EPTThe only chance I can see of this being fixed is Blizzard somehow buying/forcing the broadcasters out of KESPA and creating an independant governing body for starcraft or Blizzard creating a new sporting body with GOM.
Fingers crossed.
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RinoZerg
Australia130 Posts
The only chance I can see of this being fixed is Blizzard somehow buying/forcing the broadcasters out of KESPA and creating an independant governing body for starcraft or Blizzard creating a new sporting body with GOM. Fingers crossed. | ||
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yarders
United Kingdom194 Posts
On September 15 2009 05:49 Dametri wrote: Lot of first-time posters and very low-count posters posting in this thread. The general consensus from them also seems to be "fuck, gomtv is what brought me into e-sports in the first place!" It seems to me that gomtv did way more for the foreign community than just about anything else that's happened in the past... 9 years or so (as evidenced by the tens of thousands of views of season 2 videos). I'd love to hear from these types of fans exactly how they feel about watching games between foreigners with english commentary. The future of SC lies with the foreign community (or so I feel), and gomtv has been the best thing for the foreign community since SC's inception (and still could be if there is enough interest in foreigners playing each other ) Yup I got into the pro-scene through Gom as well. Alot of hardcore long time posters seem to be saying there not that bothered because the Gom league wasn't that good/high quality anyway. Well that may be true but Gom has helped bring thousands of casual foreigners like myself into e-sports. I felt like it has set the scene for e-sports to explode globally with SC2. I imagined watching games not on the internet but on TV in the future. Now it seems like all the good work has been undone and this may never happen. As regards to watching foreigners with english commentary, I believe Gom already had a foreigner tournament (the valor tournament). I see the valor tournament final has about 40 times fewer views than the intel classic. I would watch a foreigner tournament but it will be like watching 2nd division football. Somehow it just wont be the same knowing your not watching the best. | ||
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Tekin
2711 Posts
First we hit the kpop industry then we hit eSports with GOM Season 4 canceled. | ||
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Mykill
Canada3402 Posts
if you give people what they want they'll generally flock to you and BAM $$$ rolls in. KeSPA needs to appeal to the foreign community else they'll be locked to a korean market which is very tiny, they need to reach out to china/states/euro. | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
EDIT: could someone get into contact with tasteless and SDM and confirm this and get more details? | ||
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koOl
Canada254 Posts
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Itachii
Poland12466 Posts
is it true?  | ||
ImbaTosS
United Kingdom1708 Posts
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Felby
Norway81 Posts
speechless | ||
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Raydog
United States632 Posts
cuz i enjoy watching starcraft, but I like it more when I hear english commentary rather than korean | ||
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lighter
United States152 Posts
This sucks. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK KESPA | ||
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aers
United States1210 Posts
Really won't be the same without it :/ | ||
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Badred
Canada129 Posts
I have a feeling the real reason there's so much rage is because what we're actually losing is quality English commentary of korean pro Starcraft. If MBC or OGN hired Tastless, SDM, Artosis or whoever to do some English commentary for the next season of pro-league or star-league games, I think we'd all settle down pretty quickly. Amiright? Hint, hint, hint. *nudges MBC/OGN* | ||
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QQplay
United States229 Posts
Stupid Kespa. | ||
TheFallofTroy
Canada780 Posts
On September 14 2009 17:47 p4NDemik wrote: Honestly I won't miss the tournament as a whole very much - there's just so many games being played when PL/MSL/OSL all get running at full speed, and GOM was never something I would make time to watch. I will however miss the chances to see unique/old-timer gamers in proper televised matches and not just prelims. This is exactly how I feel about this. I mean, GOM was good, but it always came after MSL/OSL/PL in prestige and excitement. Hopefully something good comes from this and we can get more English commentary on MSL/OSL/PL. | ||
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Gnaix
United States438 Posts
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l10f
United States3241 Posts
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Gnaix
United States438 Posts
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JWD
United States12607 Posts
On September 15 2009 08:33 Machine[eh] wrote: This is exactly how I feel about this. I mean, GOM was good, but it always came after MSL/OSL/PL in prestige and excitement. Hopefully something good comes from this and we can get more English commentary on MSL/OSL/PL. I'd argue that there's already an overabundance of English commentary on non-GOM leagues. The demand GOM satisfied wasn't English commentary in general, but live, professional (in terms of mic quality, the casters' presence at GOM's studio), and conveniently available English commentary. I am downplaying GOM's importance a bit, so I'd like to check myself by saying that, especially after reading all of the comments from new BW fans who were drawn by the tournament, I agree that it's been the most significant development in the foreign BW scene in the past few years. GOM bridged the gap between foreigner and Korean like no other tournament. | ||
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G3nXsiS
United States656 Posts
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