[Narse]

Originally Posted by Dox

Half of the players in the WCS America Ro32 bracket were Koreans. If they weren't allowed to play, we'd have such fantastic matches such as desRow vs SeleCT. Oh boy!

In WCS Europe we had 6 (of 8) Koreans advance from the Ro32. Looks like American players could learn a lot from the Europeans.

And that's why there are group stages to weed out the people who are not as good.... like in every single tournament ever played in any region.

I only mentioned the tournament that was closest to being "olympic" style.

Your argument could be used for the regular olympics in hockey... sometimes there is a dark horse that plays really well (Latvia). Just because you don't like seeing certain match ups doesn't mean others wouldn't mind seeing it. I'm an advocate of region locking to the extent of regions being able to merge into others.. example: Oceanic into NA.

it's also in regards to pride which no one has mentioned yet. How awesome would it be regardless of what position you place in to be able to represent your country in something you love??

[Dox]

Event was a complete failure, /thread

[Narse]

So many chickens died.

[MezjE]

Originally Posted by Dox

Good topic for discussion, but is an opinion piece really front page news?

This.

This is heavily opinionated, as Dot said someone always loses. As long as the best players get what they deserve I see nothing wrong with it to be honest. A world tournament consists of the world's best players, if they are all Korean than so be it.