[Up/Down] Group E 2012 GSL Season 3 - Page 113

On May 25 2012 22:47 Dalavita wrote:


Terran in SC2 has the most skilled players and the highest number of skilled players because Terran in BW had the most skilled players develop during its lifetime, who then transferred over. This in combination with newer players picking terrans due to old BW terran idols like Boxer and Nada (marineking who played Protoss in BW for instance) influence it further. This in combination with terran having the highest skill cap allows for the already better players to improve at a more rapid pace compared to the zergs/protosses.

A lot of the process is random. If MKP, MVP and Nestea were all playing protoss that race would have the most wins and best progress. There are few enough people at the very top that individuals make big differences in statistics, and most of the good players happen to be terran. With this in mind, seeing Blizzard and the community constantly affect terran negatively, either by nerfs or map changes, instead of allowing for zergs and protosses to become better with practice just warps the game balance around to the point where you'll see balanced racial distributions when the better players are competing against bad odds. How do I know who's a good player and who isn't? I've watched this game since the beginning, as have most people, and it's easy to form conclusions about players and what calibre they are, and most of the good players so far have been terran.

As far as protoss/zerg skill cap goes. I hope Blizzard will raise their skill cap to allow for better players to shine, but they don't. They're dumbing down terran to the same level at the moment, and it's hurting the game.



If all races were balanced in the start there should theoretically be even racial distribution (more on that later), but that's not considering the history of the individual subject, i.e Starcraft 2, which is combined with Brood Wars strategy. In the absolute beginning of SC2s history when no one knew anything about the game there were still twice as many terrans as the other races. That alone should show that there are other factors other than racial balance in the equation. And if racial distribution is your indicator of racial balance, you should check nowhere else except for sc2ranks where terran in all leagues past silver in all regions is the lowest statistically demanding.

Other than that, I don't understand why you see irony and balance whining anywhere. I'd be glad if terran was the least represented race as long as the game was actually being balanced properly, but as it is, it's not. Terran as a whole is being punished for them having the better players. I don't care about people feeling pity about me/terrans/something?. I want to make an argument and try to explain it to people so they can understand it from a new point of view that goes further than statistics that blizzard manipulates to look good.

On May 25 2012 22:50 SarcasmMonster wrote:


Here's what I'm getting at.

1. Balanced racial representation is good for the game.
2. GSL has better racial representation now then ever in its history.

Then you posed a hypothesis that Terrans will be least represented race in 1 or 2 seasons. My 2nd argument is.

1. A few seasons of least representation is not that bad. Some race has to be least represented (barring ties), and if it's only a few months, then nothing to whine about.
2. 2 years of most representation (by large margins) is bad.
3. Therefore we are better off now than before.

On May 25 2012 22:15 FuzzyJAM wrote:
I do love it when people act as though the game must balanced if there's even racial distribution in Code S.

The idea that there must be identical numbers of equally skilled players in all three races is kind of funny.