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On March 09 2017 22:00 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I think it was me, froz, veg and Raszi, maybe someone else, who smurfed as a korean proteam during the WGTour period where a lot of top koreans actaully did play WGTour. I dunno if me, veg or raszi really tricked anyone, and we picked lesser known names anyway, but Froz pretended to be Nada, and he was like 33-0 with 350 apm in every game, and I remember reading posts from top foreigners at the time thinking he was the real one. I don't even know if it was ever debunked.
This was like 13-14 years ago so I don't remember everything, but from quick googling we must have pretended to be Toona SG. Froz pretended to be Nada and I pretended to be Salmosa, our collective team stats were something like 100-3 (we all stopped playing before reaching higher ranks where it became more difficult).
That was an awesome time to be playing Brood War. The smurfing Korean's called themselves the Korean Dream Team.
Oh the memories... aNc even beat them in a clan war once. More stories please Eri.
http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/news/359-anc-beat-koreadreamteam
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Nada was a beast back in 03!
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So did Testie reach A+ yet or did he quit bw again?
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On March 11 2017 06:29 Ty2 wrote:
He hasn't touched the game since the new season. I guess when his twitch channel got banned things slowed down. The highest he got I think was C- or C.
What happened??
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Norway28705 Posts
One day, he decided that today is a good day to be a racist idiot.
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His ban is expected and justified but don't call anyone a racist just for using the "n-word" even if it's used in an insulting manner. It trivializes real racism that consists of something more than just using COMMON cuss-words at someone that is clearly annoying you.
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Norway28705 Posts
Disagree completely, and I've consistently argued, for some years now, that 'racist' is a term that is thrown around (far) too frequently, and that the term has largely lost its poignancy and usefulness for that reason. But Testie telling a guy to 'stop being such a nigger' because he was listening to rap and speaking ebonics, I have no problems defining that as being racist. Either way, I've had quite lengthy discussions with Testie about this, and he literally argues that black people are more criminal because they have worse genes than white people and asians. He's a self-admitted racist by any definition.
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Valhalla18444 Posts
Testie is a complete dumbass with dumb opinions and unmatched stubbornness
that said I love him dearly. Despite all his foibles, he was a great friend to me for many years
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Valhalla18444 Posts
I actually got Testie a pro tryout once. I sent a bunch of his replays to a coach I was acquainted with. The coach was very concerned about Testie playing multiple races, but he liked what he saw. He said if Testie could play just one race, he'd give him a tryout.
Testie ended up playing 3-4 games PvT vs Silent_Control, which the coach and I obs'd and just talked generally about Testie as a player. I made the best case for him that I could, but he got dusted REALLY bad by Silent_Control. He was very nervous while playing.
But most of all, I'll always remember the day I convinced Testie to shave his soul patch. "I'll do it but if there's a zit under there I'll kill you", he said.
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On April 01 2017 01:35 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
Testie is a complete dumbass with dumb opinions and unmatched stubbornness
that said I love him dearly. Despite all his foibles, he was a great friend to me for many years
Not all the time, but most of the time.
And to address OP, Testie's best race was P, I remember sitting next to him at blizzcon when he beat Nal_Ra in a PvP.
I think i sniped the replays after the games and uploaded them.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/eMjCI0T.jpg)
IIRC tasteless was taking the picture
(how many of you still have some of that clothes you wear?)
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Testie and Mondragon were never on the same level... never ever
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On January 30 2017 20:30 kogeT wrote:
I recently watched some game of Avernum (when he was in ToT) vs Testie TvP and I nearly got cancer from watching it. xD It's funny how these top performers of these days looked like current C- players.
This is one of the silliest claim ever made on SC-BW history. Go back and play Mondragon, Draco, Ret or any of those and then we see who looks like a C- ... these guys were good, they were very good, they were good back in the day, and they would be good now. Most of them might easily get to A nowadays when properly trained ... don't want to be rude, but saying top performers of that days look like C- is total bullshit. Maybe the playstyle was slightly different, this might be ... but that's it.
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They were good, but Broodwar has evolved a lot since back then and that is why they look like current C- players. The game was played differently back then. It's the same in football, any great team from the 70s would probably lose to a current football team just because football evolved so much. They were good back in their time and if they started today, they would be great as well.
