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Contrary to popular belief Stephano is not from the States, any mindless spam asserting otherwise after this time (19:48 KST/ 5:48 AM EST/ 10:48 GMT) will meet a moderator response. We have enough confusing spam posting in LR threads these days. Lets try to keep the love for everyone's favourite French zerg reasonable.

And as always:
- No player bashing.
- No caster bashing.
- No balance whining.

Enjoy the games.
Ysellian
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands9029 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 12:31:46
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5001
On December 12 2011 21:30 Itsmedudeman wrote:
This is how they do it in every group stage. God damn I hate fanboys. Just deal with it, everyone (except hero) got respectable results.


Why did you have to remind us
mcmartini
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Australia1972 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5002
On December 12 2011 21:29 King.Crimson wrote:
I don't like the situation that transpired in the last couple of games. The loser of the first series of the last two games (Mvp - Stephano) is at a clear disadvantage, considering one of the other two players will be qualified based on the former result, and thus not put in 100% effort into their game. Both sets should have been played simultaneously to prevent this.

All these comments about players not putting in 100% are ridiculous, more than anything you think MC would try harder seeing as he is living with Stephano at the moment.
I just want to say I have 370 APM - Liquid'Tyler SotG 14-12-2011 "I mean it's too bad you can't be paid to be, you know, a chicken shit fucking whiny bitch on the internet or we would have lots of rich community members" Nick "Tasteless" Plott
Severian
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia2052 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 12:31:33
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5003
On December 12 2011 21:29 Reasonable wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:27 SaoPaulo wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.

And MC did beat Stephano...

But Stephano beat a stronger player than MC, according to overall results. Head to head, damn it! This is mathematically incorrect!

Please don't have a meltdown while your brain tries to process the fact that the transitive property is not universal.
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5004
So happy the 3 Korean Superstars advanced. Even with the terrible BO1 format the best three players still advanced. ^_^
♦ My Life for BESTie ♦ 류세라 = 배 ♦
Crushinator
Profile Joined August 2011
Netherlands2138 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5005
On December 12 2011 21:29 Onlinejaguar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.


Stephano lost to MC so how is it clearly Stephano>MC?


His argument is that it can be argued both ways. So Stephano = MC, particularly in the format this tournament was played in it just would have made so much sense to have another game for the tie-breaker. Then there can be no question about who should advance.
xrapture
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1644 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5006
On December 12 2011 21:25 R1CH wrote:
Sigh, HerO dropping out has left me kind of disinterested in the rest of the tournament now, it sucks since there's so many awesome players and good games left I'd probably enjoy. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow.


Hero has a 39% winrate in Korean TLPD. You had to have known his chances weren't really good man. Besides, this is MvP's tourney to lose.
Everyone is either delusional, a nihlilst, or dead from suicide.
bittman
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia8759 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5007
On December 12 2011 21:25 Holdinga wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:22 Zzoram wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:20 Holdinga wrote:
Dont hate on MC for losing the match, no Korean will F!@# over another Korean in these cases, it is absolutely normal. hate on the rules. It shouldnt have been head to head record, there should have been a final tie breaker, so loser plays versus Stephano



Don't be a whiner.

MC didn't throw that game, it looked like a real game, and MC played quite well. The way he held that Infested Terran attack was amazing.


Im not saying he throwed the game, because it is actually impossible to know this. Im saying the rules are stupid, and that no person in this world exists that would fuck over another person from the same nationality.


It's a big world mate.

I've heard Korea are strong nationalists, but I hate seeing this talk everytime someone loses and something might have been on the line. Every time there's an important team kill this comes up.

Nestea lost to MVP? Rigged.
MC lost to DRG? Rigged.

I wonder what games aren't rigged nowdays in the esteemed suspicious minds of some TL posters =/
Mvp - Leenock - Dongraegu - MC - Gumiho - Keen - Polt - Squirtle - Jjakji - Genius - Seed - Life - sC - Dream || LG-IM - MVP - FXO
Lasbike
Profile Joined January 2011
France2888 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5008
Well, Stephano still did well, and better than what people expected of him. Taking our DRG and HerO. He did lose to the exGSL champions Mvp and MC. I'll add that, technically, MC and Stephano both won 2 games and lost 2 games..Which put them at the same level in this poolplay.

Congratz to DRG, the true winner here
darkest44
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1009 Posts
December 12 2011 12:31 GMT
#5009
Damn, too bad for stephano. So close, he really shoulda won that game vs MC with just a little better positioning. O well. Good casting today as usual but Khaldor you talked a little bit too much, for a little bit too long today which I haven't noticed as a problem for you before today. Give wolf a bit more time especially during battles you pretty much took those from start to finish lol.

Have a good day all.
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
December 12 2011 12:32 GMT
#5010
On December 12 2011 21:31 bittman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:25 Holdinga wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:22 Zzoram wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:20 Holdinga wrote:
Dont hate on MC for losing the match, no Korean will F!@# over another Korean in these cases, it is absolutely normal. hate on the rules. It shouldnt have been head to head record, there should have been a final tie breaker, so loser plays versus Stephano



Don't be a whiner.

MC didn't throw that game, it looked like a real game, and MC played quite well. The way he held that Infested Terran attack was amazing.


Im not saying he throwed the game, because it is actually impossible to know this. Im saying the rules are stupid, and that no person in this world exists that would fuck over another person from the same nationality.


It's a big world mate.

I've heard Korea are strong nationalists, but I hate seeing this talk everytime someone loses and something might have been on the line. Every time there's an important team kill this comes up.

Nestea lost to MVP? Rigged.
MC lost to DRG? Rigged.

