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Spring Arena 1 - Eight Storylines to Follow - Page 8

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TheAngryZergling
Profile Joined January 2011
United States387 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 14:00:17
April 20 2012 14:00 GMT
#141
On April 20 2012 05:40 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:
No, a rematch at Spring Arena or any other tournament can no more change the past than Blizzard can implement LAN.


So bitterly funny.
Everything in life is most clearly explained through a Starcraft analogy.
TheDougler
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada8305 Posts
April 20 2012 14:56 GMT
#142
Great write-up, little typo here in the MKP v Parting writeup:


making everyone single one
I root for Euro Zergs, NA Protoss* and Korean Terrans. (Any North American who has beat a Korean Pro as Protoss counts as NA Toss)
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
April 20 2012 15:14 GMT
#143
I'm hyped up now!
Great armies come from happy zealots, and happy zealots come from California!
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Swampsteel
Profile Joined April 2011
United States94 Posts
April 20 2012 16:09 GMT
#144
great writeup, I love how you don't make any assumptions about slumps with DRG and MKP, they could be lucky or unlucky, or it could be practice. We don't know and you addressed the uncertainty and built up my hype! <3
Oh my glob!
Waterflow
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden1550 Posts
April 20 2012 16:38 GMT
#145
On April 20 2012 15:27 mrtomjones wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2012 08:57 TheBamf wrote:
To be fair: HuK did have the easiest possible groups in - most - of his MLG runs.

Like the last arena, he only met 1 korean which wa Oz in a PvP. Given it is Oz and PvP beating him 2-0 was quite good, but he was absolutely demolished by DRG and Marineking.
Same goes for his the winter championship where he had to face only 1 "real" korean, in heart; a cheesy code A/B player. Who proceeded to beat him twice in the tournament. His most notable win the whole tournament was again a korean protoss, now Parting.

I am not gonna say Huk is bad, he is not. But I do still think he has not proved himself to be one of the greats.

Your memory is flawed regarding Columbus. He had both Violet and Heart in his group as well as Ret/Socke who he beat at the other event you are speaking of who apparently you think are pushovers. After the group stage at Columbus he went on to beat Naniwa and Parting before losing a 4-2 extended series to Heart. That is 3 Koreans in the one plus Naniwa and if you payed attention to SOTG you would see Tyler talking about how PvP is won based on skill now and not luck(most of the time) so trying to discredit that is silly too.


Wasn't impressive of HuK to win against NaNiwa with 2 incredibly lame cheeses. Not even real games. NaNiwa has and will destroy HuK in real games.
jmWins
Profile Joined March 2012
Finland19 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 17:46:11
April 20 2012 17:45 GMT
#146
"All of the players have far superior knowledge of the game, compared to casters"

Are we... playing the same game or?
Jeremy Reimer
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada1027 Posts
April 20 2012 19:31 GMT
#147
I have to say, I wasn't going to purchase a ticket for the MLG Spring Arena, because I bought the last Arena and was disappointed at the lack of an audience and thus complete absence of fan energy (and no awarding ceremony at the end, either!)

But I bought a ticket for this Arena for one reason and one reason only: Grubby casting.

Well played, MLG. Well played.
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -- Carl Sagan
Waterflow
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden1550 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 19:53:00
April 20 2012 19:50 GMT
#148
On April 21 2012 04:31 Jeremy Reimer wrote:
I have to say, I wasn't going to purchase a ticket for the MLG Spring Arena, because I bought the last Arena and was disappointed at the lack of an audience and thus complete absence of fan energy (and no awarding ceremony at the end, either!)

But I bought a ticket for this Arena for one reason and one reason only: Grubby casting.

Well played, MLG. Well played.


You're such a sucker. But yeah... Grubby sure is awesome.

But on the other hand... DreamHack has that audience and fan energy you are searching for. It has amazing casters: Apollo and Wolf and they have free high quality stream.

So your choice is kinda illogical. Other than the Grubby part.
usethis2
Profile Joined December 2010
2164 Posts
April 25 2012 01:58 GMT
#149
On April 20 2012 19:13 Waterflow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 20 2012 19:01 Waxangel wrote:
On April 20 2012 19:00 Ireniicus wrote:
Just a thought but would it not have made more sense to have had this event in Korea as practically everyone playing in it lives there?


cheaper to bring eight guys to NYC, than fly all your production guys from NYC to kor


Why not use GSL production crew

You guys don't realize how expensive is that view of manhattan skyscraper in the background. :D

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