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Biggest upset from IEM/ASUS ROG weekend?

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Rjlraymond
Profile Joined December 2012
40 Posts
February 02 2014 15:06 GMT
#1
TLO Bomber was close though, so not as much of an 'upset' as some of the sweeps and near sweeps. Unless 'biggest' means 'most exciting' in which case it was.
Maegi
Profile Joined January 2013
Finland174 Posts
February 02 2014 15:10 GMT
#2
I don't like it when there's this many upsets in a weekend, degrades their significance and I'm not one of those who thinks "omg lel koreans losing I just got a boner"
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HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
February 02 2014 15:27 GMT
#3
Voted ABomB vs Bbyong. After that comes SortOf vs Taeja.
monsta
Profile Joined November 2012
172 Posts
February 02 2014 16:09 GMT
#4
Bomber vs TLO was no upset (bomber law) but the fact that Teaja ( in my opinion best player of 2013) lost against a weak europe zerg is just ridicilous :o Welmu vs Life wasnt that a big of a deal cause Welmu is a really suprising player and Sjow vs Life was the worst thing in sc2 history maybe, so Welmu vs Life is nothing compared to that...
Zanster vs HerO? hmm not sure about that .. just not sure
Muffloe
Profile Joined December 2012
Sweden6061 Posts
February 02 2014 16:26 GMT
#5
On February 03 2014 01:09 monsta wrote:
Bomber vs TLO was no upset (bomber law) but the fact that Teaja ( in my opinion best player of 2013) lost against a weak europe zerg is just ridicilous :o Welmu vs Life wasnt that a big of a deal cause Welmu is a really suprising player and Sjow vs Life was the worst thing in sc2 history maybe, so Welmu vs Life is nothing compared to that...
Zanster vs HerO? hmm not sure about that .. just not sure

Wrong and wrong
ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3445 Posts
February 02 2014 16:52 GMT
#6
I think Tlo vs Bomber, just for being the biggest story of an upset. However I'm more surprised by Zanster and Abomb.
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raga4ka
Profile Joined February 2008
Bulgaria5679 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-02 17:55:01
February 02 2014 17:54 GMT
#7
As a CJ fan i would add that everyone except hero are so inconsistent that Bbyong losing to a foreinger isn't that much surprising , even though he shouldn't lose to them .
Blind Io
Profile Joined October 2012
United Kingdom56 Posts
February 02 2014 18:00 GMT
#8
On February 03 2014 02:54 raga4ka wrote:
As a CJ fan i would add that everyone except hero are so inconsistent that Bbyong losing to a foreinger isn't that much surprising , even though he shouldn't lose to them .


You don't think TaeJa is consistent?
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20319 Posts
February 02 2014 19:10 GMT
#9
My god, i didn't realize there was such a way to spoil every high profile game on a single panel on the front page
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DaRKMaTT3r
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil553 Posts
February 02 2014 19:12 GMT
#10
I don't understand why people would think Major beating Bbyong is such a big upset. He actually beat polt 3:2 on IEM qualifier and TvT is his best match up, i would say Bbyong is inferior to polt TvT wise.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
February 02 2014 19:15 GMT
#11
ABomb defeating a Code S Korean. That is incredible.
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riceant
Profile Joined October 2012
Canada54 Posts
February 02 2014 19:26 GMT
#12
On February 03 2014 04:15 MrMotionPicture wrote:
ABomb defeating a Code S Korean. That is incredible.

ABomb is a Protoss who defeated a Terran. I don't think that is impressive at all.

Likewise, the biggest upsets all apparently happened to Terrans, Bomber, Taeja.

Wow, I am sooooo shocked.

User was temp banned for this post.
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Darrkhan
Profile Joined February 2012
Finland1236 Posts
February 02 2014 19:30 GMT
#13
On February 03 2014 03:00 Blind Io wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2014 02:54 raga4ka wrote:
As a CJ fan i would add that everyone except hero are so inconsistent that Bbyong losing to a foreinger isn't that much surprising , even though he shouldn't lose to them .


You don't think TaeJa is consistent?


? He didn't say so.
tili
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1332 Posts
February 02 2014 19:41 GMT
#14
On February 03 2014 00:06 Rjlraymond wrote:
TLO Bomber was close though, so not as much of an 'upset' as some of the sweeps and near sweeps. Unless 'biggest' means 'most exciting' in which case it was.


Agreed - I was the most pumped!
DaRKMaTT3r
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil553 Posts
February 02 2014 20:28 GMT
#15
On February 03 2014 03:00 Blind Io wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2014 02:54 raga4ka wrote:
As a CJ fan i would add that everyone except hero are so inconsistent that Bbyong losing to a foreinger isn't that much surprising , even though he shouldn't lose to them .


You don't think TaeJa is consistent?


I think he meant everyone in CJ team is inconsistent aside from herO, instead of all koreans on IEM aside from herO.
Footler
Profile Joined January 2010
United States560 Posts
February 02 2014 22:54 GMT
#16
TLO vs Bomber was maybe the most exciting or notable or whatever but just on namesake alone I feel like Abomb over Bbyong was the most surprising.
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NexCa
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany954 Posts
February 02 2014 23:20 GMT
#17
On February 03 2014 04:26 riceant wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2014 04:15 MrMotionPicture wrote:
ABomb defeating a Code S Korean. That is incredible.

ABomb is a Protoss who defeated a Terran. I don't think that is impressive at all.

Likewise, the biggest upsets all apparently happened to Terrans, Bomber, Taeja.

Wow, I am sooooo shocked.

User was temp banned for this post.


