Ok, we have GLaDe’s first game in the IEM here, in Xel’Naga Caverns. Starting off in the top right, he goes for a 13 gas and 14 pool, as Socke decides to wall up in his main, starting off with a 13 Gateway and gas. Socke’s scouting probe is ignored and is allowed to scout in GLaDe’s base, but it isn’t that big of a deal.
As GLaDe goes for the 16 Hatch, Socke’s probe distracts him and blocks his expansion with a pylon, as GLaDe uses the extractor trick to keep his drone production while he pushes out an Overlord. As GLaDe’s first two Zerglings go to work on the still constructing pylon, Socke’s wall consisting of a Pylon, Cyber Core, Gateway and a Zealot is completed. Ling speed is researching, Chrono being used on Warp Gate research. GLaDe’s hatch is finally finished and he sees Socke building up a force of mostly Sentries and a couple of Zealots, mainly because Hallucination is being researched for Socke. GLaDe’s all ling force rushes in right when Socke is building his expo at his natural, but is chased away by the sheer number of sentries before he can force the cancel. He rushes in to try and kill the Nexus again, but is easily pushed back, Socke’s forge finishing up as Socke’s Phoenix hallucination sees the Roach Warren, as it’s researching Roach speed and the Lair is researching burrow.
As mOOnGLaDe expands to his third behind the rocks, Socke’s force of mostly Sentries and Stalkers, with a couple of Zealots, kills the ling at each Watch Tower and pulls back, forcing Roach production. However, GLaDe pushes forward with his lings and roaches, trying to surround the Stalkers, but forcefields block the incoming roaches, and GLaDe is forced to burrow. In the start of fight, however, the robo is completed and an Observer is produced soon after, letting Socke kill of GLaDe’s lings. GLaDe’s forces are now mostly Roaches, but Socke has one Immortal up, GLaDe falls back. GLaDe has now begun production of a Hydra den, while Socke has begun production of a Robo Bay. GLaDe’s reinforcements of mostly Roaches have arrived, and he pushes once more. Once again, he fails, and falls back, as Socke builds... another Robo Bay?! Ok then. GLaDe has a nice force of Hydras, Roaches and Lings, but Socke pushes forward with his Immortal/Gateway army as he expands to the gold.
GLaDe pushes out when Hydra’s upgrade is complete and Spire is starting to build as Socke is just finishing his second Collosus and range upgrade. GLaDe cannot push into the gold due to the army and mass of cannons, and tries to fall back, but Socke pushes too hard and demolishes GLaDe’s army, with the only major damage to the Collosi being done by Socke’s own immortal. GG by GLaDe.
mOOnGLaDe 0-1 Socke
Game 2
Lost Temple now, Socke spawning at 3 while GLaDe spawns at 6. Gas and Pool going up at 14 as well as Socke’s Gateway and Gas. Once again, Socke slows the expansion with a pylon, but is quickly dealt with. GLaDe tries to smash into Socke’s walloff with a large force of lings, but is easily defended. Socke now has 4 warpgates up when GLaDe’s expo Hatch is created. GLaDe builds to lair while Socke is now building a Stargate and pushing his army to his natural, and expands. Spine Crawlers are being made for GLaDe while Socke starts sniping overlords with his new Phoenix. A Forge goes up while GLaDe builds an Evo Chamber and Hydra Den, and starts Hydra range, and Phoenix cause a bit of damage with Phoenix Harass and builds double robo and a Robo Bay while GLaDe is getting ready to expand at the gold, and building a Spire. A Sac overlord sees the double robo and Socke takes this as his time to push out, with 3 Collosi, 1 Immortal and a medium gateway army, it looks bad for GLaDe’s Hydra/Ling army, with Roaches and Corrupters just about to join the army.
The armies engage, and poor forcefields by Socke do nothing to stop most of GLaDe’s force to attack, and his new Corrupters manage to do their job and kill all of Socke’s Phoenix and Collosus, and Socke is forced to pull back, but he manages to get some Zealots into GLaDe’s gold expo, and manages to wipe out all workers there before being taken down.
Socke now has expanded to his gold while beginning to mass more Collosi. GLaDe tries to push forward before too many Collosi join the army, but with 4 there, he pulls back and tries to expand to 3 O-Clock’s natural, but Socke has a pylon there, and sends Zealots to attack the Hatch while he pushes forward with his army. In preparation for the attack, GLaDe does not cancel his Hatch and loses it.
The second big fight occurs, and, once again, poor FF’s lose the fight for Socke, all of his Collosi picked off by Corrupters and Roach reinforcement proving too strong for Socke, and his army is wiped out, as well as his proxy pylon. Socke has now gone to Immortal production, leaving GLaDe’s Corrupters nothing to do but Corrupte. Socke’s Twilight Council, which has done nothing for a while now, is now allowing the production of a Templar Archives, while GLaDe successfully expands to his fourth while trying to creep up Socke’s fourth, but fails as Socke expands there easily.
Seven Immortals are on the field, looking scary for GLaDe’s mostly Roach force, but he expands to the 3 o’clock base, making that his 5th. The third big battle occurs, with GLaDe’s Corrupters trying to act like meatshields, while Socke places some ineffective storms and FF’s, hitting the roaches and still allowing GLaDe’s forces to attack easily. Socke also manages his HT’s poorly, allowing them to walk right into GLaDe’s army, and thus, can only make one archon. Socke manages to hold, but it is hollow victory, as GLaDe quickly masses up a force of Roaches and pushes Socke’s weaker army. His one immortal, few HT’s and a Stalker force is not a match for the Roaches, and his two brand new Collosi is destroyed by the 4 Corrupters Socke ignored. GLaDe take out Socke’s newest expansion, and his gold, and after wiping out Socke’s weak final defence, he calls GG.
mOOnGLaDe 1-1 Socke
Game 3
Spawning on Metalopolis, GLaDe at 6, Socke at 3, close positions, once again, getting gas, pool and gateways at the usual times. Socke scouts GLaDe first, but judging how fast he got there, GLaDe knew where Socke was, and hits Socke with early lings, managing to kill a pylon that formed part of the walloff before being forced to pull back. Socke rebuilds the wall further back with another pylon and a gateway, while GLaDe takes the freedom to reinforce his contain with more zerglings and expo to his natural. Socke pushes a little forward with his Zealot and Stalker, and mOOnGLaDe’s Zerglings pounce! They manage to sneak past the zealot as it tries to pull back to form the walloff and cause heavy damage to both the Stalker and the Zealot before more Zergling reinforcements arrive and kill off the Zealot. A Probe tries to completely block off but Zerglings interrupt as they rush off into the base and kill of the Stalker. Unfortunately, there were only two, and easily killed. But then, more Zerglings arrive and snipe off the building Gateway, and Socke’s one Sentry is not enough to deter the attack. Socke tries to build back his wall, but his warping in Forge and Gateway is killed off, and GLaDe’s mass of Zerglings overwhelm Socke’s 2 Zealots and one Sentry, and that is GG, GLaDe wins!
Close by air on Metalopolis, GLaDe at 9, Squirtle at 6. GLaDe’s gas and pool and Squirtle’s Gateway going down on 13. Both players scout each other and GLaDe goes straight to Ling Speed, while Squirtle starts on his Cybercore. Glade then expands, while Squirtle throws out two more Gateways, then expands and sticks his mainly Sentry force outside his natural.
