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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25980 Posts
November 18 2008 13:17 GMT
#1181
I think it's a combination of things. I got B during TSL, which was clearly the hardest season of ICC. Also, he choked a little bit, making his play look really terrible, whereas I was very confident.
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29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5724 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-18 13:47:19
November 18 2008 13:43 GMT
#1182
On November 17 2008 08:09 Shikyo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2008 08:00 Senx wrote:
Nevermind.I think People are pissed off beacuse your iccup rank doesn't seem to match your skill level.


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Are you dumb? It's funny how 99% of the people telling Salv is bad would get totally raped him. And he never even said anything about him owning Chill.


this picture doesnt show a name, and it shows the player playing zerg, which wasnt salv's race. so i dunno what you're trying to say here, really.... defending salv with a fake pic?

those were gg's of course. i just got sick of hearing moletrap constantly saying "if things went a different way, we woulda won". that's just obvious, because if "you didn't fuck up the micro/macro" or what not, of course the game would've been different. if you walled off properly against toss, if you mined gas from the assim and just went 2 gate goon with a few zs to wall in pvp, etc.

i liked the commentary. the trash talking was very entertaining.

edit: based on the pic, it could be anyone. and why didnt he play his main race then?
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
November 18 2008 14:03 GMT
#1183
On November 18 2008 22:43 29 fps wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2008 08:09 Shikyo wrote:
On November 17 2008 08:00 Senx wrote:
Nevermind.I think People are pissed off beacuse your iccup rank doesn't seem to match your skill level.


[image loading]

[image loading]


Are you dumb? It's funny how 99% of the people telling Salv is bad would get totally raped him. And he never even said anything about him owning Chill.


this picture doesnt show a name, and it shows the player playing zerg, which wasnt salv's race. so i dunno what you're trying to say here, really.... defending salv with a fake pic?

those were gg's of course. i just got sick of hearing moletrap constantly saying "if things went a different way, we woulda won". that's just obvious, because if "you didn't fuck up the micro/macro" or what not, of course the game would've been different. if you walled off properly against toss, if you mined gas from the assim and just went 2 gate goon with a few zs to wall in pvp, etc.

i liked the commentary. the trash talking was very entertaining.

edit: based on the pic, it could be anyone. and why didnt he play his main race then?


Try to follow along; it isn't complicated. gH-Salv is my old account I used in season 6, I played Protoss there and got B-. Now I use that account for off racing, that's why it says Zerg now.

Insight.Salv is what I use now.

I don't deny that the game I played was pretty bad. Chill said it best:

On November 18 2008 22:17 Chill wrote:
I think it's a combination of things. I got B during TSL, which was clearly the hardest season of ICC. Also, he choked a little bit, making his play look really terrible, whereas I was very confident.
29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5724 Posts
November 18 2008 14:52 GMT
#1184
your link shows your name; the posted picture doesn't. that's why it was suspicious at first. i saw the link somewhere else, which was when i realized it was indeed yours, but then the zerg part made it odd. now it all makes sense.
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9947 Posts
November 18 2008 14:57 GMT
#1185
how is this still a discussion
Moderatorsometimes I get intimidated by the size of my right testicle
pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5094 Posts
November 18 2008 15:26 GMT
#1186
LOL omg i thot it was some new player or new strat like upmagic then bulldog then UpDog or some shit omfg hahah thats a good one =D
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
November 18 2008 16:48 GMT
#1187
On November 18 2008 23:57 RaGe wrote:
how is this still a discussion


It's a hot topic as of late
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36374 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-18 17:10:25
November 18 2008 16:54 GMT
#1188
theres just a huge difference between early season and late season iccup levels and the difference between having good stats (50%+ win at that level) and getting there at 50-70 relying on motw

if it takes you 200 games to get to C and you can't win half of the games played at that level, yes you're "technically C" but the true rank won't be an accurate measurement of your level

for example, even though Salv got to B-, his record breakdown is as follows:

C+ = 2-5
C = 22-28
C- = 14-14

suggests his level is roughly around C-

couple this disparity with Chill's B during the uber-difficult TSL season, the fact that chill has more pressure-game experience, and the ridiculous rape that was game 7 of the series doesn't really look that unexpected

that's what a B/B+ player destroying a C/C- player looks like, its lopsided. yes salv played bad, there's no excuse for a C- player forgetting attack upgrade until your opponent has hive, but frankly the skill gap (C vs B) made it virtually impossible to win against a style like Chill's anyway.

so people stop jumping on him for his icc rank and performance. sure he did reach B- but the most recent gamelist indicates his "true rank" is closer to C or C-, so the bad loss to chill was entirely normal and expected.
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9947 Posts
November 18 2008 17:15 GMT
#1189
Hot_Bid kinda said it all. That in conjunction with Andromeda being really hard PvZ on foreigner level, especially when your style doesn't fit it.
Moderatorsometimes I get intimidated by the size of my right testicle
InfeSteD
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States4658 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-18 19:07:55
November 18 2008 19:06 GMT
#1190
That makes a lot of sense now... and by the way the reason I was asking is because I thought Chill was B- at his truly peak ... didn't know he was around B specially during TSL... and then seeing Salv's stats of 67-50 B- makes sense too I guess... I prolly woulda choked too if I was playing in his shoes because I have no experience playing under pressure not even cw's lol .

[edit] To Chill , Do you think the level of this season is way higher than during TSL?
w/e
Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-18 19:55:49
November 18 2008 19:17 GMT
#1191
On November 19 2008 04:06 InfeSteD wrote:

[edit] To Chill , Do you think the level of this season is way higher than during TSL?


I know you asked Chill; but I've played every season to some degree and I can say that TSL was by far the hardest season. This one is the second closest, but TSL was still very, very difficult; even at low levels and late into the season.

