SeleCT returns to SC2 - Page 12

On May 29 2013 06:08 Rad wrote:
so dota 2's dying now?

I mean... welcome back select :D

On May 29 2013 05:45 bsdaemon wrote:


To me his stint over Dota 2 seem...forced? He looks like he is having more fun in SC2, imo.

On May 29 2013 08:58 SuperFanBoy wrote:
I hope he tries LoL, I think he could go pro in LoL and he would be popular with 30k viewers on his stream.

On May 29 2013 09:32 Polygamy wrote:
This is like a girlfriend cheating on you and then calling you up 6 months later looking for a one night stand.

On May 27 2013 18:14 Goldfish wrote:
Definitely a good decision by Select considering he was always a good player at SC2. WCS definitely helps and is a good incentive for him to return (now that he has more chances to win).



The best part of 1v1 game is that you can show your skills better and not be blamed by everything from keyboard warriors on the internet as much. I remember reading a few posts in the Dota 2 forums and seen a decent amount of insults and negativity towards him for some reason (of course it may be a minority I only read a few posts of a thread).



See, these types of comments is what I don't get and is what is not giving me a good impression of the MOBA community. SC2 may have its haters but outside a few exceptions (and some situations, like foreigners getting seeds into GSL), the SC2 community treats its players well. Even players that gained a bit of infamy (like the Terran Rain) all were respected, especially when they left the scene (I remember reading the Rain retiring thread and nearly every single comment gave him respect and wished him fair well with almost no one hating on him).



Yes, he played WC3 DotA before SC2 (when he retired from SC2, he also mentioned that he played Dota before SC2, and just wanted to return to the scene). He did decently in Dota before, so it's not like he wasn't used to it before.

I say it's not the case of mindset for MOBAs but the fact that being good at 1v1 games is more rewarding than being good at team games.

No matter how good you are, you are still limited because it's a team game (team coordination impacts the game way more than what individual skill can make up for in most cases).

And again, if you are a decent player in a game (enough to make it far in tournaments consistently) than you might as well stay playing the same game unless you don't enjoy it as much as another. Coca and Puzzle and sC all returned to SC2 (despite the huge break) as good players still (Coca and Puzzle owning the group stages and making it to the play offs at Dreamhack, despite only returning to HotS for like a month or 2) and sC owning it up in the GSTL a decent amount of times. Seems like Select is doing just as well too making it to



Again, he played Dota professionally before SC2, probably even before most are playing Dota right now. Plus, just because you don't succeed in the game, doesn't mean it's harder (especially if it's a team game where your individual skill doesn't have as much impact in the game as team coordination).

On May 29 2013 13:14 bsdaemon wrote:


and you happily oblige

On May 27 2013 06:53 StarStruck wrote:
Dota2 and LoL aren't as easy as they seem huh SeleCT. ^-^

Again, he played Dota professionally before SC2, probably even before most are playing Dota right now. Plus, just because you don't succeed in the game, doesn't mean it's harder (especially if it's a team game where your individual skill doesn't have as much impact in the game as team coordination).

Did you actually watch him? He played DotA. He wasn't a pro in Dota2 prior to playing SC2. He found out that it's really hard to get in the groove of such an undertaking and he didn't do that well so let's stop repeating that crap over and over again. I never said Dota2/LoL were harder lmao. Don't put words in my mouth. I just said it was hard and save the team shit versus individual skill. He was one of the weakest links on their team. Shesh.

On May 29 2013 14:11 VanSCPurge wrote:







To be fair, your statement DID make you sound really arrogant and condescending. SeleCT is a great player. No reason to rub his nose in the fact that his DotA 2 career never took off. And I don't understand why you disregard the team play vs individual skill argument. It's perfectly valid, even if you don't believe it applies to SeleCT specifically. (I speak as a LoL/DotA/Sc2 player)


More on topic: This is great to hear, I hope he gets picked up by a good team soon!