On November 26 2012 11:01 Kkxtrouble wrote: I don't get MKP's decision to go to WCS when he is seeded in winners round 4 in IPL.
Shorter travel and 95% chance to get top 3 and also great chance to win vs traveling to the US for the most stacked foreign event ever.
doesn't sound like a champion to me then...taking the easy way out
It is taking the easy way out, but it would be stupid for these guys to not take their spots in an easy tournament for some easy money after fighting their way through a very difficult tournament, WCG Korea.
It would be a waste of their efforts. Prize pool for WCG is 25k, 10k, 5k. The player pool is extremely extremely weak. Would be very surprising if the 3 KR players don't take top 3.
At the end of the day, these guys want to earn a living. GSL is their super important tournament, not IPL.
IPL is super stacked with or without them, anyway.
On November 26 2012 11:01 Kkxtrouble wrote: I don't get MKP's decision to go to WCS when he is seeded in winners round 4 in IPL.
Shorter travel and 95% chance to get top 3 and also great chance to win vs traveling to the US for the most stacked foreign event ever.
doesn't sound like a champion to me then...taking the easy way out
It is taking the easy way out, but it would be stupid for these guys to not take their spots in an easy tournament for some easy money after fighting their way through a very difficult tournament, WCG Korea.
It would be a waste of their efforts. Prize pool for WCG is 25k, 10k, 5k. The player pool is extremely extremely weak. Would be very surprising if the 3 KR players don't take top 3.
At the end of the day, these guys want to earn a living. GSL is their super important tournament, not IPL.
IPL is super stacked with or without them, anyway.
Also, I think Koreans take WCG more seriously then most (especially SC/SC2).
On November 26 2012 11:34 Enel wrote: what i dont understand is "CranK - amatuer championship" why the hell did a korean pro win an amatuer championship?
I think when they did the qualifying, their criteria for 'amateur' was anyone that has earn less then $1000 total from tournaments so Crank was able to get in.
On November 26 2012 11:01 Kkxtrouble wrote: I don't get MKP's decision to go to WCS when he is seeded in winners round 4 in IPL.
Shorter travel and 95% chance to get top 3 and also great chance to win vs traveling to the US for the most stacked foreign event ever.
+MKP has never won a Korean offline event, would be nice to finally say he has with how many silvers he has,
Youngwha beating him the final would be amazing tho ^_^
WCG world finals isn't a Korean event, It's not even based in Korea this year ;o
CLOSE ENOUGH
Is it in China?
Liquipedia tells me it is in Kunshan, China.
On November 26 2012 11:17 ninjamyst wrote:
On November 26 2012 11:09 xPabt wrote:
On November 26 2012 11:01 Kkxtrouble wrote: I don't get MKP's decision to go to WCS when he is seeded in winners round 4 in IPL.
Shorter travel and 95% chance to get top 3 and also great chance to win vs traveling to the US for the most stacked foreign event ever.
doesn't sound like a champion to me then...taking the easy way out
It is taking the easy way out, but it would be stupid for these guys to not take their spots in an easy tournament for some easy money after fighting their way through a very difficult tournament, WCG Korea.
It would be a waste of their efforts. Prize pool for WCG is 25k, 10k, 5k. The player pool is extremely extremely weak. Would be very surprising if the 3 KR players don't take top 3.
At the end of the day, these guys want to earn a living. GSL is their super important tournament, not IPL.
IPL is super stacked with or without them, anyway.
Also, I think Koreans take WCG more seriously then most (especially SC/SC2).
WCG has a lot more history in Korea, and plenty of big names in BW (e.g BoxeR) won WCG, so it is more of a legacy thing. Plus I think MKP's dream was to win WCG, and this is definitely his best opportunity with no Mvp, and basically only YongHwa and PartinG to oppose him.
On November 26 2012 11:34 Enel wrote: what i dont understand is "CranK - amatuer championship" why the hell did a korean pro win an amatuer championship?
I think when they did the qualifying, their criteria for 'amateur' was anyone that has earn less then $1000 total from tournaments so Crank was able to get in.
so they basically gave a big fuck you to the guys who dont spend all day playing starcraft
Smart map pool, aiming the more balanced one, not necessarily for the entertaining ones. Liking the player pool, even though it is pretty light on KeSPA players (no Rain, no Flash, no Soulkey, no Roro, no Jeadong, that's too bad, is there an institutional reason behind that? IPL/ESF vs MLG/KeSPA?). Guessing HyuN will be replaced as well (double seed).
I really hope Grubby does not cast and just plays instead, since there are still slots for replacement and Grubby got 4th behind vortix in the gom wc qualifier. He seems to be in good form too. Well if he casts it will still be awesome, just not quite as much.
I was considering taking off a week of work to go to IPL5, but I wasn't able to swing it. Maybe I'll take a few days off anyways and just watch it. There are just too many awesome players and so much potential for the weekend. In my opinion the GSL finals aren't as interesting as what IPL5 has in store.