EPTThe Koreans are flying out to your country to take the prize money from your tournaments. You can either get better and beat them, or bend over and take it.
Slim pickings for foreign pros? - Page 2
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Ronald_McD
Canada807 Posts
The Koreans are flying out to your country to take the prize money from your tournaments. You can either get better and beat them, or bend over and take it. | ||
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Hoodlum
United States350 Posts
Take poker for example, they hit an area known as the poker boom when amateur poker player Chris Moneymaker won the world series of poker... After victory every amateur and their mother started playing poker in hopes of being the next big thing... Televised poker was soon to follow and all though only having mediocre success they are still on TV which is more then what you can say for ANY video game out there... If this is the level that Starcraft wants to achieve I think that they should have let a new batch of players come in and start making their mark before you bring over the korean gods xD... As a spectator I love watching koreans play but I, nor any working man, has the time to practice as much as the Koreans or any pro gamer already in the scene... But I make no excuse for the foreigners who already make a living playing Starcraft... They need to practice harder because this is their job and they should be able to compete with Koreans... | ||
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Moralez
Portugal1857 Posts
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On July 13 2011 07:45 oskarla wrote: I think that's a silly excuse. If people put the time in instead of waiting on some magic practice regime to come to them they'd get better. The problem isn't just putting in time, its how that time is used. Korean pro's don't just ladder 10 hours a day, they play against their team mates in structured practice and talk all day about SC2. Foreigners are often sat at home playing, with no real structure or focus. If you need to work on a specific area, the best way to do that is with a team mate who can throw stuff at you all day long | ||
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
On July 13 2011 07:42 StyLeD wrote: If foreigners give up, then fack em, they shouldn't have even tried in the first place. Pretty much this. It has been almost a year since SC2's release, we can all see that Koreans are the better players. The playing field isn't one sided like the BW days since there are players like IdrA, ThorZain, Naniwa, etc that can play on par with some of the best SC2 Korean players. The non-Koreans just need to step it up, but the Korean practice environment does turn off a lot of players. If they want to start winning tournaments and leagues, then they just need to practice more. An example would be HuK, who continue to get better and better because he adopted the practice methods that Koreans follow. | ||
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koolaid1990
831 Posts
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iansanew
New Zealand86 Posts
im assuming the general audience would like to see native champions which will boost popularity and sponsorship, but does korean domination decrease sc2 viewership in foreign countries? if it does then things dont look so good. | ||
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Choboo
Sweden2088 Posts
On July 13 2011 07:50 emythrel wrote: The problem isn't just putting in time, its how that time is used. Korean pro's don't just ladder 10 hours a day, they play against their team mates in structured practice and talk all day about SC2. Foreigners are often sat at home playing, with no real structure or focus. If you need to work on a specific area, the best way to do that is with a team mate who can throw stuff at you all day long There are foreign teams so that's not really a problem. I'm sure the players are talking to eachother on skype even if they don't live together. Some foreign players are on par with the Koreans, like Naniwa and Sen, and it's not because they live in a team house, it's because they practice. | ||
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echO [W]
United States1495 Posts
With what EG with it's team house that it will lead the way. I don't think there's anyway around it. There's a reason the Koreans have been the best for BW, and are leading the way in SC2, you have to play their 12 hours a day to get to their level, no shortcut. | ||
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lunchforthesky
United Kingdom967 Posts
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Gigaudas
Sweden1213 Posts
Why would anyone want the Starcraft 2 scene to look like the Brood War scene? | ||
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rsvp
United States2266 Posts
On July 13 2011 07:35 vnlegend wrote: Will foreign pros be forced into entering more low-level tournaments playing for $100 here, $200 there? lol Hwangsin played in last Saturday's $20 NA CraftCup | ||
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Gigaudas
Sweden1213 Posts
On July 13 2011 07:56 lunchforthesky wrote: Sport, including E-Sports should be a global competition. We don't ban Australians from playing cricket, Brazilians from football or Americans from Golf, why would we ban Koreans from Starcraft? We don't let Manchester United send their B-team around the world to harvest prize money from local cups. | ||
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sanya
482 Posts
less reward don't see a problem here if they start taking it as seriously as koreans do they'll be right up there ? | ||
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
The only true reply. | ||
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
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gillon
Sweden1578 Posts
On July 13 2011 07:41 Sbrubbles wrote: That or they give up and korea maintains dominance over the scene BW-style. Who knows what the future will hold? Say MLG was 100% Korean pros competing; Would you still go? I know I would. | ||
Adebisi
Canada1637 Posts
tldr; Good job EG.... Fnatic, Complexity, lets see some team houses. | ||
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valaki
Hungary2476 Posts
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JouriCarver
United Kingdom59 Posts
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