EPTBiggest Upset Today?
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`Zapdos
United States935 Posts
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Silky
United States260 Posts
 Thanks MLG... | ||
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zelevin
United States260 Posts
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TheFinalWord
Australia790 Posts
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Yamulo
United States2096 Posts
On February 25 2012 15:39 TheFinalWord wrote: Personally I don't care about spoilers but this poll isnt hidden when hide spoilers is ticked on and this poll is most definitely spolierific. Once again this is a news site.... | ||
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TheFinalWord
Australia790 Posts
Well then get rid of the hide spoilers button if it's not going to hide all the spoilers. | ||
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LoKi-
United States121 Posts
Bling, on the other hand, has pretty much never been a big name, always hovering in that good-but-not-great semi pro area. Polt won the friggin GSTL. Need I say more? | ||
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NMC
Canada28 Posts
Oh yeah, I would have said bling over polt for sure if polt wasn't having a bad few weeks, and BlinG has been playing the best sc2 of his career. Even outside of tournaments polt is looking pretty shaky, and that's where he shines. | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
Bling's best matchup is PvT and PvT is the second most common matchup for foreigners to upset Koreans Lucky is only good against terran if he's playing MMA JYP vs Terran. Lol. The answer is Ret vs MVP. | ||
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INTOtheVOID
United States225 Posts
Hopefully he can storm back from the losers bracket and take this tourney. Gotta give props to Ret though, he's playing very strong right now; I wouldn't want to face him this MLG. | ||
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yawnoC
United States3704 Posts
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RPR_Tempest
Australia7798 Posts
Ret vs Mvp: This is my pick. ZvT isn't even Ret's best match-up, IMO, while it is easily Mvp's best. Mvp just a couple of weeks ago was almost universally considered the best player in the world. This is a MASSIVE win for Ret. JYP vs DieStar: JYP against a Terran...honestly, any Terran could beat JYP and I wouldn't be surprised. BlinG vs Polt: This is huge, but BlinG has shown flashes of brilliance before, so this isn't as big as Mvp vs Ret. Strelok vs Lucky: Meh. Strelok is sometimes really good at TvZ. I would have said Strelok had at least a 20% chance of beating Lucky. | ||
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ucDarchon
Germany119 Posts
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Opium Ohs
United States2 Posts
On February 25 2012 16:47 LoKi- wrote: Honestly, Bling over Polt. The names aren't as big, but the upset was huge. Ret is good enough to be expected to take games off of Koreans on a somewhat regular basis, and MVP has been slumping. The same goes for Demuslim, and Nestea has been slumping even more. Bling, on the other hand, has pretty much never been a big name, always hovering in that good-but-not-great semi pro area. Polt won the friggin GSTL. Need I say more? Polt has been "slumping" ever since he won the GSL champions league. That was a while back and he has literally done nothing since. I'm not saying MVP isn't in a rut and Nestea is a little sporadic these days but their play recently has still far surpassed that of Polt. | ||
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Opium Ohs
United States2 Posts
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ThatGuy89
United Kingdom1968 Posts
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sVnteen
Germany2238 Posts
ret is a total beast and can beat mvp on a good day and strelok/bling/diestar are great players so not so it's not as much of an upset as demu beating nestea | ||
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Ruscour
5233 Posts
On February 25 2012 16:38 TheFinalWord wrote: Well then get rid of the hide spoilers button if it's not going to hide all the spoilers. Yeah, this. Poll completely ruins the purpose of "Hide Spoiler" button. | ||
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yourmydinner
Netherlands19 Posts
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Josh_rakoons
United Kingdom1158 Posts
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ROFLOLLER
Poland65 Posts
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
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hillman
United States162 Posts
On February 25 2012 15:23 zelevin wrote: dude.... bruh.... demuslim over nestea is no upset.... demuslim is boss... bruh yeah cuz demuslim won 2 GSLs and was considered the best of his race for almost a year uncontested....that said I'm glad he got the win, was waiting for demuslim to break out! | ||
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nucLeaRTV
Romania822 Posts
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Subversive
Australia2229 Posts
On February 25 2012 20:51 Ruscour wrote: Yeah, this. Poll completely ruins the purpose of "Hide Spoiler" button. I don't mind, but I'd have to agree. I've never bought the argument that front page results somehow promotes anything either. Having an article about the results which is obviously a spoiler seems fine. Putting it in the heading is unnecessary. | ||
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Zurles
United Kingdom1659 Posts
On February 25 2012 19:26 ThatGuy89 wrote: ret over MVP cos ret is bad and MVP is....well MVP ret is bad? lollllllllllll, did you even play broodwar? | ||
DivinO
United States4796 Posts
On February 25 2012 15:23 zelevin wrote: dude.... bruh.... demuslim over nestea is no upset.... demuslim is boss... bruh Admittedly as good as DeMusliM is... people didn't expect him to beat NesTea. | ||
