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Jisall
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2054 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-30 08:42:33
January 29 2012 09:31 GMT
#1
Alright I like this community, late night Gsl watching runs talking the shit, making retarded puns that are fucking awesome. Most of the people here are very cool, laid back and want to add to this house party we call team liquid.
There has been a build-up of frustration in me which i felt the need to release in this blog section since, i doubt anyone will actually read this, but it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to get this rant the hell outa me before I start fights in the forum and get kicked out of the party for drunken rage. There is two major things that have been bothering me the past few months.

1. This whole notion that Koreans are inherently better at this game then foreigners.
Now I know nothing of brood war, but apparently there wasn't a big foreigner scene, so koreans dominated the shit outa it. This is SC2, not brood war. there is a huge foreigner scene and just because someone is korean does not mean he auto-wins against a foreigner unless lag, lack of sleep, the korean wasn't taking this seriously, or any other of the millions of excuses used cause him to lose. All these excuses get at my nerves more then anything else. This "skill gap" that exists in my opinion is imaginary. Sc2 is half mechanics half mind game. People say there is a skill gap, this gets into the players head, and they think they actually are worse, they put more stress on themselves to work the mechanics, and thusly lose the mind game. This skill gap only exists because people believe it exists. Example, Stephano, he didn't give a fuck, he just did his build, and did it fucking good. He started roflstomping people badly. "But those are just B-teamers". No, no they are not. This a inferiority complex you need to erase. You make a build, you perfect it, and you win with it. Simple as that. So what does this have to do with this korean supremacy bullshit?? I'm saying it's imaginary, it's all in your head, and as soon as we all remove it from our brain the sooner we will stop belittling foreign players hard-work by saying the only reason it worked was lag, etc.

2. People bringing up lag as an issue in KR-EU match-ups specifically.
The IPL fight club between Nerchio and Jjakji really brings this one home for me. 5-4 in incredibly close games, and people at the end attempting to guard there ego's conception of korean dominance start talking about how the only reason it was close was the lag issue. Someone even said he wasn't taking it seriously at all… I digress before I start flaming. These games were fucking awesome. Nerchio had Jjakji pinned down the first too games with some shit he practiced that Jjakji hadn't seen before. It took him 2 games before he figured it out. Fool me once my bad, Fool me twice your bad. Got to respect the kid, pretty clever. It then went back and forth until it ended in the final game with Jjakji coming out on top. Fucking epic, I am pretty sure we saw every unit each player had in his arsenal. Each player put in work to those games. Then people come in and start complaining that it was that close, they make excuses for why the games were so fucking awesome. …Wait what? Yeah people saying that the games shouldn't have been that close, Jjakji must have been dealing with some lag, he outclasses this EU scrub.. There should be two buttons on each post in TL for shit like this. One is the like button so I can like the funny ass shit people say, cuz people here are pretty fucking funny. And the second is a Bitch-slap button, to slap some sense into some of these guys.

Also going back to TSL 3. Fucking thorzain. Fucking Terminus. Triple expo's on Fruitdealer, snipes the overlord so fruit dealer cannot flood him with roaches until he can get rauders out. sniping creep tumors, sniping gas's. This kid went ape-shit on Fruitdealer. Some of the most retiredly-awesome shit I have ever seen. And this whole thing got written off to lag. I'm about to pull my hair out bro. Next up Adelscott, pioneering mass gateway style vs. terran, solidly dismantles IM_MVP. This kid creates a new style. Pops that shit on MVP, who is most likely confused as shit as to why someone would actually do that. Adelscott wins the mental battle and takes the series. Nope lag bro. All lag.
(insert 5 line paragraph of AHHHHHH!!!!HHHH!H!H!H!)

In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Alright rant part 2 completed. I am going to sleep like a fucking baby tonight.
And to all you who i was talking about reading this. Go watch Nestea lose his first televised ZvZ to Dimaga in a 10-pool.
heres the link: http://www.gomtv.net/2011championship/vod/64001/?set=2&lang=
Who cheese's with the game on the line??
Dimaga <- This guy
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eu.exodus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
South Africa1186 Posts
January 29 2012 09:36 GMT
#2
holy check

nice wall of text there. i didn't read passed 3 lines because it started breaking my eyes
6 poll is a good skill toi have
S2Lunar
Profile Joined June 2011
1051 Posts
January 29 2012 09:46 GMT
#3
On January 29 2012 18:36 eu.exodus wrote:
holy check

nice wall of text there. i didn't read passed 3 lines because it started breaking my eyes


then why comment? :3
DKR
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom622 Posts
January 29 2012 09:47 GMT
#4
Boy you one angry wall of text monster.

