[TSL] Tyler, Strelok, FruitD, Thorzain Interviews - Page 18

Bluerain

United States348 Posts

March 18 2011 00:03 GMT

#341

On March 17 2011 04:03 rafaliusz wrote:
I'm suprised how many people are bashing Strelok here, he's totally right. But when I think about it most of these people are very new to Starcraft, e-sport and competitive gaming. You guys don't even know how it was before SC2, koreans didn't give a shit to foreign scene for 10 years, why would we start inviting them to our events? To be politically correct and avoid those ridiculous "stop being racist" comments? That is insane.
Moreover there is another obvious reason. All these top korean pros will just own foreigners, before IEM nobody really knew how big the skill gap between these two scenes is. Now we know that we can't match with them in skill and the foreigner-v-korean games will be completely one-sided. I guess TL didn't know that before invites and even I thought that the gap is not that huge. If there are smart people in TL staff I'm sure they regret their decision and are scared of the upcoming games. I suspect that TSL4 will be foreign-only again.

i dont mind watching koreans crush NA/euro players. it's quite entertaining.

VonDarkmore

Australia193 Posts

March 18 2011 01:54 GMT

#342

Great job TL, really good to see the players thoughts on other people and themselves excellent question list.
The best of luck to them all specially Tyler who has a tough bracket and fruit dealer who is being a bit hard on himself

Ansinjunger

United States2451 Posts

March 18 2011 04:48 GMT

#343

On March 18 2011 07:53 Blueblister wrote:

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No they wouldn't, they could just have allowed foreigners living in Korea to participate and thereby making them ineligible from being invites.

Strelok has a valid point. As the invites was obviously based on (1) promoting players on Team Liquid (2) popularity and only lastly results it undermines the "logistical argument". An invite system put in place to replace a qualification system would only be based on results.

The "logistical argument" is also language barrier. Yes, there's Korean/English speaking people involved who invited the Korean players currently in TSL3, but if there were opens, that's a considerably larger number of players to coordinate, and instead of simply a bracket and a schedule, there has to be explanations for how the qualifiers work, and so on. It's not impossible by any means, but TL only has so much resources since it's volunteer work, generally.

I can see how it feels unfair to work so hard solely to get into TSL and have others simply invited, but I'd rather see us welcoming Koreans as potential friends and guests into the foreign community, which is at least one reason why FD's interview was a bit generic (guests should be manner too). His interview already referenced, in which he jokes about the Infested Terran against Nada on Arkanoid, was fantastic and anything but the "typical" some are complaining about.

Dasdude

United States45 Posts

March 18 2011 05:01 GMT

#344

Fruitdealer has such a badass pic. It's all white guys in weird poses (still love you Tyler!) and then this beastly Korean with a smirk, looking down upon the camera... I still think he's going to roll Thorzain, no matter what he thinks himself.
"The sun's either going to rise tomorrow, or turn into a tomato..." -iNcontroL on Fruitdealer vs Thorzain