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On July 15 2012 12:29 jimbob615 wrote:
Stephano confirmed for first foreign bonjwa

On July 15 2012 13:22 thoraxe wrote:
I'm heartbroken for Ret. It looks like Alicia figured him out and countered his playstyle. You did marvelous though, you're almost there Ret, don't give up!

On July 15 2012 10:27 Seluance wrote:
I am starting to get particularly frustrated at how no caster gives Stephano the credit specifically for things he does to win games. I'll get more in to this later on.

I'm also starting to get agitated by casters calling Stephano 'amazing' for a split second and always saying 'I don't know how he does it' without actually giving him the credit he deserves: actually analyzing why he is so brilliant.

The last thing that frustrates me is unrelated and a personal thing, which is Artosis who usually gives credit where credit is due when it comes to amazing Starcraft, but I've never seen him fanboy up to Stephano who I consider the most intelligent zerg on the planet, though I do think Symbol does some things better.

Why is it that no caster actually analyzes or gives anything more than a passing comment to the way Stephano engages his army in every single game. There is no player to ever exist in Starcraft II that engages their army as well as Stephano does. He spends ages baiting armies so he gets better positioning or spends ages not attacking because the outcome of the fight would be uncertain were he to engage.

Also, Stephano's decision making is leagues above anyone else, in that he understands when he should be making units, when he should be collecting larva due to the uncertainty of what the enemy is doing, or switching unit compositions drastically and fluently (even more fluently than Symbol).

Though in the end, despite people glorifying Stephano's lack of practice whilst being so good, I get the feeling when I watch him that he actually doesn't practice as much as he should, though I don't understand where this feeling comes from because rationally it isn't justified, but it is a strong feeling and strong enough for myself to justify writing this.

It is just something that annoys me, that there isn't caster that ever actually explains why what Stephano is doing is brilliant as opposed to making shallow remarks like 'amazing' or 'I don't understand how he just did that!', even though I can clearly see the underlying reason why what Stephano did was amazing decision making even though my game knowledge pretty much blows in comparison to these casters. This isn't just directed at Mr.Bitter and Rotterdam, but all the other casters from major events too.