This... Sports are a business. Players are commodities. Goods. Items. They get traded all the time.

Plus, players are trying to maximize income. And you do that by utilizing competition. No contract --> best deal gets you. (quality of living/perks aside)

Azarkon

United States21060 Posts

March 29 2012 01:03 GMT

#842

On March 29 2012 06:49 red4ce wrote:
Your move, EG.

EGJjakji. DRG is taken by coLMVP, Genius is taken by coLMVP, Leenock is taken by FXO, and MKP leaving Prime is just weird. That leaves Jjakji as the last recruitable high ELO.

RUS RO DAH!!!

United States277 Posts

March 29 2012 01:04 GMT

#843

On March 29 2012 10:03 Azarkon wrote:

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EGJjakji. DRG is taken by coLMVP, Genius is taken by coLMVP, Leenock is taken by FXO, and MKP leaving Prime is just weird. That leaves Jjakji as the last recruitable high ELO.

What about MMA, MVP and Nestea?

Scherzando

United States34 Posts

March 29 2012 01:05 GMT

#844

Excellent pickup, Teaja is so much fun to watch

Raidern

Brazil3811 Posts

March 29 2012 01:07 GMT

#845

now you only need 9 rings

Azarkon

United States21060 Posts

March 29 2012 01:09 GMT

#846

On March 29 2012 10:04 RUS RO DAH!!! wrote:

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What about MMA, MVP and Nestea?

MMA is Slayers' flagship and Boxer's protege. I don't think he's recruitable.

MVP is in a huge slump.

EGNestea, though... Nestea and IdrA on the same team -> epic lulz?

Spekulatius

Germany2413 Posts

March 29 2012 01:10 GMT

#847

Congratz to TL. I hope he'll fit in well.

mordek

United States12704 Posts

March 29 2012 01:11 GMT

#848

Very nice! :D

NoctemSC

United States771 Posts

March 29 2012 01:13 GMT

#849

On March 29 2012 10:09 Azarkon wrote:

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MMA is Slayers' flagship and Boxer's protege. I don't think he's recruitable.

MVP is in a huge slump.

EGNestea, though... Nestea and IdrA on the same team -> epic lulz?

From what I hear, Nestea never loses in practice, he'd be an amazing practice partner for EG.

StarStrider

United States689 Posts

March 29 2012 01:14 GMT

#850

imo this is the beginnings of a TL code S championship win. Nice catch.

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

March 29 2012 01:16 GMT

#851

Important question that I believe hasn't been covered yet.

Are you going to delay the liquid documentary to include Taeja or is the footage from IPL4 enough?

lessQQmorePEWPEW

Jamaica921 Posts

March 29 2012 01:16 GMT

#852

I'm happy for TL finally having a good terran player. They lacked in this dept with jinro's never ending slump. now its time for GSTL run!

Chunhyang

Bangladesh1389 Posts

March 29 2012 01:18 GMT

#853

My goodness. It's redundant but I'll say it again, fantastic pickup!

The best player available, you got what you needed, relatively unproven so his value/salary is low, but his talent is undeniable.

I also hope that this makes Jinro work ten times harder!

ComusLoM

Norway3547 Posts

March 29 2012 01:19 GMT

#854

A terran!

Azarkon

United States21060 Posts

March 29 2012 01:20 GMT

#855

On March 29 2012 07:44 ZasZ. wrote:

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So you want teams to ignore promising Korean free agents because they are Korean?

If people want their beloved foreigner teams to stay foreigner-only, then foreigners need to play better so that there is no incentive to recruit Korean talent. TaeJa is easily a top 10 worldwide Terran (an argument could be made for top 5, although it's crowded up there) and has most of his career ahead of him.

This is a great pickup and helps strengthen the Terran lineup of Liquid. Jinro has been oh so lonely since TLO switched back to Zerg.

GL to TaeJa and Liquid~!

Foreigners aren't going to get better when they have no hope of receiving support and investment from foreigner teams until they are as good as Code S Koreans - and that's not going to happen without training in a team house.

It's one more nail in the coffin for the foreigner's scene. People who think this is going to make foreigners practice harder are very naive - the way foreigners dealt with the lack of support in BW was... By not playing. Then BW ceased being an international eSport. SC 2 is going the same way.