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2014-2015 Proleague Plans Opening SPL to the world - Page 7

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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
August 19 2014 04:06 GMT
#121
On August 19 2014 13:03 purakushi wrote:
All-star team.
Jaedong has to be included. Viewership will instantly increase.

Other good choices: Taeja, Snute, HerO

Play Starbow!!!


your personal quote makes me irrationally angry

also no one plays starbow anymore.
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-19 05:10:54
August 19 2014 04:08 GMT
#122
According to his twitter Stardust seems to have hand in this, and is trying to help form a superteam. Really interested to see how this goes.



He discusses it a bit with HuK on twitter. Don't know how to link the whole conversation.

edit: Stardust has deleted all his tweets about this. Maybe there's something in the works he's not supposed to reveal?
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
August 19 2014 04:08 GMT
#123
No foreigners please! This will definetely lower the level of competition! SPL is elite league and always was for best of the best.
Less is more.
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-19 04:11:21
August 19 2014 04:10 GMT
#124
On August 19 2014 13:08 insitelol wrote:
No foreigners please! This will definetely lower the level of competition! SPL is elite league and always was for best of the best.


Maybe the foreigners would up their game if given such a chance? It doesn't happen to all of them, but often times simply living in Korea is very beneficial to foreigners.
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
August 19 2014 04:10 GMT
#125
On August 19 2014 13:06 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2014 13:03 purakushi wrote:
All-star team.
Jaedong has to be included. Viewership will instantly increase.

Other good choices: Taeja, Snute, HerO

Play Starbow!!!


your personal quote makes me irrationally angry

also no one plays starbow anymore.


don't get baited
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
August 19 2014 04:12 GMT
#126
On August 19 2014 13:10 lichter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2014 13:06 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On August 19 2014 13:03 purakushi wrote:
All-star team.
Jaedong has to be included. Viewership will instantly increase.

Other good choices: Taeja, Snute, HerO

Play Starbow!!!


your personal quote makes me irrationally angry

also no one plays starbow anymore.


don't get baited


Oh, I know it's bait, but sometimes I just can't leave stupidity of that level alone.
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mikumegurine
Profile Joined May 2013
Canada3145 Posts
August 19 2014 04:21 GMT
#127
On August 19 2014 13:08 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
According to his twitter Stardust seems to have hand in this, and is trying to help form a superteam. Really interested to see how this goes.

https://twitter.com/StardustSC2/status/501562442561093632

He discusses it a bit with HuK on twitter. Don't know how to link the whole conversation.


HuK in PL hmmm interesting
Nerski
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1095 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-19 04:27:14
August 19 2014 04:24 GMT
#128
The largest hurdle for Foreigners in Korea has seemed to be the isolation. Simply put the cities themselves are not super foreigner friendly due to language barriers etc. Any more then some Korean players would likely struggle a little if they didn't know English in a foreign setting. Additionally in the past the monetary gain from being in Korea wasn't enough to keep foreigners there. So that would be a smart issue for Pro League to tackle should you look for to add a foreign flavor to the league. Simply allowing it would probably be less likely to draw good foreign players or teams then one might think.

Bringing in an all star team of foreigners from various teams would seem to be a smarter move to increase interest across the world. That coupled with some sort of backing by pro league to make housing them comfortably while there and getting around Korea could work. This would both increase the possibility for the foreign players to be competitive, give them other foreigners to spend time with to decrease isolation, and make it more justifiable to the teams.

The question would be if pro league thinks heavily supporting something such as this would be enough of a financial gain to justify the financial cost. I think if possible to test run it would be worth the experiment for at least one season.

Edit: Also finding ways to allow foreign players sponsors to still be involved could be a smart way to attract more foreign sponsors to pro league, if there was foreign players to help promote the brands across the world.

Such a venture could be a huge step forward for Pro League or an absolute blunder if not done correctly.
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Motlu
Profile Joined August 2014
Australia884 Posts
August 19 2014 04:28 GMT
#129
I don't see the problem of opening up Proleague to more global teams, so long as the actual event remains offline. Some scheduling changed might also be needed to allow more leeway with foriegn events.

