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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.

Page 230: Here's some more stuff that'll get you banned!
- Conspiracy theory mongering about MLG and GOM
- Comparing people to Hitler
- Posting useless one liners of arguments that have already been repeated ad nauseum.
Jellikit
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden258 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2781
On December 14 2011 22:06 Zzoram wrote:
I hope since Naniwa is NOT banned that participates in the Code A qualifiers, smashes through to Code A, then keeps on going until he qualifies for Code S.
I hope so too
Gomtv is being silly, its their format that made the game 100% insignificant to the players
pookadin
Profile Joined June 2011
Australia422 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2782
On December 14 2011 22:14 Woizit wrote:
Well I don't know why it's suddenly seen that Naniwa didn't get the Code S spot. The entire world thought it was, and GOM had plenty of time to refute it which they didn't then. The MLG/GSL exchange was still in effect as far as I know ( 4 Koreans invited ), and by consideration, the Code S seed should still stand.

The key point is that they don't think he deserves it any more. I will agree with them on that. Sympathies to Naniwa on losing the Code S spot, but he sure did something that can't be overlooked easily.


If I was GOM i wouldnt feel the need to apologise to you because you didnt understand that naniwa didnt get seeded. I didnt have any problems understanding this because I read the media relevant at the time,

GOMTV does not have to explain itself to you or anyone else who didnt care to check their facts..
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Brett
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Australia3822 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2783
On December 14 2011 22:12 bittman wrote:
Guys, guys, guys calm down.

Naniwa never had a Code S spot.

Please, for the love of god, stop this thread!

If he never had a code s spot, there was no need for an announcement to be made either via twitter or the stream of the blizzcup tonight that he was losing that spot.

If you want to argue stupid semantics and say he was never 'awarded' the spot from his Providence performance, then be my guest. But the reality was that GOM, in light of that performance, with or without the exchange program being in force, had assigned a slot to Naniwa.

And in a knee-jerk reaction they've removed him from that slot. Call it whatever you like, it is what it is.
Mycl
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia1370 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2784
On December 14 2011 22:16 Sneakyz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:14 Pwnographics wrote:
On December 14 2011 22:13 nihlon wrote:
Pro Circuit Players Competing in the GSL
■At MLG Columbus, the Top 3 non-Korean finishers will each be placed into GSL Code A.
■At every 2011 Pro Circuit Live Competition after MLG Columbus, GSL placement will occur as follows: ■Code S status will be awarded to the highest placing player, within the Top 3, regardless of country of origin, who does not already have Code S status.
■Code S status will not be awarded if all of the players placing 1st-3rd already have Code S Status.
■Code A status will be awarded to the next three highest placing non-Korean players.
■If Code S status is awarded to a Korean player, or not awarded at all, Code A status also will be awarded to the 4th highest placing non-Korean player.

http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/mlg-and-the-gsl-create-groundbreaking-player-exchange-program

So when did these rules change then?


Excludes providence. Kinda explains why there were no Code A invites as well?!

Isn't that because they were invited to up-and-down and not the actualy code A? :o


Demu is one of those invites and he didn't attend providence so no
Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2785
On December 14 2011 22:15 Xax wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:12 TheBanana wrote:
On December 14 2011 22:00 Xax wrote:
Please get your facts straight!

http://twitter.com/#!/Ethan_Ahn/status/146935367524827136

"No baned. it's Misunderstanding! NaNi is Missed the opportunity to Code S."


Dude, not handing out the code S spot he rightfully deserved from the MLG-GSL exchange-program and revoking his code S-status is the same damn thing.

The only difference is semantics.


Missed opportunity is not the same thing though. He didn't earn a Code S spot at Providence. Misunderstanding!


That's bullshit. If he didn't them GOM was silently lying to us this whole time? That's weirdly...UNPROFESSIONAL.
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DigitalisDestructi
Profile Joined November 2010
United States488 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2786
On December 14 2011 22:09 drinkpepsi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:08 DigitalisDestructi wrote:
Can someone explain to me why some people are bringing up racism? What the hell? If it was a Korean, the punishment would've been way harsher, probably banned for 2-3 seasons and no entry allowed to other GomTV tournaments. All NaNiwa got was a denial of direct Code S spot; he can still participate in the Code A qualifiers if he wants to.

And yet the evidence has shown us that there is no punishment for Koreans who actually shirk the rules, let alone someone who does nothing wrong and decides to probe rush. Please, don't just make things up. Thanks.

Byun? CoCa? Rain? Choya? While Byun and CoCa are technically punished by their teams, GomTV would've stepped in anyway if the matters went unresolved.
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drinkpepsi
Profile Joined December 2011
United States16 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2787
On December 14 2011 22:16 Greegs wrote:
I actually had alot to say, but its been said, tho i feel its important for me to say that i was gonna buy a gom year pass, but because of this im simply not going to anymore.

