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On March 27 2011 08:52 Gillgan wrote: So many people are saying that LAG is the reason the Koreans lost, if it was such an issue why did none of them say anything about it?
Because they are mannered and don't want to discredit their opponents.
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On March 27 2011 08:53 Creem wrote: If you still have doubts try playing with 400+ms and come back and tell us how "it's not a big deal" and "it won't affect their macro and decision making".
Let's put things in their true perspective and not get carried away here.
it wouldn't effect mine thats for sure, because im bad without lags too^^
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Sick laag in all games except for ret vs naniwa. Especially the games between Genius and qxc full of laag. Thats what happens when a person from korea plays a person from the US on NA server. The results should be taken by a pinch of salt.
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Cool to see so many upsets pulled out - always good thing for any tournament.
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On March 27 2011 08:54 Elefanto wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 08:52 Gillgan wrote: So many people are saying that LAG is the reason the Koreans lost, if it was such an issue why did none of them say anything about it?
Because they are mannered and don't want to discredit their opponents. How is it BM saying there is lagg?
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On March 26 2011 22:32 mTw|NarutO wrote: Predictions
MVP 2-1 Adelscott Genius 2-0 QXC GoOdy 1-2 NesTea Ret 2-1 Naniwa
Edit: @ heyoka, Genius is Protoss ! Ninja edit-.-
LOL totally wrong... but to be honest, adelscot played some AMAZING games against MVP, goody suffered a little, but came solidly in the end... and naniwa... well, he just rocked, i knew he had the potential, he just needed to find a good team and a good attitude towards the game and players... hope them the best... Genius vs. QXC, no comments... europe server fighting!!! XD
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On March 27 2011 08:53 Creem wrote: I really wish people would stop judging koreans from today's games. Anyone that thinks koreans came unprepared or played sloppy should try playing with 400+ms with your opponent at 100-150ms at the most.
Koreans crushed their competition in IEM, where geographic boundaries were removed. Now all of a sudden they're "slumping" and "playing sloppy" just cause they've been performing poorly in online tournaments.
I'm not taking anything away from our EU and NA players, but any intelligent person should be able to put two and two together and realize why koreans performed poorly today. If you still have doubts try playing with 400+ms and come back and tell us how "it's not a big deal" and "it won't affect their macro and decision making".
Let's put things in their true perspective and not get carried away here.
Lol agreed with your last statement, playing with lag is so much worse then what people think, it affects your gameplay as a whole, especially if you've never played with lag before which Koreans wouldn't have because why would they
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On March 27 2011 08:56 Nuri wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 08:54 Elefanto wrote:On March 27 2011 08:52 Gillgan wrote: So many people are saying that LAG is the reason the Koreans lost, if it was such an issue why did none of them say anything about it?
Because they are mannered and don't want to discredit their opponents. How is it BM saying there is lagg?
Because you sound like a sore loser? Koreans are very well mannered when it comes to this game usually.
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On March 27 2011 08:52 Fungal Growth wrote: Surprised about the criticism regarding goody's super-queuing because I don't think it is as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. It only is very detrimental in the very early game when you are penny pinching to get out that fast attack/defense/tech and it isn't as relevant in the later game as most people think. The opposite problem of super-queuing is missed production capacity which means you will have a smaller army/worker count than what you want. Plus in SC2, you get 100% refunds if you cancel a super-queued unit or upgrade so why not get them in the oven? Even the best players miss production windows due to multi-tasking, so while not stylish I think in many cases it is a good idea to super-queue units and upgrades. i have never seen a top level player get supply blocked so hardcore. look, he might be good, but he definitely wins ugly as hell. top level players don't miss production capacity either, herp derp. there is NO downside to not queuing if you are good
and look, either MVP had an off day, adelscott has the most GOSU probe micro anyone's ever seen, or LAG makes a difference. either genius had an off day with FFs, or QXC is MOST GOSU bad FF forcer i've ever seen, or there is LAG. either QXC is the godliest emp-er of all time or...
