On March 04 2012 05:09 NoobKing55 wrote:
If I were Genius I would be so mad at DRG for coming into the booth and showing off. I thought Koreans frowned on that kind of thing. It was extremely tasteless.

If I were DRG I would be so mad at Genius for coming into the booth and showing off. I thought Koreans frowned on that kind of thing. It was extremely tasteless.
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Deal with it

EDIT: This just in! DRG and Genius are now mortal enemies. They have recently been seen punching each other over and over and over and over, EVEN WHILE IN PUBLIC!

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It's clear these two hate each other and will never be reconciled. It's rumored that Team MVP will soon break into two new teams (Team M\ and Team /P) with each rival as a new captain. We better go make 8 100-page threads about it.

Disclaimer: The above may or may not be part of a jobapplication for TMZ

mahO

France274 Posts

March 03 2012 21:46 GMT

#204

oh seriously so many whine about it, there is an option anti spoiler, this is a community site centered around freaking esport, and we're talking about fucking GSL, just shut up about it, good article, Genius really didnt seem confident enough vs DRG, he must have been on a bad spree against him in practice to try out so many mind games, even if he won the first game straight up, he seemed nervous about playing standard, I cant figure out if it's because he was nervous playing a GSL final, or simply he thought he wouldnt win DRG without some all ins and weird strategies mixed in there. Anyway the amount of mind games and often times indecision made this finals really good for me to watch, but I guess it was way less entertaining for "lower level" viewers, like Tastosis said, the mind game Genius put on DRG on Cloud Kingdom was insanely good, but really hard to catch, REALLY hard to understand how perfect that was, and it ended up not being entertaining as a fight since Genius raped DRG but thats the beauty of SC2, good strat, well executed, including you're going for fast third, you should rape your opponent. The carrier choice tho was completely stupid, phoenixes or not, it will get scouted in time, it was cute and basing the game on "maybe he'll do a huge mistake trying to counter this and i'll win", other than that, good finals

Proseat

Germany5113 Posts

March 03 2012 21:55 GMT

#205

I wish GSL would reconsider their website/gomplayer approach. Having to go to their website first, have it load fully, do several clicks then only to start the stream on the external gomplayer while more webpages load fully, is an unnecessary und cumbersome bottleneck. There should be a stream bookmark service in gomplayer itself. That way you would only have to start your gomplayer and be done with it. Instead, thousands of viewers have to swamp their website when the games are about to start, deteriorating its stability and availability for those who might actually read up on stuff there or view VODs.

Anyways, congratulations to DRG for winning the first GSL title in 2012. I'm sure everyone already felt this overdue, as he is usually mentioned among the most prolific players worldwide.

TheTurk

United States732 Posts

March 03 2012 22:13 GMT

#206

<3 So happy for you DRG.
Ecstatic right now.

IAttackYou

United States330 Posts

March 03 2012 22:15 GMT

#207

I swear freaken Genius would have had game 5 and 6 if he wasn't indecisive. DRG lost majority of his army both of the games, made me cringe as I watched it QQ. Gratz to DRG for teh win though.

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

March 03 2012 22:20 GMT

#208

Grats DRG!

Yaki

France4234 Posts

March 03 2012 22:21 GMT

#209

On March 04 2012 07:15 IAttackYou wrote:
I swear freaken Genius would have had game 5 and 6 if he wasn't indecisive. DRG lost majority of his army both of the games, made me cringe as I watched it QQ. Gratz to DRG for teh win though.

We will never know if Genius would have won game 5 if he didn't turn around. As for game 6, honestly he played brilliantly, I'm so sad he wasn't rewarded for that because the map was crossfire. He got carried away in game 6 and attacked the spine instead he should have just continued to deny a third base and wait that they both run out of minerals because Genius had a much better army he would have won that way. I think Genius has to realize that he's one of the best if no the best mid/late game protoss. I feel think he underestimated his chances to beat DRG in the late game and that's why he went for those 2 stargates shitty build that basically cost him the game. Congrats to DRG though he truly is the best player in the world right now and he deserves that GSL title.

synapse

China13814 Posts

March 03 2012 22:44 GMT

#210

I feel kind of sad that the finals DRG wins is partly because of really stupid mistakes on his opponents' part. Genius seemed incredibly comfortable in the matchup at first (dat pre-BL timing), but just fell apart after game 2...

Vorenius

Denmark1979 Posts

March 03 2012 22:47 GMT

#211

On March 04 2012 07:21 Yaki wrote:

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You could also turn it around and say that the reason the blink rush and macro game worked was because DRG had to play more safe than he would have wanted because he knew Genius was willing to cheese. Of course the carrier build was pretty much suicide but I definitly think the two stargate build as such was decent. On Antiga he would have done alot of damage without the horrible miss-micro and the doube phoenix did decent enough damage.

He lost 2 or 3 games due to on-the-fly decision making, but I think his choice in strategies was close to perfect regardless.

EatsDirt

Canada26 Posts

March 03 2012 22:48 GMT

#212

poor genius I was rooting for you! i think his nerves played a big part in him losing allot of the games

Magic_Mike

United States542 Posts

March 03 2012 22:57 GMT

#213

I voted for DRG cause I figured he was the better player but as the games went on I was pulling for Genius. I personally thought it was a great series.

1Eris1

United States5797 Posts

March 03 2012 23:24 GMT

#214

And this is why my favorites tab links to TL-General Chat, not the front page. hehe

Artifice

United States523 Posts

March 03 2012 23:36 GMT

#215

On March 04 2012 06:30 Caloreen wrote:
Why would this be posted right away and on the front page, I'm not going to watch this at 4am and now it's spoiled. Thanks a lot.

Learn to read.

testthewest

Germany274 Posts

March 03 2012 23:39 GMT

#216

Well, one year without a toss GSL champion.....

...gogo MC, train harder!!! (the rest of the toss can't get it done anyways)

GohgamX

Canada1096 Posts

March 03 2012 23:45 GMT

#217

What a great series :3

Atlas247

Canada318 Posts

March 03 2012 23:48 GMT

#218

Something should be said about game 3 and Genius' amazing trick on DRG. The late plus1 and 4th gas that got canceled to lead DRG into thinking it was a 3rd base build. One of the greatest plays i have ever seen.

juicy

Australia145 Posts

March 03 2012 23:57 GMT

#219

Thanks for the recap, kinda disappointing series IMO but I'm happy for DRG, especially after his 2nd place finish in NY.

I'm sure Complexity / Razer are pretty happy with their pickup