[S4WC] Finals - Page 60

On October 20 2014 02:01 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Y'all are all wrong, PawN isn't the best mid, it's ToyZ now since he un-retired. EZ.

On October 19 2014 20:32 NeoIllusions wrote:
idk, who are your OGN picks for Top and Mid then?
I'm fine if you don't think their consistency will carry into S5. However, I do. So we'll see in a couple months.

Btw, I have vastly more faith in Looper now than I did with Impact last year.

On October 19 2014 22:31 Salazarz wrote:
I'm a bit surprised with all the SSW hype after those finals;; I thought the way they played was rather underwhelming and it was more of SHRC letting them win than anything... especially that last game, like, SSW didn't play well at all but still just walked into the win. There's no denying they are a top team, but the finals were hardly a highlight of that. Kinda feel like they will follow the usual trend of world champs falling off in the next season.

On October 20 2014 05:39 iKill[ShocK] wrote:
LOL just watched game 3, royal up like 10k, fight at top inhib turret with baron buff, loses. WTF?

On October 20 2014 05:42 JSH wrote:


Yeah not sure what happened there
Too much chaos going on

I'm guessing too many turret shots?

On October 19 2014 22:31 Salazarz wrote:
I'm a bit surprised with all the SSW hype after those finals;; I thought the way they played was rather underwhelming and it was more of SHRC letting them win than anything... especially that last game, like, SSW didn't play well at all but still just walked into the win. There's no denying they are a top team, but the finals were hardly a highlight of that. Kinda feel like they will follow the usual trend of world champs falling off in the next season.

On October 20 2014 11:52 miicah wrote:


Or maybe they are just on such a higher level they can win games by just playing "average."

Also a 25min win vs one of the top teams in China is 'underwhelming.'

You sound like one of those guys on YouTube who comments on Faker outplays saying "yeah not that impressive, I see this stuff in Diamond all the time."

On October 20 2014 18:01 asymptotech wrote:


Jatt said it at least twice during the broadcast: They beat the #1 seed from China in groups, then the #1 seed from NA in quarters, then the #1 seed from Korea in semi's, then the current hot-streak team in the finals. And, in this case, the definition of beat is something akin to 'ground into a fine dust.'

I'm not sure how much more underwhelming you can get. When you beat [literally] every comer so badly that the only opponents left are imaginary ones, that's when you really see the true measure of a team. Can they only beat their real life opponents or also the ones that critics like Salazarz create for them out of thin air? The ones that don't ever make mistakes that you can capitalize on? I think we all know the answer to that, and that is why SSW is truly mediocre.

Sigh, it's like when Roger Federer was dominating the tennis scene so brutally for a number of years that people started to say "well, he just isn't playing against anyone good." (For those not familiar with tennis: Federer's records in 2004, 2005, and 2006 respectively were: 74-6, 81-4, 92-5 ...those numbers are as staggering as they look) No, he was playing the absolute best of the best -- he just happened to be playing at another level where even they consistently got stomped. That YouTube comment couldn't have been more spot on. It's humorously ridiculous.

On October 20 2014 21:22 GozoShioda wrote:
i think you guys are putting too much value on the players when in reality it's probably all the behind the scenes staff that is making the players in Samsung so beast

samsung is like the biggest company in korea, you can bet they are spending a shitload of money on their staff to help these kids (i feel bad calling mata a kid) be so good

there is a reason why the new york yankees have won so many championships.... hint: it involves paper

On October 20 2014 22:33 Chexx wrote:


I really like this picture

On October 21 2014 02:23 NeoIllusions wrote:

Did you take this?

On October 19 2014 19:54 Fortuna.424 wrote:
I dont get why this boring shit is more popular than Starcraft.

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On October 23 2014 07:22 Slaughter wrote:
Basically what I took from this worlds is that there are the Samsung teams (with White being on top) then a massive gap, then everyone else. Outside of the Samsung teams it seemed pretty close among the Korean 3rd place/China/NA/EU.