SOULKEY WINS THE GSL FINALS (HOTS) FUCK YEAH This is the fan club of SoulKey currently one of the best Zerg players in Broodwar who has come to Starcraft 2, are you ready for the awesomeness that his aura gives off beware not for the faint hearted. Broodwar team: Woongjin Stars Real Name: 김민철Kim Min Chul Birthday: 1991-12-10 Race in Bw/Sc2: Zerg/ Zerg * credit to Opterown
(rumor) Supposedly IS one of the best / best SC2 BW player right now
Broodwar history: SoulKey(SK) really hit it off around 2010, becoming a staple zerg player in the woongjin zerg line up who had to rely mostly on ZerO before then. He went on Killing sprees and allkills taking down big names like Leta, Kal, Calm, Bisu, Bogus and Fantasy. Some say he started a revolution, using the "spawn Broodling"* ability from queens to take tanks outs against mech. Also inspiring this in a way: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=217470 *Thankyou N.geNuity He’s solid is all match ups with an overall 84 wins and 59 loses (58.74%)* ZvT: 32-30 (51.61%) ZvP: 27-14 (65.85%) ZvZ: 25-15 (62.50%) *Only counting KeSPA standard league games INTERVIEWS + Show Spoiler +
Soulkey is going to win the OSL. Everyone keeps talking about how he's apparently sick good at SC2, but it's all a massive bluff and instead he's been doing nothing but practice BW. Soulkey conspiracy theory gogo!
To SC2 fans this guy is currently the hottest zerg in BW. JD is still good but until he finds a way to channel his inner Tyrant it will stay this way. Supposedly one of the best / best SC2 BW player right now (rumors).
also a very important game from soulkey, before this using queens against mech was done rarely, after this it went so mainstream it felt like he started a revolution.
On May 16 2012 11:20 Fionn wrote: Soulkey confirmed in his winner's interview that he is GM on the Korean ladder.
Becoming GM after just a few weeks is actually mind blowing! I mean right now he probably is the No.1 Zerg in the world, but even Flash is still high Master I think. I guess we'll have to wait for the 20th to witness the glory that will be the double format Proleague. As much as I hate seeing the dusk of BW, I'm excited for these highly talented players to have a fresh start on a new game.
Someone should also create a fanclub for ZerO, Soulkey's teammate (I can't find one). Throughout most of last year, ZerO was the better player and even made it to the finals of the MSL, taking out Jaedong along the way. I think Soulkey and Zero are going to be the Zergs to watch.
Gotta be in! I got Soulkey on my FL team and was hyping him up before he rose to become the monster he is right now. IMO, he's well on his way to becoming the best mixed-format (BW/SC2) progamer, fingers crossed. Hope to see him at MLG too, I tweeted at them as soon as they started spreading BW rumors, to recommend Soulkey for an invitation.
On May 16 2012 11:20 Fionn wrote: Soulkey confirmed in his winner's interview that he is GM on the Korean ladder.
Becoming GM after just a few weeks is actually mind blowing! I mean right now he probably is the No.1 Zerg in the world, but even Flash is still high Master I think. I guess we'll have to wait for the 20th to witness the glory that will be the double format Proleague. As much as I hate seeing the dusk of BW, I'm excited for these highly talented players to have a fresh start on a new game.
No.1 Zerg? No way! Top 50 for sure though, since 200/3= 67 and there are many pros with multiple accounts in GM.
I'm gonna start it off, its not very good as i can only draw anime like things T_T but i love Soulkey and so should u so come and post some fanart!! + Show Spoiler +
I wouldn't think so. The segregation of GSL/Kespa players were for the Kespa players protection. If Kespa players want to play against the best then they'll have to prove themselves like the rest. If they had a kespa only qualifier it would only serve to coddle the kespa players or derive opportunities for Code B players that deserve a shot.
In my opinion. I love me some Soulkey but it would taint the experience if he was seeded for simply being a bw pro.
Kespa players don't have big fanclubs unless it is TBLS minus Stork (:/). You could say that Innovation as the possibly best current player deserves more than 12 pages aswell.
Oh man, I was feeling pretty good but after coming to this fanclub and seeing that it has only 5 pages of posts, I feel depressed. Please sign me up. This guy is a total genius. IMO he's the strongest zerg in the world in zvz and zvt and probably overall, despite the lack of major tournament results.
