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FOUTWENTYSIXTY
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tdt
United States3179 Posts
On July 10 2011 17:08 Elefanto wrote: 4/5/6 gate timing attacks aren't as good as they used to be. zergs got so much better at defending them, they're finally a great risk for protoss. Yes they are. See dreamhack where sen got rolled by them and MC has best in the world. His gateway rushes are safest build he can do but I think he got too much heat for it so he's playing macro more. | ||
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snafoo
New Zealand1615 Posts
On July 10 2011 19:33 Abrafred wrote: I would like to express my feelings about Puma's pay day. WTF. He beats a bunch of master's league foreigners, one decent foreigner (Ret), a couple of his team members, Squirtle (someone that cant get through round 1 in code A) and July (who is undoubtedly in a slump lately). Now he is guaranteed to get payed approximately as much as a GSL winner and if he beats MC a lot more than that. Bottom line = expect Koreans to flood the "foreigner" scene Many problems with this comment, people that say "struggled to make it through Code A/is Code B" as if it makes them a terrible player still are obviously pretty unaware of what they're talking about. Puma has beaten seed #1, #8 and #10 pretty easily, only really struggling against Squirtle(the Code B "cant get through round 1 in code A" player xD). What makes you think he wouldn't of qualified if he played in the regular season anyway(which, by the way was impossible to occur due to the "qualification" for season 1 essentially being a popularity contest and he was essentially unknown to most people)? The open tournament idea isn't new, people have known about it since the tournament was announced - noone complained back then. GSL 1st place regular season is about the same as 1st place NASL, give or take a little bit depending on exchange rate. | ||
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Primadog
United States4411 Posts
Color me surprised if he fails to win a GSL sometime this year. | ||
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darthfoley
United States8003 Posts
On July 10 2011 20:38 Primadog wrote: If anything, Puma's success demonstrated that the NASL format works. Stack the odds 15:1 against the Open bracket (14:2 this season), and let them loose. Puma did that and deserves to be swimming in the money, and NASL had crowned a new prince of starcraft. Color me surprised if he fails to win a GSL sometime this year. Good point, PuMa deserves every dollar he wins imo | ||
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AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
On July 10 2011 17:58 Blattdorf wrote: Exactly, MC is mostly being a showman because that makes the matches more interesting. Though sometimes he does indeed show his anger, like in the Code S Group H elimination where he ended up eliminating oGsInca, because TSL_aLive put him (Inca) in this group. After that last game between MC and aLive, MC walked up to his booth and dissed him for that. u mean kyrix, alive got owned by huk, damn this guy has to be the most embarrassed player in the korean community right now, getting outclassed by Huk and losing to Darkforce within a few. | ||
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Pipeline
Sweden1673 Posts
Oh and btw, I just love that MC has learned so much English. Awesome player, awesome speaker  | ||
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Pipeline
Sweden1673 Posts
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aksfjh
United States4853 Posts
On July 10 2011 20:38 Primadog wrote: If anything, Puma's success demonstrated that the NASL format works. Stack the odds 15:1 against the Open bracket (14:2 this season), and let them loose. Puma did that and deserves to be swimming in the money, and NASL had crowned a new prince of starcraft. Color me surprised if he fails to win a GSL sometime this year. I definitely wouldn't say that "it works." There are probably a dozen+ players from the open bracket who are just as good as, if not better than, most of the players that made playoffs. The fact that we only see 2 of those players while 14 made it through from a invitational battle of attention spans pretty much guarantees an open player will do well. Look at tournaments like TSL3 and the few recent MLGs. Players who make it through the open bracket systems end up dominating almost every player that was invited. The only times when open players do poorly is when the open qualified get matched up against each other or they are disadvantaged when they finally get to the REAL competition (MLG). | ||
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Eufouria
United Kingdom4425 Posts
