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« on: January 01, 2011, 04:35:18 AM »
As of now, more and more people are being more more elitist. Sad fact, but true. Since nobody has solid evidence to prove whose the best or second best and so on, this poll at best is a popularity contest among good and skilled players.
Now if people REALLY wanted know the truth of superiority, then competitions can be held to proves things. As a follower of the Korean professional Starcraft Brood War scene, I am limited on what I can say about professional FPS scenes. FPS competitions can stretch in the variety of fields that can be competed in, as opposed to Starcraft (where it's mainly 1v1 instants). For example, one person be untouchable in TLMS, yet crumble in Duels. Now score systems then can keep track of whose the best on which setup, and there could be some other systems that could keep track of "overall" scores. That to me sounds like the fairest way to compare players competitively.
Now this paragraph is filled with wishful thinking. Now this game has some potential to grow into a professional Esport if it has support. First of all it'll be needed to be accepted by people to consider it as a worthy game to be competitive over. To achieve that, this is where popularity and game balance plays a big role in becoming an acceptable competitive Esport. Second, players that are willing to play the game competitively are going to be the ones that the general public will accept as the best players of the game. Now if you look at Starcraft for a moment in Korea (and other countries as well), Starcraft has balance and the popularity which allows the game to be acceptable as a "competitiveable" game. Of course the players play a big role to run the scene. As a bonus the players are usually sponsored by some big company and they are paid to play Starcraft. Wouldn't that be nice if you are paid to play a game that you love? As a my last tidbit of wishful thinking, I believe that can be possible with the above and all with good organization.
Lastly back to the poll. I'm kinda surprised to not see my name it there, but oh well. I guess that's what I get for not playing all the time. I am also rather surprised that my clan mate Muzaru is on it.
Go Muz! Do your best!
As for voting I would vote for...
Lonewolf
Celebi
Rose
I wish I could put my name put there and not vote for myself at the same time.
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