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]343[
United States10328 Posts
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Mozzery
United States140 Posts
On August 09 2012 00:33 StorkHwaiting wrote: No, what you're seeing is nothing. What you guys don't seem to understand, despite numerous interview answers telling you this, is that the Kespa players are still busy playing SC1!! No transition has occurred yet. The Kespa players are just fking winging it. Most of the teams don't even have SC2 coaches in their houses yet and barely play the game. Reality won while spending all his time helping his teammate train for the OSL finals. He himself stated he's barely played or improved since his prelim match. what you're missing is that a lot of SC1 teams have switched training to 80% SC2, and that BEFORE the prelims Reality practiced his butt of at SC2. You make it seem as if SC1 and SC2 are of equal priority to most Kespa teams, but if I remember correctly only the sadly departed Air Force Ace actually had their main focus on BW after the dual league was announced. So, are you saying that the 20% of the time most of the Kespa players spend playing BW and training for it still is responsible for the difference between getting beaten at almost equal footing and completely dominating the GOM players? I find that hard to believe. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
Congrats to Creator for taking down DRG as well! Prime!! woo! | ||
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
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Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
User was warned for this post | ||
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Cele
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Greggle
United States1131 Posts
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
On August 09 2012 01:16 StorkHwaiting wrote: Where are you getting these numbers? Interviews with Jaedong, Bisu, and Coach Park that were posted in May. In it Coach Park says SKT1 is spending 80% of their practice time on SC2. Jaedong says he had been practicing SC2 for "almost two months", which means he probably started practicing at some point in April, which is about the time Bisu states in his interview. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=339200 Obviously this is extrapolation, but it seems reasonable to assume most other players/teams have also been focusing the vast majority of their attention on SC2 for about four months now. Edit: There's also an Flash interview posted around the same time where he says he was focusing 100% on practicing SC2, but would probably spend some time practicing BW later for Proleague. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=336791 | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
Sad for DRG. He's still on tilt from his heartbreaking losses. Hope he can get back to his usual play soon, cause he's been playing pretty bad lately. | ||
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Coolness53
United States668 Posts
On August 09 2012 01:58 Dranak wrote: Interviews with Jaedong, Bisu, and Coach Park that was posted in May. In it Coach Park says SKT1 is spending 80% of their practice time on SC2. Jaedong says he had been practicing SC2 for "almost two months", which means he probably started practicing at some point in April, which is about the time Bisu states in his interview. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=339200 Obviously this is extrapolation, but it seems reasonable to assume most other players/teams have also been focusing the vast majority of their attention on SC2 for at least four months now. Still takes time to get used to all the meta. Do I think all of the Kespa players are going to dominate no. I still think people don't give credit to some of the Kespa players. They haven't had as much experience at the tournament level with Starcraft II. Yes you can play lots of ladder games but that doesn't translate to tournaments. Reality now has beaten Shine, Symbol, Heart, and Yugioh. That is a pretty good track record. Now can he beat Puzzle? Not sure about that. In his interview he said "his protoss is noob." | ||
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Coolness53
United States668 Posts
On August 09 2012 02:02 Canucklehead wrote: The reality is, that it's only 1 bo3 against one of the weakest gsl players. I'm sure he put a lot of effort into sc2 already, but it's too early to declare him an elephant hero. Sad for DRG. He's still on tilt from his heartbreaking losses. Hope he can get back to his usual play soon, cause he's been playing pretty bad lately. He beat Symbol in the qualifiers  . One of the top 8 GSL players. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
On August 09 2012 01:23 Xiphos wrote: StorkHwaiting, save your breath. Don't argue with these 'kids'. Yeah... I'm starting to see it's a lost cause. Just pisses me off that they come to TL, a site created by BW, to watch and discuss esports, an industry created by BW, and then turn around and gloat and badmouth the people that built it. | ||
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Dranak
United States464 Posts
On August 09 2012 02:05 Coolness53 wrote: He beat Symbol in the qualifiers . One of the top 8 GSL players.Yeah, Reality has been looking damn good. It'll be interesting to see him play a matchup other than TvZ. | ||
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rauk
United States2228 Posts
On August 09 2012 02:07 StorkHwaiting wrote: Yeah... I'm starting to see it's a lost cause. Just pisses me off that they come to TL, a site created by BW, to watch and discuss esports, an industry created by BW, and then turn around and gloat and badmouth the people that built it. its not even a matter of badmouthing BW... it's "lol elephant is dead" when kespa isn't playing SC2 fulltime. | ||
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fraktoasters
United States617 Posts
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nokz88
Brazil1253 Posts
The point of that miserable piece of shit article was that "competition thus far in SC2 is a FARCE" and "there are hundreds of people who would DOMINATE the scene immediately after they switch" which time and time again has been proven wrong. For the current champs, who were duds in BW, somehow SC2 worked for them, BW did not. They aren't inherently better or worse. Oh how I hate that crap article for creating this divide in the community... it wasn't supposed to be like this | ||
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]343[
United States10328 Posts
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Darneck
Sweden1394 Posts
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Whatson
United States5357 Posts
On August 09 2012 02:25 ]343[ wrote: Huh, I think people are failing to recall how much lower the skill level was when the article was written... Did the writer of the article really not put into consideration the potential for the SC2 players to get better...it's not like they wouldn't improve. | ||
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