Hectic schedule. MLG is on the 23rd and the big names in this tournament are going to be there. It's not a big deal for pro-gamers to play that much, but it means less preparation and a lot of mind games - ie do we play our best strategy in the MSI pro cup two days before MLG?
For viewers, it'll be nice to see these players duke it out before MLG. For the players, it's a tough week.
Yeah, I want to see Alive vs. Stephano more than I want to see Polt vs. Stephano, not because Polt vs. Stephano doesn't give great games, but because Alive's TvZ is different, but just as good, and I want to see how Stephano deals with that.
Lol I thought beeing on millenium Stephano wouldn't get bracket so unfavorable : dimaga in the first round (a ZvZ with one of the best ZvZ in foreign countries), then 2 rounds of korean (polt + probably alive)...
Awesome trailer except that Feast is not from France.
The top of the bracket is more stacked but this way the skill gap is close which means more interesting games. Do you really see a korean smashing a foreigner in every match or would you rather see two very good koreans battling out with each other?
It's "unfair" for them because they won't have as much chance to be in the finals as the foreigners, but in the end winning really counts so they would have to be against a korean / Stephano any way! :D
I wanna see these matches asap, too bad ToD vs I don't remember are not broadcasted tonight.
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Stephano vs. Dimaga first round is le sigh, but with MLG coming up you can't help the brackets. I just don't want to see one of the two best Zergs in the foreigner's scene going out in the first round to a ZvZ, but w/e brackets are brackets.
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
SjoW recently beat Zenio and HerO, 2 code S players. While they aren't Polt, it certainly shows(hoho) that he is capable of beating koreans. Saying "Sjow is Sjow..." is just an insult to his opponents as much as one to himself.
ThorZaIN has a negative score vs Polt, but he can certainly beat him at times. He can beat Stephano too, and HyuN, YuGiOh, Keen etc. The only one I think will be ridiculously difficult is aLive if he is feeling confident. It's not like we're talking big upsets either here, it's not like say...avilo comes and 2-0's Mvp or something.
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
On March 20 2012 23:04 kubiks wrote: Lol I thought beeing on millenium Stephano wouldn't get bracket so unfavorable : dimaga in the first round (a ZvZ with one of the best ZvZ in foreign countries), then 2 rounds of korean (polt + probably alive)...
I was thinking the same thing. You can't accuse Millenium of favoritism, at the very least. Someone else commented, I believe, that it's structured to avoid problems with lag -- so Koreans play Koreans and Stephano's in Polt's side because they're both on the NA server ATM, although I'm not sure why dima is Stephano's first opponent. His zvz is still very strong.
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
When Stephano just started, probably..
No not at all... I don't know how much he practised at the time but he had definatelly played for quite a while. Countrary to popular belief stephano is not god and can't do whatever he likes in an instant. How good he's now have no influence on the past you know.
Nerchio and Stephano used to be mentioned in the same breath and while I was not that attentive to Nerchio, during the course of Stephano's rise I did wonder whether Nerchio was going to do the same since good observers like tree.hugger used to hype him the same way they hyped Stephano and that turned out to be high praise.
Nerchio's time didn't come, but why didn't it come?
On March 21 2012 04:48 Psyclon wrote: Unlike Stephano, Nerchio did not put off his studies and i think this is the reason he is not a mega beast, but just a beast
This and Nerchio sometimes has mentality problems like too much rage after losses and nervousness in offline events. But he is working on these problems and getting better with every day. Even with his part time gaming due to studies, I would not be surprised to see him with a huge breakthrough in the next months.
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
Remember Nerchio is not a full time professional he is stil in school so its not really fair towards Nerchio
On March 20 2012 22:13 Rhaegar_tar wrote: This is a stupid bracket, every player on the upper half would destroy anyone on the lower half...
Guess they won't a Korea/Stephano vs Europe stomp in the finals...
Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
Remember Nerchio is not a full time professional he is stil in school so its not really fair towards Nerchio
Even when Stephano wasnt a full time pro he was better than Nerchio ... Nerchio is good no doubt about it but ...
On March 20 2012 22:20 Elem wrote: [quote]Yes...SjoW, Titan, Feast and Nerchio are all pushovers...
