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Kettchup
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1911 Posts
December 02 2012 05:30 GMT
#81
I don't care at all about any balance arguments. My concern is that zerg today just plain sucks in terms of viewing enjoyment. It's taken the place that the old Protoss turtle/death ball strategy used to occupy. Very little variety or interesting play.
SoniC_eu
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark1008 Posts
December 02 2012 05:42 GMT
#82
On December 02 2012 07:35 arcane1129 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2012 07:12 peia wrote:
if you look at EU ladder 10 % terran, 30 % toss 60 % zerg, and also at IPL the race distribution is a big big joke


EU ladder: http://www.sc2ranks.com/stats/league/eu/1/all

KR: (zerg is lowest % in gm and masters actually) http://www.sc2ranks.com/stats/league/fea/1/all

Global: http://www.sc2ranks.com/stats/league/all/1/all

Who are you trying to fool?

Wow if you look at previous patches, there used to be 800,000 1v1 players at a point. Now there are 250,000. Thats a HUGE reduction. That is much mroe cause for discussion than any balance thread.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. http://da.twitch.tv/sonic_eu
Aterons_toss
Profile Joined February 2011
Romania1275 Posts
December 02 2012 05:45 GMT
#83
Facts against terran QQ-ing, i'm all up for it:
[image loading]
That is Code S since the beginning of the world til now.

Other interesting facts:
7 out of 17 GSL winners are terrans
22 out of 34 finalist are terrans
5 out of top 10 players as earning are terrans
The majority of major tournaments ( DH, MLG, IPL, GSL, ESL, NASL, WCS, WCG final ) have been won by terrans.

Terran has always dominated, especially in Korea and to some extent they still do but now it seems that the zergs have a fighting chance against them, as for foreign zergs... better for them.
A good strategy means leaving your opponent room to make mistakes
aksfjh
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4853 Posts
December 02 2012 05:49 GMT
#84
On December 02 2012 14:45 Aterons_toss wrote:
Facts against terran QQ-ing, i'm all up for it:
[image loading]
That is Code S since the beginning of the world til now.

Other interesting facts:
7 out of 17 GSL winners are terrans
22 out of 34 finalist are terrans
5 out of top 10 players as earning are terrans
The majority of major tournaments ( DH, MLG, IPL, GSL, ESL, NASL, WCS, WCG final ) have been won by terrans.

Terran has always dominated, especially in Korea and to some extent they still do but now it seems that the zergs have a fighting chance against them, as for foreign zergs... better for them.

That should read, "only in Korea".
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
December 02 2012 06:02 GMT
#85
On December 02 2012 07:26 QuanticState wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2012 07:18 xPabt wrote:
And yet only Mvp has been able to make it to the finals.


http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/GOMTV_Global_StarCraft_II_League

you're horribly, horribly wrong

Naw, he's right. As of 2012, no other terran besides MVP has made it to the finals.
ok
Tropical Bob
Profile Joined August 2010
United States127 Posts
December 02 2012 06:05 GMT
#86
On December 02 2012 12:20 SniXSniPe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2012 08:05 Denzil wrote:
On December 02 2012 07:52 Siphyo wrote:
My graph from liquipedia to support the OPs statement:

[image loading]

Personally, I don't think any balance-related conclusions should be drawn from this.


So because they can't get to a final for once their race is awfully underpowered?


http://i.imgur.com/TTaiA.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/dwPRQ.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/carlfish-public/2012 Tournament Statistics.pdf


I just love how everyone keeps ignoring how Protoss is just as well off as Zerg when it comes to tournament representation and placements.
Mattumsfox
Profile Joined April 2012
United States233 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 06:06:44
December 02 2012 06:05 GMT
#87
On December 02 2012 14:45 Aterons_toss wrote:
Facts against terran QQ-ing, i'm all up for it:
[image loading]
That is Code S since the beginning of the world til now.

Other interesting facts:
7 out of 17 GSL winners are terrans
22 out of 34 finalist are terrans
5 out of top 10 players as earning are terrans
The majority of major tournaments ( DH, MLG, IPL, GSL, ESL, NASL, WCS, WCG final ) have been won by terrans.