Also, no one says Korean's are naturally more gifted; they say they perform better because they have all the time they aren't sleeping to practice the game, a luxury foreigners don't have due to the practice house situation.
"1 base. Cheese man." - MKP. "[MVP] is not stylistic, his style is winning, which is the style you want to have." - Artosis
Uranium
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1077 Posts
January 29 2012 09:52 GMT
#5
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Black people are better at basketball because they are taller and have more fast-twitch muscle fibers (genetics). Hispanics are better at football because they train harder. Koreans are better at Starcraft because of both. Additionally, they have a larger talent pool to draw from since pro gaming is more legitimized in Korea. I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be a foreigner bonjwa, but it's statistically unlikely.

And don't call me a racist. People are different. Claiming that everyone is the same is a crock of neoliberalist bullshit. Diversity is one of the greatest things that the human race has going for it.
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darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
January 29 2012 09:56 GMT
#6
First of all OP, edit your post and break it up. Paragraphs, man.

Secondly though I do agree. I knew watching that nerchio v jjakji game that everyone would say 1) KOREAN IS BETTER and 2) ONLY REASON IT WAS CLOSE CUZ OF LAG

that's what they say every time any foreigner faces any korean, even if both players are connecting to a distant server (as the case in IPL, I believe both players connect to NA)

its sad but, the brainwashed masses + the diehard BW fanboys will always value koreans over foreigners, not recognizing that top foreigners can at least match mid-top koreans (and lets face it, jjakji did win a Code S, but he isn't quite as powerful as MVP or MC yet).. don't let it get to you, just watch the games and have fun, read as little forums as possible if it cheese you off :D
Meta
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States6225 Posts
January 29 2012 10:01 GMT
#7
Koreans practice better, Koreans put up the results (time and time again), so sorry, your opinion lacks evidence. There IS a skill gap whether you "perceive" it or not. That said, foreigners definitely have what it takes to beat Koreans, but it's not consistent at this point..
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yB.TeH
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Germany418 Posts
January 29 2012 10:03 GMT
#8
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
Now I know nothing of brood war, but apparently there wasn't a big foreigner scene, so koreans dominated the shit outa it. This is SC2, not brood war.


oh nice an argument from ignorance, how intelligent of you
there was a huge foreigner bw scene and one won a starleague, but foreigners aren't willing to practice 10h every day so koreans started dominating everything with a high enough skill ceiling, that's why sc2 is popular now because even with little practice you can still compete in gsl code a, code s not so much
eu.exodus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
South Africa1186 Posts
January 29 2012 10:24 GMT
#9
On January 29 2012 18:46 Toppp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2012 18:36 eu.exodus wrote:
holy check

nice wall of text there. i didn't read passed 3 lines because it started breaking my eyes


then why comment? :3


i dont know, maybe so he knows and can fix it so more people will read it?
6 poll is a good skill toi have
Turbovolver
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia2396 Posts
January 29 2012 10:27 GMT
#10
So the OP spends a million lines of his wall of text trying to convince everyone (badly) that there is no skill gap, and then gets inordinately happy every time a Korean loses?

He doesn't even believe his own words.
The original Bogus fan.
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6598 Posts
January 29 2012 10:37 GMT
#11
On January 29 2012 19:27 Turbovolver wrote:
So the OP spends a million lines of his wall of text trying to convince everyone (badly) that there is no skill gap, and then gets inordinately happy every time a Korean loses?

He doesn't even believe his own words.


What I thought after reading through it was pretty much the same... There is still a skill gap even though its smaller than the one in broodwar. Thank God it's smaller, it makes things much more interesting but covering your eyes and pretending it doesn't exist is kind of entertaining as well.

Just please nobody use Idra and Sen's code S as an example. Seriously... those groups were straight out of Hell for both of them lol
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Sinensis
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2513 Posts
January 29 2012 11:05 GMT
#12
Koreans really are inherently better than foreigners at SC. That's not just a fantasy notion.

