EPTNice extensive piece on BoxeR ;D
[MLG] Anaheim - “Conquered” - Page 5
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Nice extensive piece on BoxeR ;D | ||
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kovac
Sweden123 Posts
"With that being said, these two players failed a sacred ideal they were charged with representing at Anaheim: foreigner hope" "Unfortunately, Huk and Naniwa didn't just lose, they were swiftly 2-0'd by their Korean opponents MMA and Ganzi. Huk and Naniwa aren't losers because they didn't play well; they're "losers" because our hopes died with them." so the other 260+ foreigners did well/ok but the top two are losers and shuld be ashamed of them selfs. like WTF!!! | ||
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DisaFear
Australia4074 Posts
Thanks for pics, write-up, humour, etc  Korea fightinggg!  | ||
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bittman
Australia8759 Posts
Tbh, as a DRG fan myself, he did as expected. The hydra thing was undoubtedly confusing, but whether a brain fart, a bad read or a strategy which just didn't work out, I don't dwell on it much. Basically: I see DRG as Code S material still, but he might dwell in Code B / A forever. He's not "super star" enough to, even as a fan, bet on him with certainty to win everything. Anyway: great write up. As someone who actually doesn't care where players come from, I don't have any feelings of "failure", but I can see how foreign fans might be disappointed. I like to see new talent: I don't care where it comes from. | ||
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SoJu.WeRRa
Korea (South)820 Posts
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CoMMoDuS
Germany507 Posts
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MildSeven
Canada311 Posts
seriously he had the game vs his dark evil disciple, MMA, i was heart-broken when he lost to MMA. Oh well, i know he can muscle his way back into Code S this season. His first hurdle, Leenock will be no idra though. | ||
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firehand101
Australia3152 Posts
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WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
Next year I'm gona take the flight to the US to watch this if I can! | ||
Bobster
Germany3075 Posts
Sc2 strategies have an interesting history of being developed in Europe, perfected in Korea, and used on unsuspecting Americans. That is the best sentence I have ever read. | ||
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MentalGNT
Denmark1264 Posts
On August 07 2011 18:03 kovac wrote: Whats up with the Nani HuK bashing, makes me sad. "With that being said, these two players failed a sacred ideal they were charged with representing at Anaheim: foreigner hope" "Unfortunately, Huk and Naniwa didn't just lose, they were swiftly 2-0'd by their Korean opponents MMA and Ganzi. Huk and Naniwa aren't losers because they didn't play well; they're "losers" because our hopes died with them." so the other 260+ foreigners did well/ok but the top two are losers and shuld be ashamed of them selfs. like WTF!!! It's because people expected them to do better. Huk and Naniwa are arguably the 2 best foreign players. Thus people had hoped that they would be able to give the koreans a run for their money. Instead they ended up losing pretty badly to the koreans. It's not that they are not good, it's that they didn't live up to their expectations. For pretty much anyone else, a top 7-8 finish would be excellent, but people had hoped that these two would place higher. | ||
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Macroxx
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I remember hearing that quote a few months ago and just said to myself that none of the top NA players have the hunger to win at all cost. This past tournament just proved that. Great article great read was not able to watch as I was at EVO last week. | ||
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WightyCity
Canada887 Posts
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JoeAWESOME
Sweden1080 Posts
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Fungal Growth
United States434 Posts
How does this hurt both races? Say protoss A has a win ratio of: 80%Z:80%T:50%P and he faces Protoss Player B who has win ratios of: 50%Z:50%T:50%P. Half the time protoss A will get eliminated by Protoss B despite A being statistically overall a much better player. In fact, Protoss A could be amazing and have 90% win rates vs Z and T, but it would take just playing about two Protoss B's to really hurt his chances of advancing. This is the issue when certain matchups evolve into rock-paper-scissors instead of chess...inferior players advance. Terran doesn't have this problem as bad because TvT is a lot less random. | ||
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KatuStarcraft
Canada161 Posts
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NASAmoose
United States231 Posts
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KAmaKAsa
Finland210 Posts
On August 07 2011 10:21 Zaffy wrote: thios came across as a bit whiny tbh. terrans are not imba, just that early on they WERE imba and alot of top koreans went T. Now alot of very good players are T. What you have to ask is this, if the top Zergs were invited (nestea, losira, drg) instead pf mma, mvp , boxer would they also take 3 of the top 4? i think they would. as for protoss, well MC would also finish top 4, Alicia was surprising. P suck tbh  GSL>MLG losira and nestea had a finals between them so they didnt come im sure they were asked and when they get knocked out in the first round they might come, if that ever happens nestea is probably gna win a few more GSLs still | ||
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The_Fatty
United States1 Post
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MinimalistSC2
United States121 Posts
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