EPTAuction OSL - Day 1 Recap (2013) - Page 2
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EnumaAvalon
Philippines3613 Posts
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FeltFace
Australia577 Posts
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Meteora.GB
Canada2479 Posts
On June 19 2013 07:56 larse wrote: Many people ask who she is. She is Tasha, from Spiral Cats, a cosplay team. She is not Innovation's girlfriend. I didn't know cosplay teams exist, paid or unpaid. | ||
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United Kingdom2950 Posts
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KristofferAG
Norway25712 Posts
On June 19 2013 09:50 GolemMadness wrote: All the time in the world to think about how to prepare for the attack? Like... thinking about if he should target banelings or not? He already saw the attack coming several seconds in advance. People want excuses to hate on the format. I like it, brings out the best in all players. No bullshit when it all relies on that single game. Really enjoyed the broadcast. Top notch casting and production on OGN stream. Not the most amazing of games in the first group, but I enjoyed the second very much. | ||
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NeThZOR
South Africa7387 Posts
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nimdil
Poland3767 Posts
On June 19 2013 10:06 Jaded. wrote: Was anyone really surprised that flash made it out? I mean the guy has a golden mouse title, He's not new to the OSL format. Jaedong, NaDa and July also have golden mouses and yet I'd be surprised if they made out of the group given the same position Flash was in. | ||
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warmus
United Kingdom196 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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Lokken_8
Czech Republic69 Posts
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Zerg.Zilla
Hungary5029 Posts
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Krogan
Sweden375 Posts
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Erraa93
Australia891 Posts
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Gorribal
Canada186 Posts
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hitthat
Poland2347 Posts
On June 19 2013 18:45 Krogan wrote: Planning a best of 3 is a huge part of the meta game and opening up for a lot more interesting comeback stories. There's no thing like "comeback" in Bo3. Unless you mean comeback in regular game, wich is possible also in Bo1 | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
On June 19 2013 18:45 Krogan wrote: It's not like the only issue with best of 1 format was that the better players might get knocked out, it is also that we get robbed of watching sc2 the way it is meant to be played. Planning a best of 3 is a huge part of the meta game and opening up for a lot more interesting comeback stories. Those are the biggest issues with bo1 imo and I will pray for OSL to die in a fire until they shape up. Meant to be played? Does it say in the manual that you have to play Starcraft as a series? If you don't like the format then ok, but don't give this bullshit about how it's MEANT to be played that way. | ||
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fenrysk
United States364 Posts
On June 19 2013 18:45 Krogan wrote: It's not like the only issue with best of 1 format was that the better players might get knocked out, it is also that we get robbed of watching sc2 the way it is meant to be played. Planning a best of 3 is a huge part of the meta game and opening up for a lot more interesting comeback stories. Those are the biggest issues with bo1 imo and I will pray for OSL to die in a fire until they shape up. There's a lot of preparation that goes into even best of 1 group stages, and that's something that was very apparent in these group stages, with the Savage vs Innovation series, where Savage almost had won if not for Innovation's superior mechanics. There's less room for error because the format is less forgiving, and as a result, players have to be playing their absolute best and under pressure, even if sometimes it's a shorter game because of an timing all-in or cheese (and even build order selection has to be well planned based on map and opponent). The Bo1 is also the way SC2 is meant to be played, because that's how it is played in regular ranked ladder games, and there is still room in OSL's format for Bo3 and Bo5, so OSL actually has a good spectrum of "the way SC2 is meant to be played." I actually enjoyed the Bo1 format, as I don't lose attention after the first two series like I normally would in a Bo3 group stage after having watched so many Bo3 group stages in the last 2-3 years. OSL's format has been successful for them since the days of BW, and I would like to see the legacy continue. | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
On June 19 2013 20:24 fenrysk wrote: There's a lot of preparation that goes into even best of 1 group stages, and that's something that was very apparent in these group stages, with the Savage vs Innovation series, where Savage almost had won if not for Innovation's superior mechanics. There's less room for error because the format is less forgiving, and as a result, players have to be playing their absolute best and under pressure, even if sometimes it's a shorter game because of an timing all-in or cheese (and even build order selection has to be well planned based on map and opponent). The Bo1 is also the way SC2 is meant to be played, because that's how it is played in regular ranked ladder games, and there is still room in OSL's format for Bo3 and Bo5, so OSL actually has a good spectrum of "the way SC2 is meant to be played." I actually enjoyed the Bo1 format, as I don't lose attention after the first two series like I normally would in a Bo3 group stage after having watched so many Bo3 group stages in the last 2-3 years. OSL's format has been successful for them since the days of BW, and I would like to see the legacy continue. Bo1 also means that players can't blindly go greedy or super aggresive after winning a game with the comfort that if they lose the series ties to 1-1 and they have another chance. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On June 19 2013 18:17 nimdil wrote: Jaedong, NaDa and July also have golden mouses and yet I'd be surprised if they made out of the group given the same position Flash was in. Huh? YugiOh has been meh for a while and yeah Flash doesn't have much information on RagnaroK but come on man. The only real landmine was SK and two guys were going to advance either way. SK and Flash were definitely the favorites. | ||
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