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emecee
United States222 Posts
On May 12 2011 14:57 Zirith wrote: Really enjoyable read. The number of idiots that responded to this makes me sad  yes particularly this one User was warned for this post | ||
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NibbloniaN
United States377 Posts
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mikyaJ
1834 Posts
On May 12 2011 14:55 GolemMadness wrote: ...Are you serious? You think that a sport that's only really played in two countries has the best athletes on the planet and the athletes of a sport that's by far the most popular on the planet are inferior? Do you ACTUALLY think this? Do you not realize that it's an analogy. Can you ACTUALLY not perceive that? Or is it to hard. | ||
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d(O.o)a
Canada5066 Posts
On May 12 2011 14:52 Dingobloo wrote: As an Australian I feel like I have a weird perspective on this as we have multiple different types of egg-shaped ball sports (AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union) that happen simultaneously and occasionally there will be cross-code snipes for the sake of money. The truth is that the players who got in on the ground floor of the sport, despite the transferable skills and athleticism involved, often out-perform their cross-code peers, eventually the others may catch up but they rarely reach the heights that they had in their prior codes. Bit of a stretch, but I have no reason to believe that the skill sets are more or less transferable from sc1 to sc2. But in Jaedong/Flash/Bisu's cases it's different because the three of them all excel in work ethic, raw mechanics, drive, as well as natural skill. There is no true analogy to other sports that fits in this situation because they're unique to the point where they have the skills to be good regardless of what they do, factor in that SC2 while being a different game uses a large amount of the same skills as BW did and there's just no way to compare. The closest would be CFL and NFL because they're both the same game different rules(strategies in bw/sc2), but even then the comparison isn't the same. | ||
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LuckyMacro
United States1482 Posts
On May 12 2011 13:52 Zrana wrote: You didn't mention NaDa or July as much as you should have. Both amazing at sc1 (capable of beating flash/JD at times iirc but not rocking SC2 as hard as you say they should) Not gonna talk about July, but for Nada, university is his primary focus...thus I would think that he could be posting up much better results if school was out of the picture. | ||
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mikyaJ
1834 Posts
??? what? | ||
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wrestlingfool08
United States139 Posts
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
On May 12 2011 14:55 GolemMadness wrote: ...Are you serious? You think that a sport that's only really played in two countries has the best athletes on the planet and the athletes of a sport that's by far the most popular on the planet are inferior? Do you ACTUALLY think this? ROFLMAO. But ignoring the fact that the top 500 american football players would get destroyed, the top 500 american football players would probably never leave because it is far more profitable to play their sport. Same problem the article has because it is entirely hypothetical and not realistic for a player to switch. | ||
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Anzekay
Australia63 Posts
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khellian
Korea (South)922 Posts
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
On May 12 2011 14:59 mikyaJ wrote: Do you not realize that it's an analogy. Can you ACTUALLY not perceive that? Or is it to hard. Wow, really? I totally missed that. I mean, it makes absolutely no sense, but now that I know it's an analogy it's alright. | ||
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HQuality
2682 Posts
yo btw tsl3 semifinals was no ex-scbw progamers at all for example | ||
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
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Probulous
Australia3894 Posts
On May 12 2011 15:00 Anzekay wrote: I have to wonder, why is it that we so often talk about how exciting SC2 will be when BW players switch over, rather than just talking about how exciting it will be when the current SC2 pros get better and better? Because BW is better and will always be better in every single way...Apparently. It really annoys me that there is pervasive snide superiority of BW supporters. I love BW, played for years but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate SC2 for what it is. | ||
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JIJIyO
Canada1957 Posts
And to people saying SC2 is just one year old, and SC had 10 years to develop, you have to consider the fact on HOW the game grew. The first year of pro SC people were living off cup noodles, sleeping on the floor, used their own winnings just to keep the team alive, etc to play this game. There was no system in place for pro SC when it first came out, and because of this the games were obviously worse compared to the games now. Despite being a different game, SC2 had the basis of SC to build on with team houses, training, etc. Please consider this before using those arguments. | ||
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sickoota
Canada918 Posts
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Thanatos1001
Australia16 Posts
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fantomex
United States313 Posts
Are you saying the Kobe's and Jordan's are still playing BW? Or are you saying every starter in the NBA is still playing BW? One is obvious and the other is ridiculous. | ||
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Rihtari
Germany14 Posts
I fully agree that the relatively young SC2 scene is still in a very early stage and it, kind of, reminds me of how BW started out in Korea (and in the 'west', that is). All players are still experimenting what works for them (with the result of, in comparison to BW matches and their nowadays relatively static character (my personal impression!), many interesting things and builds happening). As soon as all the professional players out there, however, go the next step and fine-tune their micro abilities, I can see SC2 being even more watchable than BW ever was - simply because SC2 contains a lesser extent of, in my opinion, less watchable macro (don't get me wrong: this is not meant as SC2>BW or BW>SC2 or anything else, I see (and watch) them both simply as something completely different). That being said, current top BW gamers might have the advantage of better micro and better multitasking abilities in general, but I certainly think that the SC2 scene will eventually reach this point as well. | ||
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Eeeegor
Australia809 Posts
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