• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 05:07
CEST 11:07
KST 18:07
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy9[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Rough Waters10[ASL22] Ro24 Preview: Siren's Call8[ASL22] Ro24 Preview: Summer's End9
Community News
Weekly Cups (Sep 13-20): herO scores triple2BSL Season 237Weekly Cups (Sep 7-12): SHIN, ByuN, MaxPax double down1StarCraft open world shooter announced at BlizzCon101Weekly Cups (Aug 30-Sep 7): herO thrives amid growing schism10
StarCraft 2
General
Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16) Weekly Cups (Sep 13-20): herO scores triple Blizzard Classic Cup @ BlizzCon 2026 - $100k prize pool How do you feel about the StarCraft shooter announcement at BlizzCon 2026? The Death of Cheese: From a Professional Cheeser
Tourneys
Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2) Stellar Fest TWO the Moon (Dec 16-20) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament 2026 GSTL Announcement RSL Revival: Season 6 - Qualifiers and Main Event
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
[M] (2) Frigid Storage
External Content
Mutation # 544 Double Trouble The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 543 Enhanced Defenses Mutation # 542 The Ascended
Brood War
General
Bot on ladder screpdb: new Starcraft reporting tool PLAYzone Challenge - open offline tour in Prague BSL Season 23 BW General Discussion
Tourneys
PLAYzone Challenge - open offline tour in Prague [ASL22] Ro8 Day 2 [ASL22] Ro16 Group D [ASL22] Ro8 Day 1
Strategy
Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) Replay Review Process - What do you do? Simple Questions, Simple Answers Odyssey Mineral Stack Saturation
Other Games
General Games
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Nintendo Switch Thread Diablo IV Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread EVE Corporation
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25! Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Artificial Intelligence Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine All you football fans (soccer)!
Fan Clubs
MarineLorD Fan Club The Creator Fan Club The ShoWTimE Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Diablo Animated Series on Netflix
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Gaming Intensity, Problemati…
TrAiDoS
38 yo Retired SWE loo…
PurE)Rabbit-SF
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
[meme] I finally understa…
LUCKY_NOOB
Regacy Esports:Our Goa…
regacyesports
Dreaming of BW patches (mod…
c3rberUs
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 10833 users

[OSL] Offline Prelims Recap - Page 3

Forum Index > News
106 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next All
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
October 06 2009 18:35 GMT
#41
roMAD, I can't help but think of Sea, who is supposed to be one of the best players ever in practice but can't seem to translate that into individual league success. You have a point that icCup replays provide a much more indepth analysis into a player than VODs, but that doesn't take the pressure of playing live games into account. Most of these players are very young and, judging by some players' supposed practice success but lack of individual league success, the pressure gets to some of them.
NukeTheStars
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States278 Posts
October 06 2009 18:36 GMT
#42
Yup, occasionally the admins here can be quite elitist. I'm not saying all the time, mind you, but I think even you can agree that the "I KNOW MORE ABOUT SC THAN YOU" mindset creeps its way into more than one admin post

And to get back on topic again - one of my subscribers told me I should post my hype video here, so I suppose I finally will -

Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
October 06 2009 18:39 GMT
#43
NukeTheStars: I thought I introduced you to SC2GG/SC2GG to you(at least you conveniently found them after I commented on your vid to contact them), and if you didn't know, I've been primarily from SC2GG since I got into Starcraft.

I have played Super Smash Bros Melee competitively for almost 6 years. I used to be the best player in Finland for quite a while and had no problems beating the other good players in my home or when visiting their houses or such. However, once I played on stage in a large tournament organized by Nintendo, I made a lot of fuck ups I'd never, ever make normally and played like shit. It's a lot different from playing offline. Even if my problem with playing in front of an audience might be bigger than most, I'm sure it's a factor for almost everyone.