On May 15 2013 01:38 The_Darkness wrote: Best zerg in the world IMO. The scariest thing about his performance today is that his vP is arguably his weakest matchup.
I think you are pretty spot on here, SK has the momentum to win this GSL.
Soulkey's nickname in China Starcraft community is "永康", name of a Chinese singer who looks pretty like Soulkey, or "吹牛苏", for contrast to other modest Kespa players, Soulkey always talks with confidence, sometimes just overconfidently.
Translate the script in the picture into English: ----------------- I, and I alone, am qualified for the Championship.
My main goal was to find a good VOD of his amazing Queen play vs Mech in BW. When nobody thought Queens were any good, especially against Mech, Soulkey brought them to light and started smashing good players with it. However I couldn't find a good VOD for it quickly. =\ But these will suffice!:
Oh awesome! Thank you so much for posting that geNuity! That's immediately what I think of when I think Soulkey, but I was drawing a blank on a good example of his Queen play. Lol.
So, so good. I'll reiterate that I beleive he's the best zerg in the world. He's capable of beating Innovation. He's the only zerg to take a macro game off Innovation as far as I know.
On May 27 2013 12:15 Mistakes wrote: No new posts on Soulkey's fanclub page in a day and he's in the GSL finals vs Innovation? Something must be wrong! How is he not getting more love??
i think im partly to blame, its not as pretty as the other fanclubs and i've been really busy T_T sry
Dont let the Game of the Week section for this week of PL fool you the Innovation Soulkey match write up i think is quite a misrepresentation of the actual game AND THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD BE HYPED FOR SOULKEY!
While whirlwind is certainly a strong Zerg map in the sense that rush distances are long, so the zerg (in the defense) will have an advantage, due to closer rallying. Also by the same line of thinking, the overall strength of a timing/allin/rush would be a bit weaker (ignoring meta stuff). Which i think actually either favours innovation or is pretty such 50/50, (i definitely wouldnt say in this particular match up it favours Zerg (any zerg) simply because Innovation is considered to be his strongest in long macro games. So if allin's are weaker (just in "power" of timing/units) this should favour innovation as its more likely to enter the mid-late game. Where Terran has built up their economy, to be able to afford to utilize drop play to its fullest.
Where u have enough of a standing army backed by a strong econ to not leave ur standing army crippled. Also because of the way WW expos work in cross positions, where the expos become further away from each other and relatively closer to the terran expos, makes drop play extremely powerful. Though we dont actually see this really take place in the mid game, only when Innovation sniped the 4th of Soulkey did they come into play. (excellent choice to turn into drops, but more on that later)
So i really do think this game was extremely close(rather than innovation , its starts off pretty normally, (some mistakes by soulkey with the oviespeed cancel and restart) but overall just very good executed build orders. (soulkey see the 3rd of innvo being taken and instantly stops unit production, go macro-spire, baneling nest, 2-2 and banespeed and droning up to ~80) Also Soulkey utilized his lings really well in the early game, basically dont taking any damage from the hellion, keeping innovation wary of counter attacks and runbys and all that good Soulkey jazz does lose a bunch of lings due to innovations excellent game sense.
Soulkey plays it extremely well, using all this to stay even with innovation (strong econ, delay/stopping early pressure) Once innovations 2-2 is half way done he starts up the aggression(arriving just when 2-2 is about done), pressuring the 4th. However soulkey takes advantage of the defensive position above the ramp. (the ovie speed upgrade helps greatly here in keeping up with the mutas to snipe mines) Innovation decides to settle for a light contain sending a few units up the ramp to see what can be done. Soulkey makes an awesome decision here, instead of gathering everything up at the 4th to attempt to push down the ramp he splits his rallying units into two groups 1. reinforcing the 4th and 2. sending a group to counter attack. The goal of the counter attack was probably to stutter the rallying units of innovation, soulkey with a closer rally point uses the wave of units after the counter attack group to break the contain. With no reinforcements and a new surge of units soulkey crushs the contain. Putting innovation on the back foot with nothing achieved.
This part already shows Soulkeys excellent understanding of the match up; when to tech, when to drone, at what times to counter attack and why. This allows him to defend innovations 2-2 timing with easy.