A foreigner hasn't won a Korean starleague, or even placed, since Grr like a decade ago in Brood War.
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-29 11:09:08
January 29 2012 11:08 GMT
#13
On January 29 2012 20:05 Sinensis wrote:
Koreans really are inherently better than foreigners at SC. That's not just a fantasy notion.

A foreigner hasn't won a Korean starleague, or even placed, since Grr like a decade ago in Brood War.


Elky did !

edit : placed
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
January 29 2012 11:13 GMT
#14
1. is true
2. is relevant although if you practice on the server it isn't so bad

@boonbag by that notion then jinro has placed as well
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writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
January 29 2012 11:41 GMT
#15
On January 29 2012 18:52 Uranium wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Black people are better at basketball because they are taller and have more fast-twitch muscle fibers (genetics). Hispanics are better at football because they train harder. Koreans are better at Starcraft because of both. Additionally, they have a larger talent pool to draw from since pro gaming is more legitimized in Korea. I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be a foreigner bonjwa, but it's statistically unlikely.

And don't call me a racist. People are different. Claiming that everyone is the same is a crock of neoliberalist bullshit. Diversity is one of the greatest things that the human race has going for it.


Just curious...what genetic advantage do Koreans have at SC O_O
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Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
January 29 2012 11:45 GMT
#16
Yeah, adelscott and goody were certainly on the level of MVP and Nestea.
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
January 29 2012 12:02 GMT
#17
Wall of text. O_o

But this post itself seems like a troll from my skim of it. Yes, Koreans are better and will always be better at SC2. Also, online results mean nothing. Especially when someone like Jjakji has way more important things to be focusing on (GSL) that prevent him from showing his real builds.

But I look forward to seeing (insert favorite European players here) in GSL Code S VERY soon! If they truly are good surely they won't be afraid of competing alongside the greatest players in truly meaningful games, where everyone's A game is on display.
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Sethronu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United Kingdom450 Posts
January 29 2012 12:04 GMT
#18
I'm sure MVP was losing MULTIPLE reapers to groups of 4-5 probes in TSL3 vs Adelscott's Nexus first was just because Adelscott is very skilled and had an innovative build and not because MVP couldn't micro due to cross-server latency. :p
hoby2000
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States918 Posts
January 29 2012 12:08 GMT
#19
On January 29 2012 18:52 Uranium wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Black people are better at basketball because they are taller and have more fast-twitch muscle fibers (genetics). Hispanics are better at football because they train harder. Koreans are better at Starcraft because of both. Additionally, they have a larger talent pool to draw from since pro gaming is more legitimized in Korea. I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be a foreigner bonjwa, but it's statistically unlikely.

And don't call me a racist. People are different. Claiming that everyone is the same is a crock of neoliberalist bullshit. Diversity is one of the greatest things that the human race has going for it.


If black people are better at basketball, why are there still white people playing it? If hispanics are better at football, then why are there still WHITE, ASIANS and BLACK people playing it, and doing well?


Your argument has some big holes in it. No one is better at a sport because of their ethnicity because by that logic we could say white people are better at ruling the world because most are born into middle or upper class families. More money = More likely to be succesful = more likely to be a leader in the supposed free world.

However, we both know that white are people are not better at ruling the world - they're just born into better circumstances that foster that type of ideal. There are a lot of black people in the NBA because a lot of them grow up in low class suburbs where they don't have money for video games, or nice cars, or gold rings - They have a public park with a basketball hoop, so that's what they end up learning and becoming good at.

If race plays a card in how good someone is at something, then you have to assume it works for all parts of life. If that were true, then people shouldn't try to go outside the limits of their race's accomplishments... but people do it anyway. TL;DR - Race doesn't mean ANYTHING when it comes to being better at something.



Also, as to not derail this blog, I think the OP has some legit concerns, and I enjoyed reading this entry. It's not really common for me to read blogs in the first place, let alone an entire wall of text with little to no formatting. But your subject matter interested me. I agree that a lot of people down play the abilities of others (see: my reply in the first half of this post) because of supposed restrictions, but in the end... Nerchio played his games pretty well. Jjaki is was obviously a little under prepared for it, but played well enough to win.

