EPTWhat's in the future for EG? - Page 21
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Mohdoo
United States15387 Posts
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Yonnua
United Kingdom2331 Posts
On May 19 2013 11:12 govie wrote: Well... if i would pick based on there businessmodel and agilugac top100 ranking it would be : 1 Zerg Foreign instead of idra --> Sen, Snute, Scarlet 1 Protos/Zerg Foreign instead of Stephano --> Welmu, Nerchio, TLO 1 Zerg Korean instead of JD --> Choose your pick  There gonna buy TLO and snute from teamliquid?!?!? :shocker: Korean zerg = Zenio??? Maybe they'll buy the entire Team Liquid roster and call it EG-TL! They could even enter proleague with that lineup! | ||
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Azera
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Polygamy
Austria1114 Posts
On May 16 2013 13:11 ThomasR wrote: i'd vomit if Life joined eg Life is not on enough of a downword spiral to join EG, he is not retirement home worthy yet. Sorry the truth hurts. | ||
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SoniC_eu
Denmark1008 Posts
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razorblade79
Germany79 Posts
Also, after a long marketing campaign they'll announce they now have MC on roster. | ||
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Taters_
Finland123 Posts
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Reivax
Sweden214 Posts
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Jealous
10095 Posts
On May 16 2013 13:12 aYtDuSteR wrote: My only fear is that eg will move away from sc2 foreign scene leaving all the sc2 money in proleague koreans. That would be optimal considering proleague Koreans are the best players. A meritocracy is logical for competitive games/sports. | ||
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govie
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a3den
704 Posts
Some possible choices : Inno, some Prime terrans (MarineKing would be good PR, but Maru a better pick in terms of potential), dear, trap, jaehoon, ty, cure... But we don't even know if they want to carry on in SPL. | ||
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
On May 19 2013 14:42 Yonnua wrote: Korean zerg = Zenio??? Maybe they'll buy the entire Team Liquid roster and call it EG-TL! They could even enter proleague with that lineup! I have the feeling they wouldn't do too well if they did that  | ||
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Zealos
United Kingdom3571 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On May 20 2013 23:24 a3den wrote: It all depends on what will happen with some financially weak teams in August/September. If they're smart, they'll keep coach Park and let him pick which players they can get in Prime/NSH/8th/STX. Park will make the difference when recruiting, just because of his reputation, as EG money will not suffice. Some possible choices : Inno, some Prime terrans (MarineKing would be good PR, but Maru a better pick in terms of potential), dear, trap, jaehoon, ty, cure... But we don't even know if they want to carry on in SPL. I would assume the want to stay in SPL. I mean both historically and even now that league is SUCH a big deal because it means that you have a chance to get games in on the best of the best as well as just allow your players to build a name for themselves. Although I like the esf I think in the long run kespa is going to win out with the large title sponsors on most of those teams. I think that the smart strategy is to stay with kespa because is going to be the most relevant korean team league and organization in SC2 for a while. | ||
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Ollix
United States18 Posts
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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
On May 21 2013 00:47 packrat386 wrote: I would assume the want to stay in SPL. I mean both historically and even now that league is SUCH a big deal because it means that you have a chance to get games in on the best of the best as well as just allow your players to build a name for themselves. Although I like the esf I think in the long run kespa is going to win out with the large title sponsors on most of those teams. I think that the smart strategy is to stay with kespa because is going to be the most relevant korean team league and organization in SC2 for a while. I think WCS is a bigger concern than SPL in the community, especially the western community to whom EG report. Proleague gets 10-15k viewers on Twitch, WCS EU got 60k on Friday. I saw somewhere that Alex Garfield himself said that with the new WCS system being all year round, it changed things radically, and it is now the main tournament. SPL might still be the most competitive, but its far from being the most popular or important. I think EG will be diverting its attention to the foreign scene (which may include getting Koreans to the US). In Korea, they're like the 13th best team. In the foreigner scene, they're the best. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
Jokes aside, I had worries that Thorzain might retire after this summer since he did express desire to go back to school eventually, but it seems that he has already re-signed his contract so he may be staying around a bit longer. I hope some juicy rumors eventually start materializing so that we have something more tangible to speculate on. | ||
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stew_
Canada239 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On May 21 2013 02:59 mikkmagro wrote: I think WCS is a bigger concern than SPL in the community, especially the western community to whom EG report. Proleague gets 10-15k viewers on Twitch, WCS EU got 60k on Friday. I saw somewhere that Alex Garfield himself said that with the new WCS system being all year round, it changed things radically, and it is now the main tournament. SPL might still be the most competitive, but its far from being the most popular or important. I think EG will be diverting its attention to the foreign scene (which may include getting Koreans to the US). In Korea, they're like the 13th best team. In the foreigner scene, they're the best. Even with WCS being a big deal, the fact that there is no region lock means that their players in korea can participate from afar (most of them already are) and then get flown in if they get far enough to go to the live bits. I also think that EG wants to focus more on the korean scene because not only have just about all of their recent pickups been korean, but they've gone to the trouble of getting coach park and building a teamhouse type environment there to compete in SPL. That'd be a hell of a lot of investment to leave behind. Also why they may not be the best team in Korea they are either #1 or #2 (TL being the other one) foreign team in the scene. The Korean scene is becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the scene (0 kespa players in WCS EU and AM, I doubt thats a coincidence) and as kespa becomes more dominant it will only get more so. By focusing on Korea EG can gain the support of foreign fans watching korean leagues and avoid getting locked out by focusing too much on the foreign scene. I think that they're already a powerhouse in the NA and to some extent the EU scene, and perhaps they'll pick up a couple more players to continue that legacy, but I don;t think that they really need to do a whole lot to continue that presence given that they have suppy, thorzain, demu, and huk, not to mention a supporting cast in the background. Also a team with money like EG has is happy to fly in their korean superstars to compete in the foreign tournaments if they feel like, so by picking up some more solid korean talent they can have their cake and eat it too. Lastly there's the sort of lack of people that are free agents that they could pick up. Most of the top tier foreign players atm are European and are likely committed to at least staying in europe where EG has almost no infrastructure or support. There are a few up and coming NA players but given their track record of picking up established talent (for the most part) I'm not really sure they would go for any of those players. Unless they decide to poach a well known NA player like scarlett (who is living in KR atm) or somebody off of root I feel like they're probably going to go for a mid to high tier kespa player who has a bit of name recognition and can go to bat for them in proleague. just my 2 cents. edit: I just noticed you're from malta. I just visited there and its awesome | ||
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StatixEx
United Kingdom779 Posts
If EG seriously want to get a #1 winning team then this would be ok, but half the reason this is probably the most successful team is totally through the charatcers they pick up. Lets face it, noone they have picked up is bad, they are all GM for gods sake, by definition they have to be good dont they? they are in the top 200 of their region?? anyway. Just sayin, with massive fan favourites like huk/idra/step[hano going . .what really have they to talk about in terms of results? My point is. Get the Grack Back! | ||
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