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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-29 11:28:03
July 29 2014 03:16 GMT
#1
This post might not be a 20k post, but if it is, there's a good chance it's on accident.

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Disclaimer: This blog is endorsed by the owners of the Liquid`TaeJa and IMMvp fan clubs and probably reflects the opinion of the silent majority of teamliquid.net.

As everyone who has played or watched actual ESPORTS in the last 3 days knows, yesterday was the fourth birthday of Starcraft II, the successor to Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War. Congrats to the owner of SCII, Blizzard Entertainment, for remembering to support SCII for the last four years with balance updates, patches, and tournaments that involve actual money. However…

Over the last 15 years or so, I've noticed a disturbing trend in many people that watch ESPORT games. They, amazingly, have the nerve to decide that one player or team deserves to win more than the other, and follow this decision up by making posts on online forums declaring that they think or hope that the player will win. Amazingly, some people take this a step further by similar posts about players or teams that they think don't deserve to win. Obviously, there is a conspiracy between these people to destroy ESPORTS. They plan to use an artificial emotion they call "passion" to overhype tournaments and players beyond what they supposedly deserve. Of course, I don't expect anyone that is reading this blog to be a part of this unusual conspiracy, but one never knows.

Evidence of this plot is everywhere. Examine the most recent WCS AM thread here. The original poster of the thread expresses his "passion" in the second post. He is trying to convince everyone that he is heavily invested in the game and its survival. Obviously, he isn't, for he did not organize the tournament, nor did he cast it, or work behind the scenes, or provide the prize pool, or play in the tournament, or show up and cheer for people. These tasks are reserved for the many fine people that put in dozens or even hundreds of hours of effort and work to make everything possible for ESPORTS to be alive, who we should all thank and support in the future. What this deceptive person does is simply putting a few hours into bolding, copy-pasting, and posting polls, as well as posting what's going on in the game in real-time. This last part is the most misleading. He gives the illusion of helping people who can't watch the game, which is ridiculous. Everyone can watch the game if they are able to read the thread in real-time. Internet connection is always consistent and technology has advanced to the point where phones can browse the web and watch videos. In addition, he writes so much about the game that it takes just as long to read it as it does to watch the actual game so it's not really worth it to read the posts at all.
Anyway, he almost makes it seem like he is unable to travel across the country to watch the games at the studio that WCS provides for people that are not a part of an evil plot to destroy ESPORTS.

The conspiracy is a sham. Players do not deserve to win more than other players. We are all human beings and, therefore, we are all equals and have rights to the same things as everyone else. Hard work is an illusion cooked up by the Illuminati to make us feel good about laboring. Skill is a coincidental pattern that pops up occasionally in lucky people. Experience is nothing more than a reflex that develops in the human body, allowing people to be unusually consistent. Anyway, we are all starcraft players, and since Blizzard Entertainment owns SCII, we are part of Blizzard. Therefore, there is really no reason to actually hype up individuals considering we all submit to the higher power of Blizzard. There is no reason to display passion because we all share it. Therefore, anyone on these forums who seems to be a harder worker or a more involved individual is faking it. They should be expelled from Team Liquid's site for being part of a detrimental plot.

As part of this new equality movement, I would like everyone to sign up for all of the fan clubs on this site. Do not sign up for fanclubs because fanclub is not an actual word. (shout-out to SeeKeR) Believe me, I used spell check. The fanclubs are all owned by the "passionate" people. Fan clubs (and fanclubs) can be found here.

By the way, I would like to request that The TaeJa fanclub be renamed to The TaeJa Fan Club. This is not bias because that would be individuality. I would just like to begin this new movement to get rid of fanclubs, and the owners of fanclubs, forever.

In fact, I would like all fan clubs to be integrated into one huge fan club. As we are all fans of starcraft (or part of a conspiracy), it is reasonable to combine all players into one thread. We could call it the "Starcraft II Fan Club".

Here's an example of what the Starcraft II Fan Club would look like.

This is the SCII Fan Club!

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Birthday: July 27, 2010
Country: South Korea
Other Country: United States of America

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Note: The above is a template.

Feel free to make this fan club. However, be warned that you are taking control of the entire fandom of SCII and ESPORTS depends on you regularly updating it. Preferably every day. It might take you a few hours every day to find and update all of the events going on in SCII. Or, you could just look here.

However, if feel like you deserve controlling the fate of SCII enough to make the fan club, you are too individual and not really a part of SCII. After all, would a part of you make a fan club of yourself? Therefore, you must be banned for not really liking SCII enough to be a part of it, and everyone will laugh at you here.

In fact, as I said earlier, anything you do online will be interpreted by all of SCII as trying to look better than you are. So don't try. Don't even run map jams to try to improve the creativity of mapmakers or anything. Just be a fan of SCII, of good games, and ESPORTS. Anything else is detrimental to the livelihood of this site.





This blog was inspired by:

-People in the tournaments section, who I probably won't be able to name all of due to the sheer number
-The Fan Clubs Section
-My previous 19999 posts
-The SCII Mapmaking community
-This post



This blog could not have been thought of, made, or written without the following people:

-The_Templar



Shoutouts to:
-Everyone I gave shoutouts to in my 10k blog
-Everyone that has LR'd. Without even one you guys we would have not adequately covered at least one day of a tournament, and that would have been a total disaster.
-Aeromi because there's apparently a french stream now
-BisuDagger because he's a FlaSh fan
-TaeJa
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Finally, here is a live report of this blog compared to Gumba's 10k blog, which I will update later.