Not to mention ThorZaIN in the ro8s.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
On March 20 2012 22:38 bgx wrote: gogo Steph, Dima, Hyun ^^
edit: oh Dima vs Steph... Hard call, dima has lately bad zvt/zvp but his zvz is on steph level easily
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
Remember Nerchio is not a full time professional he is stil in school so its not really fair towards Nerchio
Even when Stephano wasnt a full time pro he was better than Nerchio ... Nerchio is good no doubt about it but ...
Quite sure Nerchio was the undisputed best Zerg in EU before Stephano switched to fulltime.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
[quote]
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
Remember Nerchio is not a full time professional he is stil in school so its not really fair towards Nerchio
Even when Stephano wasnt a full time pro he was better than Nerchio ... Nerchio is good no doubt about it but ...
Quite sure Nerchio was the undisputed best Zerg in EU before Stephano switched to fulltime.
I think Stephano took that spot during IPL 3, though he was tied at that point with Dimaga and Nerchio for hype. But I didn't know that Nerchio was a part-time student. His time is not going to come until he gets out of school then.
On March 21 2012 05:55 Asymmetric wrote: Dimaga should be a good test for Stephano.
Dimaga's ZvZ has for as long as starcraft 2 has existed been one of the best, if not the strongest, outside of korea.
I actually think the top EU zergs ZvZ is better then most koreans simply becuase of the fact there is not that many zergs in korea and they to busy practise against Terran and Protoss.
Yeah, i mean they can beat people like Stephano, Alive and Polt....
hmm no.
[quote]
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Oh wait, yes they can.
Nerchio lost to Adel last MSIcup, Thorzain is like 2-20 against Polt, stephano and other koreans this year, Sjow is Sjow...
yeah, they are totally top korean level player -_-
It's sad but Nerchio is losing to litterally everyone these days T;T, I see him being smashed every time I look at a weekly cup recap :/. It was funnier when he had great success in weekly cups
He just won the Zotac Monthly Final again, didn't he?
Edit: Nah, Go4SC2 Monthly Final, sorry.
Yeah, but he lost to the likes of Fraer, TITAN 2-0, 3-0, LaZ (??) 1-2, Adelscott 1-2, Jaxx 1-2, Strelok 2-3, Bly 1-2, Honor 1-2, DIMAGA 0-2, ENOTWHYNOT 1-2, monchi 1-2. Basically in the last month and a half, he lost to A LOT of protoss, including random GM / top master (LaZ, Jaxx, ENOTWHYNOT) and some lower tier protoss (monchi, Honor) which is kinda worrying. Basically he did not lost really badly in ZvT / ZvZ but in ZvP he randomly loses to presumably inferior players. I hope that he'll do better in this match-up soon, the time when Stephano & Nerchio dominated EU online cups seems far away.
Yeah, he seem to have regressed a bit the past months. There was a time where you could say he was better than stephano and not be wrong. They took a bit of a different paths from there.
Remember Nerchio is not a full time professional he is stil in school so its not really fair towards Nerchio
Even when Stephano wasnt a full time pro he was better than Nerchio ... Nerchio is good no doubt about it but ...
Quite sure Nerchio was the undisputed best Zerg in EU before Stephano switched to fulltime.
Maybe you re thinking that because Nerchio plays Zotacs+Go4Sc2 which made him more known.
Wow it could be another Stephano vs Polt series... DIMAGA I love you but I really want to see if Polt did already change his style even though their last bo5 was just 3 days ago.
Nerchio was the best zerg (ans maybe player) in europe before stephano went full-time comited into sc2. But keep in minf Nerchio is a stephano like kind of player, he doesn't play alot and he mainly does online cups, not ladder because he likes to have a goal when he plays. If he was a full time professional gamer like stephano there's no doubt he would have became the other foreign beast.
stephano is forfeit. hes going to eat but he knew he had the cup to play (he was streaming and was chating with his manager between his ladder's games) what a douche move there -____-
Bly is usually playing muta / ling / bane style and a very good one as well. Polt isn't the best against that style, will be entertaining I think. I still think Polt is better than Bly.
Hmm... For viewers that's a bad decision by Stephano, but for himself it's not too bad - he'll get to dodge Polt in MSI meaning if he faces him again in MLG, Polt won't have the benefit of being able to test his builds here.
I got a feeling Stephano dont really want to play Polt right now maybe he dont want Polt to get to much training vs Stephano new style considering we got MLG and UPL 4 comming up where they could meet eachother.
