Greg, I exert lots of energy to belittle you.  You are a New Jersey native who plays Starcraft for a living.  You accomplished little before getting slotted on a Korean Starcraft team.  As the only foreigner with such status, you are the game’s “great white hope”.  You are the Kimbo Slice of Starcraft.  You have a cult following that wants to believe you are the man.  But whereas Kimbo is a decent person, you are an immature jackass.

After training for an entire year, your expectations were put on display in a best-of-seven with F91, China’s premier Zerg player.  You promised a rout.

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“I’m quite confident. Korean Zergs are lightyears ahead of foreigner Zergs, ZvT moreso than any other matchup in the game, I think. TvZ has always been my best matchup as well. I expect to win 6-1 or 5-2, some of the maps are conducive to tricky cheesy builds which he excels at so I could drop a game or two that way. Beyond his general style I don’t know much about his play, don’t think I’ve played him since WWI and haven’t seen any recent replays of his ZvT.”

And boy, was it a rout.  A YouTube commentator summed up your 2-5 loss quite effectively:

Amazing job by F91, he is gonna to be the winner for this series.  He will walk away with a substantial amount of money.  He is going to be walking away with 225 dollars…IdrA, on the other hand, you’ll have  to walk away with 75 dollars, but I’m sure you’ll be happy with that, even if you’re not happy with how badly you got raped right there.

Then Rekrul (that’s “lurker” spelled backwards!), a fellow member of the Starcraft community, unveiled your excuse(s) for losing:

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“why are you pretending you know anything about starcraft? raid assault is covered in narrow passages and high grounds and has a very short rush distance through the center, as well as high ground immediately outside the natural. it also has a total of 2 gas expos outside the mains and naturals, both of which are near impossible to defend vs drops…this means that an intelligent zerg will go 2 hatch, my build was designed to take advantage of that and so lost because he went 3 hatch. going 3 hatch is utterly retarded for the reasons i just explained so yes i did lose because he did something dumb.”

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my point is he won because he took risks and they paid off. congrats to him, but people trying to use [my games with F91] to comment on skill are clueless.

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and he [F91] is not clever. he simply hopes you dont guess or read which way hes gonna go. opening lurker and hoping your opponent doesnt guess properly if you’re gonna attack or not is not a ‘crazy rush’ or a brilliant strategy. it is a coinflip.

I never have and never will play a video game for money.  But I know an entertainer has to do two of three things: Be classy, be entertaining, be successful.  You can’t do any of these.  I’m not annoyed that you act like a bitter 19-year-old, because I know lots of people who do that.  It’s that you’re a professional gamer who is substantiating the stereotype of the angry, pale-faced white kid who gets their escape through Call of Duty.  Professional gaming does not need this, and until you actually win something, please stop embarassing yourself.

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