Taeja Leaving Slayers? - Page 22

On March 13 2012 10:43 FishBones wrote:
I hope EG pick him up solely for the fact that that'll mean he can live in slayers house. He's pretty creative so it'll be great for both parties (taeja/rest of slayers players) if he stayed in the team.

On March 12 2012 22:31 theBALLS wrote:

Well that's almost true. Just look at puma for example

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.

On March 13 2012 07:48 Keone wrote:

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.

On March 13 2012 12:09 hnim wrote:


Taeja is arguably better than every single player on Team Liquid.

On March 13 2012 12:56 SYGY wrote:
hmmm, I wonder why so many SlayerS members are leaving... possibly because they're not sending them over to NA for huge tournaments such as MLG, Dream hack, and IPL?

I'm only assuming.

On March 13 2012 12:53 jellyjello wrote:


This has nothing to do with quality of life. You don't really understand how these players live, do you? Not all these players have grown up poor. The major thing they want is more exposure and opportunity to participate in foriegn tournaments.

On March 13 2012 12:04 FabledIntegral wrote:


I would highly doubt Puma gets even half that amount. Why in the world do you think EG pays Puma a lot?

On March 13 2012 11:52 Diamond wrote:


He didn't live in the SlayerS house when he was on SlayerS. What makes you think that will suddenly change?

I would highly doubt Puma gets even half that amount. Why in the world do you think EG pays Puma a lot?

On March 13 2012 13:18 vthree wrote:


Puma has made $130,000+ in the past year. Sure, not all koreans joining foreign teams will have his level of success at foreign events (especially with more koreans attending those events now). But there is no way he would even be attending those events if he was still with oGs. Unless you are MVP, Nestea, MC, MMA, Boxer, DRG, there just aren't too many invites coming your way from foreign tournaments. Sure, there are qualifiers but with almost the entire Code S trying for some tournaments (MLG arena, etc), it is so tough just to get a spot.

On March 13 2012 13:28 pallad wrote:


Just to clarify

http://sc2earnings.com/

Sending player to events = glory for the team , player get more fans , more support . Players play better , because they feel thier hard work get them something. No offence to Puma he was always good player , but mainly know form his 1/1/1 , without big succes in Korea . Now look at Puma , he is really strong player

On March 13 2012 13:34 Tomken wrote:
foreigners should stop taking up kr players, derpherp

On March 13 2012 13:33 blade55555 wrote:


Will even after his 1/1/1 he was able to beat MMA/JYP and narrowly lost 3-2 to MC in the finals. Not due to the 1/1/1 either so he's obviously a really strong player who people seem to think all he knew how to do was 1/1/1 even though he had beaten MC in a bo7 before in NASL season 1 finals without using 1/1/1 at all.