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apalemorning
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada509 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 03:01:53
March 07 2011 03:01 GMT
#441
honestly, i don't understand this whole "manner" fetishism. we live in north america, any sport that is taken legitimately has players who "bm" all the time. it gives the sport character. rivalries are fun. trash talking is fun. (clidevsidra for example, made the gsl that much more interesting) the whole "must be manner" at all time is strictly a korean cultural phenomena. sure, in western sports, most players shake hands after the match, but they sure as hell still "bm". how fun would following the e-sports world be if all the players were like "inserthighlevel playerherethatdoesntreallyhaveapersonalitythatappealstoanyonethatisntatotalgeek". if anything, destiny although not the greatest player, is a GREAT addition to the starcraft 2 e-sports world, if not just for his personality. im not trying to be cruel, or argumentative, im just trying to explain that players like destiny, make the game more interesting for a BROAD audience. sometimes, bad manner is fine. <3


p.s i barely even like destiny as a streamer, but i cant help but defend the poor guy most of the time.
immortal/roach is pretty good against stalkers
willeesmalls
Profile Joined March 2010
United States477 Posts
March 07 2011 03:01 GMT
#442
On March 07 2011 11:44 uberism wrote:
All this talk about potential.
How do you judge a players potential?
I can name many better players than Destiny, but I don't know why root denies recruiting him for his popularity. He is a good entertainer.


You can say that its his destiny to be good.

This guy whines like a little bitch though. You don't hear catz whining about imba each time he gets tvz or pvz on steppes.
Myia
Profile Joined May 2010
173 Posts
March 07 2011 03:09 GMT
#443
Thats cause catz knows cheese is coming, so cheeses them right back
I am the best SC2 player in the world! Except those that play Random, Protoss, Terran, or Zerg :(
hmsrenown
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1263 Posts
March 07 2011 03:25 GMT
#444
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.
hmunkey
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom1973 Posts
March 07 2011 03:33 GMT
#445
On March 03 2011 02:22 CatZ.root wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2011 00:46 hmunkey wrote:
On March 02 2011 17:09 Grantler wrote:
JTV Fame =/= skill
Haven't really been impressed by Destiny yet, but who knows.

I completely agree. He has a lot of fans, but so does Husky and neither are particularly great at playing the game. I don't really understand why a top team would recruit him without any accomplishments to his name. The only other player who was this unqualified and recruited by ROOT was Minigun and he was at least #1 on the ladder.


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clearly, not only have you not read the interviews, but also you didn't read my post, and also you never followed ROOT. I can't stand people who blindly comment and talk as if they knew it all...

So please... tell me some of ROOT's players acomplishments before they joined ROOT... see if you can come up with... 1 maybe per player. HIGHLY doubt it, BECAUSE WE HAVE ALWAYS SCOUTED AND RECRUITED BASED ON POTENTIAL. (except maybe minigun who was #1 on the ladder, but still wasn't very good at all when he joined us, and he knew it back then, he just had potential)

like this post there are a good 20-25 others, some guy saying "im not even in ROOT's lineup im in management" me and drew are listed in on ROOT as Leaders of the team because WE MADE THE TEAM and because we LEAD the team. This is not to say we're not players, it means we're also more than that and if you were someone who needed to talk to the team, that we are the point of contact, as opposed to any other player. I am the highest rated ROOT player on the ladder for what that's worth, and I do quite well vs other teammates in practice games.

either way, I don't ask you to like this descision, and I wont say i don't care if the community doesn't like it, obviously what this game is, we all owe to the community. But if your initial reaction is against, please take a time to read the reasoning behind this in the interview or previous posts, and if you have the time go watch Steven's stream some, i guarantee the more you watch, the more you'll realize he's a great guy.

I do watch his stream. I also help spread the word of it by upvoting his posts on Reddit. That said, I like watching his stream for his personality, not for his raw SC2 skill. I understand what you're saying when you say you recruited him based on potential, but potential isn't a tangible thing you can easily judge. I guess what I'm trying to say is there are better players who you could have recruited instead of him, who had results to show, and who by all counts showed just as much if not more potential. It doesn't matter what accomplishments past ROOT recruits had because honestly, that doesn't change my previous statement at all.

Also, I wasn't presuming to know what you were thinking. Please don't presume to know what I was either. It looks like a struck a nerve but really, I was being completely objective and didn't mean to strike a nerve.
baoluvboa
Profile Joined December 2010
743 Posts
March 07 2011 03:36 GMT
#446
On March 07 2011 12:25 hmsrenown wrote:
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.


Not really considering that after like 2.5k ladder games, destiny is still pretty average among the high master. His focus also seems to be entertainment and having fun rather than to improve (which is cool with me) so I question this pickup in term of competitiveness but no doubt it will be a good publicity move for ROOT and Esport in general (since he is popular).
maahes`ra
Profile Joined January 2011
United States255 Posts
March 07 2011 04:33 GMT
#447
On March 07 2011 12:36 baoluvboa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2011 12:25 hmsrenown wrote:
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.


Not really considering that after like 2.5k ladder games, destiny is still pretty average among the high master. His focus also seems to be entertainment and having fun rather than to improve (which is cool with me) so I question this pickup in term of competitiveness but no doubt it will be a good publicity move for ROOT and Esport in general (since he is popular).


Ladder games are not a good form of practice for improvement's sake.
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JediGamer
Profile Joined August 2010
United States656 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-09 11:22:42
March 08 2011 02:28 GMT
#448
On March 07 2011 13:33 maahes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2011 12:36 baoluvboa wrote:
On March 07 2011 12:25 hmsrenown wrote:
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.