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nakedsurfer
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada500 Posts
February 03 2014 03:31 GMT
#18
On February 03 2014 01:09 monsta wrote:
Bomber vs TLO was no upset (bomber law) but the fact that Teaja ( in my opinion best player of 2013) lost against a weak europe zerg is just ridicilous :o Welmu vs Life wasnt that a big of a deal cause Welmu is a really suprising player and Sjow vs Life was the worst thing in sc2 history maybe, so Welmu vs Life is nothing compared to that...
Zanster vs HerO? hmm not sure about that .. just not sure


I don't think Bomber's law is a thing anymore. He has been too consistent for it to still exist.. If you still want to keep it a thing then you can honestly say every player is affected by Bomber's law.
Root4Root
DBS
Profile Joined July 2012
515 Posts
February 03 2014 05:02 GMT
#19
SortOf vs Taeja has to win, Taeja is just so consistent, especially in that matchup
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Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
February 03 2014 09:07 GMT
#20
ABomB - Bbyong by far :D
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aeligos
Profile Joined January 2013
United States172 Posts
February 03 2014 15:47 GMT
#21
Sure great names fell this past weekend and lesser names prevailed, but why this was so has very little to do with the game itself. A player's state of mind is not a measurable variable, but it is always the most formidable one.
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nobot87
Profile Joined December 2011
United States23 Posts
February 03 2014 21:58 GMT
#22
Why is foreigners beating Koreans an upset??
trada
Profile Joined August 2012
Germany347 Posts
February 03 2014 23:59 GMT
#23
not sure about upsetness (is that even a word?) but I found TLO vs Bomber was the most entertaining to watch. very back and forth.

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Wintex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Norway16838 Posts
February 04 2014 13:25 GMT
#24
ABomb vs Bbyong.. the result is RIDICULOUS.
The Bomber boy
Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
February 04 2014 22:49 GMT
#25
On February 04 2014 06:58 nobot87 wrote:
Why is foreigners beating Koreans an upset??


Why is this a question?
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Jerom
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands588 Posts
February 05 2014 00:33 GMT
#26
On February 03 2014 00:10 Maegi wrote:
I don't like it when there's this many upsets in a weekend, degrades their significance and I'm not one of those who thinks "omg lel koreans losing I just got a boner"

Bbyong code S player losing to the relatively unknown player AbomB is not an upset to you?
Shinespark
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile843 Posts
February 05 2014 01:57 GMT
#27
Why is anyone surprised Bomber lost against someone he shouldn't have? It's his hobby
"I, for one, welcome our new Korean overlords."
dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-05 11:19:26
February 05 2014 11:17 GMT
#28
On February 05 2014 10:57 Shinespark wrote:
Why is anyone surprised Bomber lost against someone he shouldn't have? It's his hobby


I agree, SortOf 3 - 1 Taeja is way more ridiculous.

TLO is one of the most consistent European Zergs (honestly, by pure results, with his number of Ro4s/Ro8s last year, he was probably 'the best' European Zerg), and their series was still extremely close.

SortOf vs Taeja didn't even go to Game 5, SortOf is a good Zerg but far less consistent than TLO, and Taeja won the most tournaments last year out of all progamers. That's pretty ridiculous, tbh.

On February 05 2014 09:33 Jerom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2014 00:10 Maegi wrote:
I don't like it when there's this many upsets in a weekend, degrades their significance and I'm not one of those who thinks "omg lel koreans losing I just got a boner"

Bbyong code S player losing to the relatively unknown player AbomB is not an upset to you?

Not sure how your comments are related.

He said he doesn't like upsets; you said a certain match was an upset. Misquote?
Gene(S)is
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden419 Posts
February 05 2014 19:58 GMT
#29
so many upsets, it was hard to decide which one. Life losing is also an upset but in the end i went for Taeja but I'm not too suprised seeing as he's sort of grown tierd of pro-gaming and wants out. To truely master this game you need passion as well as skills
For the swarm
MiniFotToss
Profile Joined December 2013
China2430 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-06 07:02:16
February 06 2014 07:01 GMT
#30
On February 06 2014 04:58 Gene(S)is wrote:
so many upsets, it was hard to decide which one. Life losing is also an upset but in the end i went for Taeja but I'm not too suprised seeing as he's sort of grown tierd of pro-gaming and wants out. To truely master this game you need passion as well as skills

Yeah i agree, I mean if you go on twitch and see Taeja's stream, hes just faffing about playing 2v2's most of the time toss and zerg and then sometimes terran, he's slacking, that's why he is losing too much.And for a person who won 5 championships in one year, Taeja is the last person that should be fucking complaining about game balance, he won so much yet he still complains, he's being a bloody hypocrite, i thought everyone would be complaining about Taeja in that regard (although they didn't, good on them)
MiniFotToss
Profile Joined December 2013
China2430 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-06 07:08:21
February 06 2014 07:04 GMT
#31
On February 05 2014 10:57 Shinespark wrote:
Why is anyone surprised Bomber lost against someone he shouldn't have? It's his hobby

It WAS his hobby, he won against Jaedong in WCS S2 and got the champion and got top 4th place in Blizzcon, sure he hasn't made it out in a lot of group stages, but eveybody has bad luck sometimes
MiniFotToss
Profile Joined December 2013
China2430 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-02-06 07:09:20
February 06 2014 07:07 GMT
#32
On February 04 2014 06:58 nobot87 wrote:
Why is foreigners beating Koreans an upset??

UMMMM, DUE to the fact that 80%-90% of finals in 2013 (apart from Naniwa i guess) are all koreans while most foreigners dont even make it out on group stage (either round 1 group stage or round 2); And that Naniwa is the ONLY foreigner to go to Blizzcon and still lost in the first round....???? ITS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
February 06 2014 10:30 GMT
#33
TLO Bomber was not really an upset, but it was the most exciting match outcome for me. :D
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