EPTO_______O;;
The Highlander - Ro32/16 Results & Reps - Page 4
| Forum Index > News |
|
DreaM)XeRO
Korea (South)4667 Posts
O_______O;; | ||
|
Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
Kind of a bummer that ret dropped out, but good for Horror! From what I've seen he hasn't been doing that exceptional lately, so I hope he does well. And yeah, there's no doubt in my mind that IdrA is the favorite to win. He's the best foreigner ever, in my opinion - the foreign bonjwa. But with Dinot, White-Ra, Brat, and JF still on the board, I can see him possibly losing. I suppose it's not entirely likely in a BO5, but who knows what sort of cheesy unorthodox play will get thrown at him. This RO8, and the two remaining RO16 games are going to be absolutely godly. We're gonna have commentated stream/vods for the RO8, right? | ||
|
groro
67 Posts
Spoiler warining Valor + Show Spoiler + For me its not anymore like in the beginning when he went to Korea and in this situation where you need to focus hard in your APM, mechanics, executing perfectly the basic builds to catch up with your Korean teammates in the groundings first and in this time you are more vulnerable to something that gets you out of your rhythm. Nowadays Idras looks like he has all this stuff behind him and got enough of his head free to scout and adapt to almost everything Foreigners can throw at him. He literally crushed Fenix in the Valor tournament 4:0 with massive multitasking and harassing without suffering of his macro. I think in this stage its very unlikely that someone can stop him in the foreign scene except ret To the question if he should play in foreign tournaments I am somehow divided. On one hand he clearly got better conditions than other foreigners. On the other hand it seems unfair to punish him for the fact that he decided to successfully invest more in his way with Starcraft while others got other perspectives to provide their lifes. So I dont got a opinion about this because either way there is no optimal solution for me. But what I dont think is too great is when there is only one big prizemoney for the first place. I heard this in ESL.. So correct me if I am wrong. Because others should also have a chance to get a smaller piece of the cake even if Idra is dominating. So something like 1. 700, 2. 200 3. 100 serves the purporse much better imo and still makes the first place much more attractive. Really dont understand why you made it 1020 $ just for the first place. | ||
|
ZeitgeistMovie
144 Posts
| ||
Manifesto7
Osaka27136 Posts
On July 28 2009 07:25 groro wrote: So I dont got a opinion about this because either way there is no optimal solution for me. But what I dont think is too great is when there is only one big prizemoney for the first place. I heard this in ESL.. So correct me if I am wrong. Because others should also have a chance to get a smaller piece of the cake even if Idra is dominating. So something like 1. 700, 2. 200 3. 100 serves the purporse much better imo and still makes the first place much more attractive. Really dont understand why you made it 1020 $ just for the first place. Obviously you don't get the reference to HIGHLANDER. There can be only one. That is the theme. | ||
|
fanatacist
10319 Posts
On July 28 2009 06:41 ZeitgeistMovie wrote: You mean he won SCL and Valor, not ASL. Pj 4-2'ed him in the semis of the ASL. He will almost certainly win any foreign tournaments excluding the Chinese. And he's not that dominant, even excluding the Chinese. He doesn't roll over foreigners like the other Koreans. And after watching JF's replays, I think JF will beat him. He seems back in form. Yep, that's what I meant, thanks for the correction n_n I completely agree about the Chinese, but as you see in this tournament, it's not an issue. I think JF vs IdrA would be a great MU, although I would have to say IdrA's TvP is far from being his best whereas JF's PvT is (imo) his strongest. | ||
motbob
United States12546 Posts
