[Show] Unfiltered w/ ChanmanV and Destiny - Page 25

On January 01 2014 00:52 McRatyn wrote:
Great show, did not watch everything but stumbled upon the WCS discussion and I gotta say I loved Thorin there. His points were spot on, especially about the "Korean who gives everything up to play". Kinda weird that noone seemed to get what he said, but the most ludacris thing was Destiny hopping onto him with 2GD, especially after how he got treated in SotG, painful to watch.

On January 01 2014 04:42 Comogury wrote:

That isn't really a fair point because of how esports is set up in SK. When they give up school and etc they have somewhere to go and develop as a player as long as they show some kind of promise. You don't get that kind of treatment as a foreigner. What a foreigner has to do is beg for practice partners, having to find housing, no reliable income, search for sponsors, and pay to go out to LANs. If they're lucky they already have a team doing some of these things for them. You already have to be really good and winning things in order to even consider dropping everything to become a pro gamer. Breaking out of the amateur scene is still hard in SK, but the transition is definitely much easier even if you stay a b teamer your whole career.

Thorin dramatized how screwed a Korean person is of he quits school and etc but I think that's pretty much wrong. Finding some kind of job in SK really doesn't seem all that difficult. Even if everything fails, becoming a leeching bum doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal.

On January 01 2014 07:01 phyren wrote:


esports starts earlier in SK though. Most of the progamers have dropped out of school in their teens. Sure they have these team houses to go to (if they are at least around the skill level of the top foreign pros already), but they have no education or life experience outside of gaming if their career doesn't pan out. In the west, most pros are either in school or have delayed/left universities.

On January 01 2014 07:21 ssxsilver wrote:


But there's no prerequisite that says you have to go all-in at a young age. Look at Polt, he's been on/off full-time progamming since WOL, still delaying his schooling, but no one's going to worry about his future once he's done with SC2.

You insinuate that SK teens drop out of school at an early age when objectively it's an idiotic decision. To that point (and the point 2GD brought up), why should the NA/EU scene shoulder the burden of SK programers making terrible decisions?