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My argument is different and has been made earlier. Drunix80 is a good guy generally and I have no reason to doubt his genuineness and his opinion. What I don't like are conditional insults being thrown around in an atmosphere of disagreement. It's a common strategy used to incite people - if the shoe fits, wear it. If he had said, "Only stupid people like to see their favorite legends lose", I would have felt precisely the same way. I don't think I posted much after the original statement, but I think that the need to say that was driven to some degree by discomfort with the amount of disagreement with his position that he was receiving. That said, if I said anything to offend drunix80, I apologize. He is a good poster with a genuinely valuable POV.
I definitely had a very biased opinion earlier. May be it was because of regional influence on how TT is perceived. Myself being a player during my hey days, was told from an young age that one has to compete with sole purpose of winning. If you lose, you have to find the flaws and improve. The day you can't have an impact or improve yourself, your place will be taken.
So it was difficult to understand why people would support a (hero) player to continue who was not having the desired impact, losing more frequently and apparently not improving. It was a big revelation to me as I learnt through this thread that for many people losing or winning does not matter much. People just enjoy their fav players competing and players compete because they just enjoy the game. It is also clear to me from Samsonov's quote that he is playing to win WTTC or an Olympic medal. So, he has his own motivation to continue playing. I can also relate to that.
For sure, I had no idea about the deep meaning of R word. That is also a big eye opener. So if I had to, I would have rephrased my original post as :
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3. Does anybody like their fav players to lose ?
No. Give me one good reason why.
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Sure I know the reasons now. So, lets chill. No bad blood !!!
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