Soulkey's hive tech finishes and he decides to use a tactic, he splits off a group of lings to morph into banes near the 4th of innovation and moves his main muta-bling-ling force towards the innovations 3rd. Innovation seeing this moves to the 3rd ready to defend. Now defending this correctly would require innovation to have split a small portion of units to the 4th and keep the bulk at the 3rd. However without knowledge of this coming and soulkeys true intentions, innovation gets pulled left and right, first to defend the 3rd, seeing the banelings rolling in at the 4th and the mutas retreating pulls innovation to the right, soulkey instantly doubles back and runs down the 3rd of innovation while he's out of position. Taking out the scvs and CC thought at the cost of his banes/lings. Soulkey probably feels its worth the trade, because his mutas escape relatively unscathed, his ultra tech, adrenal glands, 3-3, a 5th and 6th hatch are on the way.
Innovation knowing that soulkey has lost a large portion of his ground force begins to attack again, while retaking his 3rd. However due to Soulkeys constant larvae injects is already has a decent sized bling ling force, ready to defend. Soulkey defends the attack pretty much like before, using the position above the ramp. However innovation sends a small force to soulkeys 3rd sadly the ultra den is also there, heres where soulkeys makes a blunder he sends his group of lings and baneling to deal with the small force, but right at that moment innovation also push up the ramp at the 4th, making soulkey bring back all the bling/ling (under 1 control group) to defend, with ALL the lings (should have left a small amount to finish the clean up) running to the 4th the innovations small force takes out the ultra den! Soulkey still manages to clean up everything at the 4th and 3rd in the end, but he now has a pretty large bank of gas which should have been ultras, (also important to note Soulkey has a ton of larva through out the whole game) although he could use his gas on more banes, but when the Terran reaches 3-3 you really need ultras to deal with them banelings just dont cut it alone at this point. (30~ larva 1.2k minerals and 700 gas if only that ultra den was still up)
Innovation still hasnt taken this 5th base his main and nat are mined out. He goes of another two pronged attack, Soulkey manages to crush the larger force at his 3rd but a small squad of mmm snipe the 4th (note soulkey hasnt been able to transfer and establish his 5th and 6th bases yet, with drone transfer routes being in the two paths innovation is attacking down and STILL no ultra den remade) At this point soulkey is in a lot of trouble, unable to use his gas on ultras he puts them into 7mutas and +3 airattack (definitely what u dont want to be making when trying to deal with 3-3 mmmm, he's muta pack was already big enough he didnt really need those 7 mutas)
Soulkey is dead at this point, his 5th and 6th not mining (just moved drones across) 4th down, main and nat mined out (or near) no ultra tech, and GG's with 800gas in the bank when innovation pushes a final time (note he's nearly mined out and theres no CC started)
Overall even tho innovation won, i was Soulkey i would be pretty content with how i played and going into the GSL finals. Soulkey played absolutely amazingly, the game was extremely close and if not for a few small things such as ultra den in main, or creep spread further out at the 4th as it was pushed back during the 2-2 timing (he would have spotted the small force and killed it before it sniped the hatch) Or even leaving a few lings and banelings to kill that group of mm at the 3rd. He would have been in a fantastic position, ultras pushing innovation back just for a bit, to allow drones to the 5th and 6th, he would be a 6 base zerg with 12 available gases! There was no instant god-like macro switch turned on, it was innovation standard macro and SOULKEY was knocking it back like a BOSS :D
SOULKEY you are amazingly, <3 innovation ought to be scared of you! This finals is gonna be amazing SOULKEY HWAITING!!!
On May 27 2013 12:15 Mistakes wrote: No new posts on Soulkey's fanclub page in a day and he's in the GSL finals vs Innovation? Something must be wrong! How is he not getting more love??
i think im partly to blame, its not as pretty as the other fanclubs and i've been really busy T_T sry
Haha. I still think it's a pretty page! =P The pictures of Soulkey's face make up for the other parts possibly being less-pretty. XD
I loved reading the predictions set by the GSL casters in the recent interview about the finals. I copied them below: + Show Spoiler +
Caster Predictions
GSL Director Mr. Chae: Soulkey 4 - 3 Innovation
I expect a very close duel. Innovation and Soulkey are the very best players at both sides of the TvZ match-up. I predict a 4:3 score, with Soulkey winning the championship. Bogus is very good at TvZ macro games but I don't feel that his widow mine use is perfect just yet. On the other hand, I don't see any weaknesses in Soulkey's ZvT play. With Innovation's series planning and macro play going up against Soulkey's defense, I predict a tight series that goes all seven games.
