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Scisyhp
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States200 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-06 20:22:58
November 06 2011 20:22 GMT
#1561
On November 07 2011 05:13 Avan wrote:
Really? Are there people who think Idra is a good player? Really?


Yeah, all the people he beat are bad like select, puma, bomber, huk, etc all horrible players, just absolutely horrible. Right?
Bounana
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada54 Posts
November 06 2011 20:28 GMT
#1562
I'm pretty sure someone already told this but, where's (Z)Stephano ? I'm pretty sure he's aheahd of (Z)MorroW or (Z)DIMAGA
hunts
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2113 Posts
November 06 2011 20:32 GMT
#1563
On November 07 2011 05:28 Bounana wrote:
I'm pretty sure someone already told this but, where's (Z)Stephano ? I'm pretty sure he's aheahd of (Z)MorroW or (Z)DIMAGA


The original pole was before stephano really played in any tournamnets. But I do think the new one should have him, even though I still don't see any way that the answer to "who is the zerg king" can be anything but nestea.
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FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
November 06 2011 20:44 GMT
#1564
*confused* gravedigging a best player thread, how odd. Anyway Nestea, stephano then after a gap suprisingly idra who has really improved alot, which isn't really a suprise after they got puma and huk on the team and well he must have trained alot and not went round the world like other people :3.
Still like morrow and dimaga more though.

Must have been good for idra that someone discovered again that mutas work in pvz, he is pretty good with them :p, should train other units as well though.
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
November 06 2011 20:52 GMT
#1565
this is kind of useless, because that's not a poll question, as there is 1right and a ton of wrong answers...
Poll: Who is currently the president of the USA

Eminem (24)
 
73%

Madonna (7)
 
21%

Barack Obama (2)
 
6%

33 total votes

Your vote: Who is currently the president of the USA

(Vote): Barack Obama
(Vote): Eminem
(Vote): Madonna

Spekulatius
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2413 Posts
November 06 2011 21:03 GMT
#1566
Put that in a new thread. The question doesn't seem to be answered easily.
Always smile~
monXikk
Profile Joined May 2010
Poland742 Posts
November 06 2011 21:06 GMT
#1567
On November 07 2011 05:52 Big J wrote:
this is kind of useless, because that's not a poll question, as there is 1right and a ton of wrong answers...
Poll: Who is currently the president of the USA

Eminem (24)
 
73%

Madonna (7)
 
21%

Barack Obama (2)
 
6%

33 total votes

Your vote: Who is currently the president of the USA

(Vote): Barack Obama
(Vote): Eminem
(Vote): Madonna


The throne is empty...
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KimJongChill
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6429 Posts
November 06 2011 21:08 GMT
#1568
I can't believe this was reopened. This is like saying MVP isn't terran king.
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Aocowns
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Norway6070 Posts
November 06 2011 21:10 GMT
#1569
On November 07 2011 06:08 KimJongChill wrote:
I can't believe this was reopened. This is like saying MVP isn't terran king.

No, it is agreed upon that Nestea is King, no doubt.

We are fighting about best foreigner. Idra or Stephano?!?!?! Some say Sen, but we haven't seen eneough from him recently imo
I'm a salt-lord and hater of mech and ForGG, don't take me seriously, it's just my salt-humour speaking i swear. |KadaverBB best TL gaoler| |~IdrA's #1 fan~| SetGuitarsToKill and Duckk are my martyr heroes |
SidianTheBard
Profile Joined October 2010
United States2475 Posts
November 06 2011 21:15 GMT
#1570
Artosis said it best...

NESTEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Creator of Abyssal Reef, Ascension to Aiur, Battle on the Boardwalk, Habitation Station, Honorgrounds, IPL Darkness Falls, King's Cove, Korhal Carnage Knockout & Moonlight Madness.
1Eris1
Profile Joined September 2010
United States5797 Posts
November 06 2011 21:17 GMT
#1571
None of the foreigners come anywhere close to the top Korean Zergs atm, sorry. I can see an arguement for DRG over Nestea under circumstances but besides that it's easily Nestea.

