A lot of them are warcraft 3 players.

Infi played WC3 like a Starcraft player, massing defenses, expanding and harassing , i got the impression he had a small starcraft background before playing WC.

Mr Showtime

United States1353 Posts

August 24 2011 01:43 GMT

#187

Is it just me, or is MC gonna take a massive dump on everyone else? Well Nada has a chance and Moon can be good every once and a while, but MC is just sooooo much better than all of these other "notable" players.

See.Blue

United States2673 Posts

August 24 2011 01:46 GMT

#188

On August 24 2011 07:54 babylon wrote:

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Wet NaDa can only draw in more viewers.

White tshirt or gtfo

bogosort

United States3 Posts

August 24 2011 01:48 GMT

#189

So much awesome packed in one post. TossGirl to SC2? More OGN and SC2? MC and Nada? I am excite.

Sabre

United Kingdom1086 Posts

August 24 2011 01:48 GMT

#190

Man Sky is gonna beast up SC2 if he switches :O

I also fully expect Infi to cause a few upsets during the tournament, although MC will more than likely take the whole thing.

tuho12345

4482 Posts

August 24 2011 01:49 GMT

#191

Damn change your name TosSgirl you're not Toss anymore you traitor!!! j/k lol but seriously no love for Protoss

Doraemon

Australia14949 Posts

August 24 2011 01:52 GMT

#192

tossgirl? why you no toss?

zergtat

Hong Kong853 Posts

August 24 2011 01:55 GMT

#193

omg tossgirl :D come to me babe

FADCoUltra

Canada73 Posts

August 24 2011 01:56 GMT

#194

Holy Shit this is pretty major line up. And the price money is HUGE!!! Although not the biggest when you convert it to $US, but consider working class people in cities like shanghai just earns like a few thousand RMB a month, think about the scale of 10 MILLION RMB!! That will for sure raise some attention in China. Just like a normal middle class job here in NA pays a few thousand dollars a month, now imagine a SC2 tournament here that pays $10 million dollars top price. Now that would be when esport stars can compare to normal sport pro athletes.

As I'm typing this now it got me thinking. So much cheaper for sponsors to give huge prize money in RMB. China have huge potential to develop esport industry into as big as South Korea. I hope this will set a good precedence for other big sponsors to host more tournaments in China to get more Chinese players to go pro.

babylon

8765 Posts

August 24 2011 01:57 GMT

#195

On August 24 2011 10:48 SabreUK wrote:
Man Sky is gonna beast up SC2 if he switches :O

I also fully expect Infi to cause a few upsets during the tournament, although MC will more than likely take the whole thing.

There was a Moon vs. Sky showmatch in SC2 during the StarsWar tournament. Sky wasn't that great, to be honest, though he was probably just dicking around; he tried a marine/SCV all-in that Moon held off with ease and then tapped out of the game.

I would be sorely disappointed, though, if none of the Chinese Terrans try the 1/1/1 on MC. That would be hilarious. And of course, I'm very interested in seeing how good Fly and TH000 are. I wouldn't expect amazing play out of them still; Fly, Sky, TH000, Moon, and Lyn are all competing in the WC3 WCG, so they won't have a lot of time to prepare. Expect NaDa or MC to roll through; if there's one Chinese player on that list that might cause an upset, I'd say it'd be Infi. We'll see. Should be fun!

L3gendary

Canada1470 Posts

August 24 2011 02:00 GMT

#196

On August 24 2011 10:29 NationInArms wrote:
So TossGirl goes from protoss to terran...and now to zerg. go figure

To be fair she only played toss when she was young and no where near pro and a lot of people have switched from terran to zerg cus of the similar passive/macro style of play.

DonKey_

Liechtenstein1356 Posts

August 24 2011 02:07 GMT

#197

zergGirl lol thats a nice name

Oktyabr

Singapore2234 Posts

August 24 2011 02:10 GMT

#198

On August 24 2011 10:56 FADCoUltra wrote:
Holy Shit this is pretty major line up. And the price money is HUGE!!! Although not the biggest when you convert it to $US, but consider working class people in cities like shanghai just earns like a few thousand RMB a month, think about the scale of 10 MILLION RMB!! That will for sure raise some attention in China. Just like a normal middle class job here in NA pays a few thousand dollars a month, now imagine a SC2 tournament here that pays $10 million dollars top price. Now that would be when esport stars can compare to normal sport pro athletes.

As I'm typing this now it got me thinking. So much cheaper for sponsors to give huge prize money in RMB. China have huge potential to develop esport industry into as big as South Korea. I hope this will set a good precedence for other big sponsors to host more tournaments in China to get more Chinese players to go pro.

China always had a lot of money flowing around in the e-sports scene - just in the other games such as WC3 and DOTA. WC3 to China is like what BW is to Korea, without the hundred thousand dollar contracts in China.

FuRong

New Zealand3089 Posts

August 24 2011 02:14 GMT

#199

Wow, this is amazing...they certainly know how to attract the maximum number of viewers to their tournament.

Am I the only one that thinks this is easy money for MC and Nada though? All of the other players are really famous in their own right, but as far as I know all of them are either playing SC2 on the side to another game or are not even progamers.