Pretty amateur. Their micro was HORRIBLE. Lots of games, someone made a huge blunder... and the other player makes an even bigger blunder, and gives the game back to the other.. =/
But yep. Stopped streaming assembly. meh. Maybe it'll be more fun to watch next time. When it doesnt feel like watching diamond league streams.
Pretty ironic since these games are better than most of the Code A games you seem to value so highly. Stop being an asshole just because theres no Americans left and Huk lost to a European.
I havent seen the Code A games before, only going to follow it now because of foreigner influx.
But really.
Let me remember what I saw in the last 48 hours or so
1. Half scvs stopped mining after banshee harass
2. Queen chasing overlord halfway across the map
3. 1 Pylon powering 4 gateways
4. Zerg army split with one half attacking a cannon and pylons (and the other half getting owned)
And that's just off the top of my head.
Guess which top europeans played thosee games. If you've been following Assembly, you should know. =)
On February 13 2011 01:17 CursedFeanor wrote: Socke picking Steppes of war and cheesing like he did is equivalent to admitting he's an inferior player who can't take on HuK in a straight up match.
While I agree that he's not in the same skill-class, it's is very disappointing that he didn't even try to prove himself given such a nice opportunity. I used to really like Socke but he just lost points here...
Let's hope Ret wins this now! In his last interviews, it sure sounded like he'd need such a motivation boost.
Straight up PvP has gotten so boring now i am actually liking cheese more at this point in time.
On February 13 2011 01:17 CursedFeanor wrote: Socke picking Steppes of war and cheesing like he did is equivalent to admitting he's an inferior player who can't take on HuK in a straight up match.
While I agree that he's not in the same skill-class, it's is very disappointing that he didn't even try to prove himself given such a nice opportunity. I used to really like Socke but he just lost points here...
Let's hope Ret wins this now! In his last interviews, it sure sounded like he'd need such a motivation boost.
It means Huk's metagame is weak, and his is too dependent on his mechanics and micro. But unless you are 10x better than your opponent at that, you can't overcome a serious deficiency in the metagame.
Guys Huk's Meta game is WEAK. Huk improve your meta game for next time. Otherwise guys going to take your meta game to town. Buy it some dinner and maybe take it for a nice massage. Gotta get your meta game strong and healthy
On February 13 2011 01:20 REDBLUEGREEN wrote: Oh man I am just imagining: Khaldor - main play-by-play Take - Presentation/Interviews/Background Darkforce - Strategic Analysis .... would easily rival MBC's casting standards
with hasu instead of talkforce when its toss games
On February 13 2011 00:51 fishinguy wrote: Lol HuK being arrogant at the start of the tournament without the skill the back it up. Hope he does better next time, EU players arent as bad as HuK thought they were
who's in Code A again?
Sry dude but there are no good players in Code A. If Huk makes it out of there it will mean something. Code A is for the likes of BitByBit.Prime
Also Socke has achieved more in Europe than Huk in NA
This statement about Code A says a lot about the parochialism of some people who only follow one scene of Starcraft. Just letting you know, there is SC2 going on all around the world, and just 'cause you only follow mid-tier low-prizepool EU tournies doesn't mean that the guys who win those are anywhere close to Code A material (ST_Squirtle, IMLosira etc. anyone?)
I can assure you I follow more than 1 scene of SC 2. In fact I have all the GSL vods on my pc. And pointing out 2 players does not make Code A good - the games played there were mostly cheese with some terrible fails. The players who were above the rest have moved to Code S. If you were following the recent tournaments you would know that some of the best games were produced by players outside Code A - IM Seed, ST Bomber etc..
IF you followed the Korean scene at all, you'd know that Code A players absolutely destroyed Code S players throughout the GSTL. It wasn't even close; 10-2 or something similar.
In fact, Code A is probably the tougher tournament at the moment, the top half of Code A might be better than the top two thirds of Code S.
Uh... I haven't gotten to day 2 yet, but day 1 was a lot of 1 base play and not much of it was impressive. I know Seed rolled through everyone, but a lot of the players remain from last season's code A and beating someone in a bo1 team series isn't the same as taking a bo3 in individuals (see: Bisu.)
The only thing to blame is the matchup. Also, I don't think single proxy gateway is very cheesy. The risk and the gain from it is somewhat balanced. And even if you think it is, a true winner must overcome cheese as well. Code A is single elimination, too.
On February 13 2011 00:54 alepov wrote: pff now we gotta watch his cheese crap even more,was hoping for the proper player to advance
I don't understand this. Socke won a nice blink stalker game and then got a cheesy win on a terrible map, but it's PvP and Huk does the same. I like both players and both of them deserve credit for how well they've done at this tournament. It was a huge all in by Socke, but that's what you do on Steppes- you either all in or you lose to an all in. Huk's build was a good response, he probably just wasn't used to the timing for that map.
Anyways, I'm mostly just curious why on earth the Assembly organizers would allow Steppes in a tournament.
Players can veto any map they don't like, I would like to know what map huk vetoed in that game. In mirror matches the map wont play that big of a role and aparently huk had some other map he disliked even more and thus vetoed that one. Anyways I think this will be the last big tournamet where steppes will be present.