GLaDe now upgrades to Lair and places an evo chamber and a spine crawler down, while pushing forward with his Zerglings. Squirtle now builds a Stargate and a proxy pylon while GLaDe pokes the front, and falls back quickly. However, instead of letting the zerglings run away, he pursues them with his superior force of sentries and zealots. However, the zerglings easily run away while GLaDe gets a Roach Warren underway. Squirtle then scouts with his proxy building probe, doesn’t see anything interesting, but builds a Void Ray from his Stargate and lays a Forge down.
GLaDe, meanwhile, is getting Roach speed, +1 missile attack and burrow. Squirtle’s Void ray cause some damage, but nothing amazing, as he now starts pumping out Phoenixes. His gateway army is lacklustre. GLaDe decides to push hard with his zerglings and Roaches, and builds a Hydra den, as Squirtle starts to build a Robo. GLaDe ignores the Void Ray hitting his advancing army, and pushes into Squirtle’s natural. Squirtle pulls out some great forcefields in this battle, but since he has no robo or cannons up at this point, GLaDe simply burrows his forces. After the forcefields are gone, GLaDe rolls over Squirtle’s weak Gateway army, despite the Void Ray causing a lot of damage, and causes heavy losses to the mineral line. Eventually, Squirtle holds, but he is in trouble, and GLaDe has built up a Hydra/Ling force, as well as expanding to his 3rd and building an extra Hatch in his natural and Hydra range.
Squirtle starts up his Robo Bay, as GLaDe starts moving his force forward. As Squirtle’s Robo Bay just finishes and he starts building Collosus, GLaDe pushes his massive force of Hydras/Roaches/Zerglings start pushing into Squirtle’s base and, with his small gateway force and 1 Immortal, is easily rolled over by GLaDe’s force, the Collosus coming out too late. The GG comes soon after the Collosus rolls out.
mOOnGLaDe 1-0 Squirtle
Game 2
Spawning on Blistering Sands, GLaDe at top right, Squirtle at bottom left. GLaDe’s gas, pool and Squirtle’s Gateway both go down at 14, while Squirtle’s gas goes down at 15. GLaDe’s initial scout slightly stops Squirtle’s Cyber going down, and then moves into Squirtle’s base and steals his gas. As Squirtle sends two Probes and a Zealot to kill of the Extractor, GLaDe manages to sneak two Zerglings into Squirtle’s base and gets a surround on Squirtle’s only Zealot, killing it and forcing 7 Probes off the line to defend.
GLaDe takes his natural while sending more Zerglings into the fight to pick off a pylon (Which doesn’t go down), while Squirtle only has a Sentry on the field. He ends up having to pull 11 Probes off the line to defend. A forcefield from the dying Sentry stops some reinforcements coming in while a Zealot come out onto the field. GLaDe’s inbase Zerglings go to work attacking pylons, but are surrounded by probes and taken down. Squirtle manages to wall off with a Zealot and get another one, but GLaDe’s Zerglings are ripping down the Gateway part of the wall. Squirtle builds two Gateways, and then builds a pylon and a Gateway to wall off after the first gateway goes down. Zerglings, however, take down the warping in gateway and swarm in Squirtle’s base. Squirtle ends up sending 11 more Probes to defend, but it is not enough to stem the flow of Zerglings rushing into his base. A makeshift Zealot block is wiped out by Zerglings, and as they all smash into Squirtle’s base, he has no choice but to GG. mOOnGLaDe wins!
Sign me up only recently heard about him but have watched his stream a few times and hes a very good player hopely he can do really well and get into code s
I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on....
Moonglade was in Korea already, wasn't he? I think inviting players already in the country and willing to play is a better idea than negotiating with the US community which one of them would be a good pick.
On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on....
Well if those accomplished non-Koreans actually were in Korea I'm sure they would get seeded instead. Kinda hard to seed someone who isn't in the country. So out of the players that would have and are going to play in Code A, moonglade is a very good choice.
GLAAADE! Favourite Aussi player, in both Wc3 and SC2. I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...). Anyway, sign me up. Im definitely a fan!
You shouldn't favour a player that's in Korea already because you can't expect people to fly all the way to Korea just hoping that they'll get into the GOMtv house, that's pretty ridiculous. If a player applies for the GOMtv house, they're going to be committed to come over otherwise they wouldn't have applied. So that argument doesn't really make any sense.
Loner may have once been quite strong, but if you watched the finals between him and moonglade you can see he's dropped off quite significantly.
Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea.
On January 31 2011 03:21 LittLeD wrote: GLAAADE! Favourite Aussi player, in both Wc3 and SC2. I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...). Anyway, sign me up. Im definitely a fan!
It wasn't tod, he beat grubby in the group stages.
On January 31 2011 10:53 Space Invader wrote: You shouldn't favour a player that's in Korea already because you can't expect people to fly all the way to Korea just hoping that they'll get into the GOMtv house, that's pretty ridiculous. If a player applies for the GOMtv house, they're going to be committed to come over otherwise they wouldn't have applied. So that argument doesn't really make any sense.
Loner may have once been quite strong, but if you watched the finals between him and moonglade you can see he's dropped off quite significantly.
Please do not turn this into another 'seeding' debate thread. Go to one of the other various threads for that, this is about Glade support. Cheers.
Please accept me into the fan club. Moonglade is one of my favorite zergs to watch, because of his great macro and micro in ZvT. It's rather special = )
On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea.
I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here.
On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea.
I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here.
oh wait, yes he is, in fact the FXO manager said he was 85 on the KR ladder, ahead of all other foreigners except HuK (Idra, Jinro, Haypro, Ret, etc.).Take it out of the thread.
On January 31 2011 03:21 LittLeD wrote: GLAAADE! Favourite Aussi player, in both Wc3 and SC2. I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...). Anyway, sign me up. Im definitely a fan!
I think it was kowi who beat ToD, glade beat grubby I think...
On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on....
NonY, iNcontroL, Machine have done less than GLaDe in SC2 recently. SeleCT and White-Ra are the only players I'd put ahead of GLaDe in terms of achievements there.
On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea.
I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here.
Similarly, I can't recall anything slush, catz, lzgamer, socke, bratok, demuslim, or TLO have done recently of note - though it might be because of a lack of familiarity with big EU events. In fact, I don't know why you mention them when they are not even in Korea.
I don't know how you can call IEM qualification a 'small tournament' and say there's no one good in SEA when Kowi for one was #1 in Top 200 on NA, as well as various other players playing in higher ping getting top50 NA a while back. And GLaDe didn't just do well in these events (with 200ms ping mind you) but dominated every single event he was in. There's no guarantee anyone from that list would do the same and for half of them there's not even a really high probability.
If you want recent results and BoX series not on SEA server look at the last FXOpen Invitationals where GLaDe threw coLstalife to the lower bracket, and then knocked out CatZ, Spades (in Korea), HayprO (another Code A invite) and Azz to come top 6 in a tournament of 32 world class players. Then in the next one he put an oGs member oGsJ into the lower bracket BO3 and lost a close series 1-2 against another top oGs protoss and ex-BW player.
On top of this, GOM actually specified ladder rank would hold weight in these selections and GLaDe has been consistently among the top ranked foreigners on the Korean ladder while playing with 400 ping while in Aus - and he has just jumped up further now he is over there with the latency everyone else is using.
I am beginning to think you got beaten up by Andy as a kid or something. Can we get it out of a thread full of people who appreciate and celebrate GLaDe now?
On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on....
NonY, iNcontroL, Machine have done less than GLaDe in SC2 recently. SeleCT and White-Ra are the only players I'd put ahead of GLaDe in terms of achievements there.