Better yet, the Western world should completely withdraw from GOM. Show them they can't arbitrarily ban our players by making them sink to the bottom of the sea. But it won't happen, sadly.
oban
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden18 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2788
On December 14 2011 22:10 Chickenlegs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:07 oban wrote:
On December 14 2011 21:53 shadymmj wrote:
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


I've seen people misbehaving plenty of times in the GSL. Not to mention Idra forfeiting games, but apparently it's fine when Americans and Koreans do it, probably due to their partnership with MLG. Idra even put Zenio in the same group as MC and laughed about it afterwards. And he gets invited back into code S? Do you call that sportsmanship?

Gom is a joke organization. I'm sure racism is a big part of their decisions in the last few days.



On behalf of swedish people I apologize for this one, I hope for all our sake that he is still young so we can rectify the mistakes and make him a normal human being.


You don't have to apologize for me kid and I'm most likely older than 99% on this forum. I have to assume you think it's ok for Gom to use different standards depending on who they're dealing with then? As for the racial issue I've lived in SKorea and know what I'm talking about.

Disgusting!
LunaSea
Profile Joined October 2011
Luxembourg369 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2789
On December 14 2011 22:15 Rupyness wrote:
Couldnt naniwa sue mlg since its basically breach of contract since he lost a code s seed that was as a result of an agreementbetween mlg and the players.

Then mlg would have to tell the gsl they cant do that


Interesting. He probably could yes.
Althought I don't think this would be a good thing to do... :S
"Your f*cking wrong, but I respect your opinion" --Day[9]
Vardant
Profile Joined November 2010
Czech Republic620 Posts
December 14 2011 13:17 GMT
#2790
On December 14 2011 22:14 Pwnographics wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:14 Vardant wrote:
On December 14 2011 22:12 Pwnographics wrote:
On December 14 2011 22:11 Vardant wrote:
On December 14 2011 22:09 BLinD-RawR wrote:
On December 14 2011 22:08 nihlon wrote:
This is straight from MLG's website.
The rules state that the highest placing non-Code S player to place within the Top 3 at each Event earns a seat in the next Code S tournament.


does not apply to providence.

So why are there two distinct articles on the MLG website, that say otherwise?

With the pedigree Naniwa displayed over the weekend, it's hard not to be excited about Naniwa's 2012 prospects in Code S and at Major League Gaming Events.

http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/top-5-stories-from-mlg-providence/

In the last week, Naniwa has rage quit of of a GSL match, flown half-way around the world, defeated the two most successful Korean Starcraft 2 players back-to-back, sparked a rivalry with Nestea, been the center of controversy in a rematch against Nestea, let a National Championship slip through his fingers and earned a seat in Code S.
http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/naniwas-ascension

Open your eyes, GOM is lying to you.


How come there are no Code A invites son?

Are you kidding me? Why does that matter? They clearly gave him Code S for placing second. That's all you need to know.


It matters because there were no invites to begin with at all.

What about Idra and Demuslim?, weren't they invited to Up/Downs? Huh?
Biane
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia645 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2791
On December 14 2011 22:15 The_DarkAngelz wrote:
Well...

https://twitter.com/#!/CoLNaniwa

IdrA said everything....the main fault was the tournament format, like it or not. If even players that lost some games could regain a spot on the brackets someway like MLG then they'd play they fully potential. I'd never watch a game pointless as this last naniwa vs nestea. By the way i did not!

So, u wanna players and spectators to watch fully and get them both excited? Change the format to a format that makes sense to Esports, and not a joke 1 game only lol

GOM IS JUST LOL


I fell for it, dont fall for it too. thats a fake twitter.
ethos
Profile Joined March 2010
Korea (South)26 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2792
On December 14 2011 22:12 kickinhead wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:06 ethos wrote:
What is so difficult about this.

Naniwa was disrespectful. Naniwa was sent to the corner.
You shouldn't be sad for Naniwa, you should be sad that it seems that esports has to raise other people's children.

You don't get on their stage and then in the middle of it decide not to play by their rules because your feelings are hurt, and then get away with it scot-free (this isn't even that big of a punishment, its only a month, unless I'm mistaken).

Gom has to be sure that the decisions that they make for the sake of the fans (format) are adhered to by the players that take their stage, even when you get the shitty end of the stick.

We all have to sacrifice sometimes.
Such is (adult) life.

Naniwa gets a free pass why? Because you like him?


So, if a player more or less forfeits a game cuz it has absolutely no impact and because he is demoralized and a very emotional player you call it disrespectful, but if sm1 dances around another players booth after a loss and makes fun of him and humiliates him in public, you call it great entertainment?

