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err0r33
Profile Joined July 2016
38 Posts
December 11 2020 09:28 GMT
#41
Hope he will get back soon !
Miralem Ibrahim
Profile Joined April 2019
40 Posts
December 11 2020 10:24 GMT
#42
Why it's happening only for terran players. Is there is a malédiction or something against genius terran players.
MVP Taeja Byun now Maru. Who is next ? TY.
HeroSandro
Profile Joined July 2019
532 Posts
December 11 2020 10:42 GMT
#43
On December 11 2020 10:33 Steelghost1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2020 02:21 dbRic1203 wrote:
On December 11 2020 01:13 Steelghost1 wrote:
I have a questionable theory which proposes that, because top Terran players have to focus in fights where tiny boxing selection commands are key to win (marine marauder splitting, individual reaper micro if you are Byun, etc), their wrist/hand and body movements tend to be more abrupt and tense than if we compare the kind of micro requirements players of other races have to make; for example, spellcasting is micro intensive but it does not require the player to manually box and split units.

If these players are training for several hours a day hundreds of days a year, these tiny differences in mouse movement styles pile up and in the long run create problems for Terran players like Taeja, Maru, Byun, etc...

Btw, I am not advocating for Terran superiority in any form over the other races. I am just pointing out that control requirements are different and they may explain why players of a certain race are better known to have hand, wrist or joint problems.

Sc2 Players of all races have had injurie related Problems, it s not just/mostly Terran.

Realy good to see Team NV taking care for their Players here.
Lets hope for Maru to recover as soon as possible


As far as I can recall, though I may be wrong, Terran players tend to have more cases.

Mvp, Taeja, Maru, Flash, Byun, Boxer, randomrace TLO had it, I think Thorzain as well. Zergs and Protoss may of course have injuries too but it is quite clear at least from the cases we know that Terran players are more likely to develop these issues.

Zerg and protoss players are tough as nails, and don't complaint about little things like pain On a serious note: hope Maru has the patience to take care of the problems, so that it wont became a chronic issue.
mikedupp
Profile Joined May 2020
233 Posts
December 11 2020 15:39 GMT
#44
On December 11 2020 18:21 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2020 01:13 Steelghost1 wrote:
I have a questionable theory which proposes that, because top Terran players have to focus in fights where tiny boxing selection commands are key to win (marine marauder splitting, individual reaper micro if you are Byun, etc), their wrist/hand and body movements tend to be more abrupt and tense than if we compare the kind of micro requirements players of other races have to make; for example, spellcasting is micro intensive but it does not require the player to manually box and split units.

If these players are training for several hours a day hundreds of days a year, these tiny differences in mouse movement styles pile up and in the long run create problems for Terran players like Taeja, Maru, Byun, etc...

Btw, I am not advocating for Terran superiority in any form over the other races. I am just pointing out that control requirements are different and they may explain why players of a certain race are better known to have hand, wrist or joint problems.


I call BS

Have you how Zerg players like Serral, Rogue, Reynor constantly split of single lings for Banelings / Widowmine shots?
Or how Parting/ Trap/ Stats do blink Stalker micro?


I think many players keep their injuries private as well unless it becomes such an issue its impossible to not talk about.
Steelghost1
Profile Joined June 2019
43 Posts
December 11 2020 21:18 GMT
#45
On December 11 2020 18:21 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2020 01:13 Steelghost1 wrote:
I have a questionable theory which proposes that, because top Terran players have to focus in fights where tiny boxing selection commands are key to win (marine marauder splitting, individual reaper micro if you are Byun, etc), their wrist/hand and body movements tend to be more abrupt and tense than if we compare the kind of micro requirements players of other races have to make; for example, spellcasting is micro intensive but it does not require the player to manually box and split units.

If these players are training for several hours a day hundreds of days a year, these tiny differences in mouse movement styles pile up and in the long run create problems for Terran players like Taeja, Maru, Byun, etc...

Btw, I am not advocating for Terran superiority in any form over the other races. I am just pointing out that control requirements are different and they may explain why players of a certain race are better known to have hand, wrist or joint problems.


I call BS

Have you how Zerg players like Serral, Rogue, Reynor constantly split of single lings for Banelings / Widowmine shots?
Or how Parting/ Trap/ Stats do blink Stalker micro?


First of all I already said it was questionable so keep it down calling things BS. And yes I have seen how Zerg and Protosses micro; I am not saying their micro is less intense, just different from a mechanical perspective.

I still think Terran is required to do far more box splitting with drastic hand movements. Blink micro, for example, does not require as much boxing selection but more individual unit-clicking one, same goes for spellcaster units.

Also it is curious how players from other races are less vocal about their injuries compared to Terran, maybe it is because there actually are less cases out there.

WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
December 11 2020 22:45 GMT
#46
On December 11 2020 18:21 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2020 01:13 Steelghost1 wrote:
I have a questionable theory which proposes that, because top Terran players have to focus in fights where tiny boxing selection commands are key to win (marine marauder splitting, individual reaper micro if you are Byun, etc), their wrist/hand and body movements tend to be more abrupt and tense than if we compare the kind of micro requirements players of other races have to make; for example, spellcasting is micro intensive but it does not require the player to manually box and split units.