I'm not sure what your point is. That you've watched a lot of 815 replays? Well, good for you. He can be good in practice but that doesn't matter much in the OSL. They're not my predictions, but a recap? Well, read again. Seems like we get to look forward to your amazing recap of the next prelims with your extensive knowledge of the practice games and iccup games, since we all know that those matter more than how well you do under pressure and in broadcasted games. Last reply to you, don't care about amazing practice games until they achieve something useful.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
mucker
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1120 Posts
October 06 2009 18:39 GMT
#44
What maps are they playing the next round on?
It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.
roMAD
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Russia2355 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-06 18:58:13
October 06 2009 18:54 GMT
#45
On October 07 2009 03:39 Shikyo wrote:
NukeTheStars: I thought I introduced you to SC2GG/SC2GG to you(at least you conveniently found them after I commented on your vid to contact them), and if you didn't know, I've been primarily from SC2GG since I got into Starcraft.

I have played Super Smash Bros Melee competitively for almost 6 years. I used to be the best player in Finland for quite a while and had no problems beating the other good players in my home or when visiting their houses or such. However, once I played on stage in a large tournament organized by Nintendo, I made a lot of fuck ups I'd never, ever make normally and played like shit. It's a lot different from playing offline. Even if my problem with playing in front of an audience might be bigger than most, I'm sure it's a factor for almost everyone.

I'm not sure what your point is. That you've watched a lot of 815 replays? Well, good for you. He can be good in practice but that doesn't matter much in the OSL. They're not my predictions, but a recap? Well, read again. Seems like we get to look forward to your amazing recap of the next prelims with your extensive knowledge of the practice games and iccup games, since we all know that those matter more than how well you do under pressure and in broadcasted games. Last reply to you, don't care about amazing practice games until they achieve something useful.

Yeah sure, so let's call everyone trash, because they are so bad they don't deserve to be in the OSL, because they haven't achived anything. Great.

Oh and you know the title reads 'Offline Prelims Recap'
Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11108 Posts
October 06 2009 18:58 GMT
#46
I'm pretty excited for all the Samsung involved matchups. They all look fairly promising though I think Stork will anhilate Skyhigh. Jangbi Kwanro will probably be the match to watch.

So who wants to put bets on FBH beating another toss?
Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
Nick_54
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States2230 Posts
October 06 2009 19:01 GMT
#47
Great write up Shikyo, thanks for putting in the time. I really enjoyed the summary. The ro36 looks very exciting with the Stork vs Skyhigh possibility.

Romad, idk why you are making these comments when he obviously put in a lot of effort to do this writeup. Who gives a shit what a player does offline in practice? You say a player is good in practice, but not in games? That means he is not a good player. Of course he is "good", but obviously not the favorite over S and A class players who Shikyo was predicting to win the group.

He did the best he could with the information that was given to him. He doesn't have these secret replays like you do. Its far better to base a players results off of on stage (and prelim) games that actually count for something. You can't tell me Frozean is good because he beat Effort on iccup when Effort doesn't even care. You have to use the fact that did horrible im proleague.

I mean are you honestly trying to say that a players is good if does well in practice as opposed to a player who delivers in pressure filled, important matches? You have got to be joking.
Jenia6109
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Russian Federation1613 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-06 19:07:01
October 06 2009 19:01 GMT
#48
So, which Protoss can make it to Ro16:
Group A
(P)Pusan can do it beating (T)fOrGG and then (T)Canata consecutively. Pusan should try really well even thought he was on fire in OSL/MSL prelims.

Group B
(P)Bisu should take his group easily no matter who is it, (T)Really or (Z)Shine, he will win if he will not overrate himself

Group D
(T)Barracks is not main problem for (P)JangBi, he will win him if he want while (Z)Kwanro can be real obstacle. In last PvZ (P)JangBi lost even to (Z)YellOw[ArnC], so it's really hard to predict who will win. It only matters who will prepare better.

