[Peleus]

Originally Posted by TAChadMann

This league is about developing the SEA community. Not, which is the best team in the world.. but in SEA.

Why is this so hard to understand? - the goal of this league is NOT to give out money.. its about promoting the SEA scene. Grass roots development.. if everyone improves from it, we will be able to challenge Koreans eventually. But its about developing the scene internally.. not an open tournament, but a tournament within sc2SEA and finding out which team is the best within the SEA community.

I'm thinking about making a post on this later, but I think people genuinely have different feelings as to the best way to go about developing the scene.

Some people I feel want to almost protect what we have in a way, and shelter it allowing our current top SEA based players opportunities to win tournaments and gain prize money to 'help develop eSports' in SEA (I may touch on that later).

Others believe that the best way to develop eSports in SEA is to allow all comers into the tournaments, which may have the effect of firstly raising the general skill level, but also may have the effect of the world perceiving our server at a higher level than what it does currently. This leads to many of our SEA based pro's gaining a higher reputation due to the perceived higher challenge they go up against.

Both sides I think want eSports to grow, I think they simply have different idea's of whats the best way to go about it.

[syfChadMann]

Originally Posted by PeleusSPR

I'm thinking about making a post on this later, but I think people genuinely have different feelings as to the best way to go about developing the scene.

Some people I feel want to almost protect what we have in a way, and shelter it allowing our current top SEA based players opportunities to win tournaments and gain prize money to 'help develop eSports' in SEA (I may touch on that later).

Others believe that the best way to develop eSports in SEA is to allow all comers into the tournaments, which may have the effect of firstly raising the general skill level, but also may have the effect of the world perceiving our server at a higher level than what it does currently. This leads to many of our SEA based pro's gaining a higher reputation due to the perceived higher challenge they go up against.

Both sides I think want eSports to grow, I think they simply have different idea's of whats the best way to go about it.

If international pro teams and Koreans start dominating all of SEA's 1v1 and team league tournaments.. are the SEA players going to sign up to them?.. knowing that they will just get rolled, with no chance of making any winnings from it?... Also, the reason why SEA players aren't as good as other international players is they don't have the income available from winnings and sponsorship to play 100%.. most have University or work commitments. So if the Koreans win everything, and the SEA players can't make a decent living from it, all the SEA players will eventually give up the game full time and focus on a 'normal' career. There for in the end - no SEA player can go pro, because they don't have the chance of developing their skills.

If you want SEA to be competitive we have to grow the scene internally, until there is enough advertising pull to allow SEA players more significant sponsorship and earnings so they can spend 100% of their time focusing on their sc2 skills as a profession. When that happens, the top SEA players will be able to make the transition into a complete international competitive arena.

Otherwise, the current situation and more-so if the SEA scene fills up with Koreans looking for easy money, the only international stars will be the freaks with amazing natural talent and ability to develop on their own, like mOOnGLaDe..

Opening the doors to international pro's too early will hurt the scene, not help it. If players want a challenge with the best, then they can sign up to international events outside of SEA or buy themselves a Kr account for ladder practice.

IMO the league would be restricted to SEA only residents.. or a set number of non-SEA residents permitted to each team... it IS a SEA Clan league after all....