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[Lucifer]

2012 Battle.net World Championship

Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce the 2012 Battle.net World Championship, a major global eSports event featuring some of the best pro-gaming competition in the world. Slated to take place in Asia toward the end of 2012, the Battle.net World Championship will host this year’s StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena World Championship tournaments. Blizzard gamers and eSports fans from around the world will be invited to attend and witness some of the most skilled pro players on the planet battle it out for cash and glory.

We’re excited to be showcasing Blizzard eSports on a truly global stage this year. We're also heavily focused on getting Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria, and Heart of the Swarm into players’ hands as soon as possible. In light of our jam-packed schedule, we’ve decided to hold the next BlizzCon in 2013.
More details about the 2012 Battle.net World Championship and BlizzCon 2013, including specific dates and locations, will be coming in the months ahead.

Apparently there will be NO BlizzCon 2012

Unlike the last years, Blizzard wont open the Anaheim convention doors this year for BlizzCon 2012.
Looks like they are going to focus on the release of multiple titles this years, and that's why they decided to cancel this year BlizzCon... Well, at least we have a promise that BlizzCon 2013 is going to be awesome.

Read the following blue posts for more details about BlizzCon 2012 cancellation:

Yeah it's a bit disappointing because we all really do enjoy being able to 'open the doors' so to speak. But, it is an enormous effort by all employees, including our game designers and artists, not to mention customer support and quality assurance, PR, our business departments, and *hot breath on fingernails & shirt rub* Community & eSports to make a BlizzCon happen. In a year when we're working to release multiple titles (knock on wood) it makes sense to focus our efforts. Also with multiple game releases we just wonder if we'd be at a point with any of them where we'd have anything really big or new or cool to talk about.

We didn't have a BlizzCon in 2006 either, and at that time we were really strong on the idea that BlizzCon isn't really supposed to be and doesn't have to be an annual event. Of course then we have it for five straight years in a row... which obviously built some expectation.

Personally I always enjoy seeing the excitement, the rushing crowds, hearing the clicking of mice on the demo stations, and waiting in agony as the seconds countdown to an announcement and then the waves of emotion from the crowd that follow it. But thinking about our year and what we're trying to get done already without a BlizzCon, and having to think pretty hard about what we'd have to announce or demo, it just makes sense to me not to have one.

Here's to the Battle.net World Championship, it's going to be awesome, and to a bigger and better BlizzCon in 2013.

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[Goht]

on one side sad to hear that there will be no blizzcon this year but on the oder side it would be to early for announcements on legacy of the void, titan or the d3 addon. so its more then good for blizzard to skip this years blizzcon and do a awesome world championship in the mecca of esports(guess it will be in korea) and hell i want to see that tournemant live^^

[skippy]

What multiple titles?

As far as I know they are going to release MoP, Diablo 3 and Heart of Swarm. Was there anything else announced?

[Goht]

well 3 titles are more or less multiple at least in blizzards mindset^^

[Goht]

i dont count such things like sc2 dota etc which costs a lot of time also

@lucifer: cant edit my comment, anything wrong or is it intended?

[Lucifer]

Strange. You should be able to edit. I'll investigate.