Just convincing any teams to commit would be tough, especially as a lot of the top koreans on foreign teams left Kespa to avoid the scheduling constrictions of proleague to attend foreign tournaments.
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meshfusion
Profile Joined June 2014
Russian Federation232 Posts
August 19 2014 04:29 GMT
#130
team liquid (TAEJA!!!) and team acer for sure.
CuSToM
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1478 Posts
August 19 2014 04:36 GMT
#131
I'd like to see Invictus Gaming, or some dream team of the top Chinese players. I think if any kind of foreigner has a chance of competing with Korea in the right environment, it's the Chinese.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33699 Posts
August 19 2014 04:41 GMT
#132
there's a near 0 chance taeja would play
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-19 04:45:18
August 19 2014 04:43 GMT
#133
After EGTL I thought proleague was "open" to foreign teams if they had the chops to back it up (I know there was/is a pretty large security deposit to be in proleague, a lot of things to work out with kespa, etc)

and certainly ogn is allowing foreign participation in LoL, which I don't quite know the organization of OGN Champions with kespa (I know teams joined kespa but don't know the organization of champions/korea circuit tournament itself) but that has had foreign teams in the past and I think even is inviting a chinese team.

as many others have said in the thread that yeah, sure, if the barrier for getting a foreign team into proleague was good *edit: somehow different from what it was before, and mutual interest of kespa/the team,* then I'd be up for seeing any quality team, but good luck finding a team dedicated to proleague when the primary interest is going to be european/north american tournaments and wcs systems and presumably chinese teams with their chinese tourneys and such (chinese players in wcs am).
iu, seungah, yura, taeyeon, hyosung, lizzy, suji, sojin, jia, ji eun, eunji, soya, younha, jiyeon, fiestar, sinb, jung myung hoon godtier. BW FOREVERR
Melix
Profile Joined December 2010
United States89 Posts
August 19 2014 04:44 GMT
#134
An all star team of Koreans who still live in Korea but play for foreign teams would do just fine in Pro League. It might not challenge for the top spot but it would certainly be competitive - maybe even sneak into the playoffs.

Also, for everyone that keeps bringing up EG-TL don't forget that they went 3-4 in every single round but one, which isn't dominant but certainly competitive. People remember the season as a failure because everyone expected them to be the top team because all the other teams had only just started playing SC2 full-time.

An all star team in 2015 would be much stronger than EG-TL -- the big question is who would coach them.
Motlu
Profile Joined August 2014
Australia884 Posts
August 19 2014 04:45 GMT
#135
On August 19 2014 13:36 CuSToM wrote:
I'd like to see Invictus Gaming, or some dream team of the top Chinese players. I think if any kind of foreigner has a chance of competing with Korea in the right environment, it's the Chinese.


It would be good to see the Chinese teams get some exposure, and if there is any league that can whip some low tier players into shape it is PL.

Would be a huge boost for the Chinese scene
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True_Spike
Profile Joined July 2004
Poland3434 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-19 04:50:21
August 19 2014 04:49 GMT
#136
Axiom / Acer / TeamLiquid could play together. That would make for a great show. Chineese teams as well.
KatatoniK
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United Kingdom978 Posts
August 19 2014 04:50 GMT
#137
In theory this sounds fantastic but I can't see any foreign teams biting, except maybe the Taiwanese and Chinese teams (Wayi , Yoe and iG spring to mind mostly)

AxiomAcer would be awesome if TB can find a way to get a good sponsor that won't lock the whole team down in KR and have good foreign coverage which could be difficult. Outside of Samsung (already have a team), LG (Who are probably a massive no-go after the fiasco with IM) Hyundai and Daewoo I can't think of many KR companies who are on the global markets let alone one who'd be willing to sponsor an SC2 team, that tournament wise doesn't have much presence in Korea. If KeSPA and TB can find something that works though then that'd be awesome.

As for the teamless players, the old MVP guys apparently didn't like playing in PL that much. I don't think the GEM guys will want to lock themselves to KR for a majority of the year, makes it harder for them to farm events for WCS points.

StarDust has an interesting idea with combining teams to make a "foreign" all-star team, if he can get players like JD, Pigbaby, Jjakji, Sacsri, SuperNova, Journey etc you'd have a pretty decent team on your hands.
Flying on the Jin Air hype plane. Lets go Maru, Rogue, sOs and the handsome CJ herO
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-19 04:55:11
August 19 2014 04:52 GMT
#138
which teams? Which teams wouldn't I want to compete in Proleague! But especially Acer, Liquid, EG and Startale.



Let's assume for a moment that Kespa would partner up with a few organizers in Europe/America and e.g. European teams could play from Cologne. Good? Bad?
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
August 19 2014 04:52 GMT
#139
Ofc we all would want liquid (cuz they are the fuckin bomb), but I would want the Taiwanese and Chinese scenes like YoeFlashWolves to get a chance.
User was warned for too many mimes.
LongShot27
Profile Joined May 2013
United States2084 Posts
August 19 2014 04:55 GMT
#140
On August 19 2014 13:08 insitelol wrote:
No foreigners please! This will definetely lower the level of competition! SPL is elite league and always was for best of the best.



But its ok for prime to play?
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