Ahn "Engine" Joon Young: Soulkey 4 - 2 Innovation
The two players play different races, but their play styles are not dissimilar. They detach small forces to harm the enemy's economy and use their resource advantage to overpower their opponents. If there is a difference, Soulkey shows tight defense first before going for one, concentrated attack, while Innovation tries to win with constant reinforcement and production of forces. I predict that they'll be somewhat passive in the early game, avoiding big fights while focusing on harassment. Since Innovation's main weapon is constant trading, I think the damage taken from harassment will hurt him more. I predict a 4 : 2 advantage or so in Soulkey's favor.
Hwang "Gisado" Young Jae: Innovation 4 - 2 Soulkey
Personally I think this is a clash between the best ZvT and TvZ players, and I'm excited for very high level games. The critical point will be the game where Soulkey decides to bring a strong all-in type strategy. If it succeeds, then Soulkey will take the initiative and will be able to focus even more on standard play in the following game. However, since Innovation has played well on maps where Terran is disadvantaged, and because there are many maps that are good for the large scale macro games that Innovation prefers, I predict that he will take a 4 - 2 victory.
Park Dae Man: Soulkey 4 - 2 Innovation
These two players are the top players at their races, and they've already shown very close matches when they've gone head to head, so I'm very excited for this final. There's going to be a lot of big baneling and mine hits in the game, so both players need to stay calm as they play. From an viewers perspective, I think there will be a lot of really exciting, edge of your seat games. The standard scenario will have Innovation being the spear, going up against Soulkey as the shield. The thing to look out for will be which map Soulkey wants to use a special strategy. I think Soulkey will play a little better in a big game on the big stage, so I predict a 4 - 2 victory for him.
In addition, I'd like to point these quotes out: + Show Spoiler +
Q: What are Soulkey's strengths and weaknesses? A: I can't see a clear weakness. Rather than try to exploit my opponent's weaknesses, I want to approach the game looking to take advantage of my strengths.
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Q: What do you think of Soulkey? A: He is the best Zerg player right now, and if I want to beat him I have to work even harder.
Maybe a little less confident than previous matches? Granted going into the finals is a big deal, so there's a lot of stress and pressure on Innovation.
Also, CatZ tweeted earlier that he wanted to take bets:
Wut, so few fans here even though Soulkey's probably the best Zerg atm. I guess Zergs have lots of choices in terms of who to support, and they've got decent foreigners to idolise lol.
Everyone said he can't beat innovation in a macro game, yet he comes back from 0-3 to dominate in amazing style with great macro play. Such a fan of this guy, showing amazing composure to pull that off.
Soulkey was the best Zerg towards the end of Brood War and it was a real pity that he didn't get to shine before the BW pro-scene died. Glad to see him winning this GSL. When Kespa Zergs such as Jaedong, Zero, and Effort are getting all the attention Soulkey was just practicing hard and silent under the shadows. When Soulkey finally won the GSL with tears in his eyes I was so deeply moved. It was the same feeling I had when Nestea won his first GSL with mixed feelings: Nestea left the BW scene as a failed progamer while the BW scene left Soulkey who was successful progamer.
Congratz to Soulkey. I wasn't rooting for him and I think Innovation is a better player who had the harder path to the finals, but hats off to a guy who keeps fighting from 3-0 down. Excited to see him in the future.
Oh, and anyone else wondering what his practice score looked like vs Flash? They talked about him playing vs Flash multiple times, but never touched on how well he did! :D
I am so stoked that Soulkey pulled out the win. My friends and I are doing a fantasy league where we pick teams for each tournament. Soulkey was on mine, Innovation was on my friend's team. Everyone else was betting Innovation 4-2 or 4-3, I bet Soulkey 4-3. :D
I also predicted that he'd win a GSL after I first saw his potential at the KeSPA MLG exhibition thing. Even though Flash swept that tournament, Soulkey looked the most promising. And it payed off! :D
On June 04 2013 07:38 Mistakes wrote: I am so stoked that Soulkey pulled out the win. My friends and I are doing a fantasy league where we pick teams for each tournament. Soulkey was on mine, Innovation was on my friend's team. Everyone else was betting Innovation 4-2 or 4-3, I bet Soulkey 4-3. :D
I also predicted that he'd win a GSL after I first saw his potential at the KeSPA MLG exhibition thing. Even though Flash swept that tournament, Soulkey looked the most promising. And it payed off! :D
Damn good call. I know I was focusing on life that whole tournament, was hoping he could do big things. I think people write Soulkey off because he isn't as dominant in PL as others are. I think he is still pretty consistent.
