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[SamuraiX-]

Oh, wow.

Coach Park to CJ Entus

CJ announced that they hired Coach Park (former SK and EGTL coach) for their new coach.

-omitted-

The former CJ coachess, Kim Dong Woo and Park Si Hyun, and CJ both agreed not to to re-sign.

 

[Aaron]

Good for Park and CJ. Makes me wonder more what form the next proleague will take.

 

[Hazaro]

I started DOTA last week.

Hope the coaching arrangements work out. Are they jumping to LoL or DOTA or something else?

 

[Ketch]

I think I'm at that spot on the ladder once again, where I loose like 10 in a row.

 

[Corran Horn]

Oh, wow.

Coach Park to CJ Entus

I imagine EG-TL not being on proleague for long term probably makes it easy for him to change teams

 

[Yoshichan]

I'm still here bros!

 

[Wunder]

I'm still here bros!

but you've changed

 

[Yoshichan]

but you've changed

hooooooow ._.

 

[Wunder]

hooooooow ._.

you're a LoLler, you've been tainted

 

[Yoshichan]

you're a LoLler, you've been tainted

I just downloaded the client, I haven't tried it yet!! :3

 

[profit]

I just downloaded the client, I haven't tried it yet!! :3

Its not too late yet Yoshi, install Dota 2 instead! We can stomp pubs all day!

 

[Boken]

See I'm already getting friends with LoL!

send me your id, we play together brah.

Let's do this

 

[Yoshichan]

Why does no one do this whenever I say "I'm about to play some SC2"?

in b4 Holden: "cuz sc2 sux"

 

[Holden]

Why does no one do this whenever I say "I'm about to play some SC2"?

in b4 Holden: "cuz sc2 sux"

Vi sittar här i Venten och spelar lite dota
å pushar på å smeker, med motståndet vi leker

 

[Yoshichan]

Vi sittar här i Venten och spelar lite dota
å pushar på å smeker, med motståndet vi leker

Hate his face and that song

 

[Holden]

song so good wtf

 

[Yoshichan]

song so good wtf

maybe 10 years ago

for 5 minutes

shiiiiiiiiet man

 

[Hazaro]

I just downloaded the client, I haven't tried it yet!! :3

Play Dota instead

 

[Holden]

maybe 10 years ago

for 5 minutes

shiiiiiiiiet man

ni är inte min vänner

Spoiler

learning swedish lol;

 

[Yoshichan]

This thread just leveled up

Moar swedish!

 

[SamuraiX-]

Today's matches:

Scarlett vs

Jim (Best of 3) -- Result:

Spoiler

Scarlett 2 - 0 Jim

Life vs

MMA (Best of 5) -- Result:

Spoiler

Life 3 - 2 MMA

Stream

http://www.twitch.tv/khaldor

Playoffs Bracket:

 

[Pandaman]

Let's do this

Yoshi is dodging me. </3


in somewhat related news, the spilled beverage Gods have claimed my Razer blackwidow, i have commended it's soul into the earth and thanked it for its years of service. I now welcome my new steelseries 7G overlord and will break it in by 6pooling someone.


edit:
Functional.

 

[profit]

Why does no one do this whenever I say "I'm about to play some SC2"?

in b4 Holden: "cuz sc2 sux"

Well because SC2 is not a team game. When I get on SC2 I just want to play some games, and if I can a hold of someone immediately, thats great but its not necesarry.

When you play a team game, its not necesarry to get some friends together, but it enhances the fun. For me anyways.

 

[Yoshichan]

I am NOT ignoring you Panda, I would never! I'd love to play some games but it'll have to happen next month - way too busy with shitty work this month ._.

 

[ksan]

blizz top 3 event timing control, good job
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/359395359178498048

Blizzard announces they'll be holding each of the WCS S2 Regional finals (NA, EU, KR) on the same weekend. Same time as The International 3.

 

[SamuraiX-]

blizz top 3 event timing control, good job
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/359395359178498048

Holy shit what an insane weekend that'a gonna be.

 

[Deadman]

Wow, blizz are a special kind of stupid

 

[Corran Horn]

blizz top 3 event timing control, good job
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/359395359178498048

Welp blizz guess I won't watch wcs till finals probably.

 

[AdventureRacing]

Sometimes it feels like blizz are trying to fuck things up. I guess maybe they want to show people how a proper company runs it's esport. I'm a massive SC2 fan but the international is going to shame anything blizz could ever put on.

 

[Boken]

Sometimes it feels like blizz are trying to fuck things up. I guess maybe they want to show people how a proper company runs it's esport. I'm a massive SC2 fan but the international is going to shame anything blizz could ever put on.

thats so biased

 

[AdventureRacing]

thats so biased

For who?

 

[Mairu]

I'm so goddamn busy with work+moving I haven't had time to watch any SC2 recently =(

But then I see that Blizzard keeps making mistake after mistake with WCS and I wonder why I even bother. It's like they want people to stop caring about SC2.

