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FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6184 Posts
September 26 2011 18:16 GMT
#41
That would be like holding the world hockey championship in Toronto and not having Canada participate.

It's so stupid to not allow Korean to play in this.
n_n
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
September 26 2011 18:26 GMT
#42
Seems like a grudge move from Kespa, no?
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dignitasNewmaN
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden137 Posts
September 26 2011 18:32 GMT
#43
And people say they want a global Kespa..
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doihy
Profile Joined August 2010
668 Posts
September 26 2011 18:37 GMT
#44
Don't blame Kespa they have no interest in SC2 you can't blame a group for not doing what they were made for. You guys are just mindlessly hating on Kespa which there are valid reasons for but thats SC1.
Why don't you guys blame IesF, they could have just chosen korean players themselves. Ever considered that?
redloser
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1750 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-26 18:40:09
September 26 2011 18:39 GMT
#45
WTF LOL

ONG broadcasts SC2, then KeSPA practically boycotts SC2 lol
tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
September 26 2011 18:39 GMT
#46
KeSPA being KeSPA.
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Profile Joined July 2010
United States1716 Posts
September 26 2011 18:39 GMT
#47
A global KeSPA would NOT be useful... A Global eSports organization, could be useful. KeSPA is a fail organization that is consumed with greed and ugly people. An organization that runs basically the way KeSPA is supposed to run (to work for, and benefit eSports in Korea; in this case the world) would be pretty sweet. You'd be able to count on them to assist everyone with legal documentation in regards to visas and w/e more. They'd be able to help judicially in terms of organizations holding out on paying players prize money; they'd be able to help out with organizing massive tournaments with huge prize pools and tons of sponsors from everywhere; they'd be able to provide massive amounts of assistance.

The 'Global KeSPA' (global esports organization) idea is a cool one, as long as it's nothing like KeSPA. The problem is that it would be way too hard to actually make one.
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Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42411 Posts
September 26 2011 18:45 GMT
#48
On September 27 2011 03:39 tree.hugger wrote:
KeSPA being KeSPA.


This. No surprise here.

Well, Grubby to win it all then.
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jtbem
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada1404 Posts
September 26 2011 18:51 GMT
#49
seems like a mistake on iesf , they know kespa players are not playing sc2...why would they still have them in charge of selecting korean players?
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masterbreti
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Korea (South)2711 Posts
September 26 2011 18:54 GMT
#50
KeSPA was in charge back when they were still going to do bw. and KeSPA is in charge of choosing all the Korean players for all the games IeSF has. Since KeSPA does not have any interest in sc2. they won't choose a plyer, since nobody plays sc2 in Korea anyways.

This is good news. and I fully support this move by KeSPA. Maybe next year IeSF will go back to bw to get the fan support.
Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-26 18:57:32
September 26 2011 18:55 GMT
#51
it's kind of silly but in the end kespa probably just doesn't have the resources to pour into sc2 and get preliminaries rolling, especially since it's a game they're not in charge of.

yes it's silly but i bet it more has to do with the fact that they have enough trouble covering their bases on the events they officially recognize (esp when one of them needs a lot of attention atm ^^;; to have the resources to pour into sc2

the article is pretty sensationalist though since kespa will probably be covering sc2 in the future and they actually had long talks with blizzard about it. but i guess people are so quick to blame shit and sensationalize anything regarding kespa and assume things just because of things they've overheard and gotten sensationalized based on netizen reactions and assume their outdated information still hold

Also kind of funny people ask "Why is kespa in charge of iesf"... iesf is something kespa made to begin with
l10f *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3241 Posts
September 26 2011 18:56 GMT
#52
I don't get what's up with all the kespa hate. I agree kespa makes questionable decisions often, but this time I feel like they made the correct decision. IeSF should not have asked kespa to pick Korean reps because kespa is not the group that manages Korean sc2 progamers. That's like asking a softball organization to pick baseball players. I don't wanna get into talking about whether kespa is necessary in sc2 or not but this is not something to blame kespa for.
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JinDesu
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3990 Posts
September 26 2011 18:57 GMT
#53
On September 27 2011 03:54 masterbreti wrote:
KeSPA was in charge back when they were still going to do bw. and KeSPA is in charge of choosing all the Korean players for all the games IeSF has. Since KeSPA does not have any interest in sc2. they won't choose a plyer, since nobody plays sc2 in Korea anyways.

This is good news. and I fully support this move by KeSPA. Maybe next year IeSF will go back to bw to get the fan support.


You're a little bit closed minded there, aren't you...
Yargh
joshboy42
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia116 Posts
September 26 2011 19:03 GMT
#54
Well.. that definitely sounds like kespa
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Inside.Out
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada569 Posts
September 26 2011 19:03 GMT
#55
why are they even using kespa? theres no bw in the tourney, so they shouldve gone to gretech for SC2. kespas shown all along theyve got the maturity level of a 4 year old.
Insane
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States4991 Posts
September 26 2011 19:04 GMT
#56
On September 27 2011 03:56 l10f wrote:
I don't get what's up with all the kespa hate. I agree kespa makes questionable decisions often, but this time I feel like they made the correct decision. IeSF should not have asked kespa to pick Korean reps because kespa is not the group that manages Korean sc2 progamers. That's like asking a softball organization to pick baseball players. I don't wanna get into talking about whether kespa is necessary in sc2 or not but this is not something to blame kespa for.

Kespa had an opportunity to show themselves as being relatively magnanimous and asking GOM to take care of it though. I don't think Kespa should do the picking themselves, but rather should've let GOM take care of it.
VirgilSC2
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States6151 Posts
September 26 2011 19:10 GMT
#57
Does this include Korean players on foreign teams, like PuMa and HerO? What about coL.MVP and their partnership? Could Korean teams put forth foreign players, like IMFenix, or possibly TSL.MajOr? (I know he's not officially on TSL however).

This is completely ridiculous, both on the front that IeSF went to KeSPA regarding SC2, and on the front that KeSPA returned with this statement.
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Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
September 26 2011 19:16 GMT
#58
On September 27 2011 03:55 Milkis wrote:
it's kind of silly but in the end kespa probably just doesn't have the resources to pour into sc2 and get preliminaries rolling, especially since it's a game they're not in charge of.

yes it's silly but i bet it more has to do with the fact that they have enough trouble covering their bases on the events they officially recognize (esp when one of them needs a lot of attention atm ^^;; to have the resources to pour into sc2

the article is pretty sensationalist though since kespa will probably be covering sc2 in the future and they actually had long talks with blizzard about it. but i guess people are so quick to blame shit and sensationalize anything regarding kespa and assume things just because of things they've overheard and gotten sensationalized based on netizen reactions and assume their outdated information still hold

Also kind of funny people ask "Why is kespa in charge of iesf"... iesf is something kespa made to begin with


Couldn't they just outsource that stuff?
DarkRise
Profile Joined November 2010
1644 Posts
September 26 2011 19:17 GMT
#59
On September 27 2011 01:17 amazingxkcd wrote:
Well, KeSPA doesn't recognizes SC2 because they do not want to deal with Blizzard on it. It makes sense for their decision.

more like trying to block Sc2 so that BW can still hold longer as much as they can.
KESPA doesn't have rights in SC2 and won't have any control.
lbmaian
Profile Joined December 2010
United States689 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-26 19:19:37
September 26 2011 19:18 GMT
#60
On September 27 2011 03:55 Milkis wrote:
Also kind of funny people ask "Why is kespa in charge of iesf"... iesf is something kespa made to begin with


Did not know this. But this makes it even sillier - now it almost sounds like a miscommunication somewhere between KeSPA and IeSF.
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