KR players are going to keep leaving til there exists and equilibrium of KR players between KR and NA to the point that the illusion that infinite money exists in the west for non MVP MMA Nestea DRG caliber players is gone. At least it allows NA players to get some more practice vs. KR players on NA server. And for that I'm fine with it.

Chicane

United States7875 Posts

January 18 2012 17:07 GMT

#102

Aww god damnit. I'm a big fan of the MVP team so it sucks to see good players like Violet and GuineaPig leave. :-/

Seraphone

United Kingdom1219 Posts

January 18 2012 17:12 GMT

#103

On January 19 2012 01:48 Sif_ wrote:

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so rooting for foreigner makes someone a racist? i guess you learn something new everyday

anyway, i like the clash of foreigner vs koreans..wouldnt like seeing foreigner teams with their aces from korea.

and i also feel like those players leaving korean teams to join foreigner ones just want it easy, to compete with lesser skilled players, kind of giving up their shot at the top level of progamers

Rooting for all foreigners over all Koreans and not wanting Koreans to be involved in the foreign scene and join foreign teams makes you a racist, yes.

Supporting players from your own country is fine and understandable. But someone from Sweden blindly supporting everyone from America, China and Brazil over Korea based purely on nationality is pretty damn weird.

People should just support the players who's play they like the best.

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

January 18 2012 17:18 GMT

#104

Look at Hero for example. Nobody really knew about him, and he had just a few appearances in the GSTL and Code A. Then Liquid signs him, and suddenly he is flying all over the world to participate in various tournaments. A whole world of opportunities opened up for Hero. There are many Koreans in the same position that oGsHero was in, and they feel that they too have the skills to do as well as Hero, if not better. Many of them just want the chance to compete, to prove that they are top players and not just another practice partner for MVP, MMA, DRG or MC.

Synwave

United States2803 Posts

January 18 2012 17:24 GMT

#105

Im getting completely lost in who's leaving who and who's joined who. I think may have to just ignore it all until around March and then figure it out then when its (hopefully) died down a bit.

Good luck to Guineapig though, I really liked watching his play!

xxgeffxx

United States119 Posts

January 18 2012 18:53 GMT

#106

shoot next thing you know someone like mc, mvp, or nestea will be joining a foreign team. the smarter ones probably wont jump ship until they have a solid landing to put there feet on (and that could be a foreign team, or market popularity etc)

edit: oh and I should say, I don't think this is completed unexpected: isn't the vast majority of sc2 professionals ones who didn't want to be punching bags to the top tier BW professionals(who even now make way more than sc2 professionals)? MVP made the switch in this respect to be a big fish in a smaller pond. I'd imagine this sort of behavior will continue until being a small fish in a big pond will be the equivalent financially of being a bigger fish in a small pond.

VirgilSC2

United States6151 Posts

January 18 2012 18:55 GMT

#107

On January 19 2012 03:53 xxgeffxx wrote:
shoot next thing you know someone like SK_MC, mvp, or nestea will be joining a foreign team. the smarter ones probably wont jump ship until they have a solid landing to put there feet on (and that could be a foreign team, or market popularity etc)

You're a little late there.

cutler

Germany609 Posts

January 18 2012 19:06 GMT

#108

i just heard MTW got an open spot *cough*

;-)

Canucklehead

Canada5074 Posts

January 18 2012 19:16 GMT

#109

It's pretty simple why so many are leaving. They see players like puma and hero raking in the overseas money and they think to themselves, I'm just as good as them, but just don't have the same opportunities as them. They want a piece of that foreigner money too.

With only 5 gsl this year as well, the korean money will be harder to come by, since MVP and them will be winning it all. The people who do make it to code a/s will spend most of their time just trying to retain their spots with no real chance of actually winning a GSL and the big money. Then you have all the code b players who have no prize money to play for, unless they can get into code a/s.

PHC

United States472 Posts

January 19 2012 03:13 GMT

#110

On January 19 2012 01:48 Sif_ wrote:

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Sif_ is racist and he doesn't even know it. Poor thing.

Kuror

United States399 Posts

January 19 2012 03:14 GMT

#111

omg SERIOUSLY? lol
This is the 8th player transfer/leaving I believe?

BrassMonkey27

Canada616 Posts

January 19 2012 09:02 GMT

#112

Watching Guineapig's stream right now and someone from Check6 just invited him to a call on skype for a possible recruitment. Guinea told him to wait after he's done streaming.