EPTKoreans want Foreigner to win - Page 7
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Gojira621
United States374 Posts
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TheHansBecker
United States117 Posts
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wwowz
Canada156 Posts
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gulati
United States2241 Posts
Shit, even Greg got support in Korea. I don't know if I'd go as far to say that he was told by pros to "win", but he was well-liked. I think the reason is that Koreans realize that having a foreign hope will drive competition more, and will make more tournaments, thus they will be invited to compete against the "best foreigners" more often. Seems like they are investing in the long term with this. And no, it's not meant to be sinister or evil - they genuinely like our passion and desire to succeed no matter what, which is why they always say that they love American / foreign crowds at tournaments because we cheer like apes. | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
It would put the game more on par with others such as in the Olympics (or other global competitions) where there's many different sorts of countries represented. This reason probably isn't one of the more major one though, since many of the ones mentioned fulfill more of a selfish view, and/or are have more force/realism. | ||
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Bagration
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Kambing
United States1176 Posts
On April 11 2012 08:33 wwowz wrote: I am an active user at playxp.com (korean SC community) and I can approve this message as well. Koreans do want foreingers to win. Sometimes they worry that too much korean dominance will ruin foreign E-sports community... That's why some of the fans are rooting for foreign players like stephano hardcore. This. Many hardcore foreign fans don't seem to understand that the long-term viability of sc2 rests on the foreign community's ability to produce players that can compete at the highest levels. Without that sort of sustainability, sc2 will fade away much like quake has over the last two years. | ||
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Fall.182
United States126 Posts
On April 10 2012 09:15 Mohdoo wrote: Too bad their players don't. Naniwa and others have commented on how Koreans all band together and share replays to beat foreigners like Naniwa and other top players who are actually on their level. But with all of their working together, they are able to always beat foreigners just due to the fact that their replays are shared by practice partners they trusted. okay.. thats some bullshit right there. Just because you have someones reply wont mean youll be able to outplay another. Plus watching us foreigners verses koreans shows clearly the difference in control which cant be just learned from watching replays, you're just being ignorant. | ||
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Netsky
Australia1155 Posts
SC2 isn't very popular in Korea. Maybe this will change a little with it starting on OGN etc. But that's all conjecture at this point. Foreigner money is propping up the scene at the moment, why do you think it is that GOM gives charity seeds to foreigners in the GSL? It's because they think this will help increase subscriptions if foreigners have someone to cheer for. For me personally, I don't care where the players are from. I just enjoy the actual game. All my favourite players are Korean because they are by far the most skilled. | ||
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Opeasy
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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
On April 10 2012 08:26 GoSuChicken wrote: I dont know if this is worth a thread, but I think its quite interesting, that some koreans want to see foreigners to win tournaments like IPL4 Source: http://www.twitch.tv/iplliveu/b/314371855 Starting @ ~38 min both aLive and Ganzi state that they want Stephano to win/do well because hes a foreigner and there are so many koreans in foreign tourneys, earlier in this vod MMA stated the same starting @~21 min. This is in my opinion very interesting since there is so much talking going on about how it sucks that foreigners arent able to compete with koreans. I see various reasons too why koreans now want foreigners to do well. One would obviously be that they're just being polite, since they're interviewed by foreigners. Another reason, and that is the interesting one for me, is that they realize that foreigners cheer more for foreign players, and that they might stop paying attention to tournaments if there are only korean players flying to for example MLG and taking top 30. What do you guys think, why do koreans want foreigners to do well? Did people think koreans band together to eliminate foreigners or something? EVERYONE wants players to win, it's just that foreigners aren't good enough to compete. The korean progamers aren't going to play less hard in the game just because they like white people winning. Their goal is to win too by any legal means possible. I played high school basketball, I knew people on teams we had to play against I wanted them to win but I still played my hardest to beat them. | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
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Assirra
Belgium4169 Posts
On April 11 2012 09:10 emc wrote: stephano does beat koreans, he's done it before maybe they weren't paying attention I think they want more then 1 person tough... | ||
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nokz88
Brazil1253 Posts
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-Exalt-
United States972 Posts
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Frogsox
Australia274 Posts
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BlazeFury01
United States1460 Posts
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Eee
Sweden2712 Posts
On April 11 2012 08:51 Fall.182 wrote: okay.. thats some bullshit right there. Just because you have someones reply wont mean youll be able to outplay another. Plus watching us foreigners verses koreans shows clearly the difference in control which cant be just learned from watching replays, you're just being ignorant. It couldn't have gotten more BS than your post actually. GSL is a league where prepared builds matter the most, if a replay of your build is leaked 2 days prior to the groups are supposed to play, you're essentially fucked since your opponent can prepare a counter build. | ||
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warblob004
United States198 Posts
Iccup = A+ - all Korean A - all Korean A- - one foreigner with like 400 games, rest Korean with like 70 games B+ - all korean B - couple foreigners etc etc etc.. | ||
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basballguy
United States35 Posts
I'm sure that's been beaten down plenty times already though.... nonetheless, it makes sense (what the koreans say) | ||
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