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Open letter to Gretorp (also LZgamer)

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BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
April 02 2011 11:21 GMT
#1
SPOILER: MLG day one spoiler. Still a good read!

Dear Gretorp.

Me and my good Terran buddy watch your stream often and it is a continuous source of inspiration; an overflowing oasis in a sea of misery and perceived imbalance and, well, shit. Your builds display such elegance with their lack of gimmicks and subtle timing switches from the perceived norm. Your TvP and TvT builds especially have become part of my standard play and part of my tournament repertoire.

Recently, a major tournament was announced for the Australian Starcraft 2 scene, a barren wasteland for the most part especially without GlaDe, a constant deluge of early game abuse, scrappy mechanics and all over the place builds. Any Australian SC2 event has had, at most, a prize pool of ~500 dollars.

And then the NRG Hardcore Gamer event got announced in my Home city; Sydney. The only place to live in Australia (everywhere else is camping out). The total prize pack of cash and goods was believed to be 20,000. 20 grand! 20 Thousand Dollareedoos! Inconceivable! A kingly sum for any e-sports event and all devoted towards one game, Starcraft 2. Dozens of contenders from across the mighty and spacious outback all flocked towards one locale, all for the joy, dedication, intensity and thrill of E-sports, for Starcraft 2, and for winning a fuckton of money.

And now we segue towards, of all things, Park Sung Joon; ST_July. In an interview after his thrashing of 4 international greats he closed with the statement "my teammate ST_Ace is going to Australia to play in a tournament, I hope he returns with lots of goodies!"

Oh shit.

Oh fucking shit-shit.

Motherfucking KOREAN MEGA GOSU, WINNER OF IEM, OWNER OF WHITE DUDES APLENTY is coming to Australia to wrest away this coveted trophy from the Australians, a land which has produced only one really good, really solid, really worthwhile Starcraft 2 player.

So I went in with a single goal in mind: return home with something shiny! I checked the brackets, no ACE until winners bracket finals. Phew, that's a load off my mind. But first I must destroy my countrymen!

TAnav was the first to fall, 2-0 to solid standard play. imskeptical, my good friend and trusted, wise advisor of all things Terran the second to fall 2-0. aLtPiG, a teammate, fell 2-1. VTAzz, the favoured for our bracket fell 2-0! Then FXOFilthy, the favourite of hist bracket by a longshot, one of strongest Terrans in the land dropped to my might, 2 games to 1.

Which meant only one thing. ST_Ace. The next challenge. He'd dropped only one game, to another teammate, aLtYoonYJ, and the pressure is on. But I felt confident, there was no fear. I'd already achieved my main goal of the event (to win something shiny), why should I feel nervous? Why feel pressured? He is only a man.

But there's another reason why I didn't feel nervous. I had your build. I had your build. I had your build and I knew how to use it, I knew how to destroy this ST_ACE, a mere man.

The map, Xel'naga Caverns. A risky map for rax expansion play, I opted for your mech opening. The first factory went down and I scouted 3 gate expansion. Nothing weird. Perfectly normal. The second factory went down, and then a third. At 9:30, my army of 3 tanks, 8 marines and 12 blue flame hellions crashed into his army. It consisted of 3 stalkers and roughly 20-ish zealot sentries.

Perfect. Perfect! Ace lost everything, every probe, every zealot, every sentry. No amount of forcefields will stop the lances of bluest heat from scouring the filthy protoss from the map.

But that's not the point of this letter. Getting a BO win over a Progamer is nothing to be truly proud of (well, ok, it totally fucking is). I did lose the next 2 rounds and it's down to the losers bracket.

Gretorp, I saw your MLG results today. I saw you go 0-3 in your group. I understand this must be very distressing. So know this Andre Hengshua. Somewhere out there, thousands of miles away, one fellow Terran, one disciple of the Gretorp stream, felt truly inspired by your play. The build you (and LZgamer) had developed and practiced inspired me to win this game. To feel truly confident from the first SCV split to the ST_ACE: GG.

So I want to thank you Gretorp. Thank you for inspiring this:

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to beat this:

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Koreans might own white dudes, but not all the time. Not today. Not Starcraft.

aLt iaguz.

****
ProgamerAustralian alcohol user follow @iaguzSC2
Terrakin
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1440 Posts
April 02 2011 11:47 GMT
#2
gretorp is the man, any replays/vods? sounds like an awesome experience
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Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
April 02 2011 12:04 GMT
#3
I too want a rep of this awesomeness.

