On January 19 2012 21:42 labbe wrote:
Blizzard better fix the protoss race in Heart of the Swarm. They are just sooo boring to watch no matter what race they face, but PvT is the worst. Sucks to watch starcraft when you know beforehand that every match including a protoss will be boring to watch.

nvm

See.Blue

United States2673 Posts

January 19 2012 16:50 GMT

#1723

I love the terran butthurt in this thread. Woot for parting, what a meteoric rise, can't wait to see him play some more :D

poorcloud

Singapore2748 Posts

January 19 2012 16:58 GMT

#1724

On January 20 2012 01:14 Frequencyy wrote:
I hate the new format of GSL. Code S was just starting to weed out all the players that didn't belong there and now if you have a bad day you go straight to Code A. I miss the consistency of Code S.

Don't understand. Nada has been falling off in the past few seaons and Puzzle has been more consistent than him for the past few months.

Keen is in between code A/S and Parting totally stomped through code A to get straight into code S.

The better players got through today.

Seraphone

United Kingdom1219 Posts

January 19 2012 17:00 GMT

#1725

Basically all the Code S level players except Polt and Losira made it back through Code A last season anyway.

Thombur

95 Posts

January 19 2012 17:13 GMT

#1726

I really like the system, it's like a specialised version of a double elimination with looser's bracket but the loosers bracket fight their way back into the next tournament's winner's bracket instead.

amazingoopah

United States1925 Posts

January 19 2012 17:14 GMT

#1727

parting gonna royal road???? would be awesome but unlikely with the stacked field.... hoping for at least a ceremony, hope GOM will make it an emphasis ala the MSL (MSL 4EVAH)

Chunhyang

Bangladesh1389 Posts

January 19 2012 17:19 GMT

#1728

Fionn did not jinx, that's why Parting advanced

Chunhyang

Bangladesh1389 Posts

January 19 2012 17:21 GMT

#1729

On January 20 2012 01:50 See.Blue wrote:
I love the terran butthurt in this thread. Woot for parting, what a meteoric rise, can't wait to see him play some more :D

They get to whine. Afterall, all the unwarranted Protoss whine in the past 6 months should be enough to last us until the next century.

Gladiator6

Sweden7024 Posts

January 19 2012 17:22 GMT

#1730

Very glad that two protoss players advanced today!

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

January 19 2012 17:25 GMT

#1731

On January 20 2012 01:45 Eraserhead wrote:

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It baffles me why people still play Protoss, it actually has not a single good matchup. Blizzard is only going to redesign it if people stop playing it.

Really? Haha, I really love offracing playing PvT more than any other MU in the game x_x

Vod.kaholic

United States1052 Posts

January 19 2012 17:34 GMT

#1732

On January 19 2012 22:49 R!! wrote:

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On January 19 2012 22:39 Emperor_Earth wrote:

On January 19 2012 22:31 R!! wrote:

On January 19 2012 22:21 Emperor_Earth wrote:

On January 19 2012 21:47 R!! wrote:

On January 19 2012 21:39 xinxy wrote:
The Terran tears in this thread are pretty delicious I gotta say. I mean there's as many T left in r16 as P and Z combined but that won't stop cries of imbalance apparently. It must be absolute Terran majority for the game to be "balanced".

Except the percentage of protoss players going through is bigger whilst their skill definetely isn't ( 7gate 7gate vray allin, macro game = 20 min without starting +1 armor).

Your words are very rhetorical in nature. You tell one part of the story without telling the whole story. It indicates armchair QB'ing while being a very mediocre skill level. Perhaps you should consider your lack of understanding of even the very fundamentals of gameplay let alone the subtleties before you bash players far better than you.

For example, your "macro gam = 20 min without starting +1 armor) was probably the one where Puzzle cut gas to perform a timing which he recognized would fail. With very limited gas supply he realized that having FF, forcing ghosts and vikings with HT and colossi would be much better use for gas than getting 1/1. So he planned far ahead, going-> HT (unlocks +2 attack via Council to setup colossi later on when he'd have enough gas) while taking greedy expansions to metagame his opponent.

Why HT first? Setup colossi and metagame Keen who likes abusive drop styles. Colossi are not as good w/o feedback + cannons therefore he needs extra minerals and have enough HTs at the right places.

