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Source: http://eschosun.com/board/view.php?bid=sc2e&num=40155
Full translation:
"Held in Korea, but No Koreans to participate"
No Korean player will take part in IeSF 2011 World Championship's Starcraft 2 tournament.
International e-Sports Federation(IeSF) plans to hold IeSF 2011 World Championship in Andong, Korea from October 6th to October 9th, but oddly no Korean representative will be chosen.
IeSF has chosen FIFA Online 2, A.V.A., and Starcraft 2 as official titles for the event.
However, according to event organizers, there is no plan to select Korean representative in Starcraft 2 tournament. KeSPA is in charge of choosing Korean representative for IeSF 2011.
According to KeSPA, "since Starcraft 2 is not the officially recognized event of KeSPA, there is no plan to choose a Korean representative." This means that although they are holding the event will in Korea, there will be no Korean player participating. The situation is hard to comprehend.
It is frustrating given Korean Starcraft 2 progamer's successes including those in foreign tournaments and their popularity around the world.
Also, the policy flies in the face of IeSF's vision: "Joint Development in Global e-Sports" and could raise the concern that 'domestic matters affecting international tournament.'
The city of Andong plans to hold a separate event '4th Andong Hahoe Masks eSports Hanmadang' which will include Starcraft 2. So Korean and foreign players will at the same place at the same time, but they will be playing in different leagues.
Due to the organizer's incomprehensible event management, the guest and the host will be sitting in different tables at a party. The situation is not even funny.
TL;DR:
KeSPA is in charge of choosing Korean representatives for IeSF 2011
They are not going to choose one for SC2 because they don't recognize it
Update
DailyEsports is reporting that IeSF hasn't reached SC2 licencing agreement with Gretech yet. IeSF is considering switching SC2 from official title to exhibition title. Link 1 Link 2
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WTF lol. Held in Korea but no Koreans allowed, great for foreigners but sucks for us spectators. And KeSPA being KeSPA
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Why is it so many situations involving KeSPA turn into these Grapes of Wrath-esque nonsensical debacles?
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lol wtf? Ruins whole tournament (well sc2's side at least) (for koreans)
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This seems somewhat mean to the korean players, lol.
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
Well, KeSPA doesn't recognizes SC2 because they do not want to deal with Blizzard on it. It makes sense for their decision.
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? I know everybody besides Zeal and Deathfate
on topic: sucks, but at least in the later rounds the tourney should produce some nice games.
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I could only count 3 unknowns.....
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On September 27 2011 01:17 mdma-_- wrote:? I know everybody besides Zeal and Deathfate on topic: sucks, but at least in the later rounds the tourney should produce some nice games.
i know everyone besides zeal.
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As people have said, they're mostly known players, albeit I don't think anyone would say that's a stellar lineup.
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Its one player per country. And some countries don't hold qualifiers. So I think it`s not possible to have an all-star line-up.
It would have been "only" one Korean, too. Still really stupid that there isn't one when it takes place in Korea.
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'4th Andong Hahoe Masks eSports Hanmadang'
Best. Event name. Ever.
On a more serious note, considering the current qualified players for Iesf, it is just as well that no Koreans will participate :[
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On September 27 2011 01:25 MrSalamandra wrote:As people have said, they're mostly known players, albeit I don't think anyone would say that's a stellar lineup.
Maybe to people who watch the several hundred EU small tourneys like craftcups, but for people who watch major tourneys, they are new.
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United Kingdom14464 Posts
Kespa just being silly then. Why were they chosen in the first place to select competitors?
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AHAHAHAHAH fuck, Kespa you never change !
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if no Korean then my bet => Happy
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51589 Posts
how ironic that a starcraft tournament in korea will be won by a non-korean.
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If this is true (as the source is a dead link?) another example of why we are so lucky to not have Kespa being involved in the Starcraft 2 community.
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