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TheBB
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Switzerland5133 Posts
July 05 2012 15:26 GMT
#2901
On July 05 2012 23:13 Thrombozyt wrote:
STANDARD PLAY by definition can defend all-ins.

It means no such thing.
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AngryFarmer
Profile Joined June 2011
United States560 Posts
July 05 2012 15:28 GMT
#2902
On July 06 2012 00:11 SeaSwift wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 06 2012 00:00 Greggle wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:53 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:45 Greggle wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:23 Orek wrote:
Well, who cares if Terran is suffering for 2 months after patch.
Zerg suffered waaaay longer when the game came out.
Game was new? Doesn't matter.
If Terran continue to suffer for 6 more months, I consider it legidimate.
When Terran finally understands how Zerg felt in those times, then Zerg can reach out to Terran. Until then...


I don't think it was as bad as you say at release, Zerg did win the first two GSL open seasons.

Mm, sure... but I would be remiss to not point out that (like I've probably said during a few times when terrans were dominating), Fruitdealer in GSL 1, and Nestea in GSL 2... were simply better than all their opponents.

Fruitdealer SHOULD have lost to TOP, but after he came through that by some miracle, well, he was much better than Rainbow, that's for sure (not a diss to rainbow, just that rainbow was kind of a surprise to have even made it that far).

Nestea vs MarineKing was a pretty damn close final between two good players, with Nestea having far more experience than Marineking who was pretty green still then.

So yeah, it probably was really that bad honestly - you had close spawn metal and shakuras, you could get bunker or pylon blocked by 2 bunkers on every map..... It was pretty sad lol, zergs probably won mostly because not many people actually knew how to play a normal game since they spent 90% of their time cheesing.


I guess its hard to really analyze the game at that rather sad, cheesy and infant state. I'll concede here since I honestly can't come close to recounting those matches as well as that from nearly two years ago.

I do think MarineKing was pretty much even skill-wise at the time, but I can't complain about him getting second in that case.

I do think Zerg results overall has been pretty good for their representation though.


Given that 3 of the Zerg GSLs were won by 1 person, 4 of the Terran GSLs by one person and both of the Protoss GSLs were by one person, I don't think balance has really changed the representation of wins of Code S.

I think everyone would agree that Fruitdealer, Nestea and DRG all deserved their championships. Likewise, MVP was certainly deserving of all of his and only the staunchest of haters will deny that MC deserved his too.

As for the Terran one-hit-wonder Championships Polt and Jjakji, that is arguable. I think Jjakji got his purely because he was very lucky with the format - he played Oz in the semifinals instead of fucking MVP in a TvT. He still deserved it, but I definitely wouldn't put it down to race balance. As for the Super Championship... I have no idea.


Polt also really deserved his win. His bracket was tough as hell(at the time those players were really good) and he made it through really clean. I'm also a major fan boy so felt the need to put it out there
Coolness53
Profile Joined April 2010
United States668 Posts
July 05 2012 15:29 GMT
#2903
DRG! I liked the video for DRG.
Fruitdealer, DongRaeGu, and Soulkey
onPHYRE
Profile Joined October 2010
Bulgaria923 Posts
July 05 2012 15:34 GMT
#2904
On July 06 2012 00:26 TheBB wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2012 23:13 Thrombozyt wrote:
STANDARD PLAY by definition can defend all-ins.

It means no such thing.


I think what he means is by the definition of the 3 styles: All-in>Greedy>Standard>All-in
Livin' this life like it was written.
SeaSwift
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Scotland4486 Posts
July 05 2012 15:37 GMT
#2905
On July 06 2012 00:34 onPHYRE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 06 2012 00:26 TheBB wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:13 Thrombozyt wrote:
STANDARD PLAY by definition can defend all-ins.

It means no such thing.


I think what he means is by the definition of the 3 styles: All-in>Greedy>Standard>All-in


I think the term "standard" here should be replaced by the term "safe", just to be clear.

"Standard" really just refers to what is normal at the moment. If everybody is greedy, that doesn't mean it can defend an all-in, but it does make it "standard".
onPHYRE
Profile Joined October 2010
Bulgaria923 Posts
July 05 2012 15:39 GMT
#2906
On July 06 2012 00:37 SeaSwift wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 06 2012 00:34 onPHYRE wrote:
On July 06 2012 00:26 TheBB wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:13 Thrombozyt wrote:
STANDARD PLAY by definition can defend all-ins.

It means no such thing.


I think what he means is by the definition of the 3 styles: All-in>Greedy>Standard>All-in


I think the term "standard" here should be replaced by the term "safe", just to be clear.

"Standard" really just refers to what is normal at the moment. If everybody is greedy, that doesn't mean it can defend an all-in, but it does make it "standard".


Agreed, I think over the course of BW and most of sc2, people have associated those two terms together, since usually "safe" was the standard way to do things, and anything greedy or all-inish was a deviation from the norm.
Livin' this life like it was written.
yokohama
Profile Joined February 2005
United States1116 Posts
July 05 2012 15:43 GMT
#2907
so is it going to be drg vs naniwa ro8?
Greggle
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1131 Posts
July 05 2012 15:46 GMT
#2908
On July 06 2012 00:43 yokohama wrote:
so is it going to be drg vs naniwa ro8?


Yes.
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
July 05 2012 15:48 GMT
#2909
grats to drg and nestea!
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Orek
Profile Joined February 2012
1665 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-05 15:52:28
July 05 2012 15:50 GMT
#2910
On July 06 2012 00:11 SeaSwift wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 06 2012 00:00 Greggle wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:53 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:45 Greggle wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:23 Orek wrote:
Well, who cares if Terran is suffering for 2 months after patch.
Zerg suffered waaaay longer when the game came out.
Game was new? Doesn't matter.
If Terran continue to suffer for 6 more months, I consider it legidimate.
When Terran finally understands how Zerg felt in those times, then Zerg can reach out to Terran. Until then...