On June 04 2013 07:38 Mistakes wrote: I am so stoked that Soulkey pulled out the win. My friends and I are doing a fantasy league where we pick teams for each tournament. Soulkey was on mine, Innovation was on my friend's team. Everyone else was betting Innovation 4-2 or 4-3, I bet Soulkey 4-3. :D
I also predicted that he'd win a GSL after I first saw his potential at the KeSPA MLG exhibition thing. Even though Flash swept that tournament, Soulkey looked the most promising. And it payed off! :D
Damn good call. I know I was focusing on life that whole tournament, was hoping he could do big things. I think people write Soulkey off because he isn't as dominant in PL as others are. I think he is still pretty consistent.
His winning % in PL puts him in the top 5 or so -- nothing to scoff at (not that you were). Woongjin is so deep he doesn't have as many victories as Flash or Innovation, but his PL performance has been very solid.
On June 09 2013 14:35 Jmanthedragonguy wrote: Even though he lost, his dismantling of Skytoss armies is truly praiseworthy. Stellar play even in defeat
He looked shaky in the first 2 games (like in game2 he kinda missed the DTs), but yes he is a total boss at defeating skytoss armies. He plays a totally different style against it, than most of other zergs.
On June 09 2013 18:06 Darrkhan wrote: Would have wanted Soulkey vs innovation finals but oh well Didnt see his games against sOs how were they?
First 2 games he was pretty shaky (for Soulkey standards), like he missed pretty obvious DTs and build spores late/in the wrong places. Next 2 games he showed his great control with muta/corruptor/infestor against sOs' airtoss play, and so he tied the series 2-2.
In the last game he went pool first but sOs still cannon rushed him, and SK lost his natural hatchery. He fought valiantly but sOs' 3-base economy and tech was too much for Soulkey to handle.
On June 09 2013 21:08 Orangered wrote: How could he have lost to sOs! Could have been a back to back
I guess he wanted to give chance to sOs to win trophy cause he could feel guilty after two times winning him in semifinals. So didn't care so much about those games. Now he's soul is clear and he can win next tournament.
Cure hellbatted Soulkey to death in their SPL game. I'm not one to complain about balance often, but these hellbats are taking balance away from the force...
On June 10 2013 15:36 Jmanthedragonguy wrote: Cure hellbatted Soulkey to death in their SPL game. I'm not one to complain about balance often, but these hellbats are taking balance away from the force...
That interview at WCS was hilarious. I can't wait until Soulkey learns English a bit more to actually talk to the interviewers. He seems like a pretty funny dude. xD
On June 10 2013 15:36 Jmanthedragonguy wrote: Cure hellbatted Soulkey to death in their SPL game. I'm not one to complain about balance often, but these hellbats are taking balance away from the force...
Agree here
there is a reason the +12 dmg vs light will only come with blueflame now. Everyone trying to defend hellbats in their current state does it because he has clear interests in doing so.
Although he lost, game 1 vs Innovation (osl round of 8) was fantastic, no-one but Inno could stop that. + Burrowed zerglings, why hasn't anyone else thought of that?! :D Absolutely the best zerg at the moment.
Something I wrote for his match-up coming up against MarineKing in five hours!
There is a saying that no one is invincible when it comes to SC2 and I agree with that saying. - Kim Min Chul, June 18 2013
Soulkey is down 0-3.
"I had lost my mind", he says reflecting on the matter. The past him would have lost the fourth game as well, unable to keep up the mentality to attain the championship trophy. Even then, at that moment, he felt the thought springing up to his mind, the notion that his 'hardest work' would go unrewarded, and perhaps rather than rise to his best he would fall to his lowest.
