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Zerius[TPR]
Profile Joined April 2003
Canada1633 Posts
August 21 2003 21:31 GMT
#21
WTF happened to Smuft anyways
where from you, circus?
sword_siege
Profile Joined September 2002
United States624 Posts
August 21 2003 21:48 GMT
#22
Loved it
Payt
Profile Joined June 2003
Canada582 Posts
August 21 2003 21:57 GMT
#23
Good interview
Mora
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada5235 Posts
August 21 2003 22:32 GMT
#24
Mynock u are amazing.

Kiko - nice post.
Happiness only real when shared.
palmer
Profile Joined April 2003
Korea (South)16 Posts
August 21 2003 22:38 GMT
#25
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Good Player : Elky, Nazgul and Grrr...
SoleSteeler
Profile Joined April 2003
Canada5446 Posts
August 21 2003 23:06 GMT
#26
Good post Kiko, War3 ain't all that bad. I personally think it's more fun for the casual gamer (me).
mensrea
Profile Joined September 2002
Canada5062 Posts
August 21 2003 23:13 GMT
#27
On August 22 2003 06:03 4KKiko wrote:
Really nice intreview I must admit, I'd just like to point out that warcraft isn't game of luck as Elky claimed in his interview, at least it hasn't shown that way in Europe. In Europe all the major Warcraft tourneys had gone pretty much as expected, a couple of surprises had occured but players final ranks weren't that different from the seedings.

CPL Cannes results
#1 Intox
#2 Insomnia
#3 Didi
#4 Soul

Intox came here slightly as a surprise mostly due to dott/aow strategy that was for the first time seen in a big tournament. Most of the players bet that ranks from #2 - #4 would take top 3 spots.

Clikarena results
#1 Didi
#2 Soul
#3 Insomnia
#4/#5 Intox/Anyppi ?

You can see the pattern here. 90% of players claimed DIDI will win it and he did. Other players also ended up as expected. I am not counteing in Anyppi here since korean and europeans community are still quite seperated and its hard to predict how will koreans perform.

After Clikarena lots of things happen, there was a MAJOR patch that quite drastically changed the gameplay and two of the best players (Insomnia and DIDI) lost their internet access for a month. The next big tornament was supposed to be Lan Europa that was cancelled. However there was a qualifiers tourney that was supposed to determine seedings in this changed enviroment. It was won by Heman followed by Fatc, Tod and Madfrog. Those 4 players didnt attend/perform too good in the previous tournaments mostly due to relative inexperience in lan tournements.

The next big tournament was ESWC, DIDI didnt manage to qualify, Soul couldn't attend russian ESWC qualifiers but won PG challenge that took place at same date, Insomnia was not up to date with current strategies and counters (no i-net since clik) witch was the reason he lost against tod.

ESWC Results:
#1 Heman
#2 Madfrog
#3 Fatc
#4 Tod

Most players and general audiance saw them as favourites to win the tourney. Frog won almost all online fun/invite tourneys before ESWC whilst Heman was ranked no.1 on Europe at the time he went to ESWC.

About the pro level of Warcraft3, I don't know what is the current state of the Korea progaming in Warcraft but what I do know that there already is a team of foreigners formed (heman, frog and 2-3 more europeans) that will go to Korea and play there for 6 months with salary while competeing in the team and individual leagues. That is really a lot compared to the amount of foreing brood war players that were in Korea.

Id also like to add here that WCG results might be pretty unexpceted. Since almost everyone good transferred from classic to tft and are practising tft only witch will give chance for some lesser known players to perform well.

I know this is mainly a Broodwar site and brood war users here are tired of Warcraft players trying to explain the game is good but I had the urge to write this down



Excellent post. Thoughtful and persuasive.

You'll be receiving some support soon: my interview with HeMan's coming up...!!!
actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.
Mynock
Profile Joined September 2002
4492 Posts
August 22 2003 00:57 GMT
#28
Ah, great idea to interview an active WC3 player for the BW community Rea - might solve a lot of common misunderstandings among us BW gamers (and breed just as many new ones >_^).

Also, all props to Bertrand, really, for being such a great talk -_-v.

-Mynock
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 22 2003 01:09 GMT
#29
Mynock
Kiko nice post :O
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28694 Posts
August 22 2003 01:10 GMT
#30
4KKiko !

while your post was good, it also included the paragraph "About the pro level of Warcraft3, I don't know what is the current state of the Korea progaming in Warcraft but what I do know that there already is a team of foreigners formed (heman, frog and 2-3 more europeans) that will go to Korea and play there for 6 months with salary while competeing in the team and individual leagues. That is really a lot compared to the amount of foreing brood war players that were in Korea. "

you have to remember that when brood war was a new game, grrr thor maynard and pillars went to korea. and I think everlast was already there at the time.

so both bw and war3 had 4-5 "pro" foreigners.

but much <3 anyway
Moderator
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 22 2003 01:10 GMT
#31
On August 22 2003 07:38 palmer wrote:
http://www.pgr21.com/zboard4/zboard.php?id=humor&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=1717&PHPSESSID=89a9c2457a95e9ea95fb698629db2d4f

oh elky... ¤Ì¤Ì


:D:D:D:D
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
August 22 2003 01:48 GMT
#32
Why is gundam the weirdest korean elky has ever met?
AUSSIESCUM
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Adamthegreat
Profile Joined February 2003
Sweden1179 Posts
August 22 2003 02:06 GMT
#33
This is great stuff!

Now we want grrr...
-_-v
MaZgOt
Profile Joined April 2003
Australia58 Posts
August 22 2003 04:03 GMT
#34
how messed up do u have to be to come up with bamboo terran? btw... gj Mynock.. it's a good thing yur a teamliquid member... Mensrea ... who's Mensrea?
MaZgOt
Profile Joined April 2003
Australia58 Posts
Last Edited: 2003-08-22 04:05:01
August 22 2003 04:04 GMT
#35
ohhhh and smuft
heheheh
i obsed him owning z7 rain with a all out mass ling strat
i swear it's the funniest thing i ever seen.. no gas.. just mass hatch/ling ... hahahahhaaahhahaha

but this was a while back.. i dont know where he is now.. probably channel rekrul liek he always is.. or maybe he got a life?
Muhweli
Profile Joined September 2002
Finland5328 Posts
August 22 2003 04:34 GMT
#36
Yeah, well said about WC3 ^^;
River me timbers.
Grotfang
Profile Joined May 2003
Belgium490 Posts
August 22 2003 05:03 GMT
#37
elky fancies rekrul <3
i'm jalous (how do you spell jalous?)
No plz only LT.. no not TvT.. no.. ok cancel?
ShAsTa
Profile Joined November 2002
Belgium2841 Posts
August 22 2003 05:55 GMT
#38
jealous

anyways gj mynock
keep ownign elky
If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Beyonder
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands15103 Posts
August 22 2003 06:12 GMT
#39
This is really nice, and when I mean really, I mean REALLY.
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sdEATH
Profile Joined January 2003
Bulgaria37 Posts
August 22 2003 06:23 GMT
#40
gogogogogogo Mynock the profesionalist :>
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