On April 15 2011 01:47 Tufas wrote:
I thought it was a well established fact that all of the progamers play to win. When you play to win, you try to win. I cannot understand why anyone hates on MC :/

Did they also hate boxer and Nal_ra ? Or flash ? ...

Yes, actually

Beyonder

Netherlands15103 Posts

April 14 2011 17:01 GMT

#62

And to add, MC does as well. Totally agree with Hot_Bid, our community sometimes needs to grow up a bit. Well played MC!

vojnik

Macedonia923 Posts

April 14 2011 17:01 GMT

#63

On April 15 2011 01:50 AlBundy wrote:
Thanks for sharing this, it's always a pleasure to know what the korean netizens think.

Also here's a translation from MC's twitter (from this thread )

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Can't argue against that

wow, MC really didn't need to explain himself, he deserves the win fair and square, some ppl here should really think of changing their attitudes, the way things are going this will turn into a damn Halo community with angry 12 year olds swearing all the time. Seriously as much as i wanted white ra to win and was cheering for him don't discredit MCs achievements ppl.
Good to see koreans more civilized than most of the forumers here.

MCDayC

United Kingdom14464 Posts

April 14 2011 17:03 GMT

#64

On April 15 2011 01:55 TheResidentEvil wrote:

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2nd place got 2250

Really? I read pretty much everywhere that it was winner takes all. Plus the prize ceremony just showed Whitera standing among all the other players. If there is a link to confirm either way that would be good. ALTHOUGH I Whitera and MC are both automatically in the main DH event, which is a positive.

vrok

Sweden2541 Posts

April 14 2011 17:15 GMT

#65

On April 15 2011 01:28 Hot_Bid wrote:
I'm really disappointed that the international fans whined enough about the proxy gates that MC felt the need to justify himself on Twitter. Really bad impression from our community imo.

I'll report them in the future if you ban them! Deal?

I really hate that too... People harp all time about doing this and that for ESPORTS. How about not hating on players that actually play to win like they're supposed to. If you want "fun" games at the expense of competitive games, go watch funday monday.

TheResidentEvil

United States991 Posts

April 14 2011 17:18 GMT

#66

I dont know where i read that. My wife asked me what 2nd place got so i remember looking it up at the time and thats what i found. Whether its right or wrong, i cant find it.

EDIT:

here is a link of someone saying the same thing as me.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IdKAuz7R9zYJ:www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=211733&currentpage=549 dreamhack invitation 2nd place 2250&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

Mailing

United States3087 Posts

April 14 2011 17:19 GMT

#67

It's called a vocal minority, and there is no use complaining about it, it won't effect anything.

MC should know this by now, as the top SC2 progamer

mcc

Czech Republic4646 Posts

April 14 2011 17:20 GMT

#68

Unfortunately I feel like this is not the last time, especially with new ways of harassing players by twitter, ... I understand that some of them might be annoyed because they cheered for White-ra, but to go harassing MC on twitter (that's what happened as I gather ?) is so disappointing and shameful. Why would you do that, even if I really hated someone I would have never harass that person. Especially since MC is really, from all information available, very nice guy.

Really I can kind of understand posts in LR thread, people are blowing off steam, but the rest is just reinforcing gap between communities that otherwise would be shrinking and discouraging Koreans from participating in foreign events.

mcc

Czech Republic4646 Posts

April 14 2011 17:24 GMT

#69

On April 15 2011 02:19 Mailing wrote:
It's called a vocal minority, and there is no use complaining about it, it won't effect anything.

MC should know this by now, as the top SC2 progamer

Seeing as he was very surprised by the positive attitude and attention of fans at DH event it seems this harassment is the other side of that and not present in Korea to such a degree. It would seem that foreign fans are more emotional and vocal which might have positive side, but also the ugly one.

shizna

United Kingdom803 Posts

April 14 2011 17:28 GMT

#70

On April 13 2011 20:54 Redunzl wrote:
"Deserving" to win... such a silly, thoroughly western (i.e. Judeo-Christian) notion.
Winners win. What else can one say?

White-Ra is my hero. MC won. White-Ra is still my hero.

quoted for truth.

white-ra did not expect a proxy gateway, therefore proxy gateway was the best strategy possible. choosing the best strategy is how to be the best

but white-ra deserves attention for an unbelievable tournament, i've always been a huge fan.

R0YAL

United States1768 Posts

April 14 2011 17:29 GMT

#71

Wow its sad that MC felt the need to explain himself on twitter due to foreigners harassing him. Some people are so effing immature its pathetic..

Gratz to MC
Awesome performance by Whitera

fishjie

United States1519 Posts

April 14 2011 17:35 GMT

#72

Yeah white ra is definitely beast for taking two games off MC

MC is one of the best, if not the best, player in the world, so screw stupid scrub haters

Deekin[

Serbia1713 Posts

April 14 2011 17:37 GMT

#73

On April 13 2011 18:29 lungo wrote:
the beast from the east! they know him, we know him!

For them he is the beast from the west though! xd

Majynx

United States1431 Posts

April 14 2011 17:38 GMT

#74

Nice read. Good to see that White-Ra receives some well deserved respect. I agree that it's unfortunate the situation that occurred after MC's win (explaining himself over twitter), but that's just how people are over the internet. While we may want to see the more conventional macro games, pro-gamers play to win and by whatever means necessary.

FarbrorAbavna

Sweden4856 Posts

April 14 2011 17:59 GMT

#75

thanks for doing this! was wondering what the reactions to this tournament were.