Jan 14: One-week HC Race

So You want to play 2h a day and win a RACE?
1-2h a day is nothing and You cant compete in any (e)sports if You dont want to commit more time.
Get a grip and stop crying.

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Vraarz wrote:

So You want to play 2h a day and win a RACE?
1-2h a day is nothing and You cant compete in any (e)sports if You dont want to commit more time.
Get a grip and stop crying.

That's a bogus argument if I ever heard one. I agree that people that can't play a lot shouldn't expect to do well in these long races but that comparison is just stupid.

1. There has never ever ever ever been a tournament in which the players has to play for over 100 hours in a single week to be able to compete.

2. While professional players spend a lot of time playing most of that time is spent practising, they will spend weeks practising for a single tournament or even for a single game, the game/tournament itself will take a fraction of the time it took to prepare. Also tournaments usually consists of four parts waiting and one part gaming. They play their game, take a break before next game, play, take a break and so on. You wont see people competing for 12+ hours in a row in a single day.

3. Players who may not have as much time to spend practising can and do actually compete at the highest level, less so in recent years since more money in e-sport has meant that more and more can play game full time. Ever heard of mondragon? Best non-korean zerg of all time in SC:BW. When he was at the top of his game he barely played at all other than prepare for specific matches every now and then and participating in tournaments, he won tournaments left and right, took a bronze at wcg 2007 after beating korean super-zerg savior and so on.

4. Even if the people who have more time to practice hold an edge over those haven't got that time there is nothing stopping them from competing on equal footing in e-sports. You do not get rewarded with points for extra attendance in tournaments.

5. The 1-week races are not comparable to e-sport. The 1-3 hour races would be a more apt comparison since you can spend a lot of time practising different builds and styles in preparation for those races and everyone is able to compete on an equal footing, you do not gain an advantage by being able to participate longer in the race than anyone else.

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This race is a perfect example - dual spark totem's build is completely over power. Cleaning the room's and all location's is extremely quick and easy.. otherwise it's hard to die. As a result most of the characters are based precisely on such build.

I hope that the Open Beta will bring some changes in this issue.. :o

See you at OB ! ;)

Cya !


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Great run. Haven't been able to play that much myself but been watching nugiyen_GGG stream some, quite entertaining. GL

Cybrix better hope some people die.