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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
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seRapH
United States9808 Posts
On October 09 2013 02:37 UmberBane wrote: I'm not even sure if this is "on topic" enough for this thread, but the comments/tears in this http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=431529#14 are just so hilarious. Funny little story. LOL #1 SKT has teams in LoL and sc2 and BW so it really could have been any of them, but league's obvious popularity was predictable. | ||
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Brad`
Canada548 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
On October 09 2013 02:45 seRapH wrote: LOL #1 SKT has teams in LoL and sc2 and BW so it really could have been any of them, but league's obvious popularity was predictable. They were clearly actually talking about special forces. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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Spaiku
Spain1114 Posts
On October 09 2013 02:48 Brad` wrote: People still play sc2? I thought everyone gave up on that experiment after the expansion came out. Nah no one plays anymore. Some still watch though | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
On October 09 2013 02:48 Brad` wrote: People still play sc2? I thought everyone gave up on that experiment after the expansion came out. I think it mainly was about BW vs LoL, not so sure if you can say SKT has a rich history in SC2 at all | ||
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overt
United States9006 Posts
Sure, part of the reason Korea is successful in League is because of Brood War but that doesn't mean the history of BW is very relevant to the average League fan. | ||
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Kyrie
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seRapH
United States9808 Posts
On October 09 2013 02:57 overt wrote: Not gonna lie, I think it's kind of unreasonable for people to expect League fans to know about the history of BW. Yeah it's nuts that we have SKT playing at worlds with large portions of the League community completely ignorant as to who Boxer, iloveoov, or Bisu are but why should current League fans be expected to know about a game they aren't fans of? Sure, part of the reason Korea is successful in League is because of Brood War but that doesn't mean the history of BW is very relevant to the average League fan. Well I think that anyone who considers themselves SKT fans should at least know about the rich history behind the rivalries between them and KT, and to an extent Samsung. | ||
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overt
United States9006 Posts
On October 09 2013 02:59 seRapH wrote: Well I think that anyone who considers themselves SKT fans should at least know about the rich history behind the rivalries between them and KT, and to an extent Samsung. Maybe, but are people who like Faker and are 'fans' of SKT now that they've won worlds truly fans? If SKT (or Faker) is just decent in Spring/Summer like Frost was how many of those 'fans' are going to remain fans? Sure it'd be nice if they researched SKT's history but I don't think anyone should expect them to do that. I don't know the ins and outs of the Atlanta Braves history but I've been a fan since I was a kid. | ||
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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
I mean this is the great thing about it, isn't it? So many new people are getting into eSports, especially in the West, to levels not really seen before. You can't expect these guys to have a knowledge of eSports history, even if it's as important as BW. | ||
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overt
United States9006 Posts
On October 09 2013 03:03 UmberBane wrote: Well as I said in the thread, I don't blame them for not knowing. To most of them it's probably just another Korean team that destroys white people. I don't think anyone does a great amount of research on every team that wins a tournament, so how are they going to know that this is the one with the rich history? I mean this is the great thing about it, isn't it? So many new people are getting into eSports, especially in the West, to levels not really seen before. You can't expect these guys to have a knowledge of eSports history, even if it's as important as BW. Exactly. And to compare to real sports most fans don't know the history of the team they root for. Silly that people in that blog felt like those kids needed to know the history of SKT but then again this is TL so I kind of understand their sentiment. | ||
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DrunkenOne
United States302 Posts
On October 08 2013 20:47 Osmoses wrote: Wait a minute. Why wouldn't hybrid pen runes be the best thing ever on GP? Need AD for dat lvl 1 cheese. | ||
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UniversalSnip
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seRapH
United States9808 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
On October 09 2013 03:05 UniversalSnip wrote: Does it ever strike you as weird to treat the proxies of Samsung and a telecom company as having a rich relationship and history. To me that seems as weird as being really really interested in the history of general motors mascots vs Toyota mascots. To be fair SKT and CJ entus existed before their sponsors, they both rented out little houses and tried to make it as pros at the very earliest days of BW. | ||
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Zess
Adun Toridas!9144 Posts
Yea I heard SKT1 Flash is a really good SC2 player. Didn't he win a bunch of MSLs? | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On October 09 2013 03:04 overt wrote: Exactly. And to compare to real sports most fans don't know the history of the team they root for. Silly that people in that blog felt like those kids needed to know the history of SKT but then again this is TL so I kind of understand their sentiment. So many salty tears. | ||
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