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Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
September 11 2014 17:45 GMT
#101
On September 12 2014 02:01 Darthsanta13 wrote:
WCS 2015: All kespa players leave Korea, in search of that sweet easy foreign money. WCS EU and AM both become as hard as GSL and all foreigners are eliminated immediately. Round of 8 WCS EU: Hydra, Solar, Cure, DRG, Zest, Rain, Parting, MC. WCS AM: soO, Stats, Innovation, TRUE, Maru, sOs, Soulkey, Flash. Meanwhile, only mediocre washouts are left in Korea. Now that GSL is so much less competitive, State, who has still been toiling away in the Prime house makes his first GSL. He becomes the first foreigner to win GSL, royal roading through such titans like SalvatioN, Miso, BrAvO, PenguiN, AnNyeong, and Zoun, before meeting MKP in the finals. He beats MKP so badly that he cries (as expected). However, no one gives his win any weight, as he was too much of a 'coward' to play in the REAL SC2 leagues, WCS AM and EU.

you are a poet
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
September 11 2014 17:49 GMT
#102
I think Hydra had too much fun at Redbull lol
Refer to my post.
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
September 11 2014 17:49 GMT
#103
My apartment is open for any KeSPA pros who need a place to train and stay :B
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Lumi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1612 Posts
September 11 2014 17:52 GMT
#104
Hydra's name doesn't have as much of a draw as some of these other free agents, though. Hard to compete with them for offers while wanting to move countries etc. But that's a strong commitment he is looking to make, too. Hope he finds a good home. I only really trust liquid or acer to give these players everything, opportunity wise. Funny, EG is a name I would have said a long time ago.. but now it's like.. are they trying to drop out of SC2 entirely?
twitter.com/lumigaming - DongRaeGu is the One True Dong - /r/onetruedong
Lumi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1612 Posts
September 11 2014 17:53 GMT
#105
On September 12 2014 02:49 Torte de Lini wrote:
My apartment is open for any KeSPA pros who need a place to train and stay :B


Hahahaha! May I be the cook and the maid?
twitter.com/lumigaming - DongRaeGu is the One True Dong - /r/onetruedong
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
September 11 2014 18:07 GMT
#106
On September 12 2014 02:53 Lumi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 12 2014 02:49 Torte de Lini wrote:
My apartment is open for any KeSPA pros who need a place to train and stay :B


Hahahaha! May I be the cook and the maid?


We're eating McDonald's everyday!
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Cheeseling
Profile Joined March 2012
Ukraine132 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-09-11 18:42:16
September 11 2014 18:09 GMT
#107
It will be hilarious if Blizzard end up prohibiting anyone with gorgeous hair and narrow shape of eyes from playing outsid Korea
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
September 11 2014 18:12 GMT
#108
If everyone goes to Prime.....

Starecat
Profile Joined August 2014
937 Posts
September 11 2014 18:24 GMT
#109
On September 11 2014 22:42 Thax wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 11 2014 19:27 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
I just don't get why are they all leaving before LotV comes in.

So, considering that TRUE is technically in Dead Pixels, we now have:

DRG
Rain
PartinG
FanTaSy
Hydra

4 Code S playoffs level guys and FanTaSy, who can really get them, lol.
+ There is Myungsik who left KT Rolster as well.

TL won't get anyone until TJ retires most likely, Acer will get probably one and outside of those two, noone really seems legit contender.
YOE FLASH WOLVES FOR THE RESCUE PLEASE.

On less serious note, i hope they're still going to play in SPL.


Wow look at that list of names who will never reach Code S again. Everyone knows foreign Koreans can't compete in Korea. Failures looking for easy foreign money.


Poll: Kespa fanboys tears are...

