On February 04 2016 19:12 SC2Toastie wrote: Also, no Maru in ANY pro tournament (except Proleague) until june/july is a really poor joke and another reason WCS Welfare is a disgrace to this games competitive scene.
I hate WCS as much as you but maru didn't compete much in foreign tournaments anyway. edit: sign me up. probably my favourite player now that TaeJa and PartinG are basically gone
On February 04 2016 19:12 SC2Toastie wrote: Also, no Maru in ANY pro tournament (except Proleague) until june/july is a really poor joke and another reason WCS Welfare is a disgrace to this games competitive scene.
On February 04 2016 19:11 SC2Toastie wrote: What cost him his games was early game, everytime. The current way balance is in TvP the Terran is disadvantaged both in early and late game. The medivac phase before Protoss has sufficient infrastructure is where Terran has to win or get a snowball lead. The early game random shenanigans on Protoss' end caused Maru to never be able to hit his window. That is where he lost. Whilst Liberator Range is nice, it's not really that useful that you'd miss production of 3 liberators for it. I don't believe it was an unconcious mistake on Marus end to not grab LibRange.
But he did put up one hell of a fight in G1 (although it took Zest suiciding his army to even the game up)
Yes, I was only referring to game 1 (if that's the Dusk Tower one). And to be fair to Zest, when he suicide his army, even with the observer point of view I though he would be the one to come on top. It is possible I just misread it, but I prefer think that Maru made it happen! :p
On February 04 2016 19:12 SC2Toastie wrote: Also, no Maru in ANY pro tournament (except Proleague) until june/july is a really poor joke and another reason WCS Welfare is a disgrace to this games competitive scene.
I hate WCS as much as you but maru didn't compete much in foreign tournaments anyway. edit: sign me up. probably my favourite player now that TaeJa and PartinG are basically gone
Sure, but that's still 'a few' more times, plus a might-have-been third season of GSL and SSL. small occurences adds up each time.
On February 04 2016 19:11 SC2Toastie wrote: What cost him his games was early game, everytime. The current way balance is in TvP the Terran is disadvantaged both in early and late game. The medivac phase before Protoss has sufficient infrastructure is where Terran has to win or get a snowball lead. The early game random shenanigans on Protoss' end caused Maru to never be able to hit his window. That is where he lost. Whilst Liberator Range is nice, it's not really that useful that you'd miss production of 3 liberators for it. I don't believe it was an unconcious mistake on Marus end to not grab LibRange.
But he did put up one hell of a fight in G1 (although it took Zest suiciding his army to even the game up)
Yes, I was only referring to game 1 (if that's the Dusk Tower one). And to be fair to Zest, when he suicide his army, even with the observer point of view I though he would be the one to come on top. It is possible I just misread it, but I prefer think that Maru made it happen! :p
On February 04 2016 19:12 SC2Toastie wrote: Also, no Maru in ANY pro tournament (except Proleague) until june/july is a really poor joke and another reason WCS Welfare is a disgrace to this games competitive scene.
I hate WCS as much as you but maru didn't compete much in foreign tournaments anyway. edit: sign me up. probably my favourite player now that TaeJa and PartinG are basically gone
Sure, but that's still 'a few' more times, plus a might-have-been third season of GSL and SSL. small occurences adds up each time.
A possible third season, Maru did go abroad occasionally, and especially in this situation where there is nothing to do for 6 months, he might have takes a break for a weekend to go party abroad.
But no, lets redesign the whole WCS system to feed money to foreigners and kill the korean scene. Sounds solid.
On March 18 2016 22:49 Liman wrote: Anyone knows why Maru doesnt play on line tournaments?
Allegedly KESPA wasn't happy about his olimoleague appearance. Something about cup not being prestigious enough. BTTV said that many players are not allowed to participate in lesser tourneys.
Well in general there's also the thing that the bigger KeSPA teams - mostly CJ, KT and SKT - won't allow their players to play smaller online events because the prize pool isn't worth having the players expose themselves and their playstyles(in regards to Proleague). For example, I don't remember the last time I've seen a KT player attempt to qualify for anything smaller than Kung Fu Cup.
And maybe Maru just doesn't feel like it. Who knows how many annoying messages he got after that one time he exposed his barcode account in Olimoleague
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