EPTIf a german player is playing and it's a match without Z, I usually root for the german player. Not because I'm especially patriotic but I think a strong national scene helps making SC2 become more popular in that country.
Starcraft Patriotism! - Page 5
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Kreig
Germany79 Posts
If a german player is playing and it's a match without Z, I usually root for the german player. Not because I'm especially patriotic but I think a strong national scene helps making SC2 become more popular in that country. | ||
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SweetenemY
Germany136 Posts
Socke HasuObs DarKFoRcE Go0dy ClouD (yes i know he is italian, but he tried to pronounce "Streichholzschächtelchen" correctly - so he is almost german O_o | ||
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Ayush_SCtoss
India3050 Posts
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Ruscour
5233 Posts
But yeah, I always cheer for local players. Filthy and tgun playing in GSTL wooo! EDIT: I also always support FXO players (the American ones) because of how much FXO has done for the SEA scene. | ||
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Belisarius
Australia6214 Posts
On June 16 2011 13:05 Leyra wrote: 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. This is from the front page, but I have to respond. It drives me crazy when people make comments like that, as though using a stupid tone to reiterate a position you disagree with is a substitute for a valid argument. Koreans are, in general, the best. I'm not sure how you can claim otherwise. Being a perfectionist, as I'm sure a ton of people here are, I like the best players to succeed as that tends to produce the best matches. Naturally, then, I support a lot of Korean players. Plus, I think the whole MLG thing is tempered by the fact that a lot of people just really don't like Idra, whether they're from America or not. Whoever said people tend to be highly patriotic about their race is dead on, as well. That plays a really big role. | ||
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(Max 20 chars)
149 Posts
It's just cheering for good players. The best players. And if the come from one country over the past 10 years...who cares. Then it is just that way. It's pretty irrelevant where that country is or what people call it. Just imagine the best palyers would come from 50 different countries completely even balanced. So what? People would still cheer for the best and love to see good matches. I think hardly anyone really cares where on the planet their mother pressed the players out of her uterus. It's all about the players and not a bit about a country. | ||
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Civzero
Canada14 Posts
Better yet, cheer for Losira because he looks like a cute little ewok.  | ||
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
On June 16 2011 16:32 Tofugrinder wrote: so what? fuck it what's important is the skill and/or the personality of a progamer not the fuckin country just making a joke man, Im not one of this wanna-be-nazis we are having troubles with in our country. I also don't think the nationality should matter, yet I do think, that things like international championships would be awesome and I would surely cheer for an austrian team, if there was one. | ||
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busbarn
Sweden984 Posts
On June 16 2011 17:35 _civ_ wrote: Why would you cheer for a player just because they happened to be born in the same country as you? Why not cheer for a player that has a style you like, or you like their decision-making. Or just cheer for good play in general regardless of which player is the one executing it. Better yet, cheer for Losira because he looks like a cute little ewok. Why would cheering for someone because of their skills be better than cheering for them because their of your nationality? If you only want people to cheer for skills you'll never get non-gamers into esports. This mindset on TL is something that remains from BW and I don't like it. My non SC friends would never watch korean vs. korean, or european vs. europan. They have watched swede vs. foreigner and swede vs. swede because they can relate and they liked it. If you like starcraft to remain on TL and reddit and never really hit mainstream, that's fine, but you shouldn't look down upon people who cheer for players because of nationality. I can watch FC Barcelona vs Manchester United in football because I know their skills is exeptional, but Sweden vs. Denmark will still get more viewers on national television. | ||
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Vari
United States532 Posts
but when you get someone like MMA who has been so completely exciting to watch, it's hard to cheer against him even when he plays a hometown hero like idra. so in those types of games I just hope for some entertainment. | ||
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Koshi
Belgium38797 Posts
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Snettik
Finland186 Posts
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Fluffet
Sweden47 Posts
I am only really happy when Swedish players and White-Ra win important matches :D (The latter because he is so goddamn awesome and nice) | ||
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Anomandaris
Afghanistan440 Posts
On June 16 2011 17:51 Koshi wrote: I am a THE patriotic fan. I haven't missed a single event/match when somebody played from my country in a big league. Surely you must be joking. Belgian players never participate outside of benelux, or a big international league. | ||
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Iskover
United States21 Posts
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Alver
United States177 Posts
ive only met a korean irl 2 times but my top 5 players are all koreans right now. i basically like their team houses and work ethic so much i can tolerate them knowing 90% less english than europeans usually know. i always root for idra for the first half of a tournament till he gives away games and drops out. also, from the sounds of posts in this thread, the way europe is setup makes it much easier for international competition there. less teams per country, countries very close together. in the us we have like 30 teams for each sport and we mostly play ourselves, occasionally canadians. also some of our states are more like european countries size/distance wise. east coast and west coast are more far apart than many european countries so sometimes we dont have as much national pride and more state pride (outside of the biggest events like the olympics). this definately doesnt apply to all sports equally or everyone, but i think this is a bit of the difference between eu/us cheering. | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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Ryndika
1489 Posts
On June 16 2011 13:03 AustinCM wrote: 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? Kind of hard to be when your fav players definitely come outside your country most of the time. And for me, I'm finn, do you really think I would care Naama that much? Finland isn't only country with no many good players E: I think nationalism should be cut from eSports for good. (Like from everything.) E2: WHY should I be biased because of the country you were born? I root for korean if he deserves it as a person. | ||
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Flowtax
Netherlands42 Posts
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XiaN
Germany162 Posts
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