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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19302 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7035 Posts
I hate English words, weird capitalisation and gibberish like the mentioned jjakji I do like ID's like Serral, Naniwa, Idra, Neeb because they are not just English words but some unique fantasy names? | ||
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Charoisaur
Germany16024 Posts
That would've been a badass ID. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On April 15 2019 16:28 Harris1st wrote: There are so many awful ID's, I don' even know where to start. I hate English words, weird capitalisation and gibberish like the mentioned jjakji I do like ID's like Serral, Naniwa, Idra, Neeb because they are not just English words but some unique fantasy names? I'm sure Naniwa doesn't sound like a unique fantasy name to someone who's Japanese given that it's just the old name of the city of Osaka. So for all we know those random English words might be fantasy names to a Korean player. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
On April 15 2019 01:13 The_Red_Viper wrote: Well i totally admit that my name isn't good :/ (especially because it is a simple copy and paste from a tv show/book series) But at least it isn't a single word! Let's be real, any ID which just a single english word is so lazy and boring, the only way people think these could be good is if they either don't speak said language so they at least perceive the sound as interesting, or because they simply like the players and what they achieved and thus actually appreciate everything around the ID. Now this is only my opinion ofc, but i'd almost prefer it if we called the players by their real names. I’ve often wondered how the ‘coolness’ of a word is across languages. I’ve often felt that many Korean nicks feel kinda lame as a native (sole) English speaker, but maybe they sound really badass if you’re Korean. Also unlike most of Europe who generally have decent English proficiency across the board, that’s not really the case with many Koreans. I mean to me basically any German word sounds a combination of both fucking awesome and vaguely threatening, whereas to a German they’re just normal descriptive words | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
I will absolutely draw a line over duplicate names of notable pros if they’re active at the same time. They should be forced to play off with the winner owning the nickname, something suitably long series wise to remove too much variance, probably staggered over a period of time so a guy can’t get the flu and lose his nick. | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
Would you be able to name him(without looking for it. Datas are not clearly shown on Liquipedia anyway)? He was in Nakajin's GOAT challenge but he has been eliminated already. | ||
Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On April 16 2019 10:19 Xain0n wrote: Today I was looking at GoMTV Team League's results and I was surprised when I found out who was the best player in its history. Would you be able to name him(without looking for it. Datas are not clearly shown on Liquipedia anyway)? He was in Nakajin's GOAT challenge but he has been eliminated already. Only for surprise sake I'm gonna say CoCa? That seemed like the most of left field that I can wrap my head around, maybe Lucky? But my real guess would be Sniper, I think he was pretty good at team league? | ||
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TheDougler
Canada8306 Posts
On April 16 2019 10:19 Xain0n wrote: Today I was looking at GoMTV Team League's results and I was surprised when I found out who was the best player in its history. Would you be able to name him(without looking for it. Datas are not clearly shown on Liquipedia anyway)? He was in Nakajin's GOAT challenge but he has been eliminated already. I have no idea, but I can take a decent guess or two at who it isn't, so I'll venture to guess Cure? | ||
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Ej_
47656 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7035 Posts
On April 16 2019 04:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote: I'm sure Naniwa doesn't sound like a unique fantasy name to someone who's Japanese given that it's just the old name of the city of Osaka. So for all we know those random English words might be fantasy names to a Korean player. That sounds super condescending. Not sure if intentional To the GOM TV question. Dunno MKP? | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
The answer is YongHwa! He had a 29-11 record(tied with Gumiho for the most maps won if I didn't miss anything) with three different all-kills(twice in a single season when he had the best record as well). | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18194 Posts
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Philozovic
France1677 Posts
On April 16 2019 20:26 Xain0n wrote: Hah, no. Both Sniper and Symbol were extremely good in GSTL, while MKP(who's still in Nakajin's tournament) had one outstanding season while being pretty mediocre overall. The answer is YongHwa! He had a 29-11 record(tied with Gumiho for the most maps won if I didn't miss anything) with three different all-kills(twice in a single season when he had the best record as well). I thought it was FXO_Tear but no only 25-15 | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
On April 17 2019 05:53 Philozovic wrote: I thought it was FXO_Tear but no only 25-15 Who in the f*ing word is Tear and how is it he played 40 game of GSTL? Also I would never have guess YongHwa, good for him Edit: Ohhhh Tear is Huricane, ya I vaguely remember that he was playing in GSTL. | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On April 16 2019 17:03 Harris1st wrote: That sounds super condescending. Not sure if intentional To the GOM TV question. Dunno MKP? I didn't mean to be condescending. Sorry if you took it that way. It just seemed a bit contradictory to criticize Koreans for using random English words as a gamer tag, and at the same time praising random words derived from other languages. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7035 Posts
On April 17 2019 09:24 ZigguratOfUr wrote: I didn't mean to be condescending. Sorry if you took it that way. It just seemed a bit contradictory to criticize Koreans for using random English words as a gamer tag, and at the same time praising random words derived from other languages. Well, one has to know the meaning of those random words in other languages. Matter of fact is, 99% know the meaning of the word "Innovation" and maybe 2% know the meaning of Naniwa. But that's just me and my opinion, since opinions are what was asked for  For example, without googling, I have no idea what your name means, it does sound kinda cool if a bit too long for my taste. | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
On April 17 2019 18:16 Harris1st wrote: Well, one has to know the meaning of those random words in other languages. Matter of fact is, 99% know the meaning of the word "Innovation" and maybe 2% know the meaning of Naniwa. But that's just me and my opinion, since opinions are what was asked for For example, without googling, I have no idea what your name means, it does sound kinda cool if a bit too long for my taste. A ziggurat is a terraced, pyramidal structure. Ur is an ancient Mesopotamian city-state. The Ziggurat of Ur is an ancient ruin in Iraq. Spend too long thinking about any given name and it starts to look silly. Now I'm thinking of names like PyramidOfGiza and ColossusOfRhodes. Mine makes me look like some medieval-fetishizing Christian zealot if you're not familiar with StarCraft  . | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
Haha Ziggurat, I do know that nowadays. Back in the day I would have just thought ‘Oh this guy played Warcraft 3 too?’ I used to and still do use a misspelling of Ignatius, from Ignatius of Antioch as a frequent nickname, solely because I liked how it sounded phonetically. Or Tiberius from Tiberius Gracchus, My friend makes fun of me for just taking names I think sound cool from Roman and Greek antiquity, but that’s his field and it’s good-natured ribbing. I do like Wombat as a nick too, equally wombats, while having their positive attributes are not exactly creatures to inspire fear and intimidation. Young, young me used to go to my dad’s work to ‘go on the internet’ and their passwords were rotating around Australian marsupials, I adopted the wombat name as a handle before I actually knew what a wombat was or looked like. | ||
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Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
Group 16  Mvp: 61 votes NaNiwa: 56 votesAlicia: 4 votesInCa: 1 voteMvp and NaNiwa goes through! Group 32  Stephano: 58 votesRevival: 31 votesduckdeok: 26 votesiAsonu: 5 votesStephano and Revival goes through! | ||
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