Did the final MLG Anaheim matches being Korean vs Korean a…
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ItsMeDomLee
Canada2732 Posts
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Yiep
Sweden1 Post
On August 02 2011 15:55 AngryPanda wrote: After watching Boxer's hour long TvT match and DRG lose. I just was so sick of watching T's open with the same if not exact BO for to many games in a row. Then realizing that it was all T games after DRG lost i just turned it off. This. Also turned it off at that point. Tuned back in a bit later, but siege lines everywhere and turned it off again. Had nothing to do with the Koreans, only to do with their choice of race TvT is IMO the most boring matchup in all of starcraft. ZvZ is sooooo intense and quite the opposite of TvT and PvP evolved to something more macroish since the warp gate nerf. (also - first post on TL, woop woop!) | ||
UnholyRai
720 Posts
The problem is we see korean vs korean every week on gsl. we love the drama of forgeiners taking on the korean overlords. also, so many t v ts did not help things. | ||
Zanno
United States1484 Posts
i love tvt so as you can imagine mlg was totally okay with me | ||
Dutchmv
Netherlands4 Posts
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TVUmK
United States91 Posts
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Ouga
Finland645 Posts
All-in-all it has started to seem like there's clear cap between koreans and foreign. I'd be happy to cheer for foreigners here, since there already is the real championship in Korea (GSL). I don't think it's weird to have part of own interest in seeing "someone else" winning for a change. Slowly starting to agree on why NASL tried to keep koreans down in the first place - it might sometimes eat the interest a bit when it turns out there's nobody who has chance against koreans who turn up. I guess bigger problem was that we didn't see almost any foreigners on sunday. I'd have wished to see idra v nani and similar sets from red stream, but of course tight schedule doesn't really allow all good to be shown. I hope bomber/mvp will be the only invited terrans for raleigh Likelihood for koreans continueing to smash faces is high, so would be nice to try to balance the top players' races by inviting best of protoss/zergs in future too. DRG was great invite this time though. | ||
Arlenius
United Kingdom49 Posts
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Disquiet
Australia628 Posts
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Faggatron
United Kingdom65 Posts
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Razakel
Ireland466 Posts
I realise this time might have been a bit different, since MMA had to be invited back to defend his title as reigning champion, but next time I'd really like to see 2 Protoss, one Zerg and one Terran (obviously MVP since he won). Or something like that, anything but three Terrans, even as a Terran player it gets hard to watch TvT after a while. So far at least one the Korean invitees has won an MLG (MMA @ Columbus and MVP @ Anaheim). So inviting three Korean Terrans massively stacks the odds that a Terran will win in the end. Great tournament and I look forward to the next MLG | ||
Big_Pete1999
United States22 Posts
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SecondSandwich
United States319 Posts
TL;DR: Didn't lose interest in the game play, but a little disappointed at the loss of the foreigner-underdog storyline. | ||
Monzterg
Sweden257 Posts
Even if that doesnt mean that they like to watch one race exclusivly, it does mean that they only get "hyped" if the race they like to watch is represented. So in my opinion its very understandable that about 2/3 of the people watching lose interest once their race is not represented any longer in the top 6. Even a mirror finals can turn alot of people away at times unless there are some interesting personalities clashing. As for the nationalities I don't think it matters that much but I understand if some people have trouble geting the same connection to personalities that doesnt speak their language. They simply cant make the same impression as easilly (not to say its impossible, there definitly are some koreans that have huge fanbases due to their personality outside of korea.). Gogo White-Ra!! | ||
TzTz
Germany511 Posts
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Pred8oar
Germany281 Posts
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
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Art_of_Kill
Zaire1232 Posts
i chose "No, but so many TvTs did ", since TvT's are boring to watch, was pretty interesting to see GSL finals with a zvz, since i never saw zvz before | ||
sVnteen
Germany2238 Posts
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Marou
Germany1371 Posts
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