Terran has always dominated, especially in Korea and to some extent they still do but now it seems that the zergs have a fighting chance against them, as for foreign zergs... better for them.



Other interesting 2012 facts:
1 out of 5 GSL winners are terran
2 out of 10 finalist are terran (only MVP)
2 out of top 10 player earnings are terran (MVP & Taeja)


Fyodor
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada971 Posts
December 02 2012 06:06 GMT
#88
Terran is more popular in Korea... pretty sure that's the only thing being observed here.

With Boxer, oov, NaDa, Flash, etc... majority of the role models for pro players were terran.
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ParamouR
Profile Joined September 2012
Australia28 Posts
December 02 2012 06:31 GMT
#89
On December 02 2012 14:45 Aterons_toss wrote:
Facts against terran QQ-ing, i'm all up for it:
[image loading]
That is Code S since the beginning of the world til now.

Other interesting facts:
7 out of 17 GSL winners are terrans
22 out of 34 finalist are terrans
5 out of top 10 players as earning are terrans
The majority of major tournaments ( DH, MLG, IPL, GSL, ESL, NASL, WCS, WCG final ) have been won by terrans.

Terran has always dominated, especially in Korea and to some extent they still do but now it seems that the zergs have a fighting chance against them, as for foreign zergs... better for them.


This is a really stupid analysis because it includes a period of terran dominance, after which they were nerfed heavily. To get a better view you need to look at stats since the last patch. even just stats for 2012 are a lot more acceptable.

My concern is that every major tournament outside of the GSL has been Zerg dominated in terms of participants:

IEM: 12 Zerg 9 Protoss 3 Terran.
WCS: 15 Zerg 13 Protoss 4 Terran.
IPL: 27 Zerg 21 Terran 17 Protoss

When you have this constant racial imbalance, AND zergs are having crazy high win rates (at IPL ~60%+) I think there is cause for concern.

Zerg sympathizers (players, for the most part), always point at the GSL as the evidence that the game is balanced because it has more Terran participants then Zerg. But look at the Round of 16: 8 Zerg 6 Terran 2 Protoss. Now the Ro16 at IPL 5: 10 Zerg, 3 Protoss, 3 Terran.

Zerg are currently dominant in almost every major tournament, and the only one in which they do not have the most participants is GSL. I feel that this is cause enough to question the racial balance of SC2 at the moment.
cskalias.pbe
Profile Joined April 2010
United States293 Posts
December 02 2012 06:55 GMT
#90
Balance discussions have seriously hurt TL to me. Just because terrans make up most of the RO32 doesn't mean that they are OP (at some skill level). Similarly, if terran won 10 championships in a row, it doesn't necessarily mean terran is OP (e.g. if one player that played terran was head and shoulders above everyone else). it's like fucking fox pundits when real analysis requires more of a nate silver

and its easy to come to the right conclusion via the wrong reasoning
blacknwhite
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada6 Posts
December 02 2012 07:18 GMT
#91
Don't you think that Terran is just playing incorrectly?
I mean look at Gumiho vs. Life in first game of GSTL, it really looked like that the amount of multi-tasking is needed to beat a top level Zerg.

He went marine maurauder medivacs, skipping tanks and then gradually mixing in ghosts; it looked like it caught life quite off guard especially with the amount of drops and harassment that Gumiho was able to achieve.

It feels like Terran just hasn't adapted, I'll just continue doing hellion reactor expands, although 4/6 queens clearly deflect this build; but I'll continue building hellions and waste 2-3 minutes of in-game time to build 12 hellions to be killed by queens, then complain that I can't get a third.

It feels like that ATM, just because reactor hellion expand was largely successful as an opener in 2011, doesn't mean it is now... It used to act as a contain, but can't anymore
Terrans just need to change up their opener to deal with the greedy 4-6 queens that Zerg has been doing..
Sophia
Profile Joined April 2012
Germany115 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 07:21:53
December 02 2012 07:21 GMT
#92
Not sure if serious or just stupid! Terran is the most played race in Korea, but every terran including sniper,drg, hyun etc admits that Zerg is extremly OP right now.
Right now lesser zergs win, because its so much easier to win with zerg. Look at all these newcomers that you never heared before, that get good results now - and ALL OF THEM ARE ZERG!

