Sad Stephano lost, but happy we got the real Mvp back. He looked like he´s supposed in the final bracket: Identifying his opponent´s weaknesses and playing to them perfectly.

Rassy

Netherlands2308 Posts

May 27 2013 05:41 GMT

#7108

It was an awesome tournament and i did enjoy it verry much.
Mvp is a great player and he deserved to win, still i find it a bit odd that non europeans can compete in the non open european championship. If mvp was naturalised to beeing french or german then it would be a different story but he is still korean isnt he?
Or was the tournament an open tourney and could basicly annyone join?
Well annyway, great tourney and thank you for all the games

LastLordofCastamere

288 Posts

May 27 2013 06:08 GMT

#7109

Last year it was region locked, this year it's open

Von

United States363 Posts

May 27 2013 06:25 GMT

#7110

Wow. A Korean won the European tournament.

That makes me feel really good about rooting for ... Europe?

odaxium

United States356 Posts

May 27 2013 06:28 GMT

#7111

MMMMMMVVVVPPPPPPP

And ForGG was being really sloppy with his widow mines before they went benedict arnold

Yiko

Germany104 Posts

May 27 2013 07:25 GMT

#7112

On May 27 2013 15:25 Von wrote:
Wow. A Korean won the European tournament.

That makes me feel really good about rooting for ... Europe?

For me it is all about "Who is going to represent Europe in the finals". We have three europeans, one korean who lives in europe and has to be considered part of the european scene by now and MVP. Overall a pretty good showing and nothing we have to be ashamed of.

These things aside. I want to thank ESL for hosting this marvelous tournament. The production was flawless, the organisation seemed stellar (overall low downtime, reliable timers on how long the pauses are going to take), the casting was enjoyable and the hosting one of the, if not THE best possible (ReDeYe is pretty much the epitome of professional, yet likeable/laid back host).

Freeekmeout

South Africa26 Posts

May 27 2013 07:51 GMT

#7113

I want to join in and thank ESL also for a wonderful tourney really enjoyed it a lot. My only crit is to not have this socially awkward guy (The Hubner) doing social media. Its was really weird and painful to watch.

Keep up the good work cant wait for the next installment

ypslala

Burma545 Posts

May 27 2013 08:01 GMT

#7114

allthough i do not like the terran race, MVP was absolutely the best and deserves the win. btw he is a cool guy.

Rammstorm

Germany1434 Posts

May 27 2013 08:52 GMT

#7115

GG, German production team

Znoz

Latvia127 Posts

May 27 2013 10:02 GMT

#7116

Top1 in EU WCS is korean... something wrong here. Reminds good-old WCG "abuse".

Goldfish

2230 Posts

May 27 2013 10:09 GMT

#7117

Glad to see MVP back (and hope he continues to stay relevant).

MVP was one of the few top consistent players in WoL.

He won and showed Terran can still win while Zerg and Protoss were dominating.

Sad to see that he never got his 5 championship GSL trophy (he was so close too against Life, losing only 3-4) but as long as he continues playing, maybe someday he can achieve something similar (I assume at this point I don't think MVP will return to WCS Korea to play in the GSL anymore, which is a bit sad since he was so close to getting that 5 time GSL trophy, but as long as he does well still outside of the GSL, I'm fine with that I guess).

Edit - Also as for the whole "a Korean now represents EU" problem, someone made a good post in regards to this in another thread IMO.

On May 27 2013 10:11 Baralai wrote:
I don't see what's unfair in having only Koreans in the World Finals. They are the best and that's it. There's no reason to prevent some of the best players of the world competing in the world finals just because they're Korean and we have to save some spots for the poor little Europeans/Americans. Last year's WCS were just a joke, with dudes like Levin, Insur, Mafia or State and no Life, Leenock, MVP... just because we had to make it "fair" spotwise.

Do not mistake equality and equity. Equality is unfair: the truth is, Koreans are superior. Equity is giving everyone the same chance, and allowing the best to rise. That's what's happening right now. Great decision-making by Blizzard, and may those who rage about it use their brains for a minute to think outside their little European/American box and see the thing as a whole.

Also from the results, things are better than expected in WCS EU as it had a decent amount of non-Koreans in the top 8.

(WCS NA isn't doing as good with having 6 Koreans out of the 8, heh.)

The WCS system may not be perfect but it's undeniably better (except for Koreans due to the prize pool cuts and reduce tournaments, though it's debatable how things would have fared as I know SC2 isn't doing great in South Korea sadly) than what foreigners had last year.

Plus, Blizzard said that next year, the WCS tournaments will be LAN only (meaning you have to be there) which means that Koreans who want to participate probably need to live there to play (and if they do live in NA or EU regions, they can help those scenes more by practicing/playing more with them on the same region ladder or in practice houses outside of Korea).

shell

Portugal2722 Posts

May 27 2013 10:43 GMT

#7118

Congrats ESL!

One of the most entertaining SC2 weekends to date

habeck

1120 Posts

May 27 2013 11:42 GMT

#7119

Great Finals, nicely done by ESL...

Its just sad that some people always like to complain

Sakray

France2198 Posts

May 27 2013 11:50 GMT

#7120

On May 27 2013 19:09 Goldfish wrote:
He won and showed Terran can still win while Zerg and Protoss were dominating.

A don't remember a single moment when Protoss were dominating. 1-3 of them were extremely good, nothing more, especially compared to a ton of Zergs and Terrans that won tournaments.

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