President Jun Byung-Hun's Letter about Team Dark - Page 3

On November 27 2013 20:04 krndandaman wrote:
^
to be fair tho, the travelling part is all relative.
for me as well, going from seoul to busan and back from busan to seoul wasn't that bad either. just 2 hours on KTX. coming home from college is 5 hours for me back in the USA. but people in korea seem to feel that it's a really long travel and hassle, especially those who don't know seoul well.

I remember getting kinda disappointed by some friends who I had to beg for to come out from just ulsan/daejeon to seoul to visit me. they said that the travel is way too long and seoul confuses them. didn't understand at first but there are people who go travel 2hours maybe only once or twice per year in korea.

On November 27 2013 21:20 baekgom84 wrote:


Yeah, that's true I guess. Still, it's pretty pathetic of them to complain about the travel issue, when they only had three games to play in the group stages (six max if they made it to the final). I mean, I teach students who make a two hour commute (one way) on a daily basis. This is the most prestigious LoL tournament in Korea and one of the most competitive leagues in the world we're talking about, and IIRC they only managed to sneak a spot because of a favourable draw. It just boggles my mind.

On November 27 2013 16:08 Jindo wrote:
Translated by paynejiwon on reddit
Mid laner plls from Team Dark gives his side of the story:

"Before the game started, we asked the judges inside the booth if we were allowed to troll pick. The judges said it did not matter. How would we, players who had just arrived an hour earlier to get our make up done for broadcasting, know the rules that even the judges did not know? If the judges had replied that there would be sanctions, we would never have played out the troll game. We were not very eager to go on beyond the best of 16 and we had achieved our initial goal. Moreover, had there been a forfeit option we would have taken it, however the Producer called and told us that he would sue us if we did not come for the profile shooting or the actual game. Two of our teammates don't live in Seoul and it took them four hours and transportation costs that OGN did not provide for them..."
(mentions teammates facebook post about the event, kind of irrelevant imo)
"I would like to ask one question to OGN: Had we been told that we would be punished, we would never have acted accordingly. How would players know the rules that even the judges were unaware of ?"

Source: http://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id=leagueoflegends1&no=4517409&page=1&exception_mode=recommend

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On November 27 2013 21:55 Tula wrote:


Frankly that is an idiotic excuse. Yes you are allowed to troll pick most likely. If you run whatever non-standard comp you want and try your hardest no caster would complain. They might say something like "maybe they should have picked standard" but there would be no reason to discuss consequences.

Instead they picked a troll comp and then did their level best to throw the game. their multiple smites had no role at all (they could have tried to invade red and blue at the same time to use them) they didn't even try to cs and they spent more time throwing wards than defending their towers.

Concerning the travel time, maybe that is something they should have considered before they tried to qualify for the tournament. It isn't a secret where OGN is being played...