EPTKorean teams withdraw from NASL - Page 19
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swim224
Botswana368 Posts
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bigbadgreen
United States142 Posts
this might be the start of better foreign teams. | ||
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
At least it's a tournament I imagine most foreign players will be happy about -_- 100k in prizes and no GSL stars standing in the way. | ||
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fellcrow
United States288 Posts
On August 12 2011 08:48 OldManZerg wrote: I think a lot of people are missing that they agreed to NASL's terms up front, and then asked for changes to them at the last minute. Any discussion about how good those initial terms were seems beside the point to me. If they had signed a normal business contract, NASL would be well within their rights to sue the pants off these guys. Could you imagine what would happen if the NFL players union got together and suddenly said "we're not playing unless you do X. We don't care what we already agreed to." Can someone from NASL answer this? The contract part is what I wanna know. Enforce the damn contract. From a business perspective, I would try to make them hold their end of the bargain. It is only fair... and the law? | ||
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spacer
Netherlands2786 Posts
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seansye
United States1722 Posts
On August 12 2011 08:48 Noocta wrote: Well, this basicly make NASL a more expensive, less quality IPL, because the player pool is the same with no koreans. :/ This is so true. | ||
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OnFiRe888
United States629 Posts
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integrity
United States1014 Posts
i think Koreans are making a poor choice here. they are struggling for sponsorships and money but it sad that they don't realize that western exposure of there players will help them get some great new western sponsors. imo bad decision for koreans to get western exposure. next thing is everyone needs to relax. the foreigners are still capable of putting on really good matches. look at eu blizzcon invitational. look at TB's shoutcraft. great games can still be had with or without Koreans. | ||
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Juliette
United States6003 Posts
That said, i will be buying a season 2 ticket. gl nasl, we still love you. Edit: @the same player pool thing. Think of it as more drama, say idra knocks out kiwi in ipl, but they're in the same grouo for nasl. :o. Draaamaaaaaaaa | ||
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
On August 12 2011 08:49 marttorn wrote: Well, considering there was barely any WoW at all I find this hard to believe. Sure, there was WoW fans, but do they really account for such a large portion of 65k that there were very few people actually there to see SC2? No, doesn't make any sense. Also, saying the EU scene is "low level" is silly. Then just look at dreamhack instead... It wasn't stacked iwth koreans and still had insane viewer numbers. | ||
NASL.tv
699 Posts
On August 12 2011 08:47 masterbreti wrote: So your saying the Koreans wanted champagne and caviar on the plane? Why not just arrage it yourself. Tell the teams you will have everything ready and will book the flight etc for them. I highly doubt they will demans business class or first class on the plane. Nor run up the hotel bill on kimchi. We already set the precedent for this in Season 1. We bought tickets for MC, Zenio, PuMa, Squirtle with the deal that we'd subtract it from their prize money. We actually lost money on Zenio because he lost in the first round. We have already proven our determination in making sure Koreans make it to the event. | ||
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CoMMoDuS
Germany507 Posts
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
On August 12 2011 08:46 ckw wrote: Some of you are pathetic, you seriously don't have interest in events that don't have Koreans who want to be PAID to play? Fuck that, and fuck them. All pros want to be paid to play. There's not much of a point in being a pro otherwise. As a fan, I want to see the highest level SC2 that my money can buy, and Im not buying a pass for the purpose of 'supporting e-sports' and never actually watch a VOD or anything like that. NASL just got a whole less attractive. | ||
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sickoota
Canada918 Posts
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Skurkitty
United States17 Posts
To me reading this post it almost seems like Korea has a view of "you need us, we don't need you". Which I can understand, GSL is very successful but the foreign side of SC2 is growing so large there should be a strong will to branch out. I understand the Korean scene has it's reasons but to me it just seems like a selfish decision in the long run. The success of Korean players in NASL season 1 was fantastic and the fan base loved it (maybe not EVERYONE, but most). This just seems like such a harsh cold shoulder to E-sports. It needs to grow and branch out, not turtle itself into 1 section of the world. We have foreign players moving into GSL to improve themselves and some players show just such great promise. I'll still be watching NASL regardless as I feel it will only do great things for E-Sports but I really wish the Korean scene would reconsider their decision and help make SC2 grow even larger. It can go far on it's own but it can go even father if we work together to put on some of the greatest matches people have seen (ThorZaIN vs MC in TSL3 comes to mind). Oh and let's not forget about the NASL finals with that major comeback from MC, granted that was two Koreans but it was within a foreign tournament which is a great thing. To be blunt, my initial reaction is this is a selfish move... but it won't question my views on anything. In reality this just opens the doors for some more foreign players to maybe show their face on the scene and make a name for themselves. All we can do is hope. ♥Skurkitty♥ | ||
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baoluvboa
743 Posts
And really to the guys that said GSL feels threatened by NASL? I mean they are not really comparable and frankly the Koreans saved the NASL. | ||
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5ukkub
Poland507 Posts
1) If Koreans would compete in NASL 2, they would win A LOT of money + attract more viewers 2)??? 3) PROFIT!!! It's a win win situation for both parties. I DO NOT understand Koreans at all... like i said: That's why i hope the Koreans will stay closed on themselves, just like in SC1. They are just too exotic to us to understand WTF do they want... Let them play in their own playground, so we can have the REAL e-sports! | ||
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OnFiRe888
United States629 Posts
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Myles
United States5162 Posts
On August 12 2011 08:49 Zaros wrote: 3 koreans that we know of so far: DRG, choya and thebest Yea, I did forget about the open bracket, but even then choya and thebest are on FXO which apparently can do whatever the hell it wants. | ||
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