EDIT: and let me take this opportunity to say that Idra's TvZ is fucking art. The first game against Dimaga was fantastic, even though he lost.... the second game was just a classic example of a game of his type of style (mass tech)... and the third game was just flawlessly executed. I think we're beginning to see the beginnings of Idra gaining the confidence to have a style. In TvP I think we saw a little of it in the series vs Fenix, where he switched from standard macro play to a beautiful harass game right out of Fantasy's playbook. In TvZ, his style seems to be mass tech (2 starports, yet lots of early tanks, dropship play) with a relatively (and usually dangerously) small group of MnM that's just big enough to kill mass lings. | ||
|
[GiTM]-Ace
United States4935 Posts
As for Idra playing in tournaments... Half u kids crying he shouldn't be playing or the same people who was on the idra sucks bandwagon not to long ago. Now he gets good and u don't want him to compete u guys are funny | ||
|
Holgerius
Sweden16951 Posts
| ||
|
SkepTicAL
Canada872 Posts
| ||
|
0cz3c
United States564 Posts
| ||
|
SkepTicAL
Canada872 Posts
On July 28 2009 09:36 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: dam cant believe ret is out so soon. I think this will be an Idra vs Jf finals or atleast thats what Im hoping for. As for Idra playing in tournaments... Half u kids crying he shouldn't be playing or the same people who was on the idra sucks bandwagon not to long ago. Now he gets good and u don't want him to compete u guys are funny As x17ish as that sounds, its kinda true lol. He used to be the easy joke for the communities, but now that he's showing what he's learned, people don't want him here  . Funny how things work ^.^..... As for who i'm cheering for now.... gotta go with xiaozi and jf ^.^!!! RED AND WHITE LIGHTNING! | ||
|
iMate
Canada263 Posts
| ||
|
imperfect
Canada1652 Posts
iefnaij fighting!! im looking forward to white-ra vs mondi~ | ||
|
groro
67 Posts
On July 28 2009 08:02 Manifesto7 wrote: Hey this is a great tournament with a bigger prize than Valor. Can we talk about that rather than making it an IdrA shitstorm please? Obviously you don't get the reference to HIGHLANDER. There can be only one. That is the theme. Ah ok my bad. Yeah, I forgot about this TV series and its motto. Edit: Wanted to thanks everybody involved for setting this up. I mean as a follower of such tournaments you most likely talk about some things where you got twisted thoughts or some deeply discussion is possible. But its not like you dont appreciate the work or something. | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
| ||
|
samachking
Bahrain4949 Posts
On July 28 2009 08:28 fanatacist wrote: Yep, that's what I meant, thanks for the correction n_n I completely agree about the Chinese, but as you see in this tournament, it's not an issue. I think JF vs IdrA would be a great MU, although I would have to say IdrA's TvP is far from being his best whereas JF's PvT is (imo) his strongest. JF disagrees: + Show Spoiler + Your next opponent will be RoX.BRAT_OK. His play is quite impressive, however I am feeling anything but confident. I've been practicing PvP and PvZ's all seasons, not even touching PvT. Although, JF's PvT is still really sick and has really smart decision making and good macro, he will give Idra some trouble, but not going be too much trouble, judging by how bad Idra rolled Ra/Fenix. How is being your 2nd best mu far from being his best :/? Also I dont expect JF to get through Bratok let alone Idra, those 2 were always closely matched, and both their bo5s/bo7s couldve gone different ways if not for map positions. But Bratok is more active right now which is all he needs. | ||
|
citi.zen
2509 Posts
On July 28 2009 14:40 Plexa wrote: Idra vs Castro has been played. If you want the result you can check the BinaryBeast Bracket in the op. The rep pack link has been updated to include the reps, or you can just download the reps from here http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Plexa/The_Highlander/Idra_vs_Castro.rar + Show Spoiler + Two very good games and then... wtf?!?! Such a damn pity ... as it stands I'm just bitter about the series that could have been. Ack... | ||
|
iMate
Canada263 Posts
| ||
jhNz
Germany2762 Posts
 gj horror! looking forward to watch some reps tonight btw great tournament! awesome to see so many top players battle it out. keep it up, you guys organizing it really kick some major ass! | ||
| ||