Group E
This group is similar to Group B. After beating (Z)Jaedong 2-0 it is no problem for (P)Stork to beat unknown Zerg (Z)ggaemo. Also after beating (T)fantasy 2-0 it is no problem to beat (T)sKyHigh. All that Stork should do is to play his standart play and don't choke

Group K
Who is (P)Pure? No matter because (Z)Hyuk is nobody too. (T)Leta is not king of TvP so (P)Pure has at least a chance to surprise us



These Protoss will probably fail :
Group C
(P)BackHo is so middle player now while (Z)Calm is S-class player lately. (Z)Calm will probably destroy both (T)Reality and (P)BackHo 2-0.

Group F
(P)Movie is real dark horse in this OSL. He already beated (Z)Jaedong in last MSL but he is still so inconsistent. Even if he will defeat (T)Light he will probably lose to (Z)hero who is ZvP specializer.

Group H
Another dark horse (P)Jaehoon find himself with low TvPer (T)firebathero and last-generation Zerg (Z)ZerO who will probably eat (P)Jaehoon, maybe with queens tt

Group I
Poor poor (P)GuemChi, he will play first set with (Z)Luxury. It's pity but he has no chance to win, maybe 1%

Group J
(P)Horang2 will most likely beat (T)FrOzean but there is (Z)EffOrt in second set. No! It's trap! Change your group, (P)Horang2, lol
INnoVation TY Maru | Classic Stats Dear sOs Zest herO | Rogue Dark soO
roMAD
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Russia2355 Posts
October 06 2009 19:06 GMT
#49
On October 07 2009 04:01 Nick_54 wrote:
Great write up Shikyo, thanks for putting in the time. I really enjoyed the summary. The ro36 looks very exciting with the Stork vs Skyhigh possibility.

Romad, idk why you are making these comments when he obviously put in a lot of effort to do this writeup. Who gives a shit what a player does offline in practice? You say a player is good in practice, but not in games? That means he is not a good player. Of course he is "good", but obviously not the favorite over S and A class players who Shikyo was predicting to win the group.

He did the best he could with the information that was given to him. He doesn't have these secret replays like you do. Its far better to base a players results off of on stage (and prelim) games that actually count for something. You can't tell me Frozean is good because he beat Effort on iccup when Effort doesn't even care. You have to use the fact that did horrible im proleague.

I mean are you honestly trying to say that a players is good if does well in practice as opposed to a player who delivers in pressure filled, important matches? You have got to be joking.

Probably i am taking this too hard, but it was unnecessary to put such lines as 'Seriously, Jaehoon?', 'Oh god. FrOzean? CuteAngel? In The OSL? Oh god! That's all I can say' etc etc
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-06 19:14:54
October 06 2009 19:08 GMT
#50
On October 07 2009 04:01 Nick_54 wrote:
Great write up Shikyo, thanks for putting in the time. I really enjoyed the summary. The ro36 looks very exciting with the Stork vs Skyhigh possibility.

Romad, idk why you are making these comments when he obviously put in a lot of effort to do this writeup. Who gives a shit what a player does offline in practice? You say a player is good in practice, but not in games? That means he is not a good player. Of course he is "good", but obviously not the favorite over S and A class players who Shikyo was predicting to win the group.

He did the best he could with the information that was given to him. He doesn't have these secret replays like you do. Its far better to base a players results off of on stage (and prelim) games that actually count for something. You can't tell me Frozean is good because he beat Effort on iccup when Effort doesn't even care. You have to use the fact that did horrible im proleague.

I mean are you honestly trying to say that a players is good if does well in practice as opposed to a player who delivers in pressure filled, important matches? You have got to be joking.

Bolded part is what really is important here and something certain people need to realize.

Also, thanks a lot for the post! ^_^ I agree with everything you said, by the way.

