[TSL] Tyler, Strelok, FruitD, Thorzain Interviews - Page 13
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Ghad
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I really respect Strelok for being totally opinionated and up front. He has paid his dues and is entitled to his opinion, and him vs Nony is a great matchup. Also I am such a Fruitdealer fanboy. :D | ||
Ansinjunger
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On March 17 2011 02:53 Ghad wrote: Excellent interviews all around! I really respect Strelok for being totally opinionated and up front. He has paid his dues and is entitled to his opinion, and him vs Nony is a great matchup. Also I am such a Fruitdealer fanboy. :D I'm not sure qualifying for a tournament someone else sets up, knowing in advance the format, and then complaining about what the tournament organizers chose to do, qualifies as paying one's dues. If he wants to state, "I would have set it up differently," fine, but he didn't leave it at that. On a related note, in NA and Korea we probably ignore most of the European scene, except the fan favs like White-Ra and TLO, for example. I can see how it seems unfair that there not be any EU or NA invites, but it is TL's tournament, and they can invite all six of their players, who are certainly among the top foreigners anyway. Also, the TL qualifiers might have been hard, but just getting into GSL is hard too, and they had the format worked out for a long time. | ||
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kawaiiryuko
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Strelok is free to have his own opinion - but I think it would be a tough argument to make that any of the people he mentioned (Socke, Sjow, Mana, Tarson) could legit-beat any of the invited Koreans. I mean, it'd be great if this was like the NCAA tourney with a bajillion spots, but y'know, you do what you gotta do. | ||
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On March 16 2011 22:29 Velr wrote: Or you could say it's boring and a pretty "Asian" thing... Most/many other sports are nothing like that. A little "shittalk" is totally normal in a competetive enviroment. I know this comment was a few pages back, but many great sports player are humble and absolutely do not shit talk at all. For example, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are always humble and "bland" in interviews but they let their skill and results do all the talking. They know they are professionals and are role models to many people. Many shit talkers in competitive sports that I heard of are not well respected in my opinion. Not to mention Korean Progammers shit talk from time to time ie. the GSTL. | ||
gamefan15
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On March 17 2011 02:08 Riotbot wrote: Lingering familiarities from the BW era scenes being more isolated doesn't justify it at all in my book. That's just silly. That's like saying it's okay for someone to be racist, because in the past they had participated in a war against whoever they're racist towards. The reason Koreans weren't in the previous TSLs was due to the skill gap just being too great. Now that that's clearly changed and foreigners have a legitimate perceived shot at taking a tournament seeded with top korean players, there's no longer a reason for them to not participate. I'm with HolyArrow. That last paragraph just came across as really xenophobic and I lost a lot of respect for Sterlock there. Otherwise though, I'm loving these pre-game interviews. I'm getting more hyped every day. I really hope FD catches a break, I felt bad for the guy. aside from the discussion I wanted to say something to the part I marked bold. I am not totally sure about that. ofc its not like it was in bw. but the korean sc2 progamers train probably in nearly the same conditions and schedule like the sc 1 progamers whereas I dont expect "foreigners" which dont live in a korean programing house atm to have the same quality and amount of training. in IEM guys like Moon, Squirtle, Ace wouldnt even to be considered such top tier players like Mvp, Nestea etc and still you could see the result. again I am not saying that I myself would like to execlude them. I like it better how TSL did this.. just that I can understand if you from a foreign player perspective kind of feel more uncomfortable to go against them. but ofc I would be glad if the korean and foreign scene will move more together and if on the long run both can compete on the same level. | ||
HowSoOnIsNow
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''How did it feel to get your command center infested back in the days of BW..'' That`s a troll question right there. Fruit`s notorious for posting troll post on PlayXP while drunk. And right now, it`s his first Foreigner Tournament, and its the first time meeting us, and he`s being a nice guy about it. You`d prefer a guy kicking at your door, screaming ''Helloooooo bitches'' while entering your place? And this is not boxing, i wouldn`t want SC to turn like that, a smack talk fest, made by nerds. How ridiculous would that be. Like Nerd please, 99.9% of the nerds that play SC cant back their smacktalk, they would never talk like that in the Streets to no one. Most of the shit talkers, they cant back it up in real life. That`s not being real to me. | ||
mordk
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Ones I'd like to see win TSL3: -FD -White-Ra -Jinro -MC | ||
Ballack
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rafaliusz
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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. | ||
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