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crms
United States11933 Posts
On February 01 2012 00:49 Mohdoo wrote: First Tyler, now HuK. I wonder if a lot of SC2 teams see LoL as a better career path or something  it just hurts my being that they play LoL.. if you're going to change it up, dota2 please. :[ | ||
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Native
Poland105 Posts
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xXFireandIceXx
Canada4296 Posts
On February 01 2012 01:46 Native wrote: Idra good as allways XD remember, a zerg can't beat protoss XD. but srsly i expected huk to do much better | ||
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UNeeK
United States237 Posts
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silverstyle
Singapore1108 Posts
On February 01 2012 01:10 Sapphire.lux wrote: He did. "Surprised at his bad showing today" I'm talking about this. Some of the foreign players are extremely over-rated, IMO. Every time Idra looses a games we get masses of whiners making all sort of excuses, similar for Huk, and others. I hate this "make yourself marketable" taking priority over quality/ skill. If this is the trend the foreign scene is taking, i would rather there not being a foreign scene at all. I'm not ranting against the players here, more against their teams and managers. Sorry for the rant though. People defending their favourite players is only normal. I dont think either of them make themselves very marketable. It certainly does not take precedence over performance in games. I think the players themselves know this more than anything. In fact, I think this is a problem e-Sports in general faces, I believe this sentiment is also shared by a couple of people as this has been discuss on SoTG before. HuK and Idra are gonna have fans, Idra espeically since he came from abit of a BW background. They are two very dominant player or have been very dominant in the past. Becuase of that they will naturally have lots of fans. Are you familiar with soccer? There are many teams that have been dominant in the past. Take Arsenal for example, they arent doing all that well at the moment. Does that mean that people should stop supporting Arsenal? No, I dont thin so. The same can be said with all the other smaller teams. The same can also be said for SC2 players. As for the opinion that foreigners are overrated. I guess, to each his own, it depends on whos rating then. For fans of HuK, his GSL performance might be evidence enough that he should succeed. He has made 1 Ro8 and a couple of Ro16s and whatnot, which leads people to believe that he does have the potential to do better. Anything less and it will be an underperformance. However, one could easily also say that the past is no indication of the future. What I'm trying to say is that you have a valid point. But ranting does not change anything, neither will it change the way people on TL act. Most teams/managers are the reason why people can play this game for a living, there is no point shitting on them. | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
On February 01 2012 00:56 LlamaNamedOsama wrote: What are you talking about, Huk earned his way to Code S...Surprised at his bad showing today. Well, HuK's never been good by Korean standards.He's just the best foreigner we have, but his GSL win% is worse than even players like Ensnare and FD (and by more than 5%), even though we like to make fun of those players for being shitty. He was just helped by the Code S bottleneck for the longest fucking time. As a comparison, other GSL-level Protoss players and their records in Korea: Squirtle: 61.05% (A) MC: 60.69% (S) *Parting: 59.09% (S) Puzzle: 58.78% (S) *Brown: 57.14% (S-->A) Oz: 54.41% (S) InCa: 53.76% (S-->A) Genius: 52.94% (S) JYP: 51.09% (S-->A) Alicia: 49.18% (A) Killer: 49.07% (A) *Seed: 47.37% (A) Tassadar: 47.01% (A) cOre: 46.55% (A-->B) HuK: 45.21% (A-->B) Ace: 39.71% (A) *Avenge: 37.50% (A) HerO: 36.59% (A) *Lure: 0% (A-->B) Look at how many of those we like to make fun of and tell me seriously that HuK's better than them. Stars indicate those without significant amount of games played. I'm really surprised at Squirtle's win%, actually; I know he's only just recently made it back to Code A, but even so, as someone who's commonly played in teamleagues and participates against (at the very least) other Code A level players in the Weekly and such, that's pretty ... surprising. | ||
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Yaki
France4234 Posts
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Seiferz
United States640 Posts
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mordk
Chile8385 Posts
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aintz
Canada5624 Posts
On February 01 2012 01:45 crms wrote: it just hurts my being that they play LoL.. if you're going to change it up, dota2 please. :[ i guess they are switching over because LoL is alot less stressful to play than sc2. and if they get paid the same who wouldnt want to play the game thats easier and less stressful. | ||
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
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SeaSwift
Scotland4486 Posts
On February 01 2012 02:02 aintz wrote: i guess they are switching over because LoL is alot less stressful to play than sc2. and if they get paid the same who wouldnt want to play the game thats easier and less stressful. Ya, quite simply team games are far less stressful. That's why newbies like playing 2v2s upwards but get scared at the sight of the 1v1 Find Match button. Same reason why games like DotA and Tf2/other FPS team games are so popular, because there's less stress/pressure and more casual teamwork. | ||
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b0rt_
Norway931 Posts
On February 01 2012 01:50 xXFireandIceXx wrote: remember, a zerg can't beat protoss XD. but srsly i expected huk to do much better I don't see why myself. HuK's not been on Code S or A form for a while. Hope he can improve. | ||
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Salteador Neo
Andorra5591 Posts
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kyllinghest
Norway1607 Posts
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iky43210
United States2099 Posts
On February 01 2012 01:45 crms wrote: it just hurts my being that they play LoL.. if you're going to change it up, dota2 please. :[ they are still human beings, they like to play fun games. LoL is a much worse game right now to play serious in. No tourneys, and very small price pool. There is almost no way to make yourself known too without joining a big team because there are no open tourneys, every tourney is invite only | ||
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HigoSeco
Chile232 Posts
Idra on the other hand played awful and his opponent didn't do anything amazing either. He probably got tilted after losing to that 2 base timing in the first set, beacuse his decision to go mutas in the second game was really weird. | ||
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
IdrA TT; | ||
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00Visor
4337 Posts
On February 01 2012 02:20 Salteador Neo wrote: HuK lost one map by playing PvZ against mutas. Being 0-1 by default kinda hurts. So Huk lost PvZ because of mutas And Idra lost ZvP because it's too hard matchup for zerg (and he was going mutas) | ||
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sitromit
7051 Posts
On February 01 2012 02:20 Salteador Neo wrote: HuK lost one map by playing PvZ against mutas. Being 0-1 by default kinda hurts. LOL!! He had no problem winning the 1st map against Mutas by turtling hard enough, then pushing out with his deathball. The Muta whining is beginning to get really obnoxious at this point, since there are plenty of examples of people winning against Mutas, including some games played today!! | ||
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