On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea.
I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here.
Similarly, I can't recall anything slush, catz, lzgamer, socke, bratok, demuslim, or TLO have done recently of note - though it might be because of a lack of familiarity with big EU events. In fact, I don't know why you mention them when they are not even in Korea.
I don't know how you can call IEM qualification a 'small tournament' and say there's no one good in SEA when Kowi for one was #1 in Top 200 on NA, as well as various other players playing in higher ping getting top50 NA a while back. And GLaDe didn't just do well in these events (with 200ms ping mind you) but dominated every single event he was in. There's no guarantee anyone from that list would do the same and for half of them there's not even a really high probability.
If you want recent results and BoX series not on SEA server look at the last FXOpen Invitationals where GLaDe threw coLstalife to the lower bracket, and then knocked out CatZ, Spades (in Korea), HayprO (another Code A invite) and Azz to come top 6 in a tournament of 32 world class players. Then in the next one he put an oGs member oGsJ into the lower bracket BO3 and lost a close series 1-2 against another top oGs protoss and ex-BW player.
On top of this, GOM actually specified ladder rank would hold weight in these selections and GLaDe has been consistently among the top ranked foreigners on the Korean ladder while playing with 400 ping while in Aus - and he has just jumped up further now he is over there with the latency everyone else is using.
I am beginning to think you got beaten up by Andy as a kid or something. Can we get it out of a thread full of people who appreciate and celebrate GLaDe now?
just goes to show how little coverage of the people over on the SEA server gets. some people are clueless on even whats happening on thier own backdoor.
back on topic, good luck glade! time to put us on the map!
On January 31 2011 17:44 WAAA wrote: Del just educated some fools.. dayum.
That's how Del rolls!
OP updated with the additional interviews. Anyone have reps for those who don't/can't watch youtube vids? Actually come to think of it I might have some...
While I don't think he is top 10 non korean I do think he is a good player and hope he does well in Korea. Hoping to see him + ret/huk/haypro get into code S :D
Sorry I looked through the KR top 100 a few times and didn't see moonglade, I just missed him.
I didn't say 'small' I said 'minor'. And I said minor because the only two people with any skill in there were moonglade and Loner that I recollect.
About those players' accomplishments, there are a lot of European tournaments and most of those EU players have been placing top 8 in all of them, TLO just won one recently, and yeah sure, if you want to have a memory span of 2-3 months, iNcontrol, NoNy, and other NA or EU players maybe haven't been doing a whole lot recently, but neither have there been any major tournaments either. The last major tournaments those players were all top 8s or winners.
As for the players moonglade's been beating, you mentioned he beat Kowi, who is pretty terrible, CatZ, who has really bad ZvZ (he'll be the first to tell you this, not a dig at CatZ), Spades, who is not very good no offense bro <3, HayprO who is a baller but ZvZ is still very much a coinflip in a lot of ways so I don't really see that as anything much, Azz who is pretty bad as well, and stalife who is quite good but that may have been a bo1, even if it was bo3 there's only 1 good match he's won in. I don't know how good oGsJ is but it's ZvZ so again, not really relevant, and who was the top Protoss bw player?
I mean I'm not even trying to discount moonglade at this point, I'm really rooting for him and it'd be fantastic if he has success in Code A GSL, I think he's deserving of going to the GOMtv house, maybe not as much as others but still, SEA representation is always nice. I'm just pointing out where you guys are making claims that don't really make a lot of sense.
On January 31 2011 03:21 LittLeD wrote: I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...).
I have voted for mOOn-GLaDe at several elections over the last 5 years. I seriously draw in an extra box, list his name next to it and tick the box. Dead serious.
mOOn-GLaDe for PM yo!
By the way space invader can you STFU already? Probably some jealos smurf who can never be awesome like glade.
On January 31 2011 20:32 Hectic wrote: I have voted for mOOn-GLaDe at several elections over the last 5 years. I seriously draw in an extra box, list his name next to it and tick the box. Dead serious.
mOOn-GLaDe for PM yo!
Why didn't I think of this!
On January 31 2011 20:35 Stabby.aus wrote: you better wear something australian into the GSL player boxes
GL HF
He will prob wear an FXOpen shirt, but perhaps we can line him up with some Aussie flag boardies and thongs, Cronulla-style?
On January 31 2011 20:08 FXOpen wrote: Uh..... Sen lost 2-0 to loner, and sen is baller...
I'm not really sure how that's relevant, but when/where?
During the tournament you said there were only 2 good players..
On January 31 2011 19:52 Space Invader wrote: Sorry I looked through the KR top 100 a few times and didn't see moonglade, I just missed him.
I didn't say 'small' I said 'minor'. And I said minor because the only two people with any skill in there were moonglade and Loner that I recollect.
About those players' accomplishments, there are a lot of European tournaments and most of those EU players have been placing top 8 in all of them, TLO just won one recently, and yeah sure, if you want to have a memory span of 2-3 months, iNcontrol, NoNy, and other NA or EU players maybe haven't been doing a whole lot recently, but neither have there been any major tournaments either. The last major tournaments those players were all top 8s or winners.
As for the players moonglade's been beating, you mentioned he beat Kowi, who is pretty terrible, CatZ, who has really bad ZvZ (he'll be the first to tell you this, not a dig at CatZ), Spades, who is not very good no offense bro <3, HayprO who is a baller but ZvZ is still very much a coinflip in a lot of ways so I don't really see that as anything much, Azz who is pretty bad as well, and stalife who is quite good but that may have been a bo1, even if it was bo3 there's only 1 good match he's won in. I don't know how good oGsJ is but it's ZvZ so again, not really relevant, and who was the top Protoss bw player?
I mean I'm not even trying to discount moonglade at this point, I'm really rooting for him and it'd be fantastic if he has success in Code A GSL, I think he's deserving of going to the GOMtv house, maybe not as much as others but still, SEA representation is always nice. I'm just pointing out where you guys are making claims that don't really make a lot of sense.
You are just makeing things up.. iNcontrol has no achievements, zero, zilch, nada. Ok I lie, he finished 13th at MLG and almost almost qualified for GSL. Nony has little sc2 achievements either, in beta he came 3rd in HDH and came 4th in MLG dallas, thats one top 4 placing since release. Then you go on to call kowi, azz and spades bad (but imply catz is good? ok.. whatever). Next you go ahead and make excuses for 4 out of 4 of the wins del mentioned.. dude you are clutchign at straws here.
On January 31 2011 19:52 Space Invader wrote: Sorry I looked through the KR top 100 a few times and didn't see moonglade, I just missed him.
I didn't say 'small' I said 'minor'. And I said minor because the only two people with any skill in there were moonglade and Loner that I recollect.
About those players' accomplishments, there are a lot of European tournaments and most of those EU players have been placing top 8 in all of them, TLO just won one recently, and yeah sure, if you want to have a memory span of 2-3 months, iNcontrol, NoNy, and other NA or EU players maybe haven't been doing a whole lot recently, but neither have there been any major tournaments either. The last major tournaments those players were all top 8s or winners.
As for the players moonglade's been beating, you mentioned he beat Kowi, who is pretty terrible, CatZ, who has really bad ZvZ (he'll be the first to tell you this, not a dig at CatZ), Spades, who is not very good no offense bro <3, HayprO who is a baller but ZvZ is still very much a coinflip in a lot of ways so I don't really see that as anything much, Azz who is pretty bad as well, and stalife who is quite good but that may have been a bo1, even if it was bo3 there's only 1 good match he's won in. I don't know how good oGsJ is but it's ZvZ so again, not really relevant, and who was the top Protoss bw player?
