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Eternalmisfit
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States643 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-29 01:26:59
March 29 2012 01:24 GMT
#861
On March 29 2012 08:17 snailz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2012 08:12 jj33 wrote:
On March 29 2012 08:11 snailz wrote:
On March 29 2012 08:08 xXFireandIceXx wrote:
On March 29 2012 08:03 snailz wrote:
On March 29 2012 08:00 Focuspants wrote:
Your favourite team picks up a world class player to strengthen their line-up and further establish themselves as the team to beat!

Bitch and complain because youre not satisfied by the nationality of said player.

ESPORTS

Anyone complaining, should shut their mouth and open their eyes. While they are open, use them to watch the games Zenio and HerO have provided us. You can open your mouth again at this point, as your jaw hits the floor in awe. Now add another player capable of such skill. What the hell do you have to complain about? Why is race or nationality even an issue. It sickens me.

Keep up the BOSSSSS recruitment work TL, I am loving the roster.


most forum members mocked Zenio and called him washed up and old, and now retaining code s is suddenly "wow" while when he was at oGs it was "he's always there but he'll never be top zerg like nestea/leenock/drg/insert next zerg hope"

i can understand getting HerO ho was nobody, but Zenio and now Taeja, it just doesnt seem "Liquid thing to do" :/

LOL signing good, community-friendly, team-supportive, capable players with great potential doesn't seem to be all that bad does it?


no it doesnt, i never said it does

i said it doesnt feel the same

ofcourse i can "remember that its all about winning to maintain sponsors/team strong/bla bla", but i dont have to... its not my job, its a fan thing, and in real sports you dont cheer for those you can't relate to



you can't relate to the Koreans, because they're Korean aka not white basically is what you're saying


no.

you're just being evil with no reason, please don't.

its like football, you dont cheer for real madrid if you're from naples, or athens, or istanbul. you can support real madrid, but you would never "die" for them, like you would for Napoli, PAO, Fenerbahce...

if you don't understand what i just wrote, you can't understand what i'm trying to say, honestly.

and if you do, just replace people from Naples cheering for Napoli with people from west cheering for "foreigners"


That is a real bad analogy. People from Naples cheer for Napoli. That is true. But if, say as an extreme example, Messi was going to join Napoli, people from Naples will still cheer for Napoli and will also cheer Messi as he would help their team achieve greater heights.

Now, please replace Napoli with Team Liquid; people from Naples with foreign community/TL fans; and Messi with Taeja; and you will realize that your analogy is inherently flawed and a real sports analogy actual actually defeats your argument.
EsMuyVien
Profile Joined July 2011
United States408 Posts
March 29 2012 01:25 GMT
#862
AMAZING! CONGRATS BOTH LIQUID AND TAEJA!
If what I think is happening is happening - it better not be.
Thewildfish
Profile Joined September 2010
United States113 Posts
March 29 2012 01:26 GMT
#863
Congrats on the great pickup by my favorite team <3 <3 Hope to see Taeja at a lot of foreign events!
Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
March 29 2012 01:28 GMT
#864
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.
Writerhttps://twitter.com/FionnOnFire
ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
March 29 2012 01:30 GMT
#865
On March 29 2012 10:28 Fionn wrote:
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.


Yeah, Liquid needs a girl.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
omgimonfire15
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States233 Posts
March 29 2012 01:30 GMT
#866
On March 29 2012 10:20 Azarkon wrote:
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On March 29 2012 07:44 ZasZ. wrote:
On March 29 2012 07:32 Rewera wrote:
And after a while all pro foreign teams will have korean only rosters and will operate mainly in Korea. I don't like where this is going, on which I belive will agree with me group of more country on country competition fans. In this cas of course the grand dish is Korea vs. Rest of the World.


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.


