On March 28 2011 20:00 Gescom wrote: Why people are cheering for Korea instead of the world team is beyond me.
Because not everyone picks favourites based on skin colour. Koreans are the best and most entertaining players, so I want to see them dominate.
Um, but if the World wins, and they do so in an entertaining fashion, won't that defeat the purpose of cheering for the Korean team? In other words, you just want to watch good starcraft, in which case you're essentially trolling by cheering for Koreans on TL, 'cause right now it's 2-2 and Sen's games were as interesting as San's play, and more interesting than Anypro and MKP.
Uhhh... What? There isn't any 'purpose' in cheering for Koreans, it won't do anything. I cheer for them because I think they will provide better and more entertaining games. I don't see how it's trolling to defend my opinions when someone says there's no reason I should support players who I consider better. I want to watch good games, and the Korean players are better at providing them, so I cheer for them. And yes, Anypro and MKP didn't show the best games, but they aren't the best or most entertaining Korean players, I wasn't expecting them to dominate. San, on the other hand, played an amazing game (freaking Carriers!), and tomorrow we're going to see the best of the best play.
On March 28 2011 20:50 papaz wrote: 1. There was lag in TSL and it had effect on the games.
2. World team played well today and won fair and square.
Just because world team is playing well today and winning fair and square doesn't make TSL any better. TSL still has lag issues and the shadow doesn't disappear because world team is playing well in an offline tournament.
Agreed. Seems like lots of people here think that they can simply accept reality when it works for them and try to use it to discredit something else that's also reality.
With that said, very impressed by Sen and TT1's play. The probe surround was brilliant. I'll be looking forward to see how the tournament after the showmatch goes when there's no more Bo1s. Also looking forward to see if the foreigners can take on the three M's.
On March 28 2011 20:50 Baum wrote: TT1s build pretty much hard countered nada.
not if nada kept out of cannon range and sniped all the probes he could and expanded behind it
he could maybe snipe a maximum of like 10 probes. Any time you go cloaked banshees you need to do quite a bit of damage or some damage and lose no banshees or you're usually significantly behind
TT1 made a extremely late Robo. He could of went and killed freaking sentries and stalkers if he wanted to, lol.
On March 28 2011 20:51 Hot_Bid wrote: Come on guys, I don't see it that weird that TT1 can beat Nada in a Bo1, its ONE game where a single misclick or banshee mismicro can lose you it. TT1 played better, and won. It happens. Flash loses sometimes too :p
You don't understand. I've been trying to explain it to people for a while now that even if the Koreans are better players that them losing a series to foreigners isn't impossible and isn't shocking. Unfortunately too many people's brains here have been too warped to actually believe that. Guaranteed they'll make up a stupid excuse for the foreigners doing well today.
On March 28 2011 20:50 JSH wrote: LOL Korean commentator pretending to understand what Artosis is saying by making noises lol
She can probably understand a bit of English
Also, it's just being polite. It's also a very big thing in Japanese too where you show that you're listening, even if you don't understand what's being said or your not particulary interested. I guess it's the same in Korea. It's better than just standing there with a blank face not understanding what's going on.
Yeah, but it actually seemed like she understood some of what Artosis was saying, instead of the usual polite nod.