On June 06 2012 23:48 Champloo wrote:
I don't even bother watching MLG anymore, just a few games here and there is my favorite foreigners are there. If I want to watch Koreans I watch the GSTL (and GSL sometimes).
If I want to watch a fair distribution of top players from a lot of countries I stick to watching Dreamhack, NASL, HSC, Assembly and IEM. Big props to these companies for not inviting 100 koreans and paying all their trips! I hope IPL will do a lot better next time, at least they kinda admitted their fault and will try to fix it with regional qualifiers.
But for MLG I lost all hope. When 90 % of the NA qualified players are korean and most of them don't even live in NA and just played cross server NA, you know something's wrong with their system.
Alas, any system short of outright banning/forcing koreans to play with one hand will end up like this until we have the same infastructure that they do in pro houses. We have some teams who can afford to make houses, but they can hardly afford to pick up and coming talent and train them to be better, like korean teams do.
MLG is going to be like this as long as they have a points system that rewards victories and placing high in the tournament. Which should be rewarded, imo.
EPT