I agree but at the same time, Taeja did not live in the slayers house. He is 16 years old, and technically still in school. He lives at home with his parents who apparently were opposed to him becoming a progamer. In addition, there are many foreign players who live at team houses that don't come close to koreans in terms of skill. I don't think just having a team house and all your living expenses paid for is the full story. Just saying that if we supported programers more, then they would get better is a fallacy. Following that logic, no one would have started e-sports as in the beginning, there would be no support for them and therefore, no one would pursue it competitively.
Filter
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada620 Posts
March 29 2012 01:30 GMT
#867
Liquid is extremely picky with their players, and they don't just them go either. It would be nice if there were non koreans that were any good but right now it's slim pickings and the ones that are already have teams. Liquid let one get away but with the room in the budget from that move they've grabbed a nice stable of extremely talented players that seem like good guys in general.
Live hard, live free.
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
March 29 2012 01:30 GMT
#868
On March 29 2012 10:28 Fionn wrote:
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.

Actually a transgender beauty contest winner from Comoros.
Porcelina
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United Kingdom3249 Posts
March 29 2012 01:30 GMT
#869
On March 29 2012 07:42 Kaitokid wrote:
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On March 29 2012 07:40 RezChi wrote:
I TOLD YOU SO, I TOLD ALL OF YOU
Just kidding, FUCK YEAH TAEJA!!!


everyone on the internet was calling it :D


I did not dare believe. Wanted, hoped and dreamed of. But did not really believe it until today. Good times.
haka
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1414 Posts
March 29 2012 01:31 GMT
#870
huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa LIQUID TAEJA

IS THIS REAL

awesome!
Kitaen
Profile Joined June 2011
Austria466 Posts
March 29 2012 01:32 GMT
#871
On March 29 2012 10:28 Fionn wrote:
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.


PICK ME PICK ME my country starts with A aswell and im female in high masters!
Chunhyang
Profile Joined December 2011
Bangladesh1389 Posts
March 29 2012 01:32 GMT
#872
On March 29 2012 10:28 Fionn wrote:
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.


What's with the whole "female from Azerbaijan" quip? It sounds vaguely offensive to this forumer. Someone else might be inflamed.
If you could reason with haters, there would be no haters. YGTMYFT
Too_MuchZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Finland2818 Posts
March 29 2012 01:32 GMT
#873
On March 29 2012 10:28 Fionn wrote:
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.


Slow down a bit You don't buy spot for GSTL by recruiting one player more...
Bippzy
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States1466 Posts
March 29 2012 01:33 GMT
#874
On March 29 2012 10:30 Froadac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2012 10:28 Fionn wrote:
What a terrible move by Liquid. Being a traitor to the foreigners by signing possibly the best free agent there has been in the past year. Who would want to sign a player who is young, has already become one of the best Terrans in the world by living at home, and has a charismatic personality? Insane. Why would they want to have the best team possible and get enough players to play in next season's GSTL with three Code S quality players?

They should have signed a female from Azerbaijan.

Actually a transgender beauty contest winner from Comoros.

I was thinking an female amish 43 year old aspiring pro cow milker personally.
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DrThorMD
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada359 Posts
March 29 2012 01:36 GMT
#875
Welcome to the family, SirTaeja. This is going to be so sick.
Damn your Chronoboosts!
chambertin
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1704 Posts
March 29 2012 01:37 GMT
#876
So happy I don't even...
"I know one thing, that I know nothing" - Socrates?
Caesarion
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia8332 Posts
March 29 2012 01:37 GMT
#877
TAEJAAAAAAAAAAAA!

This is insane. Thank you soooo much, TeamLiquid. <3
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
March 29 2012 01:37 GMT
#878
This just in, Hayder is not a troll , also now is the time for everyone who called it to say, "I told you so, JS." In all seriousness though, this guy is going to be beast for liquid, and now they have an actual terran other than Jinro who hasn't preformed as well as Taeja up to this point :D Great to see Jinro get some Terran support .
User was warned for too many mimes.
Haydin
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1481 Posts
March 29 2012 01:38 GMT
#879
OMGOMGOMGOMG

IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED

OMGOMGOMGOMG
aka ilovesharkpeople
Laryleprakon
Profile Joined May 2011
New Zealand9496 Posts
March 29 2012 01:40 GMT
#880
Such a good pick up!
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