Not really considering that after like 2.5k ladder games, destiny is still pretty average among the high master. His focus also seems to be entertainment and having fun rather than to improve (which is cool with me) so I question this pickup in term of competitiveness but no doubt it will be a good publicity move for ROOT and Esport in general (since he is popular).


Ladder games are not a good form of practice for improvement's sake.


Usually when a top player masses games, he will naturally appear on the top 200 even if he's playing below his level. A lot of great players like Select and especiallly countless europeans mass ladder.
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MuteZephyr
Profile Joined August 2010
Lithuania448 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-08 03:19:56
March 08 2011 02:54 GMT
#449
Ehhhh, NM. No need to be negative. Good luck ROOT, you guys are great, hoping for your continued success!
I don't Micro, I FEMTO. That's 9 orders of magnitude more extreme.
apalemorning
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada509 Posts
March 08 2011 03:22 GMT
#450
On March 07 2011 13:33 maahes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2011 12:36 baoluvboa wrote:
On March 07 2011 12:25 hmsrenown wrote:
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.


Not really considering that after like 2.5k ladder games, destiny is still pretty average among the high master. His focus also seems to be entertainment and having fun rather than to improve (which is cool with me) so I question this pickup in term of competitiveness but no doubt it will be a good publicity move for ROOT and Esport in general (since he is popular).


Ladder games are not a good form of practice for improvement's sake.



they are if you're bad/not top player. but the second ur a top 200 player in NA, practice games with similarly skilled opponents is the best way to improve imo.
immortal/roach is pretty good against stalkers
maahes`ra
Profile Joined January 2011
United States255 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-08 10:50:58
March 08 2011 10:46 GMT
#451
nvm.
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-Archangel-
Profile Joined May 2010
Croatia7457 Posts
March 08 2011 12:37 GMT
#452
On March 08 2011 11:28 FuSioN722 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2011 13:33 maahes wrote:
On March 07 2011 12:36 baoluvboa wrote:
On March 07 2011 12:25 hmsrenown wrote:
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.


Not really considering that after like 2.5k ladder games, destiny is still pretty average among the high master. His focus also seems to be entertainment and having fun rather than to improve (which is cool with me) so I question this pickup in term of competitiveness but no doubt it will be a good publicity move for ROOT and Esport in general (since he is popular).


Ladder games are not a good form of practice for improvement's sake.


Usually when a top player masses games, he will naturally appear on the top 200 even if he's playing below his level. However, I think this is the third week in a row of massgaming by Destiny that he is not on the top 200. I wish rootgaming the best of luck here.

Well considering he had been mass queening on another account and playing a lot of inteam custom games getting to top 200 on ladder is a bit harder.
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-08 12:46:37
March 08 2011 12:45 GMT
#453
On March 08 2011 11:28 FuSioN722 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 07 2011 13:33 maahes wrote:
On March 07 2011 12:36 baoluvboa wrote:
On March 07 2011 12:25 hmsrenown wrote:
I think at this stage of clan recruiting, there aren't many extremely skilled players looking for team. It's entirely great that ROOT is already looking at the skill-ceiling instead of current skill-level of new players.


Not really considering that after like 2.5k ladder games, destiny is still pretty average among the high master. His focus also seems to be entertainment and having fun rather than to improve (which is cool with me) so I question this pickup in term of competitiveness but no doubt it will be a good publicity move for ROOT and Esport in general (since he is popular).


Ladder games are not a good form of practice for improvement's sake.


Usually when a top player masses games, he will naturally appear on the top 200 even if he's playing below his level. However, I think this is the third week in a row of massgaming by Destiny that he is not on the top 200. I wish rootgaming the best of luck here.


I can see you've been paying a lot of attention to his stream.......

He's either been practicing with people or giving lessons every time I've watched his stream over the last couple of weeks. Or mass queening. One of the things that getting on a decent team does is make your ladder rank worthless. You can screw around now, because you'll be facing top competition in practices and showmatches, not to mention tournaments. Your ladder, instead of being your focal point as before, is now just a sub-par practice league.

I personally think he's drastically improved his level of play since the last few months. He played a lot of practice games vs ~3700 masters terran yesterday, and he made him look like a silver level newbie.
singularity14
Profile Joined October 2010
44 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-20 00:25:33
March 08 2011 23:55 GMT
#454
Sky Net
Profile Joined February 2011
United States134 Posts
March 10 2011 18:58 GMT
#455
On March 03 2011 20:03 sgblack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2011 19:39 Greggor wrote:
Dont see why so many pick on Destinys BM when Idra is just as bad or even worse when it comes to BM:ing.

I don't remember Idra ever calling someone a faggot or saying he raped their mother.


What are you talking about? He's called many people fags. Drewbie comes to mind.
"Never surrender" -Billy Mitchell
CosciaSi
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada39 Posts
March 24 2011 07:43 GMT
#456
I don't really like ROOT clan, so this is kind of a disappointing move I find. I just find players like Catz and Drewbie to be generally uncreative and overrated. Why not join another clan like vT or VG or LG?

User was temp banned for this post.
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
March 24 2011 07:46 GMT
#457
On March 24 2011 16:43 CosciaSi wrote:
I don't really like ROOT clan, so this is kind of a disappointing move I find. I just find players like Catz and Drewbie to be generally uncreative and overrated. Why not join another clan like vT or VG or LG?


Because your negative opinions aren't based on concrete evidence
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