There is a legend that tells of a man named Kim Carrier. They say that his predictions are like anti-matter. The opposite of what he thinks will happen will always occur. That legend is falsehood. The real legend revolves around your grumpy uncle Chef. You see, ever since I was a little boy, any sports star I grew attached to would inevitably crash and burn. Savior, Flash, Jaedong and Bisu have all fallen to the Chef curse. In JvF finals my favouritism has swayed like the wind, alternating each match, and always victimizing the loser. When I begun liking Bisu, his slump grew steeper. When I forgot about him, he showed some promise of climbing back. Then I liked him again, and he fell back into obscurity. Now I am jealous of him because a girl says how handsome he is, and he is doing extremely well. The Chef curse is infallible. Kim Carrier is a front. A facade. He is not the real curse. I stuck with Savior till the bitter end and that is why his career turned into such ashes and shame. I haven't liked another player passionately enough, long enough, for that to happen again.
This weekend Zero and Flash are playing, so you must be wondering to yourself: who is cursed this finals? Maybe you see similarities between this finals and Bisu vs Savior finals. The bonjwa vs a mortal. Yet there is doubt. Flash's injured wrist makes him seem more palpable. My long time following of Zero and adoration of his play also affects me. I like Flash a lot, but do I like him more? Who is cursed? Who? The man who is cursed this final is in the spoiler below. I've spoilered it for several reasons. I want the final to be worth watching for you. I don't want you to know who wins (or is that loses?). For those of you who are willing to have the finals spoiled, click the spoiler below.
Unlikely. Flash lost to Effort because of me, which proves the power of the curse. Movie lost to Flash when I wanted movie to win. No matter what, I always cheer for the player who ends up losing, at least in finals.
On June 10 2011 07:09 masterbreti wrote: I can now safely place my liquidbet. Thank you!
In all these years, I've never bothered with that lol.. (check my stats) So I'm going to vote on my first bet. The bet is not so much on a player, but on that the curse ends here. *pushes that little link called liquibets.
Chef, I want you to pretend that Shuttle banged your mom and stole your girlfriend.
I want you to pretend he was everything that you could never be. I want you to hate him so bad that he comments on some negative energy coming from Canada towards him.
On June 10 2011 07:09 Chef wrote: Unlikely. Flash lost to Effort because of me, which proves the power of the curse. Movie lost to Flash when I wanted movie to win. No matter what, I always cheer for the player who ends up losing, at least in finals.
On June 10 2011 07:09 Chef wrote: Unlikely. Flash lost to Effort because of me, which proves the power of the curse. Movie lost to Flash when I wanted movie to win. No matter what, I always cheer for the player who ends up losing, at least in finals.
And it really should've been 3-1 not 3-2 if they didn't rob Effort of game 1 with that horrible disc.
here is how we settle this. You both put down your predictions in this blog, and the person who is closest gets to make the loser do something humiliating. They not only do you get the satisfaction of being the curse bringer / breaker, you also get to make Chef/Hot_bid do something embarrassing.
If I bet on my curse to work, then I might end up cheering for the player who I didn't originally want to win (so I can win the bet), creating a paradox and making your conditions ineffective.
On June 10 2011 10:42 Chef wrote: If I bet on my curse to work, then I might end up cheering for the player who I didn't originally want to win (so I can win the bet), creating a paradox and making your conditions ineffective.
Before I could grow too old for games I fell in love with professional StarCraft. It has been a rock for me and something that has kept my attention through its entire existence. I lead an unhappy, anxious life, but whenever I watched BW I could leave those feelings behind and marvel at the dedication and genius of the greatest minds StarCraft ever found. There have been so many times when I was utterly frustrated with TL only to find myself months gone by without posting a word suddenly watching a game of BW I was so excited about I just couldn't resist using the only outlet a BW foreign writer has. That's how powerful the emotions this game brings out in me are. I cannot help but express my love for this game. It is one of three long lasting passions I've held in my heart. It sounds corny and there's a lot of people rolling their eyes, but you do not know how much the pro scene meant to me. From the fortune of someone outside my immediate family, I was able to see countless NHL games which never captured my spirit, which I always felt the pressure of pretending to be interested in for the sake of politeness. So much of my life is just pretending to be interested, smiling and nodding to build contacts and try to find some miserable foothold where I can earn my keep. But BW I am and have always been genuinely excited about, genuinely engrossed in, genuinely moved by. It's no fake smile or forced sadness. One of three things that can make me feel this way, and in two days it will be gone.
I like playing BW and I like watching a good replay, but if I'm completely honest the thing I was really in love with was the proscene. I know it's self-obsessed to talk like this (not really the first time I have on TL), but I wanted to write out my feelings on this. It seems like I would regret not saying anything in the rapidly escaping time before the final.
EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/68XdW.jpg)
*pushes that little link called liquibets.
