On March 25 2012 07:50 mango_destroyer wrote: wow stephano.....his unbeatable aura has been wore off this tournament.
Only foreigners considered stephano unbeatable. There's a reason he normally avoids the tourneys with most koreans in it. It's easier for him and helps his rep. Beating grubby and whitera 15 times all day does not mean he has unbeatable zvp. Stephano is good and probably best foreigner, but he's no where close to the level of hype he's built himself by playing against inferior competition mostly.
This pretty much sums up my opinion on Stephano perfectly.... Guy is obviously good, but people hyping him up as best ZvP in the world, code S etc. is just silly..... the hardest opponent he has beaten for his championships is polt. Now Polt is good too, but he's just another GSL average Terran imo...
He's also beaten MKP, DRG and so many more. He has the best winrate against top Koreans by far among the foreigners. The hype is there for a reason.
On March 25 2012 07:59 svi wrote: stephano is an example of pure hype.
he gets stupid amounts of credit for beating players like white-ra, who isn't even a top 15 protoss.
He gets credit for winning IPL3, ESWC(where he made MKP look silly for example) and Lone star thingie along with many online tournaments, he is a really good player. Not a favourite to win Code S, not the best zerg in the world but the best foreigner.
On March 25 2012 07:58 bikefrog wrote: Not a single foreigner looking convincing this MLG. How depressing.
Huk looks okay, not amazing but solid enough to take 1st in his group.
Well, Heart has to lose both his games now if HuK wants to reach #1...
jup, not gonna happen. I dont know how good Ret is playing today but if he plays like yesterday he has no chance. I think Heart is going to 5-0 this....
On March 25 2012 07:50 mango_destroyer wrote: wow stephano.....his unbeatable aura has been wore off this tournament.
Only foreigners considered stephano unbeatable. There's a reason he normally avoids the tourneys with most koreans in it. It's easier for him and helps his rep. Beating grubby and whitera 15 times all day does not mean he has unbeatable zvp. Stephano is good and probably best foreigner, but he's no where close to the level of hype he's built himself by playing against inferior competition mostly.
This pretty much sums up my opinion on Stephano perfectly.... Guy is obviously good, but people hyping him up as best ZvP in the world, code S etc. is just silly..... the hardest opponent he has beaten for his championships is polt. Now Polt is good too, but he's just another GSL average Terran imo...
Hype train is pretty crazy, but stephano is really good, I saw him split 30 lings to kill about 12 hellions earlier today losing maybe 15 lings so it was pretty nuts off creep too
I think perhaps his stamina isn't very high and he can't make it through the gauntlet of good players that is MLG
Not much stamina needed today. Stephano only had to play 3 bo3 today and 2 of them vs non pros.
On March 25 2012 07:56 KristofferAG wrote: Is Crazymoving on Infinity Seven?
correct. They just picked him up recently. CodeA player. He crushed took out sase and while watching his screen live his APM was probably as fast as DRG and mechanics are 100%.
Infinity Seven picked up CrazyMoviNG before he was Code A, but recently picked up Axslav.
I see lots of talk about Polt, Stephano, Inori and some other players... and they're not in group play? Looking from liquipedia. There are players who have qualified from the open bracket, is there additional people yet to enter the groups or something?
On March 25 2012 07:50 mango_destroyer wrote: wow stephano.....his unbeatable aura has been wore off this tournament.
Only foreigners considered stephano unbeatable. There's a reason he normally avoids the tourneys with most koreans in it. It's easier for him and helps his rep. Beating grubby and whitera 15 times all day does not mean he has unbeatable zvp. Stephano is good and probably best foreigner, but he's no where close to the level of hype he's built himself by playing against inferior competition mostly.
This pretty much sums up my opinion on Stephano perfectly.... Guy is obviously good, but people hyping him up as best ZvP in the world, code S etc. is just silly..... the hardest opponent he has beaten for his championships is polt. Now Polt is good too, but he's just another GSL average Terran imo...
GSL average Terran who has won a GSL? How is a GSL winner just average?
Did MLG massively improve their game observers or what? They finally have an observer doing GSL-type stuff like highlighting unresearched tech on tech buildings, etc.
On March 25 2012 08:01 SkyTheUnknown wrote: Crazymoving defending this cannonrush nicely. Love it when one of these dumb cannon-attemps gets crushed. Even when it is done by MC.
Zerg should be able to open hatch first every game without worry!