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On July 24 2011 11:58 Canucklehead wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2011 11:53 Chicane wrote:On July 24 2011 11:40 MildSeven wrote:
is Catz ok with this? Wouldn't he cry about Koreans joining his team and stealing his money? I thought that his issue was that they have no involvement in the foreign scene whatsoever, and any money they won would go straight back into Korea. Complexity already said DRG and Genius keep 100% of the prize money, so however you slice it all the prize money is still going back to korea. Same with the SK/OGS deal. I like these deals cause I get to see more koreans in foreign tournies. Still hoping someone teams with IM so we get MVP/Nestea to more tournies!
Well I don't know if MVP takes a cut or not... so let's just assume they don't, my point was still that it gives the coL and MVP name more recognition which is good for sponsors, and once again the coL players can benefit from a place to stay when in Korea.
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What is going on in the world of e-sports??? I almost expect epic news every day now 
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I love seeing these deals. They benefit the spectators just as much as the players involved. With the increased sponsorship going to the Koreans, who at the moment have a leg up on the foreign competition , we will get to see the best competition showing up at every major event.
Idra will have less opportunities to write off tourney wins by "lucky players" because there were no Koreans at an event.
Plus I really just want to see DRG at MLG Orlando.
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CatZ to korea! that would be awesome.
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Words cannot describe how hard my boner is right now.
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these have been some pretty intense turns of events for sc2 and esports in the last couple of weeks. surreal
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Loving that korea is finally stepping out into the world! =)
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Team MVP stream starting soon! DRG just tweeted about it! Quite excited!
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So good to see foreign communities getting so involved in Korean teams.
This is definitely the proper way to do it.
Going to make everyone happy financially and coL gets their name closer to some really good players.
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Sounds like the SK/oGs deal. Interesting to see so much foreign interest in the Korean SC2 scene now.
Won't beat FXO buying over fOu though...
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Pretty weird deal given it involves the sharing of players between teams, and that it only applies to certain players.
Im not sure i understand the motive for Mvp wanting to do this. Seeing as Drg is by far their most potent player.
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Weird deal. A tad better than the shitty SK\MCNADA deal, but still...
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Sick news once again, the korean scene is becoming global for real .
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can someone please explain why all of a sudden all these korean teams are merging with international
teams, is this because of MLG and other tournaments enticing korean players so they are combining forces to help fund the transit between ? either way i think it's great and its going to be cool to see who teams up with who.
YAY E-SPORTS !!!!!!!
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On July 25 2011 06:37 bl wrote:
can someone please explain why all of a sudden all these korean teams are merging with international
teams, is this because of MLG and other tournaments enticing korean players so they are combining forces to help fund the transit between ? either way i think it's great and its going to be cool to see who teams up with who.
YAY E-SPORTS !!!!!!!
Its because they dont have enough money basically. For instance with fou/FXO, fou literally were at breaking point financially. Korea might have the training facilities, but for now the teams that are established there are not in general major players in a financial sense
10 years of broodwar might have put them ahead where training etc is concerned, but the sc2 teams in korea, as far as im aware are as new as the game (dont hold me to that but I think its true). On the other hand the western teams might not have been supporting brood war, but for the past 10 years many of them have been developing as comparatively strong buisnesses through support of other more prominent games. Whereas these western teams are picking up sc2, the Korean brood war sides arnt, and they are the ones who hold the Korean money on lock down. The Korean sc2 teams cant get none at home :-/
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Cool, this is awesome for foreign teams. Its really cool to see a lot of Korean teams/players joining up with foreign teams, i think its really beneficial to esports
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This is bad news for the foreign community, in my opinion at least. Already the koreans who've been to foreign tourneys have absolutely demolished all competition with a few rare exceptions (notably HuK's perfomance in Dreamhack). By bringing more and more top koreans to the foreign scene, which is already fragile and still in its infancy, I expect the number of foreign players in foreign tourneys will drop simply because they cannot keep up with their korean peers. People will get discouraged from playing because they will get demolished or they will get choked out because there are only so many open spots available, and with more and better koreans arriving to grab hold of these spots, there ultimately will only be space for the ultimate elite of foreigners.
I hate to discriminate, but lets keep the total number of koreans in MLG for instance at 4-6, as MLG Colubmus play-wise was a farce.
One last thing. Why would a team like MVP sign a partnership with a team like Complexity, if not for money and publicity. To me it just seems like Complexity is being used as a tool to send DRG, Genius etc to foreign tourneys to earn money and honour for team MVP. Sure, their handles will be coL.DRG and coL.Genius, but who are they honestly fooling.
Best of luck to Complexity's players if they can (AND WILL) go to Korea to practice. It's not a guarantee for success or progress. Look at Jinro.
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On July 25 2011 07:52 Hemera wrote:
This is bad news for the foreign community, in my opinion at least. Already the koreans who've been to foreign tourneys have absolutely demolished all competition with a few rare exceptions (notably HuK's perfomance in Dreamhack). By bringing more and more top koreans to the foreign scene, which is already fragile and still in its infancy, I expect the number of foreign players in foreign tourneys will drop simply because they cannot keep up with their korean peers. People will get discouraged from playing because they will get demolished or they will get choked out because there are only so many open spots available, and with more and better koreans arriving to grab hold of these spots, there ultimately will only be space for the ultimate elite of foreigners.
I hate to discriminate, but lets keep the total number of koreans in MLG for instance at 4-6, as MLG Colubmus play-wise was a farce.
One last thing. Why would a team like MVP sign a partnership with a team like Complexity, if not for money and publicity. To me it just seems like Complexity is being used as a tool to send DRG, Genius etc to foreign tourneys to earn money and honour for team MVP. Sure, their handles will be coL.DRG and coL.Genius, but who are they honestly fooling.
Best of luck to Complexity's players if they can (AND WILL) go to Korea to practice. It's not a guarantee for success or progress. Look at Jinro.
Why do you care what country a player is from? Why would support an American over a Korean? Neither of the countries are anywhere near you.
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Why do you care what country a player is from? Why would support an American over a Korean? Neither of the countries are anywhere near you.
Because it's going to choke the foreign scene when only 2 foreign players make it further than round 1 of the open brackets and the rest is korean players who have a "partnership" deal with a foreign team..
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