I really appreciate the yearly "underdog's stories" of Lyon and Leicester running through the bracket. Also the teams like Barcelona, Juventus, Man City and Liverpool will just hammer weaker teams every year and completely dominate the tournament. You really dont want to see Bayern and Real completely dismantling everyone and meet in finals every year. Normal sports dont have a "loser's bracket" for a reason. I honestly cant see how Suning will be the worlds fkin finalists if they have to go through TES and JDG again. Do you really want to see T1 winning everything every year? No fkin way miracles only happen ONCE. Losers should not be given a second chance because it will completely nullify the significance of upsets. Blizzard gutted LAN support out of SC2 so that they could hold a monopoly on esports, extort royalty fees out of the scene and blacklist any unapproved tournament organisers.Ĭompletely disagree. They didn't consult with their stakeholders, gave exclusivity contracts to companies like MLG who were ill-prepared to host the league and blocked NASL from continuing to host their own league via broadcasting embargoes - starving them of money and forcing them to take shitty side-gigs like casting the World of Tanks League.Īnd it's not like NASL could have defied the embargo either. Basically, Blizzard tried to rip-off LCS by announcing the SC2 World Championship Series with three leagues hosted in Europe, North America and Korea. The tale is almost as tragic as the North American Star League, which died due to Blizzard's sheer incompetence and corporate greed rather than through problems of their own. I also feel bad for anybody who invested their money into transport or hotel costs to attend IPL6, just for IGN's parent company to fuck them over.
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It was one of the best leagues devised during the esports boom but it was monetised so badly that Ziff Davis Media unsurprisingly axed it rather than try to make it work.
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The story of the IGN Pro League and its downfall makes me sad.