Imo I'm looking forward to the 13Asia invites the most as it'll give us a chance to see how Korea fairs against the rest of the world. Sure we know that foreigners have had mixed success in the GSL, but it's only been a small half-dozen at most and even top foreign players.

This will finally give us a chance to see how a formidable group of koreans fairs against an equally formidable group of foreigners, as compared to a few koreans with a TON of foreigners and vice-versa.

pred470r

Bulgaria3139 Posts

January 01 2011 21:37 GMT

The money.

QueueQueue

Canada1000 Posts

January 01 2011 21:37 GMT

I am liking the ever increasing prize pools we are seeing. Bodes well for E-sport development outside of Korea.

SoL[9]

Portugal1370 Posts

January 01 2011 21:39 GMT

Mondragon returns to reclaim is 1place!!!

jax1492

United States1625 Posts

January 01 2011 21:43 GMT

#10

I honestly forgot how much of a beast Mondragon is, can't wait to see him again.

blahman3344

United States2013 Posts

January 01 2011 21:46 GMT

#11

wait, mondragon is back?! Sweet! I love mondragon, and I was wondering what happened to him. Glad to see old faces coming back up.

Special Endrey

Germany1897 Posts

January 01 2011 21:54 GMT

#12

at first i thought "WOOTz - 34.500 $ prize pool" - but if you have a minimum amount of prize money (lets say at 5000+, people can't really play better if more money is involvded)

then i thought "WOOTz" all the koreans participating i kinda cool until i realized im not sure that the koreans/asians can really play at 100% because of the lag US<>EU<>KR<>US (i experienced this 1st hand when casting the games of the kaspersky new years invitational. MC vs TOP for example)

so im going with the tyler video - even tho its only my 3rd choice - its still the one i've choosen and its awesome

gj on that

Foreplay

United States1154 Posts

January 01 2011 22:17 GMT

#13

On January 02 2011 06:19 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
Mondragon of course. SC without Mondragon just doesn't feel right.

Exactly. My biggest beef with sc2 so far has been no Mondragon to root for.

mOnion

United States5349 Posts

January 01 2011 22:19 GMT

#14

anyone who has any idea what Broodwar is KNOWS that mondragon coming back is the true cherry on top

holy shit I actually had to close my mouth from the shock when i saw that, INSANITY

Zim23

United States1649 Posts

January 01 2011 22:27 GMT

#15

I loved all of these announcement, but I've gotta be honest, that teaser trailer was pretty fucking epic. It really got me excited, and everything else was the icing on the cake.

tyr

France1518 Posts

January 01 2011 22:29 GMT

#16

Mondragon hands down.
That guy was arguably the best bw foreigner before Idra spent some time in Korea and seeing him disappear from sc2 after a while was pretty sad.
Now that he comes back, I can't wait to watch his games. Very excited about this.

Talin

Montenegro9071 Posts

January 01 2011 22:40 GMT

#17

It's probably the prizepool, but I'm gonna go with Tyler sketch because it's cooler than money. =P

I'm not too happy at all about Korean "invites" really. I can see how it adds quality to the tournament, but I'll be sad if one of them ends up winning it. Unless it's Nada somehow. =D

Crais

Canada2120 Posts

January 01 2011 22:46 GMT

#18

TYLER TRAILER
holy crappppppp