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Frankon
3054 Posts
On July 09 2012 17:17 Thurken wrote: You generally have to pay to get a TL-article, maybe HSC didn't. Maybe it is for some other reason. Technically you have to be*: a) Big tournament b) not-first time run tournament to have TL write about it in community news. *based on the TL writter response why there was no info about Ironsquid finals on TL. | ||
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Uracil
Germany422 Posts
On July 09 2012 17:17 Thurken wrote: You generally have to pay to get a TL-article, maybe HSC didn't. Maybe it is for some other reason. They overall doing less tournament coverage these days.Perhaps they are busy with TSL. | ||
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coldturkey49
United States11 Posts
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Frankon
3054 Posts
On July 09 2012 17:24 Uracil wrote: They overall doing less tournament coverage these days.Perhaps they are busy with TSL. Its not like it took them 2-3 weeks to upload the vods of TSL 4 qualifiers to their YT channel.... Oh wait... They still havent uploaded them.... | ||
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Rabbitmaster
1357 Posts
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AzoriuS
Poland74 Posts
On July 09 2012 07:27 AzoriuS wrote: omg what a shame and bad player won. It was just pure luck that nerchio won. So lucky, koreans should win, just zerg imba and nerchio cheating. Yonghwa is better but he was drunk too much before the match, MC played without sound. I heard that Tarson and Mana helped Nerchio and gave him signs about dark templars. Yonghwa played with 30fps only and Nerchio stream cheating. Idra was right about him. USA & Korean & teamliquid fan club user. NETWARS KURWO User was warned for this post SARCASM MR ADMIN. Where are you when other people write that kind of post but without sarcasm ? btw. Nerchio did it. Yonghwa didnt move his dark templars. Maybe its time for some guys here to leave bronze division and be less of fanatics of players. | ||
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
It appears some people are fooled by this into thinking the gap is closing. Perhaps when two Code B players don't make the Round of 4 of a major foreign LAN they'll have a point. On July 09 2012 15:59 ihasaKAROT wrote: Every homestorycup beats the previous edition of 'the most fun tournament ive ever seen'. Grats to Nercio and Take, great great tournament, laughed my ass off with incontrol and nightend casting I thought it was a bit duller than HSC3/4. The novelty factor wasn't there anymore. They also got really unlucky because there were basically no stand out classic games played and this tournament happened when the meta games are at an all time low in terms of interesting viewing across all matchups. We were also treated to the growing tradition of HSC having the worst finals in Sc2 after the third bad final in a row. | ||
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GuardianEU
Netherlands488 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:15 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote: We were also treated to the growing traditional of HSC having the worst finals in Sc2 after the third bad final in a row. nonononno, you can't take that title from GSL, ever! | ||
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teddyoojo
Germany22369 Posts
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:19 GuardianEU wrote: nonononno, you can't take that title from GSL, ever! GSL has awesome finals now. MVP vs Squirtle - 5/5 DRG vs Genius 3/5 MMA vs DRG - 5/5 Jjakji vs Leenock 4.5/5 MMA vs MVP 3/5 It's been a long time since we had a really awful GSL finals and 3 of the last 5 have been amongst the 10 best series ever played in Sc2. On July 09 2012 18:20 teddyoojo wrote: ^naniwa vs huk was pretty cool.. PvP is never good. As far as PvP goes this was an above average series (I'd say 2.5/5) but it was still a whole lot of proxy gate, 4 gating, b/o losses and turtling for 20 minutes until both players are maxed and we get a 5 second winner takes all engagement. | ||
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Nebroth
Poland10 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:15 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote: Looks like the European Scene's New Years Resolution for 2012 of inviting the absolute bare minimum number of Koreans required to make a tournament have any legitimacy at all is paying off (1-2 Code S players, 2-3 Code B players) and they're actually winning again. Neither YongHwa nor Golden were invited. They qualified, same as Nerchio. | ||
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:29 Nebroth wrote: Neither YongHwa nor Golden were invited. They qualified, same as Nerchio. They were still invites in the sense that they only allowed one spot from the Korean qualifier. In an ideal world (for HSC) Sleep and Golden wouldn't have won the NA qualifier either. There was massive affirmative action going on here. | ||
