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On September 12 2012 19:50 Cramsy wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:48 TheDwf wrote:On September 12 2012 19:45 Cramsy wrote:On September 12 2012 19:41 TheDwf wrote:On September 12 2012 19:37 Qwerty85 wrote: How do you even engage this protoss army? Make 25 Vikings and watch Protoss lose 42 supply in 14 seconds. then watch 20 zealots instantly warp in and kill your already tiny bio army. Tiny bio army with ~40 SCVs? You still have 110+ supply left for MMM Ghosts, that's OK. Having 30 more MMM supply against 7 Colossi is pure waste anyway. you do know when they engage that terran will actually lose units? The T army will actually still take losses regardless how fast the colo die? It's not like JYP was attacking with pure colossus So? You still need 20+ Vikings against 7 Colossi, end of story.
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On September 12 2012 19:48 MasterOfPuppets wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:35 Blaec wrote:On September 12 2012 19:33 MasterOfPuppets wrote:On September 12 2012 19:23 Robje wrote:On September 12 2012 19:18 MasterOfPuppets wrote:On September 12 2012 19:17 Robje wrote: Supernova just wants to beat Nestea to get his Nestea award... now here's me hoping Nestea will have non of that and go in 2011 Nestea mode He can only go in 2011 NesTea mode if his opponents go in 2011 horrible play mode that they used back then. If you catch my drift.  You can't deny that while Nestea had the dominance Mvp had, he sure was a great player that still won his championships by awesome play... and if you do want to do that, at least he was good enough to be better than those horrible players, right?  There was a time when NesTea was the best zerg in the world. And it was quite a long period of time to be honest. I will not contest that. Furthermore, he was a really good player. But because more than half of the people that he beat in the championships he won were not even Code S material to begin with, even for early 2011 standards, people made him out to be a lot better than he really was. That's all I'm saying. He was a great player back then, but he looked a lot better than he really was because the people he played were in Code S not due to their skill but due to a faulty system. And some of them were actually so bad that they dropped out entirely even before said system was changed. I know it's not a classy argument to make but it's true. But if you're honest to yourself, you realize that NesTea's reign was definitively over more than a year ago. GSL wasn't as mature, but that doesn't delegitimise Nestea's accomplishments. He was still the best player in the world at the time. I'm not saying "everyone was worse back then therefore NesTea is bad". I'm saying that almost all of the people who he beat were actually really bad, even for that time's standards. (the only exceptions that come to mind are MKP and sC). Every time he faced an opponent of his calibre he got destroyed (Mvp was the first to illustrate this, then MMA in August) If he had to face Mvp in every one of his GSLs I doubt he would have won more than a single one. But it's moot to argue about it now. I don't think he'll drop out of GSL altogether too soon, given that he's good at preparing and usually lucky with brackets (which is the point I was trying to make all this time). We'll see.
Go back and look at the brackets, he beat great players in his open run and a mix of good and not so good players in his other two runs.
Either way he deserved 3 championships.
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did he not watch the creator series? those lings gonna get in :D
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On September 12 2012 19:53 X3GoldDot wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:52 Jehct wrote:On September 12 2012 19:51 X3GoldDot wrote: JYP is btw the current best example of a player not affected by the EG curse, this is his first win in code S afaik ...the whole point of the video about the curse your referencing is that there's empirical, unarguable evidence that it doesn't fucking exist. It's venting frustration at people like you in a really hilarious, and indirectly mocking, way. You make my head hurt. of course i know, wtf, i was pointing out that EG curse is bullshit But they already did that O_o
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On September 12 2012 19:48 MasterOfPuppets wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:35 Blaec wrote:On September 12 2012 19:33 MasterOfPuppets wrote:On September 12 2012 19:23 Robje wrote:On September 12 2012 19:18 MasterOfPuppets wrote:On September 12 2012 19:17 Robje wrote: Supernova just wants to beat Nestea to get his Nestea award... now here's me hoping Nestea will have non of that and go in 2011 Nestea mode He can only go in 2011 NesTea mode if his opponents go in 2011 horrible play mode that they used back then. If you catch my drift.  You can't deny that while Nestea had the dominance Mvp had, he sure was a great player that still won his championships by awesome play... and if you do want to do that, at least he was good enough to be better than those horrible players, right?  There was a time when NesTea was the best zerg in the world. And it was quite a long period of time to be honest. I will not contest that. Furthermore, he was a really good player. But because more than half of the people that he beat in the championships he won were not even Code S material to begin with, even for early 2011 standards, people made him out to be a lot better than he really was. That's all I'm saying. He was a great player back then, but he looked a lot better than he really was because the people he played were in Code S not due to their skill but due to a faulty system. And some of them were actually so bad that they dropped out entirely even before said system was changed. I know it's not a classy argument to make but it's true. But if you're honest to yourself, you realize that NesTea's reign was definitively over more than a year ago. GSL wasn't as mature, but that doesn't delegitimise Nestea's accomplishments. He was still the best player in the world at the time. I'm not saying "everyone was worse back then therefore NesTea is bad". I'm saying that almost all of the people who he beat were actually really bad, even for that time's standards. (the only exceptions that come to mind are MKP and sC). Every time he faced an opponent of his calibre he got destroyed (Mvp was the first to illustrate this, then MMA in August) If he had to face Mvp in every one of his GSLs I doubt he would have won more than a single one.