If these players are training for several hours a day hundreds of days a year, these tiny differences in mouse movement styles pile up and in the long run create problems for Terran players like Taeja, Maru, Byun, etc...

Btw, I am not advocating for Terran superiority in any form over the other races. I am just pointing out that control requirements are different and they may explain why players of a certain race are better known to have hand, wrist or joint problems.


I call BS

Have you how Zerg players like Serral, Rogue, Reynor constantly split of single lings for Banelings / Widowmine shots?
Or how Parting/ Trap/ Stats do blink Stalker micro?

I’d say he’s on the money, by and large.

As someone who has had wrist problems from other sources I’ve looked into various ways of alleviating it, some quite successfully (dropped my DPI way down, for example). If you require a mixture of wrist and arm movement for certain mouse movements you spread the load so to speak, vs a high DPI where you’re just moving your wrist over a small range of movement repetitively, and that’s asking for trouble.

My wrist issues are primarily in my right hand (my picking hand for guitar), and my mouse hand. Bit of a bummer because my two main loves hobby wise are guitar and RTS games, but I was getting the early warning signs of carpal tunnel, numbness etc so I have to be careful.

Anecdotally Terran is playable for me on a casual level, not without discomfort after an hour or two, not much difference between Toss and Zerg.

I’d say it’s because you’re constantly boxing as mentioned, splitting and stutter stepping both forwards and backwards. Not that it’s more skilful than the micro the other races but it’s more mechanically repetitive.

That said there’s plenty of different ways to have your wrists injured, can be affected by back injuries etc too

'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1249 Posts
December 12 2020 02:41 GMT
#47
Wasn't Maru carrying around wrist-, arm- and shoulderpain for quite some time now? He is young and has a won a lot of money already, skipping a GSL could have been smart(er), but anyway.

As for the discussion about those type of injuries in general:
It seems like something a lot of SC players (either BW or 2) suffer with in some way. Probably the combination of a very demanding game and the fact that most of them are not in teams anymore, especially if you compare those teams to for example League of Legends. Players just don't get the medical care they need (and deserve) as athletes. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
"Back in the day" no one cared about stuff like that, not even in korea (didn't BoxeR quit SC2 because of an injury?). But now, those guys put themselves in the meat-grinder, without getting cared for properly. You don't see injuries like that in LoL and rarely in CS:GO. Those players seem to be suffering more on the mental side of things, which is also really bad, but that's not the topic here...
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
Pentarp
Profile Joined August 2015
225 Posts
December 12 2020 04:26 GMT
#48
On December 11 2020 18:21 Harris1st wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2020 01:13 Steelghost1 wrote:
I have a questionable theory which proposes that, because top Terran players have to focus in fights where tiny boxing selection commands are key to win (marine marauder splitting, individual reaper micro if you are Byun, etc), their wrist/hand and body movements tend to be more abrupt and tense than if we compare the kind of micro requirements players of other races have to make; for example, spellcasting is micro intensive but it does not require the player to manually box and split units.

If these players are training for several hours a day hundreds of days a year, these tiny differences in mouse movement styles pile up and in the long run create problems for Terran players like Taeja, Maru, Byun, etc...

Btw, I am not advocating for Terran superiority in any form over the other races. I am just pointing out that control requirements are different and they may explain why players of a certain race are better known to have hand, wrist or joint problems.


I call BS

Have you how Zerg players like Serral, Rogue, Reynor constantly split of single lings for Banelings / Widowmine shots?
Or how Parting/ Trap/ Stats do blink Stalker micro?


Those are not that common TBH. Because of friendly fire, if a group of lings a-move into a Terran army, its almost as good as splitting them to avoid damage because the mines hit both sides. I've seen both, and that's the point. Zergs can choose to either have a relatively effective a-move or slightly more effective splits. For Terrans, the micro is "do or die" - there is no choice.
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BerserkSword
Profile Joined December 2018
United States2123 Posts
December 12 2020 04:47 GMT
#49
On December 11 2020 13:38 Pentarp wrote:
I've always felt that Terran is powerful but too demanding. I would advocate for Terran to be at the same power level, or even lower (gasp!), but more accessible - without having insane skills or insane sacrifice of health.


Terran is no more demanding than Zerg and Protoss, other than TvT being longer than the other mirror matchups.
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
December 12 2020 11:56 GMT
#50
On December 12 2020 13:47 BerserkSword wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2020 13:38 Pentarp wrote:
I've always felt that Terran is powerful but too demanding. I would advocate for Terran to be at the same power level, or even lower (gasp!), but more accessible - without having insane skills or insane sacrifice of health.


Terran is no more demanding than Zerg and Protoss, other than TvT being longer than the other mirror matchups.

On your wrists though? Really not so sure of that. Skill being distinct from the mechanical demands on one’s body. I don’t think it’s coincidence that high-profile injuries have skewed Terran pretty heavily in SC2, that Mvp played a certain style when his body went etc.

