[NASL] July awarded 2-0 victory over White-Ra - Page 40

On April 17 2011 10:11 LF9 wrote:
Either way, this isn't some open tournament where it would be an abomination to let someone like whitera lose via forfeit vs a random, it's hard to argue with the situation. If you want to be a progamer, and many have learned this the hard way, you really have to keep a BOOK with your schedules and talk to people, set everything up in advance, etc. You also have to prioritize; which league do you have the best chance to place well in? Which offers the best prizes? Risk vs potential reward? Top players in ANY RTS game need to take this into consideration. White-Ra was a top foreign BW player, but money and pro-gaming wasn't really and issue in foreign BW. It is now in foreign SC2, which is why players from other RTS games who COULD compete for money in their games because they weren't dominated by Koreans (KiwiKaki from WC3 and SeleCT from DoW come to mind) seem to have everything down a little better. There were foreign progamers in other games because Korea was wholly focused on SCBW. These players know how to make decisions and balance tournaments, which is actually a difficult thing to do. Imagine trying to decide between practice for WCG and attending another tournament where you could win 5k USD or something like that? Just an example.