It's shocking right? It's like when a monolithic organization thats completely detached from the day to day's of running tournaments, have little incentive to create a practical structure, and literally no knowledge at all on how to do it, they tend to do poorly. We should consider ourselves fortunate blizzard merely destroyed the scene utterly, 5-6 years in, as opposed to right away. They always said they intended to use state granted arbitrary authority (copy right etc) to run the scene. Those years they largely only destroyed the game through inept design and balancing was a damn grace from God.

Charoisaur

Germany15828 Posts

February 10 2016 05:52 GMT

#25

On February 10 2016 12:55 JDI1 wrote:
Blizzard had to choose between letting the best players win (meaning that foreigners are all out by RO8) and keeping foreigners' interest (with Korean-free tournaments). They wanted to make money so it was obvious they went with the latter.

Foreigners historically came close to Koreans at some point but now they've either lost interest or simply didn't want to practice and fell off.

Because the viewer numbers of DH Leipzig proved that a tournament with the competition of a Go4sc2 cup where all good players are banned from because they are too good truly keeps the interest of foreign viewers.

Cricketer12

United States13949 Posts

February 10 2016 06:13 GMT

#26

On February 10 2016 13:31 NovemberstOrm wrote:
I haven't seen drg in a long time, he looks different a bit o_O

Hes old

Cricketer12

United States13949 Posts

February 10 2016 06:15 GMT

#27

On February 10 2016 13:52 showstealer1829 wrote:

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He doesn't want to play Proleague any more

Which sucks cause he was damn good as well

Lumi

United States1612 Posts

February 10 2016 06:19 GMT

#28

DRG accounts for the vast majority of my remaining interest in SC2 :D Still with ya buddy!

neoghaleon55

United States7434 Posts

February 10 2016 06:41 GMT

#29

I'm happy he's in Code S!
But he looks kind of defeated in that photo...sad.

swissman777

1106 Posts

February 10 2016 06:47 GMT

#30

A little bad translation. I read the interview before and did not have the impression that drg said he was doomed, a little unfortunate however. The reason why drg seems sad is that he realized this alittle too late due to late introduction to 2016 wcs rules by blizz amd theredore he is confused to say the least.

sashkata

Bulgaria3241 Posts

February 10 2016 08:22 GMT

#31

Which team was he going to join anyway? And how many times would he get flown out to a tournament anyway? I don't think it makes much difference for him.

Diabolique

Czech Republic5118 Posts

February 10 2016 09:32 GMT

#32

An hour ago, this thread was named as he said it in the interview after the game, what we all heard. Now, it says "policy changes happened"???? What is this bullshit? This is starting to be like the today's media - we do not report, what has been said, as political correctness is more important.

Timelog

Netherlands57 Posts

February 10 2016 10:08 GMT

#33

On February 10 2016 14:52 Charoisaur wrote:

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Well, the numbers do not look half bad imo: http://www.fuzic.nl/franchises/dreamhack/ Even better, compared to last years DH open tourmanets the viewer number were ~10k higher. IF that trend continues, then yes, is basically proves the new system works