Owell lest see if Bly can do anything against the mighty Polt
On March 21 2012 06:56 Azarkon wrote: Hmm... For viewers that's a bad decision by Stephano, but for himself it's not too bad - he'll get to dodge Polt in MSI meaning if he faces him again in MLG, Polt won't have the benefit of being able to test his builds here.
On March 21 2012 07:00 Morrisson wrote: only a 700€ cup, not showing Polt his moves, makes sense.
? he played him 2 days ago its not like he has some new crazy build...
Nah, but maybe his old crazy builds still has 1 more win left in them, better to go for that at a bigger tournament. After all the best practice when you are about to face Stephano is to play Stephano.
Well it seems he didnt have enough larva at one point when he had 2k/2k and wasnt 200/200 and his army had too few infestors i feel. Ultras are nice its true but >10 is too much imo
On March 21 2012 07:20 Hikari wrote: bly could have killed Polt so many times... Then Polt just chip Bly away, with Bly donating his main and that final grp of 9 mutas... -_-
Polt killed all his tech but lost his army, i dont get why he decided it was a good idea to wait it out when he knew his opponent had all his tech
On March 21 2012 07:20 Hikari wrote: bly could have killed Polt so many times... Then Polt just chip Bly away, with Bly donating his main and that final grp of 9 mutas... -_-
I seen it a million times Polt refuses to die when you think all hope are gone. The man are insane
On March 21 2012 07:20 Hikari wrote: bly could have killed Polt so many times... Then Polt just chip Bly away, with Bly donating his main and that final grp of 9 mutas... -_-
I seen it a million times Polt refuses to die when you think all hope are gone. The man are insane
Stephano and Polt truly are rivals because that's how I'd describe Stephano's playstyle as well.
Polt played the game as smart as he could have, but when he usually is insanely prepared and good for example against Stephano he didn't impress me too much against Bly. It really was Bly's game to lose and after the first engagement he seemed to stubborn to switch to broodlords even though he still had superior army and upgrades. Polt would have lost against those broodlords....
Keen vs. Polt should be good, but I think Polt can make it to another final to face Thorzain. Weird that Stephano couldn't play since I thought Polt/Stephano were staying at the Lone Star ouse until Columbus.
On March 21 2012 07:20 Hikari wrote: bly could have killed Polt so many times... Then Polt just chip Bly away, with Bly donating his main and that final grp of 9 mutas... -_-
I seen it a million times Polt refuses to die when you think all hope are gone. The man are insane
Stephano and Polt truly are rivals because that's how I'd describe Stephano's playstyle as well.
On March 21 2012 07:32 Fionn wrote: Keen vs. Polt should be good, but I think Polt can make it to another final to face Thorzain. Weird that Stephano couldn't play since I thought Polt/Stephano were staying at the Lone Star ouse until Columbus.
He is but Bling is there now so im sure they are getting in trouble lol
On March 21 2012 07:32 Fionn wrote: Keen vs. Polt should be good, but I think Polt can make it to another final to face Thorzain. Weird that Stephano couldn't play since I thought Polt/Stephano were staying at the Lone Star ouse until Columbus.
Stephano doesn't want to show his builds to Polt or fears him imo. Gogo ThorZain, ToD and Polt
On March 21 2012 07:26 Type|NarutO wrote: Polt played the game as smart as he could have, but when he usually is insanely prepared and good for example against Stephano he didn't impress me too much against Bly. It really was Bly's game to lose and after the first engagement he seemed to stubborn to switch to broodlords even though he still had superior army and upgrades. Polt would have lost against those broodlords....
I would say he needs more differend builds in TvZ, he plays alot of the same these days.
On March 21 2012 07:32 Fionn wrote: Keen vs. Polt should be good, but I think Polt can make it to another final to face Thorzain. Weird that Stephano couldn't play since I thought Polt/Stephano were staying at the Lone Star ouse until Columbus.
When Stephano doesn't want to play, he doesn't play. It isn't an inability to play - he was playing ladder for hours before the MSI Cup.
He's a recent HS graduate. He's young, impulsive, and irresponsible. He's also humorous, talented, and awesome at SC 2. That's Stephano.
On March 21 2012 07:32 Fionn wrote: Keen vs. Polt should be good, but I think Polt can make it to another final to face Thorzain. Weird that Stephano couldn't play since I thought Polt/Stephano were staying at the Lone Star ouse until Columbus.