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On March 27 2011 07:46 Kvothe wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 07:36 vdale wrote:On March 27 2011 07:31 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:29 Tef wrote:On March 27 2011 07:24 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:23 Kazzabiss wrote:On March 27 2011 07:21 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:20 Shika wrote:On March 27 2011 07:18 Owii wrote: 4 upsets? Last game was hardly an upset. I went 3/4 on my liquidbet tonight. Only missed on qxc's game, he has obviously improved by playing in europe. You are somehow proud you called goody vs nestea, fluke of the century. Go watch some of Goody's matches on gosugamers, and then come back and seriously tell me he is at half the level nestea is. What? How is he proud for one, and two, whaaaaaat? I also "called" GoOdy over NesTea because I'm smart No that is called luck, Goody would lose first round in Code A 9 out of 10 times. You seriously underestimate him. As most of his opponents do if they have never played him before. I've watched many of his games on gosugamers, I thought he was a low tier amateur then, and I still think he is now. You say under estimated, I say many people watch his games and realize hes bad. I agree with that majority. You are wrong. Goody has many flaws in his game, but he still defeats players who macro perfectly. No one cares if you think that someone is bad, if the one is winning tournaments left and right and defeating all top players (especially in TvT). I would bet on Goody in every TvT in the GSL, because you can't drop him and you can't play with mass marines against him and that's what all Koreans are doing right now. He also showed that he can take down the best Zerg players. Lol you have to be joking, you would bet on Goody in the GSL, have you watched the GSL? Did you seriously watch the last GSTL? You must not have watched the last games that were tvt, there is absolutely no fucking way, Goody could do what MMA and MVP were doing. If you mean he mechs out and pushes with auto repaired scvs following, then yes Goody is a master. What tournaments is goody winning left and right? Go back and watch when he plays White-ra a month or so ago, he gets torn apart with multi harass. Play on a decent sized map, and hes going to get destroyed. Granted he did beat nestea, or more nestea beat himself. If Goody wins more than one more series in this tournament I'll eat my words.
he is every week go4sc2 final nearly (often from 2-0 to 2-3 cause he "tryes" marines maruaders ^^) wins often the 200€ there also wins often zotac etc nearly 1-3 tournament wins EVERY WEEK ! and yes i watch gsl and goodys tvt would crush everyone there when they play what they do in gsl ... why whould it be different from what nestea did ? i mean he is also gsl and ... well whatever GOGO GOODY ofc everyonec an say HE CUBE 5 marines and 3 tanks in every fac and 3k overmins and is supplyblocked every 5 minutes but as quote from goody himself "you play it like this" xDD
ps: all lag whiners read jinros tread ! PLZ !
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Lag may affect games, but
- ThorZain absolutely face-crushed FruitDealer, for example. His decision-making and strategy left FruitDealer floundering.
- Similarly, MC 3-gated Ciara into oblivion without building a singly sentry and WITHOUHT LOSING A SINGLE UNIT due to micro.
- MVP decided to march 3 barracks' worth of units across the entire length of Xel'Naga, lose pretty much everything, and then fail to claw his way back into the game... that's exactly the decision-making (and scenario) that lost him his first Up-and-Down match against SlayerSAlicia in GSL March.
- Genius's response to QXC's ghost/reaper/bio harass style was to pump out tons of HTs and wander around the map aimlessly for 20 minutes without attacking.
I'm REALLY skeptical that lag was a major factor in any of these games; the losers were soundly out-played in all of them.
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On March 27 2011 08:33 luckybeni2 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 08:20 Eurekastreet wrote:On March 27 2011 07:51 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:47 Dawn11 wrote:On March 27 2011 07:31 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:29 Tef wrote:On March 27 2011 07:24 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:23 Kazzabiss wrote:On March 27 2011 07:21 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:20 Shika wrote: [quote]
Last game was hardly an upset.