There is a commercial break after the third game. One by one his teammates enter, his coach cracks a light-hearted joke and they reflect on their lives rather casually. It's out of place in the situation, but it manages to calm him down.
We don't know what stories or jokes were told, of course, but they must have been rather good. Because during that moment the heart of a champion surely had been bleeding.
Reread his interviews and you find a man who honestly doesn't care for the prize money(he gave away the WCS money to his team and family). He often speaks of the two types of players, those who disappear after achieving success, and those who maintain and propagate themselves based on that success, and manage to achieve something greater. Soulkey currently seeks to achieve that intangible. "To remain in people's memories forever." (June 3 2013)
Forever.
Day[9] once said that there is nothing cooler than being passionate about the things you love. I would add that there is also nothing greater, and that Soulkey seeks domination itself of the game of Starcraft. Part of the deepest line-up in Starcraft II history, he surely has the capabilities to do so. Repeated successes in ZvP and ZvZ against the absolute best(and the way in which he wins them) show him at the absolute top.
The question that is going to be decided here in the WCS KR finals is whether or not he fails in the third. This match-up is so important. Anything other than complete dominance and understanding of the match-up throws him out of even contention of best player in the world. An absolute flailing would raise questions about his rule of the Zerg race.
Soulkey remains one of the most skilled players on the planet, but in an era where Zerg's struggle against widow mines, he remains the foremost hope. Developing new strategies now copied worldwide such as baneling hit squads and crisp three base roach bane timings, he probably remains the best ZvT player on the planet.
Recently though we've seen questionable decisions that hint that perhaps he is not comfortable in the ZvT match-up. While back in his championship days he was more than willing to engage head on macro against any terran player alive, most of his recent ZvT victories and defeats involve early timings on which he then capitalizes on. Not just the baneling timings which he aggressively throws against Innovation, but instead even six pools against the seemingly inferior player in Supernova.
The heart of a champion is going to show today how he feels about the match-up. As MarineKing likes to end matches in the mid-game, we will see how Soulkey deals with three base terran. Or if he simply doesn't.
But more than insights in ZvT we will see a further renewal of the heart of the champion, the head of the zerg pack, and the forger of ZvT strategy.
I gave you a quote, by the way, reminiscing all Brood War fears that the skill-gap is too low and that even weaker players can take games off of the best.
But let me finish the quote now.
From here on out, a lot of players, even newcomers will probably be aiming for the WCS.
I very much see that as a possibility. There is a saying that no one is invincible when it comes to SC2 and I agree with that saying. But I am confident that I can maintain my spot right now.
And perhaps most importantly, he will endeavor with literally only the reward of glory(as he accepts no other), for the ultimate prize of our hearts.
Soulkey just made MKP look comatose. In fact, Soulkey is so far ahead of any other Zerg he actually takes the first 5 spots for Best Z in the W. Coming up with non-Soulkey 2nd - 5th place spots WILL induce coma ... who? Symbol? hyvaa? please.
On August 15 2013 19:05 SeinGalton wrote: Soulkey just made MKP look comatose. In fact, Soulkey is so far ahead of any other Zerg he actually takes the first 5 spots for Best Z in the W. Coming up with non-Soulkey 2nd - 5th place spots WILL induce coma ... who? Symbol? hyvaa? please.
There wasn't a single game where MKP looked on par with Soulkey.
Then again, there's only one guy who can consistently beat Soulkey in TvZ.
Once again Soulkey showed why he is the best zerg in the world BY FAR, but still couldn't beat INnoVation. I'm getting really sad for Soulkey, he's probably getting pretty frustrated...
But holy hell he played so well today. Nothing to be ashamed of.
On August 18 2013 19:46 Keeemy wrote: Once again Soulkey showed why he is the best zerg in the world BY FAR, but still couldn't beat INnoVation. I'm getting really sad for Soulkey, he's probably getting pretty frustrated...
But holy hell he played so well today. Nothing to be ashamed of.
He keeps showing play which I feel is actually not just the best zerg play, but the overall play. I'm always so impressed by Soulkey and he is miles ahead of other zergs.
On August 28 2013 23:04 Saechiis wrote: I signed up on page 4 #lovingSoulkeybeforeitwascool, but I'm not on the list, please add me!
ah sorry, its just that normally i only sign up those who are directly say "sign me up" a while back i look a positive soulkey comment to mean they wanted to sign up but apparently they didnt, dw ill put you in the right place in the list.
