No Announcements from UDE

I was a little shocked that there were no Organized Play announcements from UDE at GenCon SoCal over the weekend. This year is almost over and there are a lot of questions that have yet to be answered for their VS. System and World of Warcraft OP heading into the new year.

Starting with VS., there is no date yet for the first PC of next year. Still no updated prize structure for the PC since they said with one less PC the three remaining ones would get bigger prizes. We're still waiting on anything about the $50k's other than that they will be worth $50,000.

With World of Warcraft there is almost nothing to go on other than there will be Regional, National, and World championships and first and 100th place at Worlds will be worth $100,000 and $1,000 respectively. I did read in the GenCon SoCal coverage that WoW Nationals are going to be held at GenCon Indy next year. If this is true I think it's a mistake by UDE as two of their three VS. Pro Circuits will be held the same weekend as the WoW National and World Championships. Unless they arrange some way for players to be able to play in both events, I think this may really impact VS. in a bad way. There were several of the biggest names in pro VS. that played a lot of WoW this weekend including the game's best player Vidi Wijaya and PC Top 8'er Ryan Jones. If players are only given the opportunity to play in one of the premier events at each convention, I think they will all pick WoW. The choice between WoW Nats and GenCon Indy may be a little tougher and would really depend on the prizes for Nats, but at GenCon SoCal where the choices would be PC:LA or WoW Worlds, I think everyone who has the choice will pick WoW with more than double the top prize and $1000 all the way to 100th place. I really think that UDE should re-think this policy of having their premier events for two different games at the same time.