I must say that Nerchio is looking pretty damn strong. Hope to see him in future tournaments. I know he was in HSC3, but I want to see him at MLG!
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rd
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States2586 Posts
January 29 2012 12:27 GMT
#20
On January 29 2012 20:41 writer22816 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2012 18:52 Uranium wrote:
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Black people are better at basketball because they are taller and have more fast-twitch muscle fibers (genetics). Hispanics are better at football because they train harder. Koreans are better at Starcraft because of both. Additionally, they have a larger talent pool to draw from since pro gaming is more legitimized in Korea. I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be a foreigner bonjwa, but it's statistically unlikely.

And don't call me a racist. People are different. Claiming that everyone is the same is a crock of neoliberalist bullshit. Diversity is one of the greatest things that the human race has going for it.


Just curious...what genetic advantage do Koreans have at SC O_O


Not a genetic advantage as much as a geographic advantage, having such a small centralized country with excellent infrastructure; Compared to the vastness of NA and Europe.
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
January 29 2012 12:39 GMT
#21
Goddamnit stop calling people you disagree with trolls, it's fucking stupid.
If you thought they were trolls then you wouldn't have to argue against them like this, so even you dont believe they are trolls.
So stop fucking calling people that.
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Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
January 29 2012 12:43 GMT
#22
This was my reaction to reading the Nerchio vs Jjakji thread as well.

It's painfully frustrating to read all the "arguments" based on statistics and shallow assumptions. There's nothing worse on TL than reading through pages and pages of posts made by people who are convinced that they know what they're talking about because they can read data from a TLPD page and check tournament results.
Firesilver
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom1190 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-29 12:58:50
January 29 2012 12:58 GMT
#23
On January 29 2012 21:39 7mk wrote:
Goddamnit stop calling people you disagree with trolls, it's fucking stupid.
If you thought they were trolls then you wouldn't have to argue against them like this, so even you dont believe they are trolls.
So stop fucking calling people that.


I have to agree with this 100%, there's a difference.

Also, like many others have said, paragraphs would really help attract more people to read, it's hard enough as is.
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Baobab
Profile Joined October 2010
Korea (South)153 Posts
January 29 2012 13:55 GMT
#24
Some foreigners are definitely pretty good, and they can beat Korean pros. I don't buy in to all the "it was lag" or "he was tired" or "he didn't care" arguments.

However, generally, Korean pros are way better than their foreign counterparts imo. If you look at GSL and then watch a random foreign tournament, you can immediately see the difference. Also, virtually every foreigner tournament, it always ends up either being the Koreans invitees battling it out for first prize, or a Korean invitee vs. one of the very best foreigners. Saying Koreans aren't overall more skilled than their foreign counterparts is a hard position to adopt, me thinks ^^
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Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
January 29 2012 15:14 GMT
#25
On January 29 2012 21:27 Tyrant0 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2012 20:41 writer22816 wrote:
On January 29 2012 18:52 Uranium wrote:
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Black people are better at basketball because they are taller and have more fast-twitch muscle fibers (genetics). Hispanics are better at football because they train harder. Koreans are better at Starcraft because of both. Additionally, they have a larger talent pool to draw from since pro gaming is more legitimized in Korea. I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be a foreigner bonjwa, but it's statistically unlikely.

And don't call me a racist. People are different. Claiming that everyone is the same is a crock of neoliberalist bullshit. Diversity is one of the greatest things that the human race has going for it.


Just curious...what genetic advantage do Koreans have at SC O_O


Not a genetic advantage as much as a geographic advantage, having such a small centralized country with excellent infrastructure; Compared to the vastness of NA and Europe.

