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theMagus
Profile Joined February 2013
578 Posts
July 12 2013 01:08 GMT
#6141
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.
"Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold. Let go."
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
July 12 2013 01:16 GMT
#6142
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.
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theMagus
Profile Joined February 2013
578 Posts
July 12 2013 01:18 GMT
#6143
On July 12 2013 10:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.


hahaha. kespa fans don't even have a thread like this
"Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold. Let go."
stratmatt
Profile Joined April 2011
United States913 Posts
July 12 2013 01:30 GMT
#6144
On July 12 2013 10:18 theMagus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 10:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.


hahaha. kespa fans don't even have a thread like this




HUH? This IS that thread...
SiskosGoatee
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Albania1482 Posts
July 12 2013 01:42 GMT
#6145
On July 12 2013 10:18 theMagus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 10:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.


hahaha. kespa fans don't even have a thread like this
I want my face back in a natural state...
WCS Apartheid cometh, all hail the casual audience, death to merit and hard work.
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
July 12 2013 01:43 GMT
#6146
On July 12 2013 10:18 theMagus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 10:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.


hahaha. kespa fans don't even have a thread like this

Ahahahahahahahahahaha
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
July 12 2013 01:54 GMT
#6147
Honestly this thread was better when we were talking about Italian pissballoons
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Jacmert
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Canada1709 Posts
July 12 2013 01:58 GMT
#6148
On July 12 2013 07:52 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 07:12 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
I can't believe this thread hasn't been locked yet xD

the heart of this article never came close to the reality we live in today.


Isn't the article pretty much about Kespa pros dominating the scene? I'd say that's rather accurate for what we're seeing today, barring a few exceptions.

That being said this thread needs to die, and i'm not helping XD

This thread was about the VERY TOP (e.g. top 8 from Flash to Leta) KeSPA pros dominating the SC2 scene once they switched. What we ended up seeing was a lot of the KeSPA pros doing well and even starting to dominate (e.g. Rain, InnoVation, etc.) but it wasn't the very best in Brood War becoming the very best in SC2. So I think the OP was 50% right and 50% wrong.
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canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
July 12 2013 01:59 GMT
#6149
On July 12 2013 10:18 theMagus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 10:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.


hahaha. kespa fans don't even have a thread like this

Haha, if there were a Quote of the Week thread, you're gonna be so own it.
SiskosGoatee
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Albania1482 Posts
July 12 2013 02:01 GMT
#6150
On July 12 2013 10:58 Jacmert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 07:52 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:
On July 12 2013 07:12 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
I can't believe this thread hasn't been locked yet xD

the heart of this article never came close to the reality we live in today.


Isn't the article pretty much about Kespa pros dominating the scene? I'd say that's rather accurate for what we're seeing today, barring a few exceptions.

That being said this thread needs to die, and i'm not helping XD

This thread was about the VERY TOP (e.g. top 8 from Flash to Leta) KeSPA pros dominating the SC2 scene once they switched. What we ended up seeing was a lot of the KeSPA pros doing well and even starting to dominate (e.g. Rain, InnoVation, etc.) but it wasn't the very best in Brood War becoming the very best in SC2. So I think the OP was 50% right and 50% wrong.
No, the article is about the very worst of the BW pros supposedly still being better than the very top of the original SC2 pros. Maybe you should actually read it, the article asserts that even the worst BW pros could come to SC2 and dominate it.
WCS Apartheid cometh, all hail the casual audience, death to merit and hard work.
stratmatt
Profile Joined April 2011
United States913 Posts
July 12 2013 02:17 GMT
#6151
Yeah, this article is pretty much 100% wrong.
FallDownMarigold
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3710 Posts
July 12 2013 02:33 GMT
#6152
On July 12 2013 11:17 stratmatt wrote:
Yeah, this article is pretty much 100% wrong.


Abstract out all the petty details and a general message emerges that seems true to some extent...

Kespa pros are very strong in SC2, and continue to become the best players in SC2 the more time spent playing the game. Kespa pros are the hardest and smartest practicing players and unsurprisingly are starting to fill up the ranks of the best of the best in SC2.

