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cronican
Profile Joined February 2009
Canada424 Posts
February 22 2011 06:39 GMT
#361
One of the creators of NASL will be on state of the game tomorrow night. Might be worth a listen if you want to know more details.
deroth
Profile Joined August 2010
United States83 Posts
February 22 2011 06:39 GMT
#362
This announcement is super exciting. But I hope you think through your 5 korean limit idea. That's just stupid. You guys put in so much effort and money in this venture and plan to limit the best SC2 scene to just 5 players? If you want to succeed with this you surely want the best players in the world. That is the Korean scene. Drop the limit. If you can lure top koreans to play in this league, it's only better for you.
Pcl.Busted
Profile Joined February 2011
United States17 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-22 06:44:16
February 22 2011 06:43 GMT
#363
On February 22 2011 15:21 mufin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2011 14:05 IamAnton wrote:
"Incontrol stated that perhaps there will be a cap on Koreans at five max." LOL

that would be such a terrible idea... Let the best players in the world compete plz..


Yea and what happens when 30+ koreans decide to move over and take over the top 16 of the tournament. You now have a north american tournament filled with all korean players. Does that sound like a good way to get western esports on the right track?

People want to watch players they can connect with; players that share their same culture and language. The league's purpose is to create the competitive environment needed for the west to catch up to the korean scene, not to determine who the best korean is.

Think of it as just one giant TSL tournament.


Thats called incentive, if the South Korean's are the best in the world then they are the best in the world and everyone else is just gonna have to get better. If not then its no better then male and female tournaments. The best should be aloud to compete no matter their race, sex or nationality. Sounds like you want easy mode.
Essentia
Profile Joined July 2010
1150 Posts
February 22 2011 06:45 GMT
#364
On February 22 2011 15:43 Pcl.Busted wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2011 15:21 mufin wrote:
On February 22 2011 14:05 IamAnton wrote:
"Incontrol stated that perhaps there will be a cap on Koreans at five max." LOL

that would be such a terrible idea... Let the best players in the world compete plz..


Yea and what happens when 30+ koreans decide to move over and take over the top 16 of the tournament. You now have a north american tournament filled with all korean players. Does that sound like a good way to get western esports on the right track?

People want to watch players they can connect with; players that share their same culture and language. The league's purpose is to create the competitive environment needed for the west to catch up to the korean scene, not to determine who the best korean is.

Think of it as just one giant TSL tournament.


Thats called incentive, if the South Korean's are the best in the world then they are the best in the world and everyone else is just gonna have to get better. If not then its no better then male and female tournaments. The best should be aloud to compete no matter their race, sex or nationality. Sounds like you want easy mode.


Yeah its not like the NBA puts a "cap" on the amount of African Americans that are allowed to play in their league.
Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3747 Posts
February 22 2011 06:46 GMT
#365
I really don't get the tournament format with 50 players getting whittled down to 15 I dont really understand how that will work. Wondering if maybe start with a bigger invite pool or still 50 and then open up more open tournament spots so maybe people who were restricted by not being on a team or too many teammates can qualify in and have a rounder number than 50. IDK it's hard to say for sure without knowing the format though cuz they could do something different like a league but that's REALLY hard to organize players to play eachother at specific times and cause a lot of hassle to support staff.

Just seems weird to have 50 invites and only one person gets in via the open slot idk seems better to open that up a bit more seeing as with the prize pool that open tour would be stacked and a lot of people will have to be turned away or it will just be way too big.
ChThoniC
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States536 Posts
February 22 2011 06:47 GMT
#366
On February 22 2011 15:22 Demonace34 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 22 2011 15:18 ChThoniC wrote:
On February 22 2011 15:12 On_Slaught wrote:
Going to be tough having to pay for the HQ passes for 3 leagues now (MLG, GSL, NASL) but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do for the community to continue to move up.


GSL: $10 for the best league in the world (players, production, commentators) and access to HD VODs for every match? No problem, a bargain even.
MLG: $10 for a weekend of randomly casted games in "HD" (which is still not good quality) and spotty at best production? LOL
NASL: $20-25 for ??? Still wait and see...


Reason NASL is so high in price is because it is over a 3 month period, so it is actually less than 3 Seasons of GSL. I am going to be wholeheartedly behind NASL, it needs to succeed for western esports to get bigger.


