On October 06 2012 10:40 Ryler wrote: Atleast the personal skill gap isn't that high in the game
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It's harder to gauge for the duo lanes since it's also more complex, but the amount of solo outplays we saw in mid/top by Asians were pretty convincing.
Mainly top, God damn do NA tops blow hard. Mid was mostly even from the games I saw. Trading kills and CS relatively close.
On October 06 2012 10:39 Shivaz wrote: clg na obviously best na team only one to win 1 game rofl, would have won more but purple side op
Dont start.
Thats the mentality of NA teams.
Chauster saying "we prepared tactics for one side of the map"
Who fucking does that? i mean seriously. ITs a coin flip if you get blue or purple in group stage. Who comes to an event preparing tactics from only one side. Mind BLOWN
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
Don't be so harsh, it's not like all of the NA viewers stopped watching DotA after the first Day of the main event at TI2. They're not going to stop watching LoL tommorow either now that all the NA teams are gone NA can also always USA USA behind M5/Na'Vi/Stephano
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
Don't be so harsh, it's not like all of the NA viewers stopped watching DotA after the first Day of the main event at TI2. NA can also always USA USA behind M5/Na'Vi/Stephano
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
People in the US still seem to watch starcraft. Although to be honest I doubt how much longer that is going to last.
Well teams like EG can just keep importing Europeans and all americans can keep chanting USA USA USA when stephano wins something.
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
Don't be so harsh, it's not like all of the NA viewers stopped watching DotA after the first Day of the main event at TI2. They're not going to stop watching LoL tommorow either now that all the NA teams are gone NA can also always USA USA behind M5/Na'Vi/Stephano
One tournament, shure but long-term it becomes a problem. I'm not shure if most people are still going to watch MLG in a year or two when every tournament is 90% koreans.
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
Don't be so harsh, it's not like all of the NA viewers stopped watching DotA after the first Day of the main event at TI2. They're not going to stop watching LoL tommorow either now that all the NA teams are gone NA can also always USA USA behind M5/Na'Vi/Stephano
One tournament, shure but long-term it becomes a problem. I'm not shure if most people are still going to watch MLG in a year or two when every tournament is 90% koreans.
It isn't a problem when your tournament structure is region vs. region vs. region vs. region, which is where tournaments are moving towards. The way Dota and LoL run their tournaments you won't ever have a tournament with 90% Koreans.
On October 06 2012 10:17 overt wrote: NA worst scene in esports. LoL no exception. Don't expect them to do any better in S3 to be honest.
Still jiji fanboy.
edit: asian girls fucking hot
let's be honest, FPS games the only thing NA has ever been good at
Coming from a Quake/Halo/TF2 background the NA scene in Brood War/SC2/LoL/DotA makes me really sad.
BW wasn't too bad, we had Nony and Idra!
Lol, I hope that was sarcasm.
There were some pretty good American players, not only those two who were the last along with Assem. The difference wasn't as pronounced earlier in the scene but yes later it was just complete domination as Korea became increasingly structured and professionalized and everyone else didn't
On October 06 2012 10:46 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: or you can just enjoy good games as an American. Doesn't matter who is playing ^_^ Team loyalty is merely something interesting to do on the side imo
The hardcore crowd, shure, but like in sports most people watch more because of the teams/players and less because of the actual game.
Can anyone tell me why they split the finals up to be next week? Seems inconvenient for anybody out of town having to spend an extra week in LA.
Was it to build hype for the finals for a week? What happens if finals is Frost vs TPA? Will people still get hyped for it or will nobody end up showing up for the finals?
On October 06 2012 10:17 overt wrote: NA worst scene in esports. LoL no exception. Don't expect them to do any better in S3 to be honest.
Still jiji fanboy.
edit: asian girls fucking hot
let's be honest, FPS games the only thing NA has ever been good at
Coming from a Quake/Halo/TF2 background the NA scene in Brood War/SC2/LoL/DotA makes me really sad.
BW wasn't too bad, we had Nony and Idra!
Lol, I hope that was sarcasm.
No its actually true. NA's BW is not that bad. Since everybody can't beat Koreans, thats where the word foreigners come from. NA's BW can hold its own against EU/Non-Korean. But people back then are much more solid than nowadays. Today you can do nothing, just stream you eating and still there are 20k watching you.
