• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 05:10
CET 11:10
KST 19:10
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational5SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jan 12-18): herO, MaxPax, Solar win0BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion8Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)16Weekly Cups (Dec 29-Jan 4): Protoss rolls, 2v2 returns7
StarCraft 2
General
herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational PhD study /w SC2 - help with a survey! SC2 Spotted on the EWC 2026 list? Starcraft 2 will not be in the Esports World Cup When will we find out if there are more tournament
Tourneys
$70 Prize Pool Ladder Legends Academy Weekly Open! SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament SC2 AI Tournament 2026 $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
[A] Starcraft Sound Mod
External Content
Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone
Brood War
General
Gypsy to Korea BW General Discussion [ASL21] Potential Map Candidates BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10 Small VOD Thread 2.0 Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2
Strategy
Current Meta Simple Questions, Simple Answers Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Game Theory for Starcraft
Other Games
General Games
Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason Awesome Games Done Quick 2026!
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread NASA and the Private Sector
Fan Clubs
The herO Fan Club! The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Navigating the Risks and Rew…
TrAiDoS
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1542 users

Lone Star Clash - $10,000 Invitational in Texas - Page 503

Forum Index > StarCraft 2 Tournaments
10431 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 501 502 503 504 505 522 Next
Qiox
Profile Joined February 2012
Canada36 Posts
March 19 2012 04:23 GMT
#10041
On March 19 2012 13:22 figq wrote:
[image loading]


He said it's because he likes to feel comfortable while he plays.
Ryukku
Profile Joined November 2010
Singapore545 Posts
March 19 2012 04:23 GMT
#10042
Polt so sad... i wonder who he promised T_T....

Polt stayed behind in the comp to watch the replays T_T....

Own up code S polt GOGO
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
March 19 2012 04:23 GMT
#10043
On March 19 2012 13:19 Stanlot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:16 Bagi wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:11 Stanlot wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:09 Bagi wrote:
All these people talking about ghosts, please point out a game where a good terran has successfully used ghosts post-nerf in TvZ.

Thanks.

You can't possibly think that ghosts wouldn't help against this infestor-heavy play

Thats not what I'm asking, I'm asking people to point out games where they have been used. Until then all we have is random forum posters telling players like Polt how to play.

Besides, I find ghosts hard to justify when a tank costs about the same amount, a tank shot does the same damage as a snipe and ghosts now have literally NO other use besides countering infestors.

As they really shouldn't. Any amount of EMP on Stephano's clumped infestors would have greatly mitigated the amount of damage his fungals dealt on all that bio. I'm not saying ghosts would have definitively won Polt that game but those fungals were definitely tearing his marine-heavy army to shreds.

EMP's radius just isn't enough to make it worthwhile at all, even heavily clumped infestors will only let you hit 2 or 3 per EMP tops. Ghosts also take away from other gas units, plus are vulnerable to the techswitches that Stephano loves to pull off. Polt doesn't use ghosts traditionally in his play anyway so it'd be a big risk to try and refine that against a player of the calibre of Stephano
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Warpath
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1242 Posts
March 19 2012 04:23 GMT
#10044
On March 19 2012 13:23 Kenpark wrote:
lol @ that indian dude and his voice


It was pretty amazing haha
Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
March 19 2012 04:23 GMT
#10045
On March 19 2012 13:21 Terranist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:20 vndods wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:19 Canucklehead wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:17 Fionn wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:13 Empirimancer wrote:
Well played by both players, and an excellent tournament!

Makes me question whether Polt really deserves that Code S seed, though. Well, we'll see.




Sorry, but what a stupid comment.

Both are great players. It was a great series. Stephano played better this series, but they're both S class players, in my mind.


It's a valid comment. Polt was code B and got a code s seed. He certainly didn't display code s level play today. He played quite disappointing today. Can't count how many free tanks polt gave away each game or how many times he blew away leads.

It's not a valid comment so say a player isn't Code S quality from a single series. Especially against someone like Stephano.


you also have to take into consideration that polt is seriously jetlagged by 20 hours while stephano spent a full week in texas.