I'm just saying, it's an unknown. I'm 50-50 on it right now and will have to see the overall quality of the players, casting, and production before purchasing. The GSL is the gold standard, and every other paid stream will be held to that standard or I'll expect it to be cheaper.
i c u
Clicker
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1012 Posts
February 22 2011 06:51 GMT
#367
On February 22 2011 15:21 jacen wrote:
Only the finals are "offline".
This is a HUGE turnoff for me. Makes real interviews after the games impossible. Also i was kinda turned down on the production value of yesterday's showmatch.

But we will see how it goes.

/edit:
Also scheduling this at "night" (presumably for pst) this is impossible for europeans to watch. I didn't watch the idra vs. jinro games yesterday for the same reason ... i just slept in.

They already said they'd be restreaming them hours later for Europeans to get the 'live' effect.
rzys
Profile Joined July 2010
Switzerland18 Posts
February 22 2011 06:54 GMT
#368
Just please improve the logo, website and the whole presentation in general. It looks quite bad tbh.
hitman133
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1425 Posts
February 22 2011 06:55 GMT
#369
Wow, big fucking prize pools. This will make SC2 more and more interesting with countless tourney everyweek!

Hehe, now I know why IdrA withdrew from GSL
Mike941
Profile Joined December 2008
United States98 Posts
February 22 2011 06:56 GMT
#370
So wait who's running this league? EG? Are they the ones that are giving away the 400K prize pool?
jyisvip
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada209 Posts
February 22 2011 06:58 GMT
#371
I dont get this 5 Korean player limit. ???
Rokk
Profile Joined March 2010
United States425 Posts
February 22 2011 06:58 GMT
#372
On February 22 2011 15:56 Mike941 wrote:
So wait who's running this league? EG? Are they the ones that are giving away the 400K prize pool?

Please read the OP and/or the interview before you ask. It's not EG.
Franchise
Profile Joined December 2010
United States10 Posts
February 22 2011 07:02 GMT
#373
Regarding player availability for other tournaments, the division play is all online. They can play from anywhere. In terms of scheduling, I think I understood that division play occurs entirely during the week whereas other more localized tournaments have taken place on weekends when they were onsite.
DrGreen
Profile Joined July 2010
Poland708 Posts
February 22 2011 07:03 GMT
#374
I just hope that Grubby wont get invited based on votes. He doesnt deserve it yet.
This is Aru
Profile Joined August 2010
United States91 Posts
February 22 2011 07:06 GMT
#375
On February 22 2011 10:34 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Probably missing something about this rule but can't figure out what.

I assume this ties into their desire to create a backstory and allow for more teams overall to have players in it for better chances at rivalry or whatever.

Then again... Jinro and MC led to Photoshop shenanigans and people found that interesting.

If the rule ends up being unnecessary, I don't see why they wouldn't change it.
aka Kasaaz
slyderturtle
Profile Joined August 2010
United States267 Posts
February 22 2011 07:10 GMT
#376
my life is now complete. So exited!
This is Aru
Profile Joined August 2010
United States91 Posts
February 22 2011 07:11 GMT
#377
On February 22 2011 15:46 iCCup.Raelcun wrote:
Just seems weird to have 50 invites and only one person gets in via the open slot idk seems better to open that up a bit more seeing as with the prize pool that open tour would be stacked and a lot of people will have to be turned away or it will just be way too big.

I think this is mostly a compromise between their desires to involve as many people as possible and their desire to keep the production values and entertainment values as high as possible.

Especially in the first season, the fewer points of failure there are, the better. If things do work out, if the open qualifier does well or seems to work well with their production, I can see them opening it up to more in the future. I just think that for the first season they will mostly be focusing on just getting the smoothest running, highest quality production they can and eliminating as many variables as possible facilitates that.

aka Kasaaz
croupier
Profile Joined July 2010
United States92 Posts
February 22 2011 07:18 GMT
#378
Sounds awesome, can't wait. I'll put some money down for sure to watch season 1 & 2 if they're remotely close to what's being described.
rakshasa
Profile Joined January 2011
Japan23 Posts
February 22 2011 07:25 GMT
#379
On February 22 2011 15:45 Essentia wrote:
Yeah its not like the NBA puts a "cap" on the amount of African Americans that are allowed to play in their league.

Those 'African Americans' are actually Americans, not Africans...

So there's no reason for NBA to put a cap on their participation unless somehow you want to reclassify them as foreigners. Which I'd like to point out is rather racist.
kmkg
Profile Joined August 2010
Japan186 Posts
February 22 2011 07:29 GMT
#380
Saw this questioned asked but not answered: Who is the main sponsor?
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