TRUE joins PSISTORM Gaming

On September 30 2015 04:28 Solar424 wrote:
Great, we needed another Korean taking a WCS NA seed /s

On September 30 2015 04:27 Blargh wrote:
Weird indeed. Wonder what Dead Pixels could not provide that PSISTORM can. I guess WCS NA, but surely arrangements could have been made with DP for him to participate in EU if he wanted..?

Hope all works out well!

On September 30 2015 05:30 digmouse wrote:
Getting a Korean to WCS via US Athlete visa is harder than you thought.

On September 30 2015 05:41 DocSchlakk wrote:
sorry for the question...but..is this REALLY? a huge thing?....a korean "getting an US spot for WCS" ?

i mean,...are there so many -potential- NA players who could actually/really close the bag in WCS?

On September 30 2015 05:41 DocSchlakk wrote:
sorry for the question...but..is this REALLY? a huge thing?....a korean "getting an US spot for WCS" ?

i mean,...are there so many -potential- NA players who could actually/really close the bag in WCS?

On September 30 2015 05:46 Circumstance wrote:

Success begets success. Hydra couldn't beat Rogue in aan offline tournament while he was on CJ, but he did after seeing success on Root. Polt won more than twice as many Premier tournaments against top-tier competition after moving to the US. Europeans succeed more than North Americans because there are so many more EU events and online events on the EU server.

On September 30 2015 05:54 brickrd wrote:

people just like to blame koreans for the fact that foreigner starcraft isn't profitable

On September 30 2015 05:53 DocSchlakk wrote:


not arguing about "how many events there are in EU (because, there are more than in NA, no question) i just dont get this (hostile?) stand on..."koreans tuk er jeerbs" thing, which i read here (not THIS thread in particular) since that announcement.

so you are saying, that TRUE could just...benefit, being on a NA team?...(yeah, better to cook with all the spices than just the ones you know,..i like to say xD )

On September 30 2015 06:03 Circumstance wrote:

The "took our jobs" comparison is inaccurate because the number of "jobs" in this case is inherently fixed. It doesn't matter how good Americans become over the next year, there will only be 8 slots for them, and people who have had the natural advantage of being born, raised, and trained in Korea and only being American long enough for them to get into WCS will always be limiting that number even further. Imagine, for instance, INTZ or Kabum deciding to sign Naniwa and move him to Brazil so he can get a Latin American spot in WCS because he can't make it in Europe. That'd be pretty unfair to Kelazhur and Major, wouldn't it? People would be rightfully angered if that occurred. Koreans, however, get defenders because they are Korean.

On September 30 2015 06:19 OtherWorld wrote:

It's not. See StarDust.

On September 30 2015 05:46 Circumstance wrote:
Europeans succeed more than North Americans because there are so many more EU events and online events on the EU server.

On September 30 2015 08:28 ClanWars wrote:
In a move surprising no-one ever, when you create a much easier tournament with lots of prizemoney to be won even without being the eventual champion, vs the most top-heavy and stacked tournaments in South Korea, people will move to where they can get the most money.

Shock horror, I know

On September 30 2015 08:42 GGzerG wrote:

It is a pretty big deal regardless of this simplistic mindset, maybe you clearly do not understand the significance of moving from Dead Pixels to PSI STORM GAMING.

On September 30 2015 05:28 TLgowno wrote:
Region Lock Cracked. Again.

On October 01 2015 02:57 Nezgar wrote:


WCS S3 this year was, at least for me, by far the most enjoyable and entertaining one... because it was mostly Foreigners competing against each other, everyone with their unique story and flair. This is supposed to be a tournament designed to give Foreigners a grand stage to perform on, I don't want to see it being high-jacked by Koreans who are not competent enough to compete in their own region. We already have Dreamhack and IEM and MSI and Asus ROG and GFinity to give the Koreans who seek international audiences their stages to perform on, gain WCS points and earn cash. WCS is unique, can we please keep it that way?
Look, I understand that, with Koreans mixed it, you get more high quality games... but a non-region-locked WCS is a bastardized version of it. The best of the best (and most interesting ones, imho) still stay in their home region and don't compete in WCS. So you end up with neither the most interesting story lines, now the highest quality of games.
There were 15 international tournaments this year that, for the most part, attracted very good Koreans. All I am asking for is 3 tournaments a year where it is not the same fucking names from the Ro8 on. You have your 15 tournaments, let us have 3... there is no need to force your views on what is enjoyable down everyone's throat and make all tournaments the same according to what you enjoy the most.
I don't want to see Polt vs. Hydra or Hydra vs. ForGG finals every damn WCS season and I sure don't want to see another one mixed in with those names.

I am sorry for dragging this thread further offtopic and I am glad that TRUE has found a new team, he is a great player... I just cannot feel happy about the announcement that he is going to compete in WCS...

On October 01 2015 07:58 Hughgrant wrote:
What kind of contract do these player get from this kind of "small team" ? Decent salary ? Travel expenses ? anyone has any idea ?

