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theMiNUS
Profile Joined January 2011
United States333 Posts
November 06 2012 17:35 GMT
#1041
On November 06 2012 20:06 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2012 17:23 zefreak wrote:
On November 06 2012 17:00 DeCoder wrote:
A top player in any other sport would make 4k a minute. And what comes to esports, if he was a LoL player that figure would be at least ten-fold.


Are you kidding? Where are you getting this information from? It's my understanding that LoL players get even less than many SC2 players, (not counting the exceptions that win a big tournament).

This MLG had a 20,000 first place prize for their LoL tourney, and thats split among a whole team.


A lot of people seem not to take into the account that a team winning 100,000 is actually a team winning 20,000 each where in SC2 when you win, it's up to the contract ot mandate but usually, for non-koreans, it's fully prize money

So a 100,000 tournament for SC2 vs a 500,000 tournament for LoL is relatively the same when distributing the prize across 5 players.


and some teams have more than 5 players, you can't ignore your backups!
not idly do the leaves of lorien fall...
raga4ka
Profile Joined February 2008
Bulgaria5679 Posts
November 06 2012 20:01 GMT
#1042
I couldn't care less for any of this puny tournaments . When the hell will Proleague and the next OSL start , does anyone know ?
zefreak
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States2731 Posts
November 06 2012 21:16 GMT
#1043
On November 06 2012 22:13 DeCoder wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2012 17:23 zefreak wrote:
On November 06 2012 17:00 DeCoder wrote:
A top player in any other sport would make 4k a minute. And what comes to esports, if he was a LoL player that figure would be at least ten-fold.


Are you kidding? Where are you getting this information from? It's my understanding that LoL players get even less than many SC2 players, (not counting the exceptions that win a big tournament).

This MLG had a 20,000 first place prize for their LoL tourney, and thats split among a whole team.


http://bigfootnetworks.com/fragmore/2011/11/22/riot-games-announce-2-million-league-of-legends-season-2-world-championship-new-competitive-site/


What's better for the scene/your average player, a single, massive and top-heavy prize pool or several smaller prize pools with more equal distribution? Here's a hint: most poker professionals don't make their living playing the WSOP main event.
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Salient
Profile Joined August 2011
United States876 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-22 15:14:36
November 22 2012 15:02 GMT
#1044
So much for that. Rain failed to get a top placement at MLG, and now he has fallen to Code B by losing to an unknown Terran. At least he can still play in the next OSL . . .
Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
November 22 2012 23:19 GMT
#1045
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Iodem
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1173 Posts
November 22 2012 23:27 GMT
#1046
On November 23 2012 00:02 Salient wrote:
So much for that. Rain failed to get a top placement at MLG, and now he has fallen to Code B by losing to an unknown Terran. At least he can still play in the next OSL . . .


Sorry to put on my tinfoil hat, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made him throw his games... He played like complete horseshit. Dream did play very well though. Maybe it was just an offday for Rain.

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ShurykaN
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States338 Posts
November 22 2012 23:32 GMT
#1047
How would Rain or kespa or skt1 benefit at all from throwing his matches. Take off your tinfoil hat!
stangstang
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada281 Posts
November 22 2012 23:34 GMT
#1048
Either way, the decision to forfeit code S is looking really bad right now. Now he will have to wait for a long time just to be able to qualify for code A
neoghaleon55
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7435 Posts
November 22 2012 23:38 GMT
#1049
lmao
karma

moo...for DRG
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
November 22 2012 23:44 GMT
#1050
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B

User was warned for too many mimes.
Wingblade
Profile Joined April 2012
United States1806 Posts
November 22 2012 23:46 GMT
#1051
Yea it doesn't make sense for Kespa to make him forfeit if Another Kespa player will just make round of 4.
PartinG fanboy to the max, Rain/Squirtle/Dear/Scarlett/Bbyong are cool too. I don't always watch Dota2 but when I do I have no clue what's going on. GOGO POWER RANGERS
achan1058
Profile Joined February 2012
1091 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-22 23:48:00
November 22 2012 23:47 GMT
#1052
On November 23 2012 08:27 Iodem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 00:02 Salient wrote:
So much for that. Rain failed to get a top placement at MLG, and now he has fallen to Code B by losing to an unknown Terran. At least he can still play in the next OSL . . .


