When Snipe had his streams set up in Korea, the stream quality was a lot higher, and there were many Chinese viewers tuning in nightly, especially when popular BJs were playing.
Since Snipe moved away, s_k_911 (I think) set up his own re-streams with Chinese streaming services targeting only the Chinese viewers, which I can only imagine works better than Twitch. There is also a relatively new Chinese commentator living in Korea, and he's streaming most of the major events with live commentary, and he's gaining a lot of grounds very quickly.
I would say BW's popularity has probably gone up slightly in China even in the last year, it's just that the foreign community here at TL is not cognizant of such changes.
Because of lag issues (streams and VODs), it's difficult to provide Chinese BW coverage here on TL in any meaningful way.
On June 30 2014 10:13 EndingLife wrote: It's also sad when 100 people tune in to watch sea[sr] vs some random zerg player, and only 50 are watching Bisu.
I only really got into the proscene in late 2004 during the Ever osl so I may be wrong with this but from the beginning of bw it always seemed that the top terrans had problems with the top protosses. Nada and Oov were the first terrans who seemed to be able to take series off the top protosses consistently. Of the two though I always felt like Nada especially his tvp was like July in the sense while he had the best tvp in his time, he wasn't really a player that other terrans could watch and learn how to play against protoss. He would play safe and take games just off sheer mechanics alone. Oov was different in that he showed terrans how to play against protoss and laid the foundations that all top tvpers after worked from. Some examples are fast thirds and upgrades. I would say that Boxer not Nada is a close second. Though he did struggle against protoss, he influenced a lot on how the matchup was and is still played now. One example was his usage of 2 base timing pushes. Of course if I had to say present influence its definitely Flash with his fast 2-1 upgrade build.
On July 01 2014 03:28 Ilikestarcraft wrote: I only really got into the proscene in late 2004 during the Ever osl so I may be wrong with this but from the beginning of bw it always seemed that the top terrans had problems with the top protosses. Nada and Oov were the first terrans who seemed to be able to take series off the top protosses consistently. Of the two though I always felt like Nada especially his tvp was like July in the sense while he had the best tvp in his time, he wasn't really a player that other terrans could watch and learn how to play against protoss. He would play safe and take games just off sheer mechanics alone. Oov was different in that he showed terrans how to play against protoss and laid the foundations that all top tvpers after worked from. Some examples are fast thirds and upgrades. I would say that Boxer not Nada is a close second. Though he did struggle against protoss, he influenced a lot on how the matchup was and is still played now. One example was his usage of 2 base timing pushes. Of course if I had to say present influence its definitely Flash with his fast 2-1 upgrade build.
I'm a sucker for FD so Midas is second behind oov for me
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