Sabian
4 months ago

- How has the best league in the world become boring and impossible to follow the past three seasons ?
- What should have done the WC3L ?
- Why and where did they fail to react ?

My 10 propositions, as a wc3 fan.

#1 - Give the line-ups 48 hours before the game.

The past seasons proved that great teams can bring poor games thanks to the mass mirror effect. Waiting for a game and finding out you're going to watch soccer vs Sase, Fivestar vs MinHyuk and Kei vs Rainbow (just an example) can be rather disappointing.

The starcraft proleague gives line-up of the upcoming games for a complete week every sunday. That's great to prepare yourself for a nice Boxer vs Stork 4 days later, not going to stay home if the emperor doesn't play right.

#2 - Fix the f*cking WTV

Or you know what, just stop using that crap. It's even more frustrating to start watching a game, knowing you "might" get dropped out anytime than not watching at all. Worst thing with WTV being that I haven't seen a complete game with it in ages.

#3 - ESL TV + Octoshape = love

I'm not asking for a TV show, I'm not asking for wireless microphones with Intel processors in the crowd, I just want a stream of the game. 1 guy, 1 computer, cost = 0 (ok bandwidth). If the guy streaming his computer speaks english, that's even better, let him shoutcast the game. All the big games involving top teams should have a minimum alternate streaming service if WTV fails (it fails.)

#4 - Where is the ESL ?

It seems the ESL is moving fast, Extreme Masters are growing, sponsors are responding well to the leading gaming structure in germany, but is the WC3L getting any profits from it ? I don't know. It seems that the whole season runs completely in silence, with no interests from anybody until the BIG FINALS. But the ESL needs to find a way to make the regular season more interesting. Invite teams to play in Koln, Stockholm or Berlin, make interviews, make videos, make features, make news, create content, create hype, attract the freakin audience ?

#5 - Where is Baschi ?

Maybe this is the reason why WC3L is losing it a bit lately, Baschi seems to be busy busy busy with great responsibilities (and great power). Perhaps he had to delegate too much of his wc3l-baby and we remain, helpless fans of an orphan league.

#6 - Shake up the Website

Come on, ESL has had 3 different websites since the WC3L moved in, time to give some times of your developers to the Warcrafters don't you think ? The biggest wc3 league in the world deserves a modern website, modern statistics. Just imagine it's www.nba.com, would people have so much interests in the basket-ball games if coverage there was so poor ?

#7 - Start on time or tell us what is going on

If a game is set to start at 4Pm, None should wait 50 minutes refreshing waaagh!tv, which will eventually disconnect anyway. There should be a better way to keep us informed of the running clan-wars. Right now MYM is doing live-feed during WC3L games, that's nice, maybe the WC3L could handle something like that too.

#8 - Bring in new maps !

You don't need to wait for Blizzard to do it. MBC and OGN are key leaders of the map pools changes in S.Korea. The WC3L should get in touch with decent mappers to run a new map-pool every season (3 maps stay, 3 maps out and so on). "What if a map is imbalance". Well it's still better than the current TS TR TM TS TR TM. (and GW for OvO).

#9 - A fixed match of the week playtime ?

I know this one would be hard to set up but, perhaps every week, the same day same time should be the match of the week. The big "rendez-vous" for all the warcraft 3 lovers. No need to double-check time or place, it would be a regular weekly gaming night.

#10 - WC3L league 2

Prepare the future ! Maybe the SC2L will soon take over but right now, your core market is playing wc3. Open a second rank league with granted slots for the League 1. This would avoid the boring qualifier (ok interesting with the asians lately) and give more animations all along the regular season.