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CJ Entus ftw
Was a big fan of the Savior, Iris, Much trio since they were my favorite players for each race. This naturally made me into a CJ fan and nowadays i'm cheering for the "new" guys Effort, Skyhigh and Movie and get all excited about their matches.
Still i'll always smile when I see one of the big old three in the lineup instead of the new guys. ( yeah i know much is in ace, i hope he comes back to cj after his service)
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although i prefer KT, i am fan of FlaSh exclusively. I dont care about teams, i want my favourite player to win!
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On November 07 2009 03:34 johanes wrote: although i prefer KT, i am fan of FlaSh exclusively. I dont care about teams, i want my favourite player to win!
My point exactly! From the first pro-game I ever saw, I've EASILY been a KT-fan. Mostly because of Flash, but also the teams great historical list of awesome players helps a lot.
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On November 07 2009 03:07 Itachii wrote: I had SKT icon for a while but figured out that cheering for Bisu and Boxer (yeah who doesn't cheer for him^^)doesn't necessarly make me SKT fan. So changed to CJ,since my fantasy team is basically all CJ,and i found myself getting excited as hell during their matches. Hydra fighting ^_^
Didn't you have a Khan badge before you went to SK too? 
Someone beat me to it. D:
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My favorite players are nothing compared to the favorite team. I watch all of the early STX games live and catch the others. I analyze games in wholly roundabout ways so that I pretend the STX player has the upper hand regardless of how the game is really going. I rage whenever some stupid shit (read: anything) robs them of a match.
In contrast, my favorite player is BackHo...
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i love skt1 + savior. when savior and bisu play it's bittersweet. either outcome leaves me happy and sad.. i slightly favor savior, because i was happy when he beat bisu in the recent games.
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love STX, but damn i never stop cheering for leta.
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Starcraft is not much of a team sport especially since 2 v 2 got taken out. The strength of teams are based on how strong individuals that play 1 on 1s are and not how much they can work together. Teams are just something for sponsors.
So cheering for a team is really hard to do as the only reason we chear for teams is because of the individuals that constanly wear the logos not because we like the team.If Jaedong wasn't on Oz would so many people like Oz? If Koby wasnt on the Lakers alot of people would still like the lakers, not as much, but still alot.
If it was a team sport, Oz wouldn't have made it Pl finals. In summary of my opinion, theres no real teams to cheer for, its just a bunch of individual players who happens to have the same sponsers who arent allowed to play each other in proleague.
Edit: some people start saying they love the team after they follow one player. Deep down, thats not true. They really just start liking the other players on the team that win or are fun to watch because they happen to observe them alot because of that one player. If Stork and FBH move to Stars tomorrow, I wouldnt give a damn about Khan.
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I can't do that... 
I love Samsung, SKT1 and KT I can't pick
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I mostly agree but you can't plan becoming a fan. It just happens. In my case it always worked this way: first a fan of a player then a fan of the team he's in. Like when I was a child I liked one german soccer player. He played for 1.FC Koeln so this is my favorite team.
In SC I liked Savior, now I cheer for CJ
I always disliked ACE btw. It's a shame to see the SC heroes end as marketing marionettes for the Korean Air Force.
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United States3824 Posts
For me I only have the teams that I don't like: Stars and Oz. 
At the OP CJ sucks.
Also watching the rise of Wemade sans Nada
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On November 07 2009 03:47 lone_hydra wrote: Starcraft is not much of a team sport especially since 2 v 2 got taken out. The strength of teams are based on how strong individuals that play 1 on 1s are and not how much they can work together. Teams are just something for sponsors. That's just crazy. These guys practice with one another basically all day every day. Their styles and expertise influence one another. The team atmosphere shapes their mindset, even psychological endurance.
Also, in each match you need at least 2 players to win games. Then you might need other players to lose in mismatches to achieve your wins in the other games. Every game is played by a player who, win or lose, is contributing to his team's success in a winning match. Sure they're not working together while they're on the stage for a given game, but the overall score is the product of a team effort all the way.
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Indeed, hence i said "for a while" Khan was the very first team, Stork was the player who got me into SC,and Januray the coach who amazed me with her lineup settings, so theres obviously sentiment left for them
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On November 07 2009 02:33 Captain Peabody wrote:Show nested quote +Look at how bad Samsung is doing and how good WeMade is now. I sincerely hope KHAN fans dont jump ship and I hope all teams get their "WeMade" moment, when it seems a team is finally putting it together. It's great. Good heavens, no. I'm sticking with KHAN to the bitter end. I became a KHAN fan solely because of my liking of Stork, and at first I was pretty lackluster in my enthusiasm or the team; but now, I'm definitely a fan of the whole team. And, oddly enough, this season has made me more committed to the team as a whole than ever before, rather than less... although it'll always be Stork > KHAN for me, nevertheless I'm becoming more enthusiastic about the rest of the team every day. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is: Go Stork! Go KHAN!
A man after my own heart. I have the same sentiments as you. KHAN can suck ass for the next decade, I'll still cheer for them. I am of the KHAN, for the KHAN, by the KHAN, Samsung KHAN!!
But Stork comes before all else. He is the supreme commander.
To OP: Great post and I agree. It is funner to cheer for a team rather than just one guy. I definitely follow everything KHAN does, but I'm really worried about them. I think January is making a mistake trying to cultivate zerg players on the team. Big deal if this season is the Swarm's. KHAN's zergs have never really shown talent outside of Great, but even Great has always struck me as a rather gimmicky player. He's calm under pressure but his game sense and mechanics just don't strike me as ever being enough to pull into the top tier. He plays a great macro game at times, but his unit micro, general sense of what to do, etc seems really off.
I'd much rather see more Terrans being nurtured in KHAN. FBH is a serious liability nowadays and with his retinal eye tears, LASIK, getting old and never really making it anywhere in the indiv. leagues really seem to have taken a toll on him. I highly doubt FBH will last more than another year or two before retiring.
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I'm sorta in-between. I mostly just look to all my favorite players. I have some teams I like though.
SKT because Boxer. It's Boxer man. Also Bisu and Fantasy, I'm a HUGE Fantasy fan.
And yeah CJ because Savior, Iris, Skyhigh, Effort... <3
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United States10328 Posts
ACE forever!
I really like KT though [flash, luxury, 815/firefist/hoejja, violet/tempest/stats... I realize I don't really like most of the "lesser" players themselves, but because they are on KT.] A I also somewhat like CJ [skyhigh and iris yeahhh... too bad kwanro is gone ]
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I don't know... whenever I start being a huge fan of any team, I find myself falling into patterns of thinking like "Sure, I'm a big fan of Jaedong and not so much of Movie, but if Movie wins CJ has a good chance at winning this set", and then I can't sleep at night because I feel like someone who crawls in dirt.
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I follow Wemade Fox! damn they are doing well right now!!!!
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Followed SKT because of Boxer/Oov, which has let me enjoy Hyuk's growing strength, the arrival of Fantasy, and even post-transfer Bisu. Also, Best's brief period of super macro crushing wins, and the resurgence of Canata (although he's getting less lineup spots now, hmmm).
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