On June 28 2012 05:20 Toadvine wrote: MC is probably going to advance. Of the whole group, he has the most experience winning tournaments and playing under severe pressure. And, more often than not, this is what makes the biggest difference in the GSL. See: Mvp's run last season.
On June 28 2012 20:06 Masvidal wrote: I guess I'll be the bad guy and say it, because I know everyone else is very polite and doesn't want to hurt feelings. I do not like wolf and caldor as casters. I find them sub-competent, I find caldor/kaldor's voice irritating because it's almost impossible to understand for me with the asian accent (which, btw, why the hell does a german have an asian accent?), and stating false facts, making incorrect predictions and predicting things when it's WAY too early to tell, like what build someone is doing when hes at 7 supply, calling gg like 4 times a game. I just don't like them as casters. They are okay for Code A, but they need proper substitutes for Tastosis for Code S if they go elsewhere.
I think Khaldor is good... he really puts the effort in. But Wolf has been pretty shit lately.
Edit: and I loved Wolf when he casted GSL solo ages ago... just lately he's gotten really bad (or my game knowledge has gotten good enough to know when he's really bad).
Seriously, Khaldor is one of the best casters at hte moment. He got so much better since the first time he casted for GOM, and he was already good enough.
On June 28 2012 20:11 Akhee wrote: "mc is not as good as he was before"
-goes to group of death-
-destroys everything-
yeah but they were all just holding against timings and pushes.
They weren't 'just' holding against timings and pushes. I couldn't name another Protoss that would hold as well as MC did the 2nd game, having 6 stalkers and 1 zealot run up your ramp while you have just 5 stalkers and just used warp-ins.
Are you really nitpicking that cast? Wolf and Khaldor (especially Wolf) did an excellent job. They're watching the game just like you, and they're calling things out as they see them, and predicting things as they see them.
God forbid they do their jobs. Please just don't post anymore.
Are you kidding me? Do people predict goals in soccer? Do you hear GOOOAL before the ball actually goes in? Do people predict homeruns before the guy even swings? Get real. Can you not imagine how annoying that would be in those contexts?
You obviously don't watch football then, a lot of them say "this is over for X team" when there is still a few minutes left in extra time and only miracle goals can save them, which happens! surprise surprise.
I watch a lot of English Premiere League. They really DO NOT call games early especially when 1 goal is the difference. They'll just say things are not looking good and blah blah blah. They keep saying how much injury time is left to hype up the ending.
On June 28 2012 20:08 taldarimAltar wrote: since when did pvp get so exciting, nice hold by MC
The only real matchups I really enjoy watching nowadays are TvT and PvP , IMO they are awesome , where as the rest are boring and uninteresting
I agree on the TvT part, and some TvP like late game PartinG vs MKP, but I have no idea how you can like PvP. It is very technical in the sense that, if you get Robotics + Colossus bay and the other guy gets SG you lose, but if he gets DTs you win etc.
And the late game is almost always Colossus wars. I'm still waiting for someone to finally figure out a Void Ray switch for when the other guy gets too many Colossus and too few Stalkers and Archons. Or just have 5-6 VR mixed in, they do huge damage to massive and very good damage to armored.
It happened this GSL before iirc, at least I saw a game lately (could've been TSL qualifiers) where a guy got VoidRays mixed in with a 6vs6 colossi zealot war, he only had like 2-3 voidrays, but they totally owned the shit out of the other guys' army. Was atleast a Korean cast iirc.