I went 3/4 on my liquidbet tonight. Only missed on qxc's game, he has obviously improved by playing in europe. You are somehow proud you called goody vs nestea, fluke of the century. Go watch some of Goody's matches on gosugamers, and then come back and seriously tell me he is at half the level nestea is. What? How is he proud for one, and two, whaaaaaat? I also "called" GoOdy over NesTea because I'm smart No that is called luck, Goody would lose first round in Code A 9 out of 10 times. You seriously underestimate him. As most of his opponents do if they have never played him before. I've watched many of his games on gosugamers, I thought he was a low tier amateur then, and I still think he is now. You say under estimated, I say many people watch his games and realize hes bad. I agree with that majority. so funny how people can call nestea the best zerg in the world, while he is losing to a " bad player" that just make you look hilarious. of course you see matches from goody getting beaten pretty hard, but only from players who played him like a billion times before - and if the koreans are so confident in their uber-skill to beat non-koreans with no preparation its just their fault and they just deserve to get owned ;-) btw: i although think that people getting blinded by what they see on the gsl. i mean playing 10hours standard play a day will most likely improve your mechanics but on the other side how often do you think nestea has to play against an only mech terran? just my thoughts ;-) Who is calling nestea the best zerg in the world? I don't remember saying that in my post, Goody barely won a best of 3 series against a zerg player facing serious lag as shown by the other Korean matches, I'm assuming he must have as well. And he won because nestea made some huge blunders, not some awesome great play. He meched out and sent some auto repairing scvs with his army, got lucky nestea had zero lings in the third game at a xel naga and lost 15 drones for nothing. Causing him to barely win the game. I'm no pro, just (hopefully) a bit good at spectating but my 2 cents about that (and some other posts) are : -nestea's style is much more dependant on lag than goody is so yeah, lag is an issue -watch iem, 2-3 class A koreans get in the tourney and "own (the creme de la creme) white dudes" then compare to tonight : lag can be an issue -I don't think a player like nestea expects to go far in those tourneys anyway, he's just in for the hype (and sponsor money that comes with it) ; if he has to fight someone like idra and the battle goes to a zerg+baneling fight, a 1 sec lag/latency is probably high enough to make him lose the game everytime since that would rely on crazy intense macro and he'd never be able to get the reaction time he's supposed to to give a fair fight ; he probably knows that but hey, if you're invited, why not give it a shot. -goody is probably destabilising if you don't know his style, i guess top class koreans have forgotten how to deal with so much turtling because that style is so slow and efficient no one is playing like that anymore over there - they probably found a way to deal with it years ago and since then no one has dared playing like that anymore ---->they forgot how to deal with it. And maybe there is no answer to that style except turtling up in a similar way but in that case, we're on our way to some boring starcraft in the future (or just patch the game so everyone starts at 200/200 with siege tanks, we'll save some spectating time) -I like goody's style now and then, I think he's got a great vision of the game but I don't wanna see it take over everything, i wanna see matches faster and more flexible than what he has to offer, otherwise I'll go play Risk or Monopoly. But they also beat code S players so what you are saying is irrelevant. Idra was very consistent in GSL and lost mainly to Jinro in the later stages of the tournament (kicking out some of the best) so why does he get beat by those 2-3 tier koreans? Because they are a lot better than most code S players as we have seen in the team matches. They just rarely deliver that in tournaments.
True, although the only conclusion I'd take from that is that there's not much diff in code A/code S when it comes to skills (at least for now). As for the rest, it'd be nice (hell I'd love) to think that EU/US players have the same skill level as the koreans, but from what I read on this forum and matches I spectated (Genius at Blizzcon, Ace at IEM), we westerners ain't there yet (guys like Idra or Jinro can make me hope the gap is closing in, but Goody so far, not really, he's rock solid at turtling but never impressed me with anything else....and again, I want my game to be more complex than "the best turtle wins", for the entertainment value, if nothing else.
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Qxc still got hit pretty hard with storm him missed a couple emp's.
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Do think the Koreans under-preparing is a legit argument partially based on their interviews (they hardly seemed to know anything about their opponents which is a bad sign going into a SC2 Tourney) and based on todays play styles.
QXC is so 1-dimensionally hyper-aggressive it isn't funny. Think he said something along the lines of "If you're not attacking you're losing" during blizconn... Had Genius and his team had done their proper homework they would have realized this...and he probably would have realized (especially in the last game) that he has to counter sooner and harder to take advantage of QXC's aggression.
Goody is obviously known for his mech and especially tank play...so NesTea goes roaches in the last game? Mech is very weak too air and weak vs roach (well unless it is mass roaches vs thors), and I think if NesTea and the IM team had done their proper homework they would have realized mutas and even broodlords had to be the emphasis.
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On March 27 2011 08:59 Snaphoo wrote: Lag may affect games, but
- ThorZain absolutely face-crushed FruitDealer, for example. His decision-making and strategy left FruitDealer floundering.
- Similarly, MC 3-gated Ciara into oblivion without building a singly sentry and WITHOUHT LOSING A SINGLE UNIT due to micro.
- MVP decided to march 3 barracks' worth of units across the entire length of Xel'Naga, lose pretty much everything, and then fail to claw his way back into the game... that's exactly the decision-making (and scenario) that lost him his first Up-and-Down match against SlayerSAlicia in GSL March.
- Genius's response to QXC's ghost/reaper/bio harass style was to pump out tons of HTs and wander around the map aimlessly for 20 minutes without attacking.
