the reason stork didn't come out is that this is the stx cup. you do not send your ace in the stx cup, it's just not done. and for good reason. we need hyvaa/hyuk allkills and epic bad games from people we've never heard of before or whom we haven't seen play in a year. that's what makes this tournament great.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

August 01 2011 18:38 GMT

#447

Just a recommendation for future OPs in regards to Winner's League - make it a bit more Anti-spoiler. Even the game recommendations are spoilers because you only say there's 5 games. ><

Otherwise, thanks for hte LR thread ^^

On August 02 2011 03:31 o[twist] wrote:
the reason stork didn't come out is that this is the stx cup. you do not send your ace in the stx cup, it's just not done. and for good reason. we need hyvaa/hyuk allkills and epic bad games from people we've never heard of before or whom we haven't seen play in a year. that's what makes this tournament great.

Yeah I mentioned this in the STX Cup announcement, this cup is taken seriously by the teams but not like Proleague serious. It's about playing your lesser known players, getting their feet wet in public games, that sort of thing. It's more of a practice tournament than anything else. It's really good to give chances for rookies and b-teamers to shine (lolol get it?) and come forward to prove they are TV ready and A-Team material. :D

Dunno that's why Stork wasn't played (Other teams will play their Aces, I promise :p) but it's kind of what the tournament is about, and why it's possibly my favorite tournament. >>

RandomAccount#49059

United States2140 Posts

August 01 2011 20:34 GMT

#448

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Z3kk

4099 Posts

August 01 2011 20:35 GMT

#449

WTF? Hyvaa, of all people?!

Whyyyy

Itachii

Poland12466 Posts

August 01 2011 20:45 GMT

#450

On August 02 2011 02:09 Holgerius wrote:
These games were so disappointing, holy fuck.

Bogus vs Grape and hyvaa vs Grape were good, don't know what are you talking about.
Unless you mean the outcome, then yeah, its damn disappointing.

a176

Canada6688 Posts

August 01 2011 21:08 GMT

#451

jangbi pulled some jaehoon-level dt control in that game. what a waste. hyvaa was playing pretty good still.

dRaW

Canada5744 Posts

August 01 2011 21:12 GMT

#452

WTF Hyvaa is so beast lately, I wonder if he will surge into some dominance for next season.

ArvickHero

10387 Posts

August 01 2011 21:15 GMT

#453

Why is there even a lineup spoiler? Seeing the lineup in itself should spoil the results..

Xiphos

Canada7507 Posts

August 01 2011 21:20 GMT

#454

On August 02 2011 06:12 dRaW wrote:
WTF Hyvaa is so beast lately, I wonder if he will surge into some dominance for next season.

And only to be acquired by another team....jeez STX....

moopie

12605 Posts

August 01 2011 22:20 GMT

#455

On August 02 2011 01:45 krndandaman wrote:

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he's a 100times more dependable than byul... and if you add on the fact that they had to 3kill to win, even more so.

my only guess is that samsung gave up and didnt even plan on going far in the stx cup so they decided to give their rookies and upcoming players chances to play. hence why grape, reality, byul came out. I think jangbi being sent out was more of a "hmm if jangbi wins this it'll be 2-2 and then we'll actually try winning with stork or if he loses we can just give byul some experience"

That's true, but there's also the fact that January knows Stork couldn't PvZ to save his life right now while STX still had 2 more players to send after hyvaa. I think January saw the writing on the wall and figured it was over so you might as well give a rookie some air time.

gen.Sun

United States539 Posts

August 01 2011 22:42 GMT

#456

Jeebus christ. Is Khan v Z really that bad. Without Great Khan is really screwed. Need another better zerg here.

Xiphos

Canada7507 Posts

August 01 2011 23:04 GMT

#457

On August 02 2011 07:42 gen.Sun wrote:
Jeebus christ. Is Khan v Z really that bad. Without Great Khan is really screwed. Need another better zerg here.

They need to by.Hero!