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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
July 23 2003 16:31 GMT
#41
On July 24 2003 01:22 Breeze wrote:
If Elky really is the best non-korean player now, the only conclusion I can make is non-koreans level of play (except Elky's) must have been going down at an unbelievable pace the last 7 months


Wrong, the korean level of play has been going up at a rather high pace
Second, Grrr and elky is the only two foreigners in korea.
They are the best 2 foreigners in my opinion.
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
[GiTM]-Ace
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4935 Posts
July 23 2003 16:35 GMT
#42
Elky = Very SexY pLAyer;)
I may not be the best player right now but I think I can beat any 'best' players. I'll beat all the best players and become the best player. Watch me. - Jju
Soldier[DM]
Profile Joined May 2003
Portugal90 Posts
July 23 2003 16:48 GMT
#43
OMG elky sucks so much now :X
ilnp= faggot
ilnp
Profile Joined December 2002
Iceland1330 Posts
July 23 2003 17:13 GMT
#44
On July 24 2003 00:40 tenbagger wrote:
hey snakeyez, that's my point exactly!

and naz, I know a win is a win but the game against kingdom was 100% cheese win. It doesn't exactly reflect his tvp gosuness. But it's interesting to see that you think elky's tvp is better than sync. I snuck in Kos there because if you ranked elky's tvp higher than Kos, then I would have known your opinion was biased. But you passed that test. GJ naz!


Before the game Elky put in a request to play as Zerg (he had registered as a T player, not random) and Kingdom said no, so elky was forced to play Terran ;O
Kingdom being afraid of elky's zerg is a victory in and of itself:D
8===D~~
Shockey
Profile Joined January 2003
United States2615 Posts
July 23 2003 17:34 GMT
#45
On July 24 2003 01:08 mindspike wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2003 01:01 Fox wrote:
On July 24 2003 00:40 tenbagger wrote:
hey snakeyez, that's my point exactly!

and naz, I know a win is a win but the game against kingdom was 100% cheese win. It doesn't exactly reflect his tvp gosuness. But it's interesting to see that you think elky's tvp is better than sync. I snuck in Kos there because if you ranked elky's tvp higher than Kos, then I would have known your opinion was biased. But you passed that test. GJ naz!


no offense but where do you draw the line on cheese? I mean gundam "rushes" but I don't think it's cheese.

Fox


cheese = strat highly dependent on random factors

who gives a fuck. if he does a "cheese" strat and you lose to it it's you own fault. if i 4pool you every game in a series of 7 and i still win, i'm the better player. it doesn't matter how you do something as long as you get it done. nazgul "cheesed" jinnam in about starcraft, but he won didnt he? you could say naz sucks and it was luck, but he was on the show the next week wasn't he?
baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10708 Posts
July 23 2003 17:48 GMT
#46
its gay to say that he is good cuz of his record on OGN, as far as i know jju has the higest rank in OGN but just cuz he ahs played only a cople of games, so if i play one TvZ and win it i have 100% of wins but that doesnt make me better than boxer, elky is good but get real, he doesnt have the best tvp in the world.
Im back, in pog form!
Muhweli
Profile Joined September 2002
Finland5328 Posts
July 23 2003 17:57 GMT
#47
On July 23 2003 22:13 ilnp wrote:
elky is good like my ass is hairy



and my ass is fuckin hairy


i doubt it
River me timbers.
MORAGA
Profile Joined May 2003
United States323 Posts
July 23 2003 17:59 GMT
#48
lOl quite a nasty metaphor...but true in a sense.
Moraga, California
x[ReaPeR]x
Profile Joined February 2003
United States3447 Posts
July 23 2003 18:23 GMT
#49
Elky was better then than he is now.

Before he used to be a super-elite TvZ like BoxeR, going 3-1 vs Yellow (I will admit, they were practice games, but they were still incredible performances by both players). Now Junwi owns his like no tommorrow, and he has trouble against Zerg in general

Also, if you look at him in the Team Leagues he loses his games a lot. Recently he lost to a member of Ktec(IS), COME ON (to be fair, IS has been getting a lot of lucky wins lately).

I hate to propose this idea, because I like Elky, but could he be becoming another Mumyung!? He manages to qualify for the Starleagues but he has done bad in them for the last two seasons. It's still way to early to tell definetively whether or not this is true.

