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Piledriver
United States1697 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:20 cyclone25 wrote: Stephano has flawless play, best player in the world by far (maybe Mvp is close to him). Are you serious? Looking at his PvZ, I feel like someone like MC will roll him (yeah I know MC is code B currently). Inori basically screwed over the other toss' chance of winning the tournament IMO. | ||
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Darclite
United States1021 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:27 koolaid1990 wrote: Lets see, of the ones you mentioned, which koreans are the best out of those koreans? MMA, MC, Puma, and Ryung Yes stephano beat all of them in this offline lan event! oh wait... Guys, we need to get Stephano to 4-0 Polt, MVP, Keen, Huk, Top, MC, July, Genius, Ryung, MMA, Zenio, Nestea, Puzzle, Bomber, Virus, Nada, Hongun, Happy, Killer, asd, Clide, Noblesse, Coca, Alive, Ensnare, Supernova, Losira, Taeja, Leenock, Marineking, Jjakji, Dongraegu, Oz, Gumiho, Sage, sC, Lucky, Curious, Byun, Alicia, JYP, Yugioh, and Ganzi. It needs to be at a lan or it doesn't count, and he can't cheese even if they expand at 15 or it doesn't count, and he needs to play with one hand and blindfolded or it doesn't count. Otherwise he sucks. | ||
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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
Oops. | ||
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Vocal
116 Posts
He IS still going to Korea, right? | ||
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Nontrivial
United States56 Posts
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
gratz Stephano | ||
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Imbu
United States903 Posts
I'm going to be sad that in a year I might no longer be able to see you play, but until then, just keep on slaying nerds (or in this case, Slasher's hair :D). | ||
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Goshdarnit
United States540 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:27 xAPOCALYPSEx wrote: Stephano had an impressive showing, but you can't call someone the best foreigner (someone is even calling him the best player) in the world just because he wins 1 offline event. The players he beat weren't exactly top-tier. He beat a few of them in the online qualifiers but that doesn't mean much especially against a T or P where micro matters so much (I personally watched mkp lose to stephano because of his lack of marine splitting timing, most likely due to lag). He's good, but don't be so damn quick to jump on the bandwagon. He won a single offline tourney by beating, frankly, mediocre players (as far as KR standards) Hmmm, the people he beat were pretty top tier. I'm not saying he IS nestea or some code S champion. But please name a foreigner who is better than him, I would like to know who it is. I know your not dissing him, but your comment is downplaying him a bit much tbh. He is a great player with fantastic potential. Also I saw him play some bad games this tournament, he has among he best zvt AND zvp in the foreigner scene and great zvz comparable to dimaga if not better. I can count the amount of zergs in the world that are as good in any matchup as he is in all three on my hands. Speaking of nestea and losira (well I wasn't but w/e) stephano might have better zvt then them (but that is not proven by anything except that zvt is the IM zergs' worst MU). | ||
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ulan-bat
China403 Posts
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Psyclon
Bulgaria2443 Posts
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Packawana
United States1081 Posts
But PuMa can take out Stephano but Stephano can take out MMA. This is where it becomes nearly impossible to figure out a skill level by just beating someone.  | ||
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dgwow
Canada1024 Posts
The fan question segment was really awesome! As for future events, I hope for IGN to make things a little more exciting in between games, maybe add some events or music shows ala GSL? And it was pretty obvious a lot of the people involved were nervous speaking on stage  Congratulations Stephano! Next stop, KOREA | ||
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Lamphead
Canada241 Posts
he had the confidence to put a smiley face at like the 3 minute mark of the game in what he calls his worst matchup based on a build order advantage he just realized..he has an extremely deep understanding of the game, which is why he's able to do so much with little practice..he's motivated by money, and now that's he's realizing his potential to take big tournaments..and he's only 18 | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:32 Azarkon wrote: There's no point discussing games that never happened. What I want to point out is that the players Stephano beat weren't some random Korean scrubs who just happened to get "lucky." Even if you don't acknowledge they're Code S level, they did, in fact, take out very good players. Lucky took out MMA. Inori took out MC. STC took out IdrA, White-Ra, and Puma. Tournaments do have an element of chance, but that's true for any tournament - GSL included. They are random Korean scrubs because they don't have the renown of some of their more well known counter parts. Same bullshit for Bomber and same bullshit for DRG. "I don't know who they are so therefore they're terrible." | ||
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cyclone25
Romania3344 Posts
Results since September: 1) MMA 2-1 July, MMA 2-0 Nestea, MMA 2-1 Losira 2) Lucky 3-0 MMA 3) Stephano 4-0 Lucky That means Stephano is worlds ahead of the koreans. Don't even try to argue on this because it's just basic mathematics. | ||
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:35 Psyclon wrote: And now it's time to stop reading this thread. Stephano, who is 18 years old, who started playing this game full-time less than a month ago, just won 30,000 $ by beating several Korean players - and there are people who try to discredit his win? Seriously? What is wrong with you? Jealousy be an ugly beast when she rears her head. | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
j/k congrats Stephano. Just be sure to make it up to us by attending an American Med school, where you can use your 30k on 1 year's worth of tuition. :D | ||
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Vocal
116 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:35 Psyclon wrote: And now it's time to stop reading this thread. Stephano, who is 18 years old, who started playing this game full-time less than a month ago, just won 30,000 $ by beating several Korean players - and there are people who try to discredit his win? Seriously? What is wrong with you? No ones discrediting anyone, they're just arguing with idiots who are saying Stephano > Mvp or whatever the fuck they're saying right now. | ||
CosmicSpiral
United States15275 Posts
On October 10 2011 12:35 Goshdarnit wrote: Hmmm, the people he beat were pretty top tier. I'm not saying he IS nestea or some code S champion. But please name a foreigner who is better than him, I would like to know who it is. I know your not dissing him, but your comment is downplaying him a bit much tbh. He is a great player with fantastic potential. Also I saw him play some bad games this tournament, he has among he best zvt AND zvp in the foreigner scene and great zvz comparable to dimaga if not better. I can count the amount of zergs in the world that are as good in any matchup as he is in all three on my hands. Speaking of nestea and losira (well I wasn't but w/e) stephano might have better zvt then them (but that is not proven by anything except that zvt is the IM zergs' worst MU). They were not top-tier Koreans at all. | ||
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hitpoint
United States1511 Posts
And Puma beat Whitera. | ||
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