[crAzerk]

Originally Posted by dippa

when you practice as hard as the old BW pros do, and you have access to quite literally a mountain of information - while your opponents have none on you
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I don't understand - why do people talk about them 'practising so hard' as if the current GSL players don't practice just as hard? I mean, we all have 24 hours in a day don't we?

[ToRDolo]

Originally Posted by crAzerk

I don't understand - why do people talk about them 'practising so hard' as if the current GSL players don't practice just as hard? I mean, we all have 24 hours in a day don't we?

Yeah, I think when I imagine BW pros practicing somehow their hour of practice is worth a lot more than an hour of anyone else's. Which I guess is probably wrong, though, - referring to the saying 'Hard work beats talent, till talent works hard' - maybe this is a case of the talent working hard?

[opterown]

Originally Posted by crAzerk

I don't understand - why do people talk about them 'practising so hard' as if the current GSL players don't practice just as hard? I mean, we all have 24 hours in a day don't we?

GSL players don't really have well-structured training regimens; their coaches are a bit less focused and fewer per team, and they have less motivation since they are less well paid. This means that most of their practice is a bit all over the place, and is mostly on ladder rather than custom games (especially so for players who aren't in teamhouses)

Of course, this is not true for all the ESF teams, but it seems to be the trend.

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by opterown

GSL players don't really have well-structured training regimens; their coaches are a bit less focused and fewer per team, and they have less motivation since they are less well paid. This means that most of their practice is a bit all over the place, and is mostly on ladder rather than custom games (especially so for players who aren't in teamhouses)

Of course, this is not true for all the ESF teams, but it seems to be the trend.

Most GSL teams have just as structured training regiments as kespa teams their coaches come from kespa teams and some have gone back to coach kespa teams, earlier it wasn't like that but since the kespa players have come to GSL, most esf teams have gotten off their asses. most practice like I explain in this blog http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=370814 it's pretty clear on which ones havent adopted that practice style

In regards to being paid more, B teamers on kespa teams definitely do NOT get paid more than most esf teams, even S class players get much much much less than people have been spreading around.

The difference is kespa does their business development, esf teams don't have any of that in most cases, but they are learning quickly.


In regards to this thread, nothing can be seen from this data, it is pointless because it doesn't factor in when they were played what server they were on. The matches themselves are skewed on who plays who at the same time.