Really really good games. The Best most competitive group of GSL 4.

Glad that Jinro and Idra made it out, even tho it was unlikely given that they fought each other first.

Sabu113

United States11075 Posts

January 12 2011 02:13 GMT

#4666

On January 12 2011 00:06 Taf the Ghost wrote:
The swearing thing is simply about professional decorum. The stream is uncensored (per Tasteless), but if you want to reach a larger audience, a certain level of professionalism is needed. Not swearing forces you to think about your words a tad more. (But that's a separate discussion)

Gah had to crash at 5:30 am pst. The Jinro TvT was too much for me x.x

Seriously though, you're talking about professionalism about a stream that's on at 3 am pst. What is considered professional for the audience watching the stream at that time.

Also, I don't want to see a return to the BW "professionalism" that lead to very deadish personaliities. As a fan, I appreciate seeing Jinro's emotion from playing some "fucking" amazing matches (the TvT was tiring to watch. Jesus so much action everywhere). One bit of emotion is not a stream of profanity.

Ezekyle

Australia607 Posts

January 12 2011 02:14 GMT

#4667

IdrA is happy? THE END IS NIGH.

sc2lime

Canada513 Posts

January 12 2011 02:18 GMT

#4668

Great job by these two foreigners! Keep it up!

zimz

United States510 Posts

January 12 2011 02:34 GMT

#4669

checkprime sending zvz replay to David Kim.

zerious

Canada3803 Posts

January 12 2011 02:34 GMT

#4670

If you guys want a good laugh, go watch Littleboy vs Butterflyeffect

Eschaton

United States1245 Posts

January 12 2011 02:40 GMT

#4671

On January 12 2011 11:34 zimz wrote:
checkprime sending zvz replay to David Kim.

Is that a not-so-obvious joke, or is check really whining about this match somewhere?

zimz

United States510 Posts

January 12 2011 02:43 GMT

#4672

On January 12 2011 11:40 Eschaton wrote:

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Is that a not-so-obvious joke, or is check really whining about this match somewhere?

joke lol

Sqq

Norway2023 Posts

January 12 2011 02:48 GMT

#4673

On January 12 2011 09:42 StarcraftMan wrote:

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Why would a mod warn tdt over this response? If anything, it's a very well said response by tdt.

Might be because the response was absolutely idiotic ? Theres a difference between getting a haircut and cutting your head off.

pdd

Australia9933 Posts

January 12 2011 03:15 GMT

#4674

Wonder if the new patch will come in time for today's games (on KR server).

Would make sense because we're starting the Ro16s now.

sigol

United Kingdom134 Posts

January 12 2011 03:19 GMT

#4675

On January 12 2011 10:27 DennizR wrote:

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Why would you call Idra best foreigner? Jinro not only has better GSL performance, but even won their head to head matchup.

Jinro fighting!

apart from the fact he, you know, failed to qualify for the first 2 seasons.

you're swedish though, your bias doesn't surprise me.

Tipany

United States368 Posts

January 12 2011 03:25 GMT

#4676

On January 12 2011 11:48 Sqq wrote:

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Might be because the response was absolutely idiotic ? Theres a difference between getting a haircut and cutting your head off.

I'm not following what you mean. Could you explain more clearly? I couldn't agree with that post any more.

Sqq

Norway2023 Posts

January 12 2011 03:46 GMT

#4677

On January 12 2011 12:25 TheJoyBringer wrote:
I'm not following what you mean. Could you explain more clearly? I couldn't agree with that post any more.

exaggeration ? To compare the initial point to what he compared it to is so over the top. It might be my view on it, but I can see why they would opt to warn over it. Talk about putting gasoline on the bonfire.

usethis2

2164 Posts

January 12 2011 05:16 GMT

#4678

Patch is expected to be out any day now. Really curious what changes will be in and how they will affect the series.

Omnipresent

United States871 Posts

January 12 2011 05:22 GMT

#4679

However personally i don't believe the TvT with Ensnare and Jinro was the best TvT SC2 match ever(as artosis/tasteless ranted on so much about). It seemed to be a down hill battle for Ensnare most of the game with him doing suicidal pushes or drops which seemed to do next to nothing.

A lot of the TvT matches we see start with an interesting push that gets one player a significant lead, and then the rest of the game is just about capitalizing on that lead. The Jinro/Ensnare match got to a point of relative stability pretty quickly. Unlike most matchups (especially the other mirrors) TvT is much more positional and much less back-and-forth. Watching these two balance unit compositions and make strong positional plays was very impressive. As a Terran player (with particularly bad TvT), I was blown away.

It's also worth noting that Jinro and Ensnare opted for different tactics. It may have looked like Ensnare was suiciding units all game, but his play was designed so that he could lose units without much risk of losing the match (until he mined out his half of the map). Ensnare chose to get a much higher economy so he could get aggressive, while Jinro kept a larger army and defended everything Ensnare threw at him. Remember, even though they had similar food for most of the game, Ensnare was sitting on 30 or so extra harvesters for much of the game, giving him a weaker army at any given time but allowing him to re-max quickly.There were plenty of times when it looked like Jinro could slow push his way to victory, and plenty of times I thought Ensnare might break his near-perfect defense. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time (save the last 8 min or so), and I think most other people were too.

mprs

Canada2933 Posts

January 12 2011 05:37 GMT

#4680

Aww I wonder where the GSL Popularity thread went

- ALL IN BADS LOL
- 5 minute games
- no back and forth

etc etc etc.