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                | GenOciDe- 
 
 
 Joined: 18 Feb 2003
 Posts: 5719
 Location: Ottawa
 | The Evil Geniuses Curse 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5mOcAq1dAI
 Well done Incontrol, well done
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                |  Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:13 am |  |  |  
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                | turtleman@can 
 
 
 Joined: 08 Apr 2003
 Posts: 8841
 Location: Canada
 | I admit I kinda knew what that was about and enjoyed it |  
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                | x 
 
  
 Joined: 31 Oct 2001
 Posts: 1634
 Location: Athens, GA
 | I think the video's responding to a (strawman?) argument:
 1) "Players aren't performing completely top-notch after joining EG."
 
 When the real argument is:
 
 2) "EG Players in general do worse than they did before they joined EG."
 
 I remember him citing ThorZain, how he's 
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 won all these tournaments after joining EG. Those tournaments just happen to be lower-tier tournaments compared to what he's done before. Notice at http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/ThorZaIN#Achievements the "Premier" vs. "Major" tournaments table, and that he joined EG on 5/9/12.
 
 While EG's a great team and ThorZain for ex is a good player (and continues to be), I believe the statement "EG Players in general do worse than they did before they joined EG" is overall true.
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                |  Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:03 am |  |  |  
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                | turtleman@can 
 
 
 Joined: 08 Apr 2003
 Posts: 8841
 Location: Canada
 | I know they've got this nice house with a pool with everything they could ever want AND they get paid , live with a bunch of mediocre performing pro gamers like inControl that set the bar low in terms of performance.
 It'd probably be a lot easier in that environment to let your game slip while you're living it up so to speak, vs in some shitty korean 2 bedroom apartment with 20 GSL players packed into a 200 sq foot living room who probably scold each other when their APM drops 1% below optimal play
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                |  Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:35 pm |  |  |  |