I would like to know, why they think Proleague is too expensive:
-they said they will keep their Korean house anyway (so paying for the house is not the problem) -they said they also want to keep Jaedong anyway (so players are not a problem - although maybe they have too big of a roster to pay it all now?) -the 100k deposit is returnable afaik, so they will get those money back and can use them to participate in next season
So that basically leaves us with coach salary. They even said, that coach Park was more expensive then any of the players in their lineup, including JD and Stephano. So, imo, whether they stay in SPL or leave will depend on if they can find a good coach (not coach-Park good, but good), who speaks at least a little english and is more affordable.
On July 22 2013 18:17 Ammanas wrote: I would like to know, why they think Proleague is too expensive:
-they said they will keep their Korean house anyway (so paying for the house is not the problem) -they said they also want to keep Jaedong anyway (so players are not a problem - although maybe they have too big of a roster to pay it all now?) -the 100k deposit is returnable afaik, so they will get those money back and can use them to participate in next season
So that basically leaves us with coach salary. They even said, that coach Park was more expensive then any of the players in their lineup, including JD and Stephano. So, imo, whether they stay in SPL or leave will depend on if they can find a good coach (not coach-Park good, but good), who speaks at least a little english and is more affordable.
Incontrol says it costs a lot of keep enough players in Korea to compete(and coach park is likely part of that cost) and focus on proleague, while the amount of exposure for EG and TL is not amazing. Since EG and TL have western sponsors, that isn't shocking.
On July 22 2013 18:23 SlixSC wrote: "a recent analysis posted on TL.net outlined in detailed fashion the improvement EG-TL saw under his leadership"
Can I have a link to that analysis please? I need something interesting to read
GL to coach park, best coach
I think they may refer to my analysis on EG-TL's proleague performance (link), but I can't be sure since they did not link anything the writeup.
Overall, I agree that this is only bad news for EG-TL, and it looks more and more likely that they will be leaving Proleague. I thought with Park from the get go they could probably achieve playoffs in the 2nd season, but now that he is gone it looks really grim.
On July 22 2013 18:23 SlixSC wrote: "a recent analysis posted on TL.net outlined in detailed fashion the improvement EG-TL saw under his leadership"
Can I have a link to that analysis please? I need something interesting to read
GL to coach park, best coach
I think they may refer to my analysis on EG-TL's proleague performance (link), but I can't be sure since they did not link anything the writeup.
Overall, I agree that this is only bad news for EG-TL, and it looks more and more likely that they will be leaving Proleague. I thought with Park from the get go they could probably achieve playoffs in the 2nd season, but now that he is gone it looks really grim.
He is an expensive man to have and Proleague might not be making them back the money that justifies them keeping him on.
It'd be upsetting if EG-TL left Proleague however if they do remain in Proleague (seems like a slim chance of this occuring), hopefully coach trOt can help them and I am sure they will keep some of the habits that Coach Park probably implemented.
So a) they are mentally retarded or b) they will not be in proleague next season, I mean park is easily one of the best coaches in the entire scene, if not the best, would be stupid to let him go if you want to stay in PL.
I highly doubt PL will see 7 teams next season, I suspect that PL will stay on break till october, maybe even longer, gom seems interested to run a gstl s2 this year so I say no more proleague till gstl season 2 is done and then we should see a merger between the leagues. Axiom/Acer, Prime and NSHS will either stick around for a season and finish last or disband after gstl s2, thus I say 2014 PL should have SKT1, KT, CJ, Khan, STX (I don't think they'll disband tbh) Wongjin, Jinair, LGIM, MVP, Startale and probably FXO, which tbh would be SICK. But I kinda have the feeling that now that all individual leagues are WCS (fuck you too blizzard) Gom really wants to hold on to gstl, but blizz did mention a desire to integrate team leagues into wcs next year, so maybe we'll just have WCS KR Team League S1 GSTL, S2 PL etc.
@DarkPlasmaBall: He left SKT because they wanted him to do LoL and EGTL was probably like "yeah you go to cj, we gg proleague".
Would be nice to just merge GSTL with PL or something even I know that probably won't happen. I stopped following gstl at all once PL for SC2 started anyway.
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