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On August 01 2013 22:44 Clefairy wrote: My heart is fluttering like a bachelor getting married in two days.
Nice post. I've really warmed to Woongjin Stars over 2013 despite having almost 0 familiarity with them from the BW days.
And I'm going to have to steal this quote for future use.
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I'd be very interested to find out which players from other teams are practising with players from Woongjin Stars and STX Soul. Does anyone have any inside information?
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On August 02 2013 18:14 Fuchsteufelswild wrote: I'd be very interested to find out which players from other teams are practising with players from Woongjin Stars and STX Soul. Does anyone have any inside information?
I'd say It's very unlikely they practice outside of their own teams for the PL finals, you take no risks in exposing your strategies. you never know who your friend in another team is telling stuff to.
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Hmm, maybe, but at least in individual finals players will thank players on other teams for practising with them.
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This is such a good point. You'd always expect to see KT, SKT, Samsung or Oz (think 2007) in the finals, it'd be quite abnormal if it wasn't some combination of the above. I used to always get annoyed if my favorite team (you know) didn't make it, and not really care when the lesser teams managed. But after reading this I realize, those 4 up there can take a break. The last time Woongjin or STX made it to the finals was ... 2004? What? Same sort of distance probably goes for eStro WeMade or ACE (I should really look these up).
Its always great to hear the coaches' perspectives. Players, in interviews, are focused on their practice achievement and support of the overall team, but coaches not only have the same passion and strength of heart as each player, they're also responsible for leading the whole thing. Not just as a player captain for a year or two, but for year after year.
So for now on, I won't reproach the Proleague round if the favorites don't make it to the finals, I'll commend it, because they deserve it, and they want it much more.
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On August 02 2013 12:48 StarStruck wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2013 09:36 Talin wrote: Goes to show how much history there is behind all these teams. When they say "we haven't been in the finals for 10 years", it sounds like someone's talking about football or something.
I have to admit that I'm not super thrilled about the finals, but it was well deserved by both teams and probably a good thing for SPL. Doesn't help when they lose talent to bigger teams man. Your not thrilled because you are a SKT Fan lmao.
Can't recall the last starter who left STX or Woongjin to sign for a bigger team. I suppose not counting mvp who switched to a different game before the rest of his team did. If anything they both got boosted by eSTRO players. Most of their problems seem to originate from within the actual companies anyway.
On the off chance you were referring to MBC case, it's been 6 years since those transfers, get over it.
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I share the feeling that audiences are shrinking, it's pretty obvious here at Asus ROG (the amount of people is like 5k but SC2 isn't just drawing that much audience). At the same time you see LoL everywhere, I even had the chance to observe Taeja and other Korean pros play LoL 30 minutes before their group started.
Now this game on the other hand... GO STX!!!!!!!!
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what a great article, thnx for translating
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Was just thinking i didn't know who to cheer for. Now i know.
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On August 02 2013 18:30 Dodgin wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2013 18:14 Fuchsteufelswild wrote: I'd be very interested to find out which players from other teams are practising with players from Woongjin Stars and STX Soul. Does anyone have any inside information? I'd say It's very unlikely they practice outside of their own teams for the PL finals, you take no risks in exposing your strategies. you never know who your friend in another team is telling stuff to. i read some BW interviews about teams practicing with other teams though for PL finals? or do i remember incorrectly?
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On August 02 2013 21:31 opterown wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2013 18:30 Dodgin wrote:On August 02 2013 18:14 Fuchsteufelswild wrote: I'd be very interested to find out which players from other teams are practising with players from Woongjin Stars and STX Soul. Does anyone have any inside information? I'd say It's very unlikely they practice outside of their own teams for the PL finals, you take no risks in exposing your strategies. you never know who your friend in another team is telling stuff to. i read some BW interviews about teams practicing with other teams though for PL finals? or do i remember incorrectly?
SKT practiced with Team 8 the last BW proleague finals if I remember correctly
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Ah yeah, now that you reminded me you're right. skt practiced with t8 for the 11-12 pl finals. It probably depends on if the coach of stx or wjs is really close with the coach of another team.
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On August 02 2013 21:39 Thinasy wrote:Show nested quote +On August 02 2013 21:31 opterown wrote:On August 02 2013 18:30 Dodgin wrote:On August 02 2013 18:14 Fuchsteufelswild wrote: I'd be very interested to find out which players from other teams are practising with players from Woongjin Stars and STX Soul. Does anyone have any inside information? I'd say It's very unlikely they practice outside of their own teams for the PL finals, you take no risks in exposing your strategies. you never know who your friend in another team is telling stuff to. i read some BW interviews about teams practicing with other teams though for PL finals? or do i remember incorrectly? SKT practiced with Team 8 the last BW proleague finals if I remember correctly Yes you do remember correctly!
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As someone who has been an STX fan AND a woongjin fan since the times of old when sparkyz, hwaseung, mbc, wemade etc still existed the only regrets I have for these finals are that this didn't happen before hybrid proleague and that one of these teams must lose. Finally a (S)KTless finals. I hope that regardless of what happens in these finals, both teams can stay afloat and support their players.
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