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Goldbullet
Profile Joined August 2011
United States88 Posts
March 12 2012 22:38 GMT
#381
koreans want to get out of korea. Foreigners want to go to Korea. T_T
may your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when u move, fall like a thunderbolt.- Sun Tzu
Burns
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2300 Posts
March 12 2012 22:43 GMT
#382
it would be really easy for him to go to EG! =D
What do you mean you heard me during the night, these are quiet pants!
skatblast
Profile Joined September 2011
United States784 Posts
March 12 2012 22:44 GMT
#383
Please go EG
Luepert
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1934 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-12 22:53:14
March 12 2012 22:47 GMT
#384
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.
esports
Keone
Profile Joined April 2011
United States812 Posts
March 12 2012 22:48 GMT
#385
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.
BW Forever. Flash is the Ultimate Bonjwa.
MugenXBanksy
Profile Joined April 2011
United States479 Posts
March 12 2012 22:50 GMT
#386
On March 12 2012 22:34 AlternativeEgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 12 2012 22:32 Cokefreak wrote:
On March 12 2012 22:31 AlternativeEgo wrote:
C'mon Empire, you know you want to!

I think it's EG's turn at a Korean again, been a while since they accuired PuMa. ;D
On March 12 2012 22:32 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
hope this doesn't incur another Jessica shitstorm =/

You can almost count on it.


My god, it's the cold war arms race all over again. O_O





Hello? ITS JYP WE BACK
we all hope to be like whitera one day
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
March 12 2012 22:54 GMT
#387
Liquid needs Terrans!

Just kidding, Liquid don't pick up just anybody
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
emc
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3088 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-12 23:13:55
March 12 2012 23:12 GMT
#388
not sure why he would leave, an amazing terran on a team with some of the best terrans. I think he's making a big mistake unlike other players like Puma or Zenio because Slayers is an excellent team (not to take away from TSL or OGS) and I feel like he might be making this decision based on the fact that he thinks there is more money in the west which isn't completely true or false.

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
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-12 23:18:45
March 12 2012 23:13 GMT
#389
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.
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
Takuna
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany332 Posts
March 12 2012 23:16 GMT
#390
I like Taejas working attitude, he seems to be playing a lot and at least his online results are somewhat consistent, he is winning the weekly Taeja allowance cup every week after all.
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.
The spirits move me.
Greggle
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1131 Posts
March 12 2012 23:18 GMT
#391
Screw foreign teams, they don't contribute to the GSTL =(
Life is too short to take it seriously.
scarper65
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
1560 Posts
March 12 2012 23:21 GMT
#392
Someone needs to tell Taeja and the rest of these koreans that moving to foreign teams probably isn't the best idea.
Gheed
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States972 Posts
March 12 2012 23:22 GMT
#393
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
Profile Joined November 2011
United States192 Posts
March 12 2012 23:23 GMT
#394
On March 12 2012 22:26 Mementoss wrote:
WHY?? QQ

Money, as always.
rauk
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States2228 Posts
March 12 2012 23:26 GMT
#395
On March 13 2012 07:48 Keone wrote:
Show nested quote +
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?

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
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria1351 Posts
March 12 2012 23:28 GMT
#396
Would be a shame for TL, if they really pic him. Not that Taeja is bad, but TL has some high requirements.
monchi | IdrA | Flash
Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
March 12 2012 23:31 GMT
#397
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...
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Apollo_Shards
Profile Joined February 2011
1210 Posts
March 12 2012 23:36 GMT
#398
On March 13 2012 07:13 MasterKang wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 13 2012 06:10 Cokefreak wrote:
On March 13 2012 06:08 fourColo wrote:
On March 13 2012 05:54 synapse wrote:
Time for Jessica to go on another rant huh....

Damn you must really hate Jessica huh... Cheap shot at the smallest opportunity.

Yeah terrible terrible cheap shot considering how she has acted in the past when a player left SlayerS... How dare he post like that!


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...
Jaedong, sOs, avilo, MaSa, Oprah
VillageBC
Profile Joined January 2011
322 Posts
March 12 2012 23:38 GMT
#399
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. =)
ptrpb
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada753 Posts
March 12 2012 23:42 GMT
#400
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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