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Meeting Jinro on 2v2 Ladder

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Dittert
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States97 Posts
August 25 2011 00:41 GMT
#1
I know lots of you have probably played Jinro on the ladder. Some of you might even have a winning record against him. If that's the case, however, I highly doubt that you are in the Gold League (though I play like a Diamond player... j/k). Here is my tale of a humble little Gold Leaguer who got the chance to play against Jinro on the ACTUAL (2v2) ladder.

Last Friday night, my brother Mike and I played some games on the 2v2 ladder. Our team is high Diamond, largely because Mike (Masters) carries me (Gold). Most of the time, I just give him control of my units and try to macro as best I can. Normally, I play Terran and Mike plays Random, but I was in a goofy mood and decided to roll Random as well. That's usually a recipe for losing (uh, let's see here... how do you make a Drone again?), but we somehow won our first three games of the evening quite handily.

The loading screen for our fourth game popped up, and we saw our opponents: LiquidJinro and oGs. My first comment to Mike was "what kind of asshole names himself LiquidJinro when he's not actually LiquidJinro?" Obviously, we assumed he was a fake; we are in Diamond, after all. I imagine all the "omg, are you real?" comments get quite tiring when you're a pro, but to be fair, I have played against a reasonable number of Idra, Huk, and NesTea accounts down in the Gold league (I never ask them if they are real, for the record; they are obvious fakes). For whatever reason, some people actually name themselves after progamers.

Mike and I are still joking around about playing "Jinro", so I start the game with some friendly banter. "We are so going to stream snipe you." "Jinro" jokes back that his DT rush won't work now. Lolz all around. Mike and I are both Terran, which is good for me but bad for Mike (he ladders as both P and Z). We're discussing our opening strategy (double 3 rax?) when Mike gets the idea to check TeamLiquid.net. Jinro is streaming... and playing us.

We didn't officially lose the game until around the 8 minute mark, but essentially we lost as soon as we realized we were up against the real LiquidJinro. My brain started racing a mile a minute. "How the hell can we beat Jinro," I kept thinking. I couldn't concentrate, and my hands started doing things on their own (like randomly scanning the back of my own base; I think I meant to drop a Mule). As it turns out, that wasted scan actually cost us the game, as DT's showed up in our base shortly thereafter. We actually had a slight food lead at the time, but with no Turrets or scans the DT's made short work of our army.

We continued bantering for the last minute or so and then gg'd out. In processing the event, I came to the following conclusions:

The Pros Really are THAT Much Better

Obviously, people on Team Liquid are heads and shoulders above my brother and me. I know that in theory. Unlike non-Esports, however, Starcraft doesn't necessarily look difficult. When I watch the Olympics, I see people performing physical feats I would never even think to attempt. When I watch Starcraft, I mostly see two guys sitting at their computers. I sit at my computer all the time, so it's easy to trick myself into thinking I'm not that far away from them in terms of skill.
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I am.

I thought it was hilarious that 1) Jinro told us that DT's were coming; 2) we had the stream open, so we could see; and 3) they still beat the crap out of us. To be fair, we could have saved scans or made a couple Turrets and been just fine (at least for another few minutes). I'm not sure why we didn't (I'll save you the trouble of commenting - b/c we are bad!).

Nerves are Real

Often, I watch TL Attack and laugh at the community participants. "That guy is Masters? He was terrible!! Lolz." Now that I have competed against a member of Team Liquid myself, I have a new found respect for TL Attack competitors. Playing against a famous pro (AND having that match broadcast to thousands on the internet) can really shake you. I suspect that had we not seen the names of our competitors, we would have put up a much better fight (though I also suspect we still would have lost).

Jinro is a Nice Guy

I don't know if Jinro is a nice guy all the time, but he was very polite and friendly during the 9 minutes he spent mopping the floor with us. I've seen some pros get upset when people check their streams, but it didn't seem to bother Jinro at all. It's an occupational hazard, I suppose. He also seemed like he was actually having fun playing Starcraft.

So Jinro, thanks for the game. It was fun. Now I have to get to practicing for the next time I run into a Liquid member on the ladder!

****
edc
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States666 Posts
August 25 2011 00:53 GMT
#2
Let me get this straight.

First of all, you get to play a professional SC2 player.

Second of all, you are 'only' in Gold League.

Third of all, this gamer is a member of Team Liquid.