I mean I'm not even trying to discount moonglade at this point, I'm really rooting for him and it'd be fantastic if he has success in Code A GSL, I think he's deserving of going to the GOMtv house, maybe not as much as others but still, SEA representation is always nice. I'm just pointing out where you guys are making claims that don't really make a lot of sense.
Seriously? So if moonglades wins any games it's because ZvZ is a coinflip and a bullshit matchup with no skill involved and he lucked out, and everyone else he beat is bad OR he lucked out.
Are you really posting this shit in someone's own fanclub thread. What kind of responses are you actually hoping to receive here?
On January 31 2011 19:52 Space Invader wrote: Sorry I looked through the KR top 100 a few times and didn't see moonglade, I just missed him.
I didn't say 'small' I said 'minor'. And I said minor because the only two people with any skill in there were moonglade and Loner that I recollect.
About those players' accomplishments, there are a lot of European tournaments and most of those EU players have been placing top 8 in all of them, TLO just won one recently, and yeah sure, if you want to have a memory span of 2-3 months, iNcontrol, NoNy, and other NA or EU players maybe haven't been doing a whole lot recently, but neither have there been any major tournaments either. The last major tournaments those players were all top 8s or winners.
As for the players moonglade's been beating, you mentioned he beat Kowi, who is pretty terrible, CatZ, who has really bad ZvZ (he'll be the first to tell you this, not a dig at CatZ), Spades, who is not very good no offense bro <3, HayprO who is a baller but ZvZ is still very much a coinflip in a lot of ways so I don't really see that as anything much, Azz who is pretty bad as well, and stalife who is quite good but that may have been a bo1, even if it was bo3 there's only 1 good match he's won in. I don't know how good oGsJ is but it's ZvZ so again, not really relevant, and who was the top Protoss bw player?
I mean I'm not even trying to discount moonglade at this point, I'm really rooting for him and it'd be fantastic if he has success in Code A GSL, I think he's deserving of going to the GOMtv house, maybe not as much as others but still, SEA representation is always nice. I'm just pointing out where you guys are making claims that don't really make a lot of sense.
Ok some results lately vs players you see as "Far more accomplished"
mOOnGLaDe 2-1 Liquid'Tyler mOOnGLaDe 2-1 Stalife mOOnGLaDe 2-0 CatZ mOOnGLaDe 2-0 Spades mOOnGLaDe 2-1 HayprO mOOnGLaDe 2-1 oGsJ (J went on to beat Tyler, TTOne, KiWiKaKi and Stalife in the lower bracket) mOOnGLaDe 0-3 LiquidHuK mOOnGLaDe 2-0 LiquidHuK mOOnGLaDe 0-1 LiquidHuK (Huk wins BO7 series 4-2 because he won upper bracket final etc) mOOnGLaDe 3-1 LonerPrime.WE (Who had just demolished SEn 2-0 in TW/China finals so you cant say he's bad vs zerg unless you wanna call SEn noob, GL with that)
True he hasn't done as much as some of the Europeans but they also have a shitload more tourney's on, i guess GSL and IEM is where we will see how he stacks up with them.
Long story short you look like a tard and as Paz said haters gonna hate
Space Invader, forget all the bs you think you know. Here's a link to MoonGlade's stream - http://www.justin.tv/fxomoonglade . On the bottom there's recordings of him playing on Kor ladder. Just watch and you'll see that he's a very good player who is on par with the top foreigners.
I mean, you guys don't seem to be reading my posts since I've been saying repeatedly that I think moonglade is good, except different people have been posting various nonsense so I respond to them. It doesn't matter that Loner beat Sen, fact is he played terribly against moonglade in the finals of that tournament. And yes, ZvZ is currently very volatile and you can easily win or lose by the flip of a coin. Yes he's beaten some good players, but being less-known also aids him there, since people don't know his playstyle vey well. Mind games play a giant role in sc2.
There have been what, 3 major NA tournaments since release? So NoNy placing 4th in a tournament with some of the best in the world is much more of an accomplishment than winning a tournament in which there was only one player who was any good, except it turns even he (Loner) wasn't, or maybe Loner just didn't sleep the night before or something. Maybe his pet dog was scratching at the door and distracting him throughout the matches, you never know.
Anyway, stop saying dumb shit like 'haters gonna hate' when I'm not even hating, my past 4 or so replies have just been responses to correct other people's misinformation, while asserting my support and excitement for moonglade...
There were more people in IEM Asia that were good, but didn't make it to the finals. Sen comes to mind. mOOnGLaDe has consistently proved himself in the SEA region, and has a very good chance to do well in Code A. I do see you are just trying to prevent any overhype for him if he doesn't do too well, but it just looks like you're here to bash on mOOnGLaDe because he doesn't have the fame or super pro GSL winning skills as of yet.
Oh, and it's good to see that GLaDe is staying stable on the Korean ladder, being 82nd last time I checked.
I don't really care about hype. Trying to dampen hype about a foreigner playing in the GSL sounds like a pretty idiotic thing to do anyway, and I'd have to be incredibly self-centred to think that anything I said even mattered to the public opinion in the first place. My initial post was genuine curiosity as to what moonglade had done, I didn't really know about him at all. I'd watched his stream before so I knew was playing on Korea server and all that jazz, but he just seemed to me to be pretty mediocre and cocky... I'm not saying he is, that was just my first impression. Hence I was surprised that he got into Code A.
But hell, aren't sansZenith and LiveForever in Code S now? That's just fucking moronic.
Space Invader, you're saying that you think Glade's good, but implying at the same time that he isn't good enough for GSL. I think I speak for most people posting in this thread when I say that we believe he is absolutely good enough to compete in Code A, perhaps even Code S. Say what you will about his recent tournament achievements, but getting to the top 80 on the Korean server (above the likes of EGIdrA and IMMvP as of typing) is a HELL of an achievement, especially considering he did a large proportion of that from Australia, as deL mentioned, with very high ping.
You're not achieving anything by questioning the ability of a well respected and talented player, so please, stop trolling.
That's not what I said at all... he's obviously good enough for Code A or he wouldn't have qualified. Have you seen some of the Code A players? Even I'm better than some of those guys. If I was trolling I wouldn't be being reasonable, I've stated my support for moonglade in practically every post in this thread. You are ones that are flaming me and using personal attacks.
I will quite happily put forward a donation to send you to the next GSL qualies where you can play these Code A people who you're better than, also everyone keeps playing down his win vs Loner, just because Loner didn't play fantastic everyone keeps saying he played terrible.....did anyone stop to think that maybe GLaDe just played well which made him LOOK like he played bad? IMO it looked more like GLaDe exploited timings in Loner's builds. Correct me if i'm wrong of course but that would make me lean more towards saying he played well thus making Loner second class. Maybe GLaDe was suppose to let Loner play the way he wanted so Loner could look better i don't know, i thought the priority was winning but hey, whatevs.
Constantly downplays the skill of a player in his own fanclub thread - Check Belittles the skill level of Code A - Check Makes baseless claims about accomplishments of various players - Check Belittles players who qualified for Code S, then maintained Code S through a season - Check Makes more baseless claims that every win of the player who this thread is dedicated to is either luck based or the opponent didn't sleep the night before - Check
I could list 50 more ridiculously stupid things you've done in this thread but there's not much point, you are the worst kind of troll there is - A stupid one who doesn't know when to quit.