I don't think it was as bad as you say at release, Zerg did win the first two GSL open seasons.

Mm, sure... but I would be remiss to not point out that (like I've probably said during a few times when terrans were dominating), Fruitdealer in GSL 1, and Nestea in GSL 2... were simply better than all their opponents.

Fruitdealer SHOULD have lost to TOP, but after he came through that by some miracle, well, he was much better than Rainbow, that's for sure (not a diss to rainbow, just that rainbow was kind of a surprise to have even made it that far).

Nestea vs MarineKing was a pretty damn close final between two good players, with Nestea having far more experience than Marineking who was pretty green still then.

So yeah, it probably was really that bad honestly - you had close spawn metal and shakuras, you could get bunker or pylon blocked by 2 bunkers on every map..... It was pretty sad lol, zergs probably won mostly because not many people actually knew how to play a normal game since they spent 90% of their time cheesing.


I guess its hard to really analyze the game at that rather sad, cheesy and infant state. I'll concede here since I honestly can't come close to recounting those matches as well as that from nearly two years ago.

I do think MarineKing was pretty much even skill-wise at the time, but I can't complain about him getting second in that case.

I do think Zerg results overall has been pretty good for their representation though.


Given that 3 of the Zerg GSLs were won by 1 person, 4 of the Terran GSLs by one person and both of the Protoss GSLs were by one person, I don't think balance has really changed the representation of wins of Code S.

I think everyone would agree that Fruitdealer, Nestea and DRG all deserved their championships. Likewise, MVP was certainly deserving of all of his and only the staunchest of haters will deny that MC deserved his too.

As for the Terran one-hit-wonder Championships Polt and Jjakji, that is arguable. I think Jjakji got his purely because he was very lucky with the format - he played Oz in the semifinals instead of fucking MVP in a TvT. He still deserved it, but I definitely wouldn't put it down to race balance. As for the Super Championship... I have no idea.


Wow, never thought many people, including Jinro himself, would comment on something I wrote somewhat on a whim with half-joke.
Terran is suffering in TvZ today for sure. What I meant is that it may be too early to conclude that it is really imbalance. Overall, Terran had had success in the scene for long time, especially up until ghost nerf. Therefore, I feel Terran did not have to explore different styles as much as Zerg had to. I am not blaming Terran for being lazy, but when a style is successful at the moment, players as a whole are reluctant to put time into exploring other styles no matter what race you play. So, let's just see what Terran will come up with in the next several months. If nothing seems to be working even after several months of serious trial and error by pro players, then it probably is imbalance. It took about 1 year for Zerg players to realize that mutalisk could not do enough economic damage vs decent Terran and switched to infestor. Metagame changed, players improved during that time for sure, but still finding new styles take time.
Durp
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada3117 Posts
July 05 2012 15:51 GMT
#2911
After watching game 1 between Ryung and DRG I was so happy to see a terran play like that.
Unfortunately, I have nowhere near the skill to pull that play off and will probably continue to lose every TvZ that goes to 4 bases
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
July 05 2012 15:59 GMT
#2912
On July 06 2012 00:51 Durp wrote:
After watching game 1 between Ryung and DRG I was so happy to see a terran play like that.
Unfortunately, I have nowhere near the skill to pull that play off and will probably continue to lose every TvZ that goes to 4 bases


To be honest I think DRG had a big hand in losing that, going BL on the worst map to go BL on (wide open with no cliffs/ravines/spaces, expos towards the side and not towards opponent, largest map in the pool) and clumping so bad and having all his precious units explode. Fungal has range 9 while Seeker Missile has range 6, so there was no way those Ravens should have gotten those bombs on the Infestors.
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Ksquared
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1748 Posts
July 05 2012 16:25 GMT
#2913
Considering Naniwa's PvZ record in Korea is a flat 0% I'm going to have to give the edge to DRG
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andaylin
Profile Joined August 2010
United States10830 Posts
July 05 2012 16:28 GMT
#2914
Ahh TvZ~ congrats to drg and nestea anyway
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Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5357 Posts
July 05 2012 16:29 GMT
#2915
Nestea is sooo overrated, right guys?
¯\_(シ)_/¯
Forikorder
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada8840 Posts
July 05 2012 16:38 GMT
#2916
On July 06 2012 01:29 Whatson wrote:
Nestea is sooo overrated, right guys?

and hes in such a slump hell never get past Ro16
HappyTimePANDA
Profile Joined March 2012
United States167 Posts
July 05 2012 17:12 GMT
#2917
Be glad Nestea won, so that we are all still alive lol

but DRG was DRG today and Nestea was solid.. even though SuperNOva was playing with nerves the whole day. Ryung looked good the first game then the others looked better.
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Wein
Profile Joined March 2011
Brazil452 Posts
July 05 2012 17:35 GMT
#2918
Insane game 1!
Darksoldierr
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary2012 Posts
July 05 2012 17:53 GMT
#2919
yay zerg day
What do humans know of our pain? We have sung songs of lament since before your ancestors crawled on their bellies from the sea.
fishjie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1519 Posts
July 05 2012 17:54 GMT
#2920
lol at the guy saying nestea is overrated

yup being in code s season after season is soooooo overrated

i mean look at how he didnt even make it out of his group .... OH WAIT NESTEA IS AWESOME?!!!? YEAAAAAAAAAAH
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