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cheesehuehue
Profile Joined March 2024
Vatican City State90 Posts
August 16 2024 21:35 GMT
#211
I didn't get what you implied.

TMNT
Profile Joined January 2021
3117 Posts
August 16 2024 22:08 GMT
#212
On August 17 2024 05:51 ThunderJunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2024 05:13 cheesehuehue wrote:
People keep talking about zerg being OP against Protoss, when the truth is that the only Zerg that is performing at the top level at all (not only against P) is Soulkey. Hero, Action, Queen and JD have been floating in the 11-20 ranks of eloboard for the most part of the last four months, with the exception of very short peaks at top 3 by Hero, JD and Action. Queen has barely managed to enter the top10, and has often dropped to rank 20-25.

Right now there are five Protoss in the top 10; four Terrans; and only one Zerg (Soulkey), as usual.

Since May 1st, Other than Soulkey, only Hero has a win rate above 50% against the top 4 Protoss, and not even by much.

So this narrative that Zerg is OP against protoss is plain BS skewed by Soulkey's recent performance.

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Edit:

To keep things even, we could compare only the top 4 Zergs vs the top 4 Protoss, in which case 2 out of 4 Zergs would have a win rate above 50%.



Soulkey 71% against Mini. Mini does the worst against him out of all the top 4 Protoss.

That would mean he has the worst approach to beating Soulkey out of those top Protoss. And who has the best? Oh look, it's Bisu.

I'll just smugly stop here.

I mean, it means Mini is a worse PvZ player than Bisu (always has been). In fact, in the past 1-2 years at least, he's been worse at PvZ than Bisu and Snow and probably just on par with Best. His PvZ series in ASLs is another story though.

On the other hand, Bisu, the best PvZ player of all time, and still top 3 PvZ in modern time, maintaining his form should come as no surprise.

Can't base on win rate to say anything about their approach. Take Best for example. He's probably a macro player. Doesn't get better than Bisu?
Alzadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada5009 Posts
August 17 2024 02:31 GMT
#213
Trying to understand the schedule here (Liquipedia not updated yet), is it:
- last day of groups Oct 1
- quarter 1 October 7
- quater 2 October 8
- quarter 3 October 14
- quarter 4 October 15
- semi 1 October 21
- semi 2 October 22
- finals November 2

?
I am the Town Medic.
M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4235 Posts
August 17 2024 07:31 GMT
#214
On August 17 2024 11:31 Alzadar wrote:
Trying to understand the schedule here (Liquipedia not updated yet), is it:
- last day of groups Oct 1
- quarter 1 October 7
- quater 2 October 8
- quarter 3 October 14
- quarter 4 October 15
- semi 1 October 21
- semi 2 October 22
- finals November 2

?

I don't think we are sure about that yet --> https://bj.afreecatv.com/afstar1/post/133445065?page=1

https://bj.afreecatv.com/afstar1 --> ASL/SSL blog
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands1119 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-08-17 08:33:31
August 17 2024 08:33 GMT
#215
Before Soma left he was the best ZvP zerg. it is quite noticable in the zerg scores that he is gone. he spend 3 years straight in the top 10, most of which in top 5, on elo rankings. Zerg lost its 2nd best player.
JDON MY SOUL!
RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands1119 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-08-17 12:27:20
August 17 2024 11:35 GMT
#216
Also important to note for the online scores from ELOBOARD.
The chinese community has been organizing their own version of ultimate battle plus sponsor matches with exclusively korean top players. These matches only get added/recorded on ELOBOARD about half the time. Soulkey's record is way better than what ELOBOARD shows. When he plays in the chinese ultimate battle he absolutely destroys everyone. He has lost like 3 out of 20(idk the exact number but he's been on quite often) chinese ultimate battles he's played. Light and snow have also been dominating, but not quite as dominant. Now I don't know why these chinese sponsored events don't get added half the time, because the rankings and the elos would be different. They organize these daily, sometimes twice or three times on a single day.
JDON MY SOUL!
TMNT
Profile Joined January 2021
3117 Posts
August 17 2024 12:27 GMT
#217
On August 17 2024 20:35 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:
Also important to note for the online scores from ELOBOARD.
The chinese community has been organizing their own version of ultimate battle plus sponsor matches with exclusively korean top players. These matches only get added/recorded on ELOBOARD about half the time. Soulkey's record is way better than what ELOBOARD shows. When he plays in the chinese ultimate battle he absolutely destroys everyone. He has lost like 3 out of 20 chinese ultimate battles he's played. Light and snow have also been dominating, but not quite as dominant. Now I don't know why these chinese sponsored events don't get added half the time, because the rankings and the elos would be different. They organize these daily, sometimes twice or three times on a single day.

