Taiwanese Idol, Linda Liao, Wins SC2 Battle
Linda "Pikachu" Liao places 1st in Electronic Sports League Female SCII Cup, and looks darn good while doing it
This isn't exactly the person you would expect to be a Rank #1 Diamond Player in Asia, but Linda Liao, aka "Pikachu", has dominated gamers worldwide. This woman does it all, modeling, acting, singing, and pwning noobs. What more can us guys ask for?
This Sunday concluded ESL's second female starcraft II tournament, crowning Liao champion. Among the competitors were 31 skilled girls from all over the world. Because of the success and response from the community, ESL is having another tournament which is expected to be even bigger and more competitive than the first two. Liao also promised ESL that she would come back and play in their cup again so she might be participating in the third tournament as well.
Check out the video below: (Head over to ESL for the translation)



she doesn't have to speak english, cause I know chinese
Yea, she speaks English. She went to college in UK
You mean Mandarin? Chinese is a writing system.
Um, Mandarin and Cantonese are written and verbal languages;
Chinese is a race/ethnicity.
Chinese is a race/ethnicity.
I'm not sure are aware, but they are the same exact written language, it's only the verbal component that is different.
I've been told by a Chinese friend, that Mandarin and Cantonese are refered to as dialects, not languages.
Are you sure? I was under the impression Mandarin was a dialect of Cantonese and some parts were different. Regardless, "Chinese" is not a language and that was the point of my post.
After reading up on it a little on Wikipedia, which could lower it's validity a little, it seems they refer to both as a language and a dialect. They are mostly the same written language, but there apparently are some differences.
Guess we both got it partly wrong
even mandarin was once a dialect until mao standardized chinese after the civil war.
so this linda became the "taiwan goddess" of gaming? shouldn't korea have an equivalent. BoxeR's girlfriend perhaps?
Chinese is a language. Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese. The written words are all the same. It's just the way that it's spoken that's different.
Source: I'm Chinese and speak Cantonese.