Romad, I believe what I said and you can disagree, but don't call me clueless if I think Iris is more exciting than Frozean. Now last reply to you, stop tempting ><
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
StalkerSC
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada378 Posts
October 06 2009 19:20 GMT
#51
getting good...can't wait ^_^
IIf your good at Starcraft, Your good at life. - Artosis
roMAD
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Russia2355 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-06 19:23:34
October 06 2009 19:22 GMT
#52
On October 07 2009 04:08 Shikyo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2009 04:01 Nick_54 wrote:
Great write up Shikyo, thanks for putting in the time. I really enjoyed the summary. The ro36 looks very exciting with the Stork vs Skyhigh possibility.

Romad, idk why you are making these comments when he obviously put in a lot of effort to do this writeup. Who gives a shit what a player does offline in practice? You say a player is good in practice, but not in games? That means he is not a good player. Of course he is "good", but obviously not the favorite over S and A class players who Shikyo was predicting to win the group.

He did the best he could with the information that was given to him. He doesn't have these secret replays like you do. Its far better to base a players results off of on stage (and prelim) games that actually count for something. You can't tell me Frozean is good because he beat Effort on iccup when Effort doesn't even care. You have to use the fact that did horrible im proleague.

I mean are you honestly trying to say that a players is good if does well in practice as opposed to a player who delivers in pressure filled, important matches? You have got to be joking.

Bolded part is what really is important here and something certain people need to realize.

Also, thanks a lot for the post! ^_^ I agree with everything you said, by the way.

Romad, I believe what I said and you can disagree, but don't call me clueless if I think Iris is more exciting than Frozean. Now last reply to you, stop tempting ><

Stop putting words into my mouth and ignoring the point i make. Cheers.
Kreedit
Profile Joined March 2009
Sweden373 Posts
October 06 2009 19:27 GMT
#53
I just want to say roMAD that i appreciate your job of defending inconsistent players like frozean and i hope that more of tl.net would someday abandon the cirklejerk of hate and open their eyes.

So yeah youre my fucking hero atm
ImNotBisu
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada142 Posts
October 06 2009 19:36 GMT
#54
If bisu manages to somehow lose to really or shine, I'll be shooting myself in the bawls.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
October 06 2009 19:39 GMT
#55
Did you know that if I say some player is bad, I mean that he's bad compared to the good players and underdogs against the whole top 16? Not that they're bad compared to the rest of the world? No? Apparently.

From what I gathered your point was that although some players aren't popular and are said to be bad they're still very good compared to most people. I know that. Another possible point was that you watch a lot of offline replays and hence know about the players, to that I answer that this is a televised tournament. If it's me being too mean to bad players, well I don't want the write-up to be too fake. If it's something else, you didn't bring your point up very well.


Really tired of this. -_- Write the next prelim write-up.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
StarBrift
Profile Joined January 2008
Sweden1761 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-06 19:46:11
October 06 2009 19:41 GMT
#56
On October 06 2009 23:17 (paladin)roMAD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 06 2009 23:05 StarBrift wrote:
On October 06 2009 22:50 (paladin)roMAD wrote:
This quite a nice write-up, but some of your comments display complete lack of knowledge of players' skills. I am not talking about TV games, i am talking about progamers' skill overall. In my opinion this is the biggest misjudgement of player's skills on tl.net because all of you only take into account their TV games. Of course TV games mean much, but it's just one game in front of a huge audience and mental aspects start to play much bigger role than in practice or qualifiers. On the other hand, it is pretty hard to have a look at their practice games, so this judgement only by TV games is understandable. However, some comments you made are really clueless. Here are some examples:

