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Benjamin80
Profile Joined February 2012
581 Posts
March 05 2012 15:00 GMT
#21
I dont understand why they didnt came out earlier so IEM and other players had time to prepare.

Remember they are holding spots that many players would love to get
[QUOTE][B]On March 19 2012 02:32 iNcontroL wrote:[/B] IF LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS YOU CANNON RUSH[/QUOTE]
Quakie
Profile Joined October 2008
Norway725 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-05 15:03:43
March 05 2012 15:02 GMT
#22
Terribly unfortunate and unprofessional. Think about other players that could attend in his place if he said he couldn't attend before? This is something that occurs regulary with ESL(among others) and it's certainly not good. This is something esports-teams must work much more with, isn't this one of the managements big assignements, one would think they could handle it ...
Gianttt
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Netherlands194 Posts
March 05 2012 15:04 GMT
#23
Bad news, but I can understand it's very expensive. Hope they are capable of attending events like this in the future.
Winners: It is difficult, but it's possible.
DerKiLLa
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany47 Posts
March 05 2012 15:05 GMT
#24
I hope GoOdy or Grubby will get his Spot ...
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
March 05 2012 15:05 GMT
#25
Not exactly the first time a Korean is cancelling their participation in foreign events last minute.... :-/

Dont know how, but if there was a way to prevent that from happening all the time it would be great.
MrBitter
Profile Joined January 2008
United States2940 Posts
March 05 2012 15:12 GMT
#26
On March 06 2012 00:05 DerKiLLa wrote:
I hope GoOdy or Grubby will get his Spot ...


These are both very probably replacements.
Sombrero
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom134 Posts
March 05 2012 15:13 GMT
#27
On March 05 2012 23:48 Tsubbi wrote:
as much as tournament organizers get called out for mistakes so should teams and players, cancelling participation one day before the event without good reason is just unacceptable


Maybe there is a good reason but they are not allowed to say, ever thought of that?
Sleeep
Profile Joined January 2011
Turkey37 Posts
March 05 2012 15:14 GMT
#28
Unacceptable, if you don't have budget for this you should announce at least 3-5 days before event, so they can find a GOSU instead of him, now in just 1 day , finding GOSU probability drops and some just PRO will participate probably. Sorry but you don't have any respect for non-korea events.
tapk69
Profile Joined January 2011
Portugal264 Posts
March 05 2012 15:16 GMT
#29
On March 05 2012 23:59 TeeTS wrote:
But to be honest. I think it would be much more valuable for ST to send Sound to the IEM than keeping him in Korea for the GSTL. Sound is by far no regular GSTL player for ST and they have a deep enough lineup to find a substitution for him. But IEM would be a chance for him and the team, to get some worldwide audience. I really can't understand this decision. (especially since Parting was send to MLG with ST having an important GSTL match against IM and with Parting being actually their strongest player!)


I guess you dont know that IM played without Nestea and MVP , the real losers because of the MLG were team IM not Startale. As for Star player , Ace and Bomber are very good on team leagues so they didnt really need parting . I understand this decision , but releasing a statement so late is bad for bizz
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babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
March 05 2012 15:17 GMT
#30
On March 06 2012 00:14 Sleeep wrote:
Unacceptable, if you don't have budget for this you should announce at least 3-5 days before event, so they can find a GOSU instead of him, now in just 1 day , finding GOSU probability drops and some just PRO will participate probably. Sorry but you don't have any respect for non-korea events.

Goody and Grubby are pretty GOSU, imo ...
CosmoK
Profile Joined July 2011
339 Posts
March 05 2012 15:17 GMT
#31
On March 06 2012 00:05 DerKiLLa wrote:
I hope GoOdy or Grubby will get his Spot ...


As much as I'd love to see Goody and Grubby, neither of them have attended any IEM event this season, right?
So they don't have any points and many other people will probably be considered before them.
Although the reason why White-Ra replaced Ret was that he would be at the IEM anyways, so who knows.

