Stated reasons - pure bullshit.Too bad, i enjoyed GOM so much, not only becouse of english cast but also becouse we'd get to see less know players.Plus idra and ret in elims :/

mOnion

United States5657 Posts

October 23 2009 06:59 GMT

#22

ret wins!!!

GJ RET WOOOO

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

October 23 2009 07:00 GMT

#23

On October 23 2009 15:26 heyoka wrote:
wait didn't gomtv build studios just for that tournament? Did they use those outside of the sc casts?

Sort of - they used part of one floor of an abandoned school in Mokdong. (I kid you not.) It was outfitted with the typical backstage rooms (press room, make up/waiting room and room for equipment/obsers.) plus one larger room for the studio itself. It was tailor built, but not for live audience attendance because there was only metal chairs set out (the same as the plastic temporary ones at OGN or MBC.) and you could fit a max. amount of 30 or so people in there. No one really ever attended it except foreign fans and some of the very hardcore fanclubbers.

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

October 23 2009 07:05 GMT

#24

and alas, it becomes abandoned again

perhaps it is really the fault of this school. is it haunted?

Pufftrees

2449 Posts

October 23 2009 07:13 GMT

#25

I think Kespa is behind it more than they are letting on, and they are trying to make it look like they care about pro-gamers after all that Post-Jaedong FA bad press they got.

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

October 23 2009 07:13 GMT

#26

On October 23 2009 16:05 heyoka wrote:
and alas, it becomes abandoned again

perhaps it is really the fault of this school. is it haunted?

It was actually really pretty creepy at night. Also the downstairs toilets were so small you hd to use them sitting sideways.

iSiN

United States1075 Posts

October 23 2009 07:21 GMT

#27

This makes me sad. Gom really helped rekindle my love of starcraft (for the 123814795478th time) and it helped me introduce a lot of friends to the game, Tasteless' commentary really made it easy for people to get into the game. It's just a shame that Blizzard and Kespa have to butt heads like this.

Alphonsse

United States518 Posts

October 23 2009 07:52 GMT

#28

God this sucks.. first the inital announcement of no season 4 from superdanielman, then lilsusies tweets got my hopes up, now this..

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4337 Posts

October 23 2009 07:56 GMT

#29

Sad days. =(

Whiplash

United States2928 Posts

October 23 2009 07:56 GMT

#30

what will tasteless and SDM do before SC2?

Ota Solgryn

Denmark2011 Posts

October 23 2009 08:22 GMT

#31

On October 23 2009 15:21 anch wrote:

Show nested quote +

Too much workload?! did Flash complain??
We know that A-team work like horses, but this tournament gives chances to B or C teams.

KeSPA probably have their foot on this.

Flash had no other leagues to play in. He got ousted pretty quick last season.

RamenStyle

United States1929 Posts

October 23 2009 08:43 GMT

#32

I liked GomTV classic, but perhaps there is neither time for progamers nor enough audience to cover it. I mean, same thing happened at the time of GhemTV's Starleague, and eventually it faded out because the audience had their hands full with the other two Starleagues. And that's when PL wasn't as tight-scheduled as nowdays.

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

October 23 2009 08:48 GMT

#33

This is not good news, but at least I guess the quality of games in the OSL, MSL and Proleague will improve since players have one less tournament to practice for?

Hopefully, Gom will come up with something else instead. I kinda liked Tasteless and SuperDanielMan's castings

johanes

Czech Republic2229 Posts

October 23 2009 08:49 GMT

#34

and what about the info from lilsusie, that blizzard is negotiating with kespa and GOM 4 should start in december maybe?
TL thread
lilsusie's twitter

deL

Australia5540 Posts

October 23 2009 08:57 GMT

#35

On October 23 2009 15:14 [X]Ken_D wrote:
B team players are too busy sitting on the bench to participate in GOM

Yah but then the benches will get cold.

Still, it would be really nice to be able to see some B-teamer games to see future stars. I remember following Violet through Minor League and then seeing him do really well at the top level and it was great!

cHicKeLoR

Germany559 Posts

October 23 2009 09:31 GMT

#36

ah man this is a shame. I really enjoyed GOM and if it wasnt for GOM i may have never become so addicted to Starcraft

zeppelin

United States565 Posts

October 23 2009 09:35 GMT

#37

Blizzard-sponsored live game foreigner tournament gogo~ make up for the lower player skill with razzle dazzle and bad manner, like the XFL except not a failure

wifebeater

178 Posts

October 23 2009 09:40 GMT

#38

yeah, make a tournament with only BM-players and make them duke it out ..

Piste

6180 Posts

October 23 2009 09:52 GMT

#39

Too bad :/
What is Tasteless doing these days?

Piy

Scotland3152 Posts

October 23 2009 09:52 GMT

#40

Don't flame me, but gun to my head i can totally understand the mentality of those teams. I mean it's already becoming more popular for a player to focus on proleague rather than individual leagues. So you really can't allow your Bisu or Jaedong or Flash to get into 3 leagues on top of proleague, and a lesser player would probably be more of an asset to the team if they practiced harder for the proleague as well.

On the other hand, it would be interesting if GOM just became a broadcasted version of minor league..

Shame anyways