The IdrA Fan Club - Page 210

On July 28 2010 02:37 Takkara wrote:
I'm always conflicted in fandom for idrA. He's a good guy and funny at that. I have nothing against him personally in the least. All the interviews he gives with Artosis and others are really good and feel totally different than his forum/in-game persona. He works really hard at something he loves, and that's something totally to respect.
But I think his "say whatever he thinks" mentality is a double-edged sword. As long as he's winning, it's fine, but sportsmanship is still a big part of sports. I don't know if it's good to move esports like Starcraft towards Wrestling style antics as opposed to respecting the game and respecting our opponents.

Obviously on the forums this isn't always possible because the guy takes flak for everything, but in-game, unless someone is purposely BM'ing you then I think saying GG out of respect for the game is called for. TLO is a great example of this and just of being a model citizen of the Starcraft competitive community.

Hopefully Greg can keep his competitive edge and passion while continuing to mature in the way he shows respect (or lack thereof) for his opponents in game.

On July 28 2010 05:34 Rodiel wrote:
I hope this guy go far, and if he can replace the letter "g" of his keyboard it will be perfect

On August 04 2010 00:56 skipdog172 wrote:
I am a huge fan of Idra's play.

I do wish the community cared more about mutual respect and sportsmanship. I have a hard time imagining esports growing much when top players like Idra act the way they do and get respected/cheered for it. It will be hard for anybody to take esports seriously when there is a complete lack of professionalism, sportsmanship and respect from one of the top players and their fans. It is unfortunate how many here seem to be a fan just because of his poor manners and lack of respect for others. The community is essentially encouraging BM and I can't imagine anything positive coming from this "Idra's rage is AWESOME!!!!" attitude that so many here are embracing.

Our community should hold higher standards for top players. We should be demanding it if we care about esports growing.

On August 04 2010 02:49 Raevin wrote:
Wish i could be a fan of him but sadly his BMing is reaching new hights of embarassment

http://sc2rep.net/

Idra vs Silver

Its one thing raging at the end of a match but he raged at start of it, ofcourse his fanbase will excuse such behaviour

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On August 06 2010 00:22 VanGarde wrote:
I like Idra, and I didn't mind his "ragequitting" etc I don't think that kind of "bm" is anything to make a fuss about. But that game against Silver made me loose all my respect for him. Whether terran is imbalanced or not I don't care. You don't behave like that in a tournament, and against another player.

Silver has played some awesome games, come from no where and beaten good players. If Idra is too stuck up to just take that instead of being the bully pro-gamer who feels the need to bash at new people coming into the scene then he can do that outside of games and tournaments. Just because you think a matchup is imbalanced does not give you the right to rip on another player.

That game was so embarassing I hope that ESL has the sense to give him a warning over this and ban him from tournaments for a certain time if he does this again.

If anyone but Idra had gone on a rant like that he would had taken heat from the entire community, if a newbie posted a replay where he rants like that it would had been laughed off because of the silly newbie who rants on imbalances when he can't win. But because it is Idra, then to start to rant on your opponent, completely unprovoked and to insult him in a tournament game is suddently a "fresh breath of air"? Come the fuck on.

I think Idra is a great player and I don't mind all of the small stuff, but that game was over the line.

On August 06 2010 10:06 Stratos_speAr wrote:
The problem with IdrA is that he's (at this point) the best western player out there, and being the best western SC2 player means you're representing something in e-sports because e-sports isn't mainstream yet. The problem with this is that having someone so childish and immature representing SC2 in that way isn't good, no matter which way you look at it.

On August 07 2010 14:14 Spaceninja wrote:
Hey Idra if your reading, take a chill pill. your amazing at Starcraft but you ruin your reputation because of your rage. I mean i'm not hating on Idra. I just don't understand why you have to bm after losses

On August 07 2010 23:35 Darkside- wrote:
Dear Idra,

I want to like you, I really do. You're a lone American hope in strange land, fighting for the stars and stripes on foreign soil. I would delight in screaming "USA USA USA" every time you trounce a Korean or Euro.

That being said, please stop embarrassing us by acting like a colossal tool. While you persist in acting like a spoiled 2 year-old I cannot in good conscience support you. You have shown that you can display the occasional flash of brilliance, as we saw in your game 1 against White-Ra in the HDH or your play in the King of the Beta.

I believe that you can be among the best, but do you? Stop flaming anyone who beats you and work on fixing your terribly predictable play. I've got my IdrA sign all ready to wave at events (you're going to be at Blizzcon, right?) and I hate to see it collecting dust in the corner.

