On December 04 2012 13:59 tigonridge wrote: We've already seen how streaming compromises his competitive chances. It's far more exciting imo to see Ilyes play at 100% effort in tournaments, than 85% effort in less meaningful ladder games. No, thank you.
What? He has not streamed in a long time. He used to stream quite a bit before tournaments and still kick ass.
If anything, him streaming shows that he is practicing and in a set routine, rather than travelling everywhere all over the world on planes and not practicing at all. I would say that seeing stephano streaming would be a good thing.
You don't have to stream to practice. Stephano himself had stated that streaming hurts his tournament winning chances. Are you implying that you know him better than he knows himself? He'll stream whenever he feels like streaming. No need to pressure.
On December 04 2012 13:59 tigonridge wrote: We've already seen how streaming compromises his competitive chances. It's far more exciting imo to see Ilyes play at 100% effort in tournaments, than 85% effort in less meaningful ladder games. No, thank you.
What? He has not streamed in a long time. He used to stream quite a bit before tournaments and still kick ass.
If anything, him streaming shows that he is practicing and in a set routine, rather than travelling everywhere all over the world on planes and not practicing at all. I would say that seeing stephano streaming would be a good thing.
You don't have to stream to practice. Stephano himself had stated that streaming hurts his tournament winning chances. Are you implying that you know him better than he knows himself? He'll stream whenever he feels like streaming. No need to pressure.
Dude, what are you talking about? If Stephano isn't streaming he isn't playing. Are you new to this fanclub? We've been tracking his practice habits for the past six months at least. If he doesn't stream, with rare exceptions, he plays maybe at most, say, 5 games a day (but usually none). His practicing on stream is better than not playing at all. I fail to see how streaming compromises his competitive chances. He has been doing more or less the same builds for the past year (with some slight variations in his vP) and he plays in a million tournaments. There are therefore a million VODs of Stephano playing and he's the most studied foreigner. When he streams he usually will play somewhere between 2 and 5 hours, which is better than 0 to 1. This is why we want to see him stream, in addition to its being entertaining.
On December 04 2012 13:59 tigonridge wrote: We've already seen how streaming compromises his competitive chances. It's far more exciting imo to see Ilyes play at 100% effort in tournaments, than 85% effort in less meaningful ladder games. No, thank you.
What? He has not streamed in a long time. He used to stream quite a bit before tournaments and still kick ass.
If anything, him streaming shows that he is practicing and in a set routine, rather than travelling everywhere all over the world on planes and not practicing at all. I would say that seeing stephano streaming would be a good thing.
You don't have to stream to practice. Stephano himself had stated that streaming hurts his tournament winning chances. Are you implying that you know him better than he knows himself? He'll stream whenever he feels like streaming. No need to pressure.
Dude, what are you talking about? If Stephano isn't streaming he isn't playing. Are you new to this fanclub? We've been tracking his practice habits for the past six months at least. If he doesn't stream, with rare exceptions, he plays maybe at most, say, 5 games a day (but usually none). His practicing on stream is better than not playing at all. I fail to see how streaming compromises his competitive chances. He has been doing more or less the same builds for the past year (with some slight variations in his vP) and he plays in a million tournaments. There are therefore a million VODs of Stephano playing and he's the most studied foreigner. When he streams he usually will play somewhere between 2 and 5 hours, which is better than 0 to 1. This is why we want to see him stream, in addition to its being entertaining.
Maybe he has a separate account for practicing.....
On December 04 2012 13:59 tigonridge wrote: We've already seen how streaming compromises his competitive chances. It's far more exciting imo to see Ilyes play at 100% effort in tournaments, than 85% effort in less meaningful ladder games. No, thank you.
What? He has not streamed in a long time. He used to stream quite a bit before tournaments and still kick ass.
If anything, him streaming shows that he is practicing and in a set routine, rather than travelling everywhere all over the world on planes and not practicing at all. I would say that seeing stephano streaming would be a good thing.
You don't have to stream to practice. Stephano himself had stated that streaming hurts his tournament winning chances. Are you implying that you know him better than he knows himself? He'll stream whenever he feels like streaming. No need to pressure.
