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Mudkipnick
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Korea (South)241 Posts
December 18 2012 22:39 GMT
#61
Go go TLO ♥
Follow your dreams
zul
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany5427 Posts
December 18 2012 22:55 GMT
#62
GoOdy fighting :D
keep it deep! @zulison
Ace Frehley
Profile Joined December 2012
2030 Posts
December 18 2012 23:05 GMT
#63
On December 19 2012 06:46 Sulphur wrote:
Show nested quote +
You know who won the Iron Squid II qualifier? ST_Life.


Actually SlayerS`Brown won the KR qualifier 4-1 over Life (both qualified for the tournament but Brown got a couple hundred Euros for his trouble). Tut tut Waxangel!

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Iron_Squid_–_Chapter_II/Korean_Qualifier

PS. To be fair to Life he had to switch accounts halfway through because of the law that forbids minors from playing videogames past a certain time in SK, which seems to have affected his play.


Actually, Life won the qualifier for Iron Squid I, not II

...
thoraxe
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1449 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-18 23:06:31
December 18 2012 23:06 GMT
#64
gogogogog GoOdy HWAITING!
Obama singing "Kick Ass" Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghFBt-fXmw&feature=player_embedde
neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
December 18 2012 23:10 GMT
#65
On December 19 2012 06:46 Lonyo wrote:
Last 13 tournaments winner by race (premier and major, per liquipedia, 13 because that's November to now).
Protoss 7
Zerg 4
Terran 2

Also doesn't mean the races are balanced, but it indicates protoss aren't really struggling to get to the finals of tournaments.


You're perhaps right, but in other circumstances (like where the best players play) statistics are a lot different, e.g. the last GSL season, where terrans and protoss won 34% and 39% of their games against zerg. Of course, that's just bad luck and hot zergs, right?

Also none of the protoss winners of premier tournaments you mentioned had to face a Korean zerg in order to win. Actually, only one of the tournaments (Partings BWC win) even contained Korean zergs.
maru G5L pls
ElMeanYo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1032 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-18 23:36:06
December 18 2012 23:35 GMT
#66
They should play the whole tournament in HOTS. Just to shake things up.
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Finrod1
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany3997 Posts
December 18 2012 23:46 GMT
#67
gonna be awesome
theException
Profile Joined December 2012
Canada23 Posts
December 19 2012 00:03 GMT
#68
On December 19 2012 08:35 ElMeanYo wrote:
They should play the whole tournament in HOTS. Just to shake things up.

This

It would be a great excuse to see tons and tons of TvT and more Terran winners
You must accept him just to stay as an exception
Tppz!
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany1449 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-19 00:11:18
December 19 2012 00:07 GMT
#69
On that note, we bring you the most amusing stat of the group: GoOdy is 6 – 7 against Stephano all time. In fact, he even won their last meeting at Battle in Berlin. To this day, we're not entirely sure how that happened, but the world is a better place because of it. GoOdy fans, feel free to ignore the cries of "but that was over a year ago!" coming from the Stephano fans, and make sure to remind everyone that the Panzer General has the Frenchman's number.

It's easy: GoOdy had one of the best TvZ and Stephano was always bad with his Ling/Ultra vs Mech players. I'm getting annoyed by writters not to acknowledge how good GoOdy was. He was far ahead of most players in a lot of things. He beat Nestea when Koreans where waaaaaay better than foreigners. He had a number on every Zerg in the world as long as it hadnt been Nerchio (or now Hyun). After the queen patch though everything went downhill.

on another note:
gogo Carlo smash TLO!
NKexquisite
Profile Joined January 2009
United States911 Posts
December 19 2012 00:14 GMT
#70
Inviting sub-par Terran players to just get crushed by Zerg players isn't going to help the balance "discussion" at all...

Just... Hold on tight...
Whattttt Upppppppp Im Nesteaaaaaa!!
furo
Profile Joined March 2012
Germany449 Posts
December 19 2012 00:20 GMT
#71
On December 19 2012 07:37 snively wrote:
who is tarrantius


german player
tbh i dont know any more since he does not play EPS, he is either <16 or does not care.
he has to be good winning the eu qualifier tho.
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
December 19 2012 00:27 GMT
#72
last premier of the year! :D
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Tppz!
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany1449 Posts
December 19 2012 00:32 GMT
#73
On December 19 2012 09:20 furo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2012 07:37 snively wrote:
who is tarrantius


german player
tbh i dont know any more since he does not play EPS, he is either <16 or does not care.
he has to be good winning the eu qualifier tho.

he does play EPS. he is on Alien Invasion as far as I know. He had some success in the last few month.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Tarrantius
Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5357 Posts
December 19 2012 00:33 GMT
#74
On December 19 2012 09:07 Tppz! wrote:
Show nested quote +
On that note, we bring you the most amusing stat of the group: GoOdy is 6 – 7 against Stephano all time. In fact, he even won their last meeting at Battle in Berlin. To this day, we're not entirely sure how that happened, but the world is a better place because of it. GoOdy fans, feel free to ignore the cries of "but that was over a year ago!" coming from the Stephano fans, and make sure to remind everyone that the Panzer General has the Frenchman's number.

