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While I understand that there's a need to discuss this matter, this thread has way too many trash posts in it. Please think carefully about what you want to say. Ad hominem attacks on Swedish people in general, calling you fellow Starcraft fans idiots etc etc will be dealt with with harsher punishment from here on out. Keep it civil people.
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The irony of the whole situation is that Naniwa wasn't severly punished, he was giving a warning and a wrist slap as the majority of his supporters were agreeing would be the right choice of action.
As he did not earn a direct seed from Providence, but was considered an invite because of his performance, this invite was taken away from him and given to Sen.
Hopefully Naniwa learns his lesson that he just missed a shot at Code S by doing what he did.
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Well, it shouldn't be long before this thread gets locked. So much ignorance being spewed.
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On December 14 2011 21:35 Tommylew wrote: Idra left Korea to win money in all the tournaments and then Nani mvoes to korea to be a pro gamer and they kick Nani and reinvite Idra and they they call Nani the Moneygrabber??? WTF
HAHA the irony
Have to agree with this.
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On December 14 2011 21:51 Kontys wrote: Okay, let's look at the whole thing from the perspective of fairness.
1: NaNiWa almost-wins MLG providence, earning CODE S spot, goes back to training for a few weeks and gets an invite to a one-off tournament also hosted by the Gretech.
2: At said tournament he has a bad day losing to two cheeses and another due to the balance issues surrounding terran infantry vs protoss gateway units. He is demoralized, flips and throws the last game, which has no effect on his fate in the tournament.
3: Koreans flip for reasons of etiquette breach.
4: NaNiWa is penalized, under a completely arbitrary decision by the gretech corp boss, by having his earlier EARNED achievement revoked.
Honestly, if you aren't going WHAT THE F* Over this, then you can not call yourself a person of decent values.
An ATHLETE was just robbed of money, face and his greatest career opportunity yet, by a completely arbitrary business decision by a corporate business manager.
I mean, it is completely in line with the forced conformity of Korean culture, where everyone has to conform to strict arbitrary molds thought up by old men in fancy suits.. But this is supposed to be a SPORT and NaNiWa is an ATHLETE. You can make the case that he is an entertainer first and an athlete second, and this is definitely how the Gretech Corporation sees it. But that is not something NaNiWa signed up to. As someone said earlier in this thread: Do you really think he would have done that if he knew it could possibly cost him his code S spot?
How can you people possibly support the case that corporate business interest should be allowed to arbitrarily penalize athletes who don't maximize the entertainment value of their performance?
1. He never earnt it, there were no invites to code S. But he was a strong favourite to be wildcard invited.
2. Why is he only looking at himself?
3. 'Viewers' flip because they feel ripped off.
4. Gom now feels they don't want to wildcard in someone with that attitude.
Problem? No.
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i dont understand why people are saying that they payed to watch that... In most GOM events they would NOT even play that... Would you rather see a proxy 2 gate or a cannon rush or something... It is a useless match. If you played a dollar just to watch that match and he probe rushed, i would agree with you. But it was meaningless and nani was forced to play it and he would NOT play it well
If that match was for seeding, i would say it was unacceptable too.
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On December 14 2011 21:50 Quintum_ wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2011 21:42 Xax wrote:On December 14 2011 21:37 Alpino wrote:On December 14 2011 21:34 Losthorn wrote: This would have gotten a similar reaction in any professional sport so I cant see where all the crying is coming from.... Soccer teams don't field their A team in non important matches. Don't pretend you know something about all the sports in the world son. (Actually other teams pay them to "give their best" in non important matches when the "other" team thinks that the team without motivation to win will be good for them.) http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/wolves-receive-25000-fine-fielding-weakened-side-651901 Lol ouch, got owned hard right there. I put what nani did like an NFL team that has no chance of making the playoffs going out onto the field and tossing the ball to the other team every possession they had, would we ever see that, i think not.. While his punishment might be a little on the harsh side i dont see how people can defend his actions.
From what I gathered of that article the team in question was allowed to continue playing and only got a small fine (for a football team).
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On December 14 2011 21:50 LunaSea wrote: GOM = Starcraft II KespA !!!
looool, absolutely no.
gom is hella lax,KeSPA would have revoked him from all korean tournaments for at least 1 year and force him to attend progamer seminars if he doesn't want to extend that ban..
