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Well it wasn't that I was great, more so that only like 8 people were good. I did fairly well against the coach of the chess team at the governor's school, but he was going down a table playing up to 15 people at once. Normally only one person beats him every year, but nobody did this year. My game got cut short due to curfew, so we will never know how it would have ended. I had control of the center of the board, but I was vulnerable to one rook. In my opinion the rook was a temporary threat, and the game was easily winnable.
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Still, find the positives in your merits in any aspect of life. Tends to help the good ol morale
 

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@ Jedisupersonic Jedisupersonic I'll definitely be going to APEX as well.
Cool! It'll basically be my introduction to Competitive play.. I've been playing Smash since 64 but my interest for Compeitive just came up recently.. Been practicing in all games learning advanced techs.

Although i'm at Job Corps so much training options are limited till I go to Apex itself
 
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Also, Dota 2's ultimate-based teamfights and rat-based pushing strats are the pinnacle of competitive gaming. <- *Kappa*
Considering the prizes at stake, it kinda is, whether you like their strats or not. Split-pushing is as legit a strategy in Dota as camping is in Smash. Popular? Not in the slightest. Besides, there are only a few teams that aim to split-push all the time and a handful of heroes who specialize at it.

Also, why shouldn't ult's be the key to deciding battles? They are ultimates for a reason. And it's not like everyone just runs in and casts their ults together; every ult has a time and place and chances are most of them will not be used at full efficiency. The opposing team should know how to react and most times they do, unless the other side set them up perfectly. Now obviously some ults are more polarizing than others (Tide) but on most heroes, that's practically their sole purpose.
 

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People "flop" in basketball too, but nobody says the sport is too broken to continue.

I think this World Cup and this 7-1 game in particular prove that tied games of 0-0 aren't as common as stereotyped by the football haters who exaggerate the boriness of the game while American football could be described as continuous play stoppages for many minutes at a time, over and over again with no end in sight or even somebody scoring until the kicker gets a field goal. Now made worse with instant replay!

You can criticize any sport like that.
I think that basketball is really action packed enough with enough scoring to really balance out the fouls. The truth is that the 2 slowest sports I've ever watched are baseball and soccer. In baseball there is no form of flopping; walks are entirely the defending team's fault. You can't deny that in high level soccer games often come down to who scored the most PKs. This doesn't meant that the sport is bad or shouldn't be popular, instead it is just flawed. I play Dota 2 which has a fatally flawed metagame based around ultimates and pushing lanes without committing, but I still think its fun and will watch and play the game.
 

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I think that basketball is really action packed enough with enough scoring to really balance out the fouls. The truth is that the 2 slowest sports I've ever watched are baseball and soccer. In baseball there is no form of flopping; walks are entirely the defending team's fault. You can't deny that in high level soccer games often come down to who scored the most PKs. This doesn't meant that the sport is bad or shouldn't be popular, instead it is just flawed. I play Dota 2 which has a fatally flawed metagame based around ultimates and pushing lanes without committing, but I still think its fun and will watch and play the game.
Umpires can also be bias in terms of what are strikes and balls.. It's not always the Pitchers fault.
 

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Umpires can also be bias in terms of what are strikes and balls.. It's not always the Pitchers fault.
I guess...I never really thought about that at a higher level. Fair point, but its whole lot more apparent to the Ump who is standing behind the catcher than an official from across the field.
 

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chess currently is like the 20XX that melee predicts tbh. so much memory and emphasis on parroting stuff players far better than you mastered before you're able to do anything new and exciting

which is kind of expected, given that the metagame is centuries upon centuries old, so it's not like it didn't have an incredible run before there started to be hurdles. also someone tried to make "chess 2" and it was horrid so maaaaybe it's not the best idea to entrust people to mess with the internal rules of such an old game
 

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You talking about Sirlin's Chess 2? It sounded interesting to me as a completely new game, not really a sequel.

Referees have a huge impact in just about every sport where judgement calls need to be made and penalties matter but that is lessening thanks to the use of new technology such as now in football if the ball crosses the goal line the ref is notified immediately it was a goal which means less bad calls being made in the sport today.
 
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why do they still emphasize the human eye's judgement on this sort of thing anyways

surely it wouldn't be too difficult to design detectors that check if a ball is within a certain range in baseball, and then just use the ref to double-check
 

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Hey nerds. I'm back from my surgery, and the talk is of something as boring as real sports. I truly understand Miku's disgust.

Also, I started playing NationStates whilst I was away. Yayyy
 

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You can't wavedash in chess, that makes it bad take no skill.
 