It's easy: GoOdy had one of the best TvZ and Stephano was always bad with his Ling/Ultra vs Mech players. I'm getting annoyed by writters not to acknowledge how good GoOdy was. He was far ahead of most players in a lot of things. He beat Nestea when Koreans where waaaaaay better than foreigners. He had a number on every Zerg in the world as long as it hadnt been Nerchio (or now Hyun). After the queen patch though everything went downhill.

on another note:
gogo Carlo smash TLO!

GoOdy with his 25 APM one of the best TvZ in the world? ROFL
¯\_(シ)_/¯
TPennBud
Profile Joined December 2012
United States2 Posts
December 19 2012 00:38 GMT
#75
This is going to be soooo sick
If your not first your last
Swiv
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany3674 Posts
December 19 2012 00:42 GMT
#76
rooting for Fuzer so hard, go Samuli!!! 12 hours to go
[_] Terran [_] Zerg [_] Protoss [X] Random ------- Fantasy - hyvaa - sOs
neocron
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom505 Posts
December 19 2012 01:27 GMT
#77
I'm going to cheer for cloud, monchi and xlord this HSC!

GoGo Dennis Gehlen, lets rock your flat!
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33508 Posts
December 19 2012 01:40 GMT
#78
On December 19 2012 06:46 Sulphur wrote:
Show nested quote +
You know who won the Iron Squid II qualifier? ST_Life.


Actually SlayerS`Brown won the KR qualifier 4-1 over Life (both qualified for the tournament but Brown got a couple hundred Euros for his trouble). Tut tut Waxangel!

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Iron_Squid_–_Chapter_II/Korean_Qualifier

PS. To be fair to Life he had to switch accounts halfway through because of the law that forbids minors from playing videogames past a certain time in SK, which seems to have affected his play.


he won a spot in the tournament, good 'nuff

also Korean gov kicked him offline in one game for being a minor tt
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Silan
Profile Joined January 2010
Denmark198 Posts
December 19 2012 03:49 GMT
#79
On December 19 2012 04:36 krisss wrote:
The most important for me would be that EVERY ZvP and ZvT will be casted by PROs only.
Because the thing that bugs me the most by the current casters is that they simply ignore the zerg power atm. They treat every ZvP like its 50% win chance for everyone. And if the Zerg player wins, its because the P did major mistakes. Same goes for ZvT. Im sick of that kind of reasoning by the casters.

Fact is that at the moment its incredibly hard for P and T to beat Z. Its frusttrating, you just have to make verything perfect.I want PROs to express their feelings about that, talking about how they feel when they play. I dont want to hear for the standard casters "Oh, the Protoss should have attacked EXACTLY at 12:35, then the Zerg was at his weakest". Thats too simple.


I get your fustration, but asking a caster to take balance into account is silly. How would it look if the final comment on a GSL final was "Aww MVP played almost perfect, too bad the game is broken and Life won". Pro gamers can whine as much as they like (although mostly it doesn't suit them imo), but casters has to take an objective stance, else your talking away the acknowledgement of the player which is totally unacceptable.

On a more importen note, BABYKNIGHT FIGHTING! You got your group EASILY!
Life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish flanders was dead. - Homer
Prplppleatr
Profile Joined May 2011
United States1518 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-19 04:01:23
December 19 2012 03:59 GMT
#80
On December 19 2012 05:49 althaz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2012 05:23 theException wrote:
On December 19 2012 04:36 krisss wrote:
The most important for me would be that EVERY ZvP and ZvT will be casted by PROs only.
Because the thing that bugs me the most by the current casters is that they simply ignore the zerg power atm. They treat every ZvP like its 50% win chance for everyone. And if the Zerg player wins, its because the P did major mistakes. Same goes for ZvT. Im sick of that kind of reasoning by the casters.

Fact is that at the moment its incredibly hard for P and T to beat Z. Its frusttrating, you just have to make verything perfect.I want PROs to express their feelings about that, talking about how they feel when they play. I dont want to hear for the standard casters "Oh, the Protoss should have attacked EXACTLY at 12:35, then the Zerg was at his weakest". Thats too simple.

Am I missing something? I thought all recent statistics suggested ZvP was balanced (even Toss favoured)

If you take out the Immortal-Sentry all-in Zerg is about 70% in the matchup (and Zergs are figuring that build out). That said its more a case of watching the games and seeing dominant Tosses still end up losing to infestor-broodlord.

Part of this is probably form (only Hero and Parting playing well as Toss atm, vs lots of hot Zergs), but the matchup looks imbalanced to many (I still almost always win PvZ tho, parting build ftw).

If you take out games with BL's and/or infestors then it's a 95% win ratio for Toss (I can make things up too)

This tournament will be fun to watch and pro commentary, imo, makes it fun/nier because they are not objective and do point out mistakes as well as complain more than any caster
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