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On December 14 2011 21:50 oban wrote: Way too harsh of a punishment. GOM really are amateurs in every way possible and not worthy of hosting internatoinal tournaments. They fucked over Stephano last time when MC seemed to play to have DRG move to the next round. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the issue is racism.
yes swedish genius
disqualify a misbehaving white dude and invite another white dude to play
totally racist
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On December 14 2011 21:52 BackSideAttack wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2011 21:43 Ace.Xile wrote:On December 14 2011 21:40 Vari wrote:On December 14 2011 21:38 semm wrote: You can really tell how many young people there are in this thread. For the ones saying 'He didn't break any of the official rules!' Listen up: Naniwa is a professional gamer, being in tournaments like the GSL is his JOB. For those of you who have never had a real job let me give you a tip: if you go around disrespecting the business's customers, not showing up for the work and generally having a bad attitude, then when you get called into the boss's office say 'I don't see any rules I broke in the employee handbook!' you will be laughed out of the building and you will get fired I assure you. The ban is completely in keeping with any type of pro-gaming scene that wants to be professional in the least. well said it blows my mind that the argument is basically "he should be allowed to ignore what he said he would do and throw it in the face of everyone watching if he doesn't want to play" 'wah mommy I don't wanna!!!!' grow up This is obnoxious to me. It's the NFL teams job to play games, when it comes down to borderline playoff time NFL teams will take off their 1st string players and place in their 3rd, effectively forfeiting their chances at any serious game (assuming they have won their playoff spot) because their 3rd strings are that much worse than their 1st string. It's exactly what naniwa did, stop being narrow minded. Terrible analogy and here's why. NFL teams do so because there's a highly probable chance for injury that comes with every additional game you play. Look at historical precedence. Even teams with things to win for STILL put in their backups for their final games. Look at the Colts during 2009, they let go of a perfect season because they feared Peyton Manning would get injured. Also factor in that it's a team game. When you let in your backups, you are giving them invaluable game time experience. If something does happen in the playoffs, then your backups are going to be more ready to face the dilemma. Now look at sc2. First it is not a team sport. By forfeiting the game you are not benefiting anyone else. Also there is next to no risk of injury in playing sc2. In 99% of the situations, one game will not cause you to become so injured that you can no longer play in the playoffs.
So you're saying that he should give you lip service as long as he doesn't face potentially career-ending injury for doing so?
I really want someone to answer this point. But you won't, because you know how bad that sounds when you put it that way.
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On December 14 2011 21:53 Vari wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2011 21:52 DrunkenTemplar wrote: Probe rushing is abusive according to the rules? What? throwing a game blatantly
And that's abusive......how?
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On December 14 2011 21:51 Kontys wrote: Okay, let's look at the whole thing from the perspective of fairness.
1: NaNiWa almost-wins MLG providence, earning CODE S spot, goes back to training for a few weeks and gets an invite to a one-off tournament also hosted by the Gretech.
2: At said tournament he has a bad day losing to two cheeses and another due to the balance issues surrounding terran infantry vs protoss gateway units. He is demoralized, flips and throws the last game, which has no effect on his fate in the tournament.
3: Koreans flip for reasons of etiquette breach.
4: NaNiWa is penalized, under a completely arbitrary decision by the gretech corp boss, by having his earlier EARNED achievement revoked.
Honestly, if you aren't going WHAT THE F* Over this, then you can not call yourself a person of decent values.
An ATHLETE was just robbed of money, face and his greatest career opportunity yet, by a completely arbitrary business decision by a corporate business manager.
I mean, it is completely in line with the forced conformity of Korean culture, where everyone has to conform to strict arbitrary molds thought up by old men in fancy suits.. But this is supposed to be a SPORT and NaNiWa is an ATHLETE. You can make the case that he is an entertainer first and an athlete second, and this is definitely how the Gretech Corporation sees it. But that is not something NaNiWa signed up to. As someone said earlier in this thread: Do you really think he would have done that if he knew it could possibly cost him his code S spot?
How can you people possibly support the case that corporate business interest should be allowed to arbitrarily penalize athletes who don't maximize the entertainment value of their performance?
Latest facts state that he did NOT earn a Code S invite.
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On December 14 2011 21:53 jojo311 wrote: GUYS, you missed a point.
Naniwa was not confirmed for Code S spot. (as MLG Providence had nothing with the Code S spot. )
how is that called revoked??
The truth is just that Nani did not get the spot and he can still qualify GSL for the next season.
HE IS NOT BANNED.
Its the same gosh damn thing getting un-invited for his 'Earned' Code S Spot is essentially the same thing as revoked.
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I wonder which court would this hold in?All he did was do a stupid strategy on paper. I think there is room for legal action maybe Quantic has the balls.
