LP: Random Trivia Entry

GeckoVOD

Germany814 Posts

February 19 2013 19:20 GMT

onwards, ~~slaves~~ ~~minions~~ editors!

In September 2011 I started to edit Liquipedia, right now I'm somewhere over 300 created articles (approaching 400, I THINK) and I don't see it ending anytime soon. It's not about braging, I just wanted to share some trivia stuff I couldn't add somewhere, phrasings I, personally, found to be funny, but wouldn't fit into Liquileaks at all. Also, writing about coin conspiracies gets tiring and isn't new anymore. I hope that you already understood that editing for coins is bullshit. But that's an entirely different story. Let's start!

Pylon Prison

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Russian LAN Pictures

Thanks to gorgeous reps)Ayumi we now have a source of really, really good pictures of LANs. It's quite sad that I can't upload them all, they're really worth it. Most of them also made it to defiler.ru's meme collection. Also, the other Russian LAN Pics / GIFs really are genius.

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Ayumi vs. Must

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TryToFastTer

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Tama

no idea who this is, but he's happy

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the best Protoss players in the past two years in the Russian LAN events

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all of them

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The ladykiller

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:izzy:

for some reason he appears to be high on all pictures

Largo vs. Mong

Shortly after I added Largo's "duck incident":

In 2010 Largo wrote a forum topic about him being attacked by a duck while jogging.[4] Afterwards he was nagged for this incident multiple times by users doing montages of his photos and ducks.[5]

I went to snipealot's stream, only to see this:

Largo answered with

after I sent him the pic of mong. Now I'm kind of scared.

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but he won't get me

User Space

omg please read User:Ninazerg

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also, User:Fusefuse isn't bad either

Random

Other completely random stuff I can't source, because I'm too lazy (well it's written somewhere, who cares, pfff):

