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Bodzilla
Australia472 Posts
PiG is the Australian WCS champion and he got nothing, despite him being in tremendous form at the moment. At the ACL event in Brisbane (australias equivalent to MLG) he got 2nd place only loosing out to Kingkong (an ex-startale player currently studying in australia). hell a shitload of australian competitors didnt even get to compete because they where AT a national lan tournament on the day the signups where. | ||
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jalen
Australia222 Posts
On April 25 2013 10:27 Bodzilla wrote: Comm wasn't the only WCS champ to not get a seed. PiG is the Australian WCS champion and he got nothing, despite him being in tremendous form at the moment. At the ACL event in Brisbane (australias equivalent to MLG) he got 2nd place only loosing out to Kingkong (an ex-startale player currently studying in australia). hell a shitload of australian competitors didnt even get to compete because they where AT a national lan tournament on the day the signups where. Maybe MLG thought Moonglade was the Champion》 | ||
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Lysanias
Netherlands8351 Posts
Moonglade is more well known i supose to the outside world. More viewers that way. Also the reason we don't see an invite to the Chinese WCS champion. | ||
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Lambertus
South Africa976 Posts
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blacksheepwall
China1530 Posts
But the part about the societal attitude toward gaming seems quite different from what I've experienced. I agree that older people are still very anti-gaming, but the teenagers and university students are fucking crazy into this shit. Most universities here (similarly to Korea, I believe,) cut off electricity and certainly Internet at a certain time to prevent students from staying up all night gaming. Other than that, great write-up. | ||
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
On April 25 2013 22:09 blacksheepwall wrote: This is great, thanks. But the part about the societal attitude toward gaming seems quite different from what I've experienced. I agree that older people are still very anti-gaming, but the teenagers and university students are fucking crazy into this shit. Most universities here (similarly to Korea, I believe,) cut off electricity and certainly Internet at a certain time to prevent students from staying up all night gaming. Other than that, great write-up. What do you mean, that's exactly what I'm talking about, parents / schools / mainstream culture won't allow their children to game, because of this traditionally only people in their 20s and 30s who are capable of making their own life decisions go into professional gaming. The pressurized environment in China makes it so people get easily obsessed with hobbies or activities, it can be obsession with studying or work or gaming, the people who have the luxury to indulge in imported western life styles who party and buy expensive branded bull shit and fly everywhere in the world do that instead of gaming. I don't think I can remember many Chinese progamers who started their official career until they reached 19 or 20 years of age. A few years of age difference is huge in progaming circles. It's a pretty big deal that we have people like Jim who is only 17 right now playing for iG. | ||
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BreAKerTV
Taiwan1658 Posts
On April 25 2013 22:20 Caihead wrote: I don't think I can remember many Chinese progamers who started their official career until they reached 19 or 20 years of age. A few years of age difference is huge in progaming circles. It's a pretty big deal that we have people like Jim who is only 17 right now playing for iG. This. Jim hasn't been to Korea for training or to the GSL (to the best of my knowledge). He's GM top 10 or 20 on the Korean ladder last I heard. | ||
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H.R.Giger
China27 Posts
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Deleted User 183001
2939 Posts
On April 24 2013 07:34 OopsOopsBaby wrote: im convinced that there is a priority queue for known players or progamers from na, eu and kr but not sea and cn. You said priority queue and the first thing that came to mind was the data structure implementation and what data to use to numerically determine priority. This is what happens when professional computer nerds sleep for 2 hours. | ||
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Copymizer
Denmark2087 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
On April 25 2013 14:04 Lysanias wrote: Moonglade is more well known i supose to the outside world. More viewers that way. Also the reason we don't see an invite to the Chinese WCS champion. I'll agree Moonglade is well known, however your mini argument is that they'll get more viewers having Moonglade than the Chinese players? I think that's the most incorrect statement of the hour. Obviously if you bring the Chinese players in you'll have hundreds more viewers at the very least than if you have Moonglade. Probably thousands more. | ||
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AIOL!
France962 Posts
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paddyz
Ireland628 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
On April 29 2013 06:10 Ichabod wrote: Thanks for the article, Cai. It helps shed light on this unfortunate scenario. Your welcome  | ||
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IMMoonLight
Korea (South)332 Posts
On April 25 2013 23:50 Enders116 wrote: This. Jim hasn't been to Korea for training or to the GSL (to the best of my knowledge). He's GM top 10 or 20 on the Korean ladder last I heard. Jim, a top 20 grandmaster on Korean Ladder, is a coming monster and so young ( born in 1995) .He got 4 kill when IG agains Teamliquid. A new champion for China G league 2013 ... It seems he is the Chinese "ST.LIFE". I am so sorry for the new coming monster didn't get the chance to show his talent. | ||
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
On April 30 2013 11:05 IMMoonLight wrote: Jim, a top 20 grandmaster on Korean Ladder, is a coming monster and so young ( born in 1995) .He got 4 kill when IG agains Teamliquid. A new champion for China G league 2013 ... It seems he is the Chinese "ST.LIFE". I am so sorry for the new coming monster didn't get the chance to show his talent. This. MLG/Blizzard's response to these huge MLG failures is basically "well, things will get set right eventually, so let's not think of it as a big deal" They don't seem to realize that every year is different. People dominate and base their careers depending on their performances during particular time periods. This is THE time that Jim would be dominating the world. These are careers that would be made and set in stone that are being trashed due to MLG's mistakes. I'm not going to throw too much at MLG about Jim in particular, but as an example, this situation is much more crucial than it's made out to be by the administrations in charge. Imagine if Mvp hadn't been allowed to show anyone his skill during the year he basically won everything.... Imagine if Life hadn't been allowed to show anyone his skill last year when he basically won everything.... They would be thought of as much weaker players in general since they are still good players but not winning literally everything. Thus they wouldn't have the career they have now. | ||
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kingofdark
China3 Posts
IG Macsed IG xigua IG tea IG xluos IG xy IG Jim We Loner We Lovecd Zoo LoveTT(also manager) Zoo loup Zoo courage Zoo how Zoo smileboy VG comm VG ash VG infi VG F91 no team Toodming yhy uhen | ||
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
On April 30 2013 14:24 kingofdark wrote: now Chinese player and team IG Macsed IG xigua IG tea IG xluos IG xy IG Jim We Loner We Lovecd Zoo LoveTT(also manager) Zoo loup Zoo courage Zoo how Zoo smileboy VG comm VG ash VG infi VG F91 no team Toodming yhy uhen It's been so long I forgot what uhen's old WC3 name used to be... Good to see Infi is still playing though. | ||
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