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France12911 Posts
I like both. I'm on holidays so I can watch the GSL but I only got free stream so the quality is a bit painful. The fantasy league is what really brought me into watching proleague games, as well as the cool number of very good terrans (Flash, FanTaSy and Speed). But yeah the FPL is what makes me watch PvZ, ZvZ and stuff even though I dislike the match-up, so it's a lot of fun when I can catch the 2nd match of the day early in the morning!
GSL has good production value and a lot of my favorite players play there so it's a big bonus, the only problem for me is that free stream and the no vod when I can't catch it live.
Why not watch both, they are both amazing doing their own thing, one is a league (team focused) and the other is a championship, individually oriented.
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I watch almost only proleague. With proleague I can easily follow since there are not that many matches + there is FPL. I can see every vod easily on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/ESportsTV/videos?view=0) and pick what I want to watch. I can't watch GSL live and don't want to pay for vods when I won't watch even 10% of the content.
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You are discounting all the "work" that GSL did. Proleague has the great benefit of arriving on the scene with healthy viewership prospects and 2+ years of metagame and map development underpinning the inherent value of the game as a spectator experience. The kespa players get to jump into a game where all the boring or degenerate things have been mostly left behind, and come to an environment where there is a lot of accepted conventional wisdom to exploit. When something "new" happens in a game with a kespa player, it's actually interesting because the metagame is evolved enough for it to be something more than just "derp, we figured out the latest timing". Do you see how this is different than previous eras of something "new" happening? The same goes for the maps. Admittedly, the foreigner tournaments and pro scene also contributed, but honestly I doubt anyone would say GSL wasn't the frontrunner and flagbearer.
Nevertheless, proleague does have a great format. ^^
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Out of Korean leagues I prefer the Proleague format without a doubt. GSL creates a more gripping story, as a single player makes a run for the cup than what I have seen in Team vs. Team, but that could change for me. Personally I prefer watching foreign Starcraft, I am probably in the minority there though.
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I feel like GSL and most other SC2 tournaments have this mentality they need to pump out as much content as possible, leading to ridiculous marathon broadcasts that very few people actually/can want to sit through. More is not always good ~_~
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
I like the fact that Proleague is mixing up the map pool (though its got some terrible maps) over GOM, but apart from that, GSL >> Proleague imo, better games, better production, better casting.
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GSL games are meaningless, there are too many of them. If you win a GSL nobody will even care in a few months, whereas winning an OSL or leading a team to a proleague championship cements you in Starcraft history. Plus the format is confusing as hell. I'd rather have them format it like the starleagues, 32 players make it through the qualifiers. Winner takes all, no wildcards, no codes. 3 GSLs a year, max. Introduce new maps.
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I have always favoured Proleague over starleague/gsl. Nothing feels better than watching KT 4-0 sweep over SKT and Bisu tears is like icing on the cake.
The doom-zoom on player's faces are epic too on the Kespa broadcast
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It kind of bothers me how fucking little Tastosis cast. It's really making me completely tune out the GSL. I bought into the GSL for the great games and the great casting, 50% ain't doin it for me.
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I'll be honest, I actually really dig the Pro-League Format, and there's a lot of really cool games being played there and the maps add a layer of that extra something that makes the tournament even more entertaining.
That said. Until they find a pair of casters that don't make me permanently mute the stream I will not watch it regularly. They are that bad that they keep me from watching the tournament just as Gretorp keeps me from watching NASL.
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