JEALOUSY.
“There are two kinds of people in this world, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.” - Clint Eastwood
ketomai
Profile Joined June 2007
United States2789 Posts
August 25 2011 00:53 GMT
#3
Yep, all of those are true.

At least for SC2 I also kind of get that feeling that it's POSSIBLE to do what the pros do. In BW though looking at some of the FPviews there were many times I knew it'd be impossible :p. But yea, it's always harder than it looks. In the case of BW it's that way except it even looks hard though.

However you probably were also against MC. If you had known that you'd probably be even more nervous hehe.
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
August 25 2011 00:56 GMT
#4
BW Fpview just seems like a blur of colors, own, and the mouse cursor. It's hard to even imagine replicating it.
tw!tch
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States563 Posts
August 25 2011 01:00 GMT
#5
upload replay!
xHassassin
Profile Joined November 2010
United States270 Posts
August 25 2011 01:03 GMT
#6


I wish I got to play against real pros.

I met this guy named ROOTDestiny on 2v2 ladder, turns out he was playing terran and was shit.
OscarN
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Cape Verde292 Posts
August 25 2011 01:06 GMT
#7
they must of been doing there placement matches eh>?
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
August 25 2011 01:12 GMT
#8
On August 25 2011 10:03 xHassassin wrote:


I wish I got to play against real pros.

I met this guy named ROOTDestiny on 2v2 ladder, turns out he was playing terran and was shit.

Sounds like the real destiny to me then.



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kiddingggg don't burn me destiny fans
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
XazXio
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States356 Posts
August 25 2011 01:18 GMT
#9
Pokebunny will be trolling :p but its really cool that you got to play against a pro even though it was only 2v2
How does food become poo?
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
August 25 2011 01:21 GMT
#10
The pros don't play much 2v2 so their MMRs aren't all that high. Combine that with the fact that not many people play 2v2 overall and it's not uncommon to get paired against pros even if your team isn't that highly rated.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
Dittert
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States97 Posts
August 25 2011 01:25 GMT
#11
On August 25 2011 10:06 OscarN wrote:
they must of been doing there placement matches eh>?


Yeah, as far as I can tell. It looked like it might have even been a new account for him. This was also on NA btw.

On August 25 2011 10:00 tw!tch wrote:
upload replay!


Yikes! My brother and I don't even think it's worth watching, and we're in it!!! We just get rolled.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
August 25 2011 01:28 GMT
#12
I played against KawaiiRice once. He beat me
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
August 25 2011 01:32 GMT
#13
On August 25 2011 10:28 Chairman Ray wrote:
I played against KawaiiRice once. He beat me

=( At least you lost to a boss.
Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
August 25 2011 02:13 GMT
#14
My brother played Idra ZvZ in the TL Open on saturday. Was funny :D We use his build now
I can only play starcraft when I am shit canned. IPXZERG is a god.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-25 02:17:10
August 25 2011 02:16 GMT
#15
I played against Kiwikaki on 1v1 ladder. He 2 gated me =(

And one of my teammates took out BlackCitadel twice, Select once, and RebornSAGA as well all in the course of a day of PvT work.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10193 Posts
August 25 2011 05:37 GMT
#16
Lucky little ARGH... wish i could play a pro, but sadly im a lowly gold... The only one id want to play though would b TLO though as he is mah fav player.
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Kid-Fox
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada400 Posts
August 25 2011 05:59 GMT
#17
On August 25 2011 11:16 EtherealDeath wrote:
I played against Kiwikaki on 1v1 ladder. He 2 gated me =(

And one of my teammates took out BlackCitadel twice, Select once, and RebornSAGA as well all in the course of a day of PvT work.


I played Kiwikaki in my placement match LOL I thought at the time: "diamond league? wowowow I'm good at sc I can beat him in 2 months of practice noprob"

how naive I was.... TT_TT
allowicious
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States972 Posts
August 25 2011 06:30 GMT
#18
Haha, 2's are the best place to run into random pros. I remember running into drewbie a few times back when he 2v2ed a lot, and ran into dayvie (david kim) recently as well.
lalalalala~~~
Skithiryx
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia648 Posts
August 25 2011 06:40 GMT
#19
My friend and I ran into Cella and Destiny 2v2'ing one night, turns out they both 12 drone rushed and we held ^^ GGs
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