Thats just a cultural gap and different interpretations of actions, if you want to be fair about stuff like that, you'd have to very clearly define what "disrespectful" means, cuz what Nani did was in no way disrespectful towards anyone for me personally, but I get why Koreans are very upset about it if you take into account cultural differences and the way eSports is perceived in Korea.


I personally think ceremonies are distasteful, but throwing a game is disrespectful however you want to color it.
JohnnyReverb
Profile Joined August 2010
Switzerland132 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2793
nani was and is such a dickhead, he deserves it ! he should be banned from code s and a for lifetime. being disrespectful at this level gets you fast in trouble in asia, sad he wasnt kicked out of the house.

User was warned for this post
+1
Occultus
Profile Joined July 2011
Kenya138 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2794
On December 14 2011 22:16 Mycl wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 14 2011 22:15 Occultus wrote:
So basically everyone is FORCED to be respectful?

Thats my problem with the whole gg and manner-talk. Its not a sign of respect, youre demanded to to this otherwise: consequences.

We dont need bowing-down-robots, we need individuals and naniwa is one aswell as idra.


We need players to play the game first and foremost and Naniwa failed at the first hurdle


Players are players and not the entertainment-machines organisations want them to be (to earn money)
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zHarveLi
Profile Joined December 2011
Belgium29 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2795
On December 14 2011 22:15 creepcolony wrote:
What a joke from GOM..

I think theyre getting pissed someone doesnt take their super serious e-sports baby as serious as they do.

I so wanted my GOM TV pass for next year. Now im not so sure anymore.


This could have been handled much much better by GOM. A nice reaction would be that all foreigners leave korea and no korean is invited to any international tournament next year. Wont happen though.

edit: everything under the assumption that naniwa didnt know what he did, and that GOM didnt even gave naniwa a chance to apologise.



please don't speak, lmao
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justinpal
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3810 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2796
On December 14 2011 22:17 Jellikit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:06 Zzoram wrote:
I hope since Naniwa is NOT banned that participates in the Code A qualifiers, smashes through to Code A, then keeps on going until he qualifies for Code S.
I hope so too
Gomtv is being silly, its their format that made the game 100% insignificant to the players


No man. In Korea every game is played to the fullest. Even if you aren't "trying your hardest" "at least you tried." We just forgot that GOM gets to determine what amount of effort a player has give in a game that has seriously no implications at all.
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nekoconeco
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia359 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2797
On December 14 2011 22:09 Deadeight wrote:
Actually, I apologise. I think I've changed my mind a bit; if this had happened at Dreamhack everyone would just have lol'd and Day[9] would have made some great jokes and TotalBiscuit would probably have satirically cast it as a super exciting match or something. So I think you're kinda right on the culture thing.
.


Aww now I really want to see that Day[9] would have made it into an awesome spectacle. Can't believe people are taking this seriously anyway and to people putting words into the mouths of Koreans it is kind of disrespectful. I bet less than 0.001% of Koreans even care at all about that game.
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Zane
Profile Joined January 2011
Romania3916 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2798
On December 14 2011 22:12 Daray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2011 22:06 ethos wrote:
What is so difficult about this.

Naniwa was disrespectful. Naniwa was sent to the corner.
You shouldn't be sad for Naniwa, you should be sad that it seems that esports has to raise other people's children.

You don't get on their stage and then in the middle of it decide not to play by their rules because your feelings are hurt, and then get away with it scot-free (this isn't even that big of a punishment, its only a month, unless I'm mistaken).

Gom has to be sure that the decisions that they make for the sake of the fans (format) are adhered to by the players that take their stage, even when you get the shitty end of the stick.

We all have to sacrifice sometimes.
Such is (adult) life.

Naniwa gets a free pass why? Because you like him?


Thumbs up.

Naniwa is one of those guys who doesn't take responsibility from his actions. Banned from EPS, no gg @ GSL, joke tournament @ MLG and there were others aswell. After all those indicidents one thing i would be thinking is that i can't fuck up again and do something stupid but no Naniwa doesn't think like this at all, he's still a child.


True, someone had to do something about his behavior sooner or later.
Valashu
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands561 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2799
This is a joke, the system is at fault here, the matches were of no value and he must have been emotially battered.
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zanga
Profile Joined September 2011
659 Posts
December 14 2011 13:18 GMT
#2800
On December 14 2011 22:16 zHarveLi wrote:
It makes me cringe to see that almost every single person trying to defend naniwa with rediculous arguments & even more rediculous & irrelevant replies are from Sweden..

anyways, this thread feels like it's going to keep on growing 'till a mod actually closes the thread.


You obviously have no clue what youre talking about - start by reading more threads than 1-3 of them.
Cheers

On a side note: GomTv police state with Mr. Chae as its Overlord for the win?
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