I think this gives a pretty good insight on the situation. Even when they're not playing, they're talking about the game. I wonder how they can get sleep like that :D I would be devising strategies in my sleep all the time.

Nisyax

Netherlands756 Posts

January 13 2013 11:34 GMT

#62

Cool, waiting for part 2

Also a sudden craving for energy drinks.

crashonly

Finland418 Posts

January 13 2013 12:02 GMT

#63

I can't watch this.. Is it only me that really fucking hates that style of program making? It's like one of those reality TV shows, America's top model or something. That's exactly the show that popped to my mind at 1:20 when Khaldor goes "Hey, everyone!" and that god-awful dance track starts playing >.< I did like most of the music though, at least up to 5 minutes when I stopped watching.

The interviews cut to a different perspective every 3 seconds and a different interviewee every 10 seconds. If it's not a different view of the person, we get even faster snapshots of some loosely related trophies and competition photos. That's my biggest gripe with this show I think, I can't concentrate on reading the translated text when the background switches color every so-and-so many seconds. And just concentrating on the topic and what's being said is difficult in general with that going on. Feels to me like they had too much material and too little space to jam it in, or maybe they just assume we're all high on energy drinks anyway so we won't care.

IRL_Sinister

Ireland621 Posts

January 13 2013 12:27 GMT

#64

PartinG: We're like a family here. Liked that bit!

cutler

Germany609 Posts

January 13 2013 12:32 GMT

#65

This is why i love korean Starcraft...not the EU usual answer..."i barely practise 2-3hours a month"...

Pyloss

Germany1515 Posts

January 13 2013 12:56 GMT

#66

I've watched it already, and i really like it. The Gaming rooms looked really cool, and especially at Startale, you can see that they are really like a family.
#And nice to see Khaldor involved^^

mikkmagro

Malta1513 Posts

January 13 2013 13:31 GMT

#67

by the way, is the 'House of Awesome' still up and running in Korea? Since the Liquid players living there retired, and HuK can now live in the EG house in Korea, I doubt it would be just SuperNova living there on his own :E

Olli

Austria24417 Posts

January 13 2013 13:36 GMT

#68

On January 13 2013 22:31 mikkmagro wrote:
by the way, is the 'House of Awesome' still up and running in Korea? Since the Liquid players living there retired, and HuK can now live in the EG house in Korea, I doubt it would be just SuperNova living there on his own :E

It'd be Huk, HerO and Supernova living there but HerO and HuK are living in the EG house right now. So not sure what happened to it. Maybe Supernova is just having the time of his life right now, throwing parties every day.

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

January 13 2013 13:53 GMT

#69

Finally had the time to watch all 3 parts, very worth it and this provided a lot of information about korean team houses.
I hope more of this kind of stuff is done in the future!

NotoriousBig

Germany301 Posts

January 13 2013 13:56 GMT

#70

this is really good, i watched the whole thing and normally i never watch stuuf like this completely, shows sooo good why koreans are so good compared to foreigners, or better why foreigners are so shitty compared to koreans.

digmouse

China6329 Posts

January 13 2013 14:15 GMT

#71

I remember Artosis did something similiar 1 year ago or also, interesting to see how thing went through after all that.

Apolo

Portugal1259 Posts

January 13 2013 14:29 GMT

#72

I always wanted to see one of these, thanks !

dubRa

2165 Posts

January 13 2013 14:45 GMT

#73

It was great. Thanks.

WerderBremen

Germany1070 Posts

January 13 2013 15:34 GMT

#74

Just finished watching, it was a great pleasure to watch. IMO its absolutely awesome.

Chrono000

Korea (South)358 Posts

January 13 2013 17:25 GMT

#75

Wow this was a great source of information!!

Genie1

Canada333 Posts

January 13 2013 22:16 GMT

#76

After watching those videos I would have to say there is a huge difference in why they are so skilled at the game Starcraft 2. It's because they put time and effort towards something they love to do. Even some of them had to convince there parents that it is worth it and they did show it was worth it.

It is a very good point on why they have team houses and why they are so good because of the practice environment they have set themselves up in while others outside of South Korea mostly still just practice from home and don't get very far and do fall off after awhile once they hit there prime because they don't have constant advice at there side and have to review replays on there own and have to see if they can spot there mistakes and correct them.

I believe if foreigners plan to win more is that they set themselves up like the Koreans have and they will be more successful in the game Starcraft 2 otherwise if they continue down the path of not having a team house which has been proven to be a very good way of improving yourself for Starcraft 2. Yes times will be hard with money and will accumulate debt but that's the cost of trying to be successful in E-Sports and securing yourself a sponsor that will make it easier to rise to the top.

movac

Canada494 Posts

January 16 2013 05:47 GMT

#77

Did anyone else notice that when LG-IM coach was being interviewed, there's a trophy in the background that looks like the MLG Providence 2011 trophy. As far as I know that was the only MLG there they made a trophy that looks like that and Leenock was the one that won it. You can see the trophy I'm talking about at the 5:36 mark. Did another tournament make an identical looking trophy?

BigKahunaBurger

Australia334 Posts

January 20 2013 01:25 GMT

#78

Coach Kang has the pimpest fucking earring.

Great to see they're transparent with the money situation in these teams, with almost all sponsorship dollars said to be going to the players.

Imagine if failed teams like ApeX and mTw had that. IMAGINE.

warshop

Canada490 Posts

January 20 2013 01:32 GMT

#79

The automatic captions are actually quite funny:

"and then suddenly you're in the event the studio and you see them in prison"