[WCS KR] LR 4 - Page 61

On August 23 2012 03:13 Jacmert wrote:
Wait, so did Taeja never participate in WCS Korea? I can't find his name in liquipedia.

On August 23 2012 02:53 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Just a small word on HerO's forfeit. Because Bumblebee is the man and does his job better than anyone, we found out about the scheduling issue between MLG and WCS in July. We really do not like consciously committing to things we can't finish so we suggested to WCS that we cancel HerO and TaeJa's participation.

These choices need to be made very early on. MLG needs to know whether you're coming to play group stage so they can book the flights and hotel for you. The forfeit has nothing to do with how much of a chance we have to win WCS due to PvP or other silly speculation like that. You don't tell MLG you will participate, having your flights booked, and then say never mind our chances in WCS are better. We decided MLG over WCS, knowing we would be in MLG group stage, when WCS had not even started yet.

After some communication GOMTV basically said we should join WCS, and play it for the seeds to WCS Asia, since it was possible to qualify for top 8 before MLG started. We appreciate this kind of attitude from tournaments, although as our suggestion implies we also would have understood if they said you can't play.

On August 23 2012 03:41 FataLe wrote:

No it was. It's just your sense of humour ^^

On August 23 2012 02:53 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Just a small word on HerO's forfeit. Because Bumblebee is the man and does his job better than anyone, we found out about the scheduling issue between MLG and WCS in July. We really do not like consciously committing to things we can't finish so we suggested to WCS that we cancel HerO and TaeJa's participation.

These choices need to be made very early on. MLG needs to know whether you're coming to play group stage so they can book the flights and hotel for you. The forfeit has nothing to do with how much of a chance we have to win WCS due to PvP or other silly speculation like that. You don't tell MLG you will participate, having your flights booked, and then say never mind our chances in WCS are better. We decided MLG over WCS, knowing we would be in MLG group stage, when WCS had not even started yet.

After some communication GOMTV basically said we should join WCS, and play it for the seeds to WCS Asia, since it was possible to qualify for top 8 before MLG started. We appreciate this kind of attitude from tournaments, although as our suggestion implies we also would have understood if they said you can't play.

On August 23 2012 04:36 Eurekastreet wrote:


Sounds good. Sad to see Hero go though, he's the only player I was cheering for left in WCS, being a protoss and not knowing any of the Kespa guys (yet), I cheered for the Euro team guy with an international class haircut (what else is there ?), WCS just got rather pointless for me, got no one to get excited about for the rest of the tournament

On August 23 2012 05:25 thedaks16 wrote:
I'm a little confused, I get that Hero pulled out of WCS for above reasons, but he HAS secured his top 8 spot and a trip to ASIA Finals ...... right? Basically nothing lost besides potential higher placement and a few bucks?

On August 23 2012 04:36 Eurekastreet wrote:


Sounds good. Sad to see Hero go though, he's the only player I was cheering for left in WCS, being a protoss and not knowing any of the Kespa guys (yet), I cheered for the Euro team guy with an international class haircut (what else is there ?), WCS just got rather pointless for me, got no one to get excited about for the rest of the tournament

On August 23 2012 05:58 jmbthirteen wrote:
I think Hero and Liquid made the best of a bad situation. He was able to secure his spot in WCS Asia, but also be able to visit his foreign fans at MLG which he is seeded into the groups. Obviously it sucks to forfeit the rest of WCS Korea, but unfortunately tournaments collide.

On August 23 2012 06:30 sc14s wrote:

liquid = euro team..? i thought it is based in NY and is a multi national team?

On August 23 2012 07:12 Bumblebee wrote:

No one working on the team is based in our NY office permanently. Nazgul is Dutch and lives in the Netherlands. I'm Danish and live in Denmark. Treehugger is American and lives in Minnesota when he studies and during summer in NY. Kennigit lives in Ottawa, Canada.