IdrA vs Taeja $400 match to debut Korean Weekly S2 - Page 54

I remember the first time I read that thread. haha

There's no denial that Korean players right now have Starcraft 2 on lockdown, but when you read some of the live report threads you still see the same dumb posts. "OMG HE WON WITH CHEESE (instant 1 rating for recommended watch)

Perfect example was the Supernova vs MC game. I'm not going to spoil it even though it's old, but one of the players won with foxy/clever/sneaky whatever you want to call it "cheese" build, but it was so smart and planned out that you can't even be mad at the winner. Who is to say that the winner has to win a macro game every game to show his "honor".

When MMA did a thor rush against Naniwa, is it MMA's fault that the Blizzard tourny was a Bo1 format? NOPE! He capitalized on the fact that he could catch Naniwa by surprise and win the game. Or when MVP did a 3 rax scv all in (bit-by-bit style) Does that make him a cheesy newbie? Anybody that even has a 1% knowledge of SC2 knows that MVP is a godly player.

There's a reason why Korean pro gamers are so got damn good. They eat and breathe this game. SC2 is their life. They know all the builds. They know what works, what doesn't work, they know the timings down to milliseconds. Back in brood war there wasn't even a damn in game timer. So imagine MVP now that he can actually look over and say "Oh look it's now 6:30, time to go kill my opponent."

I'm not surprised when a non Korean player gets crushed by a Korean player. There's no excuses. It shows in a lot of the Korean progamers tournament games. I know I sound like I'm being a Korean progamer groupie, but results and VODs don't lie. So from Brood War to Starcraft 2 the same thing is happening. In Brood War, basically Terran looks like they don't have a skill cap... look at Flash. Now look at players like MMA and MVP for Starcraft 2. Same thing... the race just gets better and better.

I don't think people should blame IdrA saying "oh he sucks or I'm not going to be his fan anymore". If you seriously think that way maybe you should look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are on a bandwagon or if you are a true fan. Slayers Taeja isn't a no named player. He didn't qualify for Code A and Code S for nothing. Idra's fan club page should be constructive posts like "I'm behind you and I know you'll show better games in the future" but when you go to his page it's usually small posts like "IdrA just got swept" "Go back to the US" and other dumb posts where people get banned and you have to have a disclaimer on the top of the post letting people know that they will get banned if they bring IdrA hate into the thread. It shouldn't get to that level... we should be supporting one another. If all we do is ridicule the non Korean players how are we going to advance.