& Thanks Hotbid
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3322 Posts
November 18 2008 20:53 GMT
#1192
Salv is defiantly not C-/C. He is a C+ player at least and all those loses were from playing 40 games PvZ @ Andromeda and practicing different builds. He wasn't playing the builds that he was comfortable with but trying out what other people told him and stuff like that.
김택용 Fighting!
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36374 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-18 21:36:21
November 18 2008 21:23 GMT
#1193
On November 19 2008 05:53 Yaqoob wrote:
Salv is defiantly not C-/C. He is a C+ player at least and all those loses were from playing 40 games PvZ @ Andromeda and practicing different builds. He wasn't playing the builds that he was comfortable with but trying out what other people told him and stuff like that.

I'm sure everyone else on ICCup only plays with builds they've practiced a million times.

We use letter rankings as a way to judge people's skill level relative to one another. What I'm saying is the actual rank of Salv doesn't matter, just that he's several ranks below Chill. If you want to shift the entire scale up three ranks fine, that means Salv is B- and Chill is A, and the pros are like wraparound R+ or something.

The game was lopsided and rightfully so, no amount of posturing around B-/B changes that. I suspect if they play 10 games Salv will struggle to win more than one. That's not a slight toward Salv or some huge Chill fanpost, but rather simply a declaration of the harsh reality of the difference in level between them. Chill knows this, Salv knows this, and everyone that watched knows this.

What I find interesting is that the people who are most concerned with portraying themselves at a certain rank are usually those that a) have never really played games that truly "mattered" in a competitive sense or b) aren't truly the rank they present themselves to be.

Do you see Nony or Inc or Idra or anyone like that obsessively debating whether they are A or A- or A+ or whatever? No, because they know how good they are and they don't need to come post about how "no you are wrong, I'm not C- I'm C+ at least!"

Arguing about rank is a sign of weakness and insecurity, not strength. Who cares if a few people think Salv is C-? Are you really proving anything to people by simply declaring "Salv is C+, he wasn't trying his best during ladder season?"

It seems you care more than Salv does, he's not making excuses or misrepresenting his own skill.
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
November 18 2008 21:45 GMT
#1194
Salv, a word in spanish for ya mate :D

Te amo por el ano!

XD jk
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
November 18 2008 23:54 GMT
#1195
On November 19 2008 01:54 Hot_Bid wrote:
theres just a huge difference between early season and late season iccup levels and the difference between having good stats (50%+ win at that level) and getting there at 50-70 relying on motw

if it takes you 200 games to get to C and you can't win half of the games played at that level, yes you're "technically C" but the true rank won't be an accurate measurement of your level

for example, even though Salv got to B-, his record breakdown is as follows:

C+ = 2-5
C = 22-28
C- = 14-14

suggests his level is roughly around C-

couple this disparity with Chill's B during the uber-difficult TSL season, the fact that chill has more pressure-game experience, and the ridiculous rape that was game 7 of the series doesn't really look that unexpected

that's what a B/B+ player destroying a C/C- player looks like, its lopsided. yes salv played bad, there's no excuse for a C- player forgetting attack upgrade until your opponent has hive, but frankly the skill gap (C vs B) made it virtually impossible to win against a style like Chill's anyway.

so people stop jumping on him for his icc rank and performance. sure he did reach B- but the most recent gamelist indicates his "true rank" is closer to C or C-, so the bad loss to chill was entirely normal and expected.

good post ken.
LuMaLo
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany26 Posts
November 19 2008 00:32 GMT
#1196
Good games, had a lot of fun, TL.net is just well... team liquid, theyve been around for so long... i think the results were expected. I like sc2gg and i like reading the articles and hearing the casts, but tl.net is just team liquid, theyve been around too long now.

Good shit
Sie sind ja nur Menschen, sie gehen auch aufs Klo wenn sie müssen.
LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
November 19 2008 03:23 GMT
#1197
Salv is my hero
Chains none
LuMaLo
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany26 Posts
November 19 2008 15:38 GMT
#1198
On November 17 2008 06:53 GinNtoniC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2008 06:51 Blind wrote:
lol

Moletrap politely saying there were some interesting games and then Chill laughing in his face telling him they got murdered.

I feel we're being a tad bit too evil about this. It's not all that much fun trash talking people into the ground when they're not talking back like at all.

I sort of feel bad for sc2gg that way. If they had someone on the stream who could talk back, laugh a little, deal out some verbal punches, then it'd all be good. But this way, it's just chill and rage bullying poor moletrap and sc2gg. I dunno, just kinda makes me feel bad :S

(The whole "this is all just for fun" kind of spirit is not shining through. like at all)


I agree, i think we all knew and it was expected from tl.net to pull off such a convincing win, i had personally no doubts, as neither did so many people here to be honest. And shit talking is really fun when it goes back and forth, not so much when they cant do anything about it.

On another note, moletrap did have it coming just because he kept saying "its not like were getting stomped on" or "a lot of games could have gone either way", because that was just NOT TRUE. Would have been better if he had just accepted defeat and maybe ask for tips :S. I dont know, it was just brutal.
Sie sind ja nur Menschen, sie gehen auch aufs Klo wenn sie müssen.
BlackStar
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Netherlands3029 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-21 19:16:30
November 21 2008 19:16 GMT
#1199
Hahaha, true iccup rank?

Iccup ranks aren't set into stone and aren't created equal.
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
November 23 2008 16:49 GMT
#1200
iccup ranks are the most inflated thing EVER. From past experience people have inflated their ranks a full rank or TWO when asked what their rank is.

Which is why I just go back to how I used to respond before iccup was around...

"Are you good?"

"Good enough, go glhf."

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