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sOda~
United Kingdom441 Posts
Good job take! Gratz to nerchio too, didnt seem to be breaking a sweat vs top class korean protosses? not bad | ||
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legaton
France1763 Posts
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MasterOfPuppets
Romania6942 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:41 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote: They were still invites in the sense that they only allowed one spot from the Korean qualifier. In an ideal world (for HSC) Sleep and Golden wouldn't have won the NA qualifier either. There was massive affirmative action going on here. I really don't understand what your problem is. If you don't like it, that's fine, nobody is forcing you to watch it. But at least try to understand that HomeStory was never about having the best level of play possible or the most amazing games, it was and is about friends having fun and chilling. | ||
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:48 legaton wrote: What saddens me is a good tournament as HSC V only got 53K viewers at best, while they had almost 70K viewers last time. And it seems the premium channel just hovered over 1000 viewers. There's too many tournaments now so people don't mind missing some and a lot of major names in terms of viewers were missing (Naniwa, Thorzain, Huk and Stephano). The games at a low ebb right now. We just need HOTS to come out and bring in new viewers and refresh all the matchups which are really stale at this point. | ||
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Aeroplaneoverthesea
United Kingdom1977 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:51 MasterOfPuppets wrote: I really don't understand what your problem is. If you don't like it, that's fine, nobody is forcing you to watch it. But at least try to understand that HomeStory was never about having the best level of play possible or the most amazing games, it was and is about friends having fun and chilling. It's quite clearly a compromise of both those things. I thought this time out they were a bit low on real world class talent. | ||
Ragnarork
France9034 Posts
I can't wait for the next one ! GG Nerchio for the great run (whatever haters say...), sorry YongHwa and congrats Take for hosting such an amazing tournament ! | ||
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Mastermyth
Netherlands207 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:41 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote: They were still invites in the sense that they only allowed one spot from the Korean qualifier. In an ideal world (for HSC) Sleep and Golden wouldn't have won the NA qualifier either. There was massive affirmative action going on here. One of the major draws of HSC is the socializing going on between the players and us being allowed to see it. It's TaKe's tournament, he decides who to invite, and he has already said in the past that he likes to invite players with a bit more charisma and personality because it adds to the way he wants the tournament to be. This is why, regardless of their rising and falling of skill, we'll probably continue to see the likes of Incontrol, Destiny, Dimaga, Bling, etc at HSC. And that's also why there won't likely ever be 10+ Koreans. There's a fairly large language barrier going on there and, apart from a few charismatic players (MC, MKP, JYP), they kinda come across as playing machines. Sure we won't get the highest possible level of skill, but that's not all the tournament is about. | ||
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Ragnarork
France9034 Posts
On July 09 2012 18:53 Mastermyth wrote: One of the major draws of HSC is the socializing going on between the players and us being allowed to see it. It's TaKe's tournament, he decides who to invite, and he has already said in the past that he likes to invite players with a bit more charisma and personality because it adds to the way he wants the tournament to be. This is why, regardless of their rising and falling of skill, we'll probably continue to see the likes of Incontrol, Destiny, Dimaga, Bling, etc at HSC. And that's also why there won't likely ever be 10+ Koreans. There's a fairly large language barrier going on there and, apart from a few charismatic players (MC, MKP, JYP), they kinda come across as playing machines. Sure we won't get the highest possible level of skill, but that's not all the tournament is about. You're right. Just look at the "Korean Casting moment" of this HSC. I was happy to see MVP doing it, but he barely spoke. Would have been amazing to hear him casting ! But it was difficult. MC is quite the only one who manage to handle this, both in terms of english and personality. I miss the last one, w/ MKP and MC dancing haha ! | ||
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