And the "everywhere else is camping out" reminds me of sitting in my parents livingroom with my sister (who lived in aus for a couple of years) when we visited for some random holiday. The TV was on in the background and had some show about dangerous snakes or whatever and she casually goes "oh we had loads of those (some random deadly snake) in our backyard in Australia". Her reaction was like when you see an old classmate on TV calm interest on what the person is doing now, in this case the snakes were just hanging out doing whatever snakes do. Ohwell maybe snakes chilling in your garden is true for Sydney as well.

Sorry for going waaay off topic.
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Sfydjklm
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States9218 Posts
April 02 2011 12:06 GMT
#4
so did u win the tourney or the entire tournament?
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Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
April 02 2011 12:21 GMT
#5
On April 02 2011 21:06 Sfydjklm wrote:
so did u win the tourney or the entire tournament?

Tourney's still going.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=199617

It's double elimination and Ace is waiting in the finals for whoever makes it through the lower bracket.
djcube
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States985 Posts
April 02 2011 12:26 GMT
#6
Hah damn that is pretty awesome. Someone should forward this to Gretorp.

GL in the lower brackets and hopefully you can get your rematch in the finals.
chaokel
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia535 Posts
April 02 2011 12:35 GMT
#7
Thanks for sharing, <3 very interesting read.

Also good to see people like Ace who aren't afraid to head overseas to pick up more tournament wins.
desderak
Profile Joined January 2011
United Kingdom206 Posts
April 02 2011 12:46 GMT
#8
great blog, grats on your win and (if you're still in) best of luck in the rest of the tournament! Mad props to Ace for coming to all these foreign tournaments and giving everyone a taste of the Korean level of starcraft, he's becoming somewhat of an icon in that he more than any other Korean is willing to travel all over the place instead of staying in Korea.. hope he gets continued success.
Zergneedsfood
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States10671 Posts
April 02 2011 13:19 GMT
#9
Gretorp is an inspiration. He's one of the few players I still watch when streaming.

Too bad it's SC2 though...><
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BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-02 13:40:54
April 02 2011 13:40 GMT
#10
I got 3rd, which was still good enough for 1k cash and a bunch of expensive Razer swag. Ace vs NgenLight is the finals. Ace gonna smash him I reckon! And he'll win 8k if he does, making this trip rather cost efficient. Probably...
ProgamerAustralian alcohol user follow @iaguzSC2
rolfe
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1266 Posts
April 02 2011 13:40 GMT
#11
that is awesome! good luck in the lower bracket, hope you get to the final and get another game off him!
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Happy Frog
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia490 Posts
April 02 2011 13:53 GMT
#12
Well done mate, great read
Domination
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1177 Posts
April 02 2011 14:14 GMT
#13
On April 02 2011 20:21 iaguz wrote:
OWNER OF WHITE DUDES APLENTY

I motion that this becomes Ace's nickname.
ilbh
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Brazil1606 Posts
April 02 2011 14:21 GMT
#14
nice blog, nice that you did so well! congratz!

20k dollars :O
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Kar98
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia924 Posts
April 02 2011 14:26 GMT
#15
Nice to see someone from Aus taking it to the Koreans (well aside from glade :D)
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
April 02 2011 14:35 GMT
#16
Lol confusing. So you didn't win?
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BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
April 02 2011 14:36 GMT
#17
I won one game. I lost the next two though, and thus the Bo3 series.
ProgamerAustralian alcohol user follow @iaguzSC2
imPERSONater
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1324 Posts
April 02 2011 15:05 GMT
#18
This is awesome! Well done. If for nothing else than pure entertainment, Gretorp is one of the best!
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Dfgj
Profile Joined May 2008
Singapore5922 Posts
April 02 2011 15:17 GMT
#19
On April 02 2011 20:21 iaguz wrote:
The map, Xel'naga Caverns. A risky map for rax expansion play,

After casting your SEASL games, all I had to do was read this to know exactly what was coming. :p

(gjgj taking a game though, I'd love to get a chance to play someone like that)
Crais
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2136 Posts
April 02 2011 15:19 GMT
#20
Gretorp and LZ are such awesome.

Your story is awesome, I would be so stoked if I took 1 game from a pro.
RIP MBC Game Hero
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