i think they will bring in more viewers, when you make the posts on TL pretty much nobody will care if its a SEA event, but if you marked it such as we have motherfucking good koreans playing in this shit yo, then perhaps a lot of guys will tune in.
I know i never watched a sea event before i moved to australia and i rarely pay attention to any events that im not playing in, cause for me they are really boring.
So basically letting EVERY Korean play is saying 'SEA is so boring we need Koreans to artificially boost competition'. Unless advertised heavily, not many people will even know 'Soulman' or 'yCh' are playing, they played in masters cups etc. and the viewer count was not extraordinary and there wasn't a sudden boost to SEA outside of it. Dunno, feels that way
I think SPR has a good idea for future tournaments like this that I like though, but for this one the way Master initially acted to get all of them to play is what annoyed me.
edit: personally, I enjoy victory and with TA being unable to use Mafia, Light, deth and Pinder, we can't just (not saying Master did EXACTLY this for all members) go on Korea, ask someone to play 100 games and viola, we have new ace players! No. I like the competition to be as fair as possible, of course some teams may be slightly more stacked such as xGKing or TA before the player losses, but even then they are home grown and the best from SEA. I just don't like one team getting all these players 'because then perhaps a lot of guys will tune in'
Last edited by TAEdgE; Fri, 13th-Jan-2012 at 5:37 AM.
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