On March 11 2011 04:20 Zorkmid wrote:
Not sure how he could be banned from TL for something he said in a non-TL related talk show.

edit: you trolled me, hes not banned. well played.

He got banned for trashing HuK on SOTG after MLG.

Whole

United States6046 Posts

March 13 2011 19:40 GMT

#4902

On March 14 2011 04:37 asdfjh wrote:

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He got banned for trashing HuK on SOTG after MLG.

i dont think that ban was entirely serious. the admin was drunk or someone got on his phone. i forget the exact story.

On March 14 2011 04:08 xtfftc wrote:
Guys, two things.

First, I know it's been ages since I have last updated the fanclub. I've got a lot of things to take care of at the moment but as soon as I finish my dissertation, I will take care of it.

Second, apparently Idra will be playing at a LAN event in Phoenix next Sunday and one of the organisers is collecting questions for an interview. Some of you might remember that half a year ago Artosis made an interview with Idra with questions submitted by the fanclub and it was a pretty good one, I think. So, if you have any questions, PM me and I will redirect them. Please don't just post them in here because at the moment I can't afford to even read every post in this thread.

P.S. I approve of "Grackheads" as a term.

would you like me to make a post that copy/pastes the fanclub and update it. you could just copy/paste my updated post and put it on the op.

Horse...falcon

United States1851 Posts

March 13 2011 20:00 GMT

#4903

Banning IdrA has to be a right of passage now for TL mods, add a little patch to their profile if they've popped that cherry.

MaxwellE

England229 Posts

March 13 2011 20:06 GMT

#4904

Some more delicious rage from idra, from the GCPL ace match. As a zerg I think idra just played badly at the end there, he could have won it

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

March 13 2011 20:16 GMT

#4905

On March 11 2011 14:59 tsuxiit wrote:
The fact that IdrA named his cat Hobbes and that it has a white and orange coat is just completely adorable.

Wow. That makes Idra that much more awesome. :D :D

What's this comment of his on manifesto or something. Link anyone?

Postman

United States269 Posts

March 13 2011 20:24 GMT

#4906

So, why doesn't Idra suck it up and switch to protoss? TLO has said it's not to hard to learn other races, and everyone says that Zerg fits his 'style' but does it really?

He wants to play defensively, macro up, and then overwhelm his opponent. That's pretty much what 2/3 base deathball is. You just switch from defensive macro mode to overwhelm mode earlier, even if you're behind 50 food you still dominate. He's waiting for a miracle patch to fix zerg, but it still hasn't come. With fewer and fewer zerg players doing well, why not just embrace the fact that Blizz wants SC2 to be a two race game and just go play toss?

ratMortar

Canada282 Posts

March 13 2011 20:42 GMT

#4907

On March 14 2011 05:06 MaxwellE wrote:
Some more delicious rage from idra, from the GCPL ace match. As a zerg I think idra just played badly at the end there, he could have won it

Argued this is the tournament thread. It seems he wasn't mining gas from either of his bottom expansions. Essentially, he had free supply, larva and 4k minerals but no gas and he wasn't pumping enough hydras to stop the immortal/stalker push. It was a mistake on his part, sadly.

ImHuko

United States996 Posts

March 13 2011 20:49 GMT

#4908

I was thinking the exact same thing as soon as Idra typed it out. Naniwa shouldn't have won that at all. Once he lost his death ball, the game should have been over. You have to literally put in everything to kill the deathball

TUski

United States1258 Posts

March 13 2011 20:58 GMT

#4909

I think another quote should be added:

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From the thread Arizona March Open:

On March 12 2011 14:53 IdrA wrote:
Greg Fields
EGIdrA.397
masters 2894
zerg

At least I found it funny

hmunkey

United Kingdom1973 Posts

March 13 2011 21:02 GMT

#4910

On March 14 2011 05:24 Postman wrote:
So, why doesn't Idra suck it up and switch to protoss? TLO has said it's not to hard to learn other races, and everyone says that Zerg fits his 'style' but does it really?

He wants to play defensively, macro up, and then overwhelm his opponent. That's pretty much what 2/3 base deathball is. You just switch from defensive macro mode to overwhelm mode earlier, even if you're behind 50 food you still dominate. He's waiting for a miracle patch to fix zerg, but it still hasn't come. With fewer and fewer zerg players doing well, why not just embrace the fact that Blizz wants SC2 to be a two race game and just go play toss?

Zerg patches are going to come out soon.

Jinsho

United Kingdom3101 Posts

March 14 2011 01:52 GMT

#4911

Indeed, the new infestors are pretty sick against protoss, people say.

Mailing

United States3087 Posts

March 14 2011 02:19 GMT

#4912

Now that fungal does decent damage to colossus, stalkers, AND void rays.. it might be entirely worth it to just suicide an infestor (similar to a HT) into the protoss army to fungal. If the protoss clump their colossus and rays over their stalkers, it could potentially do 500-1000 damage per fungal

Indrium

United States2236 Posts

March 14 2011 03:33 GMT

#4913

I was thinking about this earlier today. Do you guys think IdrA has more fans or antifans?

And very nice play by IdrA in the Root vs. EG games, if anyone was watching.

Joementum

787 Posts

March 14 2011 04:16 GMT

#4914

On March 14 2011 06:02 hmunkey wrote:

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Zerg patches are going to come out soon.

Source? Infestors alone will not help balance Zerg in this game. Blizzard really needs to just get off their asses and do something, but I guess they think balance revolves around Bunker build times. Whatever. I guess I'll just keep getting rocked by the deathball until they do do something.

Horse...falcon

United States1851 Posts

March 14 2011 06:34 GMT

#4915

On March 14 2011 13:16 Joementum wrote:

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Starcraft 2 ZvP feels kinda like BW TvZ where you have a decent midgame you can take advantage of but once lategame rolls around you might as well gg. The protoss warp-in mechanic feels more flexible than zerg's reinforce late game. Lets just make Protoss harder to play and maybe add some defensive abilities to let zerg get into midgame safely and hopefully end it before the Protoss gets the full deathball.

ZiggyD

Australia64 Posts

March 14 2011 10:31 GMT

#4916

Can someone point me to information like: why he stopped streaming? Whats he preparing for/up to atm?

Hope I dont sound stupid but I havent seen anything about him for a while.

Thanks.

Jinsho

United Kingdom3101 Posts

March 14 2011 10:42 GMT

#4917

He got fed up with laddering in Korea so he stopped streaming.

Hopefully he'll stream some more now that he's in the US.

OgsStump

128 Posts

March 14 2011 12:47 GMT

#4918

Love Idra's Interviews and his understanding with the game just don't understand why he gets so upset when he loses matches. Obviously he has opinions on the balance of the game and races which are fair but he also fails to give credit to players who have figured out timings against his one dimensional style of play. Hope his return to the US will bring him better results but I also hope he mixes up his play a bit more.

SiguR

Canada2039 Posts

March 14 2011 16:55 GMT

#4919

I've just gotta say, it's really nice to see Idra participating in so many events now that he's back in north america.

In the last 48 hours he's been in a ton of events and is signed up for even more!

xxSK8rGUy277xx

300 Posts

March 14 2011 17:15 GMT

#4920

Wow Idra looks extra cute in his NASL application. <3 <3 Idra :D