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You don’t know what you have until you don’t have it any more.
This is my first and most likely my last blog on TL. It´s funny, my interest in SC2 peaked in 2012 but I find myself writing this blog in 2016. By now I literally never play and almost never watch the game anymore.
I can remember watching Naniwa being crushed by Leenock at 3 am on a Sunday morning. I remember watching HuK nail biting win over Moon at Dreamhack. Nestea beating mass Thors with mass banelings in the GSL. Stephano winning NASL 3, IPL 3 and everything else. Snute qualifying for IEM Schenze. The list goes on and on.
Reading TL and Liquidoedia was a part of my daily life. Watching the GSL was sometimes the highlight of my day. A weekend with a good SC2 tournament was a weekend a happily spent in my room. Day9, Husky, State of the Game, IdrA, MLG, Dreamhack are all things that really shaped my life for a couple of years.
Even as my passion slowly decreased during the last couple of years, I still enjoyed watching a tournament now and then. I never spent my whole weekend watching a tournament like I had done in 2012. IEM, WCS and Dreamhack all had amazing production and the highest level of SC2. I never really loved SoS, Innovation and Zest they way I used to worship Nestea, MVP and DRG but watching SC2 was still fun.
That changed today.
I was really happy whan I realized Dreamhack Leipzig would be this weekend. A 50 000 $ SC2 tournament still makes my heart beat a little bit faster.
Then I looked at the player list.
I don’t want to be rude and disrespectful to all the players who attend. They are all really talented and amazing at SC2. But they are not the best. When I watch DH Leipzig I feel like I watch a minor league, a division 2. PitDrogo vs TLO in the quarterfinals is quite bleak compared to HuyN vs Rain. ShowTime vs uThermal compared to Leenock vs Reality. Still I want to emphasize that I have the greatest respect for all the foreign players, they are all really dedicated and talented individuals. But they are still not the best.
I admit that I myself used to wish for more foreign only events. I thought that it would be awesome to see the likes of Naniwa, Huk, TLO and Snute win big tournaments. Now I´m glad that it didn’t happen. DH Lepzig is nowhere as amazing as DH Open Stockholm in 2015 even if a foreigner ends up winning the whole thing.
Thorzains DH victory wouldn’t have been the same thing if he played uThermal instead of Polt in the final. If MLG Orlando would have been without Koreans Huk´s victory wouldn’t have been the same. Naniwa´s four second places are more exiting compared to if I would have won four tournaments with only foreigners.
Watching the very best players is what makes a tournament exiting. It´s ironic that I would realize it this way but I guess that’s life.
You don’t know what you have until you don’t have it any more.
Jarven
  
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Koreans playing Foriegners in various large scale live events due to the new WCS rules?
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On January 24 2016 02:03 Jarven wrote:
I don’t want to be rude and disrespectful to all the players who attend. They are all really talented and amazing at SC2. But they are not the best. When I watch DH Leipzig I feel like I watch a minor league, a division 2. PitDrogo vs TLO in the quarterfinals is quite bleak compared to HuyN vs Rain. ShowTime vs uThermal compared to Leenock vs Reality. Still I want to emphasize that I have the greatest respect for all the foreign players, they are all really dedicated and talented individuals. But they are still not the best.
wow i don't know half of these foreigners (having not followed sc2 a lot in Lotv admittedly). Sounds really.. dull in comparison yeah.
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You miss out on the best GSL evarrr. All those koreans forced back into a local scene that got oversaturated with all that foreigner money, the level is higher than ever...sadly at a time of a questionable tvp state.
And yeah...the dreamhack you see right now, should be the one we watched when wings of liberty came out. Those are people that survived despite having to compete with people coming from a 10 times more developed infrastructure, even though some did it by being marketable or grinding out smaller online cups.
Now there will be a chance for a foreign scene to develope, it might takes too long for people used to actual good starcraft to reexperience these grassroots, espacially if they went through it once( or twice if you followed BW), but all these players look very beatable, for an aspiring foreigner, this must be as attractive as that one WCS where Rotti almost qualified using proxy tempest builds...
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On January 24 2016 02:34 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Koreans playing Foriegners in various large scale live events due to the new WCS rules?
but he said:
Watching the very best players is what makes a tournament exiting.
If foreigners are indeed "division 2 players" then wouldn't watching them vs "division 1 Koreans" just be stomps instead of exciting play?
Or is the issue that there aren't any "division 1 foreigners" anymore?
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can you please make another blog post letting us know when you're coming back to SC2?
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Actually, the level of play at DH is quite good, and the games are entertaining, i was pleasantly surprised
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On January 24 2016 03:51 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
can you please make another blog post letting us know when you're coming back to SC2?
Can´t say if you´re positive or ironic but I guess I´m just happy that I get any comments at all.
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Why not just watch korean sc2? I never watch foreigner content and I can barely keep up on the korean scene.
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Stay with us and play some games of sc2! You know you want it ;-)
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I don't see what your reason to quit watching exactly is? When Proleague gets running we'll most likely have around 4-5 five days of Korean Starcraft 2 running for months again. If you don't want to watch foreigners then don't, that shouldn't take anything away from the best of the best who are still playing each other in Korea for your entertainment. If GSL was really so great that it was the highlight of your day, why isn't it now? I enjoyed watching it last week just as much as I have had for the last 5 years.
Sounds to me more like your problem of not wanting to watch Starcraft is somewhere else than in whatever format DH uses even though you write as if it is the reason for you to say "Good bye SC2".
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On January 24 2016 02:29 y0su wrote:
what is it that's gone?
His passion, obviously 
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Time to move on to the hundreds of new and exciting games coming out each day! It won't be that bad 
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Not a big surprise, people leave every day, onward to better games my friend!
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On January 24 2016 09:40 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:His passion, obviously
I'm watching you bro.
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EPT
