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Kuja900
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3564 Posts
April 29 2009 02:52 GMT
#261
So backho can "zizi yO" before the opponent ggs but leta cant forget a p. I know the rule wasnt in place then but still thats just retarded.
OMG you nasty gurl
29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
April 29 2009 02:52 GMT
#262
On April 29 2009 11:45 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
imagine someone typing only g after losing and gets disqualified.


since that person would have already lost, then it might only be a warning. but in a BoX, that might be a problem. It would ruin a Bo5 finals.
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
Kuja900
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3564 Posts
April 29 2009 02:55 GMT
#263
On April 29 2009 11:52 29 fps wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2009 11:45 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
imagine someone typing only g after losing and gets disqualified.


since that person would have already lost, then it might only be a warning. but in a BoX, that might be a problem. It would ruin a Bo5 finals.


Yeah imagine game 5 of an OSL finals and someones monitor is acting up and they only type "pp" this rule is just insane.
OMG you nasty gurl
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22259 Posts
April 29 2009 02:56 GMT
#264
Ugh, and I thought Ra's was retarded... jesus christ...
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Malongo
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Chile3472 Posts
April 29 2009 03:27 GMT
#265
As retarded as it sounds its absolutely adjusted to the rules. However next time choose another way to ask for a pause: Maybe swinging your arms and screaming a secret code? Or asking for pause with buildings.
Help me! im still improving my English. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. M. G.
SuperJongMan
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Jamaica11586 Posts
April 29 2009 03:40 GMT
#266
Infuriationment...ness.
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Ancestral
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3230 Posts
April 29 2009 04:01 GMT
#267
The rule is stupid, kespa is indefensible in this case. And the couple of you with the "slippery slope" argument have to realize the absurdity of your contention. Progamers aren't going to start typing out by saying, "bad game you idiot, fuck your mother."

Idra says gg during televised games. If he does it, anyone can. It has nothing to do with being professional, or preventing things like my above example. Idra is not going to say "you really are a terrible player" in a televised game.

The rule has no purpose, makes no one better off, obstructs normal procession of games, and makes things non-fun to fans.

Would they ban Chalrenge for hiding pylons? Probably not, at least I haven't heard a rule about it. And that's extremely unprofessional, but also mildly entertaining.
The Nature and purpose of the martial way are universal; all selfish desires must be roasted in the tempering fires of hard training. - Masutatsu Oyama
Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
April 29 2009 04:06 GMT
#268
While it is a rule, the ref has a responsibility to apply it properly in each individual situation, and that certainly wasn't handled correctly.
Legends never gg
Zozma
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1626 Posts
April 29 2009 04:07 GMT
#269
Yeah, the thing is that it's in a progamer's best interest to declare "gg" or ask for a pause in a mannered way. That's why putting a restriction and punishments on the things they can say is useless: The fans thinking you're a jerk is punishment enough.

A question: Have the typing rules ever been enforced in a case where it wasn't an honest mistake?
NicolBolas
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1388 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-29 04:20:21
April 29 2009 04:14 GMT
#270
On April 29 2009 10:57 KaasZerg wrote:
Is the spirit of the rules to kill starcraft as a sport.


This is a BS rule, and the ref willingly enforced it. It was bad by all accounts.

However, this is a far cry from anything even remotely like killing StarCraft as a sport. Do you think Leta is going to stop playing because of this? Hell no; he'll be right there in the next game, doing his thing. And why should Bisu, Jaedong, or whomever else stop playing because of this?

It is bad and certainly should be complained about and rectified. But let's not blow this out of proportion. Rigidly enforced arbitrary rules are not going to kill StarCraft as a sport.

BTW, for those who say that the Ref shouldn't enforce the rule, that he should look to the spirit of the rules rather than the letter... no. You don't want to go down that road.

The letter of rules is all we really have. It is objectively measurable and quantifiable. Once you start loosening the rules, then you get stuff like what happens in most sports. One ref calls things "loose", and another calls them "tight". If you use some illegal exploit, but don't seem to gain any advantage by doing it, you should still get hit with the DQ. It doesn't matter whether you did anything with it or not; you used the illegal exploit, you get DQ'd. If you start having subjective calls from refs, then you can get into situations where a ref has to judge whether an illegal exploit actually did anything in the match. Some refs may call it one way, others may call it another.

StarCraft, being a videogame, calls all of its internal rules properly: rigidly and objectively (outside of genuine bugs and hacks). StarCraft referees likewise should do the same.

The problem in this instance is that the rule is crap, not the people enforcing the rules.
So you know, cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come up and talk to you, it's great. But if you try to talk to them, it doesn't always go so well. - Shigeru Miyamoto
Zozma
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1626 Posts
April 29 2009 04:36 GMT
#271
On April 29 2009 13:14 NicolBolas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 29 2009 10:57 KaasZerg wrote:
Is the spirit of the rules to kill starcraft as a sport.


This is a BS rule, and the ref willingly enforced it. It was bad by all accounts.

However, this is a far cry from anything even remotely like killing StarCraft as a sport. Do you think Leta is going to stop playing because of this? Hell no; he'll be right there in the next game, doing his thing. And why should Bisu, Jaedong, or whomever else stop playing because of this?

