Puma leaves TSL for EG - Page 165

On July 22 2011 00:39 INFDexter wrote:
This is pretty crazy. Imagining something like this happening in Brood War...

On July 22 2011 00:35 Bitters wrote:


Why do we need to respect their rules and ethics if they aren't going to respect ours? Why doesn't it matter what WE (as foreigners) think about the actions of a foreign company?

Sorry, but with how big SC2 is getting in the foreign scene, the repercussions of not bowing down to every aspect of Korean culture aren't going to ruin us

On July 22 2011 00:41 felizuno wrote:



myeg.net doesn't list Tasteless on the SC2 page, and while the website is way out of date (and Puma isn't shown on the team roster) I would assume that Tasteless hasn't been filling that role for some time.

On July 22 2011 00:25 nihlon wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't there been pretty recent (and old) cases where hockey players have sign in the nhl while under contract? Fedorov or something a long time ago and also a newer one just some years ago. The KHL could basically do nothing to prevent the players from playing in the nhl since there wasn't any agreement between the leagues about the trade rules. In the same way here I doubt that TSL could do nothing legally to prevent him from competing for EG even if he had a contract signed.

^^As a response to the people saying a no-trade clause would help.

On July 22 2011 00:36 Ryalnos wrote:


Is Milkis mad? There's no indication of it in this thread. His only post is the neutral OP.

On July 22 2011 00:38 Mohdoo wrote:
I don't think this is a good move for Puma in the long run. Look at the kinda prize money he got by playing for TSL. He got that money from being really, really, really fucking good. How did he get so good? His training house, his coach, and his team mates. He won't have a training house, he will have an extremely shitty coach, if EG even has one, and his team mates would never in their life be capable of getting GM on the KR server, except for possibly Idra.

We're all already seeing the gap between Korea and everyone else get bigger and bigger. Sure, we've got Nani, Thorzain, Idra, and a few others, but Idra is not a good substitute for a whole house of people, a Korean coach, and the Korean ladder.

What bothers me the most about this move is that this isn't even in his long term interest. He's going to decline as a player, and his entire reason for being hired is going to slowly fade away. He'll either have to go back to a Korean team, or his career will end a whole lot earlier than it needed to.

Even if he has a good enough clique of practice partners in Korea, he doesn't have a coach any more. And we've already seen what a huge difference a proper Korean coach can have. And I wouldn't be surprised if EG had some plan of theirs to ship him off to the USA to train in their EG house. And we've already discussed the kind of practice environment that is...

On July 22 2011 00:44 Walls wrote:
directed towards the managers of EG:
This is disgusting, E-sports is too young to become this corrupted and/or monopolized, I am in support of laws against this type of act and am willing to vote in polls and do everything I can to stop teams that are in a lower skill level to be able to buy everything out instead of trying to get better.
this will hurt us in the long run.

On July 22 2011 00:44 Walls wrote:
directed towards the managers of EG:
This is disgusting, E-sports is too young to become this corrupted and/or monopolized, I am in support of laws against this type of act and am willing to vote in polls and do everything I can to stop teams that are in a lower skill level to be able to buy everything out instead of trying to get better.
this will hurt us in the long run.

On July 22 2011 00:46 alexey350 wrote:


No, it won't. This is good for the SC scene over all.

On July 22 2011 00:43 HallBregg wrote:
EG is the Real MAdrid of esports hahaha. Srly this a great step for esports.

On July 22 2011 00:44 Walls wrote:
directed towards the managers of EG:
This is disgusting, E-sports is too young to become this corrupted and/or monopolized. I am in support of laws against this type of act and am willing to vote in polls and do everything I can to stop teams with a lower skill level from buying everything out instead of trying to get better on their own.
this will hurt us in the long run.

On July 22 2011 00:46 alexey350 wrote:


No, it won't. This is good for the SC scene over all.

On July 22 2011 00:47 ZasZ. wrote:


How will bringing one of the best Korean Terrans onto a foreign team hurt us in the long run? Either the Korean scene becomes more competitive (contract-wise) to prevent their players from leaving like this, or more Koreans join foreign teams and the quality of play in the west improves dramatically.

EGGentleman fighting~!