Comments on: WGL Finals – How I saw it…

By: Ruukil

Ruukil — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 09:07:11 +0000

I was one of the English commentators for the event and I read your blog religiously. Thanks for the feedback, it’s hard to find well thought out opinions on wot esports. I expect that one way or another esports will bring big news you won’t be able to avoid in the future.

I hope you caught some of the press releases from VK himself at the event.

By: Gideon Ravenor

Gideon Ravenor — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:58:58 +0000

“specifically why the fuck is Virtus Pro (completely Russian team) considered to be “European”?”

Because they are training and playing on EU server. So if they had won, there would be double xp for eu servers.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:46:39 +0000

Rosbif spotted.

Curio detail: Englishmen abroad were getting into trouble over language (or more specifically their limited skills in such) *at least* as early as the Hundred Years’ War…

That said I do dislike the clannish mentality overly nation-specific jabber betrays – irrespective of the language. (For the most part I roundly ignore other Finns’ attempts to get chatty, too.)

By: sutek222

sutek222 — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:43:46 +0000

“Won’t make me follow e-sports (what’s with the term anyway, it’s a game, not a sport)”

Lol, so what? Football is a game as well. So is chess or curling. Do you really think that you need players to get all sweaty in order to call what they’re doing “sport”?

By: Ninja_Niner

Ninja_Niner — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:34:38 +0000

It took me a while to get into watching the WoT esports, but after a lil I actually started to enjoy watching it like a real sport.

Also The total viewer max i saw was 108k for for WoT

By: Nya-chan Production

Nya-chan Production — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:10:27 +0000

“- some matches were nasty campfests. Cnnk (moderator and e-sports expert) commented that it was because Russian rules were used and non-RU teams weren’t used to that – something about draws and points encouraging camping, I don’t know, can’t comment on that”

If you watched the finals, you’d see what’s meant exactly – both teams get one point for a draw. So Na’Vi got from 0:1 to 1:1 and then three matches(!) they played campfest. Either attack in last 2 minutes, so you had that one guy running away, or no fighting at all. Once it was 4:4, they had the only one game that mattered, and Na’Vi won it. All in all, 2 interesting games, 1 quite interesting game (rush in last minutes) and two draws where they almost didn’t see each other…

It’s a good rule, I’d say, leads to the fact that you don’t have full day of replayed draws, but it leads to too much camping as well…

“- crowds of gold beggars on chat, rendering it unusable until the moderators deployed a bot – seriously, who is dumb enough to think that begging for codes will bring them any faster (or at all in this case)?”

This is something I pretty much hate about WoT community – gold for everything, give us, give us, give us…

By: Nya-chan Production

Nya-chan Production — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:03:30 +0000

Well, then they’re good, aren’t they? This game isn’t about solo players…

By: Spanish Flea

Spanish Flea — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:43:54 +0000

Eh.. it’s an EU server not a UK/USA server. You can speak whatever language you like. You daft racist.

By: your Night MARE

your Night MARE — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:46:16 +0000

Why do you consider it a weak argument? What is the difference between a Tower and a Overlord, a pawn is just another name for cheap infantry, the “jumper” are the Tomahawk TELs, the horses the Comanches…the King is the MCV and the queen the Commando.
Sorry, don’t know all proper english chess terms..

By: TheDeadZone

TheDeadZone — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:23:10 +0000

The Chat admins ( the ones not working for WG ), just used the info we got from WG so please dont blame it on us the codes where not fixed, we got told they were.

We did our best to manage the chat and keep it nice and all. The camping is just because of the big money prize, the difference only already between place 1st and 2nd place is 20 000 dollar. For the rest in the EU we have the 8 tier point rule and in the russian server you only win when you cap or you kill all enemies thats why some teams camped hardcore because one lose could already cost you alot of money. About the russians being considered as EU, no pro league team is really happy with that.

Greetz,
TheDeadZone
Qualified for 4th season of Wot EU pro league
Chat Admin at The Grand Finals.