On January 31 2011 22:18 Space Invader wrote: Even I'm better than some of those guys. If I was trolling I wouldn't be being reasonable
Right. And you consider it reasonable that you, a complete nobody, think that you're better than some of the worlds top players (Code A players). How about you fill us in on your amazing achievements and tournament wins?
On January 31 2011 22:18 Space Invader wrote: That's not what I said at all... he's obviously good enough for Code A or he wouldn't have qualified. Have you seen some of the Code A players? Even I'm better than some of those guys. If I was trolling I wouldn't be being reasonable, I've stated my support for moonglade in practically every post in this thread. You are ones that are flaming me and using personal attacks.
Not sure if someone can make themselves sound so wrong in every post by accident. You say he's good enough for Code A, then proceeds to tell us that even a nobody like you can win over Code A players.
Anyway, here's hoping Glade continues to do well in the GSL. Only thing he lacks right now is purple clothing.
Also, did he look like Athene's evil twin or something in the qualifiers or is it just me?
On February 01 2011 03:00 Autarch wrote: He is also Australian and doesn't look like a nerd, so I automatically love him.
George Sotiropoulos is my other man crush.
I don't know about that, most pros don't even look like nerds. Artosis is the nerdiest of them all and he's pretty much on the godlike level of gorgeousness. Pimp out the glasses more.
On January 31 2011 21:55 Space Invader wrote: And yes, ZvZ is currently very volatile and you can easily win or lose by the flip of a coin.
Stop saying that, this was true about 1-2 months ago but it's no longer valid. ZvZ has reached a very stable point right now and players like Ret and IdrA consider it their favourite MU because it is as Ret once said "the only MU that is fair". There's no coinflipping there.
On January 31 2011 21:55 Space Invader wrote: And yes, ZvZ is currently very volatile and you can easily win or lose by the flip of a coin.
Stop saying that, this was true about 1-2 months ago but it's no longer valid. ZvZ has reached a very stable point right now and players like Ret and IdrA consider it their favourite MU because it is as Ret once said "the only MU that is fair". There's no coinflipping there.
It's a lot of zerg's favourite matchup because of how weak zerg is with the current map pool, not because it isn't volatile.
On January 31 2011 21:55 Space Invader wrote: And yes, ZvZ is currently very volatile and you can easily win or lose by the flip of a coin.
Stop saying that, this was true about 1-2 months ago but it's no longer valid. ZvZ has reached a very stable point right now and players like Ret and IdrA consider it their favourite MU because it is as Ret once said "the only MU that is fair". There's no coinflipping there.
It's a lot of zerg's favourite matchup because of how weak zerg is with the current map pool, not because it isn't volatile.
It's may be a match up that can be decided by the slightest thing, so in that regard it is volatile. But it is very very far from a coinflip or luck based match up.
On February 01 2011 16:33 MooiSh wrote: It's may be a match up that can be decided by the slightest thing, so in that regard it is volatile. But it is very very far from a coinflip or luck based match up.
It's a coinflip because build-order losses are so common. If you go pool first and the other Zerg goes hatch first you're basically all in because you're so far behind. If you go hatch first and the other Zerg goes 9pool then you'll normally lose, I've held off 9pools without getting behind going 15hatch before but 90% of the time if you don't die outright you'll be behind. If you go Baneling and the other Zerg goes Roach you're again so far behind that you either have to go all in or rely on a mistake by them. If you don't scout extremely well, or can't, and they go all-in you will normally lose. And there's so many other situations where you can just lose outright because their build beats your build. Most of the time scouting is pretty unreliable which doesn't help at all.
Please stop flaming me and calling me a troll, I haven't trolled anywhere in this thread, I made one joke thread and that's it.
On February 01 2011 16:33 MooiSh wrote: It's may be a match up that can be decided by the slightest thing, so in that regard it is volatile. But it is very very far from a coinflip or luck based match up.
It's a coinflip because build-order losses are so common. If you go pool first and the other Zerg goes hatch first you're basically all in because you're so far behind. If you go hatch first and the other Zerg goes 9pool then you'll normally lose, I've held off 9pools without getting behind going 15hatch before but 90% of the time if you don't die outright you'll be behind. If you go Baneling and the other Zerg goes Roach you're again so far behind that you either have to go all in or rely on a mistake by them. If you don't scout extremely well, or can't, and they go all-in you will normally lose. And there's so many other situations where you can just lose outright because their build beats your build. Most of the time scouting is pretty unreliable which doesn't help at all.
Please stop flaming me and calling me a troll, I haven't trolled anywhere in this thread, I made one joke thread and that's it.
Don't hatch first without scouting. Going 14 gas/14 pool your first 4 lings can enter his base and scout a baneling nest or roach warren building before your baneling nest finishes so you can snap cancel it. Also going pool before hatch isn't an autolose, it's definitely a lot harder to come back and could be construed as a BO loss but I see IdrA do it a fair amount and it's always the same response, so it seems he has found a transition at least to even out the field. I mean your entire post feels outdated, all your points were all trueish a month ago but at this point they're pretty invalid. You should maybe watch Mr. Bitter's ZvZ Foundation VOD with LiquidRet.
Don't get offended that people are calling you a troll, it's just that you seem really confident about stuff that is no longer true. That and saying "scouting is pretty unreliable" is pretty erroneous. I find ZvZ the easiest matchup to scout with actually what with no walloffs and overseers after you both hit lair tech. I mean by the time you no longer get enough information with lings is around the time you'll have an overseer anyway.
On February 01 2011 22:57 tangwhat wrote: Don't hatch first without scouting. Going 14 gas/14 pool your first 4 lings can enter his base and scout a baneling nest or roach warren building before your baneling nest finishes so you can snap cancel it. Also going pool before hatch isn't an autolose, it's definitely a lot harder to come back and could be construed as a BO loss but I see IdrA do it a fair amount and it's always the same response, so it seems he has found a transition at least to even out the field. I mean your entire post feels outdated, all your points were all trueish a month ago but at this point they're pretty invalid. You should maybe watch Mr. Bitter's ZvZ Foundation VOD with LiquidRet.
Don't get offended that people are calling you a troll, it's just that you seem really confident about stuff that is no longer true. That and saying "scouting is pretty unreliable" is pretty erroneous. I find ZvZ the easiest matchup to scout with actually what with no walloffs and overseers after you both hit lair tech. I mean by the time you no longer get enough information with lings is around the time you'll have an overseer anyway.
In ZvZ it's more efficient to hatch first without scouting, I feel pretty confident holding off any pressure unless they go allin which is a different situation. The reason IdrA wins with pool first is actually basically because ZvZ can be so luck-based, as well as the fact that he's just a lot better than most of them. I've watched all of Mr. Bitter's videos, I don't lose ZvZs because of a lack of understanding but just because they go allin and I haven't prepared sufficiently.
The thing with scouting is, yeah once you get to Lair you have Overseers and speed upgrade, but that's not the dangerous point of the game. The point of the game where scouting really matters and where it's most-often denied is in the first few minutes, because the pool-firsting Zerg has map control the only way you can get information is with Overlords - that is, checking his expo. Some Zergs will make the expo, though, and then proceed to allin. So its not always reliable.
