How the best Swedish player NaNiWa RUINED his career in StarCraft 2

HE is such an asshole...as he used to be my girlfriends above neighbour...his bad behaviour,lack of cleaning apartment were fucking vile...

Naniwa was an incredible player. Had he been an MMA fighter his attitude would have been outright dismissed. For some reason in the gaming community one must be completely humble and nice all the time, or they might as well not even contend. I think it stems from a sort of jealousy. All these nerds wish they could go pro, and they don't respect the talent of those that can succeed. Viewers act as though it's something pros been given and should therefore act incredibly humble at all times, rather than the reality that it's something they're gifted at and work extremely hard for. Naniwa was a legend of the game. His playstyle included everything. He could perform the most ridiculously ballsy and high risk cheese in one game and then the next play until the last resource on the map had been extracted. You never knew what you'd get from him, and that's why he will always be my favorite foreigner.

I lived thrue that time period and let me tell you Idra was always a joke he never performed well and Naniwa was slightly better but no way near korea level. You cant eaven comprehend how mutch was korean ahead. Only time rest of the world catch up was Serral he was eating koreans for breakfest it was great time.

The "no handshake"

I saw this back then on twitch and knew that this was usual scout. Naniwa was just mad his cheese did not work. That being said I like him and watched his streams often after he stopped being a Pro Player

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How he ruined his hairstyle aswell.

Can we enjoy high-level competition in anything without having to deal with emotionally unstable prima donnas?

If you type in naniwa into an iPhone it autocorrects to babies, did they do that on purpose? Imo naniwa is amazin

great video. I miss watching Starcraft 2 back in 2010. There won't be anything like it ever again.

Not even talking about the "hand shake" incident. This video doesn't show how disrespectful NaNiWa is.

Bm!

The boos from the people in the crowd after refusing to play at an enormous disadvantage is some real entitled shit. If you put an incredible amount of effort into something and end up losing because of the unprofessionalism and lack of preparedness of the event coordinators it would be crushing. Crowd is most likely filled with very bad players who don't understand how difficult this game is at the highest level, I tapped out at rank 29 master's because even after all of the work and time put into the game. The skill ceiling was just still so high and so many more ways to improve, with life getting in the way it was too difficult to continue . I can't imagine how it would feel to continue that journey become one of the best pro players of your era and then losing an incredibly well funded tournament because of sound issues.

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I remember mlg 2011 Nani won. Was amazing. Love this guy in the face if adversity he shines

complained about balance when he was playing protoss lol. What a tool

Sounds like "the boy who cried wolf". Something for the rest of us to learn from! Don't blame everything else for your own performance because when it finally is an external reason no-one will believe you.

Another good example of someone ruining their career was Life, the guy was an absolute legend in matches. If he wasn't matchfixing could only imagine how far he would of went. Would of loved seeing serral vs life for zerg dominance.

Why not simply delay the stream by 30 seconds?

So can someone tell me what happened in tldr? Cuz i dont want to watch entire video

Naniwa is not retired, he created a pretty good build last year! I rooted for him a lot throughout the years, but a level of humbleness earlier in his career might have done some good. That being said, thank you for the excitement you brought me upsetting S tier Koreans in WoL/HoTS esports eras

I wouldn't say NaNiWa ever ruined his career. He was a headache from the start, but he wasn't the only player that was, arguably Idra was far worse in terms of behaviour. Difference is that was a different time back then, if you had good results, you got away with it and the results just stopped coming, he fell off as the meta continued to evolved and it was really obvious his passion for the game wasn't there anymore.

Homey looks like what I expect 7 generations of inbreeding would look like.

Naniwa was just a fucktard! Unsympathic, Idiotic, Childish... nothing less than a Moron! I was there Start to finish and this guy was just a LOOSER! Nothing more to say.

Snowslakes all the way from 2012, dont have to be a nice guy to compete.

Only a complete moron would think anything than lack of skill ruined his career just saying

He wanted to be the bad boy so bad. I hate when people compare idra and naniwa together, since idra was truly THE bad boy in the scene and performed the role really well to the point no one was not really sure was it just a role or just him naturally, where as with naniwa it was brutally clear for majority that he was most likely just bullied kid in school who chose to try to be the bad boy. His physical maneuvers, stuttering and overall awkward presence gave it away.

I've been a tournament official with both. Idra never was rude to tournament officials and when the cameras weren't there. He never did anything that makes staff life more difficult. Then we had naniwa, who blocked all other competitiors in bnet and forced the officials to organize the match-ups, whined about every single detail about the venue and after losing the last game broke the tournament computer by forcefully pulling all the cables out. I think it was one of the last tournaments in his career. Jackass throughout...

I felt bad for the guy, since he clearly wasn't naturally douche, but he clearly just chose to be one.

Maybe he just got what he deserved for being such an a... miably guy.

Blizzard listen to the community....????.....omg, I had to wipe away my laughing tears....maybe in another life, guys, maybe in another life....😉😂😂🤣🤣

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I don't know the scene, but I had to relate to that "what are you suppose to say to that", that was the commentators fault for making a bad start to the conversation.

These live-event commentators are obnoxious with their over the top hyped screaming. Furthermore E-sport teams are basically professional no-life loser nerds. This whole scene would do well to be a little more humble.

Like in regular sport, players need to be a good example for youngsters. If they are not, they should be removed. Crazy they allowed him for so long.

He was probably right the crowd cheered then the enemy knew to check for the proxy they should have rules the crowd has to stay silent during the whole game

Doesn't look like he has a "dark side", just an edgy dude with no manners, that ran away crying when he got his ass handed to him (saying he didn't even really want to win either...what's he, 12?). Never going to understand people getting a big head out of playing an esport.

I think it's great he DGAF and stayed true to himself. We need more individuals like that.

Career in Starcraft........LOOOOOOOL what a career!

I remember when he came on stage and his pupils were the size of dinner plates lol, so much adderal I presume.

why the fuck he have such ugly hair style trying to look like a boy band singer but comes short cause he is basement dwelling pimple Poppin mastur bating mommys boy.

he is ugly as hell

I would be scared to play against polt also

I followed his career since the beginning, back in 2011 with WoL. Still miss Xel'Naga Caverns and Shakura's Plateau 🥲

Your channel should be called StarCraft Storyteller. You don't cover any other games.

He should have played NE in wc3 from the start and he would have dominated. He was so good and everyone could tell. He was not even top 5 in sweden in wc3 then but you could see that he was something special. This video takes me back not just to sc2 days but even further. Stop :)

1x25 speed thank me! beside that: nice video!

Oh god, Naniwa, I was a fan of this guy. I always tried to understand why he did behave like that. I think he was just too much of a nerd and shy person that his natural reaction to being "famous" was being a dick or rude person, without even realizing it.He was good tho, considered the best foreigner many times.

i was there Gandalf ...10 Years a go in blizzcon 2013, Naniwa was the only NON-Asian contender... the night before the opening ceremony... in the Hilton Hotel Naniwa was Drunk As fuck at 3AM... Guess how many Korean players were awake and drunk?... spoiler NONE.

he seem's like a little bitch

I remember that single 3hp stalker game blowing my mind back then. Shame the story ends how it does for this guy.