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Sadly it seems I have to put this up yet again. Any of the following types of posts will be met with immediate bans:

Imbalance whine/Player bashing/Caster bashing/Stream complaining/Off topic arguing.

Stick to the games and enjoy the event and its free services and coverage.
eggs
Profile Joined August 2010
1011 Posts
June 20 2011 10:50 GMT
#2081
On June 20 2011 19:49 cnc wrote:
Korea is successful at SC2 for the same reason USA is successful in the olympics


diverse population?
Tommie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
China658 Posts
June 20 2011 10:50 GMT
#2082
I really wanna watch the game on Crossfire and see exactly what the armies were and how the batlle went. I was baffled that MC won after stupidly losing 2 colossi and getting his whole army EMP-ed.
Being a ho doesn't automatically make you "immoral" or a bad person, but it does make you a ho.
Nevuk
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States16280 Posts
June 20 2011 10:50 GMT
#2083
On June 20 2011 19:49 cnc wrote:
Korea is successful at SC2 for the same reason USA is successful in the olympics

What reason would this be? They put the most money into training for it?
Nyovne
Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19138 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-20 10:51:24
June 20 2011 10:50 GMT
#2084
Super strict moderation starts here again:


________________________________________________________


This includes this whole stupid race debate.
ModeratorFor remember, that in the end, some are born to live, others born to die. I belong to those last, born to burn, born to cry. For I shall remain alone... forsaken.
Xpace
Profile Joined March 2011
United States2209 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2085
On June 20 2011 19:47 Plexa wrote:
Let's drop the IQ debate.


I can't believe I had to write that.


Yeah can we please just end this shit? I'm sick of people who can't just take a comment like "Korea will always be better than foreigners", they feel like the comment is a 'racial challenge' and will throw essay explanations of how Korea's pro scene and infrastructure is better bla bla bla... we get it, we don't need you to explain it. Just accept it. Foreigners will never, ever, ever be better than Koreans in Starcraft. I'm "foreigner", and I've accepted it. So lets end this senseless debate shit on a tournament LR thread ffs....
grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2086
Well, moon nearly lost to Tarson, so Bomber is gonna M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER ROLL him.

And i don't see Huk beating July, i really hope he does though
We make signature, then defense it.
hifriend
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
China7935 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2087
On June 20 2011 19:41 PraetorianX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2011 19:36 youngminii wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:34 Telcontar wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:30 PraetorianX wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:22 darlhet wrote:
so sad for naniwa currently there are no foreigners able to compete with the koreans, i dont get why .
i mean torch said somethign very smart about it: foreigner pros are interacting a lot with the comunity and not focusing nearly enough on the game, on the long term we're going to see the koreans dominating once again if the trend doesnt change.
and that's exactly what's happening


No offense but that's a pretty stupid comment from Torch. Interacting with the community doesn't make you a worse gamer by any means. Korean dominance has more do to with the (politically incorrect) fact that the average intelligence is higher in Korea and in East Asia in general, and that is also the reason China is pumping out millions of engineers and scientists, and Japan is a leader in hi-tech industries.


[image loading]

And that's a big part of the reason why we see Koreans dominating these competitions.

I'm really interested to see greenlanders play starcraft.

The picture made its rounds on reddit a few weeks ago, the majority pointed out it's inaccuracy: Look at North Korea.


That is incorrect. The majority tried to come up with explanations why this would be inaccurate, but no criticism would stick. Richard Lynn has spend whole books countering the arguments you are referring to, and he has done so well. Regarding the North Korean datapoint - it is based on a (relatively small) number of North Korean refugees in South Korea. Many other countries' datapoints are also based on small sample sizes. This is, however, irrelevant. Many studies have found the same broader pattern to be true, regardless of small variations in average IQ as a result of small sample size in some datapoints.

Richard Lynn huh? Credible guy. IQ is such an outdated and arbitrary measurement I'm surprised we haven't moved on to something with a little more relevance yet.

But the reason koreans are doing so well in sc2 is of course due to a culture of good work ethics and a long established infrastructure for e-sport leading to the forming of teams and team houses almost immediately after sc2 release..

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Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2088
On June 20 2011 19:48 thoradycus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2011 19:46 Nevuk wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:41 ribboo wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:40 Nevuk wrote:
Uh the reason IQs in africa are so low has nothing to do with Africans being dumber and everything to do with IQ tests being culturally skewed towards a western idea of intelligence. IQ does not equal general intelligence, there is a correlation but it's certainly not a true indicator of intelligence

so thats why asia has the highest iq ;s?

Asia is certainly beating the west at its own game and has been for the past few decades. (If we're talking reasons, primary one is probably education, education in the US for example for the average citizen is fairly sub-par). The US has a pretty deep seed of anti-intellectualism in a lot of its political thought, intelligence isn't really valued here like it is in Asian countries. I don't know enough about europe to say.

as far as I know, IQ is hereditary and has nothing to do with quality of education??


if by hereditary, you mean the environment you grow up in.. ie if Einstein had kids, he would obviously be telling them about his theories/experiments enough that they would eventually pick up things from it.. as opposed to if Einstein gave his kids away for adoption to a drunken drug-using trailorpark family who can't afford to put their kids in school... chances are they would score significantly lower on an IQ test.

Nature vs Nurture.