Why didn't he face MVP in every one of his Finals appearances? Overall, I do agree that MVP is better than Nestea but that doesn't mean he can't win against him in a bo3. If Nestea made it to a GSL finals and won it we can't argue that he was the best player that season and we shouldn't take anything away from his accomplishments by saying he only got there because all the players he beat were bad.
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On September 12 2012 19:54 Waxangel wrote: did he not watch the creator series? those lings gonna get in :D
cursed
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On September 12 2012 19:54 Dodgin wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:54 Waxangel wrote: did he not watch the creator series? those lings gonna get in :D cursed
noope, exact same as creator series, waits for first cancel, runs lings in agian
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On September 12 2012 19:52 MCDayC wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:51 Atoissen wrote:On September 12 2012 19:49 AxionSteel wrote:On September 12 2012 19:48 Ruscour wrote: Why am I massive fan of EG's Koreans but a massive anti-fan of EG's foreigners :-/
someone explain how I think please How can one be a massive antifan of the loveable ThorZaiN. This!! Noone can be anti-fan of Thorzain... Or even Stephano, with he's unorthodox behaviour and fantastic play! LOL, I hate to break it to you, but some people manage to be anti-fans of Stephano.
I can only speak for myself but I could see this being due to french casters. That works for all sports. French commentators always have had a way of making me wish to see french people losing.
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On September 12 2012 19:52 Jehct wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:51 X3GoldDot wrote: JYP is btw the current best example of a player not affected by the EG curse, this is his first win in code S afaik ...the whole point of the video about the curse your referencing is that there's empirical, unarguable evidence that it doesn't fucking exist. It's venting frustration at people like you in a really hilarious, and indirectly mocking, way. You make my head hurt. Whatever people will always believe crazy things.
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I don't think i've seen someone microing one ling that hard for a long time lol
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On September 12 2012 19:53 IshinShishi wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:51 Soyuz wrote:On September 12 2012 19:47 Corrosive wrote:On September 12 2012 19:45 Dodgin wrote:On September 12 2012 19:43 IshinShishi wrote:On September 12 2012 19:42 Dodgin wrote:On September 12 2012 19:41 MCDayC wrote: Can't tell if JYP did badly or Asha''s being a pro-terran downer. second one I think jyp played very bad, but supernova played much worse, in fact this was one of the worst bio controls I've seen from a korean terran in quite some time. you are just being overly biased because of JYPvT stigma, he did really well for the most part. " missed storms " are not always missed by accident, but used for zoning. fucking thank you It's like a forcefield that you may plant once in a while when you want to retreat. You don't buy minerals or gas in the form of killed units but you buy time. jyp was sending astray hts everywhere without backup, basically donating units if the terran in control was someone like byun, he used storms to retreat like once or twice out of his 15 fail storms.
Astray implies lost. Like he randomly move-commanded them to some places and forgot about them. It was pretty obviously that he didn't that game. Entombed Valley is a big map and I'll admit that by doing what he did he made huge risks. But it paid off. SC2 = risky game.
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On September 12 2012 19:51 Porcelina wrote: If it goes
Life > JYP Nova > Nestea Nova > JYP
I will be so sad, as that was what I was intending. But it would just look wonky. Plus I think JYP has a very good chance indeed to beat Life.
That's actually not unlikely IMO. I know StarCraft can be very volatile and hard to predict at times, but Life is an insane beast at the moment, SuperNoVa can definitely beat NesTea, especially if the latter is tilted, and then SuperNoVa vs JYP... I'm not sure. SuperNoVa has shown some sick TvP in the past, coupled with momentum of JYP losing his winners' match and NoVa winning his losers'. It's possible.
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On September 12 2012 19:55 Noocta wrote: I don't think i've seen someone microing one ling that hard for a long time lol Yet in the end the almighty Probe prevailed.
