[Code A] Day 7: The Roughest Year - S3 2015 - Page 2

Elentos

55561 Posts

July 22 2015 08:13 GMT

#21

On July 22 2015 14:47 AKAvg wrote:
"...off a pretty poor showing at Dreamhack Valencia, and if losing to a 15 year old foreign amateur playing 1 base protoss..."

Being paid by a top Kespa team to go to a foreign tournament and lose like this...
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I'm trying to picture the coaches and manager faces, which unlike the 15 year old, he certainly does have.

I dunno, I imagine Arium, being on mYi, would in fact have those. Honestly, I'm not sure if calling him amateur is even correct since he's on mYi's main team, not even the Academy.

munch

Mute City2363 Posts

July 22 2015 08:14 GMT

#22

On July 22 2015 16:59 Scarecrow wrote:
Interesting to think that the elephant wasnt the players, but the training regimes/houses.

Well unless you're a true BW supremist, I think that it's difficult to argue that EVERY good RTS player in Korea played BW. Granted, each game has its own skillset, and more BW-knowledgeable people than me can argue about the differences between the two games for days, but at the end of the day, talent is talent. It's rather difficult to imagine that a young gamer in Korea who picks up SC2 (and, for that matter, League / DotA / Heroes) rather than BW is fundamentally worse off for that choice. What you can say though is that what KeSPA brings to the table is stability and an environment where you're surrounded by other like-minded players, where you can focus on practice to the detriment of everything else.

Edit: Re: Arium, I called him an amateur because he doesn't play WCS. The fact that he's on the mYi pro roster, and to my knowledge doesn't live with the team means that his pro status is more in name than nature. I mean, at this point you'd be hard pressed to call Byun a pro player either

Elentos

55561 Posts

July 22 2015 09:38 GMT

#23

On July 22 2015 17:14 thecrazymunchkin wrote:

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Edit: Re: Arium, I called him an amateur because he doesn't play WCS. The fact that he's on the mYi pro roster, and to my knowledge doesn't live with the team means that his pro status is more in name than nature. I mean, at this point you'd be hard pressed to call Byun a pro player either

To be fair, he's not allowed to compete in WCS because he's 15.

munch

Mute City2363 Posts

July 22 2015 09:54 GMT

#24

On July 22 2015 18:38 Elentos wrote:

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To be fair, he's not allowed to compete in WCS because he's 15.

I know, it wasn't meant to be a slight on him. Just that the circumstances mean that he's arguably more amateur than pro at the moment, which makes his Dreamhack run even more impressive

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