Who or what are you going to blame when you lose a mirror or scenario map? Your full time job cause it takes time away from training? Your wife or kids cause they've been annoying lately? Lag? Your computer being worse? Your monitor being 60 Hz only?
In reality though, every player is where he should on the ladder, and every player is where he should in tournaments. Blaming random map is a loser's attitude, but if it works for you... then keep it as it is so you have an easy excuse, that way you can still lie to yourself and think you're better than the opponent.
It's also very misleading to talk about RM vs scenario/mirror in a thread where the problem is a map oversight from the creator (extra golds can't spawn in water so they all went to the same island).
I have all the sympathy in the world as well as gratitude for you guys, the top players. But if losing takes a toll on your psyche it's time to work on that instead of changing the world to accommodate to your personality traits. My two cents anyway ^^
You know I enjoy reading your posts, but this one seems needlessly agressive...My main takeaway from Rubens and Nicovs post is not that they are looking for excuses, but rather they are calling for more thorough testing of the maps and not just simply assuming that if a map is good enough for ladder games it automatically is good enough for tournaments.
However I do believe some people tend to overestimate the effect of RNG in our game.
I mean maps are nowadays as balanced as they've ever been in the past.
So if RNG was even worse in past tournaments (pre-DE) you would assume that at some point it would be so unfair that it would cause the clearly best players to lose an important series.
That's not what happened with, say, Viper.
He just kept winning every major tournament.
With bad maps and with good maps.
So I do believe the RNG effect ends up being fairly even distributed across the board.
For this to be true though we definitely need to keep important series as BO5's at the very least. Anything less than that can indeed be too prone to unfairness...