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On August 19 2025 04:56 WGT-Baal wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2025 21:39 RowdierBob wrote:
Looking like a pretty lean season for protosses. It s not too surprising tbh. Ss1nz was the future but got himself banned. Jangbi and kal are out, free didn't get back his old self. Rain is playing lol. We have realistically 3 players: mini, snow and best. And mini s style makes it volatile in a tournament. Bisu below those 3 in general. And that s basically that. Then a big gap and a slew of ok P like motive, movie, tulbo, shuttle etc but they re not gonna make it far when they even qualify. Hoping the afrotoss shows us some fun stuff but we re looking at a 4 P ro16 in a good scenario...
Comparing Movie why any of those guys is criminal
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Thanks to XUN and Saiyan for the Eng Cast, yall are really doing god's work with the commentary.
The secondary observer cam popping up is such an interesting addition this season! I love it, though comparing upgrades in mirror match ups was super difficult to decipher.
Sharp looking... sharp in his TvTs. I'm thankful for the match on Roaring Currents but that looked so rough for TvZ. Happy to see Larva back playing at a high caliber, I hope he brings his turtling to ZvZ for this season of Zergs 
Ample played okay but it felt more like Stork was playing poorly. His control over the HTs was just abysmal today. Really disappointed in his results, and the state of P in the current era - we desperately need some innovators to rise to the ASL level.
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On August 19 2025 15:22 Lazyer wrote:Thanks to XUN and Saiyan for the Eng Cast, yall are really doing god's work with the commentary. The secondary observer cam popping up is such an interesting addition this season! I love it, though comparing upgrades in mirror match ups was super difficult to decipher. Sharp looking... sharp in his TvTs. I'm thankful for the match on Roaring Currents but that looked so rough for TvZ. Happy to see Larva back playing at a high caliber, I hope he brings his turtling to ZvZ for this season of Zergs Ample played okay but it felt more like Stork was playing poorly. His control over the HTs was just abysmal today. Really disappointed in his results, and the state of P in the current era - we desperately need some innovators to rise to the ASL level.
4 HT drop on the 9 oclock expo was all i needed to see about his HT controls lol
he could have used them for the 5 oclock defense but decided on a 4 HT drop like... bro
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Expected results. LB 2/2 safe.
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On August 18 2025 22:35 RogueTheGOAT wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2025 19:10 nikolaus8844 wrote:On August 18 2025 18:49 BLinD-RawR wrote:
I got pulled into a meeting, someone make polls. Poll: Who would you rather have casting live in English?Arto and Tasteless (19) 49% any duo that includes Nyoken really (12) 31% Nyoken and the big Gyp (7) 18% Nyoken all alone (1) 3% Nyoken and Eonzerg (0) 0% 39 total votes Your vote: Who would you rather have casting live in English? (Vote): Arto and Tasteless
(Vote): Nyoken and the big Gyp
(Vote): Nyoken and Eonzerg
(Vote): any duo that includes Nyoken really
(Vote): Nyoken all alone
How ridiculous. The ASL patreon only generates $132,000 per year before fees. You can't expect them to do it live unless you double that.
Frankly speaking I have the utmost respect for Nyoken and the considerable amount of time he has dedicated to various casts.. he has most certainly proven his ''heart and commitment to the game'' as Tony G would say. Surely if he's not doing it now he has his legit reasons.. and I seriously doubt money is central among them.
The poll was more a jab to the current casting..... I don't know what's worse, Xun repeating the same 10 phrases every minute and compensating with artificially-modulated voice tone and quirky unit-attack-names trivia for the utter lack of understanding of the game, or Saiyan for cucking and taking a back seat even tho it's pretty damn obvious half of the time he does know better.. which is not to say his input is anywhere near those of the guys who actually play the game at BSL level and know what's up. And god bless them.... they really are trying.. but for f*ck's sake.. even outside of the competence remarks - some people are just cool and have it, and others don't (and of the latter - some are actually actively-annoying, one half of the current duo that is). Only Rapid I can put higher on that list....... guy was literally one of a kind
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About Stork...
Year after year after his hiatus in 2018/2019 Stork get's into ASL and does absolutely nothing! Why can't the man just retire and pave the way for new blood? This is really annoying! If he had vacated his spot and just got on with daddy life instead of milking his dry "carrier" we could have had Shine, Scan, another SC2 pro or even guys from China!
About Artosis predictions...
Boy was Artosis full of crap when he predicted "Larva" would fall out of bracket in the loosers match! He was also shockingly wrong saying how terran would be favored vs. zerg in the "Roaring Currents" - WTF? The one certain thing we have seen in the history of ASL, is that on island maps terran is the least favored race (the ASL results speak for themselves).
About Sharp vs. Ample...
Thank's to Stork's another boring/standard "performance" in ASL, we were left with Sharp vs. Ample final - seriously? Another TvT? FUCK THAT! I ain't watching another TvT! If by chance I see Ample's face in R16, i might watch it then, just to see Sharp's disappointed face (cheering for the underdog Ample)!
About Larva...
LARVA!!! The MAN! Does not need to prove anything more! Still manages to make this ASL the most exciting ASL in many years!
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Stork gate keepng is totally fine. If they can't beat Stork in qualies, don't expect they can somehow show better games on stage than Stork. We could say the same thing about Calm, Barracks, Mong, sSak although Stork has much more significant achievements to his name.
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On August 19 2025 04:49 seRapH wrote:
Too bad for stork fans, 0-2 in this group was not the result anyone was expecting.
Larva made me feel silly for doubting him, dang lmao
It is a big map, quite fair result to be honest. Protoss need to be on the edge to make that handicap disappear. That army doesn't move itself.
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On August 19 2025 05:48 ThunderJunk wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2025 19:10 nikolaus8844 wrote:On August 18 2025 18:49 BLinD-RawR wrote:
I got pulled into a meeting, someone make polls. Poll: Who would you rather have casting live in English?Arto and Tasteless (19) 49% any duo that includes Nyoken really (12) 31% Nyoken and the big Gyp (7) 18% Nyoken all alone (1) 3% Nyoken and Eonzerg (0) 0% 39 total votes Your vote: Who would you rather have casting live in English? (Vote): Arto and Tasteless
(Vote): Nyoken and the big Gyp
(Vote): Nyoken and Eonzerg
(Vote): any duo that includes Nyoken really
(Vote): Nyoken all alone
Namkraft.
Yes. His overcaffeinated hyperboles are just what I need. Not quite ASL level, but hyped indeed.
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I'm going to break it down for non zerg players again:
This Roaring Currents map went the way it did because zerg has the highest HP transport unit. No one drops like a zerg to cross the enemy's line of fire with impunity. This will really play into Jaedong's hand if he survives until that map. No zerg drops quite like Jaedong, I'm still looking forward to when zergs will start infesting CC's just for this ability.
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sad to see stork knocked out so early but his gameplay didn't look very inspiring
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Lava somehow made it out first. Sharp making it out is not unexpected tho I wish Ample did
Stork's game vs Ample where he committed too many high templars on bombing workers instead of the siege on his 5th base was a big mistake
Wish you luck next season Stork. Last season was where he looked really good but alas
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On August 19 2025 15:22 Lazyer wrote:
The secondary observer cam popping up is such an interesting addition this season! I love it, though comparing upgrades in mirror match ups was super difficult to decipher.
Fully agree, that was awesome, although, like you said, some improvements could be made.
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