On October 22 2016 23:04 Tanzklaue wrote:
i don't think comments like "they seem to not play seriously really" are of much value. maybe the zergs aren't playing seriously either, who knows?
it is right that historically speaking terran is the msot domiannt race, but it also is the race with the msot pro players and zerg historically isn't too far off. if anything, protoss is the race most struggling, as they had the least success in almost every single relevant big league from what i have gathered.
what the stats are saying is that flash is way better at tvz than any other terran to the point where no zerg is even close to threatening him in the amtch up currently. we also see that any terran that isn't among the absolute top is struggling somewhat in the match up. so i'd actually argue that the match up is pretty balanced except at the level of basically flawless play, where we see that terran/flash dominates.
EDIT: also whenever i turn into flash's stream, he jsut offraces or palys FFA or does random vs random on BGH, so he doesn't paly serious msot of the time either. what does this say about the other terrans then if they can't keep p with flash who is jsut enjoying himself?
i don't think comments like "they seem to not play seriously really" are of much value. maybe the zergs aren't playing seriously either, who knows?
it is right that historically speaking terran is the msot domiannt race, but it also is the race with the msot pro players and zerg historically isn't too far off. if anything, protoss is the race most struggling, as they had the least success in almost every single relevant big league from what i have gathered.
what the stats are saying is that flash is way better at tvz than any other terran to the point where no zerg is even close to threatening him in the amtch up currently. we also see that any terran that isn't among the absolute top is struggling somewhat in the match up. so i'd actually argue that the match up is pretty balanced except at the level of basically flawless play, where we see that terran/flash dominates.
EDIT: also whenever i turn into flash's stream, he jsut offraces or palys FFA or does random vs random on BGH, so he doesn't paly serious msot of the time either. what does this say about the other terrans then if they can't keep p with flash who is jsut enjoying himself?
yeah, the argument "they don't play seriously" might be flawed.
But still the most number of dominating players for the longest period of time was Terrans. I didn't know that Terran is the race with most pro players. If true, this simply means that playing terran gives you the best chances to succeed when attempting to become a pro in Korea. That argument alone is pretty much sufficient to describe the terran race, at least marginally, as the best one for high level 1v1 BW.
You are also correct to notice that these numbers show, to quote myself once again from this thread, "that the top terran can do the 14-0 challenge for real (and for giggles) vs any of the top4 zergs and expect to win a good amount of the time lol." Do you understand that hero, ZerO and EffOrt are some of the strongest zergs to ever play the game and not being able to take a single game off whoever is NOT normal? Does this sound normal to you? In the face of FlaSh offracing and playing BGH all the time? In the face of the fact that EffOrt's only win in this sample is described as "The game effort won was epic. One of the best game of 2016. Might be the best game.".