In group N comment you call Shuttle a 'worse version of BackHo', which is really weird as their playstyle is very different. Shuttle PvT style beats BaBy's style very easily, as he is very good against harass style and his overall PvT is very very good. BaBy's style reminds of FanTaSy's style with many dropships and vuture harassing and his macro is sometimes quite sloppy. So Shuttle easily defends against harassing and just rolls over BaBy's tiny army. On the other hand, Light TvP style is what beats Shuttle really easily. You can call him a master of turtling or whatever. His TvP is all about turtling, i guess the best counter to him is Bisu with his smart recalls.
Another thing you say that 815's weakest mu is ZvT? I'd call it his best mu by far, although his ZvP is becoming better and better. And imo SkyHigh is hyped way too much, especially his TvZ.
Same as with Shuttle goes to Jaehoon. The guy has crazy PvT and overall he's really good, although i didn't expect him to beat FireFist to be honest.
Of course these 'living legendsof fail' in the face of FrOzean and HyuK. They are and were very good players and FrOzean beat both effort and Kwanro 3-2 on Outsider the other day with Effort winning with 4 pool in one of them. He is just very inconsistent and has problems setting his mentality up. HyuK's ZvZ and ZvP are on a high level, although i dunno about his ZvT.
As of Group V you say there were no surprises? How about MVP 2-0 Violet? Interestingly though, i consider Violet as much hyped as Gosi[Flying]. He still has a lot to learn and he is very incosistent. But still, i expected him to take the group.
Reality is an amazing player, reminds me a lot of FlaSh with his great macro. Watch out for him!

A logical question to me would be 'how do you know anyway?' This information is based on replays and iccup statistics that i have. Not that much, but it helps to learn about player's style and see his potential.
I dont want to offend anyone, i just noticed this trend of calling everyone bad just because he lost 6 or 12 games in proleague. They are still good players and if they make it through prelims then it's not just a fluke.


It seems to me that basing skill level on TV game appearances is only about a million percent better than basing them off of ICCUP games when you don't even know for sure if the players played all the games on that account or if multiple players used them. Moreover people actually practise and play their best for TV games unlike ICCUP where they might try new stuff out or just practise wierd builds.

Much of your post seems to be refuting the statements that some of these players are bad. Yuo are of course right in that they aren't. All the winners of the groups ARE good starcraft players. But what the OP says isn't that they are bad in general, just that they are bad in comparison to the scene or other top players. You have to learn to read between the lines if you're gonna read TL analysis.

Believe me, i know for sure who played on what account. And i've watched replays not just pure ICCup statistics. The OP statements about some players reflect a generalized opinion of tl.net community. It has nothing to do with comparison, they are considered bad in general.


Sorry for not believing a random russian TL user who uses shared iccup accounts to judge a players skill. An all knowing guy like you wouldn't have missed that koreans mostly share their iccup accounts would you?I'm saying clearly how stupid it is to base skill off of your own guesswork about players you don't even have 100% proof is really them. Stop thinking you know something that the rest of us doesn't because you don't.

Basing pure skill on TV appearances only is obviously not 100% accurate but it's one hell of a lot better than your methods which doesn't even guarantee that your observations are from the right player. Even if you would know a players iccup account how many replays have you actually watched of his? 50+? I don't think so.

And please don't use "Trust me I know I'm right" as an argument again unless you want to be ripped apart by 100 nerds again. Why would I trust someone I don't know and never heard of?
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
October 06 2009 19:49 GMT
#57
The banner's really cool, nice write-up.
Every time Jung Myung Hoon builds a vulture, two probes die. || My post count was a palindrome and I was never posting again.
Kreedit
Profile Joined March 2009
Sweden373 Posts
October 06 2009 19:53 GMT
#58
On October 07 2009 04:41 StarBrift wrote:

Sorry for not believing a random russian TL user who uses shared iccup accounts to judge a players skill.


What?

He got a frigging unique name tag ofc hes not a 'random russian TL user'
roMAD
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Russia2355 Posts
October 06 2009 19:55 GMT
#59
On October 07 2009 04:39 Shikyo wrote:
Did you know that if I say some player is bad, I mean that he's bad compared to the good players and underdogs against the whole top 16? Not that they're bad compared to the rest of the world? No? Apparently.

From what I gathered your point was that although some players aren't popular and are said to be bad they're still very good compared to most people. I know that. Another possible point was that you watch a lot of offline replays and hence know about the players, to that I answer that this is a televised tournament. If it's me being too mean to bad players, well I don't want the write-up to be too fake. If it's something else, you didn't bring your point up very well.