As for foreigner king? Now that I could see a vote for. It's easily between Idra, Stephano and maybe Sen
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lazyfeet
Profile Joined April 2010
United States468 Posts
November 06 2011 21:19 GMT
#1572
On November 07 2011 06:10 Aocowns wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2011 06:08 KimJongChill wrote:
I can't believe this was reopened. This is like saying MVP isn't terran king.

No, it is agreed upon that Nestea is King, no doubt.

We are fighting about best foreigner. Idra or Stephano?!?!?! Some say Sen, but we haven't seen eneough from him recently imo

In case of best foreigner that is Huk. You are right on sen that lack of international tournament appearances really hurt him. We have to wait to see how he does in wcg and nasl. I think he qualified for the nasl final since he finished top two.
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Aocowns
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Norway6070 Posts
November 06 2011 21:25 GMT
#1573
On November 07 2011 06:19 lazyfeet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2011 06:10 Aocowns wrote:
On November 07 2011 06:08 KimJongChill wrote:
I can't believe this was reopened. This is like saying MVP isn't terran king.

No, it is agreed upon that Nestea is King, no doubt.

We are fighting about best foreigner. Idra or Stephano?!?!?! Some say Sen, but we haven't seen eneough from him recently imo

In case of best foreigner that is Huk. You are right on sen that lack of international tournament appearances really hurt him. We have to wait to see how he does in wcg and nasl. I think he qualified for the nasl final since he finished top two.

Sorry, I meant foreigner ZERG. Yeah, Huk is the best foreigner
I'm a salt-lord and hater of mech and ForGG, don't take me seriously, it's just my salt-humour speaking i swear. |KadaverBB best TL gaoler| |~IdrA's #1 fan~| SetGuitarsToKill and Duckk are my martyr heroes |
infinity2k9
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom2397 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-06 21:48:19
November 06 2011 21:37 GMT
#1574
On November 07 2011 05:22 Scisyhp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2011 05:13 Avan wrote:
Really? Are there people who think Idra is a good player? Really?


Yeah, all the people he beat are bad like select, puma, bomber, huk, etc all horrible players, just absolutely horrible. Right?


You can go through the TLPD and do this exact dumb strawman argument with any top player.. and you can also do the opposite for IdrA, as in why does he drop series to people like Livezerg. Even out of the players you chose, Huk and Select lose plenty of series to other foreigners it's not wins unique to IdrA.

Don't over-exaggerate the importance of winning a few BO3's against Koreans, it's not that unheard of (Gatored anyone?), they are susceptible to the volatileness of the game as much as anyone. Not to mention the foreign tournaments are done in a completely different format, quite different from preparing for a GSL series.

IdrA fans just seem to ignore results as they see fit; as i said in the most obvious way to compare players is by head-to-head results and he's behind against Nerchio, Sen and Morrow and hasn't played Dimaga or Stephano - all 5 of which are ahead of him in ELO. That's probably just an oddity, and i wouldn't use it as justification for them being superior. But until IdrA is actually anymore consistent than any of these other guys then he's objectively not better.

If you are deciding he's based solely on the gameplay, i would suggest some more thought on the matter. A few games i've seen where IdrA gains a nice advantage and almost lets players back into the game by sticking to his 'macro game'. I think it's bizzare how IdrA has kept his Korean training mentality to this day; that mentality is for B-teamers to improve their overall play. The same safe build every game is not what A-teamers do and it would be detrimental to do so like it's detrimental for IdrA. Yet loads of people seem to have picked up this from him and treat it like it's better. Being strategically stubborn and totally responsive in nature will get worse and worse as time goes on.
xlava
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States676 Posts
November 06 2011 21:42 GMT
#1575
Nestea is still the best zerg in the world tbh.
Xenomorph
Profile Joined May 2010
United States137 Posts
November 06 2011 21:44 GMT
#1576
Nestea obviously. For people that are simply good and up and coming I'd say Idra for his incredible macro zerg. If Julyzerg could be more dynamic though (especially in ZvP) I think he'd stand a good chance against a lot of playstyles.
Intrepid Traveler
StarVe
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany13591 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-06 21:49:25
November 06 2011 21:47 GMT
#1577
Obviously NesTea is the Zerg King, I don't see how anyone can even debate about that.