On October 01 2015 10:05 ClanWars wrote:


Absolutely, but according to GGZerg I have no idea what I'm talking about so best listen to him instead XD

On October 01 2015 20:07 brickrd wrote:
i hope one day we have a scene where people don't have negativity toward players because of their race or country of origin :/ all koreans who come to foreign WCS deserve to win if they're better! GL true, hope you destroy any foreign player who isn't as skilled as you

On October 01 2015 22:25 FFW_Rude wrote:


I agree.

On October 01 2015 22:37 SNSeigifried wrote:

That isn't why people dislike korean players just to be honest most the korean players who people dislike show no emotion and don't at all connect with the viewers in any way shape or form and some examples of these players are Trap/INnoVation/Reality/Pigbaby/Shine. Unlike the foreigners/PartinG/MC/Life/Solar/Polt/viOLet/duckdeok who speak english, you can see the frustration on their face, and also the joy and tears when they win or lose in sc2 on many occasions.
When you can't connect with your audience its hard to get people to want to root for you just gonna be honest. I'm also not saying its these koreans faults that they are viewed this way its just that they don't have the ability to connect with us due to bad english, being shy, or just not very social.

On October 01 2015 22:48 FFW_Rude wrote:


No emotion ? That's so not true... Watch a GSL group selection. They taunt each other like crazy. I'm sorry but there's a lot of emotion when non english speaker lose their matches. That used to be true (if you count TaeJa as the only KR). But it's clearly not the case.

- "IMBA IMBA IMBA" was in WoL. (Ryung)
- Ceremonies like the trap cards (PartinG)
- Darth vader in SPL. (Flash)
- MarinKing doesn't speak english. (MarineKing)
- You see emotion at the end of EVERY SPL match.

And as far as i know, asian males not showing much emotion is a sign of manlyness (do not quote me on this) ? Like no teer, no gloat etc... ? So i'm not sure if it's about beeing shy, or not very social. It's more of a respect / mature thing. It's in their culture too.

Lots of non Korean players could be "faceless". Lots of 'em have not real big personalities, they are nice, mannered. Take Snute for exemple. He is not faceless because he is a good looking blond dude. His personalty is for what i can tell from interviews and matches : "Nice, polite, respectfull". It's kind of the same faceless than... Rogue for exemple. You could say that MC have more personality than Snute. But in fact they just have a different one.

Duckdeok cried. Yes. Did he show a lot of emotion besides that ? Or was he like the other "faceless". ONE event gave him the notoriety of not being faceless. But FlaSh is faceless. Because he only fistpumped IEM and look sad at the end of his SPL loss ?

Well i don't know if i explained my point well but point is :

"Faceless koreans is not true".

On October 01 2015 22:56 SNSeigifried wrote:

I guess for you i need to list every korean when i make a statement to differentiate which 1s im refering to but instead you target the guys you know im not targeting let alone 1 of your examples was PartinG and he was even on my list. The koreans i listed Trap/INnoVation/Reality/Pigbaby/Shine i can't find a single example of when they actually showed any of these qualities.

On October 02 2015 00:39 FFW_Rude wrote:


So... Why are you aggressive again ? Apparently i don't explained my point very well

You are saying these guys don't have emotions. I disagree. Not sure how to explain it better. Innovation is famous for being a machine (could he bet fanservicing ?) Or maybe he is just focused ? . Shine have a really great personality that only shows IG (imo) with all his crazy strats. Reality played mech vs SH so i don't have no opinion on him. Trap i see him really happy on stage on that tournament with oracles where he controlled like a beast. Or maybe i'm mistaken again for something else but point is. It's just 5 guys. And that happens with foreigners too...

iDra ? Or Naniwa ? "Going 28-2". "It's ok"

I just don't see faceless where you seem (or people ?) to see.

Of course again... Hope it's better explained

On October 01 2015 20:07 brickrd wrote:
i hope one day we have a scene where people don't have negativity toward players because of their race or country of origin :/

On October 02 2015 01:42 SNSeigifried wrote:

The whole point of my comments were to say that if the player doesn't have emotion or can't find a way to connect with the audience people have trouble finding a reason to root for them i never said all koreans don't have emotion but you are trying to say that what i said is 100% false which is very inaccurate because their are a good chunk of koreans who fall in to category. I also never said all foreigners have emotion or a way to connect with the audience but it is easier for them to do it just by the fact that they speak English and are overseas more then the koreans. Also strategies within games aren't emotions just saying and their are more then five guys I'm not gonna name all of them i was giving examples...

On October 02 2015 07:32 Circumstance wrote:
Let's just get rid of this part of the discussion now, because it's both idiotic and inflammatory.

So, to make things ENTIRELY clear:

This.

Has.

Nothing.

To.

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Skin.

Color.

On October 02 2015 07:38 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:


All those asian-americans/canadians and you forgot Hitman?

On October 02 2015 08:30 rotta wrote:
Meanwhile, TRUE is like