On February 23 2014 11:47 feardragon wrote:
In regards to Hendralisk, I view Hendralisk as a player who people might recognize the name of, but maybe don't know too much about unless you follow the local Candian scene. He's been around for a while, but give his skill, he has always seemed to me like a player that gets less attention than maybe he deserves.
In a sense, Hendralisk reminds me of a "Hellokitty" pick from Breaking Out Season 1. A player that had shown results, had a name that was recognized, but that people seemed to not know much about or underestimated.
As for what EJK was saying about Hendralisk being in the MLG tournament, I'd remind people that Siphonn was in it as well. Not to mention, many other players from Breaking Out were actually on the voting, like Bones, JonSnow, SaroVati, etc.
Whenever we received an application that could be seen as an "edge case," it was discussed among a committee formed. While hendralisk is a more well known player than many of the others in Breaking Out, we decided to let him register based on the reasons mentioned above. As for why we didn't invite him, invites are only given to players after the other 6 players have qualified. This is to avoid inviting a player that could otherwise show their capabilities in qualifying.
Hope that answers some of the questions being mentioned. I will say that performance in the qualifiers is definitely one of the things I personally am looking at when deciding who to invite. It's not the only factor, but it's certainly one of them.
well Im happy given that you have given as much consideration as I would have hoped in the deliberation of this matter
EPT
