NASL application VODS - Page 109

On March 18 2011 01:29 MagnusHyperion wrote:


Hey, guy, how much Korean do you know? Maybe before you start negatively criticizing people who are doing their best to try to speak English you stop and think about the significance of this. After all, Korean-to-English or English-to-Korean are some of the hardest language transitions for, literally, anyone. FYI, according to NPR, English is taught at a very young age almost universally to students in Korea but, as I mentioned, the languages are so incredibly different that it's hard for them to do well with it. The command of ~300 English words I heard from the ST guys was pretty impressive considering China is pumping billions into getting their population educated enough to use ~1000 in like 10 years (according to NPR). Anyhow, my point is don't be so hasty to throw negative energy at some guys who spend 12 hours a day playing video games for your enjoyment when they can't speak one of the hardest languages for them to learn. Perhaps you should phrase it as, "I was impressed at how hard they tried, despite not having a good command of vocabulary."

Anyhow, I'll put this frankly, as a person who watched a lot of BW, I was/am infinitely pleased to see Korean pro gamers speaking ANY English. I was actually clapping my hands and jumping up and down in my chair when I saw July Zerg had put up a video! This was the first time I have ever heard these guys speak English in such quantity, several minutes of them speaking is impressive! Korean progamers doing this is actually unprecedented by it's strictest definition! Hell, I even remember seeing foreign reporters struggling to get Bisu to say one or two words in English and Russian.

Seeing Korean Progamers stepping outside their comfort zone and doing something like this makes me exceptionally happy!

Also, did anyone else notice that most Western players mentioned that they didn't have rivals, while Koreans almost uniformly had rivals? (Even MC's comments reeked of giving the middle finger to every player out there) It's a curious little side note I thought worth mentioning.

On March 18 2011 01:29 MagnusHyperion wrote:


Hey, guy, how much Korean do you know? Maybe before you start negatively criticizing people who are doing their best to try to speak English you stop and think about the significance of this. After all, Korean-to-English or English-to-Korean are some of the hardest language transitions for, literally, anyone. FYI, according to NPR, English is taught at a very young age almost universally to students in Korea but, as I mentioned, the languages are so incredibly different that it's hard for them to do well with it. The command of ~300 English words I heard from the ST guys was pretty impressive considering China is pumping billions into getting their population educated enough to use ~1000 in like 10 years (according to NPR). Anyhow, my point is don't be so hasty to throw negative energy at some guys who spend 12 hours a day playing video games for your enjoyment when they can't speak one of the hardest languages for them to learn. Perhaps you should phrase it as, "I was impressed at how hard they tried, despite not having a good command of vocabulary."

Anyhow, I'll put this frankly, as a person who watched a lot of BW, I was/am infinitely pleased to see Korean pro gamers speaking ANY English. I was actually clapping my hands and jumping up and down in my chair when I saw July Zerg had put up a video! This was the first time I have ever heard these guys speak English in such quantity, several minutes of them speaking is impressive! Korean progamers doing this is actually unprecedented by it's strictest definition! Hell, I even remember seeing foreign reporters struggling to get Bisu to say one or two words in English and Russian.

Seeing Korean Progamers stepping outside their comfort zone and doing something like this makes me exceptionally happy!

Also, did anyone else notice that most Western players mentioned that they didn't have rivals, while Koreans almost uniformly had rivals? (Even MC's comments reeked of giving the middle finger to every player out there) It's a curious little side note I thought worth mentioning.

On March 18 2011 02:47 DiaBoLuS wrote:
Duckload.White-ra
Empire.Kas
[M]Tarson
[M]Adelscott

are still missing from EU.

I Hope they get invited anyway.

On March 18 2011 01:57 Tenks wrote:
I do not envy the NASL decision making team here. So many great players applying. Based on merit alone they pretty much must let a bunch of Koreans in the tournament. I don't think many who have applied have no accomplishments. Winning Code A of the GSL, imho, is a bigger deal than winning IEM or MLG.

On March 18 2011 01:57 Tenks wrote:
I do not envy the NASL decision making team here. So many great players applying. Based on merit alone they pretty much must let a bunch of Koreans in the tournament. I don't think many who have applied have no accomplishments. Winning Code A of the GSL, imho, is a bigger deal than winning IEM or MLG.

On March 18 2011 03:13 meijin wrote:
have they announced how they're going to separate players into divisions? is it random? random while minimizing team kills? they just get to cherry pick the best matchups? regional?

i hope they purposefully select players for the divisions so they can make as many good matchups/storylines as possible while also having even divisions.

e.g. if they take both grubby and moon they HAVE to put them in the same group to guarantee a series between them. probably put zenio in idra's division etc etc.

On March 17 2011 20:24 MyXoMoPBL wrote:
zenio + top best korean english? :OO