NaNiwa not invited to Code S - Page 58

On December 14 2011 20:00 Lakai wrote:

Remove player for damaging the integrity of competition, randomly add two players to code S without qualifying. I see no hypocrisy here.

On December 14 2011 19:53 Serpico wrote:

So intentionally trying to make fun of your opponent is more honorable than not trying to win? I'd say both are unacceptable.

On December 14 2011 20:00 Desert Fox wrote:
I think GSL has shown a great level of consistency. So much so, that it should have been obvious where Naniwa's actions would lead him. Choya, Byun and Coca are demonstrations of this in their own ways. I think Day9 and Incontrol were spot on in their assessment this past evening that what he did was inappropriate.

I can't think of a better way to punish someone who so obviously has issues mentally with restraining himself from either badmouthing tournaments (see MLG) or conducting themselves unprofessionally (probe rush). I don't think this would have happened if Naniwa was a superb, excellent stand-up guy that everyone looked towards as well mannered. Instead, this is an organization steeped in a culture of professionalism and competitiveness within the mecca of eSports that probably knows who Naniwa is, is aware of his behavior through the grapevine of the Koreans and team houses who take issue with him and who decided that they weren't going to deal with someone like that.

Naniwa needs to realize what a lot of hard-headed and stubborn people who think they can justify their actions with "Well, I didn't break any rules!!" need to realize: the world is all about perspectives. From his perspective, what he did was fine. If it wasn't, he wouldn't have done it. And his apology rings hollow like so many others he's given now because that's not who he is. He needs to learn how to mask how much of a scummy individual he is much better. That digresses from my main point: that their perspective is not the only one and usually, it isn't the one that matters. From the perspective of almost the entire community he was a guest in, he was offensive.

That's all that really matters.

I personally thought his behavior was poor just because it's one more bad decision in a long line of bad decisions. Even someone moderately following the scene is aware of this, so again, I figure GSL nipped this far past it's expiration date.

TL;DR: Don't act like a shithead your entire career and expect each incident to be treated differently. At some point, people grow tired of you and will use every incident, even the most insignificant one, to burn you to death. I would handle it no differently and I don't. I'm not about redemption.

On December 14 2011 20:00 johanreidel wrote:
I guess this is a cultural thing where appearance trumps honesty, to bad Naniwa comes from a culture where it's the reversed.

Remember kids, it's all about saving face and keeping up appearances! Honesty is for losers...