Sorry to put on my tinfoil hat, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made him throw his games... He played like complete horseshit. Dream did play very well though. Maybe it was just an offday for Rain.

Maybe, if he won MLG and WCS. Given by his status currently though (good, but not good enough to say GSL needs him), I would say it's probably an off day. Or who knows, Creator stole his soul.
Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
November 22 2012 23:48 GMT
#1053
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Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
November 22 2012 23:48 GMT
#1054
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Incanus
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada695 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-25 11:36:39
November 23 2012 00:09 GMT
#1055
On November 23 2012 08:44 docvoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B


MLG Dallas was the most premier and hardest tournament to date (missing only maybe MVP, but he's not in optimal condition right now) and Rain finished JUST before the final 4. That is by no means a failure.

Edit: lol @ the responses to this post... Code A was harder than MLG Dallas? There were fewer top GSL players at MLG than... GSL? ...ok...
Flash: "Why am I so good?" *sob sob*
13JackaL
Profile Joined March 2011
United States577 Posts
November 23 2012 00:19 GMT
#1056
On November 23 2012 09:09 Incanus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 08:44 docvoc wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B


MLG Dallas was the most premier and hardest tournament to date (missing only maybe MVP, but he's not in optimal condition right now) and Rain finished JUST before the final 4. That is by no means a failure.


If he just stayed in Code S rather than take a gamble (silly one at that), he would have a much greater chance of success.
and my axe
Confuse
Profile Joined October 2009
2238 Posts
November 23 2012 00:20 GMT
#1057
On November 23 2012 08:27 Iodem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 00:02 Salient wrote:
So much for that. Rain failed to get a top placement at MLG, and now he has fallen to Code B by losing to an unknown Terran. At least he can still play in the next OSL . . .


Sorry to put on my tinfoil hat, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made him throw his games... He played like complete horseshit. Dream did play very well though. Maybe it was just an offday for Rain.


What reason would a player throw a ro48 match? sounds pretty silly to me
If we fear what we do not understand, then why is ignorance bliss?
S_SienZ
Profile Joined September 2011
1878 Posts
November 23 2012 00:21 GMT
#1058
1st ever champion to SAB?
Goldfish
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-23 00:28:15
November 23 2012 00:25 GMT
#1059
On November 23 2012 08:48 monkybone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 08:44 docvoc wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B



It's not funny though, it's really sad for rain. He has such potential, and gets thrown into the political games like this.


Yeah, it's the MLG-KeSPA partnership. It's literally ruining eSports! But seriously, I remember reading the interview with the MLG guys after the KeSPA partnership... There was nothing but aggression towards GSL/GOM in that interview.

They used the "they didn't give Naniwa Code S" as the excuse but it wasn't GOM's fault that happened. It was the internet. I remember a lot of people (specifically Korean netizens) were outraged at what happened with Naniwa, they basically forced GOM (at least PR wise) to not give Naniwa his Code S seed.

Anyway, as for why that matters - Obviously MLG wants an incentive for players to play in their tournament as opposed to others. GOM giving a Code S seed was one of those benefits. With Naniwa though, the benefit was taken, so in a way it's sort of GOM going back on their deal.

But that's a silly reason because:

1. Everyone knew that Naniwa lost Code S seed because of the probe rush. Obviously, if GOM offered Code S seeds for MLG in the future, they'll get it... as long as they don't probe rush in a serious tournament.

2. GOM has fulfilled their Code S promise prior to the Naniwa incident.

3. Again, the netizens basically forced (PR wise) GOM to punish Naniwa. Taking his Code S seed was one of the punishments.

tl;dr - It's not Rain's fault. KeSPA and MLG are trying to hog all their players when it would be a benefit for everyone if they (KeSPA players) participated in as much tournaments as possible.