It's not even jetlag. Stephano played great. All seven games between them were insanely close. It's silly to take one series and go, 'Wow, he doesn't deserve the seed because he lost to a great player.' By those standards, we should kick MVP out of the GSL for losing to Demuslim or Nestea losing to Ret.
Writerhttps://twitter.com/FionnOnFire
Femari
Profile Joined June 2011
United States2900 Posts
March 19 2012 04:23 GMT
#10046
On March 19 2012 13:22 SeventhPride wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:20 tomatriedes wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:17 GreyMasta wrote:
wtf is wrong with this thread?

more balance whine than in a BNet forum...


Everytime a non-terran player wins a tournament we see this same level of butthurtness from the terran whiners. It's getting pretty sickening to be honest.

So true, its like they think only terrans should win

Balance whine is in every thread. Terran lose = Terran saying other is OP. Toss lose = Opponent's race OP. Zerg lose = Opponent's race OP.

This always happens regardless of who wins.
Mvp | BoxeR | MarineKing | MC | viOlet | Scarlett | Flash | Bisu | XellOs | Sea | Fantasy | By.Sun
Canucklehead
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada5074 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-19 04:24:24
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10047
On March 19 2012 13:22 Fionn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:19 Canucklehead wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:17 Fionn wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:13 Empirimancer wrote:
Well played by both players, and an excellent tournament!

Makes me question whether Polt really deserves that Code S seed, though. Well, we'll see.




Sorry, but what a stupid comment.

Both are great players. It was a great series. Stephano played better this series, but they're both S class players, in my mind.


It's a valid comment. Polt was code B and got a code s seed. He certainly didn't display code s level play today. He played quite disappointing today. Can't count how many free tanks polt gave away each game or how many times he blew away leads.


So does MVP not deserve Code S because he played awful yesterday against Seal?

Code S players lose all the time. Stephano scouted Polt and played perfectly against him. I mean, who else would you give the Code S seed to?


I'd rather not give out code S seeds at all and would just have players earn it. Players like bomber and losira were code s regulars and both got knocked to code b, with only bomber making it back in this season to code a. It's damn hard to get back to code s once knocked to code b. Polt just got a shortcut with the seed. I'm a polt fan, but he did not play well today at all.
Top 10 favourite pros: MKP, MVP, MC, Nestea, DRG, Jaedong, Flash, Life, Creator, Leenock
EM1
Profile Joined May 2011
United States13 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10048
i feel when your opponent is going 10+infestors you HAVE to at least TRY and get a few EMP's off or you're GOING to lose just like polt showed us. Stephono didn't even play all that great imo.. making shit tons of infestors and clicking F 10 times on Polts army took ZERO skill. Baffles me that Polt let him shit all over his chest with 1 unit. Im not pro or anything so don't try and come @ me bro as this is only my opinion and everyone is entitled to their own.
gds
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Iceland1391 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10049
Excellent tournament, everything was very well done, i really enjoyed watching it, thank you
Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10050
On March 19 2012 13:19 Stanlot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:16 Bagi wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:11 Stanlot wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:09 Bagi wrote:
All these people talking about ghosts, please point out a game where a good terran has successfully used ghosts post-nerf in TvZ.

Thanks.

You can't possibly think that ghosts wouldn't help against this infestor-heavy play

Thats not what I'm asking, I'm asking people to point out games where they have been used. Until then all we have is random forum posters telling players like Polt how to play.

Besides, I find ghosts hard to justify when a tank costs about the same amount, a tank shot does the same damage as a snipe and ghosts now have literally NO other use besides countering infestors.

As they really shouldn't. Any amount of EMP on Stephano's clumped infestors would have greatly mitigated the amount of damage his fungals dealt on all that bio. I'm not saying ghosts would have definitively won Polt that game but those fungals were definitely tearing his marine-heavy army to shreds.

You are lucky to hit 2 infestors with 1 EMP when the radius is so small, snipe is probably more cost effective at countering infestors. But then you compare it to a tank and see even less reason to build a ghost.

