Its a funny twist that the qualifications are played in an entirely different meta-game than the finals. Feels like in Korea protoss 2 or 3 base all-ins are figured out while Korean protosses still can all-in to victory versus foreign zergs. The current code S is code Z with only Creator as protoss representative. Too bad to really good Terrans made it far in this tournament, eventhough I found Lucifrons run entertaining.

opterown

Australia54783 Posts

November 18 2012 22:06 GMT

#63

still sad about creator, sigh

freeshooter

United States477 Posts

November 18 2012 22:48 GMT

#64

Congrats to Parting, he's had this a long time coming, he really deserves it. Startale Kong Curse is finally ending.

Sweetfrost

Sweden211 Posts

November 18 2012 22:56 GMT

#65

I really feel like I know the PvZ matchup inside and out now! So many PvZs.
But I really enjoyed the skillful usage of the warp prisms! Very entertaining to watch!
The PvP final was one of the best PvPs I have seen aswell. I had low expectations in the entertaining value of watching PvZ for several hours, but I turned out great!

Congratulations to Parting, a deserved win!

RaiKageRyu

Canada4773 Posts

November 18 2012 22:59 GMT

#66

Suppy blowing his 2-0 lead over Parting was very disheartening.

w3b0

El Salvador5 Posts

November 18 2012 23:05 GMT

#67

Sad about Grubby I was cheering for him too bad he was sick.

CeriseCherries

6170 Posts

November 18 2012 23:10 GMT

#68

T.T wishing that zerg was a little more op and got into the top 3 right now... sen or idra would have been nice, damn you RNG giving idra the oppoenent of rain

babochee

United States31 Posts

November 18 2012 23:11 GMT

#69

Why was there only 4 terrans? Anyone else see a problem here?

Sumahi

Guam5609 Posts

November 18 2012 23:19 GMT

#70

Congratulations to Parting!!! A well deserved championship at last!

Madars

Latvia166 Posts

November 18 2012 23:36 GMT

#71

On November 19 2012 02:53 Roth wrote:

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I have to say that it felt the same for me. Do not know why.

Same for me, I liked the tournament as a whole, but didn't have it in me to stay up to watch finals, didn't have high expectations for them

Repomies

Finland73 Posts

November 19 2012 00:37 GMT

#72

Tournament was fun to watch and inspired me but I still expected more from it. Maybe it was the mistakes from production crew or that my favorites were dropped out quick.

Alfalfa

Canada26 Posts

November 19 2012 02:21 GMT

#73

A great tournament overall. Good representation from around the world. Maybe a small lack in organization after the opening ceremony but that's not a big deal.

LockeTazeline

2390 Posts

November 19 2012 02:50 GMT

#74

So happy that Parting finally won something. He's gotten so close so many times before, and I'm sure he doesn't mind this being the tourny that he finally breaks through in.

X3GoldDot

Malaysia3840 Posts

November 19 2012 03:01 GMT

#75

On November 19 2012 04:49 AxiR wrote:

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I'm pretty sure Parting won that game.

parting didnt win that game, that was the first game, he won the 3rd game tho, which he had been set behind after failing the initial warp prism 4 gate, but macroed up and creator took a bad engagement leading to parting winning

UrsusRex

United States85 Posts

November 19 2012 03:17 GMT

#76

I thought this tournament proved more about the importance of brackets than the skill of Parting. With the exception of Creator he only faced foreigners and had by far the easiest bracket in the entire tournament. Parting won because he was in the right place at the right time. The most impressive thing about Parting this tournament was the amount of money he won.

I also want to point out how stupid it was for the casters to be calling the winner of this tournament the best WoL player. Saying that actually took me out of the experience because I realized how pathetically untrue that was. I don't mind Parting's victory but that kind of false hype had the exact opposite of the desired effect on this viewer.

Hayang

United States22 Posts

November 19 2012 03:44 GMT

#77

On November 19 2012 04:21 twndomn wrote:
When Sen defeated Hero and went to Hero's booth to shake his hand, Hero had such BM and just refused to shake hand. Hero acted anything but Hero-like, more like a sore loser to me. Was I the only one who caught that?

I agree that it was unsportsmanlike but knowing HerO he probably really didn't mean it in an offensive way, he is most likely more upset with himself than bitter with Sen. It wasn't like he gave a strange look or anything just had a destroyed look on his face and woudn't turn around lol.

Johhey

Norway72 Posts

November 19 2012 04:01 GMT

#78

we could ahve seen 7/8 Koreans in the round of eight. It just turned out that Sunday was fairly ordinary.

Caught one!