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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
Should have bolded the part about it being in online tournaments as well (the more relevant piece).  Nestea has maintained a high winrate in ZvZ all offline for a far longer period of time in the gsl booth which is where they'll be playing today. Experience could play a significant factor. | ||
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Doubting
Canada981 Posts
Nestea v Life SuperNova v JYP SuperNova v Life Nestea v JYP Nestea v SuperNova if Life and Nestea go to code A then I won't have anyone left to cheer for but DRG  | ||
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hnim
United States86 Posts
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CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:52 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: Should have bolded the part about it being in online tournaments as well (the more relevant piece). Nestea has maintained a high winrate in ZvZ all offline for a far longer period of time in the gsl booth which is where they'll be playing today. Experience could play a significant factor. True. However the majority of Nestea's competition was less than impressive, similar to Life. It's the same thing for every player that has an abnormally high winrate in the mirror matchup. As for experience, we can't really tell if it's going to be a factor. Life is not exactly suffering from the newbie jitters. His loss to Leenock was only due to a big head. | ||
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Porcelina
United Kingdom3249 Posts
On September 12 2012 13:05 hnim wrote: A 200 pound gorilla sounds like a pretty lightweight gorilla. The actual phrase should have been 800. So sad. | ||
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JJH777
United States4420 Posts
On September 12 2012 13:08 CosmicSpiral wrote: True. However the majority of Nestea's competition was less than impressive, similar to Life. It's the same thing for every player that has an abnormally high winrate in the mirror matchup. As for experience, we can't really tell if it's going to be a factor. Life is not exactly suffering from the newbie jitters. His loss to Leenock was only due to a big head. Not really. It's not impressive now because all those players have fallen off. But at the time he was beating the other top ZvZers in the world. The Nestea vs Losira finals was a match between the 1st and 2nd best Zergs at the time. Life is facing obscure players in online events to boost his win-rate. | ||
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Kraidio
China133 Posts
And make sure it's Suhoshin vs Heart at some point - the amount of cheese would feed SC2 for a life time. | ||
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CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On September 12 2012 13:17 JJH777 wrote: Not really. It's not impressive now because all those players have fallen off. But at the time he was beating the other top ZvZers in the world. The Nestea vs Losira finals was a match between the 1st and 2nd best Zergs at the time. Life is facing obscure players in online events to boost his win-rate. With the exception of Losira, BBoongBBoong, and Zenio (who relied more on mindgames than strategy to win in the early days) most of those players were always mediocre in ZvZ. In fact most zerg players in Korea were mediocre in ZvZ in the early days. Don't even try to pretend otherwise for Cezanne, Coca, July, and baby Leenock. The best ZvZ competition Nestea ever faced was in his later international games: Nerchio, Stephano, Symbol, and Violet. He played very well against them with the exception of Symbol. The "he played unknown players" card is begging the question. The popularity of opponents is irrelevant to their skill, and many of Life's opponents are good to great at the mirror matchup. Life's record is more impressive since he played way more games against unknown opponents without preparation, which is where the "randomness" of ZvZ is supposed to kick in. He is also close to undefeated in Bo1 ZvZ sets in team leagues, which is more than Nestea can ever claim. | ||
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PittlerGG
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
Gogo Symbol! | ||
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Pocky52
United States463 Posts
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iGX
Australia414 Posts
[*]Between 03.31.12 and 16.12.12, Life went 25-1 in ZvZ. writers at TL can see into the future LOL did you mean June 12th? nevertheless it was a good read | ||
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Porcelina
United Kingdom3249 Posts
On September 12 2012 14:02 iGX wrote: writers at TL can see into the future LOL did you mean June 12th? nevertheless it was a good read I may have... Was going to be all slick and present the date in nice American format. Then fell over myself and goofed it. =/ | ||
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deroth
United States83 Posts
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16126 Posts
My heart says Nestea/Supernova cheering for the veterans tonight. | ||
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Regime
Australia185 Posts
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X3GoldDot
Malaysia3840 Posts
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arbus
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