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darkest44
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1009 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-01 05:31:24
October 01 2011 05:29 GMT
#61
How does Idra always manage to get the easiest groups... No koreans even, hopefully he can do well for NA. Even luck doesn't seem to help him much lately though.
Sakkreth
Profile Joined February 2011
Lithuania1096 Posts
October 01 2011 06:40 GMT
#62
On October 01 2011 14:29 darkest44 wrote:
How does Idra always manage to get the easiest groups... No koreans even, hopefully he can do well for NA. Even luck doesn't seem to help him much lately though.


Yet wouldn't be surprised if he ended up third in his group, Elfi might upset him.
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Bacon-X
Profile Joined December 2010
United States266 Posts
October 01 2011 06:50 GMT
#63
the only thing that bothers me in this article is that he said "white dudes" what is he saying?? all europeans and americans are white?? what about all the brown and black people that play starcraft who live in america... like me... shit... thx for the representation! gosh!
Brood War player since 2003 ---> StarCraft II
DreamChaser
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1649 Posts
October 01 2011 06:51 GMT
#64
What America lacks in talent we shine with bad ass lines.
Plays against every MU with nexus first.
Deezl
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States355 Posts
October 01 2011 06:53 GMT
#65
I think one of the interesting things that I took out of the Carmac interview was, "Western players, quit sucking and practice more if you want to have a job in five years."
Three hundred lives of men I have walked this world, and now I have no time.
Nurmis
Profile Joined May 2011
Finland81 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-01 07:06:38
October 01 2011 07:06 GMT
#66
A pleasant read for sure, I would mention that Elfi won against NaDa in summer assembly 2011 tho!.
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Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
October 01 2011 07:25 GMT
#67
giving Rain the usa flag is the most funny thing i ever saw xD
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QNdie
Profile Joined June 2011
Poland210 Posts
October 01 2011 07:36 GMT
#68
YES! More Uszat please! I don't know wether to be scared or to laugh.
Tortious_Tortoise
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States944 Posts
October 01 2011 07:58 GMT
#69
IdrA and Jinro HWAIGHTING!!!
Treating eSports as a social science since 2011; Credo: "The system is never wrong"-- Day9 Daily #400 Part 3
kAra
Profile Joined September 2004
Germany1389 Posts
October 01 2011 08:25 GMT
#70
great read!
mada mada dane
FaLLeNaNg3L
Profile Joined June 2010
Germany5 Posts
October 01 2011 08:34 GMT
#71
DIMAGA!!!!!! we wanna see dimaga play!!!!
bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
October 01 2011 08:46 GMT
#72
I really wish xiaOt continued as a player full time because that would have been epic! I hope xigua can live up to Diamonds hype and blow everyone out the water.

Also, it's about time IdrA dominated but with some good Koreans and just Protoss players in general I am unsure.
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Dattish
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Sweden6297 Posts
October 01 2011 09:05 GMT
#73
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WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-01 09:23:26
October 01 2011 09:20 GMT
#74
Damn Carmac's interview is so full of wisdom.
I always thought Carmac was a blessing for the scene.

Carmac why so cool ?

On October 01 2011 12:31 Carmac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2011 10:31 LostBLuE wrote:
I love carmac if every big event had the attitude iem has it would be awesome. The only thing is the total prize purse going to one person thing kind of sucks but it is a necessary evil I suppose.


Where does the total prize purse go to one person?

DreamHack Valencia, where Thorzain comes, makes 4-5 in the finals against DRG after beating Hero and HuK, but still go home with 0€ in the pocket.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
October 01 2011 09:36 GMT
#75
On October 01 2011 14:29 darkest44 wrote:
How does Idra always manage to get the easiest groups... No koreans even, hopefully he can do well for NA. Even luck doesn't seem to help him much lately though.

WTF? Name 2 more events when he had an easy group. He constantly got the groups of Death in consecutive MLGs and other big offline events
"Protoss is a joke" Liquid`Jinro Okt.1. 2011
JayJay_90
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany1632 Posts
October 01 2011 09:41 GMT
#76
On October 01 2011 15:50 Bacon-X wrote:
the only thing that bothers me in this article is that he said "white dudes" what is he saying?? all europeans and americans are white?? what about all the brown and black people that play starcraft who live in america... like me... shit... thx for the representation! gosh!

it's an inside joke....
Paladia
Profile Joined August 2003
802 Posts
October 01 2011 09:47 GMT
#77
I have to say that this is likely the weakest line-up I've seen for a very long time in one of the major tournaments. It doesn't feature any of the power houses from any of the regions.
I can no longer rest under the tree of wisdom, since you have axed down the roots feeding it.
Lunas
Profile Joined September 2011
253 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-01 09:53:39
October 01 2011 09:53 GMT
#78
On October 01 2011 18:47 Paladia wrote:
I have to say that this is likely the weakest line-up I've seen for a very long time in one of the major tournaments. It doesn't feature any of the power houses from any of the regions.


Sure the tournament only got one of the best zergs "Dimaga" in EU and one of the best terran "Strelok" in EU. US only got the best player "Idra" attending. The Chinese only got there best players.
And Rain, JYP, Puma, Revival not top Koreans really?

Yea the line-up sure do look weak
WhiteDog
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France8650 Posts
October 01 2011 10:07 GMT
#79
On October 01 2011 18:41 JayJay_90 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2011 15:50 Bacon-X wrote:
the only thing that bothers me in this article is that he said "white dudes" what is he saying?? all europeans and americans are white?? what about all the brown and black people that play starcraft who live in america... like me... shit... thx for the representation! gosh!

it's an inside joke....

Yeah, when he says "White dude" he is referring to the time when he made Moon says "Korean owns white dude" back in IEM a year ago.
"every time WhiteDog overuses the word "seriously" in a comment I can make an observation on his fragile emotional state." MoltkeWarding
jsemmens
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States439 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-01 10:13:32
October 01 2011 10:09 GMT
#80
Puma (lives in America now, btw) won NASL among other feats of bad-assery. Rain came in second back in one of the GSL open seasons, and was a code S player. JYP hasn't done anything super great yet, but I seriously would not at all be surprised to see him in code S in the next season or two. So, the line-up isn't really that weak.

At the same time, I'm not surprised that it's not attracting the huge powerhouse players. IEM has a significantly smaller prize fund than other major SC2 tournaments. The GSL prize fund is approximately $150,000 for example. NASL season 2 is going on right now ($100,000 prize fund), and IPL 3 starts the day after IEM ends ($100,000 prize pool in that too). With only a 21k prize fund at IEM, the players that can't make every event are probably more likely to choose one of the other events over IEM.

Also,

On October 01 2011 18:20 WhiteDog wrote:
DreamHack Valencia, where Thorzain comes, makes 4-5 in the finals against DRG after beating Hero and HuK, but still go home with 0€ in the pocket.

At Dreamhack, it was only an 8 player invitational compared with big tournaments like MLG, so having only a prize for 1st makes more sense in this case than others, I think.
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