Some basic analysis like this would should be occurring as you watch the game would, you would think, prevent you from posting asinine comments like yours.

Cut the verborragy, do you understand what means 19 min of game time?Puzzle had four, 4 (quatre) bases, he had 100 gas to spare, and btw what do you know of my understanding and who the hell are you to talk down on people? I'm too tired to argue with arrogant douchies, bye.

Again you're not telling the whole story. How many bases did Keen have relatively? What was his army composition relatively speaking? What is his playstyle?

4. Bio centric + medivacs. Drop centric.

Please make a good argument for why 2-1 and having to spread your equally upgraded (pure gateway! because you would rather he be on three bases with gateway units only with all his gas tied up in upgrades via twi council, 0-1, and 2-0) units is preferable to having HTs + cannons at each expo (save 75/assim + mins instead of gas from mining). Oh right. Puzzle is a progamer and actually thought his play out... not from the comfort of observing.

See, with BW, we TL.nets took someone's play and first asked why did they make this and this decision and what can I learn from these players that are much better than me.

Somehow, in SC2 the newcomers flip that around and chide progamers for not playing our style, whether it's macro oriented or harass oriented, upgrade heavy or unit heavy. Then we talk about how these progamers made the wrong decisions and how we know the better ones.

Really? The odds are the progamers know far more than we do and we should be making efforts to see what they see, the decisions they make from much more limited intel.

Yes, his builds are so well thought out and smart that every game I call his build simply based on the map and his lackluster play, the guy tries to hold off incoming 2 rax by chronoing warpgate instead of the gateways, not every progamer's forte is their brain you know.

@R: Really, who do you think you are? -__-
@EE: Way to be the thoughthammer :D

ThatGuy89

United Kingdom1968 Posts

January 19 2012 17:35 GMT

#1733

holy.....what?
i had puzzle down to go through, but whos this parting guy and how the hell did he get through o_0

great to see 2 toss players through though

DarkPlasmaBall

United States43735 Posts

January 19 2012 17:41 GMT

#1734

On January 20 2012 02:21 Chunhyang wrote:

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They get to whine. Afterall, all the unwarranted Protoss whine in the past 6 months should be enough to last us until the next century.

::brain explodes::

You've seen the previous GSL winners/ race distributions and the tournament race winrate graphs before, right? Protoss has had like... one good month, recently... and then Terran adapted to the ghost nerf.

When it's warranted, you'll hear complaining. Let's hope that all races perform well in the future.

Devise

Canada1131 Posts

January 19 2012 17:46 GMT

#1735

On January 20 2012 02:35 ThatGuy89 wrote:
holy.....what?
i had puzzle down to go through, but whos this parting guy and how the hell did he get through o_0

great to see 2 toss players through though

Yea I didn't expect it either, but i'm very glad that it happened that way.

power-overwhelming

Canada306 Posts

January 19 2012 18:01 GMT

#1736

I've already accepted the fact that Protoss will always get the short end of the stick in this forum. They bash the race for being trash and gimmicky. Yet when Protoss players win they find ways to downplay them "cheese, timing attack, all in". Terran on the other hand has done the most 2 rax all ins, bunker rushes, mmm timing attacks. Yet those aren't "cheese" or "all in" because should those attack fail Terran can always wall off ramps and spam mule to get back ahead.

Sein

United States1811 Posts

January 19 2012 18:03 GMT

#1737

Keen goes back to his teamhouse and starts praying again in front of his monitor on which is a rotating collection of 500 Nada photos. His zealous determination will land him back in Code S to be grouped with Nada once again next season.

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

January 19 2012 18:06 GMT

#1738

Didn't get to watch last night....

lol Nada beats Keen again.

Had a feeling both protoss would make it. Surprised Keen got 4th though

Sroobz

United States1377 Posts

January 19 2012 18:16 GMT

#1739

Yayayayayay should we an excited RO16!

Who will Mvp/MMA/MC/NesTea pick? I'm guessing Mvp will take one of the "lesser" Terrans, Alive/GuMiHo. I'm guessing MMA will pick Curious or one of the "lesser" Terrans. I have no clue who MC will take, he's one unpredictable mofo. I'm guessing NesTea will pick Curious or one of the "lesser" Protoss playas.