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Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
mcc
Profile Joined October 2010
Czech Republic4646 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2089
On June 20 2011 19:30 PraetorianX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2011 19:22 darlhet wrote:
so sad for naniwa currently there are no foreigners able to compete with the koreans, i dont get why .
i mean torch said somethign very smart about it: foreigner pros are interacting a lot with the comunity and not focusing nearly enough on the game, on the long term we're going to see the koreans dominating once again if the trend doesnt change.
and that's exactly what's happening


No offense but that's a pretty stupid comment from Torch. Interacting with the community doesn't make you a worse gamer by any means. Korean dominance has more do to with the (politically incorrect) fact that the average intelligence is higher in Korea and in East Asia in general, and that is also the reason China is pumping out millions of engineers and scientists, and Japan is a leader in hi-tech industries.


[image loading]

And that's a big part of the reason why we see Koreans dominating these competitions.

That is stupid argument, what has intelligence has to do with SC2 ? Also note that the differences in IQ are miniscule compared to difference in SC2 performance.

5 point differences in IQ are easily achieved by cultural and educational influences (see your own map).

As for engineers and scientists, West was pumping much more of them in the past, it is more cultural/societal difference as western societies are somewhat neglecting those areas.

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DaCruise
Profile Joined July 2010
Denmark2457 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2090
July vs Huk is hard to predict. It will be insanely close I think.

Bomber will destroy Moon though I hope Moon can pull something off.
Nivity
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden371 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2091
Tbh this group play from DH is so bad.

No stage play, BO3 in ro4, seriously? Even in ro8 its bad with bo3.

Shit tournament ;/
Benga
Profile Joined October 2010
Korea (South)471 Posts
June 20 2011 10:51 GMT
#2092
The IQ shit is completley retarded,at least in starcraft that foreigners are lazy to practice among like koreans

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hi
Telcontar
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom16710 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2093
On June 20 2011 19:50 Nyovne wrote:
Super strict moderation starts here again:


________________________________________________________


This includes this whole stupid race debate.

The thin red line people.
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta.
Bleak
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Turkey3059 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2094
To go back on the topic, can someone tell me who is playing who for the semis?
"I am a beacon of knowledge blazing out across a black sea of ignorance. "
Yaotzin
Profile Joined August 2010
South Africa4280 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2095
On June 20 2011 19:51 grobo wrote:
Well, moon nearly lost to Tarson, so Bomber is gonna M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER ROLL him.

And i don't see Huk beating July, i really hope he does though

Moon always looks like SURELY he'll get rolled in his next series. Who really knows..
ZeGzoR
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden307 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2096
Its pretty stupid to think that koreans are smarter then white/black people. Its clearly a matter of work ethic and not IQ. Koreans pratice more, simple as that.

On IQ test; They are pretty irrelevent, they only messure one skill, and disgard importent skills like retorical skills, social skills and other skills that are often more importent then logical skills to survive in todays society (Look at someone like Sara Pahlin).

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yeah yeah im going
legaton
Profile Joined December 2010
France1763 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-20 10:53:12
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2097
The chart is well known, it comes from Richard Lynn (a british university teacher), he established a mathematical correlation between national IQ and wealth. Problem is the samples for IQ test are barely believable, either for the top ones (like China and North Korea, you may have a lot of azn pride, but it is well known that there is a lot of state manipulation for this kind of data) and the bottom ones (samples for african countries are small or old, as IQ tests are not used a lot outside anglosaxon countries). More importantly, a statistical correlation fails to prove a causality relationship. And even if you accept the initial hypothesis of Lynn (races do exist, IQ measures intelligence... two things he fails to prove... at least, i wasn't convinced by his arguments), his conclusions are pretty biased as he thinks the low IQ explains wealth inequality. You could perfectly say that poverty and institutional crisis explains the bad performances in IQ tests.

Soryy, i posted it before the moderation call. I just wanted to give some date on the chart as it appears from time to time, and i have some (little) experience on this field.
No GG, No Skill - Jaedong <3
Kevan
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden2303 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2098
On June 20 2011 19:50 PraetorianX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 20 2011 19:37 tdt wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:30 PraetorianX wrote:
On June 20 2011 19:22 darlhet wrote:
so sad for naniwa currently there are no foreigners able to compete with the koreans, i dont get why .
i mean torch said somethign very smart about it: foreigner pros are interacting a lot with the comunity and not focusing nearly enough on the game, on the long term we're going to see the koreans dominating once again if the trend doesnt change.
and that's exactly what's happening


No offense but that's a pretty stupid comment from Torch. Interacting with the community doesn't make you a worse gamer by any means. Korean dominance has more do to with the (politically incorrect) fact that the average intelligence is higher in Korea and in East Asia in general, and that is also the reason China is pumping out millions of engineers and scientists, and Japan is a leader in hi-tech industries.


[image loading]

And that's a big part of the reason why we see Koreans dominating these competitions.

Where did you get that chart? Stormfront? Keep your racist shit outta here.

Oh and if players were top smart they would not be gamers but surgeons and scientists.


No, this picture is from Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_Global_Inequality

But I think it says a lot about you, that you think it's from Stormfront.

And regarding you last statement - I am both a doctor (med student) and a gamer. That may be anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure all pro SC2 gamers are high-IQ individuals. Idra, for example, has said he is going to study physics after SC2.



Well Wikipedia has 0 credibility, I think it says a lot about you.


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SC2, rip in pepperinos
gm.tOSS
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany898 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2099
On June 20 2011 19:52 Bleak wrote:
To go back on the topic, can someone tell me who is playing who for the semis?

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/DreamHack_Summer_2011#Playoffs
HuK HuK HuK | ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | There is death in the hane.
shabby
Profile Joined March 2010
Norway6402 Posts
June 20 2011 10:52 GMT
#2100
On June 20 2011 19:52 Bleak wrote:
To go back on the topic, can someone tell me who is playing who for the semis?


HuK vs July
Bomber vs Moon
Jaedong, Gumibear, Leenock, Byun
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