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Abbreviated Thoughts
- Watching a three day tournament is like eating a big bag of candy; at some point, you stop enjoying it, but something compells you to finish it.
- Evil Geniuses is referring to their house in Arizona as "The Lair." Even Fantasy of SK Telecom T1 thinks they're trying a little too hard.
- SjoW placed 8th, but if he doesn't improve his macromanagement and clean up his schizophrenic building placement, he will disappear from the scene quickly.
- Watching Idra reminds me of watching Mike Tyson in late 1990's. Even though he's clearly lost a step, he is still very talented, and you can always count on him to put on a show.
- MLG's point system in conjunction with the GSL exchange program has effectually frozen the pool players into their spots. Incredibly, out of Incontrol's last 21 pool play games he has only won a single game. More incredibly, he is guaranteed a pool play spot for Orlando.
- When Nada stomped across the stage, pumped his fist, and said "I am Nada" after steamrolling Puma's natural to win the extended series 4-3, he was telling Puma "I'm a StarCraft Broodwar legend; a bonjwa; arguably the most successful player of all time--you're an Estro B-Teamer."
- Wannabecool is exacly that. He made the championship bracket for the second time in a row, and he had the guts to counter a Puma's1-1-1 (marine, banshee, tank) with his own (collosus, phoenix, zealot).
- Protoss players aren't quite ready to call Liquid's new recruit their Hero. In pool play, he lost to a slumping Trickster, the solid but predictable Select, and doomed himself (because of extended series) by going down to DRG 0-2. Still... we're waiting for his replays to be released.
- Trimaster's nickname should be TM20 because he taught Idra and Jinro how to Rage.
- Demuslim is apparently as good as they say. He beat, Cruncher, Kawaiirice, TLO, Ret, and Trickster on his way to a 14th place finish.
- Finally, on a more general note, Protoss players believe they're the weakest race right now. Infestors, EMPs, and 1-1-1s are all guaranteed to lead to many Protoss players being banned in LR threads.
  
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Where did Fantasy comment on "The Lair" o.O
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On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:
[*] When Nada stomped across the stage, pumped his fist, and said "I am Nada" after steamrolling Puma's natural to win the extended series 4-3, he was telling Puma "I'm a StarCraft Broodwar legend; a bonjwa; arguably the most successful player of all time--you're an Estro B-Teamer."
Best moment for me. ^^
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Trimaster's nickname should be TM20 because he taught Idra and Jinro how to Rage.
Haha, good one.
The abbreviated thoughts are good, but they're also a bit blunt if the subjects themselves were reading it.
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On September 01 2011 01:53 QTIP. wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:
[*] When Nada stomped across the stage, pumped his fist, and said "I am Nada" after steamrolling Puma's natural to win the extended series 4-3, he was telling Puma "I'm a StarCraft Broodwar legend; a bonjwa; arguably the most successful player of all time--you're an Estro B-Teamer."
Best moment for me. ^^
I hope someone has a picture T_T
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What do you mean even Fantasy thinks they are trying too hard?
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Fantasy = Often GGs super late = He's one of the biggest tryhards ever = it was a joke (a funny one imo  )
5/5 I thought it was funny. =)
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Now that was too obvious in retrospect...
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On September 01 2011 02:07 GHOSTCLAW wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2011 01:53 QTIP. wrote:On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:
[*] When Nada stomped across the stage, pumped his fist, and said "I am Nada" after steamrolling Puma's natural to win the extended series 4-3, he was telling Puma "I'm a StarCraft Broodwar legend; a bonjwa; arguably the most successful player of all time--you're an Estro B-Teamer."
Best moment for me. ^^ I hope someone has a picture T_T
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/72Y63.gif)
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I saw IdrA's rage, but can anyone share a video of where Jinro is raging?
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On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:
SjoW placed 8th, but if he doesn't improve his macromanagement and clean up his schizophrenic building placement, he will dissapear from the scene quickly.
That's funny, because this is what I (and I'm sure many others) have been thinking since the beginning of beta. "With such a low apm, no scouting, bad macro, he will get eaten by other players easily when the overall skill gets higher". Yet, he's still one of the top players out there. I honestly have no idea how he does it, is he genius or something?
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On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:- Finally, on a more general note, Protoss players believe they're the weakest race right now. Infestors, EMPs, and 1-1-1s are all guaranteed to lead to many Protoss players being banned in LR threads.
as a zerg player i agree with this.
Actually I think zerg has been the strongest for a while now.
And if it is deciding who is better of terran or protoss right now, considering every match up, I think P is the weakest.
tournament results dont reflect my opinion but tournament results are never evidence of how the balance of a game is.
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LOL. I thought you were referencing Fantasy the vulture terrorist who is an evil genius which lives in a lair of doom or something. But I have to agree with the posters above. The Nada moment gave me the nerdchills hardcore. That guy's just a part of history, like it or not and he won't soon be forgotten.
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On September 01 2011 01:53 QTIP. wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:
[*] When Nada stomped across the stage, pumped his fist, and said "I am Nada" after steamrolling Puma's natural to win the extended series 4-3, he was telling Puma "I'm a StarCraft Broodwar legend; a bonjwa; arguably the most successful player of all time--you're an Estro B-Teamer."
Best moment for me. ^^
This is so awesome.
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On September 01 2011 02:27 QTIP. wrote:Show nested quote +On September 01 2011 02:07 GHOSTCLAW wrote:On September 01 2011 01:53 QTIP. wrote:On September 01 2011 01:51 -_- wrote:
[*] When Nada stomped across the stage, pumped his fist, and said "I am Nada" after steamrolling Puma's natural to win the extended series 4-3, he was telling Puma "I'm a StarCraft Broodwar legend; a bonjwa; arguably the most successful player of all time--you're an Estro B-Teamer."
Best moment for me. ^^ I hope someone has a picture T_T ^^
I WISH I WAS NADA!
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Couldn't have said it better myself, especially about the NaDa part.
5/5
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Nada part was totally awesome!!!!
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[*] MLG's point system in conjunction with the GSL exchange program has effectually frozen the pool players into their spots. Incredibly, out of Incontrol's last 21 pool play games he has only won a single game. More incredibly, he is guaranteed a pool play spot for Orlando.
This is what I was thinking about too, previous points were easier to obtain without the Korean players from GSL participating. But these points are now still worth as much as they were before, while harder to obtain. This is just wrong.
An idea for a solution from me would be; take the list of finishers and pull out the players from the exchange program, award the player ranking points on this list you have left.
So if GSL exchange players would finish first to second but the third place would be taken by a non-exchange player, this third place would receive ranking points for finishing first.
Another idea I would like to share is taking a certain amount of points or percentage from a pool player who did not finish higher as their ranking points place them. (Doing the same here, by withdrawing the exchange players from the final finish.)
While it might have a flaw, this is just a quick thought of solution. I just don't think it's right for players who have to struggle through the open bracket, do well but earn less points as they should get, if you compare their efforts with those of previous players who are now seeded.
And in the end, if the seeded players actually remain the strongest players it will simply result in better games.
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