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Now lately I have noticed that no matter where you're from everyone loves the Korean Starcraft players. it is because of their tremendous skill and root in Starcraft and also how dedicated they are and I really commend them for this.
But, it seems that not too many people are actually that patriotic about their own countrie's players. Personally I am thrilled everytime a Canadian player gets the win over some other big name, like KiWi or HuK but it doesn't seem this way for everyone. I am a huge huge huge IdrA fan and also really like NesTea but I was wondering why people don't root for their own country as much as they root for the Korean to win no matter what match it is or where it is. Instead of many Americans being really happy that IdrA was the only contender against Koreans they chose to be negative about it and put the Koreans on a pedestal instead.
Maybe I get the wrong idea but what do you guys think? Do you think a lot of eSports fans are patriotic?
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Well, I'm Korean-American, so I like to root for both American and Korean players :3
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Not to troll, but clearly you don't read these forums that much? ~_~;; Any post that's remotely related to "who's the best player" has swedish posters posting about jinro/thorzain/nani, french posters talking about adelscott, canadians huk, etc. etc. I see it a ton around here, lol. You're right though that a lot of folks who aren't "patriotic" just default to "lololkoreans da best". Personally, I just like players for who they are and the style the play, not their country of origin! There's plenty of the "patriotic" type around though.
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You didn't read the TSL LR threads very much did you?
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Haha no I didn't, but thinking about myself I'm not that patriotic. Mostly because the best Canadians are Protoss and I hate Protoss  and also IdrA is baller status.
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I feel that people tend to have a devotion to their race more than their country when watching starcraft games. But maybe that's just me.
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When I watch a sport that's essentially one person vs. another I don't really get the idea of country vs. country unless it's like the olympics. I think in every competition each player has the idea that they want to win it for themselves more than for their country so I don't quite get the hype around players fanboying around their native player, but it happens.
I'm not a very nationalistic/patriotic person to begin with though.
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On June 16 2011 13:07 Clog wrote:
I feel that people tend to have a devotion to their race more than their country when watching starcraft games. But maybe that's just me.
I'm the same here.
I just root for zergs // some certain players from protoss and terran, but zerg above the others.
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trying to turn Sc 2 into Euro Futbol.... no :D
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I'm Italian and all we have got is cloud, so I just support the best players most of the time.
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hmmm I guess I support Terrans mostly then Asian Players over other players
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Hmm, how did it go?
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Most patriotism is pretty silly to me but that's obviously a personal thing. There seems to be a decent amount of it in starcraft though for those who like it. Things will get crazy at WCG i'm sure.
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I'm a Chinese American, and I definitely do support both Chinese and American players :X
I think in general people support their countrymen, but sometimes you just gotta support the better player.
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Starcraft fans don't (usually) care about where you're from, they care about how good you are.
Unless they're Korean, in that case you better be good as IdrA.
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There is quite a bit patriotism in sc2 but I think since sc1 was dominated by korean players basically everyone outside korea is rooting for any foreigner if they're playing koreans. With that said once foreigners start to show much better results versus koreans and wait a few years there will definatly be more patriotism
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I support Terrans regardless of nationality.
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Well in MLG i really found myself rooting for us players to dooo really well. And i really wanted Idra to win it all. But ya i think in a lot of events that have US players in it, i will generally root for the us players over other players, because of pride in my nation.
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I used to be very patriotic towards the American scene, but I've been let down too many times 
Now I wish I was Swedish.
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