Dude, what are you talking about? If Stephano isn't streaming he isn't playing. Are you new to this fanclub? We've been tracking his practice habits for the past six months at least. If he doesn't stream, with rare exceptions, he plays maybe at most, say, 5 games a day (but usually none). His practicing on stream is better than not playing at all. I fail to see how streaming compromises his competitive chances. He has been doing more or less the same builds for the past year (with some slight variations in his vP) and he plays in a million tournaments. There are therefore a million VODs of Stephano playing and he's the most studied foreigner. When he streams he usually will play somewhere between 2 and 5 hours, which is better than 0 to 1. This is why we want to see him stream, in addition to its being entertaining.
Maybe he has a separate account for practicing.....
That's the most likely scenario, imo. Don't most pro players have secret separate accounts for practicing anonymously? Makes perfect sense to me.
Will Stephano play in the match vs KT Rolster? Probably not right, since he is in EU now and on twitter he sounds as if he isn't leaving for korea any soon.
On December 05 2012 04:37 Nadacambia wrote: Will Stephano play in the match vs KT Rolster? Probably not right, since he is in EU now and on twitter he sounds as if he isn't leaving for korea any soon.
Stephano's twitter implies not. He will play in MSI Pro Worldwide tournament and HSC this month. He also will play in Iron Squid 2 and IEM Poland qualifiers online. Presumably he will fly to Korea at some point next year, part of the timing of that will depend on whether he progresses in Iron Squid 2 and IEM Poland. Both of those tournaments take place in the last two weeks of Jan 2013.
On December 04 2012 13:59 tigonridge wrote: We've already seen how streaming compromises his competitive chances. It's far more exciting imo to see Ilyes play at 100% effort in tournaments, than 85% effort in less meaningful ladder games. No, thank you.
What? He has not streamed in a long time. He used to stream quite a bit before tournaments and still kick ass.
If anything, him streaming shows that he is practicing and in a set routine, rather than travelling everywhere all over the world on planes and not practicing at all. I would say that seeing stephano streaming would be a good thing.
You don't have to stream to practice. Stephano himself had stated that streaming hurts his tournament winning chances. Are you implying that you know him better than he knows himself? He'll stream whenever he feels like streaming. No need to pressure.
Dude, what are you talking about? If Stephano isn't streaming he isn't playing. Are you new to this fanclub? We've been tracking his practice habits for the past six months at least. If he doesn't stream, with rare exceptions, he plays maybe at most, say, 5 games a day (but usually none). His practicing on stream is better than not playing at all. I fail to see how streaming compromises his competitive chances. He has been doing more or less the same builds for the past year (with some slight variations in his vP) and he plays in a million tournaments. There are therefore a million VODs of Stephano playing and he's the most studied foreigner. When he streams he usually will play somewhere between 2 and 5 hours, which is better than 0 to 1. This is why we want to see him stream, in addition to its being entertaining.
Maybe he has a separate account for practicing.....
That's the most likely scenario, imo. Don't most pro players have secret separate accounts for practicing anonymously? Makes perfect sense to me.
It is certainly possible but we never were able to find a likely account. Unless he's playing custom games against other pros (which he claims to rarely do) and then lying about not practicing in interviews and on twitter, it's pretty unlikely he has a smurf account no one is aware of. The former manager of this fanclub claimed he has one smurf that he uses to offrace as Terran. I forget the name. If you search for "stephano" on SC2find you'll find it. It's mid masters in EU.
Yes, but Rotterdam didn't follow him around all day so perhaps, when everyone thought he was sleeping, Stephano would sneak off to an Internet cafe and then log into his secret smurf account to play custom games against other pros. j/k. I'm pretty sure bling also confirmed that he doesn't practice (back when they were always hanging out) but I don't have a source to link to.
On December 07 2012 04:59 styLesdavis wrote: Stephano just lost against the mighty Hanfy (Germany) 1:2. Now he is going to fight against Harstem in the losers bracket.
EPT
