EPTOn March 15 2013 07:14 Patate wrote:
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What does this have to do with anything that has been said so far? Incontrol is a SC2 community personality. He also plays the game, but so does MaximusBlack.... or Livinpink....or Artosis... He is not really a pro gamer.. the past 2 years have proved that even though he does participate, his role in the community is not to entertain us with his playstyle (other than laughing at his attempts).
And this is not to talk against him.. I think enough people have done it that I don't feel like it. His spot in this community is to be a "spokesman", and this is why he's in this article.
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What does this have to do with anything that has been said so far? Incontrol is a SC2 community personality. He also plays the game, but so does MaximusBlack.... or Livinpink....or Artosis... He is not really a pro gamer.. the past 2 years have proved that even though he does participate, his role in the community is not to entertain us with his playstyle (other than laughing at his attempts).
And this is not to talk against him.. I think enough people have done it that I don't feel like it. His spot in this community is to be a "spokesman", and this is why he's in this article.
Steve Jobs started by building computers with his bare hands and having to figure out the nuts and bolts of what we today would call a desktop. He's not some bean counter in the back room counting the billions he made as apple skyrocketed.
He was a programmer first--businessman second. The problem was the he was a much more successful businessman than he was a programmer and so, in the end, he's known for having cool and hip products as opposed to Bill Gates who (once he made his billions) decided to spend his life fighting malaria.
Steve Jobs being a successful businessman does not make him a failure of a programmer. Incontrol not winning an MLG last year simply means that he's not Korean. That's it. Trying to suggest that he's some kind of failure and as someone who "doesn't count" as pro-gamer is ludicrous. He's a gaming professional in the gaming industry who posts results as good as the grand majority of pro-gamers our there.
The fact that fans only care about the top 4 players (or really just the top two players) of any given tournament does not trivialize incontrol's achievements. I'd never bet money on him--but I wouldn't bet money on the Cubs winning the world series either. If, in the end, he becomes more known for being a spokesperson than he does being a tournament force--that still would not detract from the fact that he does go to tournaments, he does train for them, and he does spend his time focusing on them. Saying it doesn't count simply because he didn't win anything last year puts him in the same boat as idra, as Major, as TLO, as Ret, etc...
Success is not all or nothing. Capitalism is all or nothing, a life's work is a struggle not a score count.
