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Sega92
United States467 Posts
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tensionz
United States130 Posts
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ThaZenith
Canada3116 Posts
Seeing IdrA owning it up in every non-korean tournament? Priceless. I'm so happy right now. GSL may be the biggest (atm) but there are alot more great tournaments he can enter nowadays. | ||
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Rokusha
United States207 Posts
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rdj107
United States336 Posts
On February 17 2011 02:12 Rokusha wrote: The thing is, as others have said, I feel the skill gap between Koreans and Westerners are going to increase if no one wants to go to the GSL to compete with the best. And furthermore, when these "Western" and "European" tournaments do kick off with larger prize pools and prestige, what do you think the Koreans are going to do? Sit back and just play GSL? Heck no! If they can fit it in, they will play in these supposedly booming competitions in the Western scene and dominate even more. I don't see how that tracks tbh. If the world's best players all moved to korea in order to compete, then that would be what creates a skill gap, wouldn't it? Having a large enough prize pool to encourage a player to move out of korea to compete would certainly encourage more local talent to dedicate that much more time in order to win as well. | ||
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JayConn
United States408 Posts
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Mackin
Ireland181 Posts
Im sure this will be very fun  plus, its nice to know that the foreigners will less likely have to knock each other out in GSL this time | ||
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TheSwamp
United States1497 Posts
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setzer
United States3284 Posts
Idra has got top8 in consecutive seasons, and he has always liked his chances to reach the finals and win it all. Leaving at this time doesn't make much sense to me. | ||
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dkim
United States255 Posts
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Eschaton
United States1245 Posts
Can't help but feeling those guys who have risked so much to make the foreigner scene in Korea happen are getting more than a bit burned by this, tho... | ||
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Odoakar
Croatia1838 Posts
All in all, I don't think this is a good move, Korea will always be ahead of foreign scene in terms of skill and quantity of extremely good players. And I don't want to be a party breaker, but if you look at the last GSL, Code A had such an awful players, the matches were barely watchable. I watched only a few of Code A matches, and maybe 70% of Code S. And now we will have a NA scene, probably with some larger tournament/league, with lower overall skill of players and fewer excellent players. Between Korean league and NA, one I know which one I will be watching, what with my limited time for SC2 matches and all | ||
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Sqq
Norway2023 Posts
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Rokusha
United States207 Posts
On February 17 2011 02:18 rdj107 wrote: I don't see how that tracks tbh. If the world's best players all moved to korea in order to compete, then that would be what creates a skill gap, wouldn't it? Having a large enough prize pool to encourage a player to move out of korea to compete would certainly encourage more local talent to dedicate that much more time in order to win as well. I kind of see your point of view but what I meant was that, Koreans are just going to get better and better with the way they their training methods are that have been in place for a while now. Even if western teams emulate them anytime soon by setting up teamhouse where players live, eat, breathe starcraft 24hrs a day, they are not going to be able to catch up to the Koreans themselves since Koreans had a big headstart. That's why TL trains with OGS. It will get to the point where Koreans will be far ahead of everyone else and dominate every tournament out there GSL and non-GSL. And discourage local talent who risk giving up years to play a game saturated with players who are far ahead of everyone. Edit: of course this is all opinion and speculation at this point. I hope I am wrong though and can't wait for the NASL | ||
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purecarnagge
719 Posts
Also, Idra is going to be playing Code A type competition, I don't think thats how you peak and stay ahead of stuff.. I also think some of this is related to EG intentions. Korea = not happening they pulled out of it totally. mutual parting with manager = They fired him or let him go however you look at it I think EG is either bleeding cash and in trouble $$$ wise or reforming/transitioning and cutting back and the korean expense atm is too much. | ||
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ShcShc
Canada912 Posts
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D_K_night
Canada615 Posts
Strangely, I was both sad, and happy at the same time. A huge huge plus for you is, being closer to home and possibly family and friends, which will give you even more support and hopefully mental relaxation when you need it. I'm a little nervous with regards to eSports taking off more here in the West, you probably know far more than I do, but I'm under the perception that Korea still maintains its "gaming culture" far more so than here in the West. By "gaming culture" I mean, TV channels that broadcast starcraft shows, a cultural thing that's just all about starcraft, in Korea. If that is starting to die down in Korea, then perhaps this move is possibly the best thing for you to do. Strike while the iron is hot. You've hit the peak, and thus quickly get out before it begins its descent. I really hope too, that with these other events that the regular audience would have more access to watching your games, via replays, commentaries, and things that are hopefully free of charge(with adverts of course by the sponsors). I enjoyed watching the GSL, and paid for it as well, but at the same time, I am starting to cheer for players who are Western. I have been disappointed in players such as SlayersBoxer, who seem to have a big name, but seem to just lose and lose. Good luck IdrA and hope to see more of your upcoming games. | ||
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Durp
Canada3117 Posts
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Turgid
United States1623 Posts
On February 17 2011 02:36 Rokusha wrote: I kind of see your point of view but what I meant was that, Koreans are just going to get better and better with the way they their training methods are that have been in place for a while now. Even if western teams emulate them anytime soon by setting up teamhouse where players live, eat, breathe starcraft 24hrs a day, they are not going to be able to catch up to the Koreans themselves since Koreans had a big headstart. That's why TL trains with OGS. It will get to the point where Koreans will be far ahead of everyone else and dominate every tournament out there GSL and non-GSL. And discourage local talent who risk giving up years to play a game saturated with players who are far ahead of everyone. Edit: of course this is all opinion and speculation at this point. I hope I am wrong though and can't wait for the NASL If it's anything like Brood War, the players on top won't be on top forever. When was the last time you heard about iloveoov winning a starleague? And who is the top player there right now? Flash, who was like 15 and still, from our perspective, pretty new to Brood War, when he won his first starleague. It seems that people are able to catch up in these situations. You are right that this is all speculative, though. | ||
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brain_
United States812 Posts
EDIT: Aw shit its in Arizona, according to Liquipedia. Sadface. Was hoping they'd be near me. | ||
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