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Actually, the best players in the world live in the post-Soviet countries.

Making such a statement is the same as saying that we are the only intelligent beings in the entire universe! Without any technical means to verify this, as it would require billions of light-years.

Isn't that a bit too loud and arrogant, sir?

The same applies to Heroes, which is not a cyber sports discipline at all. It is played in local corners, has local champions, but due to the language barrier, they essentially stay in these corners.
How can you verify this when there are no regular, serious international (world-class!) tournaments? The only thing that existed was the tournament from Sticky, which was the largest in this regard, and even that was FOR FUN!

What is needed is: a sports federation, official support, advertising -> competent marketing, money circulating in this field - attracting players, sponsors. And really, to involve THE ENTIRE WORLD as much as possible, and not just the CIS + Maretti. But this will never happen. Unfortunately, it's a sad fact.

You don't have to go far; look at the StarCraft tournaments.

But such statements, this naivety (blessed (c)), amuse me, honestly.

Actually, the best players in the world live in the post-Soviet countries.

In general, I don't even want to bring up this topic about this boasting. You can continue to believe that if you want.

According to your reasoning: "let the WORLD bend to me, rather than me bending to it."[/B]

I hate time machines.

And what tournaments do you participate in? Are they only for the rich? [/B]

I've played with the rich, and the world didn't end.

And I've played with the rich many times - they all have ICQ (so you're talking a lot of nonsense). [/B]

Maybe those who played and added ICQ did so because they saw that they would have to communicate through it? Because we support a system of worship for it. And even if you don't want to, newcomers have to.

ICQ is registered, but it's convenient to use QIP, it doesn't hang for three days. [/B]

You're annoyed that you were stuck with a crappy client, while others are doing fine, and more people are communicating through ICQ. [/B]

OMG, ICQ is a protocol! And QIP is a client that supports the ICQ protocol, Jabber, and others! QIP itself is not ICQ!

Surely it's not clear that now 90% of people have ICQ, so they install it as the default communication tool. ICQ is, in fact, the "historically established communication client," even if it's only in the post-Soviet space.[/B]

And at the international level, it's a different story. [/B]

If you want to masturbate with your ICQ, then continue to do so. I've buried it. And its problems don't concern me. Neither the change of protocol nor the shut down servers. I communicate via Jabber and feel great. And you (such a smart patriot), if you don't understand the difference between an open application and a closed one, then that's your problem. And what if Mail.ru wants to, then all your QIPs and Mirandas will work with this protocol, you will install the official ICQ client and look at its f***ing ads. For at least 10 years, I've been watching this eternal hassle, and now I don't care about this hassle anymore. Eternal cries on the internet: "ICQ is not working again," "oh, what should we do"!!!???

And if it's only needed for games, then of course, it suits you. And my client is not crappy, the protocol is crappy! And regarding the convenience of QIP, it's convenient for you, I have a different opinion, and you don't even understand that the ICQ password was in plain text and that there were thousands of cases of ICQ hacking! But you will, of course, say that it can be restored, but why would you need it! They made a restriction on a 7-character password, and then they f***ed up ICQ, or they sent a Trojan to all contacts, everyone logged in out of habit because they saw a link from a trusted contact, and suddenly you have a bunch of grateful friends sending you all sorts of spam through ICQ, and in general, I don't give a damn about proving this to you, noob, if you don't even understand how it works! And Jabber and GTalk are the same thing, GTalk is just a client for Jabber, there are Jabber servers monitored by Google, meaning he set up Jabber servers and just made his own client, and QIP also made a Jabber server, so what does that mean? Where are the 90 percent? lolol!

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How categorical! Just look. First poker, then ICQ :)

Yes, yes, and also illegal drugs. And legal ones: cigarettes and alcohol in any doses.