If this is true, it's actually horrible. If this NA/EU thing will be played online up until the top16 or whatever, you'll get horrible games with random lags and stuff. Not to mention the whole point of last year's WCS is completely defeated.
Also, I'm really disappointed EG/TL are basically looking for a shortcut to success (again, if this is true). I understand it is in the best interest of the players and will bring more exposure to the sponsors etc., so I guess any other move would have been stupid. Still, many of these players couldn't make it in the GSL, so I guess this is their chance to "shine"... Anyway, this whole disaster is ultimately Blizzard's fault, so I guess teams/players have to make the best of it...
On April 10 2013 18:20 sc2superfan101 wrote: Oh noes!!!!! All the Koreans are gonna kick out the foreigners from the tournament that didn't exist before this!!!
Blizzard! How dare you infuse money into a scene and not hand it out to foreigners!?!
/sarcasm
AAAND you didnt get the memo why we are complaining. Get out.
On April 10 2013 18:19 AxionSteel wrote: I really hate this. Seems like Europe is weaker than NA now
Tournamentwise, europe has always been weaker than NA because all the top koreans went to MLG/IPL due to paid flights. It's just europeon players are better than NA players, but they always play in the easier tournaments due to the lack of top koreans at euro tourneys.
On April 10 2013 18:20 budar wrote: If this is true, it's actually horrible. If this NA/EU thing will be played online up until the top16 or whatever, you'll get horrible games with random lags and stuff. Not to mention the whole point of last year's WCS is completely defeated.
And cheating *coughcough* oooh wait, we are the gentlemen community arent we? No cheating! No cheating!
On April 10 2013 18:11 Kasaraki wrote: I don't mind, I prefer this to all-NA or EU tournaments, haha. And the WCS finals will be with more Koreans.
Honestly this news is pretty fucking disgusting. Once again the SC2 scene in North America will continue to stagnate rather than develop. So while its great to see your C league (Nestea excluded) StarCraft 2 pros who couldn't cut it in Korea come to play in the American championships, this really needs to be reserved for North and South American players. Blizzard you guys need to fix this system, its already an issue.
But we don't need to see Koreans who can't qualify in Korea come to America to steal something that isn't theirs.
I don't understand why MC, HyuN and TaeJa choose to move to NA or EU : they are ALREADY on code S (even though MC, lost yesterday and will have to come back).
Does that mean that HyuN or TaeJa will forfeit code S if they won their groups ?