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I do not believe that BW teams switching to SC2 will change anything in that regard. What are you thinking that will accomplish? They will invent a way to train for more hours than there are in a day and somehow make up for the at least two years they've not been playing SC2?

Or are you thinking BW pros can pick up the game just like that with a snap of their fingers, and be competitive at the highest level? I haven't seen anything that would indicate this is true. Certainly not from e.g. Fin, who's been lauded as the SC2 Jesus on these very forums, and whoever else switched and was hyped up like crazy.

And the top tier old guard won't switch anyways. They have their money, their fame, and their fans. They will not be re-learning a new game from two years behind and become bad all of a sudden for possibly just a couple more years in the spotlight until they retire from active gaming anyways.

So when those rumoured BW teams do make the switch, what are they going to bring to the SC2 landscape? Harder, maybe more systematic training? Possibly. More money? Maybe. Their old fans? Doesn't really affect the game that much.

If there ever is a good time to switch, it is HoTS. With that a lot of the current strategies will be reset, and people will be scrambling to rise to the top as the metagame begins to formulate. If they do it then, and give it their best, maybe we will see a top BW team succesfully attempt the switch. But then that will have been due to the game resetting, not necessarily due to their magic BW skills.