Honestly, GSL is already one of the top tournaments. OSL was a big thing in BW but not in SC2. If it weren't for Rain (and other KeSPA players) being hyped in the GSL, I probably wouldn't care for the OSL or the KeSPA players that much.

On November 23 2012 09:19 13JackaL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 09:09 Incanus wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:44 docvoc wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B


MLG Dallas was the most premier and hardest tournament to date (missing only maybe MVP, but he's not in optimal condition right now) and Rain finished JUST before the final 4. That is by no means a failure.


If he just stayed in Code S rather than take a gamble (silly one at that), he would have a much greater chance of success.


Agreed. Though, I actually wonder if they could have really told GOM in advance and if Rain had the ability to play both in MLG and GSL.

The problem was that they told GOM like 2-3 days before the event. If they told GOM earlier, then there might have been a higher chance for Rain to play in both tournaments.

At least they're allowing Bogus/Innovation to own it up in the GSL... for now...
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necrosexy
Profile Joined March 2011
451 Posts
November 23 2012 00:39 GMT
#1060
On November 23 2012 09:25 Goldfish wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 08:48 monkybone wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:44 docvoc wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B



It's not funny though, it's really sad for rain. He has such potential, and gets thrown into the political games like this.


Yeah, it's the MLG-KeSPA partnership. It's literally ruining eSports! But seriously, I remember reading the interview with the MLG guys after the KeSPA partnership... There was nothing but aggression towards GSL/GOM in that interview.

They used the "they didn't give Naniwa Code S" as the excuse but it wasn't GOM's fault that happened. It was the internet. I remember a lot of people (specifically Korean netizens) were outraged at what happened with Naniwa, they basically forced GOM (at least PR wise) to not give Naniwa his Code S seed.

Anyway, as for why that matters - Obviously MLG wants an incentive for players to play in their tournament as opposed to others. GOM giving a Code S seed was one of those benefits. With Naniwa though, the benefit was taken, so in a way it's sort of GOM going back on their deal.

But that's a silly reason because:

1. Everyone knew that Naniwa lost Code S seed because of the probe rush. Obviously, if GOM offered Code S seeds for MLG in the future, they'll get it... as long as they don't probe rush in a serious tournament.

2. GOM has fulfilled their Code S promise prior to the Naniwa incident.

3. Again, the netizens basically forced (PR wise) GOM to punish Naniwa. Taking his Code S seed was one of the punishments.

tl;dr - It's not Rain's fault. KeSPA and MLG are trying to hog all their players when it would be a benefit for everyone if they (KeSPA players) participated in as much tournaments as possible.

Honestly, GSL is already one of the top tournaments. OSL was a big thing in BW but not in SC2. If it weren't for Rain (and other KeSPA players) being hyped in the GSL, I probably wouldn't care for the OSL or the KeSPA players that much.

Show nested quote +
On November 23 2012 09:19 13JackaL wrote:
On November 23 2012 09:09 Incanus wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:44 docvoc wrote:
On November 23 2012 08:38 neoghaleon55 wrote:
lmao
karma


Thats what I was thinking.
This is the rundown of what happened
  • *in a KeSPA backroom* let's have Rain go against those losers at MLG, he will no doubt win and also cause harm to the GOM franchise by not participating, thus showing that MLG is more important!
  • Gets his butt kicked at MLG way before the final 4

  • *in a KeSPA backroom* Drat! He will surely not lose to some no name terran and drop to code B!
  • Gets beaten by a terran and drops to code B


MLG Dallas was the most premier and hardest tournament to date (missing only maybe MVP, but he's not in optimal condition right now) and Rain finished JUST before the final 4. That is by no means a failure.


If he just stayed in Code S rather than take a gamble (silly one at that), he would have a much greater chance of success.


Agreed. Though, I actually wonder if they could have really told GOM in advance and if Rain had the ability to play both in MLG and GSL.

The problem was that they told GOM like 2-3 days before the event. If they told GOM earlier, then there might have been a higher chance for Rain to play in both tournaments.

At least they're allowing Bogus/Innovation to own it up in the GSL... for now...

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