Life + a good Terran getting out of this qualifier would make this tournaments lineup perfect. I just wish that they had upped the lan portion to the top 8 or so. Hopefully in the next one!
On October 13 2012 14:02 Hall0wed wrote: Hmm looks like no invite for Life after all. Sucks how this was scheduled with WCS and now it looks like no Squirtle in Iron Squid.
Pretty easy win for Life here though.
2nd Chance to Qualify for Korean, 21st October in Open Qualifier.
The Calendar Conflict is a really matter for us, sorry for that.
On October 13 2012 17:53 NovemberstOrm wrote: lol half way through the game shines dead and he starts complaining that the maps wrong. better not be a re-game
How much would you notice your queen have less range untill you actully start needing them?
Oh sick Jjakji did end up joining. Hopefully he makes it. Umm looking at the bracket it says the first 3 rounds are bo3 and then it goes to bo1 for 2 rounds and then bo5 for the last round. That has to be a mistake right?
On October 13 2012 17:56 JJH777 wrote: Oh sick Jjakji did end up joining. Hopefully he makes it. Umm looking at the bracket it says the first 3 rounds are bo3 and then it goes to bo1 for 2 rounds and then bo5 for the last round. That has to be a mistake right?
ironsquid, could you maybe check the volume? i can barely hear the sound at a comfortable level when i turn my boxes to 100% - if i open any other stream or vid, i wake up my neighbours... its really low atm. would be great if you could fix that.
On October 13 2012 18:03 Black Gun wrote: ironsquid, could you maybe check the volume? i can barely hear the sound at a comfortable level when i turn my boxes to 100% - if i open any other stream or vid, i wake up my neighbours... its really low atm. would be great if you could fix that.
On October 13 2012 17:56 JJH777 wrote: Oh sick Jjakji did end up joining. Hopefully he makes it. Umm looking at the bracket it says the first 3 rounds are bo3 and then it goes to bo1 for 2 rounds and then bo5 for the last round. That has to be a mistake right?
bo3 all the way to ro4.
I figured but assuming the bracket gets updated by players uploading replays they probably need to fix it.
On October 13 2012 17:56 JJH777 wrote: Oh sick Jjakji did end up joining. Hopefully he makes it. Umm looking at the bracket it says the first 3 rounds are bo3 and then it goes to bo1 for 2 rounds and then bo5 for the last round. That has to be a mistake right?
bo3 all the way to ro4.
I figured but assuming the bracket gets updated by players uploading replays they probably need to fix it.
It's being fixed, the format that wille be used is in the OP!
On October 13 2012 19:40 IronSquid wrote: English Stream: Ww SortOf - TSL Value Game 1 French Stream: BBoongBBoongPrime - ST Life Game 1 (Ro8) Russian Stream: NSH Jjakