Interview with ElkY - Page 2
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Zerius[TPR]
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Mora
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Kiko - nice post. | ||
palmer
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SoleSteeler
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mensrea
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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...!!! | ||
Mynock
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Also, all props to Bertrand, really, for being such a great talk -_-v. -Mynock | ||
Liquid`Jinro
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Kiko nice post :O | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28466 Posts
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 | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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 | ||
SoMuchBetter
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Adamthegreat
Sweden1179 Posts
Now we want grrr... | ||
MaZgOt
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MaZgOt
Australia58 Posts
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
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Grotfang
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i'm jalous (how do you spell jalous?) | ||
ShAsTa
Belgium2841 Posts
anyways gj mynock keep ownign elky | ||
Beyonder
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sdEATH
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