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On August 24 2010 18:37 vietboi wrote:
Idra is a good player indeed, one of the best zergs on sc2. But whines too much. Has only one style of play, macro and macro again and whines if a player doesnt play the way he does. Even flash is mixing his playstyle more then idra. And for those who watch BW and know flash playstyle they know what im talking about. Fine for idra to play macro, but hes like a kid on bnet trying to teach people his style or w/e. I rather see TLO play because he is mixing things up a bit. Long macro games to cheeses that attracts viewers. Idra is sometimes fun for his great macro and lategame control to all the rage quits, but sometimes he is just so immature and childish, and he does not have good sportsmanship. Its like he thinks he so much better then all the others because he is a reserve-reserve for the reserves for CJentus and lives in Korea, that he can rage and come with lame excuses to everyone who beats him.
Long macro games are the only one Zerg can play. They have no good early cheese or attacks early on. Zerg is on the defense until Mutalisks and tier two starts to kick in, and if you ever see IdrA use Mutalisk, he harasses pretty well with them.
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On August 19 2010 17:22 FlashIsHigh wrote:
.......BM deserves fan clubs I guess, I just think its funny that he switches from Terran JUST to complain about "imba" they are, but when he was playing Terran all he did was complain about how "imba" protoss was.
You think maybe he choose zerg because it had a different feel to it mechanically and such. I think it just stuck on him because way back in the day he mentioned that he may be switching to protoss for sc2. I don't think he changed races JUST to complain about how imba terran is(and I'm not agreeing that they are imba, I haven't had much time with the game). The game is still going to be tweaked. I mean its not like bw was balanced right out the door...they had to work at it. I find it funny that Idra gets a fanclub after he race switches in sc2 and started dominating tlo.
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A common refrain about Idra is how he is 'predictable' (although the IEM showed some instances where he could change things up to unbalance his opponent!).
There are two things though, versus Terran, there's very little deviation Zerg can manage AND stay in the game. They are completely reactive to whatever Terran throw at them. So it's hard to come up with some cunning build order that's an instawin if not scouted.
The second thing, is while Idra plays quite standard a lot of the time, he's very consistent. How many tournaments does Idra completely fail to leave some sort of mark? Very few. His play is reliable and doesn't expose him to too many peaks and troughs. Morrow ended up winning the IEM, but where will he be in the next big tournament? His play was solid but predicated on a couple strong builds that may/may not work depending on what his opponent does. It's like White-ra who dominated the HDH, was nowhere in IEM.
With Idra's style of play, he may not win everything in sight, and he may relieve some opponents who thing they know what they are going to be dealing with. But at the same time his approach exposes few weaknesses. Overtime I guess that will make him more successful. As he is a professional gamer, it's better to place in a lot of tournaments than to win 1 and no-hope in a lot of others.
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On August 24 2010 23:42 ducklare wrote:![[image loading]](http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/2092/idrafailure.jpg)
Hahaha, I guess the emotion chart is always right :D
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idra is just fucking awesome!
gotta love him
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On August 24 2010 17:56 Incognoto wrote:What's nice about this interview is that Idra foresaw Morrow's Reapers. ^_^
Wow, he totally predicted this kind of play from Morrow, but he still couldn't do anything about it.
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You should check out 'The Idra Simulator'-UMS on EU Servers.
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On August 24 2010 22:50 Odinsphere wrote:
. I find it funny that Idra gets a fanclub after he race switches in sc2 and started dominating tlo.
I was an IdrA fan in BW too. He was my favorite foreigner for a long time before SC2
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On August 24 2010 22:50 Odinsphere wrote:
I find it funny that Idra gets a fanclub after he race switches in sc2 and started dominating tlo.
Actually IdrA started as zerg in BW then switched to Terran. In Sc2 you can say he returned to his roots.
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lol where can i find a vod of those idra vs silver games
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On August 24 2010 20:12 Whole wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2010 18:37 vietboi wrote:
Idra is a good player indeed, one of the best zergs on sc2. But whines too much. Has only one style of play, macro and macro again and whines if a player doesnt play the way he does. Even flash is mixing his playstyle more then idra. And for those who watch BW and know flash playstyle they know what im talking about. Fine for idra to play macro, but hes like a kid on bnet trying to teach people his style or w/e. I rather see TLO play because he is mixing things up a bit. Long macro games to cheeses that attracts viewers. Idra is sometimes fun for his great macro and lategame control to all the rage quits, but sometimes he is just so immature and childish, and he does not have good sportsmanship. Its like he thinks he so much better then all the others because he is a reserve-reserve for the reserves for CJentus and lives in Korea, that he can rage and come with lame excuses to everyone who beats him. Long macro games are the only one Zerg can play. They have no good early cheese or attacks early on. Zerg is on the defense until Mutalisks and tier two starts to kick in, and if you ever see IdrA use Mutalisk, he harasses pretty well with them.
i think you forgot about the unit "banelings"
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Yeah, but Baneling Busts are so easy to stop. You can scout it easily and you just need to double up, or use bigger buildings to protect yourself.
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On August 25 2010 03:42 Schulzor wrote:
You should check out 'The Idra Simulator'-UMS on EU Servers.
I checked it out but thought it's simply a computer on very hard difficulty with some chat lines. Is it actually any good?
On August 24 2010 12:39 Whole wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2010 11:13 xtfftc wrote:
I have already send the questions but it was just before they left for Germany, so it might take a while. Might be included with a probable post IEM interview? =)
I don't really want to push it. If they like the questions, I'm sure that they'll be happy to get more from us - so let's see how the first interview goes. + Show Spoiler +Hopefully Artosis hasn't forgotten about it. 
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Definitely quote the OP and put it in this fanclub's OP =)
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Omg did noone post the epic awkward birthday moment video?
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I'm just thinking, how can this be the 'official' idra fanclub thread until we see the man himself, Idra, officially sanction it?
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EPT![[image loading]](http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/4589/idraemotionchart.jpg)