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
Edit: Polt beats hero but loses to bling? I think that's pretty big. | ||
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Luisa_2
Germany200 Posts
Ret > MVP is pretty damn big I think, cause RET's ZvT isn't that good Imo. Bling > Polt is pretty hughe aswell, cause Polt is a fckin Monster and Bling still an upcomer. So i think it's Ret>MVP and Bling>Polt is kinda equal upsetwise. | ||
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Darkfrog
Austria211 Posts
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Promethelax
Canada7089 Posts
Bling>Polt | ||
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NSGrendel
United Kingdom235 Posts
On February 25 2012 16:47 LoKi- wrote: Honestly, Bling over Polt. The names aren't as big, but the upset was huge. Ret is good enough to be expected to take games off of Koreans on a somewhat regular basis, and MVP has been slumping. The same goes for Demuslim, and Nestea has been slumping even more. Bling, on the other hand, has pretty much never been a big name, always hovering in that good-but-not-great semi pro area. Polt won the friggin GSTL. Need I say more? This. In terms of unlikelihood, there's nothing close. | ||
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FlamingForce
Netherlands701 Posts
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ulfryc
Germany115 Posts
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Insomni7
667 Posts
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LaM
United States1321 Posts
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
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Corsica
Ukraine1854 Posts
Nestea is great but his TvZ is his weakest, while its demuslim, ah still not as big.. if it was lets say Idra beating Nestea , then yeah its an upset, but TvZ Nestea is not invincible. EDIT: Also where is Grubby 2-0ing LosirA go? | ||
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Leachy
United States47 Posts
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Dracolich70
Denmark3820 Posts
DeMuslim and Ret winning these in Korea in a GSL setting would be a bigger surprise, even if both are very capable. | ||
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Torpedo.Vegas
United States1890 Posts
Both have their merits, but Koreans definitely are out of their comfort zone when it comes to foreign events. Its not about giving 110% every single game, just 100.1% so you dont burn out by the third series. | ||
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Dracolich70
Denmark3820 Posts
Edit: Just to clarify, I don't want to take anything away from DeMuslim and Ret. Those are great wins, anywhichway. | ||
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Wroshe
Netherlands1051 Posts
On February 25 2012 16:38 TheFinalWord wrote: Well then get rid of the hide spoilers button if it's not going to hide all the spoilers. Completly agree, this should not have been shown. Personally I love the new style but if "those oldskoolers" get upset on this then I agree with them on this. If you don't want to get spoiled for whatever reason then this should also have been hidden. | ||
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Sylailene
91 Posts
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Dukeinator
37 Posts
Bling vs Polt was a little more interesting to me. Maybe because I saw bling lose like 5 times in a row vs stephano on stream the other day so I don't expect much. Congrats to all the awesome pro players!  | ||
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Sanjuro
Indonesia252 Posts
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Zeon0
Austria2995 Posts
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Kontys
Finland659 Posts
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00Visor
4337 Posts
gonna go with Ret, huge win! | ||
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
jaeh but why have a "hide spoiler" function when its not working ^_^ and this is way more then a news site to topic: definatly demuslim over nestea, the loudest screaming in barcraft On February 26 2012 20:18 Zeon0 wrote: a TvZ win is not as surprising as a ZvT win ... do i really read a balance whine ? | ||
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Vexin
Romania84 Posts
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Glam
United States325 Posts
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MiKTeX
United States234 Posts
On February 25 2012 16:47 LoKi- wrote: Honestly, Bling over Polt. The names aren't as big, but the upset was huge. Ret is good enough to be expected to take games off of Koreans on a somewhat regular basis, and MVP has been slumping. The same goes for Demuslim, and Nestea has been slumping even more. Bling, on the other hand, has pretty much never been a big name, always hovering in that good-but-not-great semi pro area. Polt won the friggin GSTL. Need I say more? agree with this 100: %we all know how good ret is; same goes with demuslim however, I have never even heard of bling until a day before the tournament, where I saw the thread about totalbiscuit sponsoring him. I'm like ok that's cool but idk who he is. next thing he takes down polt | ||
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Dwayn
Germany949 Posts
Wasn't too big of an upset for me. I gave Nestea and edge but not a giant one. Nestea has been really weak lately and I don't consider him one of the top zergs atm. Also demuslim seems very strong vs Z from what I've seen. JYP - DieStar: Don't know anything about DieStar and haven't seen JYP play a lot. Just don't have an opinion on it... BlinG - Polt: I consider Bling to be really fucking good. Still takes 2nd place imo, cause polt is a monster. Strelok - Lucky: nah. Strelok is T. Ret - Mvp: Huge upset. While mvp might not be in the best shape ever, I still thought he'd crush ret. My choice. | ||
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MinimalistSC2
United States121 Posts
