I mostly agree with him.
Nowaday many new players and countries are coming, just see top300 total times list on Moposite. But still, in every contest and list are dominated by Finland, Sweden and Norway. The next best countries in my opinion are HUN, RUS, DEN, CZE, AUS, CAN, POL and so on.
The biggest reason why people in Finland (I'm not sure about NOR or SWE in this case) are the best is that the first finnish players got the game in 1997 (Jokke for example) when the biggest computer magazine wrote a review and gave an URL to download the game. Soon people started to meet in IRC (thanks to PeXi, bluu etc) and the FIN scene was born.
I bet it's much easier for new players to come from Finland than some small Elma country because you can share your experiences in your own language. So the more people play in your country the more players start to play.
I think it was psy who asked if this thing has some relations to school culture. I'm sorry that I don't know much about other countries' schools but at least in Finland we do have arts and sport :]. I guess everybody has those in their schools but maybe we have more (or when being younger) and we get better cordination and finger touch. I really don't know but maybe this could be true.
Almost all the big talents are from Nordic countries. Of course you can achieve much by just hoyling but some people really have talent. Check Mopobattle results... Maybe this point is too subjective but I think it's true. From my own interview:
Hoyling category have relatively more non-Nordic people. Am I wrong?Abula wrote:Hoyling power: ciph, Cloud, DarMoeD, Dr_Luni, dz, Jeppe, Karlis, kuiva, MadMan, mengerle, MGen, mr, Nostrada, psy, SoGe, TomCat, Trabi, Uube, ZeiZei, ZiuteK, zyntifox, \DC
Skills: Champi0N, DarMoeD, dz, Jeppe, Jokke, Kingkong, MadMan, Markku, Mick, MP, mrickx, Nostrada, TorInge, pajen, psy, swos, zeth, zyntifox
Styles: dz, IRK, Jokke, Joni, Markku, Nostrada, psy, ramone, swos
Share your thoughts, I hope this issue isn't just "More people play in Finland so some of them must be good."