[ASL2] Ro8 BeSt vs hero - Page 18

On January 03 2017 21:27 Vuk_91 wrote:

I'm not sure. Best also had a failed attack from a semi-all in... I mean if you go for 7-8 gateways from 2 bases, and you don't kill a zerg, you're not in the best shape.

On January 03 2017 21:12 [[Starlight]] wrote:
I wonder how big this ASL is in Korea right now? Is it getting coverage, now that the big boys are back?

On January 03 2017 21:39 Letmelose wrote:


League of Legends is the biggest e-Sport, and the current game Ongamenet is milking money off from. Afreeca, Korea's answer to Twitch, is quite a successful platform for ex-professional players who played Brood War. Terror[fOu] is basically biggest streaming personality in Korea (although his content is not that reliant on Brood War, he has his roots), and the Brood War is among the most watched games on Afreeca, and more importantly, Brood War streamers tend to have more success getting donations than League of Legends streamers due to the older age of the average Brood War fan. All this vibrant scene we see today are literally built off from the pockets of old school Brood War Korean fanbase.

Today's round of eight had around 100,000 viewers isn't that far off from the online viewership of around 300,000 viewers or so for the finals of LCK finals (if my research was correct, not sure), which is the biggest domestic League of Legends competition in Korea. For a scene that is existing almost solely existing due its presence on a Korean streaming site, it's doing okay.

On January 03 2017 22:05 sparklyresidue wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone's already mentioned this, but the "full results" spoiler in the OP doesn't seem to be displaying correctly in the last 2 threads.

On January 03 2017 21:52 The_Red_Viper wrote:

How likely is it that there will be a next step though? Another big tournament with sponsor support or something like that? If not now when the hype about TBLS is there probably never right?

On January 03 2017 22:23 Letmelose wrote:


There is no next step. Professional Brood War was built off the fact that BoxeR had just as much mainstream popularity and exposure as the celebrities during his prime, Brood War being the national pastime for years (not just the most played videogame like League of Legends is currently), and the right people, with the right ideas came together to build the scene from the ground up, until it could only make sense for the large sponsors such as Shinhan bank, and SK Telecom to join in the fun, and get some cheap exposure and good will from the enormous, passionate fan-base.

With nobody in the scene quite managing to carry the torch from BoxeR, the game losing its popularity over the years, sAviOr making the national news for all the wrong reasons, and Blizzard wanting Korea to adopt Starcraft 2 in place of Brood War as its main e-Sports title, all work put in by millions came crashing down like a house of cards. League of Legends has now filled its void. Any kid dreaming of being a professional gamer now dreams of being the next Faker, not BoxeR.

Afreeca is the only place to go for ex-professionals, and fans of Brood War. It's quite sizeable, especially since a lot of us miss Brood War, and the generous Brood War fans who are helping these Brood War streamers become some of the most successful on Afreeca, are not the kids playing the game in PC bangs anymore. Everything is coming out of the pockets of these generous fans of Brood War, and it's mostly for nostalgia's sake. There are no big sponsors willing to put in all that blood, sweat, and tears needed to rejuvinate this scene to the position it once had. There are only those who see this as an opportunity to leech money off from since its viewerbase now has some purchasing prowess, or those who returned to the scene after turning their backs to it when it was literally being killed against the wills of the fans, who quietly have resuscitated it to its current level today purely for the love of the game. I don't think you can ask any more from those generous fans. They have already suffered so much, and offered nothing but love. Just enjoy what you can, do what you can do to help the scene if you care about its growth, and be wary of those sick fucks who try to make their pockets fuller at the cost of anything, even the death of the scene.

On January 03 2017 22:59 Piste wrote:

So did you believe we would get back to this point when professional broodwar was forcekilled?

On January 03 2017 21:52 The_Red_Viper wrote:

How likely is it that there will be a next step though? Another big tournament with sponsor support or something like that? If not now when the hype about TBLS is there probably never right?

On January 03 2017 20:13 GTR wrote:


for me it was gorush vs nada from the iops osl semi-finals
how nada won the 3rd set on dream of balhae, i'll never figure out.
when i was talking to gorush at artosis' christmas party in 2015 i kept ribbing him about it and all he could say was 'nada is just god'

On January 03 2017 23:36 Miragee wrote:


Just watched the first 3 games and I must say the level of play is just laughable compared to modern age (not talking about strategies here). No offense intended, the games were probably insane for that day and age. It's also hard to figure out how GoRush lost set 3. Nada was basicall on 1 base for 30 minutes of the game. Everytime he got a second one he lost the other. If anything GoRush lost because of 2 things. First, he didn't defend his bases at all. Losing a base to 4 marines without reacting, losing 7 drones and half of a hatches life to ONE marine and a medic... He didn't react at all to all those attacks. Secondly, hydras suck ass against marines. They may have killed a billion CCs but in fights they were so damn ineffecient. In one of the earlier fights for example he lost more than 20 hydras vs a control group of marines+ a few medics when he had like 4 control groups of hydras. That's how bad hydras are against marines. If you waste so many minerals then yeah, you can be 5 bases ahead and still lose the game.