Didn't see topic for this yet. Khaldor tweeted about a documentary, about Korean teamhouses in Korea, called "Inside Look at Korean Starcraft II Proteams." It was released on Startale's Youtube, that can be found here.
Khaldor seems to be in a big role in Part 1 at least, where he is touring the LG-IM team house etc. Lots of interviews of different players and managers. Such as Parting, Nestea, Seed, Kang Dong-Hoon (Manager of LG-IM) and others.
If someone has more info about the whole documentary, who made it exactly and so on, feel free to let me know and i will edit the OP if necessary. After watching the first part, whole documentary seems very well done. Lots of insight and interviews.
Oh yeah good that someone posted these here as well. Only thing I don't like about the documentary is the constant weird technodancehousemusic whatever playing in the background. No background music during interviews please, otherwise stellar stuff.
Awesome, I was always interested in watching Artosis' tours but they didn't really give any other information. I can't to watch the interviews. Thanks for posting this!
Cool documentary, but it really didn't cover much. It just interviewed players (mainly from the ST house) about their thoughts on how the pro houses work.
Nothing informative, but fun to watch nonetheless.
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners.
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners!
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners!!
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners!!
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners!!!
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners.
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners..
This guy keeps spamming even after a warning, I can imagine ban incoming?
Anyway, saw it and I really liked it. Also as the startale coach points out, it's really not interesting that the bracket is sometimes filled with Koreans, it's not super great for the scene.
This video made me really thankfull to Artosis again for Touring all this houses before. I still hope we will get a tour of the EG-TL house with some interviews etc.
On January 13 2013 08:48 Zenbrez wrote: Man.. they're very elitist towards foreigners. I totally understand, but holy hell, it's almost offensive. Very nice videos, I enjoyed them, thanks!
Its the right attitude. They practice harder and takes SC2 way more seriously so why should they lose? Foreigners should respond by saying "Im going to practice harder than ever because you are on my turf now and you are not taking my money!" but instead they just roll over and die.
Nice documentary. While the goal of the documentary, finding out why Koreans are 'the best' seems a little funny, it feels like the true meaning was to get to know the teams a bit better. Which they achieved! Frankly I have not really given a crap about NesTea before as I started getting interested in SC2 around mars 2012, but just getting to know them a tiny bit more personally does make a lot of these players so much more interesting.
I would love it if more teams did things like this. Thanks to those who participated and got it going!
Also <3 Khaldor aka "He's gonna have to be reeeeeaally careful here!"
this is a great documentary and I start to love the Korean teams more and more. Most western teams just seem like a bunch of people working for the same company but never actually talking to each other other than hi and bye :D
Interesting video for sure. Reminds me a bit of Artosis' tours of the pro teamhouses. Too bad he doesn't do them anymore. And it's always interesting to see documentaries like these, it's fascinating to see how people live their lives so radically different.
It'd be cool to look into the other teams like the ones without sponsors too :D! No surprise they play with pride when overseas/against foreigners these guys are insane players!!
On January 13 2013 08:16 Flamehaze wrote: "There where days I did nothing but practice on 5 hours sleep". Thats the diffrence beetwen koreans and foreigners!!
Oh yah and nestea said he has gone 24 hours
And that there is the answer to where Nestea went to when he went off the SC2 grid for a week. Korean loses to foreigners, Goes into isolation with almost no sleep and come back smashing nerds. And PartinG being a boss as always and also plugging redbull really well :D
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.
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.
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^^
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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