EPTAir Force Ace to disband - Page 25
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Haustka
United States221 Posts
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ne4aJIb
Russian Federation3209 Posts
![[image loading]](http://gosugamers.net/starcraft2/images/2012/july/1259481236_1.jpg) And the picture with Bisu, Flash, Fantasy, Jaedong, Effort, Leta, Stork in the same team will never happen. T_T | ||
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Anomarad
Canada565 Posts
On July 24 2012 17:07 Haustka wrote: hopefully they will come bak in sc2 ...What? We're already "in SC2" with proleague and ODT. And the final disband date will be well into SC2 only PL. They're disbanding because SC2 isn't the phenomenon that BW was... | ||
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BeaSteR
Sweden328 Posts
On July 24 2012 15:50 haitike wrote: You are too fast tagging people as diehard because someone correct you. I watch and play both games and I have seen every MLG and GSL since 2010. But you cant claim "More people watch SC2 than they ever did Brood War" like you said at first. 50.000 viewers in a stream in nothing compared with national TV channel with millions of viewers. First I just wanna say I'm sorry that Ace are going to disband but I think there's gonna be more news like this. I also play both games and enjoy watching them. As for viewer numbers I think globally they have increased. We have for example the phenomenon of Barcraft and Swedish Television showing Dreamhack's Starcraft tournament. As for Korea I can't really claim anything but it's probably true that Sc2 is never going to be as popular as BW is/was. | ||
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InFdude
Bulgaria619 Posts
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Ciryandor
United States3735 Posts
On July 24 2012 17:17 ne4aJIb wrote: And the picture with Bisu, Flash, Fantasy, Jaedong, Effort, Leta, Stork in the same team will never happen. T_T Same as well, my goodness, think of Calm, Sea, Stork and Kal as the vet leading Ace; then Bisu and Jaedong going on board, then Ace Jaedong vs KT Flash, Ace BeSt vs SKT Fantasy, Ace Stork vs Khan Jangbi, the new blood from all these teams fighting against the TBLS to show they now own the team and don't have to live in the shadow of their legacy. Just imagine this line-up on Ace (all these guys are 22-23): T: Leta, Sea, Light (Poor Magikarp  )P: Bisu, Stork, Jangbi (23!!!), Kal (Captain) Z: Jaedong, Calm, ZerO (WHY NOT HOEJJA/HYUK???) And the next generation after them: (21s) T: Fantasy (damn it is he the only good 21 year old T???) P: Movie, Stats Z: Soulkey, RorO This is what we're going to miss out on. Notice that Flash isn't even in either of these brackets! | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On July 24 2012 17:07 Haustka wrote: hopefully they will come bak in sc2 This is a SC2 team disbanding because of the lack of popularity of SC2 (in korea) and esport in general (pretty obvious translation of the statement). This thread could almost have been in SC2 general, but it was better to post it here because of the team history. Did not really matter though, the temptation to start a passionating debate was stronger. | ||
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BlindKill
Australia1508 Posts
Progamers in Ace were drafted as Air Force computer specialists and served as war game testers at their central computer center. Fascinating I like how they do not do the standard bow, rather the crisp clean salute. Really sets them apart from the other teams, aside from always being the last in PL. | ||
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PVJ
Hungary5221 Posts
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OptimusYale
Korea (South)1005 Posts
SC2 just isn't going to be as big in Korea, which is why it is obvious as to why they're closing down ace. Esports is not as new as it used to be, and due to that Ace will close as there is no need to have it there anymore. This has nothing to do with SC2 being a worse game, it has everything to do with Esports getting old for Koreans. To us in the west, it was always seen as a marvel to behold, that people like us could get paid to do what we love, but it was so far away which is how it kept it's shine. However, When your in the place, and its everywhere, eventually it will get old and you will move on.... If the west Esports scene lasts 12 years like the Koreans has, we've had a good run at it :D and by then, maybe Korea will be back on the Esports bandwagon. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18625 Posts
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.vid
Croatia227 Posts
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radadaundandan
Bulgaria3148 Posts
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Darksoldierr
Hungary2012 Posts
On July 24 2012 16:01 Ribbon wrote: That's largely the BW's community's fault, though. Absolutely no effort was made to try to convert any of the "Oh hey SC2 is cool" people to BW fans, besides people on forums calling them names. Where was KeSPA's big outreach? The only major BW scene to ever even try to reach westerners was GOM back when Tasteless and I think SuperDanielMan were casting the GOMTV Classic in English. And KeSPA shut that one down pretty fast. Which, actually, was a pretty terrible decision in the long run. If GOM hadn't gotten into SC2, there'd be no SC2 now. I seriously do believe that if GOMTV was in the BW business and not the SC2 business, we'd be in a new Golden Age of Brood War right now. SC2 isn't big because of Blizzard, much as people like to blame them. It's big because GOM sold it to a foreign audience. Even right now, when the whole idea of the switch to SC2 is the international fans, there's still no official English stream for Proleague. That's insane. Even when their in SC2, KeSPA ignores the SC2 scene. They have completely and 100% fucked BW up. They're fucking up in SC2 now as well. Whatever they did for Brood War in the past, the last few years have been nothing but abject incompetence on their part. This admittedly is a pretty huge problem. I'd say port forwarding is a bigger deal than killing explorer in task manager. A lot of people (myself included) literally can't do that. Certainly not if you keep referring to the only potential source of new BW fans in such a demeaning get off my lawnish way. Hm? What do you mean with the last sentence | ||
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.vid
Croatia227 Posts
On July 23 2012 17:18 Ribbon wrote: May 16th - oGs disbands July 13th - Zenex ceases to exist as an independent team, will merge with Startale July 23rd - Air Force Ace announces plan to disband The Korean scene is collapsing. I wouldn't be surprised to see 2-3 more teams disband in the next few months,. you forgot last year's mbc game, hwaseung oz and wemade collapses (edit: or was it in 2010? i forgot :S) | ||
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J1.au
Australia3596 Posts
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Sawamura
Malaysia7602 Posts
On July 24 2012 20:01 .vid wrote: you forgot last year's mbc game, hwaseung oz and wemade collapses (edit: or was it in 2010? i forgot :S) They closed shop in 2011. | ||
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chongu
Malaysia2594 Posts
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.vid
Croatia227 Posts
On July 23 2012 17:35 larse wrote: The only reason people are seeing Western scene rising is because that the Western scene was like zero before LOL and SC2. There are some WC3 and CS events here and there, but that's pretty much it. you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. quake3 was the premiere esports from 99-05 with a shitload of coverage and big cash tournaments, most famous ones being the CPL ones (basically, western OSL with better prize pool). | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
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