[Code S] Grand Finals 2013 GSL Season 1 - Page 85

On March 09 2013 23:40 shockaslim wrote:
Fun Fact: July was the ONLY Brood War champion to even make it to the finals of any GSL. No Brood War champions won.

On March 10 2013 00:06 Tarzul wrote:


Fun fact: most of the recent (and presently relevant) BW champions have been playing sc2 full-time for little over half a year

On March 10 2013 01:07 Capulet wrote:
Ahh I missed the games.

I think this win is quite symbolic. The elephant kicked down the door as WoL comes to an end, and a new chapter in HotS begins.

On March 10 2013 01:07 Capulet wrote:
Ahh I missed the games.

I think this win is quite symbolic. The elephant kicked down the door as WoL comes to an end, and a new chapter in HotS begins.

On March 09 2013 07:50 Hier wrote:
Anyway, this is what's going to happen at the GSL finals, figuratively:

+ Show Spoiler +

On March 10 2013 01:44 Noobity wrote:
I hate this elephant argument so much. Looking at champions like Life, Jjakjji, Leenock (his mlg wins were not a fluke) they're all crazy young. Who's to say Life wouldn't have been the next Flash had he not been like 12 or 13 when sc2 came out?

The elephant situation is less black and white and more shades of grey. You will absolutely not have Kespa players winning every GSL in the coming years. There might be a higher percentage of them winning than ESF players, but there will never be complete and total domination unless Kespa simply recruits more young players.

With HotS, but moreso LotV (assuming the game makes it there as a flagship esport, and I don't personally doubt it will) you're going to see that the real Elephant is the 15-18 year old kids that get into the game professionally. That, I assure you, will be what makes more of a difference than what organization their team is part of. This may be where Kespa has the upper hand where they (at least used to?) require that pros go through testing tournaments to even be licensed, so they already have an option to fall back on to pinpoint the greatest young players. Teams like IM have a lot of funding, and I wonder where they stand compared to Kespa teams, and what kind of salaries (if any) they can offer young players to entice them to join.

Ugh, so offtopic. I'm sorry about that. I didn't get a chance to see the finals, and despite being a zerg player I'm not super interested, but it sounds like the ceremonies that took place after the win were really meaningful and awesome, so I look forward to those. Congrats to Roro, who I don't think ever got the recognition he deserved before this, and hope that will change Symbol will undoubtedly remain an important figure in hots. The guy's great, and I think Azubu will be doing great things for the sc2 scene in the future, so he'll certainly benefit

I am saying that there are 300 current pros and semi-pros that have the potential to come in and dominate SC2 at any moment, with a latency of a few months from the day they switch.