The German WCGs had a lot of non-money prizes. Consequently Mondragon won a shitload of Samsung TVs, which he apparently never sold but put up in his house. If you can believe IRC Quotes, he had one per room.
FiSheYe named Draco as "biggest Talent" in several (German) interviews in 2004 as Protoss to dominate the scene. Turns out he was right
In one of the PGLs (? one of the Chinese Events, hidden somewhere in the forum discussions) apparently the players made some agreement, which forced the loser of a game to do push ups. SEn (iirc) doubled the bets, which wasn't ending too well for him on one of the play days
The two famous oldschool players KoRn (whom you might know from Pokerstrategy) and Kosh once faced each other in a ladder, both playing with smurfs. By coincidence KoRn could convict Kosh, his clan mate, of using map hacks
Anybody remembers Octoshape? A completely bullshit plug-in you had to download in order to watch broadcasts by ESL and various other tournaments that NEVER worked. Read up tour threads and you find dozens of people shit storming about it.
WCG used to give out yellow cards for several incidents. In WCG 2006 the Russian legend Androide was getting a yellow card for going to the bathroom in between two matches without informing the referees.
Speaking about ESL Casts: FlyingDJ and Stoned, the two German casters, were often critized for handling the in-game camera very badly during their show. After the WCG in Cologne FlyingDJ announced that he took lessons from the OSL Casters and their commentators. The complaints stopped completely, although FlyingDJ never even spoke to one of the Koreans.
In the ESL Major Series III Finale Mondragon played White-Ra. The Protoss just got his diploma and hence wasn't in a good shape, due to him going out shortly before and after the games. Mondragon still got in some problems in the last set of the finals.
The first two players to actually win a prize by playing SCII were the Germans noob)hot( and NarutO; they won a sword in the Blizzcon in Paris. (that's a bold statement, but I'm fairly sure, as Vollnarr was so smug about it)
The German caster Grummel often forgot to turn out his mobile phone during his casts for GameSports. One time his grandmother called and he paused the game (he was obsing) for about five minutes, before telling her that he was casting for more than a thousand persons.
Budi from GigaTV (ESL TVs predecessor) moderates now shows at MTV Germany (Game One) and promotes clans.de
The German Protoss Selector was able to get caught hacking in every single year he was active, but still had a lot of people defending him
WCG was infamous for bad maps. In 2003 the map pool was changed more than once and the final event featured a compeltely different set of maps than those that were used in some of the national qualifiers. Paranoid Android featured two main bases with badly placed minerals, which resulted in the top position being mined out faster than the bottom one, thus making even Mirror matches slightly imbalanced.
FiSheYe claimed in interviews that he lost his game on Korhal against ogogo in WCG 2003, because the commentators could still be heard in the player box.
It is possible to infest a command center with the hallucination of a queen.
During WCG 2007 some of the Chinese players (mostly non BW team) harassed a Taiwanese player, since he was waving the Taiwanese flag instead of the Chinese
The German player Inuh was featured on a Day[9] daily for SCII. Only a few months earlier he participated in the German beginner's community and server, only being a D/D+ player. (no SCII vs. BW discussions, I just was surprised by his dedication and how quickly he improved)
Before a Giga Grandslam (bigger German tournaments) were hosted, the community was able to vote for game titles. The game with the most votes would get a spot in the Grandslam series, including a big prize pool. The German BW Community often 'rigged' these polls, by asking out Teamliquid and GosuGamers to help.
Ultralisks should originally have a battle cry, that would stun opponent's units
Stork's Interview for WCG 2007 after the group stage was apparently censored. In his statement he told the press, that he indeed (like most Koreans) lost a few games on purpose, so that he wouldn't have to face another player from his country in the later stages of the elimination tournament too soon. He apparently wasn't sure if he would successfully lose against White-ra, due to the Ukrainian being too nervous
Even though GosuGamers tells us that Ret won a DBBW the info is wrong. Ret lost by walk over, since he overslept and was going to town before the finals. The winner was GoOdy, the misinformation probably comes from the fact that the Dutch basically destroyed everyone and only dropped a single game to the German Delphi until he reached the overall finals.
When Suncow was asked how he'd judge his opponents in the upcoming Courage Tournament, he'd mentioned Flash as a player he would have problems with, but could win against
Fantasy played for Teamliquid in the Sandlot tournament. He wasn't a professional at that time, but transfered soon after the event to Telecom. In_Dove and Temptest also played in the Blizzard tour, but for different teams.
Draco lost against ZerO in one of the OSL or MSL qualifiers in 2007
In his famous game against Reach Mondragon had to play on a bugged map. The upgrade for the Reaver damage upgrade could be researched three times.
The games of Mondragon and Testie against Reach and Nal_rA caused a lot of discussions before the Blizzcon. All hopes were disappointed when the Dreamer killed both in five minute games, using a very aggressive cheese on these maps.

A few unrelated pictures I couldn't find the copy right owner of / which don't fit anywhere to close it
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kollin

United Kingdom8380 Posts

February 19 2013 19:23 GMT

Well I can safely say there are some facts there I was not aware of! 5/5!

YourGoodFriend

United States2197 Posts

February 19 2013 19:27 GMT

I really enjoy random stuff (the duck thing is pretty great) and Liquipedia seems to have a lot of gems hidden in different places.

PolskaGora

United States547 Posts

February 19 2013 19:33 GMT

Hahahahaaha Ninazerg

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

February 19 2013 19:49 GMT

I upgoated this thread. 5/5

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

February 19 2013 20:00 GMT

It is possible to infest a command center with the hallucination of a queen.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

In his famous game against Reach Mondragon had to play on a bugged map. The upgrade for the Reaver damage upgrade could be researched three times.

Did it actually end up being upgraded more than once?

fusefuse

Estonia4644 Posts

February 19 2013 20:05 GMT

fuck octoshape, srsly.

great blog gecko , lots of stuff i havent read before!

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9179 Posts

February 19 2013 23:03 GMT

When Suncow was asked how he'd judge his opponents in the upcoming Courage Tournament, he'd mentioned Flash as a player he would have problems with, but could win against

LOL