EPT[ASL17] Grand Finals - Page 4
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BisuDagger
Bisutopia19300 Posts
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Lazyer
United States365 Posts
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bochs
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FWIW, SK might be one of the least diligent pros, he was playing League of Legends for 6+ hours just a few days before the finals. | ||
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HOLYBATS
Turkey745 Posts
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Terrorbladder
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Sonic_md
Moldova278 Posts
![[image loading]](https://medialeaks.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/b16-559x550.jpg) Now I'm waiting for ASL18. | ||
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iopq
United States1032 Posts
On April 28 2024 05:46 Rainalcar wrote: ZvZ is a travesty, an utterly broken mirror. And it has so much potential... Truly a disgrace. And finals like this is a disaster for the scene. didn't the favored build order win every game? | ||
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Vasoline73
United States7819 Posts
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Highgamer
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Is the crowd too small to be loud enough or is the crowd just urged to stay quiet? What about the casters' yelling? | ||
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
Netherlands1080 Posts
On April 28 2024 11:51 bochs wrote: For those who didn't realize, throughout the history of ASL (all 16 seasons in the past), whoever wins the first game in the finals always wins the title, until SK just broke this pattern in ASL 17. A truly master of comeback. FWIW, SK might be one of the least diligent pros, he was playing League of Legends for 6+ hours just a few days before the finals. SK and HerO both played no sponsor matches or events in the days leading up to the Finals. Few other top zergs also weren't playing. Usually that means they're practicing offline. Pretty certain they did over 12 hours of ZvZ specific practice and brainstorming leading up to the finals. Which is honestly less than what they did for the semi-finals and quarter finals. ZvZ can't really be practiced for that much or brainstormed for that much. It the most basic match-up. I know for the JyJ vs Mind finals from last year they spend the entire week leading up to the finals playing only TvTs offline. Season 16 finals also had Soulkey not streaming for the entire week beside 2 proleagues at the start of that week. Soulkey documented pro vs pro games(only streamed games count) from ELOBOARD leading up to the finals: ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/gelulFD.png) Hero's games: ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/SKKlUOC.png) | ||
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Nirli
Bulgaria378 Posts
Deserved win for my fav zerg guy. If Z winning vs Z isn't proof of Zesagi, don't know what is - even Z can't win vs Z... | ||
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superjoppe
Sweden3685 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22041 Posts
On April 28 2024 23:46 superjoppe wrote: ZvZ4 pages of comments for an ASL final lol? Is the BW scene dying, or is no one caring about ZvZ? | ||
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bochs
116 Posts
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Nirli
Bulgaria378 Posts
On April 28 2024 23:46 superjoppe wrote: 4 pages of comments for an ASL final lol? Is the BW scene dying, or is no one caring about ZvZ? Considering the only practice was the players going to the PC shop for new keyboards because SZ keys broke - yeah. | ||
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fearthequeen
United States788 Posts
All but Game 6. G1: 12H expo > 12H main G2: 12P > 9P G3: 11P > 9P G4: 12H > 11H G5: 12P > 9P G6: 9P > OvP G7: 12H > 11P | ||
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TMNT
3114 Posts
On April 28 2024 16:54 Highgamer wrote: With the current setup at the ASL venue - the players sitting on stage right in front of the audience, with just a screen blocking their view of the audience, wearing ear-buds and head-sets/ear protection, aka no booth - wow comes they don't have issues with crowd reactions giving away stuff to the players? Is the crowd too small to be loud enough or is the crowd just urged to stay quiet? What about the casters' yelling? They do. The lastest major incident was Royal finding out Shuttle's proxy DT (his SCV missed Shuttle's proxy buildings by a few pixels but then turned back after hearing the crowd's reaction). I think it happened just last season. They (the organizers) don't care though as far as I know. | ||
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jghjghrtz
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Ideas
United States8148 Posts
On April 29 2024 07:43 TMNT wrote: They do. The lastest major incident was Royal finding out Shuttle's proxy DT (his SCV missed Shuttle's proxy buildings by a few pixels but then turned back after hearing the crowd's reaction). I think it happened just last season. They (the organizers) don't care though as far as I know. Was there any backlash from korean fanbase about this? I remember being really pissed off about it haha. And shuttle has a really big fanbase... | ||
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Ideas
United States8148 Posts
On April 27 2024 22:50 BLinD-RawR wrote: there's a general feeling that players are more comfortable playing at home than in a booth. I think that's always been the case, but back in the KESPA days there were a lot of players that became way more comfortable playing offline because there were so many more offline games in a year (4+ starleagues and year-round proleague meant that A or S class players were playing 60+ games per year offline), and those games were THE only things that mattered. Nowadays offline games are almost a novelty (even if you're making the Ro8 regularly, you're only playing a handful of games on stage per year), and money-wise matters way less than online proleague matches. Kind of crazy though that a guy like Jaedong who has played 100s of offline games (maybe over a 1000 between BW and SC2 + prelims and special tournaments etc?) has already lost a a bit of his cool from playing offline just after a couple years of offline atrophy. | ||
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