Really tired of this. -_- Write the next prelim write-up.

First of all it's not a televised tourney as PL, OSL and MSL. This is a huge difference. To summarize, my point was that you can't put it like that: 'Oh god. FrOzean? CuteAngel? In The OSL? Oh god! That's all I can say', because all your knowledge about his skill is TV games. He's bad yet somehow he did manage to win his group. Why, u think, so many upsets happen every qualifier? Because they are all damn good. There are some players who are on another level of the game, but most of them are already seeded. The good example is Sea. He is an amazing player, but he can't perform at his full potential on stage and i still think it's not too late for him to learn setting up the right winning mentality. That's why practice games mean much, they show at what level a player can potentially perform. Most of the participants can beat almost every pro given no pressure. FrOzean or Jaehoon or w/e can fail horribly in RO32 of OSL, but they can also perform to their full potential and show great starcraft. I just thought that the recap should be written in a rather neutral tone, but all i can see here is bias.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-06 20:04:42
October 06 2009 19:55 GMT
#60
On October 07 2009 04:41 StarBrift wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 06 2009 23:17 (paladin)roMAD wrote:
On October 06 2009 23:05 StarBrift wrote:
On October 06 2009 22:50 (paladin)roMAD wrote:
This quite a nice write-up, but some of your comments display complete lack of knowledge of players' skills. I am not talking about TV games, i am talking about progamers' skill overall. In my opinion this is the biggest misjudgement of player's skills on tl.net because all of you only take into account their TV games. Of course TV games mean much, but it's just one game in front of a huge audience and mental aspects start to play much bigger role than in practice or qualifiers. On the other hand, it is pretty hard to have a look at their practice games, so this judgement only by TV games is understandable. However, some comments you made are really clueless. Here are some examples:

In group N comment you call Shuttle a 'worse version of BackHo', which is really weird as their playstyle is very different. Shuttle PvT style beats BaBy's style very easily, as he is very good against harass style and his overall PvT is very very good. BaBy's style reminds of FanTaSy's style with many dropships and vuture harassing and his macro is sometimes quite sloppy. So Shuttle easily defends against harassing and just rolls over BaBy's tiny army. On the other hand, Light TvP style is what beats Shuttle really easily. You can call him a master of turtling or whatever. His TvP is all about turtling, i guess the best counter to him is Bisu with his smart recalls.
Another thing you say that 815's weakest mu is ZvT? I'd call it his best mu by far, although his ZvP is becoming better and better. And imo SkyHigh is hyped way too much, especially his TvZ.
Same as with Shuttle goes to Jaehoon. The guy has crazy PvT and overall he's really good, although i didn't expect him to beat FireFist to be honest.
Of course these 'living legendsof fail' in the face of FrOzean and HyuK. They are and were very good players and FrOzean beat both effort and Kwanro 3-2 on Outsider the other day with Effort winning with 4 pool in one of them. He is just very inconsistent and has problems setting his mentality up. HyuK's ZvZ and ZvP are on a high level, although i dunno about his ZvT.
As of Group V you say there were no surprises? How about MVP 2-0 Violet? Interestingly though, i consider Violet as much hyped as Gosi[Flying]. He still has a lot to learn and he is very incosistent. But still, i expected him to take the group.
Reality is an amazing player, reminds me a lot of FlaSh with his great macro. Watch out for him!

A logical question to me would be 'how do you know anyway?' This information is based on replays and iccup statistics that i have. Not that much, but it helps to learn about player's style and see his potential.
I dont want to offend anyone, i just noticed this trend of calling everyone bad just because he lost 6 or 12 games in proleague. They are still good players and if they make it through prelims then it's not just a fluke.


It seems to me that basing skill level on TV game appearances is only about a million percent better than basing them off of ICCUP games when you don't even know for sure if the players played all the games on that account or if multiple players used them. Moreover people actually practise and play their best for TV games unlike ICCUP where they might try new stuff out or just practise wierd builds.

