[TSL] Terran Invites - Page 13

On February 20 2011 08:58 raga4ka wrote:
You invited Nada and Boxer , but didn't invite JulyZerg ... TL i am disappointed . JulyZerg deserved to be invited as much as this 2 players for entertaining us for years , and showing zerg players all over the world that zerg can in fact compete with the other 2 races in BW . He is as much of legend as Boxer and Nada , and this is somewhat of a FU to us zerg fans . If you can dump MKP to get Boxer or Nada you might as well dumped Fruitdealer and get July . I guess i have to deal with it , but can't help to feel disappointed about it .

On February 20 2011 09:04 THM wrote:


Wow.. a ton of people replying "Haven't read the post."
To your great dismay, I both listened to the live cast and read the whole OP before posting this.
The part about Loner:

"We also knew that disallowing Asia meant disallowing China and Taiwan. With Sen already being invited from his TSL2 performance, we felt the best way to represent this scene was to invite the best performing player from China. Loner was one of two Chinese invites to Blizzcon 2010 and finished in second place behind Genius. Loner also qualified for Code A in the GSL and was able to retain Code A status for this upcoming season. Based on this, we felt that Loner was the strongest representative from China and thus received an invite. "

Yeah, strongest representative from Chine indeed. But not top 5 representative from Korea/Asia at all. I see the choice of trying to make the tournament as global as possible by inviting a chinese player, but still express my disappointment that the 5 invites were not given to the top 5 players of this area. Foxer was top 5 in Asia basically all the time starting from his Final appearance in GSL 2 until now. ( Top 8 in GSL 3 where he lost to winner MC, then another finals).

TLDR: It's your league, you can choose whoever you like, and overall the invitees are AMAZING, almost perfect imho, just saying what I don't like.

Also please understand the timing of the invites, these were organised and coordinated in early January since for tournaments like the TSL to be successful, you get on top of your invites early otherwise things turn into an organisational mess. We had no idea that Moonglade would be travelling to Korea, nor that MarineKingPrime would make a second finals appearance. While these events may not have changed the invite list at the end of the day, they were never present in our discussions since they had not happened yet.