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On January 05 2012 05:05 rotegirte wrote:Show nested quote +On January 05 2012 03:52 Haste2005 wrote:On January 05 2012 03:21 rotegirte wrote:On January 05 2012 03:00 Longshank wrote:On January 05 2012 02:48 Haste2005 wrote:On January 01 2012 02:53 Spudlyman wrote:
It's silly, without a team's support, the odds that any girl gets to top of GM and competes with any males pros is pretty damn small. With a team, maybe this could happen.
Every time a girl gets signed on by a team I'm hopeful that they take it seriously enough to start winning games in big tournaments. With some girls in the pro scene, there is 50% of the world population that is less likely to feel alienated by E-Sports and professional Starcraft, which is always ALWAYS a good thing.
And yet every time a team picks up a girl, people are mad that she isn't good enough, and whine about it in forums. IT MUST BE SEXIST!!! But I'm sure these people would "love to see a girl picked up that's as good as the pros". So how do you expect it to get to that point. Sitting and waiting for the god-tier female players to show up sure isn't working, So picking the very best girls and giving them a lot of opportunity to improve sounds like a good option. We're just lucky to be in a situation where this choice is profitable for teams to make, because of all girl tourneys and publicity.
Also, Congrats to Flo, easily my favorite female SCII player. I hope to see you wrecking faces in many tournaments to come! That's the problem, if she isn't being recruited off of skill level alone, its sexist to the male gender for her to be recruited. And saying someone can't get recruited without a team's support is stupid. There's free playhems every day, Open Tourney's etc. The main problem is that not as many females play, otherwise we'd have a much larger pool of talented women to pull from. Bottom Line: She's taking the place of someone much more skillful than herself, and the same could be said of Destiny or other "personalities" who never perform well. Oh get over it. HuK wasn't recruited and given a top salary off of skill level alone, but for being the best performing and marketable white dude. It must be racist to the Koreans for him to recruited then, am I correct? Life isn't fair. Exactly. Going by the weird logic, there really should be one existing team with one member only. Since otherwise you are "taking a place of someone more skillful". /facepalm Weird logic. Like performing well in a single tournament in SC2. Yeah, I see your point... /facepalm As your answer implies, no, you don't get the point at all. You failed to realize the problems inherited with a strict "but there are better players" policy, because there will almost always be better players. Hence accordingly there really should be only one player getting the whole industry's worth of support- aka the best player, the only one to which your faulty judgment doesn't apply? There isn't even remotely something like a Power Rank established, yet we have barely finished one tournament season of what you could call a stable game. Why did folks like Attero, Gatored, Future get picked up? Because they were Nestea, clearly. Or, because the teams wanted to. It's that easy. No one is entitled to an endorsement. As I have no obligation to employ anyone as business owner. I might not like your face. I hire people I like, or else I don't at all.
Yes there will will always be better players, and there will always be better choices. However, picking someone solely based on gender and/or attractiveness is ridiculous. Gatored, for one, has been playing this game for a little over 1 year - he was probably picked up because he made top masters within a few months. Attero played well as random, which was rare when the game first came out, was extremely active, and one of the best streamers who also casted and hosted mini tournaments.
As for Flo, she hasn't done anything productive in anyway for SC2. She's not good, and there are plenty of other accessible players to choose from with better tournament results. What about Sterling? Played well in Broodwar, went to WCG's and MLG's, great player, and streamer.
And to be honest, I would actually like to see more women break into the scene. But when the ones with actual talent start to perform well in tournaments, they won't nearly have the same respect. Most of the people supporting Flo probably don't even know about her CS:1.6 experience prior to SC2. The majority support this decision blindly because they so desperately want to see more girls in the scene, and they don't care about how good of a player they are. *OMG TITS*
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didn't this chick play CS 1.6?
I dunno man <.< I dunno
hope shes nothing like me cause I'm sick at CS 1.6 but soso in Sc2 
what league is she in and ect?
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I was just watching her stream in the hopes that I'd be proven wrong when called someone a coon. Fuck this chick.
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On January 11 2012 17:31 Haste2005 wrote:
I was just watching her stream in the hopes that I'd be proven wrong when called someone a coon. Fuck this chick.
that's pretty tame by ladder standards bro
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On January 11 2012 17:36 darkscream wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2012 17:31 Haste2005 wrote:
I was just watching her stream in the hopes that I'd be proven wrong when called someone a coon. Fuck this chick. that's pretty tame by ladder standards bro
It's still disgusting and unacceptable.