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Baseball is a horrible sport, governed by horrible empires that are wrong on something like 35% of their calls. Not only that, but its literally controlled by a singular position, the pitcher. Almost all blame for a loss should be put onto a pitcher, because it is 100% possible to throw balls, that are in the strikezone, that are still impossible to hit based on the batter's posture/size/etc. Pitchers just cant, and it bothers me. Baseball is a stupid sport.

Soccer, while it can be slow at times, is at least interesting in both the team dynamic and strategy, covering zones and holes, and weighing options when extending for a play or when to challenge the ball when on the defense, risking being dribbled past you, stuff like that. Football/rugby are good sports in that regard too imo, although I could never really enjoy watching them.

I like basketball, but there's way to many silly rules and regulations put onto the game that are unneccesary. Also American basketball is more focused on individual players and doing things yourself, if you guys ever watch the basketball during the summer Olympics, the teams focus far more on set-ups and team plays then just passing the ball to a star player and watching them try to drive through. I know thats a simplification, but NA basketball is lame because of it.

tl;dr: Softie is a sports snob that dislikes baseball because its stupid, and prefers to watch sports where teams have to consider options and weigh risks through plays and positioning, as a team. Not just the catcher making hand signs at the pitcher, telling him how to throw or if someone is about to steal base.

I dislike baseball.
 
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Get that softcore **** out of here, Vash. Women's smash or bust. Ha puns.

I had my wisdom teeth surgically removed, Pills.
 
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I like basketball, but there's way to many silly rules and regulations put onto the game that are unneccesary. Also American basketball is more focused on individual players and doing things yourself, if you guys ever watch the basketball during the summer Olympics, the teams focus far more on set-ups and team plays then just passing the ball to a star player and watching them try to drive through. I know thats a simplification, but NA basketball is lame because of it.
I'm assuming you're talking about stuff like shot clocks, because basketball pre-shot clock made planking in brawl look aggressive, it was horrible

also: how about that hockey. actually there's always one thing I never understood about hockey and it's the fact that they let people fight? except they don't. except they do. I'm canadian I should probably understand this more
 
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I used to go to chess tournaments. Fun times :p.
 

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Baseball is an incredible mental battle between pitcher/catcher and batter/base runners. It is closet to a video game in terms of requiring incredible reflexes and smart pitches and swings aka moves. Baseball video games are the best sports video games bar none, The Show on PS3/PS4 is the sports king.

It is the only sport I know of where watching one side play amazingly well, stopping the offensive team entirely is actually very entertaining to watch unfold and see if anyone screws up.
 
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The worst sports revolve around balls and scoring points. Why watch them when you could watch Chinese cartoons?
 

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I like basketball, but there's way to many silly rules and regulations put onto the game that are unneccesary.
As a Basketball fan, what regulations do you speak of?
List them, and I'll try to tell you why it exists (or why it really IS stupid).
 

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Dribbling :troll:
I know you kid, but I'll explain anyway.
It keeps the game interesting.
Without it, it's basically American Football with less stopage time, no contact, and a hoop. It would be nigh impossible to steal the ball (or just play defense at all, really) without fouling the other player. This is also why Travelling, Double Dribbling, and Carrying exist. It keeps Small players relevant, as they are typically the only ones who can dribble efficiently. It's just a better, more skillful and entertaining way to play the game.
 
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Basketball has too many ticky-tacky fouls for barely touching your star player to protect him when in the 90s Jordan would get hacked by D-men and still dominate and you could hand check players.

NBA got real soft, simple as that.
 
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As a Basketball fan, what regulations do you speak of?
List them, and I'll try to tell you why it exists (or why it really IS stupid).
I'm actually not too familiar with what bothered me. I just know whenever I tried to watch it with friends who were into it, and I questioned the reason they got fouled or why they didn't do something, I just didn't like the answer lol.

Basketball has too many ticky-tacky fouls for barely touching your star player to protect him when in the 90s Jordan would get hacked by D-men and still dominate and you could hand check players.

NBA got real soft, simple as that.
It was probably something like this.
 

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Basketball has too many ticky-tacky fouls for barely touching your star player to protect him when in the 90s Jordan would get hacked by D-men and still dominate and you could hand check players.

NBA got real soft, simple as that.
I have mixed feelings on this issue.
On one hand, defenders actually have to think when trying to play defense efficiently.
On the other hand, Flopping and crappy fouls exist as a result.

I honsetly kinda prefer the "soft" NBA, cause hand-checking is just dumb.
 

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It feels to me like the balance for offense and defense is slightly out of wack, but I don't really enjoy seeing the scoreboard light up as much as other people do.

A hard fought win is worth more to me, the more physical within reason the better.
 

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That sounds like something that most people would take as a good thing.
 

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tl;dr: Softie is a sports snob that dislikes baseball because its stupid, and prefers to watch sports where I dislike baseball.
You're so intimidating with that tree avatar, I liked the ice cream cone
 
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