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
Don't be so harsh, it's not like all of the NA viewers stopped watching DotA after the first Day of the main event at TI2. They're not going to stop watching LoL tommorow either now that all the NA teams are gone NA can also always USA USA behind M5/Na'Vi/Stephano
One tournament, shure but long-term it becomes a problem. I'm not shure if most people are still going to watch MLG in a year or two when every tournament is 90% koreans.
It isn't a problem when your tournament structure is region vs. region vs. region vs. region, which is where tournaments are moving towards. The way Dota and LoL run their tournaments you won't ever have a tournament with 90% Koreans.
I was obviously referring to the other case ie. MLG. MLG is in a pretty bad spot because they can't just stop inviting koreans.
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
Don't be so harsh, it's not like all of the NA viewers stopped watching DotA after the first Day of the main event at TI2. They're not going to stop watching LoL tommorow either now that all the NA teams are gone NA can also always USA USA behind M5/Na'Vi/Stephano
One tournament, shure but long-term it becomes a problem. I'm not shure if most people are still going to watch MLG in a year or two when every tournament is 90% koreans.
I think this it is really important not to let it be 90% koreans as it kills the eu/na scenes.
On October 06 2012 10:48 Canucklehead wrote: Can anyone tell me why they split the finals up to be next week? Seems inconvenient for anybody out of town having to spend an extra week in LA.
Was it to build hype for the finals for a week? What happens if finals is Frost vs TPA? Will people still get hyped for it or will nobody end up showing up for the finals?
Somewhat of a good point. I would hope that people would still appreciate high level play regardless of who it is but the majority of people are more casual fans who don't care as much when their team goes out. This is less pronounced in Esports then in Sports though I think.
On October 06 2012 10:17 overt wrote: NA worst scene in esports. LoL no exception. Don't expect them to do any better in S3 to be honest.
Still jiji fanboy.
edit: asian girls fucking hot
let's be honest, FPS games the only thing NA has ever been good at
Coming from a Quake/Halo/TF2 background the NA scene in Brood War/SC2/LoL/DotA makes me really sad.
BW wasn't too bad, we had Nony and Idra!
Lol, I hope that was sarcasm.
No its actually true. NA's BW is not that bad. Since everybody can't beat Koreans, thats where the word foreigners come from. NA's BW can hold its own against EU/Non-Korean. But people back then are much more solid than nowadays. Today you can do nothing, just stream you eating and still there are 20k watching you.
You mean the difference between BW and LoL is that NA BW is so poor that people don't even IMAGINE NA to win against Koreans.... whereas for LoL people have the FALSE ILLUSION that an NA team can win.
On October 06 2012 10:17 overt wrote: NA worst scene in esports. LoL no exception. Don't expect them to do any better in S3 to be honest.
Still jiji fanboy.
edit: asian girls fucking hot
let's be honest, FPS games the only thing NA has ever been good at
Coming from a Quake/Halo/TF2 background the NA scene in Brood War/SC2/LoL/DotA makes me really sad.
BW wasn't too bad, we had Nony and Idra!
Lol, I hope that was sarcasm.
No its actually true. NA's BW is not that bad. Since everybody can't beat Koreans, thats where the word foreigners come from. NA's BW can hold its own against EU/Non-Korean. But people back then are much more solid than nowadays. Today you can do nothing, just stream you eating and still there are 20k watching you.
NA BW was not that bad because everybody in europe played wc3 from 2002 onwards. If you look at SC2 nowadays most of the best foreigners are ex-wc3 players.
On October 06 2012 10:31 RealQ wrote: Also. its gonna get worse, this is just the start of Asian domination in lol, the bigger it gets in korea the bigger the gap between NA/EU and KR is gonna be.
Until it reaches the point where non Korean teams become "foreign" and you got separate tourneys for Korea and the rest of the world. We are witnessing history folks
Season 3 is region locked for the most part (according to what has been revealed thus far).
This allows each region to remain popular and interested in the game.
I'm not sure how popular and interested NA viewers will remain when their home teams lose in 20 minutes to every notable EU/Asian team.
People in the US still seem to watch starcraft. Although to be honest I doubt how much longer that is going to last.
Well teams like EG can just keep importing Europeans and all americans can keep chanting USA USA USA when stephano wins something.
Thats why they will still watch.
This thread has become too cute. NA going to continue to get trashed by EU teams? lol. They split 1-1 this tournament. I would hope CLG.eu will be able to beat WE, considering weak NA curse team, not even at this tournament did so. EU trying to get on a high horse for this game too? Appears so, I guess I'll try and make time to watch that series tomorrow. Then this circle of spit can continue about how the EU teams are going to continue to disappoint.