[TAEdgE]

Although I keep to the fact that the tournaments sc2sea and others host are SEA tournaments, I have been thinking and in Playhem on NA and EU, and even things like GSL, anyone from out of country can come participate. In TL Open, Koreans play, and in Playhem Violet has some stupid amount of wins (double figures). The reason I can see myself and a few others may be turned off is that compared to NA, SEA has much less depth, and therefore bringing in even the lower pool of top Koreans just puts us to shame.

I however have come to a realisation that i would love them to play, but I just feel that the team 'SPR' will not be 'SPR' if they win. It won't feel the same. I feel that SPR should have had something like two Tier 1 teams, one for SEA based players and 1 for KR based players. I just like the best team winning, and if SPR wins I won't help but feel that they are not the best team in SEA (with all due respect, i love SPR and the members, and respect the skill). SEACL at heart is competition, which is what i've looked forward to all along, but I do like a just and fair winner, so i've just been thinking about SPR winning and although the motives of Balloon, Soulman and RyooMak are completely innocent and completely in love of competition, they take the glory and possibly money and it just feels 'weird'. Not wrong, but weird.

However i've come to feel that feeling 'weird' does not constitute me saying that they can't participate. What I just wrote may not make much sense and things do not connect but I am just confirming that my opinion sort of leans to 'let them play'. I still believe that for THIS tournament, the players need to be active as they are representing TEAMS, not themselves.

SEA has grown since the 5th-9th masters cups and will continue to grow with the LAN events getting much bigger, and the skill level intensifying in my opinion. Dox Cup had invites and was amazing, and I think more tournaments should advertise to koreans, maybe playing off of Lights invite idea - invite 8 koreans to sign up, and first come first serve. The more active ones will most likely see the invite first anyway so just throwing ideas around.