Don't complain about losing to 9pool and earlier when you hatch first then? It's got nothing to do with luck, if you don't scout you have to accept that you will inevitably lose to a 9pool occasionally, if you drone scout then you will never lose to a 9pool. Also I don't know how you can say IdrA wins because ZvZ is luck-based then go on to say in the exact same sentence that he's better than them. If it was luck-based he wouldn't be beating them because he was better than them. I don't even see how it's luck-based, there's a small timing window for IdrA to attack with in order to set the hatch first on the backfoot so that IdrA can catch up in the macro game. This is a case of someone understanding the matchup and being better, it's got nothing to do with luck. I don't even know how you can actually say you can't scout with lings early on in the game, zerg can't wall off and if you're running your first 4 lings straight into his base without waiting there's no possible way for you to not get scouting information. I don't know how you can be wrong so vehemently and make so many excuses for holes in your gameplay. You're not going to get better at the matchup if you keep saying you can't do this and you can't do that when high level ZvZ disproves literally everything you say.
Went on a bit of a mOOnGLaDe day today! Watched him win the IEM again, then watched his interview with Artosis, then listened to an interview he did with TB. What a stand-out bloke. All round nice guy, humble, polite, good man.
Glade didn't get into tsl with the korean / korean living invites.. So someone needs to get him to play the last two qualifiers.. :D Need. Him. To. WIN IT!!
I wanted him to get invited too, I think he deserves it more than haypro absolutely, but with only 13 invites, and pretty much every TL member guaranteed in....ionno, lets put it this way
3 protoss 5 zergs (moonglade would be the 6th if he were invited sicne haypro is TL) then MVP, Foxer, Boxer, Nada, Jinro
I agree completely, but TL isn't gonna exclude their own player over moonglade, i think moonglade is not only better but deserves it more (he stomped loner 3-1, and has won everything in sea as well as top 200'd 4 servers) But oh well
On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on....
this is sc2 dude. winning the asian IEM finals is a bigger achievement than those guys in bold have accomplished.
On February 13 2011 18:07 blae000 wrote: Glade didn't get into tsl with the korean / korean living invites.. So someone needs to get him to play the last two qualifiers.. :D Need. Him. To. WIN IT!!
It would require some all-nighters from him while he is practicing hard for Code A so not sure if he can do it!
Also I am curious about the Norwegian who is a big fan of the Aussie player Is there a story behind that?
Don't forget that HayprO has competed in GSL before as a qualifier so though he doesn't seem to have many significant tournament wins he has proven himself capable of competing on the toughest stage the world can offer yet!
On February 13 2011 18:07 blae000 wrote: Glade didn't get into tsl with the korean / korean living invites.. So someone needs to get him to play the last two qualifiers.. :D Need. Him. To. WIN IT!!
It would require some all-nighters from him while he is practicing hard for Code A so not sure if he can do it!
Also I am curious about the Norwegian who is a big fan of the Aussie player Is there a story behind that?
Don't forget that HayprO has competed in GSL before as a qualifier so though he doesn't seem to have many significant tournament wins he has proven himself capable of competing on the toughest stage the world can offer yet!
Hehe, no story. ;D He is a great player and love watching him play and thats all ;D It's not the easiest thing to try and follow his play from the other side of the world tho.. GSL matches usually start early in the morning for me so I get to see quite a lot of those matches.. So yea, can't wait to follow him in GSL.. :D
Hope to see him in offline turnaments over here in Europe or NA.. Fighting! ~
Off to the bottle shop to get some XXXX.. maybe just one or something (they are actually not the best beer... but yea.. Brissy representing)... GLaDe fighting!
On February 23 2011 16:40 KDN wrote: Off to the bottle shop to get some XXXX.. maybe just one or something (they are actually not the best beer... but yea.. Brissy representing)... GLaDe fighting!
I heard that during the peak of the floods the XXXX brewery had to close down That sucks.
Anyways; currently my ISP (Netspace) is doing a shit job of fixing a problem at my local exchange. I'm so pissed right now, if they don't fix it by tomorrow evening... I'm not going to be able to watch... Grrr...
I'm currently attempting to setup my HTC Desire to tether the connection with my PC, hoping that the 3G will be fast enough - however I'm having some difficulty (if anyone knows anything about doing this PLEASE PM me!). I'm gonna have to keep an eye on twitter or whatnot to see the results! Add me if you can: @DUCKVILLELOL - let me know how the games go!
On February 23 2011 16:40 KDN wrote: Off to the bottle shop to get some XXXX.. maybe just one or something (they are actually not the best beer... but yea.. Brissy representing)... GLaDe fighting!
I heard that during the peak of the floods the XXXX brewery had to close down That sucks.
I live & work the next suburb over, went for a walk down there and took some photos during the floods. Was pretty crazy. If you tour the brewery they actually have a red line on the inside of the walls showing how far under it went in the '73 floods.
Anywho, GOOOOO ANDO!!!
Glad to hear he's pumped and not nervous. Total chiller!
We still love you Moonglade! JJun turned out to be a beast. Don't let it get you down, we're still backing you 100%. Here's hoping you stay in Korea... there's always next season!
On February 25 2011 22:39 mOOnGLaDe wrote: Sorry guys, ill definitely be back to try again. Please keep cheering for me >o<
i highly commend your performance, out of all the foreigner seeds, i doubt anyone else would've felt more pressure than you to succeed.
you were matched up against a very scary terran. his initial build threw you off and i feel as though you were not playing a tip top game as you were undoubtfully under much much stress.
you have to remember that there is a big disadvantage when it comes to playing vs koreans, they usually all hide their playstyle whilst foreigners generally have plenty of replays, tournament shows, and what is now normal for players, streams.
much love for you glade, you're still my favourite zerg
On February 25 2011 22:39 mOOnGLaDe wrote: Sorry guys, ill definitely be back to try again. Please keep cheering for me >o<
Good to hear. I told those guys that you weren't just there to have a crack and walk away if you didn't win, you're the type of guy who would stick at it until you win the GSL! Aim your goals high man, this fanclub will catch you if you fall.
[QUOTE]On February 25 2011 23:04 mikell wrote: [QUOTE]On February 25 2011 22:39 mOOnGLaDe wrote:
you have to remember that there is a big disadvantage when it comes to playing vs koreans, they usually all hide their playstyle whilst foreigners generally have plenty of replays, tournament shows, and what is now normal for players, streams.
much love for you glade, you're still my favourite zerg [/QUOTE]
Really? What I hear from the interview after the game, he said he had no idea who moonglade was soo maybe since both of them don't know each others play,,, it cancels each other out and turns out to be even ;d
Go moonglade! The skill you showed despite only just arriving in Korea was impressive. Just bad luck in drawing Destination in the first round. Hopefully GOM will give you another seed in the next code A.
On February 26 2011 00:29 red4ce wrote: Go moonglade! The skill you showed despite only just arriving in Korea was impressive. Just bad luck in drawing Destination in the first round. Hopefully GOM will give you another seed in the next code A.
honestly, i think they should give 4 different people the code a spots next season, because you can't just keep giving it to the same people and them going out in the first round over and over again, next season should have 4 different seeds, give them a chance.
An unfortunate loss for Glade - Jjun is indeed a decent player - I'll just note for the record, that kid had the 3kill against slayers in team league, (including beating Boxer) plus he also beat ensnare a little while ago - both players are quite decent in their TvT's - so they were clearly some great players.
Next up for Glade is IEM! Once I have some more info I'll clean up and change the OP over a little bit and we can all look forward to that!
On February 26 2011 00:29 red4ce wrote: Go moonglade! The skill you showed despite only just arriving in Korea was impressive. Just bad luck in drawing Destination in the first round. Hopefully GOM will give you another seed in the next code A.
honestly, i think they should give 4 different people the code a spots next season, because you can't just keep giving it to the same people and them going out in the first round over and over again, next season should have 4 different seeds, give them a chance.
