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Weirdkid
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Singapore2431 Posts
October 14 2012 15:21 GMT
#2001
Hero's dressing is pretty nice
"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself." - Proverbs 26:4
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8244 Posts
October 14 2012 15:32 GMT
#2002
Lol no Terrans...

Damn KESPA players are playing better than the GSL players.
Dionyseus
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States2068 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-14 15:50:40
October 14 2012 15:46 GMT
#2003
On October 14 2012 21:50 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2012 21:44 lolmlg wrote:
On October 14 2012 21:26 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
Looking at his PvZ and PvP ability that he has demonstrated recently, I would honestly call him the favourite in both OSL and WCS Grand Finals.

I'm not a big Bison fan or whatever, but I had a thought about this. A lot of people are trying to say that MVP will be the SC2 bonjwa if he wins the current GSL season, because he will have won five championships. Putting aside that it's an arbitrary number, bonjwa never had anything to do with numbers of championships. It was meant to describe a player that stood head and shoulders above the competition and dominated the game for a period of time. Nobody was comfortable calling Flash a bonjwa when he was constantly having a close series with Jaedong, because it cast doubt on the idea that he was dominant. Later on people called him "God" but Jaedong had to enter a brutal slump first.

MVP crashed out of the OSL during the group stages. His GSL semi-final series against Rain, which he narrowly won, occurred a single day after Rain's semi-final series against Last in the OSL, which Rain won. Rain's won WCS Asia and he could win the OSL. If he continues to post results in the near future, I don't think it will matter what MVP does. Because "bonjwa" isn't about being good, it's about being the only player on your level. If MVP versus Rain continues to be a nailbiter, MVP isn't a bonjwa.

But who knows, they may never meet in a tournament again.


Honestly, even though they're both my favourite players at the moment (and I've been a huge Mvp fan for a long time) I still think that it would be a bit ridiculous to call either of them a bonjwa. Maybe if Heart of the Swarm were to be delayed a year, and one of the two would keep slaughtering nerds left and right until the expansion's release, maybe then I would agree with the idea.

Until then, Mvp is the best player in Wings of Liberty overall and both of them are some of the best players right now, but I can't comfortably call either of them a real Bonjwa.

Maybe if HotS will last as long as WoL did until LotV comes out... I don't know, only time will tell.


I agree. The game isn't finished and it won't be until LotV comes out and gets balanced enough. Unless MVP dominates HotS and LotV as well he'd only be known as a WoL Bonjwa.

Congrats Rain, now go win OSL too.
9/5/10 P acct: NA D 10,683 651pts 69w56L http://sc2ranks.com/char/us/290365/LetoAtreides T acct: NA D 16,137 553pts 70w67L http://sc2ranks.com/char/us/1560008/Khrone Z: NA G 16,058 465pts 28w26L http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/1997354/Omnius
Irre
Profile Joined August 2010
United States646 Posts
October 14 2012 15:55 GMT
#2004
On October 14 2012 21:44 lolmlg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2012 21:26 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
Looking at his PvZ and PvP ability that he has demonstrated recently, I would honestly call him the favourite in both OSL and WCS Grand Finals.

I'm not a big Bison fan or whatever, but I had a thought about this. A lot of people are trying to say that MVP will be the SC2 bonjwa if he wins the current GSL season, because he will have won five championships. Putting aside that it's an arbitrary number, bonjwa never had anything to do with numbers of championships. It was meant to describe a player that stood head and shoulders above the competition and dominated the game for a period of time. Nobody was comfortable calling Flash a bonjwa when he was constantly having a close series with Jaedong, because it cast doubt on the idea that he was dominant. Later on people called him "God" but Jaedong had to enter a brutal slump first.

MVP crashed out of the OSL during the group stages. His GSL semi-final series against Rain, which he narrowly won, occurred a single day after Rain's semi-final series against Last in the OSL, which Rain won. Rain's won WCS Asia and he could win the OSL. If he continues to post results in the near future, I don't think it will matter what MVP does. Because "bonjwa" isn't about being good, it's about being the only player on your level. If MVP versus Rain continues to be a nailbiter, MVP isn't a bonjwa.

