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Four Koreans qualify from WCS AM Prelim Day 1 - Page 2
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Diaresta
United States597 Posts
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BeyondCtrL
Sweden642 Posts
On April 21 2013 13:24 goswser wrote: People quickly forget that the majority of NA players capable of beating koreans were invited to the premier league, NA players aren't as bad as this may indicate. Shhhh.. we like sensationalism... | ||
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StimiLant
United States534 Posts
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CosmicHippo
United States547 Posts
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
On April 21 2013 13:38 tozi wrote: basically Catz was right in the state of the game episode. Koreans dominate the "american" tournament leaving little to no chance for americans... You needed Catz to tell you that the Koreans are going to take majority (if not all) of the 8 spots? Of course the foreigners have little or no chance. | ||
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ElBlanco
Australia140 Posts
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ETisME
12885 Posts
StC is looking so good right now | ||
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Larkin
United Kingdom7161 Posts
Maybe a system like the Champions' League would be better, with seed points for regions/countries based on international tournament performance, where the higher points = higher number of qualification spots open for WCS. Or just something that would ensure a 512 person bracket in Korea for 8 spots (though really it should be 24 with no invites) would be one where everyone fights their hardest for the best prize. | ||
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Noobity
United States871 Posts
On April 21 2013 13:40 Bagration wrote: Well I guess I can understand where you are coming from somewhat, but it's not like the Koreans are mindless robots with no personality. To the contrary, many of them have very unique and interesting personalities, and many of them do put on a good show (not just play, but also showmanship). Anyways, here's to a great showing by Axiom, and hopefully Heart and Miya can rally in the LB tomorrow. I don't think you're trying to paint me in a negative light, but to defend my point I agree, there are plenty of koreans with a ton of personality. In fact I'd argue that all of them are interesting in some way. But we should be seeing players like QXC, Nony, and Fitzy representing North America rather than STC Miya and Crank. I don't think many would argue that the latter are currently... Better I guess, but I want to cheer on the hometown heroes. Yeah, so maybe the gameplay elitists wouldn't want to watch WCS NA at that point, but why should we be stuck watching our foreign hopes in streamed online team league cups where in order to stay competitive they have to recruit Korean players anyway? I love Korean tournaments, but I would love to have a single North American tournament with MLG production levels that features only North American players even once a year. I don't really think that's too much to ask. | ||
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Valon
United States329 Posts
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[OGN]Remmy
United States1206 Posts
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Lysanias
Netherlands8351 Posts
Anyway no real suprise with a better connection between NA and KR then EU and KR that koreans simply dominate, just hoping 1 or 2 actual NA players make it out would be a sensation. | ||
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ScoutWBF
Germany641 Posts
On April 21 2013 14:00 Larkin wrote: Bear in mind this is the first try at this system, hopefully Blizzard will respond to the feedback about, well, no Americans in the WCS North America, and introduce better region locking for next WCS. I mean, I get that competition is super high in Korea, but if they want WCS to be the most prestigious tournament they can't let this shit happen. Is this a joke? Currently 9 Koreans are in the premier devision, with 4 spots still open. This means max. 13 Koreans will be in the WCS NA Premier Devision. If the American players that did not get an invitation are too bad to qualify, where is the problem? In the end you got max. 13 Koreans that just wait to be defeated by glorious North American players. :> | ||
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BronzeKnee
United States5226 Posts
On April 21 2013 13:00 monk wrote: Day one of the qualifiers for WCS AM ended early tonight and four Koreans swept the first four spots. Unlike the EU qualifiers, Koreans showed dominance in the American qualifiers with only two upsets by foreigners in the whole tournament. NrGquasAr was able to knock down  Jaedong to the losers bracket with a 2-0 score. Meanwhile, FXOMoosegills took down  Center as well.Catz defeated Hwangsin, so there was 3 upsets at least. I didn't actually check the whole bracket, could be more. | ||
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AgentW
United States7725 Posts
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1cs075/with_hendralisk_losing_to_fruitsbasket_there_are/ | ||
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NrG.NeverExpo
Canada2114 Posts
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starslayer
United States696 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On April 21 2013 14:13 starslayer wrote: holy crap a low bracket with demu, qxc, jd and center T.t and only one can get through damn that sucks i like all these players Probably going to be some EG teamkilling going on there | ||
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VB_WhiplashJC
Australia64 Posts
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