Wow... this is beyond stupid now. The players and the coaches were crying out for an easier time for the players and they got nothing. I can understand the sponsors not wanting to decrease number of matches per week, fair enough. But seriously, year long season? That one should have gone and replaced with PL/WL =/

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Crunchums

United States11144 Posts

September 19 2009 16:54 GMT

#147

god motherfucking damnit

Zona

40426 Posts

September 19 2009 17:08 GMT

#148

You know, since they're not willing to change things, they shouldn't tease the fans about what could have been. It makes fans even more disappointed.

eshlow

United States5210 Posts

September 19 2009 17:11 GMT

#149

Sigh.

It was too good to be true.

tirentu

Canada1257 Posts

September 19 2009 17:37 GMT

#150

Fucking sponsors.

JWD

United States12607 Posts

September 19 2009 17:41 GMT

#151

The players are really getting abused. They seem to have disgustingly weak bargaining power for their position in the BW scene.

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

September 19 2009 17:47 GMT

#152

jaedong and flash slavery

MisteR

Netherlands595 Posts

September 19 2009 17:52 GMT

#153

Progamers: "So we've got all these cool ideas to make starcraft superspecialawesome. What do you think?"
Sponsors: "Computer says no..."

EDIT: Spelling

pripple

Finland1714 Posts

September 19 2009 17:56 GMT

#154

so it was all "most likely" in the original OP and now all of them except for one got denied? man this sucks, it was no good news afterall ;|

Gitgit

37 Posts

September 23 2009 08:06 GMT

#155

Oi vei... kinda like politics.. don't you think? Unreasonable.

Pioneer

994 Posts

September 23 2009 08:34 GMT

#156

Jaedong saw this and went to go lay down and stock up on some sleep.

FakeKisser

United States159 Posts

September 23 2009 13:01 GMT

#157

Pretty lame that the teams and players aren't dictating more of what they are actually doing. Sure, money talks, but none of this would exist without the teams and players...

baubo

China3370 Posts

September 23 2009 14:08 GMT

#158

I personally don't see why this is automatically a bad thing. It's the TEAM league. If certain teams actually know this *cough*KTOZ*cough*, then no one would ever raise a fuss.

Maybe it's just me following Samsung. Because regardless of how a player's performing or how the team's doing, Samsung players ALWAYS get time off. And almost always when they're stacked with SL obligations. Stork gets days off. Jangbi gets days off. And sometimes they barely practice. Great plays a lot, but he has no SL obligations. While this may not be good for the record(and indeed Khan pretty much sucked last year), at least I like how at least the players are not getting overworked.

In the end, it's not the format that's the problem. It's how coaches view winning over the well-being of their players.