But who knows, they may never meet in a tournament again.


winning almost every single tournament in a scene where there is about 3-4x the number of major events per month, in a game that lets randoms take games off the best players regularly, isn't dominating the scene? What more would you have MVP do really? In the context of SC2, there is no doubt MVP is bonjwa material IF we are going to use that term in SC2.
power-overwhelming
Profile Joined December 2011
Canada306 Posts
October 14 2012 16:21 GMT
#2005
MVP is far from a bonjwa.. he's not even dominating. He is getting wins here and there. He dropped out of OSL, he didnt even get past group stage in a foreign tourney. His last GSL win was nowhere near domination when he cheese most of his games.
styleworks79
Profile Joined May 2011
United States127 Posts
October 14 2012 16:25 GMT
#2006
On October 15 2012 01:21 power-overwhelming wrote:
MVP is far from a bonjwa.. he's not even dominating. He is getting wins here and there. He dropped out of OSL, he didnt even get past group stage in a foreign tourney. His last GSL win was nowhere near domination when he cheese most of his games.


If he wins his 5th GSL title, I don't think people would argue about MVP being the 1st bonjwa of SC2. At least, that is how
I see it.
Ares[S2000] West Op AresClan 난 요환이가 한번은 우승할거라고 믿어!
Limmet
Profile Joined March 2011
Sweden57 Posts
October 14 2012 16:29 GMT
#2007
Vods?
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3751 Posts
October 14 2012 16:46 GMT
#2008
On October 15 2012 01:25 styleworks79 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2012 01:21 power-overwhelming wrote:
MVP is far from a bonjwa.. he's not even dominating. He is getting wins here and there. He dropped out of OSL, he didnt even get past group stage in a foreign tourney. His last GSL win was nowhere near domination when he cheese most of his games.


If he wins his 5th GSL title, I don't think people would argue about MVP being the 1st bonjwa of SC2. At least, that is how
I see it.

You're missing the point. Being Bonjwa is not about winning titles - winning titles is only side effect. Being Bonjwa is being consistently, unarguably best player in the world, beating everyone in each matchup for a period of time of significant length - like half a year at least. He may lost a series or a set but that's it. Mvp was once storng when he won his first GSL title and GSL World Championship. But he failed at other GSL tournaments at the time and even fallen to Code A (he got 2nd in Code A behind Bomber!). Then there was post MLG Anaheim period but MMA was outplaying him then. So his MLG, third GSL title, BlizzCon and WCG was not enough.

And now he is... what? One GSL title, one IEM and now a shot at another GSL. But there was a GSL in between the two (lost in Ro16 to TaeJa and viOLet). He lost in OSL Ro16 group stage to Flying and Parting. He lost in WCS South Korea to Polt and then resigned. He lost in WCG South Korea Ro16 to BaBy. At the end of 2011 Mvp was at least consistently good - loosing only to very best players or just winning. Now he is inconsistent even if still very good and so there is no Bonjwa title for him.

Still - as for know - Mvp is the most accomplished player in the SC2. After all he won more premier tournaments than any other team (except for IM of course).
bsdaemon
Profile Joined July 2012
618 Posts
October 14 2012 16:47 GMT
#2009
i was hoping liquid hero will make it but i know rain is just too much. $24k! that's almost like a whole year of salary for some people.
sparkk51
Profile Joined August 2011
United States137 Posts
October 14 2012 16:48 GMT
#2010
On October 15 2012 01:29 Limmet wrote:
Vods?


This. anyone?
Avicularia
Profile Joined February 2012
540 Posts
October 14 2012 16:49 GMT
#2011
On October 15 2012 01:47 bsdaemon wrote:
i was hoping liquid hero will make it but i know rain is just too much. $24k! that's almost like a whole year of salary for some people.

Or like 4 years for some :p
MockHamill
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden1798 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-14 17:04:43
October 14 2012 17:02 GMT
#2012
On October 15 2012 01:47 bsdaemon wrote:
i was hoping liquid hero will make it but i know rain is just too much. $24k! that's almost like a whole year of salary for some people.


Are you joking? You get more than that working at McDonalds in any western country.
Ammanas
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Slovakia2166 Posts
October 14 2012 17:57 GMT
#2013
On October 15 2012 02:02 MockHamill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2012 01:47 bsdaemon wrote:
i was hoping liquid hero will make it but i know rain is just too much. $24k! that's almost like a whole year of salary for some people.


Are you joking? You get more than that working at McDonalds in any western country.


