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Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1401 Posts
June 11 2008 15:58 GMT
#21
excellent writeup! you guys just got me excited about an OSL that I previously had no interest in. seriously, 5 protoss....wtf age are we in?

1 T to rule them all
"If you can chill..........then chill."
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 11 2008 16:08 GMT
#22
On June 12 2008 00:57 lololol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2008 00:15 Plexa wrote:
On June 11 2008 23:48 JoxxOr wrote:
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Who is this? There are like 20 ppl on these forums who got this icon :S
It's me obviously


It's still better to have an unique indentifier.
it was an oversight by mani
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
June 11 2008 16:18 GMT
#23

Best is simply on another level at the moment, he only just lost out to an inform Stork (best PvP in the world) in Bacchus OSL - and this time he's going all the way.


Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares?

Who cares that he beat the best pvp in the world?
Kyuki
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1867 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-11 16:22:44
June 11 2008 16:21 GMT
#24
On June 11 2008 23:48 JoxxOr wrote:
[image loading]

Who is this? There are like 20 ppl on these forums who got this icon :S

I'm guessing Plexa

*edit* Man I had not updated the thread before I posted... Ah well, I guessed right!
Mada Mada Dane
Goosey
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States695 Posts
June 11 2008 16:27 GMT
#25
Awesome writeups. I love that finally BackHo's skills are getting acknowledged. I am not really a BackHo fan, but he has been on a roll recently and it seems like everyone has wanted to keep pretending like every game he wins is some crazy fluke.

Great coverage!
#1 Shuttle Fan.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 11 2008 16:42 GMT
#26
On June 12 2008 01:18 NeoStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +

Best is simply on another level at the moment, he only just lost out to an inform Stork (best PvP in the world) in Bacchus OSL - and this time he's going all the way.

Show nested quote +

Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares?

Who cares that he beat the best pvp in the world?
important to note is that Stork sucks right now, and that without doubt Best has the best PvP in the world. Stork was the best PvP from around late 05 through to today (imo atleast) which he inherited from Reach. There was a bit of a fight for the title between himself and Bisu - but that was settled in Ever07. Then after he completely blew out after Bacchus he just lost it. He wasn't playing like the stork we use to know and well, Bests PvP is just better.

Basically, keep in mind the timing of events when you make those comparisons.
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raga4ka
Profile Joined February 2008
Bulgaria5679 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-11 17:05:56
June 11 2008 16:54 GMT
#27
Epic news we have here if Much takes out Free in MSL he will have a good shot of takeing out BEST . BackHO is good PvPer he should win this , July versus Rock well my fav two players are playeing it could go either way , Flash vs Lux don't know i'm expecting the curse to kick out Flash eny minute now .

Edit: Is there going to be a discussion , about the MSL too ?
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43989 Posts
June 11 2008 16:57 GMT
#28
<3 BackHo
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aZnvaLiaNce
Profile Joined June 2007
United States942 Posts
June 11 2008 17:41 GMT
#29
backho looks like a fag
Isnt that worth fighting for? Isnt that worth dying for? - Morpheus
AnyOne
Profile Joined January 2008
Chile547 Posts
June 11 2008 18:36 GMT
#30
JULYZERG FTW
go #1 kespa for 11 more moths ]]]
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Barbarne
Profile Joined August 2007
Sweden458 Posts
June 11 2008 19:57 GMT
#31
"The kid that nobody believed in walked over Jaedong and Casy to qualify for the OSL - then defeated Much and Bisu to qualify as D1"

Oh really? I found this amusing as they where two 100% cheese games, after GGplay raping the shit out of (not so) poor backho. And his win versus bisu isn't as impressive if you take Bisu's wrist into account.

Is it obvious that I really don't like backho?

Very nice anyway, I'm 200% hoping for luxury to win, the reason why I see a clear favor for the terran is because of the map since every map in the OSL is terran favoured in TvZ. Check TLPD and watch some games if you don't believe me. I just hope this trend in maps change soon since balanced TvZ is one of the greatest things there is in starcraft.

My prediction for the games is this: Flash will play standard or cheese. If he plays standard, Luxury will try some different builds and stuff to overcome the map dissadvantage. You will marvel at his nice play and think that he might take it, but in the end, the more boring, turtling terran will come out on top and we will be left with an appetite for some more balanced maps next season. Not saying they are bad, I love to play on them, I just don't wanna see my zergs get fucked by the map pool.
eat
Profile Joined February 2008
United Kingdom88 Posts
June 11 2008 19:59 GMT
#32
Looking forward to Flash v Much if that bracket goes to form. Im also looking forward to anyone beating flash :D
/clearstats YES
B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
June 11 2008 20:16 GMT
#33
I don't see any reason Flash won't win the entire thing. None of the players there seem to have a chance against him.
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
June 11 2008 20:29 GMT
#34
On June 12 2008 05:16 B1nary wrote:
I don't see any reason Flash won't win the entire thing. None of the players there seem to have a chance against him.



There has only been 1 player that has won the OSL twice in a row, and that player is Boxer. So, do you feel lucky, punk? There aren't that many people that are better than Boxer.

That said, I think Best has a legimate chance at taking him out. Maybe Jangbi, if he makes it that far, which I sincerely doubt.
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Born)Slippy
Profile Joined October 2002
Norway1904 Posts
June 11 2008 21:19 GMT
#35
Excellent article, guys. Thanks a lot for the read!
GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
June 11 2008 21:28 GMT
#36
i made a bracket!! my predictions
What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
June 11 2008 21:30 GMT
#37

Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares? Jangbi is in for a hellacious time with BackHo, simply because if BackHo's builds counter Jangbi's in any way, he is dead.


yeah I know fakesteve, stork has horrible pvp
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SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
intotherainx
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States504 Posts
June 11 2008 22:10 GMT
#38
too bad we cant see flash vs best in finals
War_Minister
Profile Joined March 2008
Canada86 Posts
June 11 2008 22:32 GMT
#39
Wow! Magnificent write-up!

Thanks a lot, Plexa!
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dinmsab
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Malaysia2246 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-11 23:02:08
June 11 2008 22:57 GMT
#40
On June 12 2008 06:30 fusionsdf wrote:
Show nested quote +

Jangbi's last PvP adventure was a pair of games against Stork, which he won. But Stork sucks, so who cares? Jangbi is in for a hellacious time with BackHo, simply because if BackHo's builds counter Jangbi's in any way, he is dead.


yeah I know fakesteve, stork has horrible pvp
[image loading]


Yeah FS, Stork sucks so bad. In fact, everyone agrees that the biggest hurdle for jangbi in the tiebreakers was Nada, not stork right? Bullshit. Ok, we all know you hate the guy but he's far away from bad. Although I agree his PvP has definitely gone downhill(losing to 5 PvP games out of 6), he's pretty much even in the amount of wins and losses.

Imho Stork is indeed not the killer toss he used to be, but he's still pretty far away from bad.


Thats probably the only thing I disagreed on, everything else was great.
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