The Editorials of Canon

I would like to ask you a question to begin; Are you a good loser?  If you can answer yes to this, I commend you.  This shows a respect to the better person in whatever situation that you may be participating in.

Over the last 3 years, as I have been playing online games, mostly Starcraft/Broodwar, I have noticed a significant decline in respect to better players, ever since the introduction of hacks/trainers.  I admit I'm not a great Starcraft player, but I can usually defeat most people.  When I win, I am ridiculed as a hacker.  For example, I was playing a fellow at one point, who asked me, "How did you know I had an expansion you hacker?"  I went on to tell him that there was an observer after he disconnected from the game  Is this sad or what?

When a good player wins, it is because of skill.  Some new players don't accept this.   For example, once when Phobos and I were playing a 2v2, Phobos went heavy metal, and I tried Phobos' nuke strat.  About 7 minutes into the game, "Nuclear launch detected."  What did they do?  The proceeded to call us hackers, and one of them even disconnected.  I find this insulting.

I will close this editorial by leaving you this: Lose.  Lose a lot.  I don't mean intentionally lose, but play BETTER players, until you can beat them.  Then and only then can you call yourself a good player.

-Canon