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Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
March 29 2012 01:40 GMT
#881
On March 29 2012 10:32 Chunhyang 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.


What's with the whole "female from Azerbaijan" quip? It sounds vaguely offensive to this forumer. Someone else might be inflamed.


I picked a foreign country. You can literally change Azerbaijan with any country in the world that isn't Korea.
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Kazeyonoma
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2912 Posts
March 29 2012 01:41 GMT
#882
wait, is it just me or is Taeja now on the top of the TLPD list on the right despite having nothing listed since february 29th? lol nice.
I now have autographs of both BoxeR and NaDa. I can die happy. Lim Yo Hwan and Lee Yun Yeol FIGHTING forever!
RusHXceL
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1004 Posts
March 29 2012 01:41 GMT
#883
Nine Tails Fox.

+ Show Spoiler +
cwutididthar
Bonzinator
Profile Joined February 2011
Slovenia862 Posts
March 29 2012 01:41 GMT
#884
GZ on the pickup TL. Sick stuff
plogamer
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Canada3132 Posts
March 29 2012 01:42 GMT
#885
On March 29 2012 10:33 Bippzy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2012 10:30 Froadac wrote:
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.


Cow-milking is a proud and ancient profession. /srsbsns
Azarkon
Profile Joined January 2010
United States21060 Posts
March 29 2012 01:43 GMT
#886
On March 29 2012 10:30 omgimonfire15 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2012 10:20 Azarkon wrote:
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.


That's where entrepreneurs come in. Esports was dead in the water without those initial risk-takers.

Right now, no one wants to take a risk with the foreigner's scene. That tells me that the foreigner's scene is on its last legs. Not saying that Liquid is wrong to recruit Taeja - rather this is a miner's canary for how bad the condition has become for up-and-comers in the foreigner's scene - ie they're non-existent.
GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
March 29 2012 01:43 GMT
#887
Congrats to both parties, seems like a fitting match.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
TheNessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4158 Posts
March 29 2012 01:44 GMT
#888
propoganda O_O???
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gurrpp
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States437 Posts
March 29 2012 01:48 GMT
#889
Nine riders. Nine Nazgul.
hot fuh days
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
March 29 2012 01:48 GMT
#890
Congrats! This was quite a shock to see upon opening the TL homepage, but one that is party-worthy!

Code S Trifecta of Zenio, HerO and Taeja is pretty scary.

Also, when are you just gonna flat out buy Korea? It's the natural next step to world domination.
Starleague Forever. RIP KT Violet~
Latrommi
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States222 Posts
March 29 2012 01:48 GMT
#891
AWESOME. TL is getting better and better with each new recruit!
Possibly the best thread ever http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=232912&currentpage=All
Imalengrat
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia365 Posts
March 29 2012 01:50 GMT
#892
So awesome. TL <3
Mass Motherships Counters Almost everything
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
March 29 2012 01:52 GMT
#893
50 bucks says EG picks up another Korean in a few weeks. Can't let Liquid get ahead, now can they?
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
SwizzY
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1549 Posts
March 29 2012 01:53 GMT
#894
What a fantastic pick-up. So glad to see the rumors weren't just trollbait (Hayder...) and Liquid has a BEAST terran to go along with Jinro.

So freakin pumped for GSL now :D
All that glitters is not gold, all that wander are not lost, the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by frost.
Too_MuchZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Finland2818 Posts
March 29 2012 01:54 GMT
#895
On March 29 2012 10:43 Azarkon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 29 2012 10:30 omgimonfire15 wrote:
On March 29 2012 10:20 Azarkon wrote:
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.


That's where entrepreneurs come in. Esports was dead in the water without those initial risk-takers.

Right now, no one wants to take a risk with the foreigner's scene. That tells me that the foreigner's scene is on its last legs. Not saying that Liquid is wrong to recruit Taeja - rather this is a miner's canary for how bad the condition has become for up-and-comers in the foreigner's scene - ie they're non-existent.


No, foreign teams will recruit foreign talent (already shown skill etc) from other smaller teams but its more likely considered "upgrade" for the player. Korean joining is not same thing.
Laneir
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1160 Posts
March 29 2012 01:56 GMT
#896
congrats to you sir well deservered
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MegaFonzie
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia1084 Posts
March 29 2012 01:57 GMT
#897
Massive pickup
@x5_MegaFonzie
silverstyle
Profile Joined May 2011
Singapore1108 Posts
March 29 2012 01:57 GMT
#898
Aw yes! I was initially quite bummed to know that Taeja left SlayerS cos I really liked both of them lol.. It's even better now that he's in liquid :D
Liquid`HerO!!!
wideye
Profile Joined June 2010
United States209 Posts
March 29 2012 01:58 GMT
#899
"my Korean teacher suggested I try out for the GSL preliminaries" good stuff. and my teacher told me to study hard....

GL taeja!
slim pickens
nemahsys
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada457 Posts
March 29 2012 02:02 GMT
#900
On March 29 2012 10:41 Kazeyonoma wrote:
wait, is it just me or is Taeja now on the top of the TLPD list on the right despite having nothing listed since february 29th? lol nice.



lol, good catch.
DJ Wheat, if you read this, plz get Lo3 back on itunes stat!
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