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trash talk vs bad sportsmanship
 

This blog I attempt to explain the difference between Frustration talking smack and 'stirring people up' before games, and the blatant anti-sportsmanship of messaging him in game to put him off. I'll spare you all from what went on in the background with the referees, I was there but this blog won't be about that

So Frustration talks smack and stirs people in all the wrong ways, is very unpopular with players because of it, is known to have a big ego. Did he not prove last night he can stand toe to toe with the best in the region? Here's the point I'm trying to make, it's nothing to do with his ego. He wants the best out of you. He wants you to succeed. The way he does this is by making you step up your game and 'want' to prove him wrong. It's nothing new, people in sports do it all the time to promote events but also because they want an exciting event to play and not a walk-over. This very often has an effect on people who can handle it but still want to prove him wrong and helps them to bring their A-game

I compare this to sabotagueing a team sport. I could use Frust on monday as an example because it is, but it looked more like it fell into what I just mentioned of making the actual clan war that was coming more exciting. I wouldn't condone it and Philosopher probably didn't deserve it. That is a topic for another blog. But I'm not here to talk about Monday! but the similar event of Frust being message flooded in game during his match(es?) because he didn't turn his his chat to unavailable. Since we may never know who this is I think I'm safe to simply explain how bad it is and how different it is to the example in my paragraph 1

John likes Mary, they play sport but Mary is playing on the other team. John wants Mary to win, and wants to be with Mary (Duh). John sabotages his team, switches to the other team. Is what he's doing paragraph 1 or is it bad sportsmanship? spoiler: I'll answer that, it's bad sportsmanship and not paragraph 1

Hope my blog makes sense, please close and hope it's read by anyone who doesn't already understand the difference