Damn. I noticed no one pointed out Crayon Pop for the first three pages but I'm not the first.
Well anyway, the picture is a reference to Bar Bar Bar by Crayon Pop.

^__^

I have watched some professional Japanese tournaments of SC2, once or twice in 2011 and 2012, I think, some national tournament. The casting was nice to listen to.
I've also watched a few Japanese personal streams before but they're not particularly interesting.

InfusedTT.DaZe

Romania693 Posts

October 13 2013 05:48 GMT

#82

i hope to see more japanese in the scene, but this showmatch will be a beatdown...

Garnet

Vietnam9031 Posts

October 13 2013 06:37 GMT

#83

I hope they're all in GM or at least Masters.

jackslater

Russian Federation604 Posts

October 13 2013 06:50 GMT

#84

Awesome, but who are the Japans?

Fuchsteufelswild

Australia2028 Posts

October 13 2013 07:04 GMT

#85

On October 13 2013 15:37 Garnet wrote:
I hope they're all in GM or at least Masters.

Vaisravana and breek are normally Masters from what I have previously seen, or at least always used to be. It looks like breek is Diamond right now. :\
http://www.sc2ranks.com/character/us/2863750/breek/hots/1v1
http://www.sc2ranks.com/character/us/953755/Vaisravana/hots/1v1
The others I have no idea about.

On October 13 2013 15:50 jackslater wrote:
Awesome, but who are the Japans?

Sorry, I could have clarified that earlier for people too.

or should I have gone with PONPONPON?

NeThZOR

South Africa7387 Posts

October 13 2013 08:00 GMT

#86

My classes finish half an hour after the match starts. I'll definitely check this out.

TheCzarOfAll

United States170 Posts

October 13 2013 09:00 GMT

#87

On October 13 2013 16:04 Fuchsteufelswild wrote:
Vaisravana and breek are normally Masters from what I have previously seen, or at least always used to be. It looks like breek is Diamond right now. :\
http://www.sc2ranks.com/character/us/2863750/breek/hots/1v1
http://www.sc2ranks.com/character/us/953755/Vaisravana/hots/1v1
The others I have no idea about.

Breek is technically retired, so he probably doesn't play as much as he used to. Shocks me that he fell back into Dia though.

nachtkap

Germany195 Posts

October 13 2013 09:50 GMT

#88

On October 08 2013 23:30 Requiem- wrote:
we will never see a Japan player at top lvl

, maybe if they play in KR server and stay there for a lot but even then i think the popularity of 3DS/VITA/ps3 is way too big

Do they have a pro scene in other (PS3 based) e-sports?
The complete lack Japanese e-sport has seemed really odd to me for a while. Every other country that has a very high Human Development Index or is a major industial nation has a e-sports scene. Everyone except Japan..... oh neither does India I just noticed that.

PVJ

Hungary5221 Posts

October 13 2013 09:59 GMT

#89

will tune in yeaoo

Seanzk

China609 Posts

October 13 2013 10:03 GMT

#90

nice 5-0

Hermanoid

Sweden213 Posts

October 13 2013 10:09 GMT

#91

Interesting idea, I hope it'll be an interesting match for more than the first five minutes of the first game =P I can't imagine japanese allstars beating korean progamers after not fielding a player in a major global tourney EVER, afaik.

gostunv

Japan1178 Posts

October 13 2013 10:11 GMT

#92

i will be attending this personally! what a chance!

treach

Slovenia50 Posts

October 13 2013 10:15 GMT

#93

Sad to see nemuke and nazomen not in the lineup. I guess nazomen will be streaming? Otherwise, great stuff gogogo japan!

Fuchsteufelswild

Australia2028 Posts

October 13 2013 10:25 GMT

#94

On October 13 2013 19:09 Hermanoid wrote:
Interesting idea, I hope it'll be an interesting match for more than the first five minutes of the first game =P I can't imagine japanese allstars beating korean progamers after not fielding a player in a major global tourney EVER, afaik.

I'm thought a couple of Japanese players have played in Open Brackets of MLG or maybe other tournaments, unless it was only online qualifers I'm thinking of.

On October 13 2013 18:50 nachtkap wrote:
The complete lack Japanese e-sport has seemed really odd to me for a while. Every other country that has a very high Human Development Index or is a major industial nation has a e-sports scene. Everyone except Japan..... oh neither does India I just noticed that.

India is too busy dominating the IT and outsourced call centre support industry to get into eSports maybe. :S
They'll end up being the #1 Blizzard support centre, of course, as well as that of all major tournaments. Heck, if resume from replay had not been added in, they'd probably have been the people to complain to in a good 5 years time from now. ;D
Japan has a fighting game scene at least which might be mostly on consoles but I thought at least some of them were played on PCs. That said, any that are on PC and not on console (if there are any) would likely be on arcade anyway, so they would probably use arcade games.

Right, well, I'd like them to be a part of it, so we'll have to push for a ギャルゲーム eSports movement to kick-start their interest as a nation.

VArsovskiSC

Macedonia563 Posts

October 13 2013 10:44 GMT

#95

wow, so pumped to see new countries getting better in SC2..

The game seems to catch "new horizons" after all..

b.t.w. - It will probably be a local showmatch regardless.. There's something surely showmatch-type gonna be.. Everyone knows that CJ is the clear favourite here, so I personally think it's something of a "promotion" type game in the Japanese region rather than a competitive match