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On December 14 2011 21:40 FaRess wrote: How hard is it for people to understand "don't bite the hand that feeds you", seriously guys, it's not even about culture, he didn't want to play those games, they asked him to do it and he throw the game. How can people not see the disrespect in here, I'm not from korea and I can easily see it.
If you believe that the punishment is too strong, that's something else and I will tend to agree with you, but saying he did nothing wrong really blows my mind.
It's nice to see this opinion thrown out. Frankly I'm shocked team liquid fans are calling it "racism." Are you kidding me? Considering the korean culture, this comes as no surprise to me at all and honestly, he deserves it.
It's plain and simple. GomTV paid for Naniwa to go out there and compete in their tournament. Considering how important honor is in Korea, I don't see how Naniwa could have thought his actions were acceptable at all. It doesn't matter if he's upset or shaken over his losses, he has an obligation to his fans and more importantly, the tournament organizers to play out that match. To the korean audience, I'm sure it felt like he was throwing a temper tantrum.
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*Ban MC from all the (seemingly FUNNY, previously that is) things he's done. Including Thumbs down, Dancing outside the booth, Waving his finger at the camera.. and many more.
*Ban Bomber for having such a BM game against MC in some MLG (dont remember which). Putting down tons of command centers in the middle of the map, doing an "orange" with 10+ CC Scans and dropping mules so many times over.
*Ban NesTea since in the Blizzcon finals he so obviously threw his game away and was just trolling around.
*Ban Coca for match-fixing. He didnt get disqualified as far as I know - he simply left the spot because of decisions in their team. I can assume GOM would've cared, but so far had theyve said anything?
..more examples?
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On December 14 2011 21:49 DrGreen wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2011 21:45 jojo311 wrote:On December 14 2011 21:44 NHY wrote: People need to stop saying "Naniwa earned Code S spot."
No he did not.
MLG Providence had no Code S seed. In case you didn't notice, there weren't GSL invites or Code A seeds either. I know some casters were saying thing like that, which is why many people are confused.
He was, however, going be one of 2 foreigners invited for Code S.
Now, GOM has 'uninvited' him.
As it stands, Naniwa can still qualify for Code A like everyone else (*cough* Jinro *cough*) THIS IS CORRECT. Naniwa was not confirmed for Code S spot. He was confirmed code S spot, you should do some research before posting. Also suspending from GSL when he "broke" the rule of BLIZZARD CUP is just retarded and makes no sense.
Its the GSL Blizzard Cup.
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Should change the title of this thread since he was only a candidate for the Code S spot and it wasn't contracted or written.
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They had to kick him, just to be fair towards Coca. Its not great, but you cant deny that its just.
Edit: the word ban was probably wrong, he can still participate in the qualifiers.
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On December 14 2011 21:52 pezit wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2011 21:47 pookadin wrote:On December 14 2011 21:44 Psychobabas wrote:On December 14 2011 21:40 pookadin wrote:On December 14 2011 21:38 Psychobabas wrote: So, can I ask for a refund from GOM or what. So you buy GSL ticket for a player like naniwa? What do you do when he gets kicked out after round 32 every tourney? You just dont watch for 4 weeks? Sounds like a stupid move anyway... Not really, it's just my way of retaliating against GOM by asking for my money back, which I will fully pursue. Of course I would watch all players but in this case, I'll just stick to the free-stream. GOM was wrong and I will ask for a full refund, which should be done due to consumer rights etc etc We shall see. So...you are boycotting GOMTV but you are still going to use the free stream? Whuuuuu? And you people call GOM Hypocrites? Consumer Rights? LOL I think you will promptly find that you are not entitled to anything because GOMTV makes no assurances that assholes wont be kicked out of their league when they act like brats. I'll find other sites that uploads HQ VOD's and share them amongst my friends instead of paying for HQ pass, just because I'm disgusted by GOMTV doesn't mean I can't enjoy the games.
so they are providing something you want and now you have an excuse to not spend money
so disgusted that you are gonna spend time to find other sites so you can watch gom's content
I'm sure you were planning to pay all along though. yup.
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On December 14 2011 21:53 jojo311 wrote: GUYS, you missed a point.
Naniwa was not confirmed for Code S spot. (as MLG Providence had nothing with the Code S spot. )
how is that called revoked??
The truth is just that Nani did not get the spot and he can still qualify GSL for the next season.
HE IS NOT BANNED.
He was going to get the spot.
If he didnt do what he did then he would of got it. You know that, I know that we all do.
So pointless to ban him now.
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