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On February 12 2017 12:42 sicklucker wrote:
pvt is the easiast mu no wonder it was best for alot of foriegnners. it was my best and i didnt even play protoss really. as in easiest to master not the easiest matchup
Easiest to master? What? It's basically impossible to master any match up. You can get really really good at it (which no foreigner has ever done by the way...compared to top korean pros) Put any P player against Flash and look how "easy it is to master".
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On April 02 2017 09:00 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:Show nested quote +On February 12 2017 12:42 sicklucker wrote:
pvt is the easiast mu no wonder it was best for alot of foriegnners. it was my best and i didnt even play protoss really. as in easiest to master not the easiest matchup Easiest to master? What? It's basically impossible to master any match up. You can get really really good at it (which no foreigner has ever done by the way...compared to top korean pros) Put any P player against Flash and look how "easy it is to master".
If you define "master" as "dominate Flash" than of course no matchup can be mastered.
It was a hyperbolic statement, but contains some truth. PvT is the easiest matchup, up to a pretty high level of skill. I'd guess up to iCCup B level, maybe even more. That's pretty damn high.
Once you get past a certain point, the matchup gets pretty even. But being B level iCCup makes you a top 1000 player outside of Korea (might also need to exclude China). So I think by some reasonable choice of standard, you could call that "mastery".
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A new season started, and Testie's still playing occasionally. (40 games played).
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On April 02 2017 09:44 darktreb wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2017 09:00 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:On February 12 2017 12:42 sicklucker wrote:
pvt is the easiast mu no wonder it was best for alot of foriegnners. it was my best and i didnt even play protoss really. as in easiest to master not the easiest matchup Easiest to master? What? It's basically impossible to master any match up. You can get really really good at it (which no foreigner has ever done by the way...compared to top korean pros) Put any P player against Flash and look how "easy it is to master". If you define "master" as "dominate Flash" than of course no matchup can be mastered. It was a hyperbolic statement, but contains some truth. PvT is the easiest matchup, up to a pretty high level of skill. I'd guess up to iCCup B level, maybe even more. That's pretty damn high. Once you get past a certain point, the matchup gets pretty even. But being B level iCCup makes you a top 1000 player outside of Korea (might also need to exclude China). So I think by some reasonable choice of standard, you could call that "mastery".
I win a lot of green ranked zergs and protosses, but terrans are giving me really hard time. Last season I had both PvZ and PvP >70% winrate while vs T my winrate was slightly less than 50%... :/
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On April 06 2017 01:39 Piste wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2017 09:44 darktreb wrote:On April 02 2017 09:00 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:On February 12 2017 12:42 sicklucker wrote:
pvt is the easiast mu no wonder it was best for alot of foriegnners. it was my best and i didnt even play protoss really. as in easiest to master not the easiest matchup Easiest to master? What? It's basically impossible to master any match up. You can get really really good at it (which no foreigner has ever done by the way...compared to top korean pros) Put any P player against Flash and look how "easy it is to master". If you define "master" as "dominate Flash" than of course no matchup can be mastered. It was a hyperbolic statement, but contains some truth. PvT is the easiest matchup, up to a pretty high level of skill. I'd guess up to iCCup B level, maybe even more. That's pretty damn high. Once you get past a certain point, the matchup gets pretty even. But being B level iCCup makes you a top 1000 player outside of Korea (might also need to exclude China). So I think by some reasonable choice of standard, you could call that "mastery". I win a lot of green ranked zergs and protosses, but terrans are giving me really hard time. Last season I had both PvZ and PvP >70% winrate while vs T my winrate was slightly less than 50%... :/
same for me, red and yellow ranks terrans are easy to beat as protoss, B/B+ level terrans are a pain in the ass to kill, most of them are super defensive or super aggro, theres no easy way to beat them other than straight up macro game and even then i find it really hard to win vs good terran players.
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On April 01 2017 01:35 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
Testie is a complete dumbass with dumb opinions and unmatched stubbornness
that said I love him dearly. Despite all his foibles, he was a great friend to me for many years
What if you're wrong about him and just need to get woke like he is?
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