Taeja Leaving Slayers? - Page 20
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Goldbullet
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Burns
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skatblast
United States784 Posts
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Luepert
United States1933 Posts
On March 12 2012 22:27 whiteLotus wrote: whats with all the koreans "go foreign team" ? do they imagine that foreign teams have gold mines and can pay them 10k$ month? Its true thought that foreign teams are offering more than Korean teams especially for a player of taeja's caliber. Edit: Please for the love of God don't go to EG. | ||
Keone
United States812 Posts
On March 12 2012 22:27 whiteLotus wrote: whats with all the koreans "go foreign team" ? do they imagine that foreign teams have gold mines and can pay them 10k$ month? Inevitable. Two main reasons why. 1. Salary & Quality of Life. Most Koreans don't even get paid a basic salary, nothing; they have to live off their own earnings. Life is difficult, housing is difficult, eating is difficult... basically, it's a really tough life. Look at the EG house; it's like a Korean progamer's dream. 2. Tournament exposure. Koreans are exposed to what? Basically, only the GSL, because they simply can't compete in international tournaments (no invites, no money to fly, no connections, etc.). They look at people who compete internationally (MC, MMA, Puma, even Hero & Zenio) and they see huge amounts of opportunity to compete and win against "easier" foreigner fields. Which to them, is probably true. How many tournaments would Zenio be in if he stayed in OGS? What about Hero? Did anyone really know about the guy before his Liquid switch? Simply put, they see their struggling friends move to foreigner teams, and then earn both a salary and a lot of tournament winnings, as well as a ton of travel. Quality of life is something you can't ignore, or blame them for. The Korean SC2 scene is still bad and underexposed. | ||
MugenXBanksy
United States479 Posts
On March 12 2012 22:34 AlternativeEgo wrote: My god, it's the cold war arms race all over again. O_O Hello? ITS JYP WE BACK | ||
GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
Just kidding, Liquid don't pick up just anybody ![]() | ||
emc
United States3088 Posts
I guess it depends on what team he joins. If he gets on a super rich foreign team then good for him, but I feel like he still needs to be with slayers until he hits a true Code S level on par with other terrans like MvP or MMA. We've all seen what happens to some koreans who were boss then go to foreign teams (like puma?) and just don't have the same practice regiment or nearly as good training partners and don't do well in Code S or even Code A just an opinion, he can do whatever he wants but I think more korean training for mid-level korean is necessary until he hits that S class and can dominate everywhere. | ||
Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On March 13 2012 07:54 GhandiEAGLE wrote: Liquid needs Terrans! Just kidding, Liquid don't pick up just anybody ![]() Taeja is definitely not just anybody. If Liquid had picked up Taeja instead of Hero last year and gave him the same opportunities that Hero had, I would wager that Taeja would have made 6 figures by now. He is that good, and he could really bolster Liquid's roster. | ||
Takuna
Germany332 Posts
He reminds me a bit of Huk in his mass ladder days, cheese won't touch him (I'd like to have that link where he defeated 6 pool with CC first ^^), although he lacks still a bit in "prepared" matches. I wouldn't mind seeing a LiquidTaeja, nor would i freak out if he chooses another team. | ||
Greggle
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scarper65
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Gheed
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On March 13 2012 08:18 Greggle wrote: Screw foreign teams, they don't contribute to the GSTL =( I think Zenio played a game for oGs after joining liquid. Nada could foreseeably play for MVP next season. | ||
cvt
United States192 Posts
On March 12 2012 22:26 Mementoss wrote: ![]() Money, as always. | ||
rauk
United States2228 Posts
On March 13 2012 07:48 Keone wrote: 1. Salary & Quality of Life. Most Koreans don't even get paid a basic salary, nothing; they have to live off their own earnings. Life is difficult, housing is difficult, eating is difficult... basically, it's a really tough life. Look at the EG house; it's like a Korean progamer's dream. Quality of life is something you can't ignore, or blame them for. The Korean SC2 scene is still bad and underexposed. wat. the housing/food might be true for zenex who charges for their players to stay at their team house but certainly not true for all the other pro houses. | ||
Big-t
Austria1350 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On March 13 2012 08:28 Big-t wrote: Would be a shame for TL, if they really pic him. Not that Taeja is bad, but TL has some high requirements. lol Taeja is a friggin monster. ANY team would get better by having him in the roster. No comment about TLs requirements... | ||
Apollo_Shards
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On March 13 2012 07:13 MasterKang wrote: You have absolutely no knowledge of the situation involving dragon, so how on earth would you know if her reaction was justified or not? Exactly you don't Dat shining white armor... | ||
VillageBC
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Taeja/Puma Huk/JYP Idra/??? Pick up another top Zerg and they are set. Then they just need to fill in the practice partners with some potential up and comers. =) | ||
ptrpb
Canada753 Posts
On March 13 2012 08:38 VillageBC wrote: EG needs to bulk up more. Taeja/Puma Huk/JYP Idra/??? Pick up another top Zerg and they are set. Then they just need to fill in the practice partners with some potential up and comers. =) They got Machine man, he's a god in the works. I'm not even joking, Machine has been workin pretty hard and making improvements. | ||
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