When Stephano doesn't want to play, he doesn't play. It isn't an inability to play - he was playing ladder for hours before the MSI Cup.
He's a recent HS graduate. He's young, impulsive, and irresponsible. He's also humorous, talented, and awesome at SC 2. That's Stephano.
...and has good taste in music. But I have to say it is just weird, as he was playing on ladder and communicating that he was going to participate untill 10 minutes before his match. His stream went offline, I got myself some soda and came back to Bly vs Polt :D
On March 21 2012 07:32 Fionn wrote: Keen vs. Polt should be good, but I think Polt can make it to another final to face Thorzain. Weird that Stephano couldn't play since I thought Polt/Stephano were staying at the Lone Star ouse until Columbus.
When Stephano doesn't want to play, he doesn't play. It isn't an inability to play - he was playing ladder for hours before the MSI Cup.
He's a recent HS graduate. He's young, impulsive, and irresponsible. He's also humorous, talented, and awesome at SC 2. That's Stephano.
...and has good taste in music. But I have to say it is just weird, as he was playing on ladder and communicating that he was going to participate untill 10 minutes before his match. His stream went offline, I got myself some soda and came back to Bly vs Polt :D
Well we should not forget that Stephanos match was long overdue. He waited quite a long time for Dimaga.
I guess in the end the games against Bly and Polt did not fit in his schedule anymore.
-Stephano was suposed to play against Dimaga. -Dimaga didn't show up -Stephano thought he had the free win. -LLewelys took in fact Bly as a substitute. -In the mean time, Stephano had left.
On March 21 2012 07:08 Sea_aeS wrote: I feel that BLy could have raped Polt ~~
It feels like it's Stephano playing and not Bly...
Bly copied exactly stephano's build on antiga : roach baneling bust into 3rd hatch into ling baneling ultras mass upgrades into bloodlord. He almost won but made a few bad decision and that was it ! Too bad though he played well !
I am a bit surprised that the general opinion about Bly is so bad on TL. Bly is a monster and one of the best Zerg out of Korea right now. He obviously lost his mindset in the first game there, but it's not like he couldn't beat Polt. In fact, of eleven games they played against each other so far, Bly won six. That means in direct comparison Bly is even better against Polt than Stephano (10 of 22 maps).
Bly plays very creative and it's always very entertaininng to watch him. I can't tell why he would be overshadowed so much by Stephano (one guy here didn't even know his name).
On March 21 2012 20:26 regiment wrote: I am a bit surprised that the general opinion about Bly is so bad on TL. Bly is a monster and one of the best Zerg out of Korea right now. He obviously lost his mindset in the first game there, but it's not like he couldn't beat Polt. In fact, of eleven games they played against each other so far, Bly won six. That means in direct comparison Bly is even better against Polt than Stephano (10 of 22 maps).
Bly plays very creative and it's always very entertaininng to watch him. I can't tell why he would be overshadowed so much by Stephano (one guy here didn't even know his name).
Cause playing vs Bly is like playing vs Goody, just in Zerg form.
Edit: Not to mention that he has a reputation of being BM as hell at times which causes people to rate him lower than he actually is.
On March 21 2012 20:26 regiment wrote: I am a bit surprised that the general opinion about Bly is so bad on TL. Bly is a monster and one of the best Zerg out of Korea right now. He obviously lost his mindset in the first game there, but it's not like he couldn't beat Polt. In fact, of eleven games they played against each other so far, Bly won six. That means in direct comparison Bly is even better against Polt than Stephano (10 of 22 maps).
Bly plays very creative and it's always very entertaininng to watch him. I can't tell why he would be overshadowed so much by Stephano (one guy here didn't even know his name).
Cause playing vs Bly is like playing vs Goody, just in Zerg form.
Edit: Not to mention that he has a reputation of being BM as hell at times which causes people to rate him lower than he actually is.
Stephano isn't that respectful also (especially not against tournament organizers); IdrA is the complete boss of BM and yet he has a huge fanbase (even bigger than he would get by playing), so has Destiny. Bly isn't that big of a flamer though. He flames once in a while, but there are far worse people.
I don't get the GoOdy comment, though. Neither does Bly play passive (absolutely not), nor does he prefer specific units extremely or long games.
On March 21 2012 12:42 Dekkers wrote: If i understood well:
-Stephano was suposed to play against Dimaga. -Dimaga didn't show up -Stephano thought he had the free win. -LLewelys took in fact Bly as a substitute. -In the mean time, Stephano had left.