-Darkside

On August 24 2010 18:37 vietboi wrote:
Idra is a good player indeed, one of the best zergs on sc2. But whines too much. Has only one style of play, macro and macro again and whines if a player doesnt play the way he does. Even flash is mixing his playstyle more then idra. And for those who watch BW and know flash playstyle they know what im talking about. Fine for idra to play macro, but hes like a kid on bnet trying to teach people his style or w/e. I rather see TLO play because he is mixing things up a bit. Long macro games to cheeses that attracts viewers. Idra is sometimes fun for his great macro and lategame control to all the rage quits, but sometimes he is just so immature and childish, and he does not have good sportsmanship. Its like he thinks he so much better then all the others because he is a reserve-reserve for the reserves for CJentus and lives in Korea, that he can rage and come with lame excuses to everyone who beats him.

But again! Idra is good! Just does some really weird things!

On September 13 2010 10:36 oo_xerox wrote:
i was idra's fan in bw, not sc2 sorry greg

On September 15 2010 20:39 IdrasBiggestFan wrote:
Ugh, Idra, I used to love you, but you couldn't even get past the RO 32 in the lowest-skill Korean tournament we'll ever see. How could he possibly have any hope of success if he can't win - no, can't even get close to winning now?

If you've listened to him in interviews, you know he's never going to recognize his shortcomings and change them. He just believes the solution to everything is to beat his head against the wall even harder, and to practice the same approaches even more obsessively.

By the time the next GSL rolls around, the skill level will have risen enough that he's completely left in the dust. I wonder if he can even qualify then.

Who is paying for his food and rent? He can't possibly be making enough money from his tournaments, because he always loses them.

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On December 04 2010 21:00 Dont Panic wrote:
Wow AHAHA omg 150$ and hour that is funny! IdrA's pro tips are so awful and he loses to same thing like 50 times before trying something new. Maybe if it was NonY, who can beat idra playing like an hour a day, it would be worth it. IdrA will prolly be like okay lets just play for an hour if you lose ill show you what you did wrong. Is IdrA selling out? Streaming his games and offering coaching cuz he knows he can't compete with the best.

I used to like him cuz he was brutally honest and he didn't care what others think. Now he's just an angry kid who thinks he's better than all the other players.

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On January 06 2011 04:01 Deekin[ wrote:
IdrA sucks... no just kidding.. he is good.

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On January 19 2011 22:18 ffz wrote:
Idra, I'm a fan and i stayed up til 5 am in the morning to watch u play. I know that doesn't give me the right to say jack shit but i just want to tell you how i feel right now and im sure u'll prob just skip right over this. I don't care. I'm pretty angry at the world right now.

It pisses me off so much when i hear Jinro thanking all of his teammates in Liquid and oGs practicing with him and then I remember how u say ur main practice is from the ladder. Please manner up and make some friends so you can have some practice partners. You need more than just ret and artosis to bounce ideas off of... and neither of them play terran.

God damn EG needs to hurry up and get an actual team in korea instead of just stranding idra all by himself.

On January 20 2011 04:49 dsousa wrote:
<3 Idra.... but
In competition, or sporting events, sometimes you need to force your opponent to finish the job. By GG'ing so early in game 2 Idra let Jinro off the hook from having to actually earn the win and overcome his nerves. You could say he was likely to lose anyways, but the fact remains that the situation was extremely high pressure and Jinro would have had to still step up and win that game.

Pressure of the moment changes things alot.... watch any sport... free throws at the end of the game, field goals from short distance, tennis pro's double faulting on match point..... it happens all the time in every form of sport.

Jinro's shown he can be affected by the pressure, but instead of having to overcome that and work to get his first win in the series, Idra just gave it to him.

Did you see the look of relief on Jinro's face when Idra gg'd out? The smart move would have been to make Jinro work hard to every scrap... give him NOTHING! Make him beat the pressure.

On August 07 2010 13:27 Blanke wrote:
You people astound me.

First Masq, now Silver gets berated by this fool. (Ironic since IdrA used to play as Terran and demands Silver apologizes for playing as Terran . . .) I can't believe IdrA is representing America's Starcraft scene in South Korea, it's an absolute embarassment to watch him during games. (I saw Silver's match vs. him with HuskyStarcraft's commentary, and I could tell how little respect even Husky has for him.) He needs to learn to how to take a loss. If not, then I reccomend he changes his name to CrydrA. At least then his namesake would speak the truth.

