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With regards to the various new tournaments being held and Sponsorship money from Tt injected into the Masters Cup, i feel like there shld be a re-evaluating of the KR players playing in SEA tournaments.

Now i must admit that im one of the ppl who agreed that KR players shld be allowed to play in SEA tournaments in the hopes of them raising our standards. However, after sometime i feel that it has done more harm than good in our E-sports scene.

What worries me is that, an aspiring Pro player from SEA would have much more difficulties with competition from KR players who wins at every level even in SEA's very own tournaments. For this, Id like to take Iaguz, Rossi and Pig as examples(Note that i did not imform them i was writing this).

As players moving into the Pro scene, they are essentially some of the best players in their region. Its common knowledge that they are not of the standard to compete in the GSL or even most of the major tournaments around the world. To do that, they have invest time into training and that means having no other income except for SC2 Monies. Coaching, Sponsorship and Tournament winnings are basically the only ways for them to earn money and support themselves while they train to become better. Idk muich about sponsorships so ill skip that, but i believe none of them have fixed salary and are at most, paid for their trips down to Lans. Coaching wise, theres only a small pool of students and that doesnt generate much income in the long run.

Which leaves us... Tournament winnings. Now that KR players are playing in almost all of our tournaments like CO, ESL, Masters cup etc etc. There is very little chance of our players winning, esp the big ones like the Masters cup or Dox cup. The arguement from the other camp is, the Koreans will raise our standard and create interest. My question is, which Top sea player doesnt have a KR account that he can hop on if he wish to train and raise his standard? In fact, they cant do so because its hard to win money via tournaments. This actually discourage players to go pro full time, with no time to train(Need to earn money dur), how are they gonna get better?

What i am seeing here is. A KR semi-pro player gets an account(Free usually), mass some games and reach the desired amount to be ''accepted'' by our community. Logins whenever theres a tournament with decent prize winnings, logs out of it after winning it and never comes back until theres another tournament. Not exactly creating any ''interest''.
So how exactly is that raising our standards? I would very much prefer ppl like Pig, Rossi, Iaguz to get win money, train hard and then win more money. At least i get to talk to these guys and they mingle around and even teach the community a thing or 2 sometimes.

So what are your thoughts?

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