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No more Iron Lady talk, no more gender debate. This is a thread about a StarCraft player. Last I checked what's in between your legs has no impact on how you play the game.
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On April 17 2012 12:58 dannystarcraft wrote: These situations kill me.
Right now I am honestly thinking, well she really just got picked up because she is a girl (I know this is a bad attitude, but I really think it describes the situation). I feel that there are several male players out there who are just as good but will not be given this opportunity because they don't carry the hype that a female player does. Only time will tell whether this was a good decision by Eclypsia or not.
That being said. Good luck Scarlett, please prove me wrong!
Im pretty sure you are wrong she not only played this big tourney to qualify she was making some nice and sick plays at IPL wich were bertter than nearly all foreighners showed.
I guess she is one of the Top 4 Non-Koreans ATM wich could be wrong (maybe im just hyped) but only HUK Stephano Naniwa are on eye level as well.
I think on the IPL-4 17 out of the Top 18 were Korean ^^
Not that she is there already but she came out of nowhere and i believe with proper training...
And she is not the "Girly-Gamer" you would expect. Make some research and you will find out that the gender wont be such a advertising factor
I'm like, the biggest Scarlett fanboy there is, but seriously, top 4 foreigner? Top 20 would be exceedingly generous. She has some serious potential, but there's a lot of refinement issues that need to be addressed in her play. There's a fairly significant advantage to coming in as a complete unknown and your opponent having absolutely no idea what your tendencies are, and I think that if she kept playing the way she does at tournaments she'd get in some trouble. She's very stylistic, and from what I've seen of her ZvP and ZvT (I casted all of the replays she's made available), it's fairly exploitable.
Yeah i watched them and they made me believe in her skill you just too good at advertising her
I guess you can interpret my casts how you want, I certainly didn't mean to make her sound like she's as good as you apparently think. I would gladly rank her above everyone I casted games of hers against except for SelecT and IdrA, but that's not saying much.
On April 17 2012 12:58 dannystarcraft wrote: These situations kill me.
Right now I am honestly thinking, well she really just got picked up because she is a girl (I know this is a bad attitude, but I really think it describes the situation). I feel that there are several male players out there who are just as good but will not be given this opportunity because they don't carry the hype that a female player does. Only time will tell whether this was a good decision by Eclypsia or not.
That being said. Good luck Scarlett, please prove me wrong!
If it was a team like Liquid or EG, I could see where you are coming from. But Eclypsia is a new team without many great players, and I think Scarlett is as good as most of the other players on the team.
These kinds of success stories are immensely inspiring to me, not just in gaming but in all aspects of life. To lean of a relative unknown player to rise to these levels and defeat professionals, its really a cool story. Congratulations to Scarlett and her new team.
I'm with makro on the lol, wtf she is great I was expecting a better team to pick her up or at least one I know a little about. for example EG has many players that have not had great performance in tournaments for like forever.
On April 17 2012 13:38 jumbotroN wrote: I'm with makro on the lol, wtf she is great I was expecting a better team to pick her up or at least one I know a little about. for example EG has many players that have not had great performance in tournaments for like forever.
Scarlett said herself that she was entertaining an "objectively better offer" but she decided to go with Eclypsia because she liked the environment and management.
On April 17 2012 12:58 dannystarcraft wrote: These situations kill me.
Right now I am honestly thinking, well she really just got picked up because she is a girl (I know this is a bad attitude, but I really think it describes the situation). I feel that there are several male players out there who are just as good but will not be given this opportunity because they don't carry the hype that a female player does.
Some things: Scarlett and Eclypsia aim to go to Korea after NASL to compete in the GSTL. The team plans to have its own house (as opposed to the Gom foreigner house).
On April 17 2012 13:48 pookadin wrote: Theres a lot of bigotry and idiocy in this thread -_-
It just seems to follow her around, it's best to ignore it.
I wish Team Liquid would just crack down on it. It's not even about expressing a difference in opinion, or discussing a controversial topic. It's being openly derogatory to a player for no better reason than who they are.
No different than spamming an InControl thread with fat comments. That kind of thing may be acceptable on Youtube, but it certainly isn't here.