EPT[GSL] August Up&Down Day 1 - Page 66
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Please keep the following things out of this topic: -Caster/Stream/player bashing; -Imbalance/race whine; -Preemptive GGing; -any other assorted offtopic negativism and arguments. This topic for talk about the games, not your general dislike for a certain matchup or SC2 in general. Enjoy this free event that has been provided to you. Share your enthusiasm for the games! Feel free to shoot me a PM or query me on IRC for any questions or comments. Have fun! ~Nyovne | ||
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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VeryAverage
United States424 Posts
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SafeAsCheese
United States4924 Posts
Leenock might have the best ZvT up with NesTeaa | ||
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kyzers0ze
Singapore1073 Posts
On September 07 2011 01:23 SafeAsCheese wrote: Leenock can make it into Code S with a path of terrans in front of him, yet DongRaeGu couldn't, and had to use a MLG seed (where he lost to KR terrans each time) to get his. Leenock might have the best ZvT up with NesTeaa I feel the best ZvT belongs to leenock right now, disregarding the series played against mkp =/. Nestea looks shaky at times but is steal a beast. | ||
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
On September 07 2011 01:21 JustPassingBy wrote: Grow... how was the TvT between Byun and Supernova? That vod is not uploaded... Amazing, even if long, air TvT are sometime boring, this one was crazy. Seeker missiles that hit, tech switches from/to bio/mech/air...crazy, with a silly ending sadly. Leenock vs Yoda was the other game of the night. I said Leenock would have probably lost this some months ago, even perhaps one month ago when he crushed terrans but had problems in the very long game. He played this one perfectly. | ||
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Slusher
United States19143 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
And grats to supernova, he was one of the guys I didn't think would make it out of this group for sure, but he proved me wrong by not only advancing but doing so in a 3-0. | ||
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Sithelin123
Canada168 Posts
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
On September 06 2011 15:03 Amui wrote: Out of this group. Leenock gets his strongest matchup x3, and Alicia honestly doesn't have strong PvZ. The one series he beat Leenock in, Alicia didn't actually look very good. Leenock definitely has his best chance yet of making code S. Byun and Supernova are the 2 other strong contenders for a code S spot. Yoda I'll be honest doesn't seem quite up to the same level. Alicia in his current state I don't think could beat any of the terrans. Definitely could play spoiler and knock out Leenock though. I didn't realize Byun was slumping that hard, but my picks were quite solid =). Very glad to see leenock in code S though :D | ||
CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
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lorkac
United States2297 Posts
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beat farm
United States478 Posts
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luke3920
United Kingdom182 Posts
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vnlegend
United States1389 Posts
On September 06 2011 20:59 Abrafred wrote: Does anyone have the impression that getting into the up and downs as a code a player and getting at least 3rd place in them is a greater feat than getting first non-code s spot in an mlg. Don't get me wrong DRG is a great player, but it seems like what he did in order to get into S was nothing compared to this. In his encounters with Koreans he beat Nada (S), Hero (B) in a close 4-3, while losing to CoCa, Bomber and Trickster. losing in ro16 code a and going 2-3 vs Koreans in a foreign tournament ... >.< Yes. Winning in Code A and making it to Up/Down playing vs good Code A's + Code S's is a bigger accomplishment. Leenock won his way back to Code S with pure skill. DRG meanwhile had the cheap way out by competing in MLG and got the hand-me-down Code S spot while only competing vs a few Koreans. The MLG Korean exchange system is a way for GomTV to get the fan favorites back to Code S as opposed to a fair competitive system. Congrats to Leenock and hopefully he matures into a champion. He still has some work to do in terms of staying motivated and consistent. | ||
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mlgbx
United States73 Posts
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Kieofire
United States1809 Posts
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QTIP.
United States2113 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10333 Posts
On September 07 2011 04:11 vnlegend wrote: Yes. Winning in Code A and making it to Up/Down playing vs good Code A's + Code S's is a bigger accomplishment. Leenock won his way back to Code S with pure skill. DRG meanwhile had the cheap way out by competing in MLG and got the hand-me-down Code S spot while only competing vs a few Koreans. The MLG Korean exchange system is a way for GomTV to get the fan favorites back to Code S as opposed to a fair competitive system. Congrats to Leenock and hopefully he matures into a champion. He still has some work to do in terms of staying motivated and consistent. Then again, there is more incentive for korean players to play at MLG, and once more do, MLG will be harder, successfully helping the foreign scene and/or making SC2 more global. | ||
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babylon
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On September 07 2011 04:37 QTIP. wrote: Too bad for Alicia -- hopefully he doesn't get a Mirror vs HerO/Sage in Code A next season. Sucks to see Byun go down, but good for Leenock! Alicia would actually be in a good spot if he draws Sage in the first round of Code A. Sage is an intelligent player, but his PvP has never been that great. His unit control is terrible, and he likes to randomly expand and die when he doesn't choose to pull cheese out of his hat for the match-up. I'm actually surprised he beat out Ace to get into Code A. Gosu cannon-rushing skills, I guess.  | ||
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