[GSL] “The One Zerg” - Finals Recap - Page 10

On October 07 2010 15:44 Hot_Bid wrote:
Unfortunately your analogy does not make sense because a gamer's ID is largely determined by what the fans recognize him as, not what the progamer calls himself. It is not the same thing as a professional sports team moving cities. When proteams change their names (from KTF MagicNs to KT Rolster for example) the entire community calls them the updated name. But when a player selects an ID, it's a much more informal thing and the fans basically decide what to refer to them as.

Thus, you are free to call them whatever you wish, but to many here they will always be Cool, Rainbow, and Boxer. This will always be so in our news posts, in our official TLPD statistics database, and in our forum threads. Get used to it. Cool's main ID here might be interchangeable just because of how awesome "Fruit Dealer" is and how little he accomplished in BW, but Boxer and Rainbow will never be more known on TL than as their original IDs.

In the GSL2, there is no way I'm calling Nada "BnetLagNotKESPA" and July "XtraLargePizza" just because they decide they set those IDs.

On October 07 2010 15:44 Hot_Bid wrote:

Unfortunately your analogy does not make sense because a gamer's ID is largely determined by what the fans recognize him as, not what the progamer calls himself. It is not the same thing as a professional sports team moving cities. When proteams change their names (from KTF MagicNs to KT Rolster for example) the entire community calls them the updated name. But when a player selects an ID, it's a much more informal thing and the fans basically decide what to refer to them as.

Thus, you are free to call them whatever you wish, but to many here they will always be Cool, Rainbow, and Boxer. This will always be so in our news posts, in our official TLPD statistics database, and in our forum threads. Get used to it. Cool's main ID here might be interchangeable just because of how awesome "Fruit Dealer" is and how little he accomplished in BW, but Boxer and Rainbow will never be more known on TL than as their original IDs.

In the GSL2, there is no way I'm calling Nada "BnetLagNotKESPA" and July "XtraLargePizza" just because they decide they set those IDs.

In the GSL2, there is no way I'm calling Nada "BnetLagNotKESPA" and July "XtraLargePizza" just because they decide they set those IDs.

On October 07 2010 19:57 Domonic wrote:


I disagree. Rainbow's career in the brood war genre was nothing extraordinary, and if he wants to change his sn in Starcraft 2, whatever his reasons, we should respect that; and even the korean commentators agree. Boxer will always be boxer because that has always been his sn in brood war, it has been for YEARS, and he has achieved much. Even if he achieves more than what he did in Starcraft 2 than in brood war, he will still be known as Boxer in brood war, and manofoneway in Starcraft 2 out of respect. You are really comparing different things.

On October 07 2010 18:43 andrea20 wrote:


Really? The vast majority of fans (Korean, not foreign) refer to many of their players by their real names. In GSL, whenever someone mentioned Fruit Dealer in Korean, either the interviewee or the interpreter said his real name.

Anyway, Fruit Dealer is a special case: Boxer and NaDa have fan clubs and are known even outside the SC circuit; Fruit Dealer had an unremarkable SC1 career. Many people have never even heard of him until the GSL, and a good portion of his new fans will relate to him as Fruit Dealer, not Cool. If Fruit Dealer ends up playing 5+ years of SC2 with that name and completely overshadows his SC1 career, will people still call him Cool? It's like calling Babe Ruth "George" just because that's his birth name.

I think the players change names because they want it to mark a turning point in their life/career, a new leaf perhaps. Tester has gone on the record that he doesn't like that name anymore and wants to be called sSKS. Shouldn't we respect that?

Besides, seeing fans wave around fruit and Tastosis utter a corny fruit-related joke every few minutes is a lot more entertaining than trying to come up with "Cool" puns.