Yeah that's what I've noticed recently. Maybe not half the time but definitely some games are missing. Weird that sometimes you even have 7 games of the 9 recorded but the remaining 2 nowhere to be seen (maybe the person who recorded it went to bed early lol).

I know this has been always the case for eloboard, as each game has to be manually recorded by users like us so there were missing games before. Maybe now the number of games has become too big due to the Chinese UB, so it's even more difficult for them to keep track of. In addition there were some UBs where one of the two players didn't even stream lol.

At least the record for proleagues remains good though.
RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands1119 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-08-17 15:05:57
August 17 2024 15:03 GMT
#218
On August 17 2024 21:27 TMNT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2024 20:35 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:
Also important to note for the online scores from ELOBOARD.
The chinese community has been organizing their own version of ultimate battle plus sponsor matches with exclusively korean top players. These matches only get added/recorded on ELOBOARD about half the time. Soulkey's record is way better than what ELOBOARD shows. When he plays in the chinese ultimate battle he absolutely destroys everyone. He has lost like 3 out of 20 chinese ultimate battles he's played. Light and snow have also been dominating, but not quite as dominant. Now I don't know why these chinese sponsored events don't get added half the time, because the rankings and the elos would be different. They organize these daily, sometimes twice or three times on a single day.

Yeah that's what I've noticed recently. Maybe not half the time but definitely some games are missing. Weird that sometimes you even have 7 games of the 9 recorded but the remaining 2 nowhere to be seen (maybe the person who recorded it went to bed early lol).

I know this has been always the case for eloboard, as each game has to be manually recorded by users like us so there were missing games before. Maybe now the number of games has become too big due to the Chinese UB, so it's even more difficult for them to keep track of. In addition there were some UBs where one of the two players didn't even stream lol.

At least the record for proleagues remains good though.


They switched some of the ultimimate battles to best of 7s, hence why sometimes its less games. they also do bo5s now. for the first few months it was exclusively 9 games. These chinese sponsored matches have convinced me Soulkey is in maybe an unbeatable final form. It will take Snow or Light at their utmost best to take him down. I give everyone else low odds.... except maybe JyJ cuz he a stone cold killer on stage.
JDON MY SOUL!
TMNT
Profile Joined January 2021
3117 Posts
August 17 2024 15:14 GMT
#219
As I just said, there was a Bo7 between Mini and JD and JD was playing offstream.

Btw, if any mod reads this, can we have StarCastTV stream in the side bar as well. They are hosting so many events these days including the Chinese spons and SCSL:
https://bj.afreecatv.com/cruiser0929
Alzadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada5009 Posts
August 17 2024 15:23 GMT
#220
On August 17 2024 16:31 M3t4PhYzX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2024 11:31 Alzadar wrote:
Trying to understand the schedule here (Liquipedia not updated yet), is it:
- last day of groups Oct 1
- quarter 1 October 7
- quater 2 October 8
- quarter 3 October 14
- quarter 4 October 15
- semi 1 October 21
- semi 2 October 22
- finals November 2

?

I don't think we are sure about that yet --> https://bj.afreecatv.com/afstar1/post/133445065?page=1

https://bj.afreecatv.com/afstar1 --> ASL/SSL blog


I'm looking here: https://esports.afreecatv.com/schedule/STARLEAGUE/2024-11-01/list

https://esports.afreecatv.com/schedule/STARLEAGUE/2024-12-01/list

The site is kinda buggy and you have to click the month ahead to get the one you want, for November need to modify URL to pick December.
I am the Town Medic.
M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4235 Posts
August 17 2024 18:49 GMT
#221
On August 18 2024 00:23 Alzadar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2024 16:31 M3t4PhYzX wrote:
On August 17 2024 11:31 Alzadar wrote:
Trying to understand the schedule here (Liquipedia not updated yet), is it:
- last day of groups Oct 1
- quarter 1 October 7
- quater 2 October 8
- quarter 3 October 14
- quarter 4 October 15
- semi 1 October 21
- semi 2 October 22
- finals November 2

?

