T-minus 5 days until Hero v Supernova. Supernova's TvP is powerful but gimmicky, with them living in the same house we'll see if Hero adapts to beat it.

Maps:

(P)

HerO <Entombed Valley> (T)

SuperNoVa
A safe map, Hero has held cheese on this one before and has exhibited great warp prism play. Calling this one in his favor.

(P)

HerO <Metropolis> (T)

SuperNoVa
PvT on this map has looked quite fair. MKP has shown very powerful Hellion openings to be very useful, and Parting has dismantled Marine Marauder Medivac Tank with almost pure stalker here. I think Hero will opt to take the fight to Supernova early on this one. A lot of harassment opportunities here due to base layout, so I'd give Hero the advantage here.

(P)

HerO <Atlantis Spaceship> (T)

SuperNoVa
Don't know too much about this map, but the openness of makes me have to give an advantage to Supernova with expert kiting with midgame bio aggression. Hero will need collo here.

(P)

HerO <ESV Ohana RE> (T)

SuperNoVa
On ladder Hero's broke fairly even on this map. All the vT attempts at early aggression I've seen have backfired though so I expect him to try and play this one more defensively (which suits the map IMO) with a FFE into reasonably quick third once HT are out. Calling this one 50-50.

(P)

HerO <ESV ClouD Kingdom> (T)

SuperNoVa
From the race statistics recently, I think this map is Hero's to lose. P in the current metagame is quite dominant on this map and Hero beat MVP handily in a non-gimmicky match. If it goes to a 5th game I can't see Hero being unhappy with this selection for the map. Advantage Hero.

GGYO

wwowz

Canada156 Posts

April 28 2012 13:07 GMT

#4962

I'm pretty sure HerO doesn't mind the wig at all. Wearing wig or that kind of stuff is normal in Korean Variety shows so, I bet HerO had so much fun as well. It is common for Korean "celebs" to be made fun in korean culture.
Don't worry about how lame the show was for HerO and how bad he would've felt. I have no doubt that HerO had fun and it was all part of a joke. Besides, he didn't shy away or anything

He didn't complain about playing 2v1 or 3v2 - he took the challenge and lost. No big deal

I bet HerO wants us to have a good laugh instead of bashing away the show in which he was casted.

HerO! It was totally awesome what you did in the show and we are very grateful of it. Thank you for everything and I wish you the very best for your GSL Ro8!!!

HerO for the GSL champion!!!

kochujang

Germany1226 Posts

April 28 2012 14:23 GMT

#4963

I agree. I think people are making a bigger deal out of OTR than it really was. As wwowz have already said, this is pretty normal in the Korean Variety shows and OTR was pretty harmless in comparison. Of course it was a bit embarrassing for HerO, but that is part of the game and nothing HerO couldn't handle. Even though this OTR was a bit rough on the edges and the 1v2 and 2v3 challenges kinda fell flat, I am generally happy to see HerO getting such exposure. I can't get enough of HerO :D

wwowz

Canada156 Posts

April 28 2012 14:44 GMT

#4964

Btw amazing performance against Crazymoving on NASL. For those of you who missed it, here are the links:

+ Show Spoiler +

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Angel_

United States1617 Posts

April 29 2012 18:37 GMT

#4965

whoa! when did HerO get the new twitter background? It's awesome! But now his haircolor is different o.o

Porcelina

United Kingdom3249 Posts

April 29 2012 19:06 GMT

#4966

On April 30 2012 03:37 Angel_ wrote:
whoa! when did HerO get the new twitter background? It's awesome! But now his haircolor is different o.o

That background is really, really nice. Getting such fangirly feelings.

Already getting nervous for the Code S quarters. Will be a wreck by Tuesday I think, but one shall persevere.

Mordanis

United States893 Posts

April 30 2012 15:27 GMT

#4967

From HerO's twitter:

WHEN I'M SAD I STOP BEING SAD AND BE AWESOME INSTEAD

There is literally no way to explain just how amazing hero is ♥