Now with the Christmas-Brake it would be a good time for a balance-patch.
vthree
Profile Joined November 2011
Hong Kong8039 Posts
December 02 2012 07:26 GMT
#93
On December 02 2012 16:18 blacknwhite wrote:
Don't you think that Terran is just playing incorrectly?
I mean look at Gumiho vs. Life in first game of GSTL, it really looked like that the amount of multi-tasking is needed to beat a top level Zerg.

He went marine maurauder medivacs, skipping tanks and then gradually mixing in ghosts; it looked like it caught life quite off guard especially with the amount of drops and harassment that Gumiho was able to achieve.

It feels like Terran just hasn't adapted, I'll just continue doing hellion reactor expands, although 4/6 queens clearly deflect this build; but I'll continue building hellions and waste 2-3 minutes of in-game time to build 12 hellions to be killed by queens, then complain that I can't get a third.

It feels like that ATM, just because reactor hellion expand was largely successful as an opener in 2011, doesn't mean it is now... It used to act as a contain, but can't anymore
Terrans just need to change up their opener to deal with the greedy 4-6 queens that Zerg has been doing..


Reactor hellions at least gives the terran SOME map control. If you rely on just marines, you basically cede map control to zerg once they have ling speed. And then their creep spread goes unchecked until you get at least 2 medivacs out. Hellions are also used to try to force out roaches (zergs don't know if it is just the 6-8 hellions or the 12+ BF hellions) so that the zerg doesn't just make lings and drone up.

As for dealing with 4-6 queens openings, with the size of maps these days and the overlord scouting, I am not sure what build except for the most extreme all ins even have a chance of working.
xPabt
Profile Joined February 2012
226 Posts
December 02 2012 07:29 GMT
#94
On December 02 2012 15:31 ParamouR wrote:
Zerg sympathizers (players, for the most part), always point at the GSL as the evidence that the game is balanced because it has more Terran participants then Zerg. But look at the Round of 16: 8 Zerg 6 Terran 2 Protoss. Now the Ro16 at IPL 5: 10 Zerg, 3 Protoss, 3 Terran.


Also Terran vs Zerg winrate in GSL hasn't been 50% since season 1.
http://www.gomtv.net/records/index.gom?searchType=3&race=T&vsrace=Z&season=2012&leaguetype=0&leagueid=0&gamever=0&mapid=0

This season was the worst
http://www.gomtv.net/records/index.gom?searchType=3&race=T&vsrace=Z&season=2012&leaguetype=20&leagueid=27067&gamever=0&mapid=0
Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 07:37:05
December 02 2012 07:35 GMT
#95
because most strong players in korea are terrans from the imba times, there are so many terrans left etc ... has nothing to do with imbalance

but nice try zerg xD

also stats who has won most, you cant take time BEFORE last patchs because #loltroll
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Lunares
Profile Joined May 2010
United States909 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 08:47:14
December 02 2012 08:44 GMT
#96
On December 02 2012 11:50 m0ck wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2012 09:25 Krychek wrote:
I want to point a basic flaw about the op.

The fact that T was for long time unbalanced, or their partial dominance months/years ago, has nothing to do with race/unit imbalance right now.

If a race or unit was op or up in the past, have nothing to do with the patch going right now.

And for the record, in the T dominance, watching foreigner T's beating korean non-Ts was NOT common.

Now watching foreigners Zs winning vs top non-z koreans it is indeed very common.

When is the last time that foreign terrans had as good results against korean terrans as foreign zergs had against korean zergs this weekend?


That just means terran is harder to play / requires more skill / has a higher skill ceiling to reach "balanced", not that it's fundamentally weaker. Balance only refers to match win rate, not how good a player has to be to get there. Foreign terrans are that much worse than korean terrans since it requires so much micro.

On December 02 2012 12:29 Moka wrote:
What's the point of this thread? Saying that because Terran have been the most represented in Ro32 in GSL, all Infestor-BroodLord-Queen synergy death ball problem in the late game in PvZ and TvZ becomes irrelevant? All this intense discussion for nothing?




