EPTWhy do kids get the hate? - Page 3
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NicolBolas
United States1388 Posts
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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Kraznaya
United States3711 Posts
On June 26 2011 04:23 PhiliBiRD wrote: and 13 is not a prime age, the main reason being that your brain has alot of growing to do. the actual prime imo is gonna be 17-25. your brain actually peaks at around age 23 (so technically I think thats the prime prime age) I can count the number of broodwar progamers who reached their prime at 23 with the number of fingers on my feet. | ||
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Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
I hate it when I have to deal with immaturity online because I get enough of that in my day to day life. Unfortunately, for every good guy like you there's 5000 babies who piss off the grown ups. | ||
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FecalFrown
215 Posts
HAHAHA User was warned for this post | ||
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Razuik
United States409 Posts
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Zeke50100
United States2220 Posts
To be honest, though, people claiming that they don't want to play with younger players because they're likely to be more immature are immature themselves, unless they've found a definitive link between maturity and age beyond what is artificially driven into our minds. | ||
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Spikey!
Australia6 Posts
I think legal reasons may be a large one. You legally can't sign contracts yourself and have them legally binding a lot of the time. In some countries you can't actually earn that much money that young (In Australia you must be 14 & 9 months) to have a job and if a competition wants to be legit, it probably requires you to claim your earnings as opposed to just cash in hand which other jobs do for people who work younger than the legal age | ||
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quRax
Korea (South)264 Posts
It's 12+ in Germany i guess i bought my copy in Sweeden and it says 16 + | ||
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Boyo
United States226 Posts
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Veritassong
Canada393 Posts
because age is something that's always changing. saying that we HATE kids is just as silly as saying that we hate our past selves. Ageism is not the same as racism and sexism. The reason why you are having so many difficulties is because of the way social and legal structures are built around this world. When authorities make laws and rules, they make generalizations (which is necessary). Kids overall are less mature and more unstable than adults, due to their dependency on their parents, therefore there are more elements that they cannot control, and therefore they carry more risk. Not only in Esports , but think any contract or paper that you have to sign | ||
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LlamaNamedOsama
United States1900 Posts
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Hider
Denmark9447 Posts
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eighteen8
105 Posts
maybe all these people want to protect you and give you the opportunity to do the same instead of spending your youth playing pc games. i can garantee you, that you will have enough time for playing pc games when you are older unless you shoot yourself b/c of psychic disorders due to spending your youth in the basement [/exaggeration] | ||
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Geordie
United Kingdom653 Posts
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Darkness2k11
Chile313 Posts
There are a lot of young players with great potential, but i understand why teams or tournaments won't allow people under certain ages, because some are immature or because of the law issues. Nevertheless, i think teams should make exceptions for some players if the team thinks they are worth it, because young players have a lot of potential, and giving them the environment they need to become better players, could really pay off when they get older and get to travel to live events and represent their teams. | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
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RedJustice
United States1004 Posts
As for the tournament/team stuff-- I think people here have discussed some of the legal/commitment issues. Just like with child actors, or serious competitive child athletes, it requires a huge investments from the family and parents to make it work. At a younger age, many things are out of your control. If your parents don't have the commitment you do, it may be impossible to make it work. The sacrifices needed in terms of time, and travel, and reorganization of the rest of the family's lives around your commitments are a hard thing to sell-- especially considering that for every child prodigy (of chess/gymnastics/acting/singing/swimming) that makes it, there are thousands more than never quite achieve what they and their family has been pursuing for so many years. If you are truly exceptional, and your parents are willing to back you in all of it, don't give up your pursuit to join a professional team and compete. Otherwise, use the next few years wisely to get even better, make friends with people who value you as an individual, and take the scene by storm when you reach that age.  | ||
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Sworn
Canada920 Posts
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
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