EPTOn July 12 2012 21:24 Zambrah wrote:
Oh god, Naniwa is going to spawn his own curse...
Oh god, Naniwa is going to spawn his own curse...
That'd be awesome. Now DRG absolutely needs to win this. There is a whole legend to write there.
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Ragnarork
France9034 Posts
That'd be awesome. Now DRG absolutely needs to win this. There is a whole legend to write there. | ||
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4ZakeN87
Sweden1071 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:11 Lunareste wrote: I don't care where someone is from, I just want to see the best players play. Unfortunately for you?, Koreans are almost always the better players. Well, to cheer for foreigners is a bit like cheering for the development of SC2. The Korean dominance is one of the main issues with the SC2 Esport scene. Course it does not matter for the ûber hardcore, but those are only a small percentage out of the potential SC2 audience. | ||
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AxionSteel
United States7754 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:21 Pirat6662001 wrote: Just to clarify- Naniwa had great micro, but terrible unit control. Those are two different things. His untis didnt move together, didnt split well, he would forget parts of them (like in the last game a group of 8 stalkers sat after warp in and didnt participate in the fight on the high groud), move command into armys. He had terrible control of his units that was almost overshadowed by great micro. Yeah I've noticed that in his PvP's as well, he'll micro his ass off with a collossus but his immortals will be sitting around doing nothing. I think multitasking was never his strong point. Was a really great run though, have to respect him for that  | ||
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:22 speknek wrote: Wow didnt expect byun to win, especially with 3-0. Glad the superior player won in the other quarter The superior player won in all four quarterfinal games. I feel like this is some snide insult to Naniwa, you don't need to single out him with "the other quarter" you know. MC, Seed, DRG, and Byun all played better than their opponents and deserve to be where they are because they're more skilled right now (at least in the matchups they played). Emphasis on right now. Same would be true if it was Symbol, Taeja, Naniwa, and Nestea. | ||
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Poilon
France139 Posts
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Ragnarork
France9034 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:24 Assirra wrote: That makes it sound like he makes them. King Sacrifice sounds more appropriate Naaah, he opens the path, and then let the king ride into the next round ! :D | ||
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habeck
1120 Posts
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sickle
New Zealand656 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:23 sc14s wrote: I'll skip the sarcasm and say i just plain don't like the fellow even if i respect him as a good player i really dislike him as a person so cannot really root for him.. pretty much any other foreigner (aside from idra) i would be rooting for all the way in the gsl. You don't like him as a person? So, you've met and talked with him in real life and got to know him? | ||
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vthree
Hong Kong8039 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:20 alexanderzero wrote: I feel like every godlike SC2 player has kinda lost that aura of ultimate power right now. Things that have put players on top in the past like being a mechanical beast, a crazy metagamer, a creative player, and stuff just doesn't cut it any more. You have to be able to do pretty much everything well to even stay in the GSL right now. The range of strategies in SC2 is becoming absurdly large, so it's really gonna take a true genius to climb their way to the top and stay up there. It's a really exciting time in SC2 though. I feel like in the next year or two we might see the first true SC2 bonjwa! I think it has to do with the design of sc2, it just has more randomness it seems and the meta game changes are quicker. In BW, mechanics was so important that someone with a slight mechanics advantage had a huge impact. And remember there are a lot more big tournaments now so you see the top player losing more. But if DRG wins this GSL, it would be 2 out of 3. | ||
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alexanderzero
United States659 Posts
Naniwa may be just a tiny bit anti-social, and that is probably magnified when in front of huge crowds of people and on livestreams that are being watched by thousands of people. I remember not liking him at first, but watching him closely reveals things about him that I think are pretty interesting. He seems to think extremely quickly at all times. When sitting in the booth he was twitching and moving around ridiculously fast (compared to DRG who was barely moving at all). I got the impression that his mind was completely racing. Considering his cerebral style of play, maybe he is just a more introverted and intellectual type of guy who doesn't value things like propping up some superficial image of himself. I kinda respect that. | ||
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Assirra
Belgium4169 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:25 4ZakeN87 wrote: Well, to cheer for foreigners is a bit like cheering for the development of SC2. The Korean dominance is one of the main issues with the SC2 Esport scene. Course it does not matter for the ûber hardcore, but those are only a small percentage out of the potential SC2 audience. People that are working their ass off and winning is an issue in the scene ? | ||
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babysimba
10466 Posts
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Zambrah
United States7353 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:27 sickle wrote: You don't like him as a person? So, you've met and talked with him in real life and got to know him? He just doesn't like Naniwa, thats not to say he doesn't like Johan Lucchesi. :-p | ||
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:23 sc14s wrote: I'll skip the sarcasm and say i just plain don't like the fellow even if i respect him as a good player i really dislike him as a person so cannot really root for him.. pretty much any other foreigner (aside from idra) i would be rooting for all the way in the gsl. Oh I have no issue for anybody who dislikes him, I just think it's funny for people to deny his skill and then cheer for people knocked out in the Ro32/Ro16 or even in Code A. You're more than welcome to like whoever you want. Personally I don't like MKP, but I don't deny his skill. Does anyone say Hero is bad? Idts, but I think 2 Ro8 is more impressive than Ro4/Ro32 last place exit. Just one example. | ||
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samurai80
Japan4225 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:21 Alryk wrote: Clearly, because he's a foreigner who used to be BM and 7 probe rushed Nestea this one time, and even though he has become much more humble (comparatively) and respectful (definitely) of his opponents, he is just a bad allin foreigner protoss who can't actually hang with koreans and gets by through a combination of luck and his opponents derping. It's not actually his own skill level - if his opponents played like they would against any normal korean, he would easily be Code B. /sarcasm Nicely done You kind of summed up what's inside those haters' head. | ||
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:27 babysimba wrote: In case nobody noticed, this has been the closest ro8 ever. 2 toss, 1 zerg ,1 terran advance out of 3 toss, 3 zergs, 2 terrans All ro8 series went to game 5. O.O Byun 3-0'd Nestea.  | ||
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vthree
Hong Kong8039 Posts
On July 12 2012 21:27 babysimba wrote: In case nobody noticed, this has been the closest ro8 ever. 2 toss, 1 zerg ,1 terran advance out of 3 toss, 3 zergs, 2 terrans All ro8 series went to game 5. O.O Byun went 3-0 | ||
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iSunrise
3302 Posts
IMHO Naniwa should earn a lot of respect for his play against DRG. And even though personally I may not like him that much, his play was quite astounding. I´m not sure MC can beat DRG, but I think MC at least has an edge in the important micro battles. | ||
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MrKn4rz
Germany2153 Posts
Thats the point. | ||
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MorroW
Sweden3522 Posts
jinro might just become our best performance foreigner in sc2 wol ^^ | ||
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