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GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
October 14 2013 16:30 GMT
#81
On October 15 2013 01:18 onlywonderboy wrote:
Dammit, I hate Curse for runing ggLA but I also still like Quas. FUCK I'M SO CONFLICTED. Gonna have to write an update T_T

Yankees tho
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
Vegetarian Wolf
Profile Joined May 2010
China434 Posts
October 14 2013 16:39 GMT
#82
Why are people so mad at this? This is how you get progress in ESPORTS lol

this just goes to show that despite all the empty talk about wanting a promote a robust and competitive NA scene, when push comes to shove, people care more about "personalities" and "friendships" than actually trying to form a winning team. it's a business folks.
Awooo...
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
October 14 2013 17:29 GMT
#83
this is not how sports progress. raiding lower tier teams and treating players this way only leads to stagnation and further stratification.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
onlywonderboy
Profile Joined August 2012
United States23745 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-14 17:34:29
October 14 2013 17:33 GMT
#84
Clearly LoL just needs a draft hue. Moving around talent isn't an issue, but the shitty part is ggLA didn't get anything out of Quas leaving. At least the Browns get a first round draft pick for trading Richardson. Quas just got straight poached.
RIP Ryan Davis / TL or Die / @onlywonderboy
Vegetarian Wolf
Profile Joined May 2010
China434 Posts
October 14 2013 17:34 GMT
#85
On October 15 2013 02:29 oneofthem wrote:
this is not how sports progress. raiding lower tier teams and treating players this way only leads to stagnation and further stratification.


yeah, this is the step that leads to players and organizations having a more acute sense of protection and signing contracts and instating a system and shit

if this never happened no one would've realized the need for a system in place to regulate this kind of stuff

there is also nothing inherently wrong with stratification.
Awooo...
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
October 14 2013 17:46 GMT
#86
stratification and stagnation goes hand in hand. there's no pressure on top teams within a region to be better, if they can just destroy up and coming teams with moves like these
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
Vegetarian Wolf
Profile Joined May 2010
China434 Posts
October 14 2013 17:50 GMT
#87
On October 15 2013 02:46 oneofthem wrote:
stratification and stagnation goes hand in hand. there's no pressure on top teams within a region to be better, if they can just destroy up and coming teams with moves like these


they couldve poached c9 like this but they didnt

besides poaching ppl brings good players into the the top flight and helps improve the top tier
Awooo...
Swords
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
6038 Posts
October 14 2013 17:55 GMT
#88
I just don't like that they told Pobelter and Aphro they made the team when they were still "trying out" according to Liquid. Voyboy is also apparently pissed he wasn't consulted at all about making changes.

That's terrible management, even if the roster changes make for a better team - you've alienated the face of the team, and established that players can't trust Curse's "front office" so to speak.
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
October 14 2013 17:57 GMT
#89
On October 15 2013 02:50 Vegetarian Wolf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2013 02:46 oneofthem wrote:
stratification and stagnation goes hand in hand. there's no pressure on top teams within a region to be better, if they can just destroy up and coming teams with moves like these


they couldve poached c9 like this but they didnt

besides poaching ppl brings good players into the the top flight and helps improve the top tier

point is, had they poached c9, they would not have progressed the scene like real sports. cleveland browns was a yankees farm team for decades and that did not improve baseball.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
October 14 2013 18:03 GMT
#90
What they did was fine. Liquid's PR skills just blow.
God Bless
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
October 14 2013 18:05 GMT
#91
On October 15 2013 02:50 Vegetarian Wolf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2013 02:46 oneofthem wrote:
stratification and stagnation goes hand in hand. there's no pressure on top teams within a region to be better, if they can just destroy up and coming teams with moves like these


they couldve poached c9 like this but they didnt

besides poaching ppl brings good players into the the top flight and helps improve the top tier

Leads to entrenched teams with no way for new teams to pop up. Need a good balance of player mobility and team mobility.
liftlift > tsm
remedium
Profile Joined July 2011
United States939 Posts
October 14 2013 18:07 GMT
#92
On October 15 2013 02:57 oneofthem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2013 02:50 Vegetarian Wolf wrote:
On October 15 2013 02:46 oneofthem wrote:
stratification and stagnation goes hand in hand. there's no pressure on top teams within a region to be better, if they can just destroy up and coming teams with moves like these


they couldve poached c9 like this but they didnt

besides poaching ppl brings good players into the the top flight and helps improve the top tier

point is, had they poached c9, they would not have progressed the scene like real sports. cleveland browns was a yankees farm team for decades and that did not improve baseball.