Took Rain to the drycleaners today. I think SK could take Soo down any day but vs Parting it won't be quite so straightforward - in many ways it would then be SK vs SKT1, since both Rain and Soo would be helping Parting out.
Well I really hope he can take a second championship so we can dismiss all these bogus pretenders as <SK.
On October 03 2013 00:39 SeinGalton wrote: Took Rain to the drycleaners today. I think SK could take Soo down any day but vs Parting it won't be quite so straightforward - in many ways it would then be SK vs SKT1, since both Rain and Soo would be helping Parting out.
Well I really hope he can take a second championship so we can dismiss all these bogus pretenders as <SK.
^ ZvZ is SK's best matchup by some stretch and in a b05 I see him outplaying Soo purely off of mechanics, like he did in R016 vs Sleep and DRG; Soo's incredibly underrated but Parting's fucking dangerous and if he makes it past Soo he represents a big threat to SK.
On October 03 2013 00:39 SeinGalton wrote: Took Rain to the drycleaners today. I think SK could take Soo down any day but vs Parting it won't be quite so straightforward - in many ways it would then be SK vs SKT1, since both Rain and Soo would be helping Parting out.
Well I really hope he can take a second championship so we can dismiss all these bogus pretenders as <SK.
Looking at the previous sets they played against each other it seems like Soulkey beats Parting pretty easy tbh. He is 7-2 against him and 2 last sets they played, SK won with 2-0
This season looks really good for SK! He just beat Rain convincingly 3-0 and his next opponent will either be protoss again (Parting) and he gets to see him play against soO so he can prepare well against Parting style. Or it will be soO, which would also be pretty good because SK is known to have strong ZvZ (as all the other matchups too tho...)
And finals well, Zerg killer - Trap is out, Maru has quite bad TvZ, Jjakji is good but I think SK is still really strong in ZvT so should be ok and Dear hmm dno! He would be another protoss for Soulkey to destroy I guess :D
I think SK has pretty good chances to win this season Cheering for him and Maru! gogo
I am only worried about 2 players in the ones who are left in competition: Maru and jjakji. Whoever makes it out is really dangerous, since last time jjakji was in GSL play-offs he won GSL and Maru has a nice ability to make his enemies choke at some points. Granted, Maru vs Soulkey and jjakji vs Soulkey both have a serious potential to be great match-up.
Well, he got kinda-passable group. Polt vs Soulkey may be pretty cool since they are both are pretty good at decision making IMO. Soulkey vs MC will be funny IMO, especially if MC will throw a troll bomb before. And then we have Hack with pretty cool stuff. Soulkey SHOULD get out of this group. He SHOULD have won his match against soO too though T_T
On November 20 2014 21:38 REyeM wrote: 4-0d his Hot6ix Ro16 group.. ez. As long as Zest doesn't finish 2nd in his group hes pretty much favored against anyone else in the Ro8.
Not favored against PartinG, not after HSCX I don't think. But I'll be rooting for him no matter who gets through, I think.
Ok, sorry for bumping this thread, but it isn't for a joking purpose. Does anybody know what on earth SoulKey is doing? I don't remember him playing in the GSL season 3 and SSL season 3 qualifiers, and his name isn't on any foreign tournaments such as DH Valencia and the like. Has he quit SC2, or is he just taking another break?
I really hope that he will be going back to a professional team at the beginning of next year, it really seems like that he isn't comfortable where he is right now. Would hate to see him retire completely.
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SoulKey currently one of the best Zerg players in Broodwar who has come to Starcraft 2, are you ready for the awesomeness that his aura gives off beware not for the faint hearted.![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/RS9eh.jpg)
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Leta, 
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). Sign me up!![[image loading]](http://imageftw.com/uploads/20120126/Linewcg.jpg)
I got Soulkey on my FL team and was hyping him up before he rose to become the monster he is right now. IMO, he's well on his way to becoming the best mixed-format (BW/SC2) progamer, fingers crossed. Hope to see him at MLG too, I tweeted at them as soon as they started spreading BW rumors, to recommend Soulkey for an invitation.
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congrats to soulkey! ;D
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Great defense in game 1!
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