EPTNot even Mercury could totally accomplish what Blizzard has wrought in one fell swoop.
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
Not even Mercury could totally accomplish what Blizzard has wrought in one fell swoop. | ||
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x89titan
Philippines1130 Posts
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p4NDemik
United States13896 Posts
On August 18 2009 13:11 zeppelin wrote: I get the feeling a number of teams outright refused to send their players and that CJ was the only one really receptive to the idea. I was hopeful that with the PL offseason that teams would be more willing to send players (especially with the good publicity pro sc has gotten the last few years), but koreans are just getting dumber with their management and PR it seems  KT/hite/OZ/SKT/SouL probably turned down any invites because of Masters, and I'd be willing to bet Flash turned down his invite because from the sound of his interviews he sounded like he wanted to get back to helping KT move forward in Masters. The reason the CJ players are there is because they earned it (sAviOr as returning champ, EffOrt from GOM, and sKyHigh inherited Iris's spot) and they're out of Masters now so they have no obligations . The teams aren't dumb at all, it's just a foreign invitational doesn't take precedence over anything that's happening in the Korean pro scene (I don't know why you think it does). On another note, it's a shame free didn't get invited instead of ZerO from Woongjin, but I guess since ZerO has the higher KeSPA ranking he got the invite. | ||
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Scaramanga
Australia8091 Posts
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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baubo
China3370 Posts
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
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Vasoline73
United States7816 Posts
On August 18 2009 12:47 miseiler wrote: hahahah YES. Followed by the 'g'. IDRA FIGHTING! Ah I'm quoted in someone's sig! Jaedong winning game 4  And to add to the thread... Sucks that Flash isn't there . And no protoss is questionable although TvZ is awesome. Nada V Ret!! | ||
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deathgod6
United States5064 Posts
to all you beckham haters watch him win the whole thing! :O | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
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Hinanawi
United States2250 Posts
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
Nada was invited because he placed second in Blizzcon 2008. not sure why Zero got invited though. players from SKT1, Hite, and MBC might have not been invited due to team relationship with Kespa | ||
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Husky
United States3362 Posts
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saikeraku
Canada2933 Posts
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frakko
United States4 Posts
just cant imagine myself getting excited over a winner out of a lackluster group like that, altho the INTERVIEW after last saviors win last year was quite dramatic (i was there for that too). they got grubby and co for war 3. im just sad they couldnt get decent caliber for sc | ||
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29 fps
United States5724 Posts
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Husky
United States3362 Posts
I really think Blizzard wanted better players though. Theres no way these were their first picks. That would explain why the brackets took so long to get released. Not that I dont like the ones they invited but... was hoping for much better. Oh well. At least CJ will be at the party. | ||
Harem
United States11393 Posts
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zeppelin
United States565 Posts
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zeppelin
United States565 Posts
On August 18 2009 15:02 Harem wrote: A tourney without Protoss is the best kind of tourney. No, it really isn't. 3 races is better than 2. no one would be happy with a tournament with 0 zergs or 0 terrans, so please don't run the dumb "hate protoss" meme any further into the ground than it already is | ||
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