EPTDH Summer Preview Part 1: Can the Koreans be Beat? - Page 3
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DavoS
United States4605 Posts
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Vanimar
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I still firmly believe, that, IF TLO is training like a bunny on a sexspree and keeps up going for new, unorthodoxe, yet effective builds (TLO style can be unpredictable), he has a shot at winning big. I'm not saying it's highly likely. I'm just trying to explain, that, IF he overcomes the foreigner "meh I trained enough for this week" lazy attitude and adapts his "wtf only 70 games today, I need to keep going" mindset, he can do it. | ||
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Hall0wed
United States8486 Posts
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Weavel
Finland9221 Posts
 Great write-up. I don't see foreigners making it to ro8. | ||
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Vanimar
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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Olli
Austria24420 Posts
On June 13 2013 22:22 Vanimar wrote: Also: Flash is not attending, human victory is a given. Hooray Humans! You sound like everybody in Attack on Titan just before they get eaten | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On June 13 2013 21:57 DarkLordOlli wrote: Seconded, December-HerO from last year was the best player to ever play at Dreamhack until now imo. He just manhandled the whole thing like it was nothing. I'd say ffs Squirtle, just win something already Hero's good, but calling him the best player to ever play at Dreamhack is ridiculous. He's not even the best Protoss player at a dreamhack. MC played at Dreamhack Summer in 2011. I feel this article underestimates Life. Life is the heavy favorite here | ||
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oneill12
Romania1222 Posts
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Olli
Austria24420 Posts
On June 13 2013 22:33 Bagration wrote: Hero's good, but calling him the best player to ever play at Dreamhack is ridiculous. He's not even the best Protoss player at a dreamhack. MC played at Dreamhack Summer in 2011. I feel this article underestimates Life. Life is the heavy favorite here The way HerO played at DH Winter 2012 far outshines MC's performance at any Dreamhack. Or any other player's for that matter. He dropped 2 maps, one of which he may or may not have thrown for Ret and the other was a PvP with build order disadvantage. He 5-0d his group, 3-0d Snute, 4-0d Taeja. All of which he did EASILY. The way I meant it is not that he's overall better than players like MC but his performance there was the best anyone has shown at any DH. | ||
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ACrow
Germany6583 Posts
On June 13 2013 22:33 Bagration wrote: Hero's good, but calling him the best player to ever play at Dreamhack is ridiculous. He's not even the best Protoss player at a dreamhack. MC played at Dreamhack Summer in 2011. I feel this article underestimates Life. Life is the heavy favorite here He's the only one to ever win Dreamhack twice. Also, there are many ways to measure how good a player is. How good is he now? HerO is a lot, a looooot, better right now than MC (also better than Taeja, DRG). Or do you want to measure how good they were at the time (relative to the time? relative to now?) when they were attending Dreamhack? However you measure it, giving the only two times DH winner no credit at all is not justified. Pah *shakes angry fist at the writers* | ||
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Olli
Austria24420 Posts
Anyway, let's not derail the thread with this. | ||
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ErrantKnight
Switzerland186 Posts
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ZackAttack
United States884 Posts
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On June 13 2013 22:38 ACrow wrote: He's the only one to ever win Dreamhack twice. Also, there are many ways to measure how good a player is. How good is he now? HerO is a lot, a looooot, better right now than MC (also better than Taeja, DRG). Or do you want to measure how good they were at the time (relative to the time? relative to now?) when they were attending Dreamhack? However you measure it, giving the only two times DH winner no credit at all is not justified. Pah *shakes angry fist at the writers* Yes, I am talking about their form when they participated at the tournament (which is also what the article was talking about). I guess what I'm trying to say is that when these players like MC, Taeja, and DRG played at Dreamhacks, many would consider them the top 5 players in the world. All I'm saying is that while Hero has won a lot at Dreamhacks, he's not someone I'd consider top 5 in the world, ie top tier. I think that is what the writers may having been saying as well. | ||
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ZMTYOU
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miniskirt
France487 Posts
Not only is Life the best player at this tournament, he might be the best StarCraft II player to play at a DreamHack EVER. Looking back, the three best players to compete at an SC2 DreamHack are: (T)TaeJa @ Valencia 2012 (at the height of the summer of TaeJa), (Z)DongRaeGu @ Winter 2011 (just slightly before his peak), and now Life @ Summer 2013 (slightly come down from his peak). The order is kind of debatable, but all four were at least are we counting ST_Life twice now? | ||
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Spaceboy
United Kingdom220 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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