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greggy
United Kingdom1483 Posts
Let's face it, all other foreigners in this poll bar maybe bling (who is vastly underrated imho) can be expected to take a bo3 off koreans, but diestar? no, not really. | ||
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OptIn
United States19 Posts
We've always envisioned our site as a place where we can have live, up to date news. We want fans to come to our site and see a player holding a trophy with an appropriate headline. This is the future of coverage and where we've always wanted to be as a coverage site. We began as a site during a time with no live streams and everyone read news to see who won last night. Even as technology advanced, the time zone difference made it impractical to watch live for all but the most dedicated fans. But with the SC2 boom, there are plenty of NA and EU events in appropriate time zones. Although many fans still use VODs, live viewing is now the norm. Professional StarCraft 2 resembles live, mainstream sports for most of its fans, and we believe it's finally time to provide fast, up to date coverage on events as they unfold. This is in the Teamliquid news post ..... This is the direction the site wants to go in. They warned everyone ahead of time that this was comming they prolly havent gotten all the bugs aka spoiler button should be removed eventually. | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
On February 25 2012 16:38 TheFinalWord wrote: Well then get rid of the hide spoilers button if it's not going to hide all the spoilers. my homepage is the hot threads, therefore I never get spoiled on the front page. do the same. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/hot.php | ||
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crowley
United States1 Post
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ChoDing
United States740 Posts
a fairly noob foreign vs who used to be zerg god | ||
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Hoodlum
United States350 Posts
On February 25 2012 23:29 Josh_rakoons wrote: Clearly demuslim vs nestea, can't believe demuslim dropped a game. Lol i know right nestea can take a game off demuslim whats this world coming to xD, Fantastic series MLG sooooo good xD | ||
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Hoodlum
United States350 Posts
On February 27 2012 12:32 crowley wrote: The biggest upset today was having to pay to watch MLG. MLG-0 Fans-0 I payed for MLG and ABSOLUTELY got my moneys worth and Sundance announce the event as a success so more people payed then what you think as they are going to have TWO for spring season. | ||
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Torpedo.Vegas
United States1890 Posts
On February 27 2012 12:32 crowley wrote: The biggest upset today was having to pay to watch MLG. MLG-0 Fans-0 "Shit cost money" - Tyler Not that the Arena was shit, the shit is the costs to put on a tournament like this. Out of context this could be taken the wrong way. Felt I needed to clarify the shit analogy so as to not get shit about it later. | ||
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Trolle
Sweden227 Posts
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Aserrin
Uruguay231 Posts
Even more, Nestea's weakest matchup is ZvT, Mvp's best matchup is TvZ. Ret beating Mvp was the biggest upset no doubt, not only thanks to the skill gap, but because Mvp isn't one of those players who makes sudden blunders a là ZergBong. | ||
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Farone
Netherlands1219 Posts
On February 27 2012 19:21 Aserrin wrote: Nowadays Mvp is way stronger than Nestea right now, and more consistent, so it's more impressive to beat him, despite him suffering 'marathonic tournaments' more thanks to his cts. Even more, Nestea's weakest matchup is ZvT, Mvp's best matchup is TvZ. Ret beating Mvp was the biggest upset no doubt, not only thanks to the skill gap, but because Mvp isn't one of those players who makes sudden blunders a là ZergBong. tbh MVP his best MU is TvT, but I agree with you that Ret > MVP was the biggest upset | ||
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Gegenschein
Canada107 Posts
On February 27 2012 20:13 Farone wrote: tbh MVP his best MU is TvT, but I agree with you that Ret > MVP was the biggest upset I guess Nestea v. Demuslim is kind of a bigger upset because it was one of the first matches played in the tournament? Nestea defeated from the start by a guy who made it to MLG by the skin of his teeth. That being said, if we're comparing pure feats of strength here, the biggest upset to me is Bling v. Polt. Polt didn't play "bad", and yet Bling crushed him. I hadn't seen such one-sided games in favor of a (pretty much unproven) foreigner against a top Korean since TSL 3. And you couldn't even blame it on the lag. | ||
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AnnoyingNoob
Norway18 Posts
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Madars
Latvia166 Posts
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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Gegenschein
Canada107 Posts
On February 28 2012 01:14 AnnoyingNoob wrote: Anyone calling DeMusliM over Nestea an upset haven't been watching Demu stream... his control is so insane, there are few top tier koreans who are that good I think. I don't want to take anything away from DeMusliM. But his win rate on the NA ladder is only 70%. That's good. But that doesn't make you worthy of being placed on equal foot with someone like Nestea. DeMuslim's play was inspired (in game 1 and 3 anyway), but Nestea didn't bring his A game, far from that. For reference, oGsVines has a winrate of 80% on NA, and 63% on KR. | ||
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Aserrin
Uruguay231 Posts
On February 28 2012 01:40 Madars wrote: I think that "Biggest Upset Today" was MKP winning DRG. More like MKP actually getting first place. | ||
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