[TSL] Terran Invites - Page 18

On February 20 2011 13:52 Exchange wrote:
Boxer? WAT? He is too weak. MKP is much better.

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On February 20 2011 17:10 hmunkey wrote:
I personally think MKP should have been invited even if he didn't make a second GSL finals based on his performance in non-GSL tournaments, but I guess I can understand the rationale for leaving him out. What I disagree with is Loner's invite -- it seems like pandering to the Chinese community more than anything else.

Could we have made exceptions for our invites so they could compete in the TSL Qualifiers? Unfortunately, no we could not. Knowing that there is extreme delay when playing on EU from Korea, we didn't feel that forcing the players try and qualify in these conditions was the right move for a professional tournament. The poor KR-EU conditions would mean that the Korea based gamers would be trying to qualify primarily through the NA Tournaments. This would mean that the qualification would be incredibly unfair for the NA based gamers and as a result create an unfair qualification system. We believe in a fair qualifier, so this wasn't an option. It's also hard to deny that the TSL would not have felt complete without the addition of these players. Without the staff capability of running TL level TSL Qualifier we felt that this was the best way to create a professional international touranment.