 

[Boken]

I'm so goddamn busy with work+moving I haven't had time to watch any SC2 recently =(

But then I see that Blizzard keeps making mistake after mistake with WCS and I wonder why I even bother. It's like they want people to stop caring about SC2.

i think what theyve done so far post HOTS has been pretty good tbh

For who?

against blizz ofc

 

[Corran Horn]

I'm so goddamn busy with work+moving I haven't had time to watch any SC2 recently =(

But then I see that Blizzard keeps making mistake after mistake with WCS and I wonder why I even bother. It's like they want people to stop caring about SC2.

Just wait for blizz dota! It will turn things around for esports!



You think with the purchase of IPL that blizz would improve on its Esports focus....but alas...nope!

 

[PhoenixDark]

Just wait for blizz dota! It will turn things around for esports!

trollolol

I'd imagine it looks far better than it did when it was first revealed...but I doubt it'll be much of anything. Blizzard has been shooting blanks lately.

 

[Mairu]

i think what theyve done so far post HOTS has been pretty good tbh



against blizz ofc

HOTS is a good game, but everything they've done this year with WCS has been mistake after mistake after mistake. Whoever has been in charge of eSports at Blizzard since Ilja Rotelli left for Riot is a fucking moron.

 

[Boken]

HOTS is a good game, but everything they've done this year with WCS has been mistake after mistake after mistake. Whoever has been in charge of eSports at Blizzard since Ilja Rotelli left for Riot is a fucking moron.

Establishing the WCS, adding esports exposure in the client

All sound pretty good at least

 

[Corran Horn]

Establishing the WCS, adding esports exposure in the client

All sound pretty good at least

Sounds good. Then you realize WCS hurts most tournaments outside of WCS itself :/

 

[Aaron]

Dear Blizzard, I've been watching pro Starcraft since Broodwar, and even I'm watching the International. You've dun fucked up.

 

[AdventureRacing]

i think what theyve done so far post HOTS has been pretty good tbh

All they have done is establish the WCS which has frankly been a clusterfuck. It has also negatively impacted the scene outside of the WCS. If anything there was a lot of increased hype with the release of HOTS and since the announcement of WCS things have slowly been going downhill.

I'm curious what else they have really done that is positive. Compared to riot and valve blizzard are a joke.

against blizz ofc

That definitely sounds like me.

 

[Wunder]

roflmao blizzard so smart

 

[Yoshichan]

GJ Blizz.

 

[profit]

Blizzard really needs to stop to try and compete against every other competitive game....

 

[CmdBash]

is it me or are blizzard trying to purposely kill the competitive scene. Why on earth would you every set your wcs regional finals all on the same weekend as the damn biggest, most prestigious dota 2 tournament of the year? Seriously, I never ever watch dota 2 and I'm still going to pick it over some lame sc2 regionals.

 

[Hazaro]

The value Valve has added to DOTA 2 and it's tournaments and direct financial support and promotion and prize money for teams completely eclipses Blizzard's shitty and thrown together WCS.

Spectator is stupidly amazing, all eSports stuff is right in the client, purchases for teams are visible and support them, you get fucking player cards as loot drops, this thing: http://www.dota2.com/international/compendium/

International 2:

...and International 3 has 2.6M+ as a prizepool (vs. 1.6M) with an obvious focus on eSports.

 

[SamuraiX-]

Update from Kim Phan on reddit:

We wanted to clarify a few points regarding the timing of the WCS Season 2 League Finals. Given the intricacies of coordinating schedules between multiple regions and partners, travel requirements for pro-gamers, availability of appropriate venues, and more, it's quite a challenge to align all these often conflicting priorities. Adding in the schedules of other events which we have no control over adds another layer of unworkable complexity.

So how did we arrive at the dates for the major WCS Season 2 events? What we knew is that we wanted to have ESL produce a world-class Finals event at gamescom in Germany in late August, which they'll be announcing more details about very soon. That meant working the schedule backward from that point. In order to give partners enough time to plan and execute for a global Season 2 Finals at gamescom, there was only a small window of opportunity for us to have the various regional finals.

Unfortunately this has resulted in overlaps with other major eSports events. These conflicts were certainly not intentional. This simple fact is that as eSports has grown with more events, more games, and more viewers; it's nearly impossible to avoid all conflicts. Many major weekend events already host multiple games, which are running simultaneous game streams in conflict with each other.

That said, we do understand the various concerns that players, teams, and viewers have with this particular conflict and as we have in the past, will continue to do our best to avoid this type of overlap in the future.

trollolololololololol

 

[Boken]

i find it strange how gamers *never* give companies the benefit of the doubt

 

[Mairu]

i find it strange how gamers *never* give companies the benefit of the doubt

where do they sell fanboy blinders? yours are super effective

 

[Boken]

where do they sell fanboy blinders? yours are super effective

I dont think you know who I am

 

[Yoshichan]

Fight?

Fight.