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. He played so well too. Just fell that little bit short. I will be rooting for Ace the rest of the tournament though.Cool, a Fruit Dealer. - Page 21
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TheRPGAddict
United States1403 Posts
. He played so well too. Just fell that little bit short. I will be rooting for Ace the rest of the tournament though. | ||
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Hypemeup
Sweden2783 Posts
On September 28 2010 20:09 jongim wrote: THERE MAY BE SPOILERS IN THIS THREAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. *temporary main page hype. <3 10/02/2010 HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE HYPEHYPEHYPEHYPEHYPE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT DAMMIT? He played so well today too, sadface | ||
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Trawler
Sweden382 Posts
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QTIP.
United States2113 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
SADFACE. All that aside, I was really impressed by how much he cleaned up his ZvP act for today, actually. I was expecting a few cheeses from him, but ... nope! Went completely standard and god, that first game he played was sexy as hell. Game 3 was pretty damn well-played too; unfortunately he made a few blunders that cost him the victory, but I'm hopeful (and will remain ever hopeful) for the rest of his future appearances now. That expression on his face at the end of that series was absolutely crushing though. I hope he doesn't beat himself up too much over it. | ||
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damahammer
Germany111 Posts
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Moderas
United States78 Posts
On May 27 2011 06:38 damahammer wrote: i think his time is over Depends what you mean by "his time." Sure, he hasn't won a second GSL, but he is still one of the most (If not the most consistent) progamers in Korea. He has been in the top 32 of EVERY GSL season, both opens and code S. He was consistently taking down tournaments in Beta and winning show matches against players like Boxer in between. + Show Spoiler + and if today showed anything, he can still compete against solid players even in his worst matchup It's not like he is losing to low-level players either. In season 2 he lost to MarineKing, who then went on to get 2nd place in a close 4-3 series and take 2 more silver medals in GSL so far. In season 3 he lost 3-2 to HongUn in the matchup he is least confident in. GSL January he lost in best of 1's to Zenio and IMMVP (Who went on to win), but beat Maka 2-0 to retain Code S. In march he lost 2 games to Anypro, who went on to the round of 4, while taking a game off genius. To get his code S status back he 2-0'd Virus. In May he beat Check and Lyn to advance to ro16 before losing to NesTea 2-1 in a ZvZ. Finally, he showed us today that his ZvP is strong enough to compete with Ace, a player who has been in Code A multiple seasons and has been destroying the foreign scene in things like IEM and NASL. I'm done ranting now, I just feel like people are waaay to harsh on Fruitdealer. None of his losses have been to undeserving players. Even though he has not won a second GSL, he has still been a solid player since the beta. | ||
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Ezze
Canada934 Posts
Makes me sad. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On May 27 2011 07:50 Moderas wrote: It's not like he is losing to low-level players either. In season 2 he lost to MarineKing, who then went on to get 2nd place in a close 4-3 series and take 2 more silver medals in GSL so far. In season 3 he lost 3-2 to HongUn in the matchup he is least confident in. GSL January he lost in best of 1's to Zenio and IMMVP (Who went on to win), but beat Maka 2-0 to retain Code S. In march he lost 2 games to Anypro, who went on to the round of 4, while taking a game off genius. To get his code S status back he 2-0'd Virus. In May he beat Check and Lyn to advance to ro16 before losing to NesTea 2-1 in a ZvZ. Finally, he showed us today that his ZvP is strong enough to compete with Ace, a player who has been in Code A multiple seasons and has been destroying the foreign scene in things like IEM and NASL. I'm done ranting now, I just feel like people are waaay to harsh on Fruitdealer. None of his losses have been to undeserving players. Even though he has not won a second GSL, he has still been a solid player since the beta. Not sure what I should spoiler, since I think everyone already knows what's up in here. (If not, feel free to tell me to add spoiler tags.) But to add to what Moderas has said: - PvZ is Ace's best match-up. He freaking 2-0'd Sen recently in the StarsWar tournament. That's right. Sen, whose ZvP is generally much better than FD's ZvP. - ZvP is FruitDealer's worst MU by far. Keeping this in mind, he played phenomenally today and would have won had he not made those tiny blunders that cost him the third game. I mean, sure, he lost, but he lost with fucking style right there, having played a superb, solid game up until the turning point. And if you're going to lose, that's definitely the way to go about it. People are harsh on FruitDealer because they expect him to put out amazing results, and when he doesn't, they just rag on him. But fuck it, he's a brilliant Zerg, and after that performance today? God, that was fucking amazing play from him in his worst MU. If he continues to play at that same level or higher from here on out, then hell, with a little bit of luck, he can definitely reach the semi-finals again in another GSL season. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic here and letting my fanboyism blind me, but gosh, this is the FD fanclub, so why the hell not? The only thing I'm worried about is the possibility that he might go into another slump after this loss today. That look on his face at the end of the match was painful, and I just hope he realizes that he played brilliantly, no matter what the results. | ||
