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tredogz
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada170 Posts
October 11 2011 06:35 GMT
#21
I have never thought there was that big of a gap between foreigners and Koreans.. I do NOT think Koreans play better than foreigners
t to the redogz, tredogz
Kaizoku
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden96 Posts
October 11 2011 06:40 GMT
#22
On October 11 2011 14:57 Slusher wrote:
Lucky beating MMA and Ryung was a bigger suprise than Stephano beating Lucky


+1

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blacktar
Profile Joined June 2011
United States49 Posts
October 11 2011 06:45 GMT
#23
Until foreigners actually make progress in code s and eventually win it wonlt change my mind much
KIKIZerg
Profile Joined April 2011
26 Posts
October 11 2011 06:49 GMT
#24
the only diffrence is the practise. I think they play more and got better opponements on top level.
for the rest, i dont see any diffrence...
RiT4LiN
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands131 Posts
October 11 2011 06:53 GMT
#25
I did not think a player like stephano could beat the koreans in this fashion. So my opinion has changed but i have to say it. NesTea and MVP did not attend to the tournament. And i still think they can not be defeated in a bo5
A quote
dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
October 11 2011 06:54 GMT
#26
On October 11 2011 15:35 ThaZenith wrote:
Opinions on something as major as a skill level difference shouldn't change over a weekend or two.

If foreigners take half the tournaments over the course of 2-3 months, then I'll acknowledge it.


Agreed.


However, there is a small improvement from like the early MLG era. The first MLG that did Korean invites, I think foreigners took like a total of 5 MAPS off Korean players. It was that bad.

Still, the improvement isn't massive, so I voted little to none.
rift
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
1819 Posts
October 11 2011 06:59 GMT
#27
All I can say to foreign sc2 fans is, be happy the top koreans play bw, because if they didnt it would kill our scene or at least any chance of taking top spots

Though sc2 is a bit "chancy" to be PC about it
sickoota
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada918 Posts
October 11 2011 07:06 GMT
#28
On October 11 2011 14:44 jalstar wrote:
Not particularly, the top foreigners like Thorzain, Huk, Idra, Stephano, have always been able to beat mid-tier Koreans.

Thorzain over MC remains the biggest foreigner win, with maybe Huk over Nada in second.

Mana and Elfi both also beat Nada.
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Lann555
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands5173 Posts
October 11 2011 07:07 GMT
#29
Too few games for me to change my opinion. I wouldn't consider Inori/Lucky/StC to be exactly top-level Koreans.

Really, it was only Stephano anyway who prevented it from being another Korean dominated event and the guy is just a remarkable talent, so he might not be an accurate skill-gauge for the the entire foreign scene.

To really say the skill-gap has decreased , you need to have some players like MVP/Bomber/Nestea/DRG or even a July/MMA/Losira/Top/Polt going down in BO5 to foreigner
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synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
October 11 2011 07:12 GMT
#30
I don't think any foreigner has a chance of taking out the very very best koreans (Nestea / MVP) in a series, but I no longer think the skill gap between the top foreigners and the average code S players is that large...
:)
Rachnar
Profile Joined October 2010
France1526 Posts
October 11 2011 07:15 GMT
#31
On October 11 2011 15:04 R0YAL wrote:
The thing is that it's Korea vs the rest of the world and Korea still has the best of the best as well as a greater number of great players. Surely there will be a few individuals throughout the entirety of the planet that can compete with some of the better Koreans. But you have to remember that it's literally everyone vs the Koreans so a few players competing with the Koreans doesn't mean that foreigners as a whole can compete with Korea.


thing is, in korea there's almsot as many people that play starcraft as in the rest of the world ...

anyways, Korean's aren't human's, they're above us :p
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Lysanias
Profile Joined March 2011
Netherlands8351 Posts
October 11 2011 07:31 GMT
#32
Our absolute top against there mid to good tier players yes they take games sometimes even a set.
But it is not consistent and more often they do not win, also there absolute top is simply better.

So ... nothing changed, but it's such a good feeling to get a big tourney one's in a while.
setzer
Profile Joined March 2010
United States3284 Posts
October 11 2011 07:41 GMT
#33
If one looks at the whole tournament and not just the results of Stephano and Idra it is still quite obvious that Koreans are still far ahead of foreigners. Outside of the top2-3 best performing foreigners there isn't anyone who shows the skill to consistency beat even code-a level Koreans.
MotherOfRunes
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2862 Posts
October 11 2011 07:43 GMT
#34
On October 11 2011 14:44 jalstar wrote:
Not particularly, the top foreigners like Thorzain, Huk, Idra, Stephano, have always been able to beat mid-tier Koreans.

Thorzain over MC remains the biggest foreigner win, with maybe Huk over Nada in second.

nahhhh goody beating NESTEA (altough i know nestea had to play with KR on NA lag while thorzain and mc played their tsl match at a LAN event )
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dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
October 11 2011 07:45 GMT
#35
not the most impressive koreans were sent to IEM in my opinion.
arterian
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1157 Posts
October 11 2011 07:48 GMT
#36
No. It just further proves that at the top level, anyone can beat anyone because of the volatility of SC2 but overall Koreans dominate.
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jmbthirteen
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States10734 Posts
October 11 2011 07:52 GMT
#37
Moderately imo. Things just looked so damn grim for awhile. We almost had 4 foreigners in the top 8 at IPL, but Huk played terribly vs Inori (who did play well). Sure it wasn't a slew of Code S players at either tournament, but dammit it was good to see and gave me some more hope.

MLG Orlando will probably change this though as pretty much every Korean there with be Code S level... including the open bracket guys.
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tree.hugger
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Philadelphia, PA10406 Posts
October 11 2011 07:56 GMT
#38
I think there are about 10 foreigners who can beat the top 50 koreans. I doodle little power rankings in the margins of my notebook sometimes (one way you know you watch too much Sc2) and Stephano was #1 last week. So not surprised.
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xtfftc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom2343 Posts
October 11 2011 08:04 GMT
#39
Same, little to no change. I consider MMA as the only top Korean who participated in IPL 3 and he was eliminated by another Korean. And no disrespect to Lucky but the 3:0 was entirely a build order win.
jyisvip
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada209 Posts
October 11 2011 08:24 GMT
#40
On October 11 2011 15:35 tredogz wrote:
I have never thought there was that big of a gap between foreigners and Koreans.. I do NOT think Koreans play better than foreigners



I guess you weren't watching most of the tournaments...
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