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On June 20 2011 05:55 XiGua wrote: LISTEN UP!
There is no possible way that there will be a Korean only finals. Looking at the brackets we will have 1 foreigner in the finals 100%. So all the whine about "all koreans" should stop. lol what?
There is no 100% guarantee it won't be all Korean
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On June 20 2011 05:54 stork4ever wrote: How well is the euro scene reflected in this tournament? Did the best players compete? Koreans+Sen seems to be in class by themselves. The good news is HuK! Win it for NA lol
All the top euro players were there except nerchio I think.
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On June 20 2011 05:55 oogieogie wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:46 Stratos_speAr wrote:On June 20 2011 05:43 oogieogie wrote:On June 20 2011 05:38 Stratos_speAr wrote:On June 20 2011 05:36 Ruyguy wrote:On June 20 2011 05:35 Theoren wrote: Idra made way to many drones and didn't have much of an army advantage. When you consider MC has blink and +2 weapons it's no surprise he steamrolled Idra's pure Roach army. Idra's ZvP is pretty bad and he seems to have a mental block not only against MC but in the match up in general. but honestly I still hate the fact that a 170 supply army cannot kill a 110 protoss army.....kinda bullshit despite still being pure roach. No, it's not bullshit. You don't just get to sit back and go "herp derp spam R after making 100 Drones" and then say that you deserve a win. Not only that, IdrA probably had more workers than MC, meaning his army wasn't actually 60 larger. so 35 roachs vs 2 base sat which is wat like 50-60 probes so that would mean like 1 immortal and maybe 20 stalkers Definitely more than 20 Stalkers, that Immortal, and what about the 6+ Sentries? IdrA lost a huge amount of Roaches to Force Field. IdrA just got outplayed. You need to suck it up. i said it earlier but i lagged through the whole last fight, but i saw no sentries at the final engagement which is what everyone is talking about. The bold is just uncalled for. It was over at the time of the final engagement due to idra misrallying free units to MC just before and being outnumbered in the battle.
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On June 20 2011 05:56 nvs. wrote:indeed, people need to look more at the PLAYERS that advance and not the RACE.
It's kind of ridiculous we're having this discussion again. It was less than a month ago that MC demolished Idra, only for Losira to step up a round later and beat him in an excellent bo3.
There are plenty of ways for Z to handle P, Idra just didn't get it right today and MC is a very very tough opponent.
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can people please, PLEASE stop staying it idra had like a 190 supply army... he had a 190 supply count... there is actually a bar that shows your supply in army, we just need to see the replay. if you watch the first engagement idra didnt have that many roaches, more were streamed in afterwards after the original group died and were subsequently picked off
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On June 20 2011 05:58 Skilledblob wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:56 awu25 wrote:On June 20 2011 05:52 neoenigma wrote:On June 20 2011 05:50 SoSexy wrote: Its disgusting to see all these bans when people just say 'mc played poorly' or 'idra cant micro'... its like living in the third reich I don't know... I watched that game and honestly thought Idra played better (at least in game 2). I think BLIZZARD needs to look at games like this and figure out how to tweak mass blink stalkers. Of course, infestors would help.... Why do you need to look at mass blink stalkers when there are answers like you mentioned: infestors because infestors dont kill mass stalker maybe No. but they do turn them into regular ol' stalkers and does 47(?) damage over 4 seconds to them. Infestor would have been a proper unit choice in that situation.
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On June 20 2011 05:56 Bashion wrote:I agree 100% with you. Bombers TVP is crazily good. Even better than Polt´s. Based on what? When bomber played MC in the GSTL he tried a cheap 4 rax marine only cheese lol.
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people complaining about the game should calm down......
What many of u seem to forget is that the people winning consistently against idra are not protoss but better players
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why does everything have to turn into a "korea vs foreigner" debate with you guys
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On June 20 2011 05:54 stork4ever wrote: How well is the euro scene reflected in this tournament? Did the best players compete? Koreans+Sen seems to be in class by themselves. The good news is HuK! Win it for NA lol
The best of the best were there, in terms of the EU. DH was only missing a few top players like Nerchio and Strelok, but i wouldn't rate those players on top of players like Kas, Thorzain, Naniwa, Morrow, and Dimaga, half of whom fell in the group stages.
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On June 20 2011 05:58 Skilledblob wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:56 awu25 wrote:On June 20 2011 05:52 neoenigma wrote:On June 20 2011 05:50 SoSexy wrote: Its disgusting to see all these bans when people just say 'mc played poorly' or 'idra cant micro'... its like living in the third reich I don't know... I watched that game and honestly thought Idra played better (at least in game 2). I think BLIZZARD needs to look at games like this and figure out how to tweak mass blink stalkers. Of course, infestors would help.... Why do you need to look at mass blink stalkers when there are answers like you mentioned: infestors because infestors dont kill mass stalker maybe
wtf... of course they do. get mass infestors and mass roaches or even freaking banelings drops, fungal the stalkers.... destroy protoss
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On June 20 2011 05:47 TheLeafmuncher wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:39 Namu wrote: idra just played bad that game... his early game was very good, putting those spores down in perfect positions, but apparently he thought he was SO ahead that it warranted him going pretty much pure roaches. that does NOT work against a protoss player, especially a player like MC whose control is just out of the world. idra could've wont he game easily if he had gotten hydras sooner, or even speedlings, or infestors.. .... TL;DRFF needs T2 counter. Unborrowing beneath a FF should break it, banelings should destroy them or they should just have a health bar.
Yeah, right. Let us all make a wishlist, send it to Blizz and maybe on Christmas they will take out the Nerfhammer again so that every Zerg in the world can beat any protoss at will.
