[Interview] 2012 GSL S3 CodeA R3 D1 - Page 8

On the weekend, you will be in Busan playing in the GSTL finals

I was hoping to do an all-kill as the starting player but MMA will have that honour (T/N: hmm... the name is definitely MMA). If I do get sent out, I will finish up nicely.

On July 24 2012 22:34 Coal wrote:
Also, Hearts comment on ''anything to add'' is f*cking hilarious :D I bet he forgot to buy her a present...

On July 24 2012 21:30 niteReloaded wrote:
I'm saddened by Nazgul's player picking policy.
A bunch of guys who combined alltogether have a 1% chance of one day winning Code S + Taeja (who will probably switch teams as he gets more successful, like it happened with HuK).

TL gets insane exposure, how is it possible that they have to settle for 3rd tier players, while rejecting a skillful Korean with an interesting personality like Genius?

With the amount of unique visitors every day, TL could have the most sponsor money of all teams, the best players, competing to win GSL and GSTL every season.
For example, out of the 3 best foreigners, Stephano, Naniwa and Thorzain, none of them are on TL.

Even if they say a player has to be especially mannered etc (which you could say eliminates Naniwa and maybe even Stephano), what's wrong with Thorzain?

On July 24 2012 19:01 opterown wrote:

but like, in liquid rising, they want players they can develop
genius is well developed and possibly has already peaked.

On July 24 2012 22:42 blamekilly wrote:



They picked Taeja from the SlayerS talent tree tree.... What development are you talking about? Family? Like Zenio and Tyler right?

The only person I can think of that got better under TL has been Hero and maybe Ret.

On July 24 2012 22:46 opterown wrote:

development as in, allowing them to shine. they discussed this in liquid rising :D

On July 24 2012 22:55 blamekilly wrote:



I just think people need to stop with the whole "he doesn't fit Liquid" crap. How similar were these tree pick ups, Hero, Zenio, Taeja??? They're not similar at all, they're completely different. Hero was b-teamer who had talent but no exposure. Liquid saw this and thought they could develop him. Zenio is a weird pick up. He's a guy that's not liked by many and he is low/mid level talent that already hit his ceiling. Taeja was raw top talent that was available at the right time. He was also already hugely popular within the SC2 community. I don't think Liquid has any real policy on player pick up, it's more like what they can afford and who is available at that time.

On July 24 2012 21:30 niteReloaded wrote:
I'm saddened by Nazgul's player picking policy.
A bunch of guys who combined alltogether have a 1% chance of one day winning Code S + Taeja (who will probably switch teams as he gets more successful, like it happened with HuK).

TL gets insane exposure, how is it possible that they have to settle for 3rd tier players, while rejecting a skillful Korean with an interesting personality like Genius?

With the amount of unique visitors every day, TL could have the most sponsor money of all teams, the best players, competing to win GSL and GSTL every season.
For example, out of the 3 best foreigners, Stephano, Naniwa and Thorzain, none of them are on TL.

Even if they say a player has to be especially mannered etc (which you could say eliminates Naniwa and maybe even Stephano), what's wrong with Thorzain?

On July 24 2012 22:55 canikizu wrote:

No.
Other teams, such as Mouz, EG, Empire,.... have diverse business. They have teams for other games too, such as CS, DotA, LoL,..v.v..v. their players across all the games all have pretty good and consistent results to back up face for sponsors. Tha makes them appeal so much better to sponsors, and people also visit their webpages for all the games they play, which make their unique visitors comparable to TL. TL isn't better than other teams in any way.

On July 24 2012 22:58 Incomplet wrote:
Now that genius has secured his code s spot, I have no doubt a foreign team will pick him up soon

On July 24 2012 23:15 MasterKang wrote:
MMA first in GSTL lineeup? WHATTT