On March 21 2009 01:55 StarBrift wrote:
Don't get me wrong. I respect Luxury for his skill and even though he might not be one of my favorite players, he definately can win straight up games vs Jangbi. I dunno, as a protoss player I feel shitty about the fact that they include Carthage. I can see a protoss defending 2 hatch hydra on Harmony with perfect simcity but I really can't see him defend in on carthage unless he is lucky and his corsair scouts the same lane the hydras travel through. Luxury being a mutalisk god will probably switch it up and go 2 hatch muta some games aswell so Jangbi really can't win with skill only. He needs the luck to scout the right lanes or guess the right tech on carthage. Imo he will probably drop Carthage and one of the Harmony games atleast.

Also if Luxury goes for the burrow bullshit on destination he can probably snag the series with cheese only. I honestly don't see how you can defend vs that. The zerg spends 100 gas and 100 mins and forces the protoss to spend atleast 300 mins, lose about 3-4 probes and delay his tech timing. Also I could see a mass ling surround with the burrow faglings coming in from the ramp side and another group from the bridges to just kill the cannons in the nat.

I guess what pisses me off is that Luxury is good enough to win straight up games but the maps this time are so perfect for all in faggotry that he could just win by doing that. Hoping to see an epic match but with the playstyles of the two players and the maps it looks like that's not gonna happen.

I agree. A reason why Jangbi thumbed down Carthage even when he knew Neo Harmony's such a bad map for protoss. But in a Bo5, given so much practice time, I think Jangbi can handle it.

On March 20 2009 20:26 vnlegend wrote:
Kwark's player ratings are arbitrary and have never made any sense. How can one player 3-0 another player and be of the same rating, A vs A? Obviously one has to be playing on a higher level than the other to blowout the series.

You may disagree with it, but how does it not make sense? It's just a rating based on a player's strength.

JWD

United States12607 Posts

March 21 2009 07:07 GMT

#63

On March 21 2009 15:12 baubo wrote:

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You may disagree with it, but how does it not make sense? It's just a rating based on a player's strength.

vnlegend, I agree with baubo. If you read Kwark's match analysis, his grades would make complete sense. There's always a good reason for them...in this case you'll see that his match analysis explains that Stork played an excellent match for the most part, and got unlucky here and there. Hence the even grades.

KwarK

United States43566 Posts

March 21 2009 08:02 GMT

#64

@vnlegend
Firstly, JangBi's A grade is higher than Stork's A grade because I expect more of JangBi. Both of them played far better than their normal level and that deserves an A. Giving Stork anything less than an A for his part in a near perfect pvp series would be an insult. It's a rating of how well they played, with an A being the game of their life. This was it.
Secondly, this was not a one sided series. Just looking at the score is meaningless. Perhaps you should watch the games before you attempt to comment on my analysis of them. Neither player was on a much higher level than the other.

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

March 21 2009 14:51 GMT

#65

Thanks for the analysis! i really learnt a lot!

Heimatloser

Germany1494 Posts

March 21 2009 14:54 GMT

#66

kwark gives grades on what he/we expect/s before the game, and what he/we see/s after the game.
all ppl saying "jangbi wins this 3:0" make jangbi get a B wen its 3:1 and C when its 3:2 ;-)
and all ppl saying "stork will look like a total nub" make him get a C if he makes 1 game where he doesnt look like a idiot, B if its 2 games and A if he can manage to make 3 makes not looking like a newbie ;-)