I'm REALLY skeptical that lag was a major factor in any of these games; the losers were soundly out-played in all of them.
oGs live with the TL guys which all have accounts, you think they didn't let MC borrow them? Lag affects decision making to, when will people realize this.
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On March 27 2011 08:59 CoR wrote:Show nested quote +On March 27 2011 07:46 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:36 vdale wrote:On March 27 2011 07:31 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:29 Tef wrote:On March 27 2011 07:24 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:23 Kazzabiss wrote:On March 27 2011 07:21 Kvothe wrote:On March 27 2011 07:20 Shika wrote:On March 27 2011 07:18 Owii wrote: 4 upsets? Last game was hardly an upset. I went 3/4 on my liquidbet tonight. Only missed on qxc's game, he has obviously improved by playing in europe. You are somehow proud you called goody vs nestea, fluke of the century. Go watch some of Goody's matches on gosugamers, and then come back and seriously tell me he is at half the level nestea is. What? How is he proud for one, and two, whaaaaaat? I also "called" GoOdy over NesTea because I'm smart No that is called luck, Goody would lose first round in Code A 9 out of 10 times. You seriously underestimate him. As most of his opponents do if they have never played him before. I've watched many of his games on gosugamers, I thought he was a low tier amateur then, and I still think he is now. You say under estimated, I say many people watch his games and realize hes bad. I agree with that majority. You are wrong. Goody has many flaws in his game, but he still defeats players who macro perfectly. No one cares if you think that someone is bad, if the one is winning tournaments left and right and defeating all top players (especially in TvT). I would bet on Goody in every TvT in the GSL, because you can't drop him and you can't play with mass marines against him and that's what all Koreans are doing right now. He also showed that he can take down the best Zerg players. Lol you have to be joking, you would bet on Goody in the GSL, have you watched the GSL? Did you seriously watch the last GSTL? You must not have watched the last games that were tvt, there is absolutely no fucking way, Goody could do what MMA and MVP were doing. If you mean he mechs out and pushes with auto repaired scvs following, then yes Goody is a master. What tournaments is goody winning left and right? Go back and watch when he plays White-ra a month or so ago, he gets torn apart with multi harass. Play on a decent sized map, and hes going to get destroyed. Granted he did beat nestea, or more nestea beat himself. If Goody wins more than one more series in this tournament I'll eat my words. he is every week go4sc2 final nearly (often from 2-0 to 2-3 cause he "tryes" marines maruaders ^^) wins often the 200€ there also wins often zotac etc nearly 1-3 tournament wins EVERY WEEK ! and yes i watch gsl and goodys tvt would crush everyone there when they play what they do in gsl ... why whould it be different from what nestea did ? i mean he is also gsl and ... well whatever GOGO GOODY ofc everyonec an say HE CUBE 5 marines and 3 tanks in every fac and 3k overmins and is supplyblocked every 5 minutes but as quote from goody himself "you play it like this" xDD ps: all lag whiners read jinros tread ! PLZ ! huh?
i am sure jinro is telling the truth about his internet connection. i am also sure that MC, boxer, and fruitdealer are similarly telling the truth...jinro is not the overseer of everyone's interwebs
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Game 1: Adelscott and MVP were fantastic, very clean play by both of them, more so for Adelscott (which could have been due to worse lag on MVP's side), but was a deciding factor for a great series.
Game 2: I enjoyed seeing the reaper/ghosts in the Xel'Naga set, but play looked very sloppy on both sides. Well placed EMP's on the second set, but the phoenixes ran wild in the former set.
Game 3: Bad decision making by both (no wall in WTF?). A pretty disappointing to watch series unless you're one of the people who think that a European winning against a Korean overrides the games themselves for fun factor.
Game 4: There are jokes for Zergs massing drones, and anything that attacks them during that stage is considered an all-in cheese, but wow. Also very bad drops (or at least attempts at them), if Ret criticised Naniwa's poor multi-tasking skills he should take a look in the mirror.
Hopefully there will be 'cleaner' games tomorrow. I did enjoy that they were all macro games though.
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I hope TSL releases the replays, like in 5 or 6 months, when it is all over and outdated =) I understand why they wont release the replays now, but in like 5-6 months it would be cool to have the reps. I will love to see the reps, so I know if my suspicions of maphacking were correct / incorrect, since there is no other way to prove it. I hope i dont get banned for this post lol, i dont understand why the previous guy got banned.
Adelscott played amazing today, even though his macro slipped up a couple of times, he really played amazing.
Btw i dont think I have ever seen that many broodlords at 1 time at rets game on metalopolis xD
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