Wow this is certainly nice news. IdrA not going I think is a given because of GSL. And poor Brat_OK being owned because of visa again :[. He's such a great player. But I guess with oGsTOP and oGsInca going, it certainly would still make DreamHack a worthy event to follow.

Noxie

United States2227 Posts

November 22 2010 22:34 GMT

#83

Wow, this is amazing for people planning on going to the tournament. I am extremely jealous!

Top better qualify!

knyttym

United States5797 Posts

November 22 2010 22:36 GMT

#84

Oh fuck yeah this is awesome. Now we need some koreans to fly out to MLG and we got ourselves some sick international competition. Tester should go to dreamhack

Aquafresh

United States824 Posts

November 22 2010 22:37 GMT

#85

I hope the Liquid-oGs guys do well, if this is a good experience for them it will only strengthen the relationship between the two scenes, which is in turn good for everyone. I can't stress enough how cool what team liquid and oGs are doing is, the BW scenes became so isolated from one another after awhile. Even if the Koreans surpass the foreign scene by leaps and bounds again, it will still be good to have a direct link to them for the few foreigners that might want to try their luck.

isM

United States735 Posts

November 22 2010 22:42 GMT

#86

I really like the concept of thinking of the Koreans as foreigners for a change, also I think a lot of this needs to be attributed to spunky. He is trying to open all sorts of doors to make all of the scenes accessible to each other and sc2 will be better because of it.

note: the reference to spunky comes from watching the oGs-Liquid house tour with giantbomb which everyone should watch if they haven't already

Aegeis

United States1619 Posts

November 22 2010 22:45 GMT

#87

If this trend continues MLG will need to hire some translators

SmoKim

Denmark10305 Posts

November 22 2010 22:57 GMT

#88

On November 23 2010 07:45 Aegeis wrote:
If this trend continues MLG will need to hire some translators

John the Translator to MLG!

jimminy_kriket

Canada5524 Posts

November 22 2010 23:01 GMT

#89

Brat should start securing passports to every country asap while he can

netherDrake

Singapore1831 Posts

November 22 2010 23:02 GMT

#90

lol poor oGsTOP has to go through the qualifier while his teammate inca doesn't.... odd.

I'm not as confident about a Korean win here though, I don't think TOP/Inca are as good as Genius/Maka, but still close.

BenKen

United States860 Posts

November 22 2010 23:14 GMT

#91

Man this is awesome news. It only adds to the prestige and legitimacy of a tournament to have the oGs-liquid guys there. Props to TOP and inCa for being ballsy and going to europe to show their stuff. I hope this encourages other Korean teams to send a few people out to western events.

MrMustasch

Sweden50 Posts

November 22 2010 23:17 GMT

#92

wow this is huge, wish I could go spectate :<

Taelshin

Canada420 Posts

November 22 2010 23:23 GMT

#93

Dont like the comment about " them attending killing the scene " pretty close minded, just because you dont think you can compete with koreans doesnt mean the rest of us dont.

Also I think its good for the game as a whole, I dont care where the players from (UNLESS ITS CANADA YEAH LETS GO HOME TEAM) as long as there good and fun to watch. Cant wait for this also as I presume dreamhack will be easier to view the GSL (which is another pro to them playing over here!)

Cant wait this is gonna be good , lets go huky baby and or some swarm player!

dizzy101

Netherlands2066 Posts

November 22 2010 23:36 GMT

#94

Excellent! I hope that in addition to games, they'll have cameras on the floor, interviews, etc. And lots of euro-techno, of course (based on their website).

biskit

Australia355 Posts

November 23 2010 00:06 GMT

#95

Oooh yes! Gogogo Top and InCa hwaiting!

john0507

164 Posts

November 23 2010 00:18 GMT

#96

Pretty cool to see Koreans attending foreign events for a change, it's definately a good start.
Doubt they'd do well tho , they aren't exactly your S-Class Korean players afterall.
But hell it'll still be interesting to see how they fare in the foreign scene.

Sarang

Australia2363 Posts

November 23 2010 00:18 GMT

#97

This is awesome. Like most people, I'm very happy for korean players to take part in foreign events. =)

Can't wait to see how they do!

HwangjaeTerran

Finland5967 Posts

November 23 2010 00:40 GMT

#98

" Woot DreamHack!
I've trained months for this and only this, time to roll some noobs face in. So who is my first opponent?"
- oGsTOP
- ..........

This is frakkin great. Too bad I couldn't make it, sucks to be on the wrong side of the Gulf of Bothnia.

Pills

206 Posts

November 23 2010 01:22 GMT

#99

This should be interesting to see. As long as the skill gap doesn't widen any more, then this should be good for the scene. However, if the disparity grows too much (ex. all teams in Korea start 10+ hour per day training regiments) then this would be horrible for the foreign scene. Think of Brood War: the Koreans could afford to send no-namer low A teamers and B teamers that nobody has ever heard of and completely obliterate the competition.

Anyways, I'm hopeful that it won't ever reach that point. I hope that Top gets through so I can see him play some more, but single elimination is dangerous for any player so its very possible that he could be eliminated during qualifiers.

Sero

United States692 Posts

November 23 2010 01:26 GMT

#100

It's great that we get a chance to see both Inca and Top; I was really disappointed that neither of them qualified for GSL season 3.