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Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
December 02 2009 10:26 GMT
#101
I liked the interview.

Go Idra!
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Inflexion
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada560 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-02 10:27:46
December 02 2009 10:27 GMT
#102
Interview was great.

Some good hype. It'll be pretty fun to watch when Ret + Idra plays these players they bashed
Four wheels move the body; two wheels move the soul.
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10922 Posts
December 02 2009 10:28 GMT
#103
Thanks for the interview, awesome.


But really, some critic has to be allowed whiteout 1000 fan boys jumping on whoever criticizes something.

Often there is street noise or music at the place you are making the interview, this makes the whole thing hard to listen to or at least not very enjoyable. Sometimes also people aren't loud enough... Various small problems.
The content is almost always very interesting, but I don't really get why it is so hard to actually sit down at a quiet place and do these interviews? I mean, a recorded Team speak session has better sound quality, less background noise on cost of the *picture* which I couldn't care less about when it's a *pure* interview with no content that actually needs visual representation.
The SCFORALL page also has it's... personality. Most of the time it's good for me but sometimes I would have to load for longer than the Vid itself actually is... Not even speaking about the *warnings* I get from the site when I use Chrome.
freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
December 02 2009 10:31 GMT
#104
Artosis:

Sziky is pronounced CEEKEY
And all is illuminated.
Myrkul
Profile Joined February 2009
Croatia132 Posts
December 02 2009 10:32 GMT
#105
i dont really get this anti-f91 thing, its not like all the best foreigners pool money together and then play for it, and all of a sudden a chinese guy comes and wants to play for it too, this tournament is as proffesional as it gets outside of korea with the goal for the best to participate, there's no room for "they don't invite us to their tournaments so we won't let them participate in ours" kind of stuff imho, but hey i suck at starcraft so what do i know..
July = best goddamn zvp in this part of the universe
BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
December 02 2009 10:40 GMT
#106
awesome, thanks for these artosis!
lazz
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia3119 Posts
December 02 2009 10:40 GMT
#107
who's the camera man? hes awesome lol
zerotol
Profile Joined August 2009
Belgium508 Posts
December 02 2009 10:42 GMT
#108
Nice interview.
Now i am become death, the destroyer of worlds
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10922 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-02 10:44:19
December 02 2009 10:43 GMT
#109
And btw. F91 has probably delivered more entertaining games during the Liquibition than most other foreigners. Excluding him if he follows the rules would be very sad and stupid.


It's a shame that the connections from China aren't better and this can't be a real world wide tournament, but because of that not allowing people from China to play, if they actually take the effort to leave the Country and follow all the rules, would be beyond retarded. I smell fear.
RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
December 02 2009 10:43 GMT
#110
On December 02 2009 17:00 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Ret's point on the chinese is spot-fucking-on.

I think it is absurd that they hop into our scene whenever money is available then shun us when it isn't.


On December 02 2009 18:50 Ash wrote:
I don't like how people can forget about the invitations given by Chinese tournaments such as PGL and take away credits just like that. These tournaments have covered all the flight expenses in the past for foreigners to compete in THEIR tournaments. I think the chinese has contributed much more than what ret has mentioned.



I agree with ash, I don't think you can blame the Chinese entirely for this. Do you honestly want to play with lag? Well they probably don't either. I would imagine they don't lag with each other. I am sure the Chinese scene would be much more open to us if we wouldn't lag the shit out of there games, not to mention (I think) they play face to face in their Chinese starleagues as well assuming they still do them. So they would have to fly us all the way there assuming a foreigner makes the league by playing online.

We banned the Chinese because their lag interferes with game quality, not out of some stupid spite. If they are willing to fly somewhere to play their games in a lag free environment then that is great. I am happy our leagues can inspire that level of dedication where someone is willing to change where he lives for 2-3 months just to play in our league on the CHANCE that he makes money off it.

Plus they invite foreigners to their events and pay for it just as Ash said, which is pretty nice.
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SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
December 02 2009 10:46 GMT
#111
On December 02 2009 17:00 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Ret's point on the chinese is spot-fucking-on.

I think it is absurd that they hop into our scene whenever money is available then shun us when it isn't.


Wow, this post is fucking stupid on so many levels. They shunned the international players they invited to their tournaments? Hey China, thanks for inviting me to your country and allowing me to play in multiple tournaments and treating me with amazing hospitality even despite my early ungratefulness. I've never once invited you to a tournament in Canada, but hey, you know how it is. We don't have any and haven't done as much for the game as Starcraft as you have... so.. fuck you! I think that last sentence makes sense.

On December 02 2009 18:50 Ash wrote:
I don't like how people can forget about the invitations given by Chinese tournaments such as PGL and take away credits just like that. These tournaments have covered all the flight expenses in the past for foreigners to compete in THEIR tournaments. I think the chinese has contributed much more than what ret has mentioned.