That's not even the gist of it. It's that starcraft BW was such a popular game that it's somewhat expected for a majority of their player base to have a long RTS background. It just gives them a better player pool to choose from, and then those guys get to train around many others just like them rather than amateur warcraft 3 players, and people who scraped B rank on iccup once.
TemujinGK
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States483 Posts
January 29 2012 15:16 GMT
#26
On January 29 2012 20:13 Plexa wrote:
1. is true
2. is relevant although if you practice on the server it isn't so bad

@boonbag by that notion then jinro has placed as well



I disagree that 1. is valid. Koreans aren't 'inherently' better. That implies some genetic predisposition. I think that it is fair to say that if you took the top 30 koreans they would be better than the top 30 foreigners on average, but there is nothing inherent to an individual korean, just the korean culture.
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Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
January 29 2012 16:50 GMT
#27
On January 30 2012 00:16 TemujinGK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2012 20:13 Plexa wrote:
1. is true
2. is relevant although if you practice on the server it isn't so bad

@boonbag by that notion then jinro has placed as well



I disagree that 1. is valid. Koreans aren't 'inherently' better. That implies some genetic predisposition. I think that it is fair to say that if you took the top 30 koreans they would be better than the top 30 foreigners on average, but there is nothing inherent to an individual korean, just the korean culture.


What? Of course they aren't "inherently" better; nobody in their right mind things that being born to South Korean parents makes you objectively better at a specific video game. They're still better, though, largely because the top Koreans have a practice schedule that is just nuts by Western standards, and as a result they have the best possible practice partners too.

Sure, there will always be a few players like Stephano who smash world-class players and make it look easy without even much practice, but the whole reason he's such a notable player is that that's an extremely uncommon exception to the rule. On the other hand, look at HuK, who is also on par with top-level Korean players, but that's because of the amount of work he puts in -- HuK is more dedicated to his SC game than almost anyone on this forum will ever be to anything. In the middle of those two extremes, you have basically every other foreigner. SeleCt and Ret and MaNa and SaSe and Dimaga and a hundred other people are all very good players, but not GSL-good. I'm sure they all could be GSL-good if they were put in the right environment, but most people just don't have a lifestyle where that's a possibility.
Br3ezy
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States720 Posts
January 29 2012 16:55 GMT
#28
but im korean and i beat white people everyday! i guess im not better then them after all and im just baddddd
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sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
January 29 2012 19:32 GMT
#29
God I hate your opinion so much. I knew that there would be hundreds of people like you posting all over TL the SECOND I found out that SC2 had MBS, automining, groups more than 12 etc. I just immediately foresaw this plague of people cropping up saying shit about how foreigners could compete with koreans and why all the korean bias etc. Such fucking bullshit. If you had been around for the 10 years where foreigners were just pure shite and never good at anything, always getting trashed by koreans in every contest, you wouldn't be saying this. It's just because of SC2 which is so less skilful than SC BW, that you come out and shout against the Korean bias all of us have drummed into us.

I really can't repeat this enough...SC BW was good because it was the manliest game ever made. SC2 is just WC3 with a few bells and whistles. So two main points:

1. It DOESN'T MATTER if foreigners can compete with koreans in sc2, because SC BW is the only game that matters.

2. Maybe when Koreans have completely ditched BW and gone for SC2 and foreigners STILL compete with them for 10 years, then I might have to agree that ONLY FOR SC2, which is by FAR less epic and manly and skilful than BW, foreigners aren't complete crap.
askTeivospy
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1525 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-29 19:43:18
January 29 2012 19:42 GMT
#30
I just find that everyone says every single progamer is good / awesome / unstoppable that I just stop caring about what other people think in terms of relative skill levels. ie I think fruitdealer and tester are objectively bad when comparing to other SC2 players, but they're labelled good because

A) people are too scared to call anyone bad*
B) they're koreans

I do think koreans on the whole are better than foreigners only because of the attitude that they adopt when it comes to starcraft. I also think that because of this, the only reason why foreigners can compete against Koreans right now is because SC2 is more like 5% mechanics and 95% thinking (BW was an even split)


* I mean we have a thread on "whos the most underrated pro" but no thread on who is the most overrated afaik o_O
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PanN
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2828 Posts
January 29 2012 20:16 GMT
#31
On January 30 2012 04:32 sc4k wrote:

1. It DOESN'T MATTER if foreigners can compete with koreans in sc2, because SC BW is the only game that matters.


My god, such flawless logic and arguing abilities.
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AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
January 29 2012 20:21 GMT
#32
On January 29 2012 21:08 hoby2000 wrote:
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On January 29 2012 18:52 Uranium wrote:
On January 29 2012 18:31 Jisall wrote:
In closing, I feel better now, I shall continue to suffer in silence in hope of these comments dying into the abyss that is the middle of a thread. I hope one day that these people will turn a new leaf and start giving respect to these players who work there fucking ass off so you can enjoy the games. Leave the prejudiced bullshit at home. I don't want to hear that crap. Yeah I said prejudiced btw. Cuz when you think about it saying Koreans are better at SC2 then foreigners, its like saying Blacks are better then any other race at Basketball, or Hispanics at Soccer or Baseball. Its racist.