The whole IdrA vs Stephano debate - I don't think you can fairly judge that either, I want to see both of them in Korea before saying anything definite.

But if you look at both their TLPD records for October 1st to 31st, the last full month, you'll see IdrA with 39-27 (59.09%) and Stephano at 39-13 (75.00%) so, at the moment, I'd give Stephano an edge, due to consistency. But that's only at the moment. And it's comparing them related to other players, not to each other.
Aocowns
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Norway6070 Posts
November 06 2011 21:47 GMT
#1578
On November 07 2011 06:37 infinity2k9 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2011 05:22 Scisyhp wrote:
On November 07 2011 05:13 Avan wrote:
Really? Are there people who think Idra is a good player? Really?


Yeah, all the people he beat are bad like select, puma, bomber, huk, etc all horrible players, just absolutely horrible. Right?


You can go through the TLPD and do this exact dumb strawman argument with any top player.. and you can also do the opposite for IdrA, as in why does he drop series to people like Livezerg. Even out of the players you chose, Huk and Select lose plenty of series to other foreigners it's not wins unique to IdrA.

Don't over-exaggerate the importance of winning a few BO3's against Koreans, it's not that unheard of (Gatored anyone?), they are susceptible to the volatileness of the game as much as anyone. Not to mention the foreign tournaments are done in a completely different format, quite different from preparing for a GSL series.

IdrA fans just seem to ignore results as they see fit; as i said in the most obvious way to compare players is by head-to-head results and he's behind against Nerchio, Sen and Morrow and hasn't played Dimaga or Stephano - all 5 of which are ahead of him in ELO. That's probably just an oddity, and i wouldn't use it as justification for them being superior. But until IdrA is actually anymore consistent than any of these other guys then he's objectively not better.

If you take a second and think, completely unbiased at each persons play, and not at how good he did a month ago when the metagamefavoured someone else, or before that when the metagame favoured another one, you see that Idra is better overall than Nerchio, Dimaga and Morrow.

There are 2 contenders for the best foreign Zerg, and that is Idra and Stephano. Sen needs to appear more in tournaments.

Ignoring results as they see fit is not a phenomenon restricted to Idra fanboys... Both Stephano fanboys and Huk fanboys alike do it sometimes. The game is too volatile, and the metagame too shifting to give someone really consistent results. After Idra's ''Return to grace'' after IEM, he has been more consistent than any foreign Zerg except Stephano, and they both have played barely one top Korean each. Idra barely lost to MKP, and won against Bomber. Stephano won against MKP, and haven't played any others. Then Stephano lost to StC and Boxer at MLG, and Idra lost to LiveZerg at ESWC.
I'm a salt-lord and hater of mech and ForGG, don't take me seriously, it's just my salt-humour speaking i swear. |KadaverBB best TL gaoler| |~IdrA's #1 fan~| SetGuitarsToKill and Duckk are my martyr heroes |
Pred8oar
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany281 Posts
November 06 2011 21:52 GMT
#1579
I AM NESTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAA king
arfyron
Profile Joined July 2011
518 Posts
November 06 2011 21:54 GMT
#1580
On November 07 2011 06:37 infinity2k9 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2011 05:22 Scisyhp wrote:
On November 07 2011 05:13 Avan wrote:
Really? Are there people who think Idra is a good player? Really?


Yeah, all the people he beat are bad like select, puma, bomber, huk, etc all horrible players, just absolutely horrible. Right?


as i said in the most obvious way to compare players is by head-to-head results


That doesn't make any sense. Is elfi better than huk because he beat him in a PvP? All that shows is who has the better mirror match up.
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