Your analogy is wonky. The players in question were still in the MLB (also, KC Royals, Yankees farm team - still same league).

Real sports use lesser leagues to improve the main league's player base, at the expense of the skill in the lesser leagues.

The entire purpose of "minor" leagues and other organizations in traditional sports is to identify the best players and filter them to the top.

Esports differs mildly because teams can still move vertically through the leagues with relative ease. Curse is skipping a step and deciding that the Challenger teams are now its minor league system. More evenly distributed $$$ and/or restrictions on player movement are required before this will stop.
Stay positive!
Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
October 14 2013 18:10 GMT
#93
It's more the case of the timing of all this. If curse was trialing people than they could have said so to the people involved and done it over a period before the roster lock happened. Instead 2 players are no without a team right before the deadline for this promotion and a team is without their core. Poaching happens but really dick timing honestly and not just to ggLA but more so to aphro and probelter
remedium
Profile Joined July 2011
United States939 Posts
October 14 2013 18:14 GMT
#94
On October 15 2013 03:10 Numy wrote:
It's more the case of the timing of all this. If curse was trialing people than they could have said so to the people involved and done it over a period before the roster lock happened. Instead 2 players are no without a team right before the deadline for this promotion and a team is without their core. Poaching happens but really dick timing honestly and not just to ggLA but more so to aphro and probelter


It's definitely mind-bottling that Curse didn't realize a high school student wasn't going to drop everything and train 24/7 with them. How does that not come up in the very first conversation?

All I have to say is, coLbelter.

MAKE IT HAPPEN
Stay positive!
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
October 14 2013 18:17 GMT
#95
don't have a good keyboard for a longer response but stratification of teams leads to less competitive rewards, and less competition. this would lead to less of an incentive to be better. expressed in the royal-yankees situation, the overall talent base is narrower because players were not as valued back then compared to the more competitive free agency era.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
October 14 2013 20:40 GMT
#96
Don't believe the conspiracy theories of Crs doing this purposefully at a timely manner. I think they're just incompetent.
Slusher
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States19143 Posts
October 14 2013 21:06 GMT
#97
Hubert has always provided whatever his team needs, gotten whoever Liquid tells him to get, and they've never been able to be "the team". Yet Liquid is still the manager after all this time.
Carrilord has arrived.
Anakko
Profile Joined August 2012
France1934 Posts
October 14 2013 21:10 GMT
#98
Also I don't like the fact that established organizations have literally zero chance to get kicked out of LCS as long as they have the money to poach good players from challenger teams.
I would like things to be like in european soccer: if your team fucks up the season real bad, it gets demoted. There is zero reason to allow teams to get 2-3 months off before playing demotion series, allowing them to poach players from the same teams they will face in it. Add to this the fact that the challenger teams have nothing to offer to their players as long as they aren't qualified (except Quantic, but it's not really the norm), and you have a recipe for this kind of disaster.

What LCS is on the way to become is some kind of NBA closed league which doesn't say it's name, and I don't like it.
TrAce/Cpt Jack for president (or both)
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
October 14 2013 21:15 GMT
#99
On October 15 2013 06:10 Anakko wrote:
Also I don't like the fact that established organizations have literally zero chance to get kicked out of LCS as long as they have the money to poach good players from challenger teams.
I would like things to be like in european soccer: if your team fucks up the season real bad, it gets demoted. There is zero reason to allow teams to get 2-3 months off before playing demotion series, allowing them to poach players from the same teams they will face in it. Add to this the fact that the challenger teams have nothing to offer to their players as long as they aren't qualified (except Quantic, but it's not really the norm), and you have a recipe for this kind of disaster.

What LCS is on the way to become is some kind of NBA closed league which doesn't say it's name, and I don't like it.

Actually it annoys me because i dont think Curse will make it through relegations thanks to these moves. The time it takes to synergize with a team, and in addition the emphasis LoL has on teamwork over individual merit is enough to say that Curse should take more time with what they have rather than be the new CLG
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
sylverfyre
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8298 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-10-14 21:22:29
October 14 2013 21:21 GMT
#100
If they were thinking about doing this, why the hell would they make a big deal out of their new roster?
On October 15 2013 06:06 Slusher wrote:
Hubert has always provided whatever his team needs, gotten whoever Liquid tells him to get, and they've never been able to be "the team". Yet Liquid is still the manager after all this time.

I agree with your line of thinking. It seems like the entire League scene hasn't yet realized that bad management and/or bad coaching can cause a team to do poorly just as easily as bad players. The fact that players are managing or coaching themselves for many teams exacerbates this.
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