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On October 17 2010 07:55 StorkHwaiting wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2010 07:48 Choirdrunk wrote:On October 17 2010 07:19 Gudeldar wrote: I don't care if Terran haven't won all the big tournaments I still love watching Terran's lose. Man, I'm a terran player and I agree with this. All the respect in the world to SeleCT. He's a micro beast. But, any time I'm watching a player for 3 hours and you know exactly what he's going to do from a strategic perspective, it just gets boring. Yes, tactically, he's impressive (I don't want to say "brilliant" because, even tactically, its the exact same stuff every game). But when everyone in the building knows your exact build and your tactics, regardless of the map or even the situation, and top notch players still have trouble with it, it indicates a problem. This isn't a general character trait like "HuK is aggressive" or "IdrA is passive", the man gives you the same build order and tactics every game (yeah, yeah ... reactor against Kiwi, woweee). It'll be interesting to see, post tournament, whether top guys can poke holes in the carefully crafted and field tested SeleCT produt. An IdrA/SeleCT finals will be a fight of the least creative top players we have in NA and, oddly, I'd still give my left nut to watch. This is exactly the criticism people were giving Flash when he played his turtle style. How did that turn out?
agreed. Idra will feel better if he can beat select at select's best game. and vice versa.
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This. He really showed some personality by going mothership .
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On October 17 2010 07:59 Kishkumen wrote: So many whiners in this thread. HuK gives people the most awesome exit from a tournament possible, and there are still people complaining.
there is nothing awesome about quitting and trying to "please the crowd"
he's going to fail hard at gsl 3
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On October 17 2010 07:57 Qweasdzxc wrote: Select is the bad guy here. GO IDRA no he"s not. He"s the new Underdog hero.
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I know Huk has won a lot of fans with this move but i think it was a gross disservice to his existing ones along with Team Liquid and its sponsor. If he values showboating over victory then he really needs to look at his goals as a progamer.
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On October 17 2010 07:57 Ferrose wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2010 07:56 Tercotta wrote: Huk is the best thing going for North American e-sports. Huk forever! Select playing like 10 games today and winning the whole tournament wouldn't be?
Sadly, mothership has much more influence on crowd than hard work. Don't get me wrong i appreciate that HuK is not hungry for money but it was loser's pick. Strong players are not driven by crowd so easily.
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On October 17 2010 07:57 awu25 wrote: anyone find it an issue that the players can hear the crowd? it was funny here, but the crowd could give some potential info away if one of the players is trying to surprise his oppoenent
Yes, hopefully now that MLG has seen how well these SC2 events are going they will think it wise to invest in some main stage time with soundproof booths for the final few matches.
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On October 17 2010 07:55 StorkHwaiting wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2010 07:48 Choirdrunk wrote:On October 17 2010 07:19 Gudeldar wrote: I don't care if Terran haven't won all the big tournaments I still love watching Terran's lose. Man, I'm a terran player and I agree with this. All the respect in the world to SeleCT. He's a micro beast. But, any time I'm watching a player for 3 hours and you know exactly what he's going to do from a strategic perspective, it just gets boring. Yes, tactically, he's impressive (I don't want to say "brilliant" because, even tactically, its the exact same stuff every game). But when everyone in the building knows your exact build and your tactics, regardless of the map or even the situation, and top notch players still have trouble with it, it indicates a problem. This isn't a general character trait like "HuK is aggressive" or "IdrA is passive", the man gives you the same build order and tactics every game (yeah, yeah ... reactor against Kiwi, woweee). It'll be interesting to see, post tournament, whether top guys can poke holes in the carefully crafted and field tested SeleCT produt. An IdrA/SeleCT finals will be a fight of the least creative top players we have in NA and, oddly, I'd still give my left nut to watch. This is exactly the criticism people were giving Flash when he played his turtle style. How did that turn out?
Brood War is dying.
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On October 17 2010 07:57 MangoTango wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2010 07:57 Qweasdzxc wrote: Select is the bad guy here. GO IDRA Er, how can the Cinderella also be the bad guy? /confused i would say zerg is the Cinderella who just received some magical slippers (patch).
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MLG|Shrew: The grand finals will be two consecutive best-of-three series, if Idra wins either, he is the champion. SeleCT needs to win both to take 1st.
Sorry if this is posted already, thread is going fast.
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nice back in time for the GF ^^
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Help us Greg Fields.. you're our only hope.
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Selects TvZ is pretty sick aswell, saw him own Sen on Sen's stream.
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On October 17 2010 07:57 Qweasdzxc wrote: Select is the bad guy here. GO IDRA No. Go Select!
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On October 17 2010 07:56 Telcontar wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2010 07:55 Kipples wrote: The problem with Select is his predictability. He has done the exact same strat for every game. Not that i'm saying it's OP, kiwi showed some good strengths and attempted to counter with inventive play, but Idra can watch Select's game and know EXACTLY what to expect. Selects best option is to change it up and deviate from what he has done every game. Select is an awesome player but it's sad that he doesn't deviate enough. What ever wins you games i guess, so he can't be faulted for that.
Be assured, Select will not be going 2 rax (tech lab, reactor) FE against a zerg.
Having a set macro build that works every game is awesome. It makes it seem closer to bw but having a defensive build that can defend everything AND allows you to pressure super hard is dumb. This style is basically like PvZ against mutalisks except the muta contain starts 4 minutes into the game.
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On October 17 2010 07:58 Gudeldar wrote:Show nested quote +On October 17 2010 07:57 forklift wrote:On October 17 2010 07:54 evilsaint wrote:On October 17 2010 07:48 keeblur wrote:On October 17 2010 07:47 forklift wrote: nobody has said it so i'll go ahead and do it:
Whoever fucked up the stream early (having the camera focus on HuK instead of the game) fucked this whole game up. Because the crowd was chanting to switch the camera to the game, HuK thought they were chanting for mothership, which led them to ACTUALLY chant for mothership, which led him to FUCKING BUILD A MOTHERSHIP You dumb. But he's probably right. I'm completely right. Am I the only one who realized that's what the crowd was yelling? For the camera to switch to the game instead of the players? And then HuK asked what the crowd was yelling about in-game, and then thought they were yelling for him to mothership rush, so he typed that, and when the crowd saw that, they ACTUALLY started chanting MO-THER-SHIP, so HuK was like, OKAY! So I guess in a way the mothership rush was HuK's idea.
I guess you contradicted me. Oh wait.
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On October 17 2010 08:00 MaleficOR wrote: MLG|Shrew: The grand finals will be two consecutive best-of-three series, if Idra wins either, he is the champion. SeleCT needs to win both to take 1st.
Sorry if this is posted already, thread is going fast. Is this because he came from losers bracket? Cause that's going to be hard....
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On October 17 2010 07:59 Xax wrote: Anyone else noticing how Idra has like a HUGE mousepad but only uses about 1/10th of it?
no im blinded by his awesome keyboard and cant take my eyes off it
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