Well, I am working for big international IT company in here and not even the lowest position - in fact it is 4th out of 10 possible 'ranks' and I am getting 12.700e per year. Before taxes. So yeah, that's almost two times more than I earn per year. And don't even want to know, how much McDonalds employees get here - around 7k-8k per year.
JangBi forever <3 || Classic! herO! Rain! Zest! | Rogue! Hydra! Solar! | Fantasy! Cure! Reality! Sorry! Journey!
ElephantBaby
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1365 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-14 18:02:53
October 14 2012 18:02 GMT
#2014
On October 15 2012 02:02 MockHamill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2012 01:47 bsdaemon wrote:
i was hoping liquid hero will make it but i know rain is just too much. $24k! that's almost like a whole year of salary for some people.


Are you joking? You get more than that working at McDonalds in any western country.


Sweden is rich. Some east european countries may not be like that.
Fischbacher
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada666 Posts
October 14 2012 18:30 GMT
#2015
On October 14 2012 22:49 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2012 22:44 redviper wrote:
On October 14 2012 21:26 MasterOfPuppets wrote:
On October 14 2012 21:21 red4ce wrote:
On October 14 2012 21:12 ElephantBaby wrote:
On October 14 2012 21:04 FakeDeath wrote:
On October 14 2012 21:01 InDesconrowl wrote:
On October 14 2012 20:55 red4ce wrote:
Rain's coinflipping skills are something to behold.


Can you stop saying pvp is a coinflip matchup?


It is still a coinflip match-up.
It really depends on who get the better build order.

Just that Sun is so good at flipping coins.


Everyone thought ZvZ in BW is completely coin flip before jaedong comes along. Jaedong completely changed everybody's mind, he can beat you with many build order disadvantages. ZvZ in BW is even worse than PvP in SC2 in this regard.

By.sun is doing the same thing in SC2 now.


People said the same thing when MC was dominating PvP. And then when Oz was dominating PvP. And then when Squirtle was dominating PvP. The new blood always has an advantage because they can study everyone else's style while themselves being overlooked. Once Rain's tricks are copied by the other protoss his PvP record will fall in line with everyone else's.


Maybe it's just wishful thinking from someone like me who always desires consistency, but I have a gut feeling that the Bison will surpass the peaks of MC, Oz, Squirtle and Creator, in both PvP and in general really. SKT T1 coaching and practice aiding a very obvious talent... yeah.

Looking at his PvZ and PvP ability that he has demonstrated recently, I would honestly call him the favourite in both OSL and WCS Grand Finals.


In before Rain loses in the WCS Grand Finals and in the OSL finals. This is the same sort of hero worship rain was getting before MVP showed him who is boss.


The difference being that Mvp is in neither of those two tournaments. ^^;

Then again I'm sure he won't mind that much after he wins his 5th GSL title.

MVP was in both WCS and OSL.
Havik_
Profile Joined November 2011
United States5585 Posts
October 14 2012 18:36 GMT
#2016
Rain will be the first Protoss Bonjwa

+ Show Spoiler +

If he can keep posting results such as these of course.
"An opinion is only as good as the evidence that backs it up."- William O'Malley, S.J.
Fischbacher
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada666 Posts
October 14 2012 18:40 GMT
#2017
On October 15 2012 03:36 Havik_ wrote:
Rain will be the first Protoss Bonjwa

+ Show Spoiler +

If he can keep posting results such as these of course.

+ Show Spoiler +
If he can keep up results like that... OMFG both GSL and KeSPA pros are doomed :-P
IcedBacon
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada906 Posts
October 14 2012 18:59 GMT
#2018
Damn... Rain is officially the best player in the world right now.
"I went Zerg because Artosis is a douchebag." -IdrA
Douillos
Profile Joined May 2010
France3195 Posts
October 14 2012 19:06 GMT
#2019
On October 15 2012 02:02 MockHamill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2012 01:47 bsdaemon wrote:
i was hoping liquid hero will make it but i know rain is just too much. $24k! that's almost like a whole year of salary for some people.


Are you joking? You get more than that working at McDonalds in any western country.



You dont know what youre talking about.
Look a giraffe! Look a fist!!
neptunusfisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
2286 Posts
October 14 2012 19:24 GMT
#2020
On October 14 2012 09:20 kju wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 14 2012 08:59 Talionis wrote:
I feel so alone.

I love PvP.

You are not alone!

I think PvP is one of the best matchups to watch. For reals. It's fun to play, too. It's less hectic than ZvZ, and not as mind numbingly dull as TvT.
maru G5L pls
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