Does Elky suck? Hell no, no matter how dissapointing he is on a pro-gaming level he could still kick any of our asses (2-1 vs Froz). But relative to his Korean pro-gaming peers he has been very dissapointing.
ILoveOOv ownZ everyone!!! ~ Lamer List: Mynock, naventus
Shockey
Profile Joined January 2003
United States2615 Posts
July 23 2003 18:24 GMT
#50
On July 24 2003 02:48 baal wrote:
its gay to say that he is good cuz of his record on OGN, as far as i know jju has the higest rank in OGN but just cuz he ahs played only a cople of games, so if i play one TvZ and win it i have 100% of wins but that doesnt make me better than boxer, elky is good but get real, he doesnt have the best tvp in the world.

umm OGN starleague is the best progaming league in the world. he makes it every season, therfore he is not only the #1 non korean, he is also in the top 20 world atleast.
mindspike
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Canada1902 Posts
July 23 2003 18:33 GMT
#51
On July 24 2003 02:34 Shockey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2003 01:08 mindspike wrote:
On July 24 2003 01:01 Fox wrote:
On July 24 2003 00:40 tenbagger wrote:
hey snakeyez, that's my point exactly!

and naz, I know a win is a win but the game against kingdom was 100% cheese win. It doesn't exactly reflect his tvp gosuness. But it's interesting to see that you think elky's tvp is better than sync. I snuck in Kos there because if you ranked elky's tvp higher than Kos, then I would have known your opinion was biased. But you passed that test. GJ naz!


no offense but where do you draw the line on cheese? I mean gundam "rushes" but I don't think it's cheese.

Fox


cheese = strat highly dependent on random factors

who gives a fuck. if he does a "cheese" strat and you lose to it it's you own fault. if i 4pool you every game in a series of 7 and i still win, i'm the better player. it doesn't matter how you do something as long as you get it done. nazgul "cheesed" jinnam in about starcraft, but he won didnt he? you could say naz sucks and it was luck, but he was on the show the next week wasn't he?


if u 4 pool every game then u wont win a 7 game series
u might get 'lucky' once and win 1 or 2 games
thats why its called cheese
zerg/human - vancouver, canada
GundamVX
Profile Joined June 2003
United States1025 Posts
July 23 2003 18:45 GMT
#52
On July 24 2003 01:31 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2003 01:22 Breeze wrote:
If Elky really is the best non-korean player now, the only conclusion I can make is non-koreans level of play (except Elky's) must have been going down at an unbelievable pace the last 7 months


Wrong, the korean level of play has been going up at a rather high pace
Second, Grrr and elky is the only two foreigners in korea.
They are the best 2 foreigners in my opinion.


Wait...I thought Leg was in Korea too...

When did Naz stop playing in Korea? (I guess I haven't been following the BW scene in Korea very closely -_-)
PPV_Jimmy
Profile Joined January 2003
United States641 Posts
July 23 2003 18:55 GMT
#53
How popular is/was Elky? Did he have lots of screaming fans and so forth at his matches? Just wondering overall how he was viewed by the Koreans.
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
July 23 2003 20:02 GMT
#54
Elky is fucking good.

That's all there is to it.
why so 진지해?
Shockey
Profile Joined January 2003
United States2615 Posts
July 23 2003 21:26 GMT
#55
mindspike, theres a difference between luck and you're opponent not being ready. if i 6pool and 2 sunk in ur base zvz, its not luck by me, it's your own fault u couldnt stop it. it's lucky if your opponent misclicks and clicks move instead of attack and runs right into your tanks. its luck if your opponent makes a mistake and his probes get bunched up and your reav kills them in one shot.
tokeweed
Profile Joined May 2003
166 Posts
July 23 2003 21:33 GMT
#56
lol, coming from you, Rek... i'll take your word for it.
pssst...
Legionnaire
Profile Joined January 2003
Australia4514 Posts
July 23 2003 22:08 GMT
#57
Well i am still in korea, technically i was in japan at the time of posting.
My hope is one day stupid people will feel the same pain when they talk, as the pain the rest of us feel when we hear them. Twitter: @Legionnaire_au
Casper...
Profile Joined October 2002
Liberia4948 Posts
July 23 2003 22:17 GMT
#58
elky makes a living playing sc.
JAM THE FUCKER!
Mora
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada5235 Posts
July 23 2003 22:38 GMT
#59
On July 24 2003 03:23 NeX[CHaP]ReaPeR wrote:
Elky was better then than he is now.


No he wasn't. Did he suddenly get stupid? Did he suddenly forget how to do things he's done for years beforehand? no.

Comparatively, he hasn't been increasing in skill at the speed that other progamers are but he hasn't gotten worse. ;(
Happiness only real when shared.
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
July 23 2003 22:56 GMT
#60
why you guys all questioning ekly's skill base on some online tour?
those are not seirous games. Actually almost all of the big names in tlt isn't playing for real, they all holding back for sure.
GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
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