On July 28 2010 02:40 Slardar wrote:
His SC2 play is really lackluster, boring, and ineffective. Especially since we have hard counters now, generally going 1 strategy a game doesn't seem viable. I was a huge fan of Haypro before he joined TL so I'll just stick with that. Just my 2 cents on Idra though

On July 30 2010 05:48 Dragonsven wrote:


When I first read this I saw, "I will never kiss a girl." Weird.

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On July 28 2010 01:59 polarwolf wrote:
Ouch, joining an Idra-Fan-club is like saying: "I like to lick the sweat off a man's stinking butt", Idra is nothing but an over privileged American kid, the only reason he got accepted for in a proteam is his exotic Status as a foreigner.

A Korean amateur with his performance would have never been accepted, hell, Greg didn't even win a Courage tournament, and there are Koreans who did get their license for themselves but are not drafted into a proteam.

After failing to make any significant splash in SC: BW, Idra is now trying to become the King of SC2: WoL, but I doubt it will happen, anyways I will happily grab a beer and pop some corn seeing him going down in flames.

That being said, I love to hate Idra. GG

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On July 27 2010 22:26 Arkless wrote:
Idra is such a loser though. Like epic loser, I hope one day I get to baneling bust his face with my fists!

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On July 27 2010 22:34 Arkless wrote:
Lol theantz, seeing as how i have replays of me beating such noteables as
idra
dimaga
LZgamer
tasteless
and Huk

I'll be here forever. I'm sry if you have a crush on Idra, and yeah i'm blasting him online. But i'm not going to korea so where else can I blast him?

On July 27 2010 22:35 Arkless wrote:
And PS: Idra BM's and nerd rages to any loss. Doesn't matter if he was out micro'd, cheesed, or w/e. He cries or just drops every loss.

On August 08 2010 20:26 eiswand wrote:
I just looked one replay of him vs drewbie and Idra acted like a little 11 year old kiddie; he was constantly flaming the other player and whining how OP terrans are (and always were). Seems like he really has some manner problems. What a nerdy retard

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On August 08 2010 20:30 friendlybus wrote:
I just saw Idra play Silver and lose twice. Christ does he rage like a little kid. You'd think if he was so pro he wouldn't need to abuse his opponent in chat. And for crying out loud just play terran if they're so bloody op. How arrogant is he to sit there inside a nerfed race and bitch that people beat him because they picked a better race. Such a douche.

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On August 10 2010 05:47 vOddy wrote:
If only IdrA wasn't such an asshole as a person, I could actually enjoy watching him play, because he's really good and I like what he does with Zerg.

But seriously, things like " apologize for the way you played last game " and " thanks " when an opponent loses a reaver, is just fucking pathetic. He also claimed a win in a BW tournament when his opponent got disconnected, even though it was far from over.

Fuck IdrA. I hope he gets bashed with a shovel.

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On September 16 2010 00:36 archaik wrote:
Nice to see IdrA losing.

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On October 17 2010 08:41 Veasel wrote:
This thread just suck, u cant be a fan to a whinner.. >.<"

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On November 13 2010 21:14 fuku-san wrote:
Dear IdrA

Why do you get so upset that vastly superior players beat you? Why must you make them apologize for playing a race when the race was not the deciding factor in beating you decisively but rather their superior skill. That is not to say that they are very good players but rather it is a testimony on how bad your skill is.

Sure you may be an average skilled caucasian but in the grand scheme of things, you really just are a sub-par Zerg and RTS gamer. Please get better at the game before engaging in bad mannered play which just exhibits your immature and homosexual personality.

Furthermore, if you are going to get mad at your fellow players, you should at least have the physical capability to back up your foul manner. You look to weigh approximately 100lbs and most females who have reached puberty could probably beat you in a fight.

Please work on improving your gaming skills rather than being bad mannered and being a faggot in general. I hope you have better luck in your future endeavours.

Regards

Fuku-san

P.S IdrA more like DickdrA

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On December 29 2010 12:38 Almin wrote:


Can I act like Idra, make drones until it's too late and they obviously push with no expo up and plenty of army producing buildings up and then rage when they beat me with a timing push.

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On January 04 2011 22:58 ganjazerg wrote:
how can anyone feel sympathy for this guy? he disrespects other players on a regular basis... he is immature and self absorbed... bad boy image my ass if that's what he is trying to convey he is just coming across as a whiney child with self-esteem issues.

i know this doesn't really belong here but im really curious to know how anyone can see him as worthy of having a "fan club".

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On January 11 2011 04:23 kazyn wrote:
Idra u nerd im gonna squash u