It is bad and certainly should be complained about and rectified. But let's not blow this out of proportion. Rigidly enforced arbitrary rules are not going to kill StarCraft as a sport.

BTW, for those who say that the Ref shouldn't enforce the rule, that he should look to the spirit of the rules rather than the letter... no. You don't want to go down that road.

The letter of rules is all we really have. It is objectively measurable and quantifiable. Once you start loosening the rules, then you get stuff like what happens in most sports. One ref calls things "loose", and another calls them "tight". If you use some illegal exploit, but don't seem to gain any advantage by doing it, you should still get hit with the DQ. It doesn't matter whether you did anything with it or not; you used the illegal exploit, you get DQ'd. If you start having subjective calls from refs, then you can get into situations where a ref has to judge whether an illegal exploit actually did anything in the match. Some refs may call it one way, others may call it another.

StarCraft, being a videogame, calls all of its internal rules properly: rigidly and objectively (outside of genuine bugs and hacks). StarCraft referees likewise should do the same.

The problem in this instance is that the rule is crap, not the people enforcing the rules.
There is no way to make the "letter of the law" perfect. Any language philosopher could tell you that.

The very purpose of referees is to use their judgment and uphold the spirit of the law. Otherwise you could replace all referees with one book.
DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
April 29 2009 05:07 GMT
#272
The guy who said this is like getting DQ'd in a basketball game for not correctly using your hands to call a time-out was spot-on.

Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
SilverSkyLark
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Philippines8437 Posts
April 29 2009 05:17 GMT
#273
This is stupid.

Why did they even allow BackHo's "ziziyo" if it's not gg.....jeez KePSA needs sense into them.
"If i lost an arm, I would play w3." -IntoTheWow || "Member of Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk cafe. He's the next Jaedong, baby!"
BlackMagister
Profile Joined October 2008
United States5834 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-29 06:27:12
April 29 2009 06:00 GMT
#274
Don't they give out warnings for other offenses? I remember a game being stopped because one of the players didn't have the second pair of headphones on, the big ones to prevent players from hearing outside noise. They did not need to disqualify Leta, he was obviously asking for a pause.

To some people saying he couldn't see that he only typed two "P"s instead of three because his monitor that's probably not the reason. I'm sure he could tell how many times he hit the "P" key, it's just that he was probably used to only doing "PP" instead of "PPP." No idea why it needs to be three "P"s as people pointed out "PP" can stand for "pause please" while "PPP" stands for ???
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1169 Posts
April 29 2009 06:26 GMT
#275
well half a month ago they needed to write PP
so it was clearly his mistake of not writing PPP becuse he was used to the old thing..
but after all WTF is WITH THIS STUPID RULE ! ARE U NUTS o_ O
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66358 Posts
April 29 2009 06:39 GMT
#276
On April 29 2009 11:56 EvilTeletubby wrote:
Ugh, and I thought Ra's was retarded... jesus christ...

Yeah, I remember that one. Disqualifying him just because he accidentally paused the game while trying to adjust the sound settings. I mean, accidentally pausing the game, what can happen? Opponent gets DC'ed? Sheez.
POGGERS
MuR)Ernu
Profile Joined September 2008
Finland768 Posts
April 29 2009 06:47 GMT
#277
On April 29 2009 15:00 BlackMagister wrote:
Don't they give out warnings for other offenses? I remember a game being stopped because one of the players didn't have the second pair of headphones on, the big ones to prevent players from hearing outside noise. They did not need to disqualify Leta, he was obviously asking for a pause.

To some people saying he couldn't see that he only typed two "P"s instead of three because his monitor that's probably not the reason. I'm sure he could tell how many times he hit the "P" key, it's just that he was probably used to only doing "PP" instead of "PPP." No idea why it needs to be three "P"s as people pointed out "PP" can stand for "pause please" while "PPP" stands for ???

imagine yourself during a really important match. Playing with your what, 300+ apm.
Then suddenly your monitor starts to be buggy or something. And you know that if you lose a second, it might be something really important, and it might impact the game.

I would not wonder if leta panicked and stuff
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
April 29 2009 06:49 GMT
#278
On January 19 2009 13:04 SoMuchBetter wrote:
this just in, kespa has banned smiling, as it is disrespectful to your opponent

On April 10 2009 00:07 SoMuchBetter wrote:
kespa

On August 22 2008 14:39 SoMuchBetter wrote:
go kespa

On August 06 2008 14:13 SoMuchBetter wrote:
kespa making demands again like they actually do something

go kespa


kespa. keep on rolling ur doing a great job.
AUSSIESCUM
TeamLiquid eSTROgeneral #1 • RIP
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
April 29 2009 06:55 GMT
#279
On April 28 2009 22:49 Artosis wrote:
and heres the thing:
you guys actually have no idea how bad kespa REALLY is.

care to elaborate? i hate kespa massively already as it stands, so i'd love to get a bit more fuel for the fire.
AUSSIESCUM
TeamLiquid eSTROgeneral #1 • RIP
RedTerror
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
New Zealand742 Posts
April 29 2009 07:11 GMT
#280
'zizi yo' is now my new gg
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