I feel so bad for Sen, game 4 is going to haunt him for a long time. I just hope that, when the Koreans>Foreigners talk starts, people remember how he was a few less broodlords away from knocking out one of the greatest Koreans. I wonder what he'll be doing this summer, presumably he's on a break till the next school year starts, so will we see him at MLG, or maybe trying to qualify for code a? Also what happened with Sen and the mengst statue? | ||
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DennyR
Germany379 Posts
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
On July 10 2011 19:43 Primadog wrote: Prima's shakycam crowd reactions, day 2 Exhausting day 2. Cya day 3! http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=241783 awesome vods I wish I didn't missed july vs puma TT | ||
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SafeAsCheese
United States4924 Posts
On July 10 2011 22:01 Eufouria wrote: I passed out mid game 5. I remember Tastosis wondering what tech path MC was going to take and then I wake up at 1 pm. I feel so bad for Sen, game 4 is going to haunt him for a long time. I just hope that, when the Koreans>Foreigners talk starts, people remember how he was a few less broodlords away from knocking out one of the greatest Koreans. I wonder what he'll be doing this summer, presumably he's on a break till the next school year starts, so will we see him at MLG, or maybe trying to qualify for code a? Also what happened with Sen and the mengst statue? He attacked it in game 5 with his brood lords It really didn't matter, DT killed 2 of his bases, and MC army killed his gold. His main was mined out. He had his natural + third vs MC's 3 base, taking the gold. He was also down on supply, with only a few (like 6?) brood lords, just to spend his banked 2k gas. He was dead already. | ||
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ct2299
380 Posts
On July 10 2011 13:07 Utinni wrote: Why do people say Huk is Korean. He is a foreigner who trains with Koreans... What is not to understand. If you are in the same environment you will adapt. He trains as hard as they do... that is why he can compete. Because this stems from an argument long ago when people were saying there are zero good foreign players. People would use SelecT as an example of a strong foreign Terran when HE is Korean but living/training in North America. Foreigners would argue that because SelecT trains in NA, he is considered a NA Terran. At the same time, people back then tossed HuK under a bus and attributed him as an example of how "the Korean training system doesn't always guarantee superiority", since HuK was performing badly in Korea. I called it long ago that if HuK ever started winning anything, that foreigners would soon classify him as a foreigner again. Now that HuK is showing success through two recent championships, people are being hypocrites and are warmly embracing HuK as a "foreigner" again. It's so ridiculous AND sad how DESPERATE foreigners are to have a "foreign champion". If foreigners consider SelecT a NA Terran, and that was something foreigners on this forum no longer wanted to argue and wanted to set it in stone, then HuK by that logic is Korean, and this topic should no longer be revisited. | ||
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DrunkeN.
United States406 Posts
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gosu86
208 Posts
On July 11 2011 00:27 DrunkeN. wrote: WTF are the VODS nasl.tv is a horrible site to find vods. i think vods are only available if you paid | ||
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
On July 11 2011 00:27 DrunkeN. wrote: WTF are the VODS nasl.tv is a horrible site to find vods. Part 2 of the VOD's for MC/Sen and July/Puma are not up, except tthere's links to them at the end of part 1 (end of video screen). | ||
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gosu86
208 Posts
On July 11 2011 00:43 Ansinjunger wrote: Part 2 of the VOD's for MC/Sen and July/Puma are not up, except tthere's links to them at the end of part 1 (end of video screen). no they are up lol they were up after the game yesterday night | ||
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ThatGuy89
United Kingdom1968 Posts
shows that mc and sen went 2-2 and then doesnt give a winner or even a map of the last game. and then it doesnt tell you which 2 are advancing in the spoiler bit below it. Is the ONLY way to watch these games now if you pay and watch on nasl.tv? no rebroadcast or anything? | ||
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
On July 11 2011 00:45 gosu86 wrote: no they are up lol they were up after the game yesterday night No, the vod's that are up are 30 minutes long, and are only part 1 of each series. Part 2, I just noticed, is somewhat inconspicuously displayed on the same screen as a URL you can copy, but it took me like 4 looks to finally find that. Or it's displayed at the end of part 1 at the end screen. The problem is that it's hard to find ^^. | ||
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