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On September 12 2012 19:48 MasterOfPuppets wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:35 Blaec wrote:On September 12 2012 19:33 MasterOfPuppets wrote:On September 12 2012 19:23 Robje wrote:On September 12 2012 19:18 MasterOfPuppets wrote:On September 12 2012 19:17 Robje wrote: Supernova just wants to beat Nestea to get his Nestea award... now here's me hoping Nestea will have non of that and go in 2011 Nestea mode He can only go in 2011 NesTea mode if his opponents go in 2011 horrible play mode that they used back then. If you catch my drift.  You can't deny that while Nestea had the dominance Mvp had, he sure was a great player that still won his championships by awesome play... and if you do want to do that, at least he was good enough to be better than those horrible players, right?  There was a time when NesTea was the best zerg in the world. And it was quite a long period of time to be honest. I will not contest that. Furthermore, he was a really good player. But because more than half of the people that he beat in the championships he won were not even Code S material to begin with, even for early 2011 standards, people made him out to be a lot better than he really was. That's all I'm saying. He was a great player back then, but he looked a lot better than he really was because the people he played were in Code S not due to their skill but due to a faulty system. And some of them were actually so bad that they dropped out entirely even before said system was changed. I know it's not a classy argument to make but it's true. But if you're honest to yourself, you realize that NesTea's reign was definitively over more than a year ago. GSL wasn't as mature, but that doesn't delegitimise Nestea's accomplishments. He was still the best player in the world at the time. I'm not saying "everyone was worse back then therefore NesTea is bad". I'm saying that almost all of the people who he beat were actually really bad, even for that time's standards. (the only exceptions that come to mind are MKP and sC). Every time he faced an opponent of his calibre he got destroyed (Mvp was the first to illustrate this, then MMA in August) If he had to face Mvp in every one of his GSLs I doubt he would have won more than a single one. But it's moot to argue about it now. I don't think he'll drop out of GSL altogether too soon, given that he's good at preparing and usually lucky with brackets (which is the point I was trying to make all this time). We'll see.
MVP never destroyed Nestea. The first time they played in GSL January Nestea was the only person to take a game off MVP that season and the series was overall very close. The next time they played wasn't till GSL August and Nestea did get 2-0'd there but the first game was close and the second was a bunker wall at base entrance. There next match was Blizzcon which was an extremely close 3-4. Then they played again in October and Nestea was up 2-1 with an extremely strong lead in game 4 (literally in a position where if he attacks he almost gets a guaranteed win but unfortunately he didn't and the game went long and eventually turned around for MVP but the series was still very close.
As for MMA yes he lost to him in August but he beat him in the very next GSL so... I don't get how you can say that Nestea was destroyed both the games were very close and Nestea won one of them.
The overall post is dumb as well. If you make a GSL finals you aren't bad and Nestea's path wasn't ever that easy he just made it look like it was because he was so amazing relative to other players. Losira at the time of the Nestea vs Losira finals was the second best zerg and without a doubt a top 5 player in the world and had made a name for himself with amazing ZvZ. Nestea 4-0'd him. sC was probably the best TvZer in the world at the time of his and Nestea's semifinal match. Coca and July were both top 5 zergs at the times Nestea beat them.
Maybe he would have lost if he met MVP (mostly because of MVP seems to have a psychological edge against him) it's not his fault MVP was busy dropping to Code A and losing in the ro32 of Code S.
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why would you go not-immortal all-in on this map :D
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On September 12 2012 19:56 MasterOfPuppets wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:51 Porcelina wrote: If it goes
Life > JYP Nova > Nestea Nova > JYP
I will be so sad, as that was what I was intending. But it would just look wonky. Plus I think JYP has a very good chance indeed to beat Life. That's actually not unlikely IMO. I know StarCraft can be very volatile and hard to predict at times, but Life is an insane beast at the moment, SuperNoVa can definitely beat NesTea, especially if the latter is tilted, and then SuperNoVa vs JYP... I'm not sure. SuperNoVa has shown some sick TvP in the past, coupled with momentum of JYP losing his winners' match and NoVa winning his losers'. It's possible.
And given that Life practiced for ZvP a lot lately (yes he lost, but still) he'd be prepared for someone as good as JYP
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On September 12 2012 19:54 TheDwf wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:50 Cramsy wrote:On September 12 2012 19:48 TheDwf wrote:On September 12 2012 19:45 Cramsy wrote:On September 12 2012 19:41 TheDwf wrote:On September 12 2012 19:37 Qwerty85 wrote: How do you even engage this protoss army? Make 25 Vikings and watch Protoss lose 42 supply in 14 seconds. then watch 20 zealots instantly warp in and kill your already tiny bio army. Tiny bio army with ~40 SCVs? You still have 110+ supply left for MMM Ghosts, that's OK. Having 30 more MMM supply against 7 Colossi is pure waste anyway. you do know when they engage that terran will actually lose units? The T army will actually still take losses regardless how fast the colo die? It's not like JYP was attacking with pure colossus So? You still need 20+ Vikings against 7 Colossi, end of story. You're literally arguing for 40+ supply of units that are going to be useless when the insta-remax happens.
The whole point of major engagements in TvP is that you have to take such a huge advantage that you can't lose to the faster remax. With that much supply that's essentially dead weight you're not going to do that.
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On September 12 2012 19:57 Waxangel wrote: why would you go not-immortal all-in on this map :D Because zerg didn't take a third -_-
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On September 12 2012 19:58 Yagami wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2012 19:57 Waxangel wrote: why would you go not-immortal all-in on this map :D Because zerg didn't take a third -_-
you should do it anyway D:
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