To be expected with koreans barred from international tournaments. Outside of Bunny I can't even recall when a foreign terran performed well at a weekend lan in the last 2 years.

Lucifron was hyped for some time, mainly due to hellbats if I remember corrextly.

Nebuchad

Switzerland12475 Posts

January 13 2016 17:22 GMT

#42

Copyleft is playing

Here's something you didn't need to know: copyleft won what I'm pretty is the second competitive game of starcraft 2 ever, if you follow the bracket.
http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/1on1/release_day_madness1/rankings/

Elentos

55586 Posts

January 13 2016 17:26 GMT

#43

On January 14 2016 02:18 royalroadweed wrote:

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To be expected with koreans barred from international tournaments. Outside of Bunny I can't even recall when a foreign terran performed well at a weekend lan in the last 2 years.

Happy at DH Moscow maybe? *shrug*

MilLorD

Germany36 Posts

January 13 2016 17:28 GMT

#44

On January 14 2016 01:56 Inflicted wrote:
There's someone called MilLorD aha

lineup looks mediocre though, probably gonna watch csgo over this

Not sure if I should be offended by this

GhW0rg

23 Posts

January 13 2016 17:28 GMT

#45

Morrow?

evolsiefil

143 Posts

January 13 2016 17:28 GMT

#46

i really hope hydra violet and polt will win every wcs tournament this year giving a big fat middlefinger to blizzard for ruining sc2 esportscene.

GoloSC2

713 Posts

January 13 2016 17:31 GMT

#47

On January 14 2016 01:42 ossavi09 wrote:
no heromarine, gungfubanda or lambo )= I hope showtime will represent germany well then ^^

I'm a little disappointed with the german lineup as well, guess I'll root for Miezekotze

At least all the strong Frenchmen are coming.

Maybe Lambo missing has sth to do with his team, since Harstem is missing as well?

Elentos

55586 Posts

January 13 2016 17:33 GMT

#48

On January 14 2016 02:31 GoloSC2 wrote:

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Maybe Lambo missing has sth to do with his team, since Harstem is missing as well?

inb4 Invasion eSport in Proleague rumours

Glorfindel!

Sweden1815 Posts

January 13 2016 17:34 GMT

#49

Terrible Terran Line up

GoloSC2

713 Posts

January 13 2016 17:35 GMT

#50

On January 14 2016 02:33 Elentos wrote:

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inb4 Invasion eSport in Proleague rumours

Maybe they take over ~~SBENU~~ Startale?

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

January 13 2016 17:36 GMT

#51

Dream hack why are you so awful sometimes

Years of me having to watch amazing matches be Bo3

Now with hardly any Koreans there you have top 32 all Bo5 with Bo7 finals.

Srs? If I were a conspiracy theorist I would say you kept it Bo3 back then for more volatility to try to get more Koreans upset. But actually it was just you guys taking too long to pick up on a good idea

thickertom

China612 Posts

January 13 2016 17:38 GMT

#52

Who is oldman?
Mainland Chinese Terran?
if he is protoss or zerg, I could just guess a few players.
iA has no time.
Is there much terrible situation of visa about Clannad and so on?
Is his race right?
EDIT:
Clannad told me that he didn't know about it, either.

HsDLTitich

Italy831 Posts

January 13 2016 17:43 GMT

#53

On January 14 2016 02:00 Elentos wrote:

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Polt kinda makes sense since he barely went to smaller tournaments in all of 2015 anyway. The others probably either didn't want to pay the cost for themselves or didn't think it's worth it considering you have to make top 16 to get money and points.

Plus I'm not sure Reynor is allowed to play in WCS Circuit events.

Exactly, age limits: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408414649409734/permalink/1657456817838848/?comment_id=1657480807836449&comment_tracking={"tn":"R"}

It kinda sucks

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

January 13 2016 17:51 GMT

#54

On January 14 2016 01:35 noobPride wrote:
You know, being kind of a fan of korean starcraft, I think this looks pretty good. Of course we all should expect hydra and violet to have a deep run, but I will definitely watch. I can't really tell the difference between korean and foreigner starcraft anyway, and I'm sure we'll have a lot of the much needed personalities, storylines and interesting narratives.

Things that I'd like to see:

- Arium beating a Korean player and walking around waving the US flag as he did in Valencia, that was pretty sick.
- Scarlett doing well and looking awesome.
- Huk giving great interviews and awkward moments with Smix
- Showtime in as many PvPs as possible
- Marinelord making at least ro4
- Firecake getting a prettier Euronics outfit.
- Bly being bly
- And hopefully a foreigner winning the whole thing.

Foreigner probably gonna win this - you lock out all but 2 of the Koreans, then you should be able to win.

I just wish there were more foreigner v. Korean match-up opportunities.

sharkie

Austria18697 Posts

January 13 2016 17:52 GMT

#55

On January 14 2016 01:56 boxerfred wrote:
I'm really interested in the viewer numbers. Friends of mine already stated that they enjoy the Korean bans, while I absolutely don't. Trying not to be too salty, I really want Dreamhack to have high viewer numbers but I also want Koreans at Dreamhack.

DH and high viewer numbers were never a thing the last few years :p
With or without Koreans

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

January 13 2016 17:53 GMT

#56

On January 14 2016 02:21 boxerfred wrote:

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Lucifron was hyped for some time, mainly due to hellbats if I remember corrextly.

Even earlier - he was hyped back in the later period of WoL, back in 2012. He never really lived up to the hype though, partially because of BL-Infestor, but also because he competed in WCS EU where you had veteran Terrans like Mvp, MMA and ForGG, and no foreigner Terran can hold a candle to those guys.

HolydaKing

21254 Posts

January 13 2016 17:54 GMT

#57

Yeah I hate it too and wonder myself if the viewer numbers will be better, I doubt it a lot.

Anyway, gonna be funny if Hydra wins every tournament now and people will still be mad. Probably not gonna happen but I hope so. :D

boxerfred

Germany8360 Posts

January 13 2016 18:23 GMT

#58

On January 14 2016 02:54 HolydaKing wrote:

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I too hope so.