EPTGSL Needs More Foreign Players - PlayXP article - Page 2
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Roggay
Switzerland6320 Posts
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Mithriel
Netherlands2969 Posts
I myself am looking forward to the new foreigners competing in GSL, SaSe and whoever does well at MLG!!! I do however hope, that with the announced format changes, code A changes. At the moment staying in code A is just not worth it. Especially not because there are very little to no other tournaments they could compete in (not sure if they have weekly cups and occasional offline events in korea, like europe has for example). I just hope the best of the best of foreigners will go to korea and they won't give up their spot and someone less good eventually takes their spot. | ||
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
They were planning to increase the amount of time spent on GSTL and to encourage more foreign players to come and compete. YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS | ||
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LambtrOn
United States671 Posts
On May 18 2011 03:49 dc302 wrote: Personally I don't really mind not seeing foreigners in the GSL...but that's probably just me. Right there with you. Sure, it'd be awesome to see some foreigner players in the booths, but I'm mainly interested in the quality of the games, and generally, the Koreans provide the best games. The GSL is really the only tournament to watch the Koreans play, whereas there are a plethora of tournaments for foreigners to play in. I think GOM is putting too much weight into getting foreigners playing in GSL when their system just doesn't fit a foreigner's schedule very well. | ||
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Irrelevant
United States2364 Posts
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dubRa
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
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leviathan20
United Kingdom193 Posts
On May 18 2011 04:02 Irrelevant wrote: I want to see the best players play, I don't give a shit which country they are from as long as they are the most skilled and right now GSL already has the most skilled and I would hate to see someone of higher skill displaced from the GSL just so a foreigner can play without qualifying simple because he is a foreigner. I agree but see this from the other direction also - I want to see the best players play against each other. In that mind, who is to say that the current Korean Code A players are better than all the foreigners? This exchange is giving a chance to the foreign players to enter GSL, which previously was very difficult for them to get into thanks to the financial outlay of getting there plus the qualification process. We might finally get to see the best players play against each other thanks to this exchange. | ||
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Zeroxk
Norway1244 Posts
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Duravi
United States1205 Posts
As has been mentioned before there aren't a lot of tournaments outside of GSL in Korea, but what can Gretech do about it? They are one single company, they don't have infinite money or resources. As far as I understand it (and someone correct me if/where I'm wrong because I'm not sure about this at all) Gretech has sole rights to broadcast SC2 in Korea atm, which kills any reasonable chance of other large tournaments in Korea. | ||
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aDd3z
Germany885 Posts
thanks for translation! | ||
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AXygnus
Portugal1008 Posts
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
woot GSTL! I'd like to see more foreigners there. The winner of the MLG is not going to be disappointingly rofl stomped. Its awesome to vote for the foreign guy in the booth. The quality of games is not going to significantly change. except of course for consistently improving! | ||
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CapnCDaWg
United States179 Posts
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Batch
Sweden692 Posts
On May 18 2011 04:04 dubRa wrote: I feel like Blizzard separating the NA, EU, KR ladder and the lag between the servers is really hurting sc2. Just like Geoff said on SOTG, if you go to Korea you are cut off from the rest of the world. Blizzard can't do much to remove or lower the lag. If they let NA, EU and KR players ladder with each other then then some games would be played with low latency while other suffered from lag. The current solution with different ladders for each region at least make the latency consistent. I agree that GSL need more foreigners. Because of the number of big tournaments running there are a lot of good games being played. In the beginning I followed almost all the games in each tournaments but that is not possible anymore. Nowdays I almost only follow the games where swedes or big names play in. The last GSL I bought the subscription before the tournament started but the only games I watched was the ones played by Huk and Jinro, and the finals. If no foreigners would have played in GSL I don't know if I would have bothered to buy the subscription at all. | ||
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Bear4188
United States1797 Posts
On May 18 2011 04:13 Zeroxk wrote: As has been mentioned before there aren't a lot of tournaments outside of GSL in Korea, but what can Gretech do about it? They are one single company, they don't have infinite money or resources. They hold the rights monopoly that prevents other tournaments from being held. Generally there are only small tournaments held in the short gap between GSL seasons. | ||
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busbarn
Sweden984 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/188123_166377960087575_4770593_s.jpg) It's also nice to see koreans appreciate our support for their players :-) | ||
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dp
United States234 Posts
If people can't up and leave their real life obligations, I understand that. That is perfectly reasonable. But to say you are financially limited from a one month vacation is just a bs story. You can still coach. You can stream. You can still play in online tournaments. You are on an international stage, so I would assume that is a more attractive sponsorship than the average player can offer. Honest truth is, I think international players don't feel the confidence to WIN, but only 'compete' in the GSL. I agree, being an average player outside of korean will earn you more. So tell it like it is. | ||
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Kammalleri
Canada613 Posts
Let's say Kiwikaki wins MLG, gets code decides to move and gets top 16 for exemple, it would be surprising if he was be left on his own trying to survive in Korea. He would be a good pick up for oGs-Liquid or any team, it's not everyday that you can just sign a player that already plays in Code S. That said it's not because you get seeded in Code S that it will be easy to stay there or even win a round or two in Code A for any foreigner, There's no reason we shouldn't be excited to see more foreigner in the GSL tho. | ||
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