World Cyber Games is the equivalence of the Olympic Games in eSports, it is said. Statements as 'the important thing is not to win, but to take part' and 'athletes who try their best but finish last' chime well and is said to be the core of the olympic spirit.
In group A today, Lee Jae "JaeDong" Dong locked horns with Azerbaijani player Eldaniz "Zim" Talibov. Zim, playing Protoss, seemed to know the basics of the game when scouting, building probes and placing his first pylon and gateway.
But to the laughter of the Korean Ongamenet commentators one could see the best ranked progamer easily thrash his novice competitor with a simple handful of Zerglings against Zim's two zealots and probes.
- I thought I was playing against the computer AI, is JaeDong to have said in a post-game interview.
See the whole game below: