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[News] SK Telecom acquires Kwanro - Page 14

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Metalwing
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Turkey1038 Posts
September 14 2010 19:58 GMT
#261
Trade Soulkey as well and have a nice Zerg lineup.
#1 CheckPrime fan // Terrans gonna Terran
tedster
Profile Joined May 2009
984 Posts
September 14 2010 20:05 GMT
#262
People that think Kwanro sucks are missing the part where he wins a lot of games, does well in solo leagues, and is a great change-up to throw at various players. He's an awesome tool to have and something SKT honestly lacks - an early-game specialist.
the last wcs commissioner
amazingoopah
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1925 Posts
September 14 2010 20:21 GMT
#263
You wonder why they bothered to resign Hyuk if they were planning to buy Kwanro.

And this still doesn't make them better than KT, unless Kwanro is going to be their Flash sniper 80
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
September 14 2010 20:45 GMT
#264
SKT is damn deep. just need another decent terran along side Fantasy. (Dont count Boxer or Oov. they dont play for their team -_-)
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
night terrors
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
China1284 Posts
September 14 2010 20:48 GMT
#265
I honestly feel like they should bring up a terran rather than buy one. Hopefully in a way which his playstyle differs from Fantasy.
Through high and low, bisu boy, through high and low.
Taekwon
Profile Joined May 2010
United States8155 Posts
September 14 2010 20:54 GMT
#266
Sorry, I saw the picture, I couldn't help but laugh.
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Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
September 14 2010 21:13 GMT
#267
On September 14 2010 16:33 Womwomwom wrote:
What do they honestly think they're going to get out of Kwanro. I know they don't have good zergs but what makes them think they can revive Kwanro and build him into a good zerg when for the longest time they've been unable to produce a good proleague zerg? The fact that Kwanro is more suited for series play than proleague play makes this even more confusing since it was plainly obvious that he was hardly an asset on Woongjin Stars, a team with a much better zerg lineup.

Win rates are deceiving, Kwanro won a lot of games but a large chunk of these games were won against some of the weakest players in proleague (Hogil, Chavi, SKT zergs, Firefist, Reach, etc).

In this analysis you say that Kwanro is both better suited for series plan than proleague and then in the next breath suggest that his great stats are only because he's beaten some of the easier A-teamers in Proleague. And this without mentioning that everyone who plays and wins regularly in PL gets to play their share of bad players.

Kwanro is no different and suggesting his play is more suited to series play, when he barely ever gets far in leagues, compared to his strong regular performance in PL seems off to me. He's a proven winner, people just dislike his style as being too early game or cheesy, much as people hated on Leta for the same thing.

The guy wins, he's one of the stronger zergs out there, I'd be happy if I was a SKT1 fan.
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 21:27:37
September 14 2010 21:18 GMT
#268
why did SKT let (T)Midas go? were they really that confident in (T)Canata?

i know he wasn't performing well at the time, but it seems he didn't really get much of a chance to. who was supposed to relpace him?
ModeratorFlash Sea Action Snow Midas | TheStC Ret Tyler MC | RIP 우정호
snowdrift
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
France2061 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-14 21:41:31
September 14 2010 21:34 GMT
#269
The people bashing Kwanro forget that he 3-killed SKT during the Winners League, with two kwanroooollls!! against Fantasy and Best, and a standard game vs Canata that I love because his personality really comes through at one point in the game: Canata's mnm/tank/vessel force is moving out and chasing away his lurkers and lings, Kwanro is running them back, then they make the junction with a few reinforcements from his base and he immediately turns them around and attacks head-on. No stalling, no flanking attempt, just an impulsive about-face. Canata's forces get slaughtered. Kwanroooooo
NaDa. Our Lord and sAviOr shall return. Learn to nydus you scrub
TheAngelofDeath
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2033 Posts
September 14 2010 21:38 GMT
#270
Gogo Kwanro. Hope he does well, although I agree they should have gone after a Terran player rather than a Zerg.
"Infestors are the suck" - LzGamer
polgas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1765 Posts
September 14 2010 21:41 GMT
#271
Poor Kwanro, he is now a member of the infamous SKT Zerg. Here's hoping he stays above 50% win rate.

Really though, such a lack of confidence to Hyuk, s2 and SoO by the SKT Manager.
Leee Jaee Doong
QuothTheRaven
Profile Joined December 2008
United States5524 Posts
September 14 2010 21:44 GMT
#272
KWANROLL!!
. . . nevermore
Quasimodo
Profile Joined September 2009
Norway84 Posts
September 14 2010 22:52 GMT
#273
On September 14 2010 21:21 Heimatloser wrote:
first thought:
seriously, skt1 has the most good looking lineup, and kwanro is quasimodo.
)


Those are not mutually exclusive...
1905 no more. Bring back the union!
dani_caliKorea
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
730 Posts
September 14 2010 22:58 GMT
#274
On September 15 2010 06:18 Antoine wrote:
why did SKT let (T)Midas go? were they really that confident in (T)Canata?

i know he wasn't performing well at the time, but it seems he didn't really get much of a chance to. who was supposed to relpace him?


They had (T)Fantasy

Although Midas did go on a tear not too long ago, Canata was doing just as well, if not better last year.
freelander
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Hungary4707 Posts
September 14 2010 23:02 GMT
#275
the premiere all-in zerg player at SKT's service

yeah
And all is illuminated.
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6181 Posts
September 14 2010 23:08 GMT
#276
On September 15 2010 04:37 NuKedUFirst wrote:Kwanro is good but he isn't at the level of SKt1 imo.
SKT knows what they need!
Pafnucy
Profile Joined October 2002
Poland1124 Posts
September 14 2010 23:45 GMT
#277
On September 14 2010 13:53 newvsoldschool wrote:
Guys, remember Gorush, and how he was the best Zerg before T1 took him off CJ (GO back then)?

T1 is a graveyard for talented Zerg players. July and Gorush can attest to that.


Sigamari too.

on topic: like someone said Kwanro is good at getting his job done, but on the other hand hes pretty "unstable" if I can call him like this. Anyways, if SKT had him in lineup before set 6 started in last PL finals, nothing would change.
Member of the "Fuck Yeah, Canata !" committee :-) to join copy/paste this
MountainDewJunkie
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States10344 Posts
September 15 2010 00:20 GMT
#278
On September 14 2010 11:03 dani_caliKorea wrote:
Haha Woongjin should get some decent Terran in return. Zero learned how to ZvZ again and Soulkey is doing great. Kwanro is unneeded.

I tend to agree with this. SoulKey is pretty good and actually wins games that go into the late game. Kwanro was kind of a let down for Stars, other than ZvZ. But to be fair, Free and Zero underperformed in the later rounds as well...
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Zona
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
40426 Posts
September 15 2010 00:34 GMT
#279
SKT kind of needs a terran, too, with Canata not performing and Ssak (Mong) apparently not good enough to be sent out very often.

(And happy b-day to TheAngelofDeath!)
"If you try responding to those absurd posts every day, you become more damaged. So I pay no attention to them at all." Jung Myung Hoon (aka Fantasy), as translated by Kimoleon
Shinshady
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1237 Posts
September 15 2010 00:44 GMT
#280
Uhh can someone fix his page... it says he joined SKT on October 2009 when he joined Woongjin Stars on October 2009, and joined SKT on September 2010
BeSt[WHITE] Have a great retirement | "SKT is best KT." - Vortok | http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7190/ep24hitcombo2small.gif
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