(Vote): 1) Delicious



Moar plz
:3
Veluvian
Profile Joined December 2011
Bulgaria256 Posts
September 11 2014 18:50 GMT
#110
The situation is very chaotic, but in the same time - everything is too logical, if you think for a moment. It's not fair to be one of the best and to play with the best players and not to participate in more tournaments like all other pro's arround the wolrd. The Proleague is over for this year, and this is the last GSL too. There are few empty months without tournaments, and in the same time every month IEM and Dreamhacks happen, while foreign players are collecting more WCS points for Blizzcon. And you may be one of the best, but If you are not a champion in Code S, you're nothing and your carreer is unsecure. Yes, it is also about money, it's not like what Parting is talking about, money and WCS points and many tournaments for which koreans are hungry. Damn, in Code A there are so many good players which can defeat most of the NA and Europe WCS regions, but they are in a shadow! So I can understand the decidion that Rain, Parting, Fantasy or Hydra made. Who cares if you lose some shape out of Korea, for the foreing fans you're superhero, and that is what so many koreans desire for!
Oz; MMA; Rain; sOs; Classic, Soulkey, TY, Dark
Thax
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
September 11 2014 19:02 GMT
#111
On September 11 2014 23:33 Musicus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 11 2014 22:51 Zealously wrote:
On September 11 2014 22:42 Thax wrote:
On September 11 2014 19:27 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
I just don't get why are they all leaving before LotV comes in.

So, considering that TRUE is technically in Dead Pixels, we now have:

DRG
Rain
PartinG
FanTaSy
Hydra

4 Code S playoffs level guys and FanTaSy, who can really get them, lol.
+ There is Myungsik who left KT Rolster as well.

TL won't get anyone until TJ retires most likely, Acer will get probably one and outside of those two, noone really seems legit contender.
YOE FLASH WOLVES FOR THE RESCUE PLEASE.

On less serious note, i hope they're still going to play in SPL.


Wow look at that list of names who will never reach Code S again. Everyone knows foreign Koreans can't compete in Korea. Failures looking for easy foreign money.


This comment is pretty hilarious given how tournaments have looked for the last few months. Flash struggling against MC and Stardust? Check. Solar and Zest both losing to Taeja? Check. San beating Byul into the ground? Check. DRG making the Ro8? Check.

I'd never say that you don't know what you're talking about, but it certainly looks that way.



How bored are you that you answered to a post, that called Rain a failure looking for easy foreign money?


I probably should have left the at the end of my post. I assumed the sarcasm as obvious. My bad.
Nirel
Profile Joined September 2011
Israel1526 Posts
September 11 2014 19:36 GMT
#112
On September 11 2014 23:31 Incognoto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 11 2014 22:51 Zealously wrote:
On September 11 2014 22:42 Thax wrote:
On September 11 2014 19:27 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:
I just don't get why are they all leaving before LotV comes in.

So, considering that TRUE is technically in Dead Pixels, we now have:

DRG
Rain
PartinG
FanTaSy
Hydra

4 Code S playoffs level guys and FanTaSy, who can really get them, lol.
+ There is Myungsik who left KT Rolster as well.

TL won't get anyone until TJ retires most likely, Acer will get probably one and outside of those two, noone really seems legit contender.
YOE FLASH WOLVES FOR THE RESCUE PLEASE.

On less serious note, i hope they're still going to play in SPL.


Wow look at that list of names who will never reach Code S again. Everyone knows foreign Koreans can't compete in Korea. Failures looking for easy foreign money.


This comment is pretty hilarious given how tournaments have looked for the last few months. Flash struggling against MC and Stardust? Check. Solar and Zest both losing to Taeja? Check. San beating Byul into the ground? Check. DRG making the Ro8? Check.

I'd never say that you don't know what you're talking about, but it certainly looks that way.


Check.

If anything, it shows that WCS EU / NA aren't far away from WCS KR at all.