I just saw that Goody and Grubby aren't that much at the bottom of the ranking:
http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season6_ranking/

But Stephano e.g. is still in front of them.
robih
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria1086 Posts
March 05 2012 15:17 GMT
#32
wow if grubby replaces him thats nerchio +5 protoss xD
MVTaylor
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2893 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-05 15:18:18
March 05 2012 15:17 GMT
#33
Pretty damn stupid this wasn't communicated to IEM earlier and I can't believe StarTale can't find the cash to send a player to an event when they've had two months since Sound qualified to find the cash and their player will be recieving at least $600 even if he'd lost every game.

Poor, poor, poor, POOR by StarTale and I feel very sorry for Sound.
@followMVT
KiNGxXx
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
7928 Posts
March 05 2012 15:17 GMT
#34
On March 06 2012 00:13 Sombrero wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2012 23:48 Tsubbi wrote:
as much as tournament organizers get called out for mistakes so should teams and players, cancelling participation one day before the event without good reason is just unacceptable


Maybe there is a good reason but they are not allowed to say, ever thought of that?

What good reason comes to your mind?
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Neelia
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany599 Posts
March 05 2012 15:18 GMT
#35
On March 06 2012 00:13 Sombrero wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2012 23:48 Tsubbi wrote:
as much as tournament organizers get called out for mistakes so should teams and players, cancelling participation one day before the event without good reason is just unacceptable


Maybe there is a good reason but they are not allowed to say, ever thought of that?


Well, over the last year there was barely any tournament which didn't suffer from players canceling their participation on short notice.
Treehead
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
999 Posts
March 05 2012 15:19 GMT
#36
When I saw something with "sound missing" in the title, I assumed it would be about day9.
Sombrero
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom134 Posts
March 05 2012 15:19 GMT
#37
On March 06 2012 00:02 Quakie wrote:
Terribly unfortunate and unprofessional. Think about other players that could attend in his place if he said he couldn't attend before? This is something that occurs regulary with ESL(among others) and it's certainly not good. This is something esports-teams must work much more with, isn't this one of the managements big assignements, one would think they could handle it ...


The point here is not to blame the management, they obviously had prepared to send the player; it is quite obvious that some funds that they may have been allocated are no longer available due to reasons that we do not know. People should think about it a little deeper before they castrate management. Think for a second, who provides funding for players to attend events?
Sombrero
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom134 Posts
March 05 2012 15:20 GMT
#38
On March 06 2012 00:18 Neelia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 06 2012 00:13 Sombrero wrote:
On March 05 2012 23:48 Tsubbi wrote:
as much as tournament organizers get called out for mistakes so should teams and players, cancelling participation one day before the event without good reason is just unacceptable


Maybe there is a good reason but they are not allowed to say, ever thought of that?


Well, over the last year there was barely any tournament which didn't suffer from players canceling their participation on short notice.



Think about who pays for players to go to tournaments and then do the maths.
Holdinga
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Bulgaria300 Posts
March 05 2012 15:22 GMT
#39
Even though I'd love to see Grubby at IEM, he is not the type of guy that would go into a tournament with no specific preparation at all
StarVe
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany13591 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-05 15:22:57
March 05 2012 15:22 GMT
#40
On March 05 2012 23:50 mki wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 05 2012 23:48 Tsubbi wrote:
as much as tournament organizers get called out for mistakes so should teams and players, cancelling participation one day before the event without good reason is just unacceptable


This is why I asked if it's an open letter. JBanks seems to have said that he has been in talks with Carmac which wasn't a straight answer but once can infer that ESL has known this was a possibility for quite some time.

Carmac was unaware of it, you can read it on twitter.



@SaintSnorlax @mbCARMAC I have had it confirmed, Sound will not attend. Will skype you Carmac - I can only apologise on behalf of ST
2:37 PM - 5 Mar 12 via web

He told him he would skype him like one/two hours ago, that's not being informed for quite some time, unfortunately.

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