Void transferred from Kongdoo to LA Gladiators

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#Void_Thankyouforallyourefforts

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Bischu available for trade? :thinking:

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Nah he'll still be needed as translator most likely. Fissure has great English, but I think part of the immediate success that he gave to Gladiators in stage 2 was due to Bischu

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RIP Bischu and iRemix.

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Korean population of OWL steadily growing

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So thats a rip Bischu??? I felt like he was the rock of the team, I mean he was "Captain" right? And I think he called. That sucks because he wasn't bad.

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Pixelfish

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Love Void but poor Bischu :(

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Well there slowly is going the chance to see the west improve, now everyone's looking for Koreans. :)

Was expected, as long as loads of money are in the mix, they just want the immediate results.

What honestly leaves me more bafled is how they are also stacking their academy/B teams with Koreans, this is imo only bad, for both the Western scene AND the Korean one.

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Well there slowly is going the chance to see the west improve, now everyone's looking for Koreans. :)

I don't understand the deal with Koreans. It's because you think that good players from Korea "steal" the spotlight from western players? Before OWL the Korean scene was one of the most competitive scenes, maybe the most competitve, so it is only natural that many top tier players come from there.

What honestly leaves me more bafled is how they are also stacking their academy/B teams with Koreans, this is imo only bad, for both the Western scene AND the Korean one.

I am confident in the opposite of what you state, actually: having teams of mixed nationality made the global scene richer, and allowed players from the west, which for the most part had played confined in their own continent, to confront the best players and teams from around the world.

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Eh you interpreted it too negatively.

Bringing Koreans to the west should improve the west overall, bringing their coaches, even more, absolutely nothing wrong in it.

Filling 90% (hyperbole, but not too much) of top teams with Koreans means the best coaches, the best players, the money is going to the ones that already were ahead, instead of (what I hoped) actually mixing them with western players, allowing those to experience esports like Koreans do in their country.

My second point is that, an academy (imo) should always grow local talent, if its parent major league doesn't.

The part about also the Korean scene getting "worse" is just speculation on my side.

There is a finite number of talents in a population and OW has to compete also with other games, if you keep removing from that scene the best talents, you'll eventually reach a point where all the available local talent will go to a different game, as it becomes more popular in the region.
Streamers, personalities are more relatable Even more so for very young guys) if they are "close" to you, for example time of the matches/streams, etc...

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Glad that Void is able to join the OWL ranks, but worried for contenders cause if players are just gonna transfer now and then to OWL then the teams on contenders lose key players + have to replace them and train their teamwork all over again. Like with Saya, Architect and Void.

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That's the point of contenders. It's a farm system.