Agreed. mOOnGLaDe would have really settled in Korea by the time the next GSL rolls around, and i'm sure he'll qualify for Code A that way.
On March 02 2011 20:38 Duckvillelol wrote: Can someone write me a quick report of IEM regarding glade? Unfortunately I haven't seen any, no time at all
I really doubted that MoonGlade could advance out of this group and until now he plays amazing and is undefeated. He is just so laid-back and adorable.
Mate you are looking like an absolute sicko at IEM. I really hope you keep trying in GSL, you clearly have the talent... if anybody outside Korea does.
mOOnGLaDe is second in Group B, losing to Moon 2-0. He will be playing Morrow in the quarterfinals tommorow. Practice your ZvZ and get a lot of sleep mOOnGLaDe!
I just watched a couple of the Vods, that is some awesome stuff.
I'm going to cast a couple of the games, I figure an Australian accent wouldn't hurt right? I'll probably do it tomorrow/Saturday, I'll give you guys a heads-up once they are done, stay tuned on youtube.com/duckvillelol
If anyone has any extra analysis of the IEM games Glade played and you would like to see it in the OP, please PM it to me - I want to put a little IEM section in there.
On March 03 2011 16:01 Duckvillelol wrote: I just watched a couple of the Vods, that is some awesome stuff.
I'm going to cast a couple of the games, I figure an Australian accent wouldn't hurt right? I'll probably do it tomorrow/Saturday, I'll give you guys a heads-up once they are done, stay tuned on youtube.com/duckvillelol
If anyone has any extra analysis of the IEM games Glade played and you would like to see it in the OP, please PM it to me - I want to put a little IEM section in there.
Yeah sure, I'll watch the replays and give the summary for use on your IEM section, if that's what you want?
Lets all throw some shrimp on the barbie for moonglade!!!
what a baller, I do wish him the best as I've always felt he was vastly underrated in the worldwide scene but after stomping Loner, his group, and now Morrow, I wish him the best against a diffcult matchup in Ace.
On March 04 2011 12:07 deL wrote: Nice work duckville keeping this thread updated etc
Thank you sir
Bout to do the casts of IEM with my own Australian flavour - stay tuned, I'll try and update the OP with everything that has gone on today/yesterday by the end of tonight.
On March 04 2011 12:07 deL wrote: Nice work duckville keeping this thread updated etc
Thank you sir
Bout to do the casts of IEM with my own Australian flavour - stay tuned, I'll try and update the OP with everything that has gone on today/yesterday by the end of tonight.
If you do his games vs Squirtle I'd be happy to join you to commentate if you like :D I didn't see those ones yet n_n
On March 04 2011 12:07 deL wrote: Nice work duckville keeping this thread updated etc
Thank you sir
Bout to do the casts of IEM with my own Australian flavour - stay tuned, I'll try and update the OP with everything that has gone on today/yesterday by the end of tonight.
If you do his games vs Squirtle I'd be happy to join you to commentate if you like :D I didn't see those ones yet n_n
If my "timetable" works out this weekend that should be fine :D
Also providing I can fix my sound issues. I had tried to do a dual commentary with someone a while ago but my sound settings are fucked and I have no idea how to fix it. :S
I saw moonglade in the GSL Code A and saw he got knocked out really quickly. I didn't think he was up to standard with the other pro's and thought he would get knocked out early in IEM.
I then saw him at IEM and he was like a wrecking ball. It was like he suddenly knew everything he was doing wrong and corrected them. Its like he went into the hyperbolic time chamber and came out as a super saiyan.
Whatever he did to improve his play made me a huge fan of moonglade.
Oh man, this could be really awesome for Glade :D However, it could make people cast doubts on his real Korean potential unfortunately. "Oh, first he gets Code A invite, then Up/Down Invite!" Hater gonna hate. GOGO MOONGLADE <3
Fuck yea, he's a fuckn destroyer. Go moonglade, all the way baby!
I agree with the moon statement, the series against Moon was so close, could have gone either way. Ace is fuckn scary, Z v P is scary atm, he got this either way :D
ZvP is hard and ace is super solid. I cant help but feel that ZvP metagame should switch to Z taking very fast 3rd (before 7minutes) as a respond to a P expand and go from there (see aquanda zvp style).
The "standard" style of being 2 base vs 2base until your lair tech is kicking in seems incredible hard and puts Z on the passive position almost always
On March 03 2011 16:01 Duckvillelol wrote: I just watched a couple of the Vods, that is some awesome stuff.
I'm going to cast a couple of the games, I figure an Australian accent wouldn't hurt right? I'll probably do it tomorrow/Saturday, I'll give you guys a heads-up once they are done, stay tuned on youtube.com/duckvillelol
If anyone has any extra analysis of the IEM games Glade played and you would like to see it in the OP, please PM it to me - I want to put a little IEM section in there.
Yeah sure, I'll watch the replays and give the summary for use on your IEM section, if that's what you want?
Yeah if you could that'd be great, now that the run is over. PM it to me when you're ready
Alrighty guys I'll update the op shortly, gotta collect up all the info lol!
Also I casted the games v morrow - they are right here
Edit: OP updated, if more info comes in let me know
Glade, bl last night bud. Was cheering hard from home, but Ace was incredible.... The 2 colo push seemed plan abusive, tbh!
Best of luck tonight against Squirtle! Its all about the moolah now. Hoping you can win that extra few G's to stay in Korea another couple of months! It's clearly done well for your game.
You played strong, some bad luck and of course Ace is on a roll. Well done though, amazing tournament so far! Good luck with the next game and can't wait to see what you do next! 화이팅/HWAITING!
On March 03 2011 16:01 Duckvillelol wrote: I just watched a couple of the Vods, that is some awesome stuff.
I'm going to cast a couple of the games, I figure an Australian accent wouldn't hurt right? I'll probably do it tomorrow/Saturday, I'll give you guys a heads-up once they are done, stay tuned on youtube.com/duckvillelol
If anyone has any extra analysis of the IEM games Glade played and you would like to see it in the OP, please PM it to me - I want to put a little IEM section in there.
Yeah sure, I'll watch the replays and give the summary for use on your IEM section, if that's what you want?
Yeah if you could that'd be great, now that the run is over. PM it to me when you're ready
I'll get right on it, but we still get to enjoy GLaDe messing up Squirtle!
You are a beast sir! You went toe to toe with ace and were pretty close despite a shitty map draw. You came closer to taking a match off him than anyone else in the tournament. Keep training hard and you'll be the Idra of SEA
On March 05 2011 15:19 Thereisnosaurus wrote: You are a beast sir! You went toe to toe with ace and were pretty close despite a shitty map draw. You came closer to taking a match off him than anyone else in the tournament. Keep training hard and you'll be the Idra of SEA
On March 05 2011 15:19 Thereisnosaurus wrote: You are a beast sir! You went toe to toe with ace and were pretty close despite a shitty map draw. You came closer to taking a match off him than anyone else in the tournament. Keep training hard and you'll be the Idra of SEA
Yeah glade did extremely well, a few weeks in korea made him an absolute beast, I hope he can stay there for longer--because in a few months he'll be a god.
Sad about Code A but let's face it, he's in some very august company, it's amazing the quality of players who don't manage to qualify. Very tough and some luck required too, sadly.