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The_Templar vs GumBa
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Map: Blogs Section


The_Templar spawns in the top
GumBa spawns in the bottom

2:00
GumBa opens with an introduction.
The_Templar goes disclaimer before conspiracy theory.

3:00
GumBa transitions into his experience on TL.
The_Templar adds additional gateways.

4:00
The_Templar destroys the conspiracy with blink stalkers and goes for a hidden expansion in the fan clubs section.
GumBa mismicros his words.
GumBa gets the shoutout on the LR crew first.

5:00
GumBa going for the unusual tactic of a fanfic.
The_Templar discourages a possible fan club counterattack by walling off.
The_Templar gives a shoutout to pretty much everyone.
GumBa decides not to fix his grammar.

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Moderatorshe/her
TL+ Member
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
July 29 2014 03:43 GMT
#2
I will come out of the shadows and take you down and become the new king of NA LR's, even though you completely destroy me at Live Reports...

JK Grats on 20K man, you're one helluva guy :D
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
July 29 2014 03:58 GMT
#3
How can I get my stream to be French?
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
July 29 2014 04:14 GMT
#4
wow you should know better than to have no lichter shoutout 2/5
AdministratorYOU MUST HEED MY INSTRUCTIONS TAKE OFF YOUR THIIIINGS
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-29 05:51:51
July 29 2014 05:39 GMT
#5
5/5 no lichter shoutout
also I like leaving the fan clubs as fanclub because it makes seeker mad
Moderatorhttp://i.imgur.com/U4xwqmD.png
TL+ Member
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
July 29 2014 05:50 GMT
#6
Gratz on 20k. Your titles still annoy me though, since they are a different colour from the TL background on my screen at least.
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
July 29 2014 06:51 GMT
#7
Just now rated it 5/5 because there was no lichter shout-out.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51489 Posts
July 29 2014 08:03 GMT
#8
Nice! Welcome to 20k club Templar :D Awesome blog
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
July 29 2014 08:27 GMT
#9
I got rekt 5/5
WriterRecently Necro'd (?)
WGT-Baal
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3380 Posts
July 29 2014 08:41 GMT
#10
gratz!!
Horang2 fan
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19246 Posts
July 29 2014 10:23 GMT
#11
Seems legit.
ModeratorFormer Afreeca Starleague Caster: http://afreeca.tv/ASL2ENG2
Aeromi
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
France14460 Posts
July 29 2014 10:42 GMT
#12
Haha thanks for the shout out !

5/5 !
https://twitter.com/DrAeromi | Updates on live tournaments: @StarCrafteSport
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12413 Posts
July 29 2014 10:54 GMT
#13
GGWP!
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
July 29 2014 11:38 GMT
#14
What have I read? I am so confused right now... @.@
supernovamaniac
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States3046 Posts
July 29 2014 12:25 GMT
#15
3
2
1

TEMPLAR HWAIT... hmm...
ppp
Silvana
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
3713 Posts
July 29 2014 12:35 GMT
#16
gratz on the 20k!

I need to prove something to myself tho: is the second picture from Taeja vs Inno during 2013 season 2 finals?
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-07-29 14:39:24
July 29 2014 12:45 GMT
#17
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is from Dreamhack Summer 2014.

If you meant this second picture:

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Pretty sure that's TaeJa vs Innovation yes
Moderatorshe/her
TL+ Member
subtlerevolution
Profile Joined June 2014
France37 Posts
July 29 2014 13:42 GMT
#18
Remembering your first posts is a cherished memory <3

you are not the 4%.. you are team liquid
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
July 29 2014 15:07 GMT
#19
grats on cleaning up your signature
TL+ Member
Silvana
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
3713 Posts
July 29 2014 15:15 GMT
#20
On July 29 2014 21:45 The_Templar wrote:
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is from Dreamhack Summer 2014.

If you meant this second picture:

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Pretty sure that's TaeJa vs Innovation yes


yeah I remember it! WCS 2013 season 2 finals is when I started watching Starcraft for the first time, this game in particular got me into the scene. Taeja and Inno saving esports one fan at a time
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
July 29 2014 15:57 GMT
#21
On July 30 2014 00:07 Paljas wrote:
grats on cleaning up your signature

ty

On July 30 2014 00:15 silvana wrote:
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On July 29 2014 21:45 The_Templar wrote:
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is from Dreamhack Summer 2014.

If you meant this second picture:

+ Show Spoiler +
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Pretty sure that's TaeJa vs Innovation yes


yeah I remember it! WCS 2013 season 2 finals is when I started watching Starcraft for the first time, this game in particular got me into the scene. Taeja and Inno saving esports one fan at a time

That's a good way to get into the scene
Moderatorshe/her
TL+ Member
Yorkie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States12612 Posts
July 29 2014 17:09 GMT
#22
Congrats on 20k!
Hwang Kang Hooooooooooo. Follow mah boy Shellshock @Shellshock1122
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
July 29 2014 19:10 GMT
#23
I am a little bummed about me not being mentioned by name though
WriterRecently Necro'd (?)
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
July 29 2014 20:03 GMT
#24
maybe you shouldn't get a name change, then
Moderatorhttp://i.imgur.com/U4xwqmD.png
TL+ Member
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
July 29 2014 20:11 GMT
#25
On July 30 2014 04:10 Darkhorse wrote:
I am a little bummed about me not being mentioned by name though

See my 10k blog. It even spells your name correctly!
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