I'd say WCS NA is about 2 supply from Code S.
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
September 11 2014 19:54 GMT
#113
I don't understand why KeSPA can't just give more opportunity to its players to participate in foreign weekend tournaments, and why Blizzard can't just give more money/leagues to Korea, instead of this awkward foreign team hunt situation.
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Silvana
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
3713 Posts
September 11 2014 19:57 GMT
#114
On September 12 2014 04:54 Grumbels wrote:
I don't understand why KeSPA can't just give more opportunity to its players to participate in foreign weekend tournaments, and why Blizzard can't just give more money/leagues to Korea, instead of this awkward foreign team hunt situation.


Because their sponsors gain nothing from letting the players go overseas. Just like a foreign team's sponsor gains (almost) nothing from competing on PL.
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8230 Posts
September 11 2014 20:22 GMT
#115
First SKT. Now CJ. KT next? WCS 2015 having a huge effect already.
klipik12
Profile Joined March 2012
United States241 Posts
September 11 2014 20:55 GMT
#116
I'm thinking these players are saying they aren't renewing their contracts because they want to go to the foreign scene, but in reality all the KeSPA teams are offering lower-paying contracts in light of the new WCS rules and they think they can get better somewhere else.
<(^_^)> || Axiom - CoL - mYi - Prime - ROOT - EG - Acer || WCS Teamleague pls ;-;
AWalker9
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
United Kingdom7229 Posts
September 11 2014 21:01 GMT
#117
On September 12 2014 05:55 klipik12 wrote:
I'm thinking these players are saying they aren't renewing their contracts because they want to go to the foreign scene, but in reality all the KeSPA teams are offering lower-paying contracts in light of the new WCS rules and they think they can get better somewhere else.


KeSPA teams care way more about Proleague than they do GSL.
soOjwa has returned to smite all that stand in his way
imrusty269
Profile Joined January 2014
United States1404 Posts
September 11 2014 21:07 GMT
#118
At this rate, proleague 2015 will be round robin of 4 teams that last for one week.
Bbyong | MMA | Polt | Dream | Maru | Mvp
OldLadyStarCraft
Profile Joined November 2013
United States66 Posts
September 11 2014 22:08 GMT
#119
I can't imagine what it has been like to live in a Korean team house for years, toiling away at your computer station 12-14 hours a day (? actual number of hours but it seems to be a lot), knowing that there is a world out there that you may not get to experience any other way than trying to play SC2 in Europe or the U.S.

These are young men who soon must "grow up," do their required time in the military (a bit scary with N. Korea and China nearby?) and then get "real" jobs. This may be a big opportunity for them to see new places, different people, meet more fans, experience the world. Will it work out that way? Who knows? I bet a lot of young people in the U.S. would jump at the chance to do something they love, something they are good (or great) at, and make the most of this time when they are free to travel and explore parts of the world.
Darthsanta13
Profile Joined July 2011
United States564 Posts
September 11 2014 22:22 GMT
#120
On September 12 2014 02:45 Ej_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 12 2014 02:01 Darthsanta13 wrote:
WCS 2015: All kespa players leave Korea, in search of that sweet easy foreign money. WCS EU and AM both become as hard as GSL and all foreigners are eliminated immediately. Round of 8 WCS EU: Hydra, Solar, Cure, DRG, Zest, Rain, Parting, MC. WCS AM: soO, Stats, Innovation, TRUE, Maru, sOs, Soulkey, Flash. Meanwhile, only mediocre washouts are left in Korea. Now that GSL is so much less competitive, State, who has still been toiling away in the Prime house makes his first GSL. He becomes the first foreigner to win GSL, royal roading through such titans like SalvatioN, Miso, BrAvO, PenguiN, AnNyeong, and Zoun, before meeting MKP in the finals. He beats MKP so badly that he cries (as expected). However, no one gives his win any weight, as he was too much of a 'coward' to play in the REAL SC2 leagues, WCS AM and EU.

you are a poet

Alternate ending:

soO stays behind in GSL to finally win now that all the good protosses are gone. Still loses to State in the finals.
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