I wonder what games aren't rigged nowdays in the esteemed suspicious minds of some TL posters =/

Hmm, I heard someone mention that game looked like WWE. Were they seriously implying that game was rigged? LOL
Ketch
Profile Joined October 2010
Netherlands7285 Posts
December 12 2011 12:32 GMT
#5011
On December 12 2011 21:26 wklbishop wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:23 Ketch wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:21 poorcloud wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:19 IamPryda wrote:
Muta tech switch on that map so ez pz Mc pretty much went exact counter fast upgrade and Templar which are supposed to crush mutas In theory but on a map with your minerals that spread mc didnt stand a chance


to be fair i don't think the mutas were that good. They certainly paid off as they picked off all the stargate units and random units here and there + templar archives but MC had them under control most of the time.

It was the map structure, where MC had to split his units so much that made MC lost.


Also, going for archons instead of collossus doesn't help in these choked maps. I understand that templars were useful as well, but I feel like MC should have eased up on Archons, wait before moving out and include some Colossus...


Nah, against mutas, heavy templar and archons are the best choice.


Hmm made a typo in my own post, fixed that. I am still curious to see what would have happened if MC had waited before pushing out, include a few less archons, as only 2 or 3 were enough imho, and tech up to colossus...
centinel4
Profile Joined April 2011
Austria50 Posts
December 12 2011 12:33 GMT
#5012
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.


OMG lol... this is just too funny. I hope this was a joke if not.... :/
but thanks for the laughs!

Too bad for stephano. Maybe after this, he gets the motivation to play... you can always start your studies in a couple of years
mango_destroyer
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada3914 Posts
December 12 2011 12:33 GMT
#5013
Why are some people arguing head to head just because Stephano didn`t make it? lol. He played decent but not good enough to advance, that`s all there is to it.
Bromazepam
Profile Joined August 2011
820 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 12:35:58
December 12 2011 12:33 GMT
#5014
It's the classic argument, round-robin with head-to-head rule is an extremely polarising format.
Personally I hate it because it means we don't get an extra game :p

I wanted MC, Hero, DRG and Stephano to go through (wanted, not thought it'd happen!) so in the end the result of this final match didn't matter to me.

But yeah, head-to-head is a stupid rule and it sucks.

Edit: also, please, don't apply the transitive property to players' skills. It makes you look like an idiot. Thank you.
Saying that something is killing esports is killing esports.
m0ck
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
4194 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-12 12:37:12
December 12 2011 12:33 GMT
#5015
Just a pity MC didn't scout DRGs fourth. He could have taken that out rather than going for the main/natural and things would have been good. Still, great show. Stephano was not out of his debt, and on another day he would have passed the group-stage.
Zzoram
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada7115 Posts
December 12 2011 12:34 GMT
#5016
Tie-breaker instead of head-to-head would've been nice, but I still think the players who played better advanced.

Stephano held his own, it was respectable. HerO really bombed out.
Severian
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia2052 Posts
December 12 2011 12:34 GMT
#5017
On December 12 2011 21:31 Crushinator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:29 Onlinejaguar wrote:
On December 12 2011 21:26 Reasonable wrote:
I really don't like how one player is chosen over the other with the same score. Head to head? What sport is this concept from? I say let MC play Stephano for the right to advance. That's some joke of a system. Stephano defeated DRG, who bested MC, if my knowledge of algebraic logical operators is correct, Stephano>DRG>MC leads to Stephano>MC. I'm surprised to see this "creativity" in a Korean tournament.


Stephano lost to MC so how is it clearly Stephano>MC?


His argument is that it can be argued both ways. So Stephano = MC, particularly in the format this tournament was played in it just would have made so much sense to have another game for the tie-breaker. Then there can be no question about who should advance.

We should collate the results from every tournament and ladder match that has ever taken place between the participants, then rank each player according to whom they have beaten and who has beaten them. In the case of situations like the above, where a cycle exists, we will play more games to determine the greater player. Once all cycles have been eliminated, we will have the truly perfect ranking of every single player in the tournament and there will be absolutely no reason for anyone to complain about the format or claim that their favourite player only lost because the lights on their side of the studio were slightly dimmer.
King.Crimson
Profile Joined June 2011
Romania478 Posts
December 12 2011 12:35 GMT
#5018
On December 12 2011 21:31 mcmartini wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2011 21:29 King.Crimson wrote:
I don't like the situation that transpired in the last couple of games. The loser of the first series of the last two games (Mvp - Stephano) is at a clear disadvantage, considering one of the other two players will be qualified based on the former result, and thus not put in 100% effort into their game. Both sets should have been played simultaneously to prevent this.

All these comments about players not putting in 100% are ridiculous, more than anything you think MC would try harder seeing as he is living with Stephano at the moment.


What if MC and DRG were clanmates and MC had no relation with Stephano. Do you honestly believe DRG wouldn't get the win from MC in that scenario? The system is flawed.
bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
December 12 2011 12:35 GMT
#5019
On December 12 2011 21:33 Bromazepam wrote:
It's the classic argument, round-robin with head-to-head rule is an extremely polarising format.
Personally I hate it because it means we don't get an extra game :p

I wanted MC, Hero, DRG and Stephano to go through (wanted, not thought it'd happen!) so in the end the result of this final match didn't matter to me.

But yeah, head-to-head is a stupid rule and it sucks.

those situations happened countless times in sports/esports people just have to live with it...
Stork[gm]
Zzoram
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada7115 Posts
December 12 2011 12:35 GMT
#5020
On December 12 2011 21:33 m0ck wrote:
Just a pity MC didn't scout DRGs fourth. He could have taken that out rather than going for the main/natural and things would have been good. Still, great show. Stephano was not out of his dept, and on another day he would have passed the group-stage.


Not necessarily. If he stopped to kill the 4th, DRG would've destroyed even more of his tech/production and he might've been worse off since he would've only had his cannon 3rd with no production or tech.
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