EPTNASL Season 2 Player Announcements - Page 31
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juzx
Netherlands5 Posts
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last.resistance
Canada543 Posts
The only one that leaves me scratching my head is the Incontrol and BratOK one. I look forward to watching them this season but they don't seem to be headline players like the others featured in the pictures so far. Also Cold War II? | ||
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Adventurekid
Sweden505 Posts
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Hardigan
Switzerland1297 Posts
FnaticMSI Rain FXO Moonan EG Axslav mouz MorroW | ||
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Denzil
United Kingdom4193 Posts
On August 29 2011 03:54 last.resistance wrote: These announcements have been really well done. The only one that leaves me scratching my head is the Incontrol and BratOK one. I look forward to watching them this season but they don't seem to be headline players like the others featured in the pictures so far. Also Cold War II? America Russia you know hype hype hype Brat_OK also likes his ghosts so maybe we'll see some Nukes but then again maybe not. | ||
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Supdude
244 Posts
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eloist
United States1017 Posts
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Palace
16 Posts
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Ragoo
Germany2773 Posts
On August 27 2011 22:31 Sphaero wrote: Well, I normally don´t jump on the NASL hate train, but I can not help to shake my head at the re-invitation of haypro. The funny thing is, that I wouldn´t have complained about Goody not returning, because he frankly didn´t deliver in Season 1, because of a slump. But the way they announced Haypro was for a lack of a better word dumb. They make a Germany theme and announce the four save germans and instead to announce another save player, who isn´t german, they reinvite a player, who had the same result in season 1 as the only left out german: goody (2-7). Of course many people will now have one question in mind: Why? Because of recent results? LMAO no. Haypro seems like the eternal talent. We always hear, how much potential he has, but we see no results. Goody on the other hand wins pretty much half the cups he enters. Just yesterday he won a cup with extreme hard competition (Socke, Darkforce, Tarson, Kas, Beastyqt etc.). Because of popularity? No. Goody has archived some form of cult status not only in the german but also the international community. He is one of the few foreign pro´s, that has a nickname, that pretty much every one in the community knows and can indentify with him. Hell, he even has a personal song (well kinda  ). The most outstanding fact about Haypro? His clantag.Which leads to the only deciding thing for the reinvitation I can think of: Their teams. Goody is part and by far best player of the relatively unknown (atleast outside germany) clan ESC gaming. Haypro plays for Team liquid, which needs no introduction. I just hope, that there are other reasons why NASL picked Haypro over Goody (maybe he will be announced later, which would still be bad timing on part of NASL). Because picking Players solely because of their teams is a pretty big fail. Excellent summary! Goody really is on a roll nowadays, he doesn't even have a TvP weakness anymore and is probably the strongest and most consistent weekly cup player in EU (just read the tournament roundups and you will see Goody near the top every time). Would be a huge shame if he wasn't invited just cause he didn't do so well in Season 1 (when he overall was slumping)... edit: plus his style is so unique that it can't be replaced. | ||
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SkyTheUnknown
Germany2065 Posts
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On August 29 2011 09:23 SkyTheUnknown wrote: Goody, Nerchio, Stephano. Where are these players? There are still quite a few players left to be announced. | ||
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CEPEHDREI
Germany1521 Posts
On August 29 2011 09:23 SkyTheUnknown wrote: Goody, Nerchio, Stephano. Where are these players? who needs them? we got haypro incontrol and axslav | ||
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SpiZe
Canada3640 Posts
On August 29 2011 09:26 CEPEHDREI wrote: who needs them? we got haypro incontrol and axslav If they wanted to play, they had to play the qualifier. | ||
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t1mid
United States143 Posts
On August 29 2011 09:26 CEPEHDREI wrote: who needs them? we got haypro incontrol and axslav LOL I would like to see Stephano, Destiny, Nerchio and MorroW! >.> | ||
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TortoiseCa
Canada104 Posts
On August 29 2011 09:26 CEPEHDREI wrote: who needs them? we got haypro incontrol and axslav also LOL and honestly if there wasn't this little quip for each player as to why they were invited I wouldn't have anything bad to say. But really, some of these players are not top tier players. They just have their names out in the community but rarely/never perform well in tournaments and when push comes to shove, nobody would ever bet money on them being successful. I really don't think in a game as highly competitve as SC2 , you should have this group of players up on a pedestal saying "these guys are in! WE DON'T CARE IF 500 OTHER PLAYERS ARE BETTER THAN THEY ARE! THEY ARE PRO GAMERS!" It reminds me of earlier MLG tournaments where the Halo pro gaming teams were just these lucky guys who were chosen at some point to play in this tournament and would return year after year with no chance for anybody else to qualify. I think next time you should maybe take the top half of the previous season performances, and then throw the other half into qualifiers with everyone else. And I mean, if you have this long drawn out qualifying system (not single elimination), then you can basically stream that in the offseason, which does not require you to shell out any money. It'd also put some weight behind the whole system as being legit instead of seemingly some kids who were given a giant wad of cash and playing the 'who's popular' game to determine who can win the money. also this whole convoluted team system is stupid as well, you should stop trying to muddy the waters and make this entire thing transparent. You underestimate your viewership if you think we need name brand players to tune in. We want to see the (proven) best players compete. Take a lesson from GSL where players actually have to earn and prove themselves all the time to stay in the game. | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
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AIOL!
France962 Posts
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Dub_doubt
United States86 Posts
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On August 29 2011 17:09 AIOL! wrote: since stephano and nerchio will not participate, i will not follow this tournament =( do you only follow tournaments they are in? And Idra will be in, he qualified from last season. | ||
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Frankon
3054 Posts
On August 29 2011 17:33 jmbthirteen wrote: do you only follow tournaments they are in? And Idra will be in, he qualified from last season. Somehow i cannot imagine Idra getting up in the morning to play it. He might decline the invite for the same reason Thorzain did. | ||
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