I don’t believe BW has as pronounced a skew racially in terms of injuries, I would postulate that’s because constant small boxing is a requirement to play all the races in the game, but it’s way more a Terran thing.

In my case partly bad habits in my youth as well but playing hard rock/metal stuff is way, way more taxing on my wrists than playing classical fingerpicked stuff. The latter is as demanding if not more so in a skill/coordination sense but it taxes my wrists way less.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Morbidius
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil3449 Posts
December 12 2020 12:31 GMT
#51
TeamNV making excuses for Maru, what's next? Jetlag?
Has foreign StarCraft hit rock bottom?
daruka2073
Profile Joined November 2020
15 Posts
December 12 2020 14:27 GMT
#52
On December 12 2020 21:31 Morbidius wrote:
TeamNV making excuses for Maru, what's next? Jetlag?


Oh yea you are the one wrote about a smart post by watching one online tourny, and eventually got dumped by the next tournament in 2 weeks :D
Darkn3ssFallz
Profile Joined April 2013
Australia114 Posts
December 12 2020 21:33 GMT
#53
On December 12 2020 11:41 Balnazza wrote:
Wasn't Maru carrying around wrist-, arm- and shoulderpain for quite some time now? He is young and has a won a lot of money already, skipping a GSL could have been smart(er), but anyway.

As for the discussion about those type of injuries in general:
It seems like something a lot of SC players (either BW or 2) suffer with in some way. Probably the combination of a very demanding game and the fact that most of them are not in teams anymore, especially if you compare those teams to for example League of Legends. Players just don't get the medical care they need (and deserve) as athletes. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
"Back in the day" no one cared about stuff like that, not even in korea (didn't BoxeR quit SC2 because of an injury?). But now, those guys put themselves in the meat-grinder, without getting cared for properly. You don't see injuries like that in LoL and rarely in CS:GO. Those players seem to be suffering more on the mental side of things, which is also really bad, but that's not the topic here...


I believe he had a doctors appointment several months ago where he was told he should only be playing a maximum of 3 games a day. Was funny to me at the time cos he said it during what ended up being a 2+ hour stream (was mostly typing to chat though/playing customs). Its why I really wanted him to win vs TY when he made the final.
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keaneu
Profile Joined February 2011
Korea (South)65 Posts
December 12 2020 23:33 GMT
#54
This title sounded ominous along the line of "someone has passed away" :hair standing on end. TSL casters assuming Serral-Maru match hasn't happened recently also eroded legitimacy here and there.
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serralfan18
Profile Joined March 2020
99 Posts
December 13 2020 00:42 GMT
#55
Maru to lose against Serral ONLY because of his shoulder. I already know this will happen.
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9033 Posts
December 13 2020 01:41 GMT
#56
Well, I hope he finds a way to recover. We can hold a crowdfund if he needs financial support.
Zzoram
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada7115 Posts
December 13 2020 03:53 GMT
#57
On December 13 2020 09:42 serralfan18 wrote:
Maru to lose against Serral ONLY because of his shoulder. I already know this will happen.


The curse of Serral vs Maru states that a BoX series can never happen between them in a Premier tournament. As a result, I am not believing that this match will actually happen until I see it happen. Knowing the curse though, Maru will forfeit due to his injury and we will continue to never see it.
SamirDuran
Profile Joined May 2012
Philippines895 Posts
December 13 2020 05:17 GMT
#58
On December 13 2020 12:53 Zzoram wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2020 09:42 serralfan18 wrote:
Maru to lose against Serral ONLY because of his shoulder. I already know this will happen.


The curse of Serral vs Maru states that a BoX series can never happen between them in a Premier tournament. As a result, I am not believing that this match will actually happen until I see it happen. Knowing the curse though, Maru will forfeit due to his injury and we will continue to never see it.

bo3 happened in King of Battles where Maru lost 2-1... It is listed as premier in Liquipedia so it happened once.
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
December 13 2020 08:23 GMT
#59
Wait are people just now finding out about Maru's injuries? He's had problems since forever. Choosing to take time off to deal with wrist injuries was the reason he didn't join SKT in 2012/13.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-12-13 08:32:24
December 13 2020 08:32 GMT
#60
On December 13 2020 14:17 SamirDuran wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2020 12:53 Zzoram wrote:
On December 13 2020 09:42 serralfan18 wrote:
Maru to lose against Serral ONLY because of his shoulder. I already know this will happen.


The curse of Serral vs Maru states that a BoX series can never happen between them in a Premier tournament. As a result, I am not believing that this match will actually happen until I see it happen. Knowing the curse though, Maru will forfeit due to his injury and we will continue to never see it.

bo3 happened in King of Battles where Maru lost 2-1... It is listed as premier in Liquipedia so it happened once.

Most probably wouldn't consider those kind of online events to be worthy of the "Premier" tag, despite what liquipedia says.

When you have possibly the most mechanically proficient terran and zerg ever, people are not going to be satisfied with a cross server match. Had it been bo7 instead of bo3 it still wouldn't deliver what people want. Even Serral said it's fun but not really a proper meeting.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
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