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jongzor
United States189 Posts
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SxYSpAz
United States1451 Posts
On May 27 2011 08:39 jongzor wrote: I'm just glad we got to see flashes of his S1 brilliance last night. EVEN THOUGH U LET ME DOWN FD, U STILL #1 IN MY HEART BRO (SOME HOMO). wow. lol. i was gonna ask the community as a whole the reason for his name, but i kinda figure you would know. XD. so whats the reasoning for his name? | ||
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
On May 27 2011 08:49 SxYSpAz wrote: wow. lol. i was gonna ask the community as a whole the reason for his name, but i kinda figure you would know. XD. so whats the reasoning for his name? before he was known as "Cool". eventually had to quit SCBW progaming to help his parent's fruitstand/whatever (since his dad got ill or something? I forgot) so then after he came back he was called himself fruitdealer. | ||
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Moderas
United States78 Posts
p.s. I really hope this is what you meant by "Reasoning for his name" >.> | ||
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SxYSpAz
United States1451 Posts
On May 27 2011 08:53 Moderas wrote: He was a really promising Brood War player climbing his way up the ranks until his father became ill (Cancer I think) and he had to retire from Brood War to work his families fruit stand. When he started playing sc2 during the beta he named himself "Fruit Dealer" as a tribute to that, I guess. His Brood War name was "Cool" and he was known as oGsCool in sc2 for a while. His story is actually quite epic when it is written properly lol. p.s. I really hope this is what you meant by "Reasoning for his name" >.> lol yeah it was. i was like 90% sure that it was gonna be some BS like "he thought it sounded cool" like evryone else.. but that is a pretty epic story for a name. TY  | ||
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SweetAs
New Zealand290 Posts
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Cokefreak
Finland8094 Posts
I AM ETERNALLY A FAN OF THE ONE AND ONLY DEALER OF FRUIT! FRUITDEALER FOR THE WIN! | ||
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
On May 27 2011 06:38 damahammer wrote: I think this is a misconception.i think his time is over - FD don't need to prove anything anymore. He won the GSL at a time zerg were widely considered UP with zerg. He showed us anything. Anything from sixpool on a 4-player-map to very long macro gamey with complicated tech switches. As there was no hope left for zerg, he refused to let us down. After the dust settled, he was the last man standing, losing the only map considered to favor zerg but taking all four maps which were considered to favor Terran. - FD was Code-S top seed and stayed in Code-S since - where other champions fell down to Code-A. While his play style is unpredictable, his results are consistently high-level ones. - Between genie and madness one often cannot differ. See his last game versus Nestea. It was supposed to work. If it would have worked, he would be praised as a genius to make banelings work versus roaches. However Nestea's roach split was too good. While we like Nestea for his results, we love Fruitdealer for his play. The last point implies that we don't just like Fruitdealer, but love him. This love is everlasting. Fruitdealer's time will never be over, or at least not as long as zerg is played. | ||
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Akamiri
Vietnam401 Posts
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
All I can say is nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Fruitdealer We still <3 | ||
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Shalaiyn
Netherlands2735 Posts
On June 05 2011 07:12 [F_]aths wrote: I think this is a misconception. - FD don't need to prove anything anymore. He won the GSL at a time zerg were widely considered UP with zerg. He showed us anything. Anything from sixpool on a 4-player-map to very long macro gamey with complicated tech switches. As there was no hope left for zerg, he refused to let us down. After the dust settled, he was the last man standing, losing the only map considered to favor zerg but taking all four maps which were considered to favor Terran. - FD was Code-S top seed and stayed in Code-S since - where other champions fell down to Code-A. While his play style is unpredictable, his results are consistently high-level ones. - Between genie and madness one often cannot differ. See his last game versus Nestea. It was supposed to work. If it would have worked, he would be praised as a genius to make banelings work versus roaches. However Nestea's roach split was too good. While we like Nestea for his results, we love Fruitdealer for his play. The last point implies that we don't just like Fruitdealer, but love him. This love is everlasting. Fruitdealer's time will never be over, or at least not as long as zerg is played. Yeah, Fruitdealer is the most consistent Champion at the moment, being the only one to consistently get to Ro16. | ||
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