NaNiwa forfeits mid-series at IEM Katowice - Page 34

On March 15 2014 15:09 MVega wrote:


Swedish pride too strong on the internet. I think the only thing that might rival it is an American defending an American. And I say that as a person who has been in both places and is friends with a great many people from both. I've never known two groups of people that are so amazingly alike aside from a handful of very obvious differences.

So yeah he'll always have defenders even though he totally seems to be doing everything possible to scare them off.

On March 15 2014 17:48 coverpunch wrote:
Apologies if this question has been answered already, but it seems obvious - did anyone ask Polt if he was tipped off by the commentators or the crowd and scouted for that reason?

Looking at it, it doesn't look like he did anything differently from what he was planning to do anyways. I would guess that even if he could hear the commentators and understand what they were saying, he wasn't paying attention and just concentrating on his own build.

On March 15 2014 17:52 ElBlanco wrote:


Don't need to ask him. He was sending the scout before the crowd started cheering. That plus all the players asked at the event have said the sound proofing isn't an issue (including the LoL players). Naniwa was looking for an excuse and he found it.

On March 15 2014 17:52 Glorfindel! wrote:

I am from Sweden and there is no player i dislike more out there than Naniwa... O.o

This whole situation is so stupid according to me:

1 - Polt already had his SCVs scouting set
There was not way Polt scouted like he did reacting to the noise from the crowd. He had already set the scouting pattern for the SCV (it is very obvious since the casters even displays the set trip for it).


2 - What was IEM suppoed to do anyway?
You can never give a regame for what happend. If so, anyone could make proxies every game and each time they got scouted they would complain about the crowd. Proxying would turn out into something risk-free.
If I dont remember very wrong, you are always able to feel the vibrations from the crowd through all the covers. I mean, they could make them play from New York if they want to be safe. Would be fun, aight?

Well you could tell the crowd to STFU as someone in this thread suggested since they do that in golf and tennis.
Had that not been really fun tournaments to visit? Everyone sitting quiet, being afraid to upset Nani in the booth?
I think everyone prefers the arena atmosphere - with perhaps a few Nanifans excluded today.

3 - Naniwa if anyone has no moral right to complain
When playing vs Flash on MLG - Naniwa clearly had no shame in his body turning his scouting probe around when the crowd reacted to him missing Flashs proxy barracks.
You find it here

To Sumarize - This is what happends when everyone babysits a child

With nations wars coming up Naniwa did some not really classy moves shutting both Miniraiser and Thorzain out of the team. Instantly the Swedish manager and some other quite high profiled persons in Swedish Esport ride out to his protection because "he is the star and he can do whatever he wants".

When you again, and again, get told that you can do what you want because you are the best at home it wont really strenght your attitude. It will make things like this happend - Naniwa clearly thought he could do whatever he wanted at IEM aswell but nobody actually got impressed this time. Nobody is riding out to answer his cries for justice. There he stands alone, looking like a lone fool.

I have said it for a long time - Naniwas attitude will never be accepted the moment that he is no longer clearly the best non-korean. With that in mind, we should not accept his attitude just because he happends to be a good starcraft player. That itself never gives you the right to act as you want. Neither gives it the best doctor at the hospital the right to call the patiences idiots, morons and a stupid community. You would never accept that at a normal work and I dont think we should accept Naniwa acting as he do either.

im glad to be done with this disgusting community for now, lets see how i feel in the future. i dont owe you anything.

On March 15 2014 02:55 Zealously wrote:


I'll get back to you when the finals break 100k viewers and we can talk about the game being 'dead'

On March 15 2014 18:27 Kunzzi wrote:
Nani is a complete douchebag and his twitter only proves it.



If he doesn't see how fans affect views and therefore amount of sponsors backing up this game then he really shouldn't be missed. No one, not even Intel would give a shit about this game if it wasn't for us, regular players, watching their sc2 tournaments and therefore buying their products (Let's be honest, these things are filled with ads). I swear to god sc2 is a great game but it has too many players who've lost touch with reality.

On March 15 2014 18:32 Master Blaster wrote:

Lolz.....no way dude. They're all watching lol, Dota, CS, then maybe hots...

On March 15 2014 01:26 Firkraag8 wrote:
The way he went about it was inappropriate, but if he could hear the crowd then he has a legitimate reason to be upset if then also the admin wouldn't hear his side of it.