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On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name).
Those were the open season qualifiers. Since Code S was formed, no foreigner has ever made it through the Code A qualifiers.
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Afirmative action for the white guy. Not that I blame GSL, nowadays it seems like foreigners will only watch other foreigners.
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On December 29 2012 06:12 iamho wrote:
Afirmative action for the white guy. Not that I blame GSL, nowadays it seems like foreigners will only watch other foreigners.
gotta get those eyeballs. EG should just share some of their dirty money and get a EG-slot reserved.
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On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name).
TorcH
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On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all.
I dunno, the Kespa and ESF players know that thanks to their training they easily get a top 8 finish at every major white tournament, so that is a huge financial reward. If that means giving white people hope that they can compete in GSL then that seems like a small price to pay. Especially when they dont even have to give the best white guy the seat, just the most popular at the moment. (Remember when Idra got a Code S seat and lost every game in both Code S and A? Did anyone care? No, because they pulled in an extra 5-7k viewers)
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On December 29 2012 06:10 decado90 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name). Those were the open season qualifiers. Since Code S was formed, no foreigner has ever made it through the Code A qualifiers.
In the open seasons there were als ret, tlo, loner, sen making it through.
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On December 29 2012 06:31 MyFirstProbe wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 06:10 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name). Those were the open season qualifiers. Since Code S was formed, no foreigner has ever made it through the Code A qualifiers. In the open seasons there were als ret, tlo, loner, sen making it through.
The difficulty difference to qualify to code S during the open seasons and now is enormous
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Stephano in Code S? What a great way to start 2013!
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That Frenchman is gonna get murdered.
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Sweet. Too bad I can never see the games live because of work. 
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Nice! Hopefully rape jokes won't delay him any further!
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On December 29 2012 06:15 Dosey wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name). TorcH
ret and TLO also made it into the open seasons also through those qualifiers but it is true that no foreigner has made it through the qualifiers once Code A/S started. TLO, Deathangel, Huk, and Sase have all been close
I'm interested to see how Stephano will do in Code S finally. I'm worried about the posts that will come from it regardless of result
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2013 will defnetely be one interesting year! Good luck Stephano!
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On December 29 2012 06:31 MyFirstProbe wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 06:10 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name). Those were the open season qualifiers. Since Code S was formed, no foreigner has ever made it through the Code A qualifiers. In the open seasons there were als ret, tlo, loner, sen making it through.
Not sure about tlo or loner but didn't ret get like the first in the batch of seeds? Together with huk if i recall and a couple others.
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On December 29 2012 07:36 Assirra wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 06:31 MyFirstProbe wrote:On December 29 2012 06:10 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name). Those were the open season qualifiers. Since Code S was formed, no foreigner has ever made it through the Code A qualifiers. In the open seasons there were als ret, tlo, loner, sen making it through. Not sure about tlo or loner but didn't ret get like the first in the batch of seeds? Together with huk if i recall and a couple others.
He's talking about open seasons.
ret played in open season 3 and 2-0d Value aka Cyrano in round 1 before losing to TheBest in round 2
TLO actually beat Losira 2-0 in Open Season 1 in the tournament and also qualified for open season 2 losing to Sangho in round 1
all the players he named did make it into at least 1 open season
Ret also earned his Code A spot through tiebreakers for code a from open season performance. He wasn't a seed in the same sense as the other players that got put in code a that season. he earned his spot from the opens
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can't wait til he gets knocked out first round.
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Stephano is the only foreigner that has Code S seed worthy pedigree.
He should make a serious run. I haven't been so excited to see a foreigner play in a very long time.
I hope EG-TL lets him take GSL more seriously than Proleague.
Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they used him every game.
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On December 29 2012 06:10 decado90 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 05:51 blade55555 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:48 decado90 wrote:On December 29 2012 05:41 jdobrev wrote:On December 29 2012 05:38 Wingblade wrote:
Prediction: just to troll both haters who think hell flop in ro32, and fanboys who say he wins it all, Stephano finishes 2nd in both group stages then loses pretty handily in ro8. Just enough to say he is Code S caliber, but not enough to go crazy about how great, or how overrated he might be. This would be a great achievement considering how hard next Code S is going to be. Yep, hardest Code S in the history of the league, and it keeps getting harder each subsequent season, but Gom decides to ruin it with a welfare foreign seeds. I guess none of the ESF and Kespa players training 12+ hours a day and fighting through the qualifiers deserve the spot. Apparently sifting through gutter at foreign tournaments makes you more deserving than making it through the hardest qualifiers on the planet that no foreigner has EVER made it through. Hopefully all foreigners are knocked to Code B next season, and this farce can be over once and for all. Hey there were I believe 4 foreigners who made it through the qualifiers for GSL. Idra (season 1, 2 and 3) and I believe Jinro (season 3), Artosis (season 1 iirc), redhaired terran (can't remember his name). Those were the open season qualifiers. Since Code S was formed, no foreigner has ever made it through the Code A qualifiers.
Or, to phrase it differently, "Very few foreigners live in Korea to even play for the Code A qualifiers".
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Interesting, best of luck to Stephano! 
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On December 29 2012 07:53 Cattlecruiser wrote:
Stephano is the only foreigner that has Code S seed worthy pedigree.
He should make a serious run. I haven't been so excited to see a foreigner play in a very long time.
I hope EG-TL lets him take GSL more seriously than Proleague.
Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they used him every game.
SPL is only 2 games a week per players, he could do both and EG-TL won't need him all the time either.
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