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Sweden144 Posts

March 10 2008 00:08 GMT

#41

Is the OSL finals held at Yongsan (iPark) or somewhere else?

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Canada3668 Posts

March 10 2008 02:06 GMT

#42

On March 10 2008 02:48 NonY[rC] wrote:
Stork's finals appearances aren't indicative of choking. If you want to make the argument, then you have to show that he was the favorite to win his finals appearances and you have to show that he made a significant amount of game-losing unforced errors. The evidence really doesn't exist to make such an argument. He has never been a huge favorite to win a finals and he plays on the same level as the rest of his games.

That's why he's closer to the P-equivalent of Yellow imo. Eternally 2nd place (except for one WCG where he dominated foreigners).

EvoChamber

France2505 Posts

March 10 2008 05:35 GMT

#43

On March 10 2008 03:25 Purind wrote:
Everyone calls him a choke artist because he always comes close to winning, but aside from his MSL final against Bisu, which league loss do you consider a choke?

Off the top of my head, his losses that I could remember were:
To Iris in I think ro8 where he was facing a red hot Iris that took Savior to 5 games.
To a red hot Flash in GSI
To a red hot Jaedong that just learnt how to play ZvP in that very series

There were a few others, but I don't recall any of them to be games that he was fully expected to win. Well, he was expected to make it out of ro32 this MSL, but half the big names fell in the ro32. It was a weird tournament

I agree, Stork doesn't choke so much as get outplayed. His game is always solid and only rarely inspired. If anything, I'd say he acts as the catalyst for better players to raise their game to the next level, e.g. Flash and Jaedong.

IIRC, the series against Iris was an OSL semi last summer in which Stork lost three games to the same twofac timing build.

EvilTeletubby

Baltimore, USA22261 Posts

March 11 2008 01:55 GMT

#44

On March 09 2008 19:50 Plexa wrote:

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unfortunately no.. Live2Win or Carnac may have the vod (i lost it when my external fucked up)

Aye, I lost the GoRush game, which was WAY better than the Savior one IMO. With the Savior one, you could see all the glaring mistakes... with the GoRush, came, you couldn't help but think "Damn, how COULD he have won???"