The stuff about non-Kespa pros being "a farce" and all that stuff intended to instigate and enrage may not be perfectly true but I think there's some rightness in it
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
July 12 2013 02:39 GMT
#6153
On July 12 2013 10:18 theMagus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 10:16 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On July 12 2013 10:08 theMagus wrote:
are we really gonna see esf fangirls gloating in this thread everytime an esf player defeats a kespa player? yer funny lol.


kespa fangirls do it too when their players win.


hahaha. kespa fans don't even have a thread like this

yeah, they have this + at least 50 more LRs lol
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Jacmert
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Canada1709 Posts
July 12 2013 02:40 GMT
#6154
Ok, I revise my early comment - this post is mostly wrong. There's a tiny bit of truth in it, in that the KeSPA pros are really quite strong in SC2. But it was trying to say a LOT more than that.
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stratmatt
Profile Joined April 2011
United States913 Posts
July 12 2013 02:43 GMT
#6155
On July 12 2013 11:33 FallDownMarigold wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 11:17 stratmatt wrote:
Yeah, this article is pretty much 100% wrong.


Abstract out all the petty details and a general message emerges that seems true to some extent...

Kespa pros are very strong in SC2, and continue to become the best players in SC2 the more time spent playing the game. Kespa pros are the hardest and smartest practicing players and unsurprisingly are starting to fill up the ranks of the best of the best in SC2.

The stuff about non-Kespa pros being "a farce" and all that stuff intended to instigate and enrage may not be perfectly true but I think there's some rightness in it


Except that 'stuff' about sc2 competition being a 'farce' is in big bold letters at the beginning of article because it is the hypothesis that the rest of the article is trying to prove. It is wrong, and this article is completely wrong because of it. We are well over a year past kespa's switch and not only have jaedong and flash and bisu or whomever failed to dominate the scene, but the best kespa pro is innovation, someone who was not even considered top tier in broodwar. Basically what has turned out to be true is the exact opposite of what this article is trying disprove, and that is that starcraft 2 is a DIFFERENT game and different players, players who did not have much of a succesful brood war career, have dominated.

Point. Blank. Period. To everyone trying to muddle the article's message and point out that it is still relevent, give it a rest already, and enjoy the new game. A different game.
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
July 12 2013 02:44 GMT
#6156
I remember when I glanced at this article when it only had a couple pages of comments. It was civil then. When I came back later that day, people were rioting and the city was burning. It was insanity.
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hangarninetysix
Profile Joined August 2010
263 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-12 02:46:12
July 12 2013 02:46 GMT
#6157
KeSPA showed just how horrible so many of those "top SC2 pros" really were. It's not that MKP has gotten worse. It's that he was always a nobody - he just won games because half the people he was playing were also nobodies.
Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-12 02:47:39
July 12 2013 02:47 GMT
#6158
On July 12 2013 11:46 hangarninetysix wrote:
KeSPA showed just how horrible so many of those "top SC2 pros" really were. It's not that MKP has gotten worse. It's that he was always a nobody - he just won games because half the people he was playing were also nobodies.


MKP stagnated in skill while everyone else around him got better, he was still doing things like not making a wall or bunker at his third just recently.
FallDownMarigold
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States3710 Posts
July 12 2013 02:54 GMT
#6159
On July 12 2013 11:43 stratmatt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 12 2013 11:33 FallDownMarigold wrote:
On July 12 2013 11:17 stratmatt wrote:
Yeah, this article is pretty much 100% wrong.


Abstract out all the petty details and a general message emerges that seems true to some extent...

Kespa pros are very strong in SC2, and continue to become the best players in SC2 the more time spent playing the game. Kespa pros are the hardest and smartest practicing players and unsurprisingly are starting to fill up the ranks of the best of the best in SC2.

The stuff about non-Kespa pros being "a farce" and all that stuff intended to instigate and enrage may not be perfectly true but I think there's some rightness in it


Except that 'stuff' about sc2 competition being a 'farce' is in big bold letters at the beginning of article because it is the hypothesis that the rest of the article is trying to prove. It is wrong, and this article is completely wrong because of it. We are well over a year past kespa's switch and not only have jaedong and flash and bisu or whomever failed to dominate the scene, but the best kespa pro is innovation, someone who was not even considered top tier in broodwar. Basically what has turned out to be true is the exact opposite of what this article is trying disprove, and that is that starcraft 2 is a DIFFERENT game and different players, players who did not have much of a succesful brood war career, have dominated.

Point. Blank. Period. To everyone trying to muddle the article's message and point out that it is still relevent, give it a rest already, and enjoy the new game. A different game.


Oh no worries, I do enjoy the new game in which Kespa pros are becoming the dominant force
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
July 12 2013 03:19 GMT
#6160
Sadly, now we have a reversed elephant - Flash, Jaedong and Bisu play SC2 and most likely if they went to compete with Sea, Killer and Movie in SSL, they'd smash them hard. Still, I enjoy the level of BW in SSL, it's actually pretty solid.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
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