I don't think we are sure about that yet --> https://bj.afreecatv.com/afstar1/post/133445065?page=1

https://bj.afreecatv.com/afstar1 --> ASL/SSL blog


I'm looking here: https://esports.afreecatv.com/schedule/STARLEAGUE/2024-11-01/list

https://esports.afreecatv.com/schedule/STARLEAGUE/2024-12-01/list

The site is kinda buggy and you have to click the month ahead to get the one you want, for November need to modify URL to pick December.

Now that's a great resource. I'm learning a lot from this thread, thanks guys

Seems to me, like You were correct about the dates in your previous post then, yes.
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Lazyer
Profile Joined August 2011
United States365 Posts
August 20 2024 22:29 GMT
#222
Are we getting a liquibet for SSL?
ThunderJunk
Profile Joined December 2015
United States725 Posts
August 21 2024 22:14 GMT
#223
On August 21 2024 07:29 Lazyer wrote:
Are we getting a liquibet for SSL?


Is there a thread or resource that explains how to do liquibetting?
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11591 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-08-21 22:52:05
August 21 2024 22:51 GMT
#224
go to https://tl.net/liquibet/

Choose the player you think will win. If you are right, you get a point.Finals, Semi Finals, Quarter Finals usually are worth more points.
Then the TL member with the most points in the end of the season wins.
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RogerChillingworth
Profile Joined March 2010
Chad3116 Posts
August 22 2024 03:16 GMT
#225
On August 22 2024 07:14 ThunderJunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2024 07:29 Lazyer wrote:
Are we getting a liquibet for SSL?


Is there a thread or resource that explains how to do liquibetting?


WHAT
RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia13304 Posts
August 22 2024 06:40 GMT
#226
On August 17 2024 02:38 FlaShFTW wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 16 2024 23:38 TMNT wrote:
The idea of giving underdogs a better chance to qualify for Ro16 by having only Bo1 in Ro24 is just stupid. You are only deserving of a place in Ro16 if you can show you're good enough, not by fluking a win or cheesing. It's pointless to have those players in Ro16 just for "diversity", only for them to be picked first in group nomination (hah) and blasted by better players once Bo3 is used.

And from the other side of the argument, where someone would say "if you are the better player you should beat the weaker one in a single game" to justify the use Bo1, well BW doesn't exactly work that way. And if that were the case then we might as well have Bo1 in finals as well.


I understand the mentality behind this, but then the argument would be that every serious should just be like a bo5 then to make sure only the best players advance. Cheese is still part of the game and while it is higher variance with Bo1, better players should be prepping for cheeses too.

I’d go the other way and argue the ro24 should mirror the ro16 format with bo3 added after the first two games.

Bo1 format encourages a lot of all ins which (generally, there are exceptions) are pretty crappy quality games. Series should be geared to rewarding skills rather than luck.
"Terrans are pretty much space-Australians" - H
prion_
Profile Joined September 2022
79 Posts
August 22 2024 12:42 GMT
#227
I understand why people want Ro24 with Bo3 in the decider matches, but it would add a ton of games. Changing Ro8 from Bo5 to Bo7 adds 4-8 games to the season, whereas changing to Ro24 to the Ro16 format adds 18-36 games. In addition to having upsets in the Ro24, SOOP probably just doesn't want to stretch out the season that much.
nyoken
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
United States102 Posts
August 26 2024 01:15 GMT
#228
This will be the new StarcastTV stream link

https://www.sooplive.com/sctvenglish
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50631 Posts
August 26 2024 02:34 GMT
#229
On August 26 2024 10:15 nyoken wrote:
This will be the new StarcastTV stream link

https://www.sooplive.com/sctvenglish


Ah thanks will link it when the live thread goes up
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M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4235 Posts
August 26 2024 07:20 GMT
#230
On August 22 2024 21:42 prion_ wrote:
I understand why people want Ro24 with Bo3 in the decider matches, but it would add a ton of games. Changing Ro8 from Bo5 to Bo7 adds 4-8 games to the season, whereas changing to Ro24 to the Ro16 format adds 18-36 games. In addition to having upsets in the Ro24, SOOP probably just doesn't want to stretch out the season that much.

It wouldn't stretch the lenght of the tournament for even one day though. Upsets also lower the viewer base, since less popular players advance instead of the more popular ones. It just doesn't make any sense, is just used for arbitrary "tradition" reasons and majorly detracts from the overall quality and enjoyment of the tournament.

imo
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