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StarVe
Germany13591 Posts
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The_Darkness
United States910 Posts
On January 15 2013 00:35 tigonridge wrote: The common theme is him winning in foreign tournaments. Basing winability on overall Elo is a mistake, due to the nature of Starcraft. I do have faith in him. Not blind faith, though. Since his Elo corresponds with his excellent results, you're wrong. And your position about not having "blind faith" is reasonable, but the way you post it, and the number of times you've posted it, tells me you're likely a troll. You've made your point. Please stop posting. | ||
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hyperdemented
Austria372 Posts
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Sephinor
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revel8
United Kingdom3022 Posts
On January 15 2013 00:15 tigonridge wrote: He definitely will improve, because he's Stephano. No one is talking smack, just talking fact. My view of Stephano is pretty much the same as it was months ago, when he was still winning. Same with how much I feel supportive of him. It's good to have a balanced perspective of the people you admire. You should try it sometime. I do have a balanced perspective. Always. Don't presume to insult me because you have a pessimistic view on things. | ||
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tigonridge
United States71 Posts
On January 15 2013 01:26 revel8 wrote: I do have a balanced perspective. Always. Don't presume to insult me because you have a pessimistic view on things. If I were pessimistic, I would've said that he's never going to improve his ZvZ. Don't presume to call me a whiner or trash talker because you can't handle constructive criticism. | ||
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Vanadiel
France961 Posts
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Thurken
961 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=393058 Here is an excerpt : "Every Zerg player feels inspired whenever they see Stephano initiate a build order. I can't help but think that Stephano is probably the best player when it comes to decision making." Kespa players are already fans  And if Stephano reads this thread : Rest well and we have faith you will fix your ZvZ and get your confidance back in this matchup! | ||
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The_Darkness
United States910 Posts
On January 15 2013 02:20 Thurken wrote: For those of you you didn't see it, here is an interview of Hydra about his performance in the Proleague match EGTL vs CJ : http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=393058 Here is an excerpt : "Every Zerg player feels inspired whenever they see Stephano initiate a build order. I can't help but think that Stephano is probably the best player when it comes to decision making." Kespa players are already fans And if Stephano reads this thread : Rest well and we have faith you will fix your ZvZ and get your confidance back in this matchup! Thanks for highlighting the article. I always love reading stuff like this. The Korean commentators apparently were gushing over his build against byoung as well, so his reception byKESPA-related parties seems to be exceptional. What makes his decision making and builds (outside zvz  ) even more impressive is that Stephano to this point seems to figure everything out on his own. He has no coach or team helping him think things through, and he doesn't even grind away on the ladder to gain the sort of intuition you get from just playing tons of games. The guy is a genius. | ||
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Thurken
961 Posts
MVP is first in the GSL ranking so he chose first. He won't pick Stephano (stephano beat him in IS pretty convincingly). But 2nd best GSL point winner, who will 100% be a zerg (Sniper, Life or DRG) will pick him (even if a crazy upset happen like Huk making in through because he will be picked by MVP). And when you are in this group, the last picked is the last player remaining, i.e a zerg (it has always been like that). That means Stephano + 2 zergs. If MVP isn't in ro16. Stephano will be picked by a zerg but the last player of the group will be the 9th picked up, so less likely a zerg. (but i think even in this best case scenario, it is at least 50% chance there are two zergs+him the way the system works) If the nomination is randomed it will be better. | ||
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tigonridge
United States71 Posts
