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Chuddinater
Korea (South)169 Posts
Looking forward to the next season of Proleague we want to make it more exciting then it was this year. We are toying with the idea of opening Proleague to the world. If we did open up Proleague next year to all teams which teams would you be most excited to watch? Do you think if we allowed foreign teams to enter would it lower the competitive level or increase it? 
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SidianTheBard
United States2474 Posts
Tbh, I just want to see some Taeja & Innovation in proleague.  | ||
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roarbot
United States2 Posts
I would love to see teams like Liquid, EG, Root, and YoeFW play against top-tier Koreans! | ||
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JeXeD
Canada6 Posts
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NFxJehuty
United Kingdom58 Posts
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SChlafmann
France725 Posts
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Onekobold
244 Posts
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lubu42
United States314 Posts
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
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Oroch
Belgium143 Posts
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TerranosaurusWrecks
Canada187 Posts
i don't think i could name a foreign team that wouldn't decrease the competitiveness of proleague, but that being said it would be amazing to see eg/tl or axiom acer in the bunch. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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Random2732
Canada51 Posts
Looking forward to the new season regardless  | ||
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Sjokola
Netherlands800 Posts
I would love to see 2v2 come back to proleague it's to unexplored at competitive level. Edit: I like the idea for all-star teams. Maybe an wcs AM and wcs EU team? Although they should have a set roster, but that's what KeSPA would want anyway. | ||
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NFxJehuty
United Kingdom58 Posts
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On August 19 2014 10:55 Random2732 wrote: I would love to see Team Liquid, Axiom, Acer, and MyInsanity compete in some fashion, although I'm sure these teams wouldn't want their players as grounded in Korea as seems to be currently necessary for success in Proleague. Looking forward to the new season regardless I think ideally the team roster would be large enough to allow players to sub in and out depending on when they're available. You could have Taeja//Hero/Inno/MMA/Scarlett/Jjakji/Sacsri/Stardust/(Not sure if any of the MYI players live in KR)Jaedong/HuK/Bunny/Mana/Snute if they want to go back to KR. Add in all of the Axiom players and you have a pretty big team. The question is who would manage the team and how would they mesh together properly and all that jazz. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
Opening Proleague to the world is worth trying in my opinion, and would help increase the amount of interest in it for the crowd. Since maintaining a team in Korea to compete in Proleague is expensive and requires heavy resources I'd expect compound teams along the lines of EG-TL to be the main sort to apply. Allowing entry to foreign teams probably won't lower the competitive level depending on who applies. Smaller teams with less competitive lineups simply can't afford to send people to Proleague. If different major foreign teams all come together to create a sort of juggernaut team I think the level of competition will remain fairly high. Offering the option to participate in Proleague is definitely the right decision as really the worse case scenario is that no one applies which isn't a loss. | ||
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
On August 19 2014 10:47 Chuddinater wrote: I hope everyone has enjoyed this season of Proleague as much as we have. There were plenty of exciting matches and the finals will be an event I will remember for the rest of my life, especially FlaSh kicking the soccer ball with the names of the SKT players into the crowd. Looking forward to the next season of Proleague we want to make it more exciting then it was this year. We are toying with the idea of opening Proleague to the world. If we did open up Proleague next year to all teams which teams would you be most excited to watch? Do you think if we allowed foreign teams to enter would it lower the competitive level or increase it? Obviously the foreign teams who are most qualified are Evil Geniuses, TeamLiquid, Acer, Axiom, and some of the big Chinese/Taiwanese teams. While in the short term, opening Proleague up might slightly decrease the average skill level, I think that it will dramatically increase it in the long-term. Think of it as an investment into developing "new blood" that will bring more innovation to drive progress in the Korean scene and that will draw more money and sponsorship by expanding Proleague's appeal outside of Korea. Edit: Who knows, maybe it would be incentive enough for some established teams from other games (LoL, DOTA2, CS:GO, etc...) to create SC2 squads or even for new non-Korean teams to form. Edit #2: Also, why the hell is everyone assuming that KeSPA wouldn't help reduce the financial barrier. Seems like them even considering opening things up marks a very large attitude shift from KeSPA compared to when EG-TL tried to compete. It isn't a stretch to think that the traditional buy in price would be heavily reduced or that the chosen team(s) would receive monetary and logistical help to make it more viable. TL'DR, while there might be some short term disadvantages and costs, its pretty hard to argue that it is the wrong move for either Starcraft or Korean eSports. | ||
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