Still, it's not like we are short of tournaments these days. Go hard MG! Keep practicing! SEA server demands victories! : D
On March 27 2011 15:07 RPR_Tempest wrote: Bad news, guys. He got knocked out of the Code A qualifiers first round
Seems he got knocked out in a ZvZ against MvP_Violet, and since Glade's been visiting the MvP house they were quite possibly practice partners, which makes it even more unfortunate. Violet went on to qualify for Code A though.
Sorry I haven't updated the OP in a while guys... Been really busy updating my youtube casting and things like that, not to mention normal life!
I'll update it really soon, if anyone has particular pics, info, recent events they want in the OP please let me know here or @ me on twitter, I'll get it done asap - I will of course grab things myself, but just in case I miss anything everyones input would be appreciated!
Unlucky with the 2nd and 3rd games in the World Championship set tonight, it looks like the pressure might have been getting through to you a bit, it happens to the best of us. The first game was absolutely awesome, though!
Oh, and that queen micro was amazing.
Keep fighting, I'll be cheering for you in your next tournament!
Outstanding play in game1. But it feels that Moonglade lacked practice or doesnt have a very refined builds against forge/nexus 1st Protoss compared to gate openings
Dont feel bad tho lol, if every zerg gave up after losing vs P we would not have any zergs left :D
On March 31 2011 23:34 ABOOMAN wrote: Outstanding play in game1. But it feels that Moonglade lacked practice or doesnt have a very refined builds against forge/nexus 1st Protoss compared to gate openings
Dont feel bad tho lol, if every zerg gave up after losing vs P we would not have any zergs left :D
I think its more the maps that make the forge expand different to deal with.. With time we all perfect :D
I feel sorry that your tournament performance has yielded very poor results however you need to keep at it because if you stop now, there's literally no Australians out there
nice work dude! I think you could have punished DDE's main a bit harder in game 2 when he was superturtling at the gold with your mutas, but I figure you were just trying really hard to deny the 5th and 6th, which was plenty good enough to crush him like the insect he is compared to you ^^
I was banned from chat because it couldn't contain my love so I'm saying it here Moonglade will you take me as the tides take the water and make me your lover? Or if not could you just be all "Hey RockIronrod I hear you man and you're a pretty attractive dude."
Hey Sexyglade, how are you doing? I'm sad that you seem to have (personal?) problems and cannot play as good/much as you want. Is there anything we fans can do to help you get/feel better?
We are all looking forward to see more of you, maybe in the GSTL or big international tournaments...
- your Nerdette obsKura <3
(Always enjoyed watching you pwning as NE in WC3. )
On July 05 2011 14:56 galdab wrote: Hey guys. Just wanted to let you all know that mOOnGLaDe will be holding master classes at the Canberra AIE next week. Deets are here.
Sorry for the late notice but I only just found out myself.
Hey gal, that is incorrect information. The organisers never followed up and he didn't confirm to join this event. Thanks!
On July 05 2011 14:56 galdab wrote: Hey guys. Just wanted to let you all know that mOOnGLaDe will be holding master classes at the Canberra AIE next week. Deets are here.
Sorry for the late notice but I only just found out myself.
FUCK I MISSED IT BY 1 DAY MOTHERFUCKER!! Sigh. Thats shit
EDIT: Oh thank god. It didnt happen. Does anyone know if something like that could happen again?
Sign me up! Really impressed with your semi-aggressive low-eco roach style, it's so refreshing to see compared to the usual mass-droning to infinity style, hope you keep it up and I hope to see you in more tournaments and hope you do well .
Haven't heard much from sir GLaDe lately, after he split with FXO and all.. I hope he still enjoys the game and finds a supportive team.. Cuz' this guy is to awesome! ♥ Gogo mOOnGLaDe!
Good news for all the Glade fans! He's back streaming and will be playing full time and compete in WCG! He has had multiple offers from teams already and is willing to move to Korea if a team wants to! (I asked him last night on his stream ^^)
Please be Beasty, his ZvT has always been sick good but i would prefer him not to run into an uber korean so early and DarKForcE has a fucking good ZvZ GLaDe to coL?? Why u no like teams Andy :O
Thanks to MarineKing dicking around against DarKFoRcE, mOOnGLaDe has to go up against him. Well, if he can beat MarineKing, he can beat anyone except Mvp.
I can see him beating mkp. Just watched the replays from blizzcon, and he seriously had MVP beat on map 1, but botched an attack where a head on push would have won him the game and had a long, drawn-out fight for game 2, that he was also close to winning. On top of that, there's lots of material about mkp against zerg from gom, but not nearly as much on moonglade. Mkp haven't looked to convincing the last week and if moonglade keeps scouting mkp (you know he's gonna do something crazy), well, I believe!
mOOnGLaDe, you had MarineKing on the ropes and showed a very entertaining series. You have nothing to be ashamed of and should hold your head high for making it to Ro16 ahead of players like Sen and IdrA.
mOOnGLaDe will be competing in the ACL Gold Coast StarCraft II tournament this weekend, January 21 & 22 2012! Looks like there will be live streams, but if you are in the Brisbane/Gold Coast area perhaps think about attending and showing your support. I will be going and I'll try to get some good photos.
Well played Moon Glade!!! Just saw a game of you vs fOrGG on the Kr ladder. Totally wrecked him with an early roach bust. Good to see Moonglade using his fav roaches.
On July 12 2012 08:45 tetris_sc2 wrote: Is moonglade still around? he hasnt been on his account for about 13 weeks. maybe he only plays on korea nowdays?
ofc he's been around last weekend he was in melbourne competing in two of the biggest Australian Lans GESC and ACL Melbourne! Does you not follow your local scene?
Also mOOnGLaDe just qualified for IEM Gamescom in Cologne (again!)... here's hoping he can repeat (or improve upon) his 3rd place at this tournament. :D
On January 02 2013 13:52 mcmartini wrote: So just looking at the SEA podcast thread and in the OP it says moonglade quit progaming but I can't find any othe info?
I don't know where you read that? The SEA podcast thread I looked at (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=322382) had nothing about Glade. Not to mention he qualified for IEM Katowice and this match of him vs Jaedong went up yesterday http://de.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1602ld/jaedong_vs_moonglade_replay_cast/
Hey. You're great on SoTG. I watched some of your stream, too.
I hope you'll consider streaming with commentary. Possibly streaming in higher quality. The way you can talk about the game on SoTG I bet you'd get many more viewers.
M00nGlade is awesome and a really nice guy (Of course he is, he is Australian!). Only ever met him online though on SEA server. But seems as nice as person.
I hope he continues his stint on SoTG and does well in the IeSF and ACL.
On May 02 2013 16:20 mOOnGLaDe wrote: Thanks guys :D Really pumped for the ro16, going to be training like crazy of the next couple of weeks and hopefully can go even further <3
Great job! Can't wait to watch. I am quite happy with the WCS system right now...
On episode 3 of meta Moonglade did a shoutout to a friend of his who is working on an indie game trying to get up on Steam's Greenlight system. Anybody know the name of it or have a link so I can throw in the support? Watched the VOD rather than live so didn't get the chat link.
Nice job on your advancement yesterday, keeping it close right up to the end! Will definitely be cheering for you in the Ro8.
I'm curious though, when you get to the late game with ultra / infestor / ling, why not mix queens in to transfuse the ultras, like, e.g., Suppy does? Too slow off of creep then? Or is it just that you have enough bank to replace the ultras if they die, and would rather keep that supply elsewhere?
You keep playing epic ZvTs that go back and forth >.< I knew you had forgotten about those corruptors in g3 vs thestc, they were sitting at that base for so long, but then when i saw broods morphing on the prod tab i knew you had won ^^ SeaKing #1
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