wow. there's some crazy news in esports everyday it seems... lately.

looks like the foreign scene is really showing it's overwhelming power over koreans. Or maybe they all just wanna be more like oGs-TL xD

i really like how they handle this. Foreign teams with money merging. Getting better players, Connecting the foreigns and koreans together. Foreigners reaping the talent benefits and Koreans reaping the money rewards.

Congratz to both, and gl to both ^^

Premier

United States503 Posts

July 23 2011 04:22 GMT

#345

Well this is going to do wonders for coL... as I never thought they were any good. Even though I'm not a fan of coL (I hate them haha) I'm glad to see a Korea+Foreign partnership. Great job.

Rylaji

Sweden580 Posts

July 23 2011 04:22 GMT

#346

Brood War - Few chosen ones went to Korea.

Starcraft 2 - KOREANS ARE COMING TO US! LOLOLOL

Zirith

Canada403 Posts

July 23 2011 04:22 GMT

#347

Ya crazy deals being made all around, col's sc division just got 200% better.(DRG will win everything forever <3 my fantasy gstl captain)

Jisunsu

Philippines47 Posts

July 23 2011 04:23 GMT

#348

Hmm,,, a lot of player and organizational restructuring this week

DeltruS

Canada2214 Posts

July 23 2011 04:24 GMT

#349

On July 23 2011 13:11 TechnoSchaman wrote:
Minigun needs to get over fear of planes, fly to Korea, train for like a week, and hell be cleaning up NA and EU tournaments EZZZZZZZ

CoL Roster:
Antimage
FireZerg
rsvp
Ryan
Ryze
Steak
CrunCher
CatZ
Drewbie
Minigun
TriMaster

I agree with you on Minigun, but who else has the potential to become amazing in Korea? Cruncher would without a doubt be a dark horse.

The atmosphere at the old root gamimng house was very laid back so I am unsure of whether CatZ or Drewbie would do well in a very stuctured enviroment.

I have no idea who rsvp or Trimaster are in person, since they are extremely low profile. Based on ladder rankings, they have potential.

price

United States297 Posts

July 23 2011 04:26 GMT

#350

wow, coL just got a +2 weapons upgrade

DisaFear

Australia4074 Posts

July 23 2011 04:27 GMT

#351

Holy, these past few days have been filled with foreigners+Koreans, what is happening???!?!

hmunkey

United Kingdom1973 Posts

July 23 2011 04:30 GMT

#352

On July 23 2011 13:27 DisaFear wrote:
Holy, these past few days have been filled with foreigners+Koreans, what is happening???!?!

People realized Koreans are better based on past tournament performances and now they want to put their tag before said Koreans' names. Having a player on your team winning a major tourney helps greatly with sponsorships and no one really thinks NA/EU players have a good chance of winning major tourneys anymore with the 5-10 Koreans coming to every one.

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

July 23 2011 04:31 GMT

#353

this is like intersting O.o

Race to get the best koreans!.

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

July 23 2011 04:34 GMT

#354

On July 23 2011 13:31 Kipsate wrote:
this is like intersting O.o

Race to get the best koreans!.

well if thats the case.. until someone gets Nestea, coL seems to of won.

(SK got the best player in the world, but not on this patch)

Deshkar

Singapore1244 Posts

July 23 2011 04:35 GMT

#355

I think this is really good for the flagging Kr SC2 scene, financial support to send players to foreign events, especially those who are talented but just unable to get past the Code A qualifiers. While the foreign team gets a top player as well as access into the Kr scene and player pool.

supdubdup

United States916 Posts

July 23 2011 04:37 GMT

#356

<3 the last couple weeks. This is all in preparation for the arrival of the next sc1 players (after their contracts expire + no resign).

StarcraftChicago

United States51 Posts

July 23 2011 04:37 GMT

#357

Will somebody just make a list of non-foreign controlled Koreas left so we can setup the associations between West and East already.

CajunMan

United States823 Posts

July 23 2011 04:41 GMT

#358

Catz to Korea would be so Ironic

forgottendreams

United States1771 Posts

July 23 2011 04:44 GMT

#359

On July 23 2011 13:41 CajunMan wrote:
Catz to Korea would be so Ironic

What would be the purpose of catz in Korea? Comedic relief?

Executor1

1353 Posts

July 23 2011 04:46 GMT

#360

On July 23 2011 12:12 SafeAsCheese wrote:

Show nested quote +

There was no way to "do it right" with puma, Lee would have been raging regardless and he just found a way to slander by pulling the cultural insensitive card.

On topic ; hope to see more MVP players a foreign tourneys.

I dont think so at all, if pumas wishes were to leave and puma as well as EG had contacted Mr lee within a short period of time, and it wasnt just puma acting distraught for 3-4 days afraid to tell his coach until he was asked what was wrong, it would be a much much different story i beleive. If there was some small compensation and it was puma's wishes to leave what would mr lee have to complain about? He wouldnt he is a respectable man who has been in the business a long time and he probably has never encountered a "hostile" takeover of a player (sure he wasnt on a contract but he WAS part of the team and money was certainly what enticed him nothing more) Mr lee wasnt included in the transition of HIS player (not legally i geuss) from one team to another and most people (especially in korea) find this strange and ethically questionable.

I really like how other foreign teams are approaching their interest in korean players though, it seems like a much better way to go about it and seems much more benificial for the player overall. Its not like genius or DRG are distraught in anyway about this and they are being congratulated not critisized by both communities there is a reason for that. The DRG and Genius also get to keep their practice environments that made them such great players in the first place, puma does not.