Ah and don't forget to add the "Stalker = 3 Food" proposition. That NEEDS to be included for HotS.
Really people. White-Ra lost to Moon, Sase got demolished by Sen and Socke won vs Ret and MC once more beat Idra. Tell me where MC did a severe mistake in that second game. Where did he mess up? Simply because he was behind in food he should have lost? Idra was in a good position and he did make mistakes - and not only one. And yeah Blink Stalkers are strong, but so are Infestors and those friggin tiny LOL-Lings that could even slip thorugh water proof membranes.
And besides: Recently Protoss players were slumping and had huge troubles against Zerg. People said: Well, Protoss has been figured out. Now finally Protoss has to figure out Zerg again. Hahahaaha... And one tournament later people want Stalkers to be a 3 supply unit... I am losing my damn mind.
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On June 20 2011 05:53 DuB phool wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:51 oogieogie wrote:On June 20 2011 05:48 ScaringKids wrote:On June 20 2011 05:42 Proxd wrote:On June 20 2011 05:37 archonOOid wrote: 85k+ viewers!!! great news for sc2
lets hope for 100k+ in the finals Not gonna happen, unless it's in the evening. Having the Semi-Finals and Finals on a WORKDAY, that's just dumb (yes i am disappointed, i'll be at work, like most european over 18+ anyway, or rather 23+ for the most). :-( A bit off-topic here but League of Legends had constant 170k viewers all weekend reaching 200k today. Never thought it would have more than SC2, kinda crazy. the thing with the LoL streams is it is counting everyone that even just logs into LoL i think. I honestly don't believe it has that many people watching it. It doesn't. It's been disproved literally hundreds of times between this thread and yesterday's. What LoL DOES it advertise the tournament blatantly on the client, unlike blizzard. Plus, it's one of the only big tournaments they get, I think. (Not sure on that last bit, I don't really follow it.)
this tournament and IEM. LoL is pretty new to the tournament scene, because all (or at least, the most successful ) dota pros switched to HoN right away at HoN beta. Before that, you even had proteams pick up bloodline champion teams over LoL teams. And then again, even now, not that many proteams even have a LoL team, when you have many many teams having HoN teams, for instance.
I hope that clarifies it a bit
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Funny, only 4 koreans in this tourney compared to 5 in MLG, yet they all still manage to get through playoffs to quarterfinals. What would have happened if the 4 original groups without koreans (A,B,C,G) had like MMA, Nestea, Losira, and Polt in them?
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How many viewers were there in LoL?
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On June 20 2011 05:56 Sein wrote:
I don't see Moon beating Naniwa. Moon is a solid player who has pretty decent showings in foreign tournaments, but I think he would struggle against most Code A Korean players or top 3-5 foreigners.
You realize that Moon beat July@MLG and took a game against MC? Now he beat WhiteRa who looked pretty strong in this tournament. He is not one of the best koreans, but give this guy some credit...Naniwa-Moon will be an even matchup imo.
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On June 20 2011 05:55 XiGua wrote: LISTEN UP!
There is no possible way that there will be a Korean only finals. Looking at the brackets we will have 1 foreigner in the finals 100%. So all the whine about "all koreans" should stop.
Unless July wins the top half of the bracket, and if he can beat Sen that's a definite possibility.
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On June 20 2011 05:54 cheesemaster wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:42 eot wrote: I'm not angry that IdrA lost (I was cheering for MC) but does anyone agree that maybe Stalkers should be 3 supply? I just think that if you max out on upgraded Stalkers it's a bit too strong, you get too many of them. I dont agree at all, stalkers are already much worse then other similair units in most senses, sure really good micro can change that, but there are very few players who can blink micro like mc. Marauders should be 3 supply as well then.... lol protoss armies are already comapritively much smaller than other armies, and yoou want them to be smaller. Also stalkers receive the least benifit from upgrades than other similair tier units, they only get +1 for each upgrade as opposed to 2 for roaches and marauders. Idra cant just only make roaches and expect to win, there was nothing OP about that final engagement, he lost WAYYY to much at mc's natural (around 40 supply) had more supply in drones and his positioning during that engagement was fairly sub par mc had way more units attacking at once compared to idra whos roaches were scurrying around in the back. If idra went infestor hydra ling he wouldnt have had too much trouble with that army at all. Also no static defenses at all, a few spine crawlers would have gone along way especially when he knows mc has no intention of grabbing a third and is pushing out off of 2 base. Also that bad rally at the end set him way behind. Unless you can get a huge huge spread with roaches its really not good at all to have that many the front 2 lines can attack and the rest just scurry around because of their range, at a certain point you need to transition to hydras or something else, or lock everything down with infestors so that you can get your roaches up really tight to the front line of stalkkers so more of your roaches can hit.
Im going to say the same thing as I said to the first guy who brought it up. THIS IS A LR-THREAD, even though you may have a calm discussion about balance, it is about balance nonetheless. Discuss it elsewhere!
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On June 20 2011 05:46 Steamroller wrote: I hope Naniwa pulls off a miracle or this is going to be one boring tournament again.
So.. your definition of an interesting tournament is one where Naniwa wins? I.. don't get it. Bad games make tournaments boring. May the games be awesome and the best player win.
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On June 20 2011 05:55 FinnGamer wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2011 05:52 nvs. wrote:When u see the same players winning again and again, yes. well then some people better step da fuck up and challenge them. ^^ Remind for example just won his 42nd zotac cup and it's still fun to watch. Some day some one will beat the person up top and it will be even more interesting
Damn WC3 Remind? I didn't know he played SC2
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