Much of your post seems to be refuting the statements that some of these players are bad. Yuo are of course right in that they aren't. All the winners of the groups ARE good starcraft players. But what the OP says isn't that they are bad in general, just that they are bad in comparison to the scene or other top players. You have to learn to read between the lines if you're gonna read TL analysis.

Believe me, i know for sure who played on what account. And i've watched replays not just pure ICCup statistics. The OP statements about some players reflect a generalized opinion of tl.net community. It has nothing to do with comparison, they are considered bad in general.


Sorry for not believing a random russian TL user who uses shared iccup accounts to judge a players skill. An all knowing guy like you wouldn't have missed that koreans mostly share their iccup accounts would you?I'm saying clearly how stupid it is to base skill off of your own guesswork about players you don't even have 100% proof is really them. Stop thinking you know something that the rest of us doesn't because you don't.

Basing pure skill on TV appearances only is obviously not 100% accurate but it's one hell of a lot better than your methods which doesn't even guarantee that your observations are from the right player. Even if you would know a players iccup account how many replays have you actually watched of his? 50+? I don't think so.

And please don't use "Trust me I know I'm right" as an argument again unless you want to be ripped apart by 100 nerds again. Why would I trust someone I don't know and never heard of?

Well, he's probably watched quite a few as he can recognize just about every pro and even most amateurs by their hotkeys in replays, I'd imagine he knows Korean and he's talked to progamers before. I respect him, however, I think his attitude is really crappy here and I do believe it's not a good idea to judge how how good players are by their offline performance.

I mean, Magma was kind of known as the practice game king, but he never managed to bring it to the televised games. Now he's retired, and how many people know that he actually was really good? Not many.

EDIT: Okay Romad, your last post makes no sense. I know everything you said. And I also know that they'll play significantly worse in televised games. Hence it's bad that the players who play well in TV get knocked out. Because it's useless for the players who're bad on TV to win the prelims, because when the games go online they'll just suck. And that's all we, as the spectators, care about. How well they do in the televised games. If they'll just suck, it's a bad thing. So explain that to someone who doesn't know that, I'm done.
League of Legends EU West, Platinum III | Yousei Teikoku is the best thing that has ever happened to music.
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 53m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft: Brood War
Britney 2034
Bisu 551
Soulkey 130
Shinee 82
HiyA 54
ToSsGirL 44
Bale 38
NaDa 38
ggaemo 36
soO 35
[ Show more ]
Sharp 21
Terrorterran 2
Dota 2
XaKoH 471
League of Legends
JimRising 436
Counter-Strike
shoxiejesuss878
kRYSTAL_0
Other Games
gofns32040
ceh9553
crisheroes251
Livibee120
UpATreeSC101
KnowMe84
Mew2King78
Organizations
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream13064
Other Games
gamesdonequick672
StarCraft: Brood War
Afreeca ASL 457
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 33
• LUISG 25
• mYiSmile19
• Letter148
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• lizZardDota2133
League of Legends
• Jankos1116
Upcoming Events
The PondCast
53m
Replay Cast
14h 53m
Korean StarCraft League
1d 18h
CranKy Ducklings
2 days
GSL
2 days
Yamato Cup
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
4 days
Soma vs Jaedong
WardiTV Weekly
4 days
Monday Night Weeklies
4 days
[ Show More ]
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
Afreeca Starleague
5 days
Leta vs Soulkey
PiGosaur Cup
5 days
Kung Fu Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Super Anchor Qualifying S3
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Big Dog Cup 2026 Div 1

Ongoing

ASL Season 22
CSL 2026 AUTUMN (S22)
Acropolis #5
Acropolis #5 - GSA
Calamity Invitational
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026

Upcoming

Acropolis #5 - GSB
Acropolis #5 - GSC
BSL Season 23
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
Custodian Cup
Copium Cup
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
IEM Beijing 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.