BM 2nd factory
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why is the main stream not featured on TL sidebar?
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Goblin never saw the mass thor comming.... sadly it suck hard
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No offense to Bly and Goblin, but those were some of the worst games I ever saw.
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There was a moment after Bly lost a lot of Hydras and the queens were low on energy where I honestly think the old carriers would've won that when plus 2 air attack finished and Goblin was up 20 army supply.
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if you want collect xp for warchests you have to watch on twitch itself.
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uThermal and ragequitting.
Such an iconic duo. Even in WCS.
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Blizz should give a small auto attack to disruptors, so they dont give themselves, the game would be much better !
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On February 01 2019 03:02 D-light wrote: uThermal and ragequitting.
Such an iconic duo. Even in WCS.
I miss the time when uThermal, Nerchio and Scarlett would come raging in tl thread between games
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Obv went Charge because he was expecting 1 base pressure; added 3rd 4th gas and Bay when his hallu scouted
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What happened to TvP? I saw uthermal whine even more than usual on twitter What did the patch change
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On February 01 2019 03:30 Poopi wrote: What happened to TvP? I saw uthermal whine even more than usual on twitter What did the patch change
He went 4-2 overall playing TvP only and advancing as first in his group.
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On February 01 2019 03:30 Poopi wrote: What happened to TvP? I saw uthermal whine even more than usual on twitter What did the patch change Nothing happened to it, obviously the matchup has been unplayable for Terran for the entirety of the last 8 years according to Battle.net forum or r/starcraft.
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nice defense, thought he would just die or lose a ton of probes, wp MCanning!
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Never thought he would take a map against Special. Crazy.
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Juanito's micro seems non-existent in part of this game
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On February 01 2019 05:00 yht9657 wrote: Juanito's micro seems non-existent in part of this game Micro is definitely not his biggest strength.
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Is Juan playing from Korea right now?
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Does someone knows how good Toodming is these day? I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years.
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On February 01 2019 05:11 Nakajin wrote: Does someone knows how good Toodming is these day? I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years. I think he is the second strongest Chinese player after TIME.
At least he got second in GPL.
Maybe Cyan is better? Hard to say, but TooDming is definitely in form again.
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On February 01 2019 05:16 Musicus wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2019 05:11 Nakajin wrote: Does someone knows how good Toodming is these day? I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years. I think he is the second strongest Chinese player after TIME. At least he got second in GPL. 4th place in the Chinese qualifier for WCS Winter. I think some of that is facilitated by iAsonu not being anywhere close to full-time.
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On February 01 2019 05:18 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2019 05:16 Musicus wrote:On February 01 2019 05:11 Nakajin wrote: Does someone knows how good Toodming is these day? I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years. I think he is the second strongest Chinese player after TIME. At least he got second in GPL. 4th place in the Chinese qualifier for WCS Winter. I think some of that is facilitated by iAsonu not being anywhere close to full-time. Yeah iA definitely fell off it seems. But with XY, Shana, Jieshy, Cloudy, Cyan, TIME, BreakingGG etc. the chinese scene seems pretty deep I have to say. Too bad there is no english coverage for most of it. Really hyped about that team league though.
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On February 01 2019 05:22 Musicus wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2019 05:18 Elentos wrote:On February 01 2019 05:16 Musicus wrote:On February 01 2019 05:11 Nakajin wrote: Does someone knows how good Toodming is these day? I don't think I saw him play in at leasr 2-3 years. I think he is the second strongest Chinese player after TIME. At least he got second in GPL. 4th place in the Chinese qualifier for WCS Winter. I think some of that is facilitated by iAsonu not being anywhere close to full-time. Yeah iA definitely fell off it seems. But with XY, Shana, Jieshy, Cloudy, Cyan, TIME, BreakingGG etc. the chinese scene seems pretty deep I have to say. Too bad there is no english coverage for most of it. Really hyped about that team league though.
The chinese scene has a rich and long history of being both deap and vibrant and inexorably average so I can't say I'm that exited, Jim is the only trully "great" players China ever gave us no one else was really a tournament contender level player., I hope it change someday but I think their server situation really hurt their grow. Maybe if they get to play on their server in the proleague they could turn out better then I thought.
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Yeah that wasn't so great.
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Wow I can’t believe mcanning is about to play the decider match here LOL
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On February 01 2019 07:48 vult wrote: Wow I can’t believe mcanning is about to play the decider match here LOL And he's the favorite in it
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nice try Erik
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Did... did Feardragon said PiLi when away to do weight lifting? Wtf
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I have to say, I think this format is much smarter and more sustainable long term. Sure offline matches have a certain sexiness to them, and who doesn't love big LAN events.
But done this way, we can spread out the content better, make each match feel more meaningful, and do something for the foreign scene that it hasn't had EVER: make series/group preparation as important as it is in GSL.
I feel like, as long as we're going to be doing Region Locked tournaments. THIS is how it should be done.
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On February 01 2019 08:58 Vindicare605 wrote: I have to say, I think this format is much smarter and more sustainable long term. Sure offline matches have a certain sexiness to them, and who doesn't love big LAN events.
But done this way, we can spread out the content better, make each match feel more meaningful, and do something for the foreign scene that it hasn't had EVER: make series/group preparation as important as it is in GSL.
I feel like, as long as we're going to be doing Region Locked tournaments. THIS is how it should be done. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 2019 we get three mostly online WCS winter / summer / autumn + 2 week-ender small super-tournaments, one in Europe and one in Canada. That is, a mirror of Korea.
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On February 01 2019 09:13 Xamo wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2019 08:58 Vindicare605 wrote: I have to say, I think this format is much smarter and more sustainable long term. Sure offline matches have a certain sexiness to them, and who doesn't love big LAN events.
But done this way, we can spread out the content better, make each match feel more meaningful, and do something for the foreign scene that it hasn't had EVER: make series/group preparation as important as it is in GSL.
I feel like, as long as we're going to be doing Region Locked tournaments. THIS is how it should be done. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 2019 we get three mostly online WCS winter / summer / autumn + 2 week-ender small super-tournaments, one in Europe and one in Canada. That is, a mirror of Korea.
I do love the idea of having offline finals and semifinals with a big cross over Super Tournament between seasons.
The big cost is travel expenses, and if Blizzard just flew everyone in a single region to a single studio say ESL in Europe, Blizz Arena in NA but only had to fly out 4-8 people per region I think it can be doable.
That would be ideal for me IMO.
But.. if the pencil pushers at Activision-Blizzard are still concerned about costs, then making the WCS Seasonal events all online wouldn't be the worst way to do it as long as we had at least 2-3 Offline events per year not including Blizzcon.
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OPs no longer required to update the results?
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