Why did he leave if they were going to play the quarter finals afterwards?
On March 21 2012 12:42 Dekkers wrote: If i understood well:
-Stephano was suposed to play against Dimaga. -Dimaga didn't show up -Stephano thought he had the free win. -LLewelys took in fact Bly as a substitute. -In the mean time, Stephano had left.
Why did he leave if they were going to play the quarter finals afterwards?
he was probally back by then but allready had been given the def.loss
On March 21 2012 20:26 regiment wrote: I am a bit surprised that the general opinion about Bly is so bad on TL. Bly is a monster and one of the best Zerg out of Korea right now. He obviously lost his mindset in the first game there, but it's not like he couldn't beat Polt. In fact, of eleven games they played against each other so far, Bly won six. That means in direct comparison Bly is even better against Polt than Stephano (10 of 22 maps).
Bly plays very creative and it's always very entertaininng to watch him. I can't tell why he would be overshadowed so much by Stephano (one guy here didn't even know his name).
I'm pretty sure that Bly would not take a map (okay maybe he is quite allinish lol) if it was not played on cross server.
On March 21 2012 20:26 regiment wrote: I am a bit surprised that the general opinion about Bly is so bad on TL. Bly is a monster and one of the best Zerg out of Korea right now. He obviously lost his mindset in the first game there, but it's not like he couldn't beat Polt. In fact, of eleven games they played against each other so far, Bly won six. That means in direct comparison Bly is even better against Polt than Stephano (10 of 22 maps).
Bly plays very creative and it's always very entertaininng to watch him. I can't tell why he would be overshadowed so much by Stephano (one guy here didn't even know his name).
I'm pretty sure that Bly would not take a map (okay maybe he is quite allinish lol) if it was not played on cross server.
From the ten maps they played on the european server, Stephano won only four (three of them in one Bo5). That's roughly on Blys level. Why would you think Bly can't beat Polt on the same server but Stephano - with an even score on homeserver vs Polt - can?
On March 21 2012 20:26 regiment wrote: I am a bit surprised that the general opinion about Bly is so bad on TL. Bly is a monster and one of the best Zerg out of Korea right now. He obviously lost his mindset in the first game there, but it's not like he couldn't beat Polt. In fact, of eleven games they played against each other so far, Bly won six. That means in direct comparison Bly is even better against Polt than Stephano (10 of 22 maps).
Bly plays very creative and it's always very entertaininng to watch him. I can't tell why he would be overshadowed so much by Stephano (one guy here didn't even know his name).
I'm pretty sure that Bly would not take a map (okay maybe he is quite allinish lol) if it was not played on cross server.
From the ten maps they played on the european server, Stephano won only four (three of them in one Bo5). That's roughly on Blys level. Why would you think Bly can't beat Polt on the same server but Stephano - with an even score on homeserver vs Polt - can?
So yeah, I would take that bet.
Match scores do not work that way. Before Lone Star, Polt destroyed Stephano - he had Stephano's number and was the favorite each time they met. But come Lone Star, Stephano switched up his style, and he comes out 5-2 vs. Polt. Stylistically, this match up is reset - I don't know who's going to win if they meet in MLG.
Bly, meanwhile, did well vs. Polt in the past, but looking at his play, he hasn't figured Polt out. Stephano, for the time being, has Polt figured out, but we do have to see how Polt responds next time they meet.
Long time before Stephano, Nerchio was the best EU player for sure, for long time he was unbeatable, he could win even 6 coups in one week. He's ZvZ was like 80% win. That was from march to september 2011 I guess.
I remember Nerchio's IPL2 Losers Brackets, that was fucking amazing:
Hmmmm what ? I look away for a minute when TZain is 60 supply ahead, and back from the toilets, Keen is winning the game 30supply ahead ? >< What happened ?
On March 30 2012 04:59 Whoranzone wrote: I guess he's pretty decent at tvt currently -_-
He shows flashes. Most of the time in online tournaments Keen can turn it on and stomp players like MMA, Polt, Bomber, etc., but when he's in the GSL, he heavily under preforms.
Second MSI cup that's not won by either Stephano or Polt. Thorzain has a 5-long silver streak. Neither Stephano nor Polt ever ended up in second place.
The MSI Pro Cup has the cutest bits of useless trivia I've ever seen for a tournament.
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