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AzureEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1360 Posts
August 19 2009 05:07 GMT
#21
Seriously Calm deserves this MSL after beating JD
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Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8556 Posts
August 19 2009 06:24 GMT
#22
On August 19 2009 11:24 iamho wrote:
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only been a member of tl for a few months but loyal fanboyism has already payed off

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On August 19 2009 15:05 iamho wrote:
damn lb'd hwasin -.-


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Jaedong
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
August 19 2009 06:44 GMT
#23
Too bad Calm hasn't had a vP this MSL.
QibingZero
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
2611 Posts
August 19 2009 06:53 GMT
#24
On August 19 2009 14:07 AzureEye wrote:
Seriously Calm deserves this MSL after beating JD


This MSL is Iris'. He's practically broken his own curse by finally being in a ridiculously epic bo5 in which he actually won. We had Iris vs Savior and Iris vs GGPlay before, wherein he was on the losing end. Nothing can erase that series vs Bisu though. We can only hope that he brings us two more amazing TvZ bo5s to follow that up. This has been one of the more exciting MSLs in recent memory, and it would be amazing if it stayed that way.
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Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
August 19 2009 11:36 GMT
#25
Calm better than Fantasy Leta Effort my ass.

Why don't we make him bonjwa like right now?
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Freezard
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Sweden1014 Posts
August 19 2009 12:08 GMT
#26
What? Are we watching the same Starcraft? I've always seen Calm as a top Zerg and when he was in his prime he was raping nerds left and right. Probably the best ZvT EVER.
Corrupt
Profile Joined August 2009
Bulgaria1312 Posts
August 19 2009 12:47 GMT
#27
The little guy deserves to win this tournament.. he went trough alot.
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Xiphos
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada7507 Posts
August 19 2009 13:12 GMT
#28
Is Calm an royal roader?
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36390 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-19 13:30:24
August 19 2009 13:29 GMT
#29
On August 19 2009 20:36 Loanshark wrote:
Calm better than Fantasy Leta Effort my ass.

Why don't we make him bonjwa like right now?

Calm could be better than those players. I didn't say he was. Are you saying there's 0 chance that he's better than them?
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Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8156 Posts
August 19 2009 13:30 GMT
#30
On August 19 2009 22:12 Xiphos wrote:
Is Calm an royal roader?


royal road is for OSL only I think, but still no. He's been in the Ro32 of the MSL twice before i think.
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
August 19 2009 13:43 GMT
#31
On August 19 2009 22:30 Ideas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2009 22:12 Xiphos wrote:
Is Calm an royal roader?


royal road is for OSL only I think, but still no. He's been in the Ro32 of the MSL twice before i think.


sounds about right.

wish they would do more show matches, would love to see calm vs fantasy. or calm vs bisu
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MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
August 19 2009 13:49 GMT
#32
On August 19 2009 22:29 Hot_Bid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2009 20:36 Loanshark wrote:
Calm better than Fantasy Leta Effort my ass.

Why don't we make him bonjwa like right now?

Calm could be better than those players. I didn't say he was. Are you saying there's 0 chance that he's better than them?

Fanboys don't like it when you question their favorite player(s) lol. While I'm really disappointed he dismantled LJD so thoroughly, I'm pumped to see Calm play this through.
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
August 19 2009 15:47 GMT
#33
(Z)Calm, (Z)Kwanro and (T)Iris. Who would have thought it would come down to these three players? Regardless of who will win in the end, it is still hard to imagine any of the three holding up an MSL trophy. Yet, that is the reality we will face in the end.

Calm`s chances of becoming a Royal Roader entirely depend on who wins in the (T)Iris vs. (Z)Kwanro match. If Kwanro wins, then Calm will be a strong favourite to take the title since he can ride the momentum of beating Jaedong. However, if Iris wins, then it will be Iris who will hold the momentum coming off from a successful TvZ series. Plus, Iris has historically done well in TvZ (although it is not his best matchup).

However, I agree that if Iris wants to win a StarLeague, he has to do it now or he might never get it.
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Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8156 Posts
August 19 2009 16:21 GMT
#34


Although not entirely applicable to predicting a Iris-Calm series since it's over half a year old, Calm handedly won last time they met.
Free Palestine
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
August 19 2009 16:56 GMT
#35
On August 20 2009 01:21 Ideas wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4n49PyVxkg&eurl=http

Although not entirely applicable to predicting a Iris-Calm series since it's over half a year old, Calm handedly won last time they met.


Half a year ago, Iris arguably was not as good as he is now. As such, I would not consider that game to be indicative of anything.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-19 19:41:29
August 19 2009 19:40 GMT
#36
You have to realize that despite dismantling Effort and JD to get here, Calm's best matchup is arguably ZvT. I guess we can make an argument for it being ZvZ after this MSL run, but he has been strong in ZvT for a very long time. At the very least it wont' be his weak matchup, so to say that if he has to face a T he'll lose is ridiculous.
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Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8156 Posts
August 19 2009 20:36 GMT
#37
I guess we'll see how Calm plays vs Zerg when he doesn't have a lot of time to prepare for it (like he did vs Effort and JD) tonight when he plays vs Luxury in WCG. I think if he shows the same dominance an argument could be made that he turned his worst MU into his best one over this MSL.
Free Palestine
Noxide
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2870 Posts
August 19 2009 20:37 GMT
#38
Hoping Calm wins it, I like him better than EffOrt and am hoping he is the next big zerg over him.
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Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
August 19 2009 21:24 GMT
#39
I would be pretty happy if either Calm or Iris won, but even though Calm is on STX, I think I'd be a little happier to see Iris win. He's been so close before. I'd feel really bad for him if he got this close again and couldn't pull it out.
ReiKo
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Croatia1023 Posts
August 19 2009 22:57 GMT
#40
Nice article, keep up the good work!
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