EPTOfficial State of the Game Podcast Thread - Page 544
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templar rage
United States2509 Posts
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Alizee-
United States845 Posts
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space_yes
United States548 Posts
On February 24 2011 07:07 Dystisis wrote: It's a 1v1 game, in the sense that games are played one person against another... What is proleague then? | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
On February 24 2011 07:04 space_yes wrote: Obv Starcraft is sooooooooooooooo not a team game. Forget about proleague and winners league and the last 8-9 years of BW. Starcraft is most like competitive miniature golf imo. To be fair, BW had pro level 2v2s for a huge chunk of its history. I'm still sad they got axed, actually, they were a refreshing break from the usual suspects owning everything. It allowed a few teams to do a lot better in Proleague. That's also why I prefer the non-Winner's league team format; it encourages depth within teams. That said, clan wars are definitely team games and SC2 has those in spades. GSTL, GCPL, and SCL are all team-based. I don't understand why NASL is so unwilling to make exceptions for non-team players, though, since they often have their own cadre of fans. There will always be the issue of people switching clans in the midst of the NASL season that could "overload" one part of the bracket, too. | ||
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JimSocks
United States968 Posts
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space_yes
United States548 Posts
On February 24 2011 07:22 JimSocks wrote: I think the argument is team has no role in nasl other than selection. There's no proleague. Just 1v1. And they're already exceptions to the rule such as whitera Team membership is a professional credential that helps minimize risk to the business. Obv they can't have some 17 year old sleeping in when they go to studio or have an unreliable player participate for the same reason. To some extent, teams mitigate this risk. EDIT: I think that's the only reason really; or that was what I took from Russ's statements | ||
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retro-noob
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HAHAHA THINGS ARE STUPID THAT I DON'T LIKE Am I doing it right? | ||
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ImHuko
United States996 Posts
Edit: Loved the show other than that, I finally found Tylers twitter through Liquidpedia's twitter. I kind of feel creepy having to stalk down your twitter. | ||
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
On February 24 2011 07:58 ImHuko wrote: No one cares if you are booked up through 2013, you don't have to tell everyone how much money you make everytime you speak. Or mention his ferrari and supermodel wife and his mansion. right? RIGHT? | ||
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Deleted User 124618
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
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Defacer
Canada5052 Posts
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggh. I'm all emo like IdrA now. <--kiddinnnnnngggg. | ||
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Dystisis
Norway713 Posts
Let me get this straight; are you or are you not denying that professional Starcraft and Starcraft 2 is played 1v1? | ||
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Cha1R
United States221 Posts
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
On February 24 2011 07:10 Alizee- wrote: I dont get some of the reasoning here. So many people saying why can't so and so play? Its not a charity, there are rules whether you like them or not. Why can't anyone put up 250 bucks and play? Not to mention its not like teams just get to say ok I wanna select these 5 to play in the league and voila there they are. They're still gonna have a selection process. Sucks for white-ra though, and a very select few other cases where players have worked out a good deal with a sponsor and decided to play solo. I don't understand the purpose of the rule but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume there is one other than "nba players don't get to play without belonging to a team lolol". | ||
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
"nba players don't get to play without belonging to a team lolol". I feel if Sundance used this as a reason to justify including only team-members in his MLG touraments Geoff would be all over him. | ||
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t3tsubo
Canada682 Posts
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badDogma
United States106 Posts
The reason why they are so adamant about having teams is because they are following the model of professional sports in North America, which is what they want to imitate. The problem is prosports in NA are all team sports Agree 100%. As a fan of the UFC, it was fun to see how they took a relatively niche sport and blew it out of the water. It's unbelievably popular now. What they DIDN'T do was try to force teams in a 1v1 sport. They have groups, certain pros all train at the same gym for instance, and this could be equivalent to "teams" in SC2. Anyway I don't feel like getting into too much detail, but I just want to suggest that following Dana White's UFC model could be a better recipe for success, whereas the guy on the podcast seemed stuck on the NBA/NFL model. | ||
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delo
United States333 Posts
On February 24 2011 09:23 Cha1R wrote: Add IdrA to the pillars list.---- Yeah, it's official now. Hopefully the OP will be updated soon :-) | ||
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LostBLuE
Canada188 Posts
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