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she was playing someone our team, it was a joke you silly people
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On January 11 2012 17:42 IPA wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2012 17:36 darkscream wrote:On January 11 2012 17:31 Haste2005 wrote:
I was just watching her stream in the hopes that I'd be proven wrong when called someone a coon. Fuck this chick. that's pretty tame by ladder standards bro It's still disgusting and unacceptable.
Oh no, BM on ladder/custom game...
She's a monster...
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Someone pls help me out. What does coon mean? Coming from racoon? The animal? XD If yes, then you guys must be trolling.
Also there are sooooo many other ultra BM players like Idra, CombatEX, Deezer or your average ladder person, so who cares about this? ^^
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On January 11 2012 18:03 Fleshcut wrote:
Someone pls help me out. What does coon mean? Coming from racoon? The animal? XD If yes, then you guys must be trolling.
Also there are sooooo many other ultra BM players like Idra, CombatEX, Deezer or your average ladder person, so who cares about this? ^^
Try wikipedia, it's a racial slur.
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I don´t see the problem. Teams are free to hire whoever they believe will strengthen their brand. That’s what it all comes down to. Every professional team is an enterprise and the only way to survive is to have a strong brand.
Congratulations to Flo for being recruited! Hopefully this will provide her the means to compete with each and everyone questioning her being picked up by the team (I’m fairly sure she would steam roll almost everyone who has questioned her capabilities in this thread). Hopefully Quantic will also get what they wished for when employing her!
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Guys let me just clarify this, I was the person Flo was playing and trash talking with and that stems from an inside joke I can assure you it was not used in a malicious manner. Sorry for anyone who got confused by this but it deals with the animal, not the racial slur and it was between me and Flo. Me and Flo like to joke around and I can see from how the outside looking in it seems extremely appalling but it was not used in that context.
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sry i called him a raccoon
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On January 11 2012 20:24 Quanticflo wrote:
sry i called him a raccoon
LOL, so the guy with the worst english was the only one who understood it right. Time for me to feel great.
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On January 11 2012 18:07 Torte de Lini wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2012 18:03 Fleshcut wrote:
Someone pls help me out. What does coon mean? Coming from racoon? The animal? XD If yes, then you guys must be trolling.
Also there are sooooo many other ultra BM players like Idra, CombatEX, Deezer or your average ladder person, so who cares about this? ^^ Try wikipedia, it's a racial slur.
And a popular brand of cheese in Australia.
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On January 11 2012 22:37 wangstra wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2012 22:30 Fleshcut wrote:On January 11 2012 20:24 Quanticflo wrote:
sry i called him a raccoon LOL, so the guy with the worst english was the only one who understood it right. Time for me to feel great. Nah you're just one of those who wasn't through bad faith trying to find fault with her.
Sure. Why should people try to find fault anyway?
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On January 11 2012 17:42 IPA wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2012 17:36 darkscream wrote:On January 11 2012 17:31 Haste2005 wrote:
I was just watching her stream in the hopes that I'd be proven wrong when called someone a coon. Fuck this chick. that's pretty tame by ladder standards bro It's still disgusting and unacceptable.
My virgin eyes!!
grow up
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On January 12 2012 06:05 Smackfools wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2012 17:42 IPA wrote:On January 11 2012 17:36 darkscream wrote:On January 11 2012 17:31 Haste2005 wrote:
I was just watching her stream in the hopes that I'd be proven wrong when called someone a coon. Fuck this chick. that's pretty tame by ladder standards bro It's still disgusting and unacceptable. My virgin eyes!! grow up
yeah, we should all ignore casual racism. sth like that doesn't offend ME, but I can still tell that racist guy off for being an idiot. You ignoring the racism is just as bad. ignoring racism is not "cool" it's just douchebaggery
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On December 30 2011 11:10 NinerB wrote:
I don't see why so many people are crying about Flo joining Quantic. Look at Danica Patrick, how many people watched Indy races just to see her? She's never won a race, but her marketing potential is just as much or more than that of Indy Champions.
She has won races you idiot, its nothing similiar.
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