The Stephano Fan Club - Page 414

On July 16 2012 11:59 Azarkon wrote:


He said he was thinking about the GSL for a while. This thread talked about it before, and from reading the LR threads, that's what people still think he's going to do. Not playing in the GSL has its own benefits, but I think a lot of people hoped he was going to try to play it once before he retires.

On July 16 2012 12:56 revel8 wrote:
Let's celebrate the moment with spontaneous Dancing! Enjoy before Azarkon criticises choreography and predicts party is over! LOL

Credit to trenog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DDpok5Uhi4&feature=player_embedded

On July 16 2012 13:16 revel8 wrote:
Credit to Phothreenix for great vid! In before Azarkon criticizes cinematography and concludes imminent death of movie industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1dxwwKbwto8

On July 16 2012 12:36 NevaN wrote:
@azarkon- Then who do you suggest us to portray the player your opinion is seeing?? You can't demand out from him to produce perfect games man for other players train so much harder than him yet commits more mistake than Stephano. and i assure you, 200% in your game your not that perfect too. Don't litter the thread of your opinion that he is declining for you yourself can simply look at the results.Anyway as someone has said haters gonna hate.

On July 16 2012 14:41 Azarkon wrote:


Sorry, but it's dumb as hell to say that I was hating on him.

People have short memories. Before this NASL started, nobody who had a clue thought that Stephano was going to stomp HerO and MC.

This is the information we had available:

* Stephano was frustrated with his ZvZ and was losing to players way below his level
* He was coming off of two 0-2 losses against Protoss players a tier below the level of HerO and MC PvZ
* His play vs. Protoss was weaker in those two matches than what he had before
* Stephano had a losing record vs. MC
* Stephano had a losing record vs. HerO
* MC was preparing his PvZ to face DRG
* DRG had said that MC was the best PvZ in the world
* HerO was coming off of a 3-1 win against DRG
* Stephano said that he hasn't practiced in two weeks, and that his fans 'should not expect much from him'

There was not a single rational supporting argument, going into NASL, for why Stephano was going to stomp HerO and MC besides blind faith. He had, at best, 50-50 records against both players in his former prime, and HerO was starting to be the next big thing when it came to PvZ.

Everybody knew this and everybody accepted this. Hell, people started bitching about how unfair it was that Stephano had to play in the hardest bracket in NASL while HuK and Ret had easy paths. Turn the fanclub back 10-20 pages and you're going to see tons of people saying that they're worried about Stephano getting far in NASL. I merely made the additional argument that, in the case that he loses to HerO in the Ro8, he won't have enough time to change his play and form before MLG Summer Arena, which is stacked harder than NASL, and that another loss there = he's starting to fall off the map for favorites to win a tournament, which for Stephano is a slump.

Obviously, this is no longer a problem for Stephano because he just won NASL, and that win is going to last him a while given who his opponents were. It's going to take another 5-6 months before he needs another big win to keep his best NA / EU player tag around. How he performs in MLG Summer is now irrelevant because in the case he bombs out in the group stages, all people need to do is wave at NASL and say that, well, everybody loses.

But saying that people knew Stephano was going to do that well in NASL before yesterday is ridiculous. All the information we had said that he was going to lose, but he managed to pull a miracle.

On July 16 2012 14:41 Azarkon wrote:


Sorry, but it's dumb as hell to say that I was hating on him.

People have short memories. Before this NASL started, nobody who had a clue thought that Stephano was going to stomp HerO and MC.

This is the information we had available:

* Stephano was frustrated with his ZvZ and was losing to players way below his level
* He was coming off of two 0-2 losses against Protoss players a tier below the level of HerO and MC PvZ
* Stephano had a losing record vs. MC
* Stephano had a losing record vs. HerO
* MC was preparing his PvZ to face DRG
* DRG had said that MC was the best PvZ in the world
* HerO was coming off of a 3-1 win against DRG
* Stephano said that he hasn't practiced in two weeks, and that his fans 'should not expect much from him'

There was not a single rational supporting argument, going into NASL, for why Stephano was going to stomp HerO and MC besides blind faith. He had, at best, 50-50 records against both players in his former prime, and HerO was starting to be the next big thing when it came to PvZ.

Everybody knew this and everybody accepted this. Hell, people started bitching about how unfair it was that Stephano had to play in the hardest bracket in NASL while HuK and Ret had easy paths. Turn the fanclub back 10-20 pages and you're going to see tons of people saying that they're worried about Stephano getting far in NASL. I merely made the additional argument that, in the case that he loses to HerO in the Ro8, he won't have enough time to change his play and form before MLG Summer Arena, which is stacked harder than NASL, and that another loss there = he's starting to fall off the map for favorites to win a tournament, which for Stephano is a slump.

Obviously, this is no longer a problem for Stephano because he just won NASL, and that win is going to last him a while given who his opponents were. It's going to take another 5-6 months before he needs another big win to keep his best NA / EU player tag around. How he performs in MLG Summer is now irrelevant because in the case he bombs out in the group stages, all people need to do is wave at NASL and say that, well, everybody loses.

But saying that people knew Stephano was going to do that well in NASL before yesterday is ridiculous. All the information we had said that he was going to lose, but he managed to pull a miracle.