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Blizzard-KeSPA-OGN-GOM SC2 Announcement May 2nd - Page 19

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windsupernova
Profile Joined October 2010
Mexico5280 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 20:22:46
April 26 2012 20:21 GMT
#361
This feels like the partition of Poland.

Blizzard: Austria
Kespa:Russia
Gom: Prussia
BW: Poland

Feels bad man
"Its easy, just trust your CPU".-Boxer on being good at games
Promethelax
Profile Joined February 2012
Canada7089 Posts
April 26 2012 20:23 GMT
#362
Wow, this is some wild hype. Proleague!
TL Mafia. Love it. Play it. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=31 I find Kennigit really attractive. If anyone has a picture of him please feel free to PM it to me.
MCXD
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Australia2738 Posts
April 26 2012 20:28 GMT
#363
Every time I look at this thread, I feel even worse about it. Someone, be it Blizzard, Kespa, or even GOM, is going to seriously screw the existing scene over in the name of money and/or nationalistic arrogance.
HaruHaru
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States988 Posts
April 26 2012 20:29 GMT
#364
fuck this
Long live BroodWar!
jpak
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States5045 Posts
April 26 2012 20:29 GMT
#365
On April 27 2012 05:21 windsupernova wrote:
This feels like the partition of Poland.

Blizzard: Austria
Kespa:Russia
Gom: Prussia
BW: Poland

Feels bad man


So now I am polish?

At least our sausages are delicious
CJ Entusman #50! #1 클템 fan TL!
intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
April 26 2012 20:32 GMT
#366
Probably SC2 PL.
kiss kiss fall in love
OrD_SC2
Profile Joined February 2012
United States247 Posts
April 26 2012 20:40 GMT
#367
Announcements of announcements are becoming an esports art-form.
Baldie disapproved of my last status, TT
LazinCajun
Profile Joined July 2011
United States294 Posts
April 26 2012 20:41 GMT
#368
I'm announcing that I'm going to announce my opinion of this later in this post.

I hate these, and refuse to get excited about it.
Full.tilt
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United Kingdom1709 Posts
April 26 2012 20:43 GMT
#369
I hope Blizzard are ready to grab their ankles and do whatever it takes, otherwise it's just going to be LoL all the way
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
April 26 2012 20:50 GMT
#370
On April 27 2012 05:43 Full.tilt wrote:
I hope Blizzard are ready to grab their ankles and do whatever it takes, otherwise it's just going to be LoL all the way


I wouldn't like that so much
Sc is where it should be, blizzard needs to make sure LoL doesn't dominate as much as it does now
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
April 26 2012 20:54 GMT
#371
This could be huge.....
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others -Heart of Darkness
zEnVy
Profile Joined June 2011
United States446 Posts
April 26 2012 20:56 GMT
#372
Yo dawg, I heard you like announcements. So we made an announcement of a possible future announcement.

You're welcome.
nakedsurfer
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada500 Posts
April 26 2012 20:58 GMT
#373
This is the first of many steps Kespa will make in order for them to control sc2.
The time has come and now all there is to do is watch how their master plan unfolds
Muahahaha!!

Seriously though, this could end up being extremely good or not so good. All depends what happens I guess.
Root4Root
Captain Peabody
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3137 Posts
April 26 2012 21:09 GMT
#374
This could very well be the end of ESPORTS as we know it.

Or something like that. Anyway, this is big. I don't know what to think.
Dies Irae venit. youtube.com/SnobbinsFilms
Maker
Profile Joined November 2010
Mexico85 Posts
April 26 2012 21:11 GMT
#375
oh my god this is amazing news
www.teamtaeja.net
PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
April 26 2012 21:13 GMT
#376
On April 27 2012 06:09 Captain Peabody wrote:
This could very well be the end of ESPORTS as we know it.

Or something like that. Anyway, this is big. I don't know what to think.


Stephano//HerO//TaeJa//Squirtle//Bomber
hangene92
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Canada258 Posts
April 26 2012 21:20 GMT
#377
This is very good news, I wonder what they are talking about.
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one"
quen
Profile Joined March 2011
201 Posts
April 26 2012 21:22 GMT
#378
Holy shit!

Please be what we (I) want!
Apollo_Shards
Profile Joined February 2011
1210 Posts
April 26 2012 21:23 GMT
#379
On April 27 2012 05:16 jinorazi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2012 05:10 TestSubject893 wrote:
On April 27 2012 04:15 jinorazi wrote:
kespa never killed foreign scene and sc2's foreigner scene dying, when it does, will not be because of kespa. it was and will be because of lack of foreign skills. with the huge influx of top korean players coming into sc2, it does look even more grim for foreign scene. more korean domination than before. as people have said, only way foreigners can catch up or keep up is dedication and hard practice by the majority of foreign sc2 players. as competition becomes even more difficult, i can't help but think foreigners will move on with their life without starcraft. and the stigma of "lol you want to become a progamer? good luck, might as well just give up now" will be strong in the foreign scene.

when sc2 started, there was no fierce competition, there was no need for drafts, entry tournaments like courage, no need for progamer license because there simply wasn't enough demand(players) and there was no lack of supply(tournament). but as the scene grows, there will be shit load of new talents wanting to be progamers, just like how bw scene became and there will be no choice but to have arduous paths to be a progamer, just like any other professional sports.


On what grounds are you claiming that the foreign Starcraft II scene is dying? MLG is getting ridiculously large investments, and even leagues like NASL, that seemed to be on the lower end of quality when they started are having no trouble finding more than enough sponsors to operate.


similar to bw? giyom, elky, smuft, idra, and others which i cannot name cus i cant remember, they all came and gone and later only koreans were left in the scene....and slowly bw scene died outside of korea, perhaps even before that...there wasn't one to begine with imo. (only mania level, like tl.net pre-sc2)
korean domination seems inevitable in sc2 (korean domination is going now, it'll get worse with top talents from bw join in) and people might move on to different games. i'm talking far future, not right now. i'm saying sc2 will probably die outside of korea first IF foreigners can't compete/keep up.



Thank you for posting doomsday prophecies on every thread you can find.
Jaedong, sOs, avilo, MaSa, Oprah
Proseat
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Germany5113 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 21:32:37
April 26 2012 21:27 GMT
#380
While I'm anxious this may spell the end for the foreigner-friendly GOM-style SC2 scene as we know it, I'm holding out for good news to come from this. Proleague is a KeSPa product that was previously broadcast both on OGN and MBC. With MBC gone, I could see GOM coming in now to fill the former MBC spot.

So they will broadcast the new SC2-headed Proleague together with OGN, while each will retain their single-player formats (BW-OSL, SC2-GSL) for now. I could see OGN also switching OSL to SC2 in the future or coming up with a new SC2 league running BW-OSL in parallel. We shall see what will become of GSTL in light of the new Proleague. And then there are also the MLG bigshots in Korea right now... but are they really invited to the big table talks?

Wish there was also someone taking part representing the foreign community, like somebody from TL (someone mentioned Waxangel?). I guess you would also want someone to represent the Korean community then.
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