Black people are better at basketball because they are taller and have more fast-twitch muscle fibers (genetics). Hispanics are better at football because they train harder. Koreans are better at Starcraft because of both. Additionally, they have a larger talent pool to draw from since pro gaming is more legitimized in Korea. I'm not saying that it's impossible for there to be a foreigner bonjwa, but it's statistically unlikely.

And don't call me a racist. People are different. Claiming that everyone is the same is a crock of neoliberalist bullshit. Diversity is one of the greatest things that the human race has going for it.


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If black people are better at basketball, why are there still white people playing it? If hispanics are better at football, then why are there still WHITE, ASIANS and BLACK people playing it, and doing well?


Your argument has some big holes in it. No one is better at a sport because of their ethnicity because by that logic we could say white people are better at ruling the world because most are born into middle or upper class families. More money = More likely to be succesful = more likely to be a leader in the supposed free world.

However, we both know that white are people are not better at ruling the world - they're just born into better circumstances that foster that type of ideal. There are a lot of black people in the NBA because a lot of them grow up in low class suburbs where they don't have money for video games, or nice cars, or gold rings - They have a public park with a basketball hoop, so that's what they end up learning and becoming good at.

If race plays a card in how good someone is at something, then you have to assume it works for all parts of life. If that were true, then people shouldn't try to go outside the limits of their race's accomplishments... but people do it anyway. TL;DR - Race doesn't mean ANYTHING when it comes to being better at something.



Also, as to not derail this blog, I think the OP has some legit concerns, and I enjoyed reading this entry. It's not really common for me to read blogs in the first place, let alone an entire wall of text with little to no formatting. But your subject matter interested me. I agree that a lot of people down play the abilities of others (see: my reply in the first half of this post) because of supposed restrictions, but in the end... Nerchio played his games pretty well. Jjaki is was obviously a little under prepared for it, but played well enough to win.

I must say that Nerchio is looking pretty damn strong. Hope to see him in future tournaments. I know he was in HSC3, but I want to see him at MLG
!


Don't be naive. Of course certain races are biologically different and of course those differences allow them to be better at some things.
Also, your argument about basketball is fallatic. Blacks are biologically better at it. This is fact. You assume that they are so much better that every single white guy should just never bother picking up a basketball and go play baseball or something. That is not a valid assumption.
Some races are better at certain things.
On the topic, some cultures are better at certain things. The Korean culture teaches them things like a strong work ethic, allowing them to do better than foreigners because they are willing to work harder and practice with a higher quality than most foreigners.
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Mothra
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1448 Posts
January 29 2012 20:25 GMT
#33
On January 30 2012 05:21 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
Also, your argument about basketball is fallatic.


lol do you mean fallacious? I think "your argument is phallatic" is even better!
Jisall
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2054 Posts
January 30 2012 08:45 GMT
#34
On January 29 2012 18:56 darkscream wrote:
First of all OP, edit your post and break it up. Paragraphs, man.

Secondly though I do agree. I knew watching that nerchio v jjakji game that everyone would say 1) KOREAN IS BETTER and 2) ONLY REASON IT WAS CLOSE CUZ OF LAG

that's what they say every time any foreigner faces any korean, even if both players are connecting to a distant server (as the case in IPL, I believe both players connect to NA)

its sad but, the brainwashed masses + the diehard BW fanboys will always value koreans over foreigners, not recognizing that top foreigners can at least match mid-top koreans (and lets face it, jjakji did win a Code S, but he isn't quite as powerful as MVP or MC yet).. don't let it get to you, just watch the games and have fun, read as little forums as possible if it cheese you off :D


Haha thanks bro. Thats what i do. I normally just ignore it. Shit just built up so i needed to vent out before i started speaking my mind in the LR threads.

changed it a lil to make it more readable.

I realized that my sentiments weren't going to take well lol
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