On January 15 2013 08:44 Thurken wrote: I know it is a bit of a useless reasoning but I hope MVP doesn't qualify for ro16, because in this case Stephano is screwed if the nomination process is the same. MVP is first in the GSL ranking so he chose first. He won't pick Stephano (stephano beat him in IS pretty convincingly). But 2nd best GSL point winner, who will 100% be a zerg (Sniper, Life or DRG) will pick him (even if a crazy upset happen like Huk making in through because he will be picked by MVP). And when you are in this group, the last picked is the last player remaining, i.e a zerg (it has always been like that). That means Stephano + 2 zergs. If MVP isn't in ro16. Stephano will be picked by a zerg but the last player of the group will be the 9th picked up, so less likely a zerg. (but i think even in this best case scenario, it is at least 50% chance there are two zergs+him the way the system works) If the nomination is randomed it will be better. I actually want Steph to go up against as many zergs as possible in the short-term. It's the best kind of motivation for him to temper his ZvZ. | ||
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dust7
199 Posts
On January 13 2013 11:06 tigonridge wrote: Stephy vs CJ Entus HerO + Show Spoiler + I love how Hero replied to Stephano to even the score and reduce the chance of Stephano being DQd. | ||
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MapleLeafSirup
Germany950 Posts
On January 15 2013 02:20 Thurken wrote: For those of you you didn't see it, here is an interview of Hydra about his performance in the Proleague match EGTL vs CJ : http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=393058 Here is an excerpt : "Every Zerg player feels inspired whenever they see Stephano initiate a build order. I can't help but think that Stephano is probably the best player when it comes to decision making." Kespa players are already fans And if Stephano reads this thread : Rest well and we have faith you will fix your ZvZ and get your confidance back in this matchup! Thanks for that: What i also found really interesting was Sola's interview: How did you prepare for today's match?  Sola - I studied Stephano's VODs so that I could prepare my strategies as I tried to match his play style so in the end, I told myself that I was fully capable of winning. I noticed that Stephano likes to play it safe so I decided that I would try to play an economic game before he could and then optimize my build order by going for roaches in order to secure my victory.GSL players will do the same and study him extensively so Stephano needs to adapt to this way of practice. Otherwise he will lose to players that are weaker than him (hack and bogus are weaker than him in my opinion) | ||
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Vanadiel
France961 Posts
On January 15 2013 08:44 Thurken wrote: I know it is a bit of a useless reasoning but I hope MVP doesn't qualify for ro16, because in this case Stephano is screwed if the nomination process is the same. MVP is first in the GSL ranking so he chose first. He won't pick Stephano (stephano beat him in IS pretty convincingly). But 2nd best GSL point winner, who will 100% be a zerg (Sniper, Life or DRG) will pick him (even if a crazy upset happen like Huk making in through because he will be picked by MVP). And when you are in this group, the last picked is the last player remaining, i.e a zerg (it has always been like that). That means Stephano + 2 zergs. If MVP isn't in ro16. Stephano will be picked by a zerg but the last player of the group will be the 9th picked up, so less likely a zerg. (but i think even in this best case scenario, it is at least 50% chance there are two zergs+him the way the system works) If the nomination is randomed it will be better. It will depend on what other player qualify too, Sniper did pick Huk but Hyun picked BBoongBBoong, which means that he was less confident against Stephano than BBoongBBoong. It is true that his ZvZ is his worst matchup, and he can loose against Zerg that are supposed to be worst than him, but he's also able to win against the best Zerg in the world (DRG and Life for example). That's why he hasn't be choosed by Sniper or Hyun in round 1, even if it's ZvZ it's far from a Free Win against him. | ||
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Anjellycar
Sweden416 Posts
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zedrOne
France471 Posts
3 liquid player streaming. together it's like 2.5 k. Jaedong stream : 3k stephano : 5k and it's not a great time for US viewer now. | ||
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CTIA
France117 Posts
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fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium4031 Posts
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hyperdemented
Austria372 Posts
On January 16 2013 01:18 fLyiNgDroNe wrote: honestly i've never seen Stephano missing so many injects and banking so much money in midgame... yeah i also noticed that the last time he was streaming. i think thats also a big reason why his zvz is so unstable, in other matchups its less noticable because units countering units, but in zvz roach wars like against DRG recently or his match against the Samsung khan zerg, the player with better injects usually wins | ||
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MapleLeafSirup
Germany950 Posts
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