Selith Profile Joined September 2010 United States 238 Posts #1



I'm not going to translate the whole thing word by word; I'll just give you the cliff's note:



World Cyber Games announced officially today that StarCraft 1 will no longer be part of WCG Grand Finals lineup. In its stead, StarCraft 2 has been selected.



Reason behind it is that "We decided to remove StarCraft 1 from our games lineup after a discussion with the gamers from all over the world, as well as the partner companies. Also, as we aim to represent the world's premier gaming tournament, we chose to use StarCraft 2 -- as the game is popular worldwide."



Fomos notes, while StarCraft 1 is removed only from the Grand Finals lineup, it is not likely to be seen on any WCG events from now on. Source: http://www.fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=115391&db=issue&cate=&page=1&field=&kwrd= I'm not going to translate the whole thing word by word; I'll just give you the cliff's note:World Cyber Games announced officially today that StarCraft 1 will no longer be part of WCG Grand Finals lineup. In its stead, StarCraft 2 has been selected.Reason behind it is that "We decided to remove StarCraft 1 from our games lineup after a discussion with the gamers from all over the world, as well as the partner companies. Also, as we aim to represent the world's premier gaming tournament, we chose to use StarCraft 2 -- as the game is popular worldwide."Fomos notes, while StarCraft 1 is removed only from the Grand Finals lineup, it is not likely to be seen on any WCG events from now on.

lisherwin Profile Joined June 2009 United States 51 Posts #2



User was warned for this post what #1 fanboy of Sayle, the hero of Broodwar! Sayle Hwaitiiing!!

GTR Profile Blog Joined September 2004 48897 Posts #3 Most logical choice from WCG. Commentator Twitter: @GTR1H

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Kiante Profile Blog Joined December 2009 Australia 6612 Posts #4

cant say i didn't see it coming, but it still hard to swallow This is sad. No more BW players at wcg, they're becoming even more seperated from us foreignerscant say i didn't see it coming, but it still hard to swallow Writer

bokchoi Profile Blog Joined March 2010 Korea (South) 7381 Posts #5 Makes sense. Barely anyone outside of Korea plays the game competitively anymore. Majority of top foreign players have moved on to SC2. How many "top" foreign players are left in BW anyways?

Jackle Profile Joined January 2010 Canada 824 Posts #6 Whatever foreign "competition" that used to be there have probably all moved over to SC2 already, It'll just be a battle between the Progamers that win the Korean Qualifier, like it usually is anyways... You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind.

Boblion Profile Blog Joined May 2007 France 8032 Posts Last Edited: 2011-03-07 02:51:55 #7 Less JvF... meh.



They should just make a WCG Korea tourney instead.

KCG yo ~ fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.

saint_fu Profile Joined April 2010 Canada 61 Posts #8 So sad to see that foreign SC:BW is slowly fading out. I just hope bw remains strong in Korea for many years to come.

HKriceboy88 Profile Joined October 2009 United States 248 Posts #9 I'm sad, but i guess this was bound to happen one day. No more auto 1,2,3 finishes for Korea. =[ Heros- Jaedong, Day9

Ideas Profile Blog Joined April 2008 United States 7776 Posts #10 hopefully it'll come back one day. I'll always believe that BW will rebound in the foreign scene! I like starcraft

blahman3344 Profile Blog Joined March 2009 United States 2013 Posts #11 As much as I want to disagree with WCG's choice, it's actually logical. There's virtually no foreign scene left in BW, so something like WCG would be strapped for good players. It's a shame though, I was hoping that it'd be able to pull through for at least one more year. =\ I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny

IamBach Profile Blog Joined August 2010 United States 1059 Posts #12 Yeah I agree with Ideas. It'll be back. I imagine this is only temporary. Just listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__lCZeePG48

Release Profile Blog Joined October 2010 United States 4395 Posts Last Edited: 2011-03-07 02:54:37 #13 Watching sc2 is so much less exciting than watching sc1.

I can see that they chose sc2 because of the more players, but the spectators will suffer.

I was hoping for one more year so Jaedong or Flash would make it to the hall of fame. ☺

Milkis Profile Blog Joined January 2010 4969 Posts #14 Saw this coming, since WCG pulled off similar promotion stunts before to make some sort of statement. It's not like WCG really has a choice this time around, anyway.

baoluvboa Profile Joined December 2010 742 Posts #15 On March 07 2011 11:53 Release wrote:

Watching sc2 is so much less exciting than watching sc1.

I can see that they chose sc2 because of the more players, but the spectators will suffer.



Agreed and I'm a sc2 player now (used to play bw)

Oh well at least proleague is the most exciting tourney to watch. Agreed and I'm a sc2 player now (used to play bw)Oh well at least proleague is the most exciting tourney to watch.

Tempest[OEC] Profile Joined February 2010 United States 417 Posts #16 Dammit. I really liked watching WCG Korea selection games.

Antoine Profile Blog Joined May 2010 United States 7347 Posts #17 On one hand, WCG is going to be a huge loss - it delivered awesome games every year, just last year looking at FvJ on Grand Line and Tau Cross those were 2 of the best games in all of 2010. On the other hand, the foreign scene is getting pretty weak. I'm also interested about a possible future return if bw rebounds abroad, is there any precedent in wcg for a game going away but coming back later? Moderator Flash Sea Action Snow Midas | TheStC Ret Tyler MC | RIP 우정호

Karthane Profile Joined June 2010 United States 1173 Posts #18 Can't say i blame them. Ah well, atleast we know that SC2 will be there.



RIP BW

Existential Profile Joined December 2010 Australia 1957 Posts #19 Wow this is a real shame. BW is 100x more fun to watch than SC2. Though Iove watching both. Jaedong <3 | BW - The first game I ever loved

Draconicfire Profile Joined May 2010 Canada 2561 Posts #20 Hm, can't say I'm surprised. Would've loved to see them both at WCG tbh. @Drayxs | Drayxs.221 | Drayxs#1802

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