so umm, you realize that sc2 players are also contracted which also means having a salary on top of whatever they may earn in tournaments (namely GSL) just exactly like SC1, right? lol.

and no, i most certainly did not claim that i know more than a korean in regards to sc or sc2, however whats clear is that sc1 is old, and sc2 is slowly/eventually (but surely, as we can see in GSL, and a huge MAJORITY of sc1 players moving on to sc2 as their contracts expire) replacing it. and kespa is dying thanks to blizzard.

let me ask you one golden question:

if SC1 is such a godlike game and it supersedes sc2 in whatever fashion you are claiming now, why are you having that sc2 signature? why play something that isnt as good (sc1) ?

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Added on September 17, 2010, 6:13 pm

well its not on tv, how can sc2 be successful?

Huge majority by you mean tester, Iron, Idra and all the retired gamers? They almost accomplished nothing in their SC1 career that's why?

Here's Tester's SC1 track record
All:  45-69  (39.47%)

Here's Iron's Record (and yeah his real name is Jang Min Chul)
All:  1-9  (10.00%)

And Here's Idras Korean Record
All:  2-4  (33.33%)

You wonder why I'm playing SC2? Cause its a fun game? Yeah. Do I still play SC1? Yeah. Why I don't have a Iccup signature, cause I didn't make 1?
If you think GSL is successful, just look at the crowd, its not even half of an average proleague audience.

Both Nada and Julyzerg are burnout players, which basically means they have no more ability to compete with the average 20 year old player SC1 pro that probably is better than them in almost most of the time. Switching to SC2 was not a bad choice for them, but the last time I saw their team sent them out for a proleague game was probably 1 year ago.

just as evo pointed above, sc1 and sc2 is a different game. what failed them on sc1 maybe what works for them in sc2. at the end of the day they are earning money. whats the problem then?

and what, sc2 is fun? in your earlier "reasons" on sc2 should be casuals first then esports, and most importantly being a fun game, isnt that whats being achieved for sc2? according to you, it did for you, no?

and why compare crowds on the studio when you know, its not even on television? GSL is now available world wide (for free too may i add, just on SD streams lawl) as opposed to previous "not so easy to acquire" korean pro leagues games. sure, sc2 may not be as winrar as sc1 was in *korea*, *YET*, but considering its scale on the global stage, AND the fact that it is and WILL eventually get pass sc1, who are you kidding lol. will YOU be playing sc1 for your entire life time? stick to 2D sprites for all eternity? the majority is answering no. you're playing sc2, i am playing sc2, i think we share that same answer to that.

Yeah and the fact that GSL is trying to kill the proleague as they are afraid of competition? Did you know that GomTV has been trying to forcefully shuting down the proleagues recently? I'm just disgusted by the fact that so many SC2 players are blinded by the fact that Gretech does not care about SC1 at all. So popular that the official stream limit exceeded its limit? Of course it exceeded its limit, its free.

Of course, it means nothing to you, you never played brood war neither did you ever watched BW pro-gaming, which I did from the start. If Brood War was never popular and well organised by Kespa, do you think there would be GSL today?

Blah Blah move on? What about all those progamers that trained like mad just to master SC1? You expect them to just move to SC2?

I'm also pretty surprised that they just launched the tourney just for the sake of money without even patching the game 1st and developing a better map pool, it just seems unprofessional to me.

why not?

its like in real life, a real job. a new software is released, employees are expected to adapt, or quit their job.
apply this to sc1 and sc2. you either move on and adapt, or stay behind get taken over.

you think RL would be so kind to wait for EVERYONE? oh hell no lol. then again i work in IT field, where its a battle field constantly as the market is too damn saturated lol. just like an engineer thats damn expert in windows XP. windows 7 is the current OS, and the company is moving forward for it. you think the company would not move on because their of their win xp pro engineer? no. the company would just reassign or fire that engineer, and hire someone thats pro at win7. thats a harsh reality of life.

At Ro32
There are only 6 zergs, 15 terrans and 11 tosses made it through

At the current state of the GSL, only a maximum number of 3 zergs will reach the ro16 coupled with the crappy maps. I'll say this GSL should have started after a few patches and a more balanced map pool.

It's because its not played at a higher level, once better players play it, you can see the difference when imbalances come in. I'm not saying the zerg players are awful, its just that I believe they should have launched this competition a bit later. You do have to realized that they are giving lots of money for a competition which was one sided in the first place.
Don't make silly comments, I don't respond to retards that post that way.

But you do have to note that both OGszenio and Idra did not make it leaves only 3 zergs left. Somehow, I knew Idra would never make it, he just has nothing a good player would show.

Hongunprime is pretty good as a toss player, I've seen many replays where he expands and gets delayed phoenix which in one case even catches check off guard. Do note that check was a pretty darn good WC3 player before he swapped games.

The WC3 scene is pretty bleak right now, but I still respect the players a lot, many of them are moving to SC2 which I'm really kinda sad about it.

Grubby Commentates

You can watch some recent good games here with grubby commentating.

Here's and excerpt from Idra's match against random chinese dude
He loses 5-2 and replies

There was still quite a lot of problems when CS Source came out.
Though valve have continuously patched it to make it better.

i dont know man, compared to STC (who won against tester...) kinda pales. but still... STILL. wtf checkprime

speaking of ensnare, i think anypro being owned on the 2 colo changed the entire shit completely. the 2 colo COULD've changed the outcome despite the income advantage. but oh wells. 2 free colo gone.