When no progamer builds ghosts in TvZ any more, they probably have pretty damn good reasons for it.
Paraiba
Profile Joined March 2011
Brazil217 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10051
On March 19 2012 13:22 johnnywup wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:20 Paraiba wrote:
So I guess Stephano has just surpassed DRG and MKP in earnings.

not drg or mkp, but he did surpass fruitdealer

Oh yeah, my bad. I got this tourney mixed up with MLG Winter, which pays $25k to the champ.
Dagobert
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Netherlands1858 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10052
On March 19 2012 13:21 vndods wrote:
why awards ceremony always awkward T_T

Award ceremony, akward ceremony, awkward ceremony. Seems obvious to me.
Jombozeus
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
China1014 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10053
Glad we got to watch this. This will tie first place in my book of greatest ZvT finals with DRG v MMA.
illsick
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1770 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10054
On March 19 2012 13:20 Moralez wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:14 illsick wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:13 Moralez wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:13 illsick wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:12 Fishgle wrote:
Ok. the USA thing was funny the first time, but now it's kinda rude.


why?

stephano thinks its funny


It's rude to Polt imo.


kind of like how people chant MMA or MVP after they win?

Nah chanting for a nationality is worse than chanting for a name.


what nationality is stephano again?
you live and you learn
JackDT
Profile Joined January 2012
724 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10055
Time for SotG? I hope they really don't have do cast a CSL match...
reapsen
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany559 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10056
LOL, video guys on stage for 1 minute -> stream goes down.
Oboeman
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3980 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10057
beautiful games, thank you stephano and thank you polt.

normally, when you think about it,even in the closest series, there is always at leastone game that is completely one-sided, right?

nope.
Ovreel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States206 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10058
Okay, Polt is adorable. He may be the only terran I like
Keo.837 Twitch.tv/Ovreel
xrapture
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1644 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10059
On March 19 2012 13:22 SeventhPride wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:20 tomatriedes wrote:
On March 19 2012 13:17 GreyMasta wrote:
wtf is wrong with this thread?

more balance whine than in a BNet forum...


Everytime a non-terran player wins a tournament we see this same level of butthurtness from the terran whiners. It's getting pretty sickening to be honest.

So true, its like they think only terrans should win


You understand a foreign Terran hasn't won a major live event in 1.5 years right?
Everyone is either delusional, a nihlilst, or dead from suicide.
TheSwamp
Profile Joined November 2010
United States1497 Posts
March 19 2012 04:24 GMT
#10060
On March 19 2012 13:24 Dagobert wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2012 13:21 vndods wrote:
why awards ceremony always awkward T_T

Award ceremony, akward ceremony, awkward ceremony. Seems obvious to me.


Amazing!
MLG: How is your Protoss? Idra: I make Blink Stalkers, so really, really good.
Prev 1 501 502 503 504 505 522 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
The PondCast
10:00
Episode 78
CranKy Ducklings13
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
SortOf 196
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 1466
actioN 864
Calm 444
EffOrt 162
Mini 154
Hyun 150
Shine 113
JulyZerg 93
BeSt 85
Killer 84
[ Show more ]
Shinee 71
Soma 69
Hm[arnc] 62
Mong 55
Movie 47
Mind 45
Shuttle 40
Snow 36
ToSsGirL 34
zelot 24
hero 24
Sacsri 21
HiyA 21
NotJumperer 18
Bale 18
Sexy 15
GoRush 13
ajuk12(nOOB) 12
Last 12
Dota 2
XcaliburYe97
League of Legends
JimRising 817
Counter-Strike
olofmeister1472
shoxiejesuss995
allub241
Other Games
summit1g6623
ceh9520
Pyrionflax210
XaKoH 180
Mew2King95
QueenE15
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick976
StarCraft: Brood War
Kim Chul Min (afreeca) 210
UltimateBattle 33
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 16 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH222
• LUISG 30
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Laughngamez YouTube
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• iopq 3
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos1101
• Stunt453
Upcoming Events
OSC
50m
Clem vs Cure
ByuN vs TBD
TBD vs Solar
MaxPax vs TBD
Krystianer vs TBD
ShoWTimE vs TBD
Big Brain Bouts
2 days
Serral vs TBD
BSL 21
3 days
BSL 21
4 days
Wardi Open
5 days
Monday Night Weeklies
5 days
WardiTV Invitational
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-01-20
SC2 All-Star Inv. 2025
NA Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
OSC Championship Season 13
Underdog Cup #3
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W5
Acropolis #4 - TS4
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Rongyi Cup S3
Nations Cup 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.