EPT[Opinion/IPL4] Much Ado About Nothing - Page 2
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Micket
United Kingdom2163 Posts
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Kontys
Finland659 Posts
I do agree we need more lower key tournaments to help new foreigner talent compete for attention, but limiting korean participation for the main-event tournaments like IPL would be utterly foolish. What we need is for the foreign grass roots to grow and produce more excellent players, for the ladders to get better and, for the west to learn to play RTS in general. Let's face it, we really are new to it, and we will need time until your normal western ladder player thinks about the game as productively as korean ladder players. | ||
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Opera
France469 Posts
Also, why do American people claim Stephano is American ? Can't stand a French guy steam rollin' ? | ||
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testthewest
Germany274 Posts
Right now, the interesting part is the open bracket. | ||
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
Illusion is a freaking badass. | ||
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MIDO17
Kazakhstan12 Posts
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Uranyl
Germany38 Posts
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neurosx
Luxembourg1096 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
We should have one of these after each tournament to at least partially "counter" swarms of people who will form an opinion based on limited information and superficial observation (often with a touch of personal bias on top). | ||
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Laryleprakon
New Zealand9496 Posts
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Kiett
United States7639 Posts
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SenorChang
Australia4730 Posts
On April 20 2012 20:09 Hiea wrote: This event in my eyes was pretty meh, no foreigners streamed except those that we all know, can't compete with koreans, outside of Stephano. Also the finals, I didn't really end up caring to much, as to me aLive is a very boring player, and Squirtle, who really knows anything about that guy? I wish I could of watched some of the games from people in the group stages aswell, I don't believe Curious who was in Group B got a single one of his games streamed. One thing I never quite understood was why MMA, MC and NesTea got direct invites? why not get some top EU guys aswell? Squirtle is a motherfucking badass The dude has a 70% win rate in PvZ and 75% win rate in PvP IN KOREA He will play his ro16 matches in GSL next thursday, with 2 other protosses in his group. You should check it out yea, who is this guy?! Educate yourself fool also: Top EU guys do not compare to MMA, MC and Nestea (except stephano who was there, and naniwa who probably could've been there if he wanted) | ||
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torm3ntin
Brazil2534 Posts
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Lysanias
Netherlands8351 Posts
I also fully agree players like White-Ra and Idra should not be seeded, IPL changed so much and how can you justify 1 year old results. | ||
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Proseat
Germany5113 Posts
Whoever picked the matches being broadcasted from the open bracket needs to touch base with the community again. There were some very questionable decisions while their own LR thread screamed the matches the audience actually wanted to see. Also, to end the tournament day and shut down streaming while even foreigners or foreign-team Koreans (SaSe, Taeja, etc.) were still fighting to win their Open Losers Bracket on Day 1, was really a bad decision and left a bitter aftertaste. Let's hope at IPL5 in August, again in Las Vegas, and combined with the GSL finals this time, things will improve, as the open bracket will also not be swamped by two full GSTL teams from Korea. | ||
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SoniC_eu
Denmark1008 Posts
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Emix_Squall
France705 Posts
On April 20 2012 20:47 torm3ntin wrote: Not streaming foreigner games doesn't mean we did well. Math tells the truth there. Did you read the article or just picked a random sentence inside it in order to make that comment. Not gonna explain you how wrong you are since the article explains it though. Anyway thx for this article, very interesting, Illusion's run pretty much seemed invisible during the tournament, great to see some more NA players bringing good results. And as always, gogogo team France, Stephano is the beast and with his next trip to Korea, I hope we see him competing in the GSL to finally shut all the mouths saying his playstyle or lvl in general aren't code S quality. | ||
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kAelle_sc
287 Posts
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Inverse1
United Kingdom61 Posts
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Benjamin99
4176 Posts
Its time for the scene to stop inviting popular players anymore. The only player who did well in the groups was Stephano and he actually qualified by winning IPL 4 UK qualifier over Tails/Sase/Ryung Also Scarlet won a qualify tournament and she did very well also. Illusion are the ode one out he didnt win any qualifiers or anything but he had massive succes. But not really supricing since im considering him the best NA player atm. But he dont get much love from the community but it is hard to keep up with Idra that got a million fans an are exstremely overhyped. Feast is another example he dint play IPL4 but he is one of the few foreigners who has done very well recently and beat several top dogs. And how did he do it? He qualified to IEM I think the lesson we need to learn as a community are stop inviting the oldschool overhyped players and lat the players qualify. Trust me the foreign scene will do much better | ||
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