On January 14 2013 12:33 Ribbon wrote: KeSPA knows that Starcraft is serious business, and should under no circumstances be fun.
The players are there to try to win high level games for our amusement. The entire product is skilled games of Starcraft. That goal isn't served if the players are distracted by trying to out-mindgame one another in an amateur debate. You wouldn't see golf pros heckling each other on a hole.
If you want to see players chat, there are a thousand other products you can choose from, like ladder games, ladder replays, other tournaments, amateur games casted on Youtube, KeSPA exhibition games and showmatches...
basically boxer mindgamed the shit out of junitoss by chatting and kespa didn't like it
Did Boxer himself confirm that was the intention? If not then we'll never know (no matter how much you want to believe it).
Either way, everyone has the ability to chat. If you get distracted by it, ignore your opponent during games, happens all the time in sc2. I like the fact that many years ago, KeSPA had the balls to introduce such a drastic measure, all to protect the players and I respect that. These days, frankly I don't think there need to be rules for that, ignoring your opponents is a matter of two clicks, let the players decide whether they want to leave themselves open to chat or not.
IIRC, somewhere Boxer said he was just making a joke and the other guy just read too much into it. Boxer's cheesy reputation probably didn't help either ~_~
On January 14 2013 11:26 Kal_rA wrote: I remember seeing a vid where some foreign zerg was playing a terran on bluestorm (z at bot right) and like 4 pools and right before he attacks he asks: 'from?'. The dude then takes time to respond and the zerg goes in right there and then to win the game. It was like a 5 min game at most lols (mondragon maybe? sen? ... cant remember but theres a vod on youtube. I tried searching but no luck)
Not really related to Kespa but a funny strat nonetheless
petzergling major lols
"he probably won't have fun"
good use of chat.
Was scrolling down the thread waiting for this. So. Good.
On January 14 2013 10:09 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote: one time gorush typed 'a' and it distracted the opponent and won him the game immediately so he got disqualified
lol, no. He typed "a" by accident. It's really common because you press a to attack. He got disqualified because chat was banned already.
On January 14 2013 10:09 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote: one time gorush typed 'a' and it distracted the opponent and won him the game immediately so he got disqualified
lol, no. He typed "a" by accident. It's really common because you press a to attack. He got disqualified because chat was banned already.
It should be obvious he's making fun of the way the refs handled that situation.
I never understood the need to type "glhf". Only one player's going to have good luck in the game and he's going to have the majority of the fun. It's become so formulaic that it's lost its intended meaning and sometimes comes off as condescending or obnoxious - especially when they take offense at me not responding.
Saying "gg" is a lot better indication of manner because you acknowledge the other player's skill. It takes guts to type "gg" even after a frustrating loss.
Stephano glhf'd, as usual. The refs went nuts. You could read "What?" and "Seriously?" from Stephano's lips when the refs talked to him. :D Fortunately herO was a good sport and typed gl too to prevent his disqualification.
Isn't it "ppp"? Because I saw a game where one player had technical issues and wanted to pause, but just typed "pp" and after some discussion he got disqualified. But I'm not sure wich player where involved, maybe fantasy (the one who popped in my mind thinking about that) but I'm not sure.
EPT
