I'm not sure there are many foreign teams that would a.) have a sponsor that has any sort of investment in Korea; b.) have a team that won't be your new Air Force ACE (aka the team everyone beats up on); c.) have a team house in Korea or the funds to set one up; and d.) prefer to keep their players in Korea for Proleague instead of playing in foreign events.

AldarisGCE

United States20 Posts

August 19 2014 02:01 GMT

#22

As cool as it would be to see foreigners and foreign teams compete in SPL, doing so would really dilute the image of SPL as the single best team league in the world. Frankly, I feel the level of play and game quality in SPL this season has been MUCH higher than any other tournament. PLEASE DONT CHANGE IT. Best SC2 Proleague ever!

The_Templar

your Country52798 Posts

August 19 2014 02:03 GMT

#23

Oh, I'd like an all-stars team (might not be doable though). Would have to include a lot of players for it to work while also being in Korea. I don't particularly like the idea of adding foreign teams, which are often a few top koreans + foreigners (see Acer, Liquid, MYI etc)
Other ideas if you're open to general PL suggestions: Cash prizes for best ceremonies (More incentive to do ceremonies), pre-match interviews, more showmatches (race wars was hilarious), slightly less consistent map pool (often leads to cooler builds).

EDIT: Misread the OP

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

August 19 2014 02:03 GMT

#24

On August 19 2014 11:01 AldarisGCE wrote:
As cool as it would be to see foreigners and foreign teams compete in SPL, doing so would really dilute the image of SPL as the single best team league in the world. Frankly, I feel the level of play and game quality in SPL this season has been MUCH higher than any other tournament. PLEASE DONT CHANGE IT. Best SC2 Proleague ever!

The question is, could this team potentially place higher than last? If yes, it's not a bad addition in my opinion.

Also consider that PL is losing a team for next season(probably), so would you rather have 7 teams or 8 teams?

SlatMan

29 Posts

August 19 2014 02:04 GMT

#25

This would be really amazing, I don't get enough chances to see Flash, Bbyong, and Maru rip apart foreigners :D

Clawfinger

Canada221 Posts

August 19 2014 02:04 GMT

#26

First of all, I think team leagues work best in a live studio format. This means that the foreign teams would definitely have to move to Korea (which would be awesome).

The teams that have the best chance are Axiom, Acer, TL, and EG. Maybe some sort of partnership between them would work out.

Yakikorosu

1203 Posts

August 19 2014 02:05 GMT

#27

I think the only way it potentially works is, as someone else suggested, with an "all-star team" of Korean players on foreign teams that are already living in Korea. But ass others have pointed out, many of those prefer participating in foreign events. I'd rather see a KeSPA-run "8th team" re-added that would collect various Korean players not on a top team but that are still strong players--there's plenty out there like SuperNova (yes I know he's technically on ROOT but he can compete in SPL as a mercenary), DongRaeGu, Super, Trap, etc.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

August 19 2014 02:06 GMT

#28

this means that you need to move a team to Korea for the whole year though - I don't know if foreign teams would want to commit that much to proleague.

Soke

United States790 Posts

August 19 2014 02:07 GMT

#29

I think this could be pretty cool. I think this could help with the "Koreans in NA and EU cannot compete with Kespa Koreans" Agenda, and having foreigners that could start making consistent appearances could be amazing. I mean, you probably would need a decently sized partnership, considering a lot of them would want to compete in WCS NA and EU, but it can be done. A TL/Acer Partnership would be very cool :D

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

August 19 2014 02:08 GMT

#30

But to be serious: If you somehow managy to have JD in proleague again, i am all for it!

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

August 19 2014 02:08 GMT

#31

On August 19 2014 11:01 The_Red_Viper wrote:
TB your turn

Yes yes, how many times must this question be brought up?

It might end up happening just because I have a distinct feeling next year is gonna be sparse on the tournament front, so competing in Korea is the strongest option economically. Also with our unique approach to sponsor ROI we might be able to make it work even though its an event designed to benefit the KeSPA sponsors.

We'll see

danbel1005

United States1319 Posts

August 19 2014 02:09 GMT

#32

Ratz Team this is your chance to shine...

On a serious note, this is great news, the more teams in Proleague the better.
Give us JAEDONG, Acer, Axiom, Team`Liquid, Root and YoeFW.
GL HF GG thank you Kespa and Proleague!!!!

starkiller94

5 Posts

August 19 2014 02:09 GMT

#33

Liquid-Acer would be amazing in proleague.

[MD]Frostbite

Canada292 Posts

August 19 2014 02:10 GMT

#34

Teamliquid, Mouz, EG, Acer!!~~

Clonester

Germany2808 Posts

August 19 2014 02:10 GMT

#35

Hmm i like this idea very much, but the problem will be, not all teams can afford do send their players (or even whole roster) to korea and even give them a good host with a team house and so on. And they would have to change wcs region, you cant play every week in SPL and play WCS Season I and II on the Europeen Server or on the offline events of WCS NA / WCS EU.
So who could play in SPL form Outside? Axiom, acer and? TL would have to invest a large amount of money for the infrastructure, EG is not near any form of a SPL roster, even fall out of the ATC. MyI could send their 3 Koreans, but not a whole roster, same for other Teams.

So when KESPA plans with one or even more Teams from outside, they should def. think about one "all Star Team", consisting of Acer, MyI, TL and JaeDong. But the problem will stay, they have to change to GSL and thats might worry the outsider. It is not 2012 where there werent that large tournaments outside the GSL.

And please KESPA read this: Think about the 2vs2 as a third game in a best of 5 ProLeague-Format. 2vs2 is so much entertaining and brings up quite a lot of new, fresh things. Its great and many people would like to see em.

tomastaz

United States976 Posts

August 19 2014 02:11 GMT

#36

I do hope Yoe Flash Wolves and iG move to Korea and play. I think with the training environment they can catch up.

chipmonklord17

United States11944 Posts

August 19 2014 02:11 GMT

#37

On August 19 2014 11:08 TotalBiscuit wrote:

Show nested quote +

Is there a reason you couldn't get a Kespa sponsor? Or is it just a sponsor like JA or KT would just conflict with your current sponsors in either field (like monster vs redbull) or location (competing in korea vs being around the world)

Obviously I understand that its ridiculously difficult to accomplish, I'm just curious if there's something inherently stopping it other than its difficulty and possible bad ROI

Zer atai

United States691 Posts

August 19 2014 02:11 GMT

#38

Team Liquid please

Yhamm

France7248 Posts

August 19 2014 02:13 GMT

#39

On August 19 2014 10:47 Chuddinater wrote:
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?

-Only teams I see that could have the level : Team Liquid, Acer, Axiom, yoe Flash Wolves, Invictus Gaming, Startale (depending on if they still have a partnership with an other or not)
-I don't think it would lower it, they are in no way weaker than what was Prime, IM or MVP

Now that I answered, I don't think any of those teams (apart Startale maybe) can afford a so long season of Proleague and all that imply (team house, players who need to be in Korea for long times, etc)

but it's great that you are opened to such things!