Korea StarCraft 2 Association to be established - Page 7

On November 17 2010 04:07 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
I don't think teams that don't speak Korean should be in this. It is an impossible hassle to an organization not to be able to communicate with everyone directly. We don't understand the scene as well as the Koreans if we understand it at all. We may have a better understanding of how Korea works than the next foreigner but it is nothing compared to Koreans who have lived in this scene for so long. Not being able to speak the language can greatly hurt the effectiveness of an organization. Either you would slow everything down, possibly causing confusion and misunderstanding over translations, or you would end up being excluded.

I don't really have much of an opinion about this organization I'd say we just have to see how things go before making any judgments. If it's bad I'd be happy Liquid isn't part of it because we wouldn't have been able to stop anything and we do our own thing anyway, and if it's good we aren't really needed. I'm perfectly fine with the influence and expertise we have in the foreign scene. Korea is another world another culture that we can't fully understand it would make no sense to me to sit in some sort of board and apply our own values to the Korean scene. Let them do what they're good at and let us enjoy it by sending players there to participate.

On November 17 2010 04:25 beetlelisk wrote:

What about Liquid players playing games outside of GSL? If there is any SC2 Proleague will we see Liquid players participating, even as just a division of oGs?

On November 17 2010 04:33 Am3692 wrote:
Is the SlayerS clan going to be represented? The Emperor should have a spot in these talks, considering his experience in BW.

On November 17 2010 04:32 Two_DoWn wrote:

Lets worry about that bridge when we cross it. After all, there would need to be a sc2 proleague first.

StarCraft 2 association aims to be an official association approved by Blizzard, and it will deal with the following: Protection of rights for the gamers and teams, operations of StarCraft 2 team's business-league sponsor, arbitrator for when there is an issue between a gamer and a team, and furthering the popularity of StarCraft 2 leagues that are linked with Blizzard-GomTV (editor's note: this most likely means, leagues that opened legit with permission from them).

On November 17 2010 04:39 n0xi3 wrote:
We need to stop worrying about foreign teams getting into this and start figuring out how we can make an "association" like this happen in the US.

On November 16 2010 17:45 Milkis wrote:


Huh? It sounds identical -- except for one key thing -- that it's the coaches/players directly involved, rather than corporations like KeSPA. It's off too a good start but it's really KeSPA 2.0

On November 17 2010 05:15 rocky13 wrote:


I think that is a such an important difference though!!! KeSPA held all the cards and was able to oppress progamers, especially the B-team guys who basically made no money. I think unionizing the players is great idea and will ultimately help e-sports alot!

On November 17 2010 04:07 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
I don't think teams that don't speak Korean should be in this. It is an impossible hassle to an organization not to be able to communicate with everyone directly. We don't understand the scene as well as the Koreans if we understand it at all. We may have a better understanding of how Korea works than the next foreigner but it is nothing compared to Koreans who have lived in this scene for so long. Not being able to speak the language can greatly hurt the effectiveness of an organization. Either you would slow everything down, possibly causing confusion and misunderstanding over translations, or you would end up being excluded.

I don't really have much of an opinion about this organization I'd say we just have to see how things go before making any judgments. If it's bad I'd be happy Liquid isn't part of it because we wouldn't have been able to stop anything and we do our own thing anyway, and if it's good we aren't really needed. I'm perfectly fine with the influence and expertise we have in the foreign scene. Korea is another world another culture that we can't fully understand it would make no sense to me to sit in some sort of board and apply our own values to the Korean scene. Let them do what they're good at and let us enjoy it by sending players there to participate.

On November 17 2010 05:29 infinity2k9 wrote:


Are you deluded? Where is the money going to suddenly appear from to give B-teamers a salary now? If anything there just won't even be any B-teamers anymore.