{"id":161,"date":"2012-03-02T00:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:34:44","slug":"north-american-starcraft-2-pro-player-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/archives\/161","title":{"rendered":"North American Starcraft 2 Pro Player Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-radius:12px 50px\" class=\"wp-image-162 alignleft\" title=\"MC - Nerd Baller\" src=\"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oGsMC-gsl-season31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oGsMC-gsl-season31.jpg 648w, http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oGsMC-gsl-season31-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><br \/>\nI chose not to use a North American player for the header of this rant because it would make the post seem like a targeted attack at specific players, it&#8217;s not. I think one of the main problems within the North American e-Sports scene is that we artificially boost &#8216;legendary&#8217; players and then they just seem stay there no matter how terrible their play gets compared to the current baseline. It&#8217;s a simple fact is that\u00c2\u00a0e-Sports needs new blood to evolve new, more complex play tactics. <\/p>\n<p>We hurt everyone involved by churning out &#8220;filler&#8221; matches that no one wants to watch (because the players involved aren&#8217;t motivated to maintain their peak performance), we waste our viewers time and thus it&#8217;s only a matter a time that they get sick of it entirely and start looking for content elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to fess up and tell those that never seem to improve:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sorry, just because you had it big back in the day &#8211; doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re worth sh*t today as a player, evolve or die.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Players that just don&#8217;t have that true motivation and dedication should be honest with themselves and their fans by transitioning into other roles or just retire outright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose not to use a North American player for the header of this rant because it would make the post seem like a targeted attack at specific players, it&#8217;s not. I think one of the main problems within the North American e-Sports scene is that we artificially boost &#8216;legendary&#8217; players and then they just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esports","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lorinhalpert.com\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}