The point is that we should be focusing on exactly what you said. We should be looking at making the game more exciting, better for spectating, more strategies etc. Don't focus on balance! Even in the face of large "balance" swings the actual win rates/ race representation has stayed constant.
LimitSEA
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia9580 Posts
December 02 2012 08:55 GMT
#97
GSL October was a terrible point for me.

20 Terrans. The horror.
Long live the King of Wings
link0
Profile Joined March 2010
United States1071 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 09:03:21
December 02 2012 09:03 GMT
#98
Stupid and useless graph that has little do with balance. Terran is the most popular race by top korean Pros. They choose Terran because the race has the most options and possibly the highest skill ceiling.
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Zrana
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom698 Posts
December 02 2012 11:14 GMT
#99
On December 02 2012 15:31 ParamouR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2012 14:45 Aterons_toss wrote:
Facts against terran QQ-ing, i'm all up for it:
[image loading]
That is Code S since the beginning of the world til now.

Other interesting facts:
7 out of 17 GSL winners are terrans
22 out of 34 finalist are terrans
5 out of top 10 players as earning are terrans
The majority of major tournaments ( DH, MLG, IPL, GSL, ESL, NASL, WCS, WCG final ) have been won by terrans.

Terran has always dominated, especially in Korea and to some extent they still do but now it seems that the zergs have a fighting chance against them, as for foreign zergs... better for them.


This is a really stupid analysis because it includes a period of terran dominance, after which they were nerfed heavily. To get a better view you need to look at stats since the last patch. even just stats for 2012 are a lot more acceptable.

My concern is that every major tournament outside of the GSL has been Zerg dominated in terms of participants:

IEM: 12 Zerg 9 Protoss 3 Terran.
WCS: 15 Zerg 13 Protoss 4 Terran.
IPL: 27 Zerg 21 Terran 17 Protoss

When you have this constant racial imbalance, AND zergs are having crazy high win rates (at IPL ~60%+) I think there is cause for concern.

Zerg sympathizers (players, for the most part), always point at the GSL as the evidence that the game is balanced because it has more Terran participants then Zerg. But look at the Round of 16: 8 Zerg 6 Terran 2 Protoss. Now the Ro16 at IPL 5: 10 Zerg, 3 Protoss, 3 Terran.

Zerg are currently dominant in almost every major tournament, and the only one in which they do not have the most participants is GSL. I feel that this is cause enough to question the racial balance of SC2 at the moment.


That's actually not logical.

A race being more popular just proves that it's...more popular.

If you look at the other 2 races and their issues it becomes obvious why more people play zerg.

Terran is hard to play properly. It's always been very under-represented in foreign tournaments because foreign players aren't very good. We can see in the GSL that it still has a healthy presence.

Protoss is broken in so many ways. There's almost no way for a skilled protoss player to express their skill in game apart from not missing forcefields. You just copy the build order of the month and cross your fingers that your opponent messes up. Thinking up a new build seems to be the only way for a pro protoss player to get recognised. We can see that over SC2's history protoss thinks up a new warpgate timing, gets more popular, timing gets figured out, protoss gets less popular.


GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
December 02 2012 11:22 GMT
#100
On December 02 2012 14:45 Aterons_toss wrote:
Facts against terran QQ-ing, i'm all up for it:
[image loading]
That is Code S since the beginning of the world til now.

Other interesting facts:
7 out of 17 GSL winners are terrans
22 out of 34 finalist are terrans
5 out of top 10 players as earning are terrans
The majority of major tournaments ( DH, MLG, IPL, GSL, ESL, NASL, WCS, WCG final ) have been won by terrans.

Terran has always dominated, especially in Korea and to some extent they still do but now it seems that the zergs have a fighting chance against them, as for foreign zergs... better for them.


This fails to take into account the fact that old results don't mean so much since the game has developed a lot since then and there have been patches; nor does it include the race percentages in later rounds. The amount of terrans in the Ro32 doesn't mean so much if most of them are getting knocked out there.
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