Don't listen to ignorant people. Anyone bashing on the Chinese community or players are just dumb. Are there lag issues? Yes. That and a language issue that people seem to forget. They have played and invited players to numerous tournaments throughout the years and have been a part of the community. They have done things for Starcraft, the game itself. The thing that separates it for the most part is language. Language and lag. Just because they don't post on TL doesn't mean they aren't part of the community. The game is the community, and they play the game and have hosted grand tournaments for it. This 'us' and 'them' mentality is sickening.
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
Radiomouse
Profile Joined November 2009
Netherlands209 Posts
December 02 2009 10:54 GMT
#112
thanks a lot for the interview : )
foeffa
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Belgium2115 Posts
December 02 2009 10:55 GMT
#113
Alright, always great to see an Artosis interview pop up and it doesn't disappoint! ^_^
Interesting opinions. GL IdrA and ret!
觀過斯知仁矣.
ProoM
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Lithuania1741 Posts
December 02 2009 10:58 GMT
#114
Ret says everyone's a good player and IdrA says everyone is a cheeser :D.
IMBA - International Mountain Bicycling Association.
SuperArc
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Austria7781 Posts
December 02 2009 11:01 GMT
#115
ret has the CJ face
Snow - future of protoss! :) Nada = baller
Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
December 02 2009 11:09 GMT
#116
Nice!

Next time, put up the players name you're discussing because I have no idea what name you said half of the time
I know that deep inside of you there's a humongous set of testicles just waiting to pop out. Let 'em pop bro. //////////////////// AKA JensOfSweden // Lee Yoon Yeol forever.
Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-02 11:19:07
December 02 2009 11:10 GMT
#117
On December 02 2009 17:00 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Ret's point on the chinese is spot-fucking-on.

I think it is absurd that they hop into our scene whenever money is available then shun us when it isn't.


"us" and "them". Whatever.

Oh wait so, you played at IEF 2009 in China, but come here talking shit about the chinese now? What the hell is that, seriously. IEF pays money to fly in people to play Starcraft

Ret's comment about the chinese was the dumbest stuff ever. Yeah because the FOREIGNER scene per definition is like every single friggin' country in the entire world besides Korea and China? Ridiculous. How much do russians or poles for instance participate in the foreign community besides tournaments?

Every single semi-inactive/active foreigner participates in TSL 2.
I know that deep inside of you there's a humongous set of testicles just waiting to pop out. Let 'em pop bro. //////////////////// AKA JensOfSweden // Lee Yoon Yeol forever.
HiOT
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Sweden1000 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-02 11:31:27
December 02 2009 11:14 GMT
#118
Is that Darth Vader holding the camera? I'm like 1min in and I can keep hearing the camera man breathing.

Awesome interview, I liked the questions and the spirit of it all. Much appreciated!
Officially the founder of Team Property (:
Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4523 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-02 11:43:36
December 02 2009 11:33 GMT
#119
not understanding my point makes you pretty retarded. You can either agree or disagree with what I said, but if you've followed sc at all for the past few years you'd at least see both sides have some merit.

It just ends up being a debate about what TSL is really is, for me teamliquid, and TSL stands for the foreign 'community'. The community that has never had big tournaments (the last year has actually been quite good). A chance for the players to finally play for a 'real prize' against each other. A reward for the years of hard work everyone put in simply because they LOVE the game. The community that has always been in a dark corner of the world ever since warcraft 3 came out because the only thing we had was WCG. And a lot of countries didn't even have that. China has a pro-scene. China has MAJOR tournaments all year long. Chinese players make good money off SC.

Part of what makes a community is that among foreigners, everyone knows each other, we meet each other all the time in different tournaments, play online, all that stuff. We've all bitched to each other about how there should be more tournaments and asked each other ' is playing this game really worth it?' as we watched war3 pros rack in thausands of $. Chinese have never participated in the day to day routines of 'foreign' bw. F91 playing in liqubition.. He did that for money. And caused a shitload of lag problems for the players he had to face. Is that really an arguement as to why he's part of the 'foreign' community? They played (lagged) up a few clanwars with Fnatic for a couple of months BECAUSE fnatic paid them a big fat salary that ended up being fnatic sc's downfall.

For me the only reason that having anyone besides people that are from the 'foreign community' that most us know and love ( ok, maybe not love) is that the TSL is sponsored by a big company now that wants to see a return on their investment. I had not taken PGL into consideration, because I wasn't playing when it happend and never really gotten any word of it. But that does change things in favor of having Chinese players. slightly.

I have nothing against Chinese players, I know they are good people. But that's just my opinion.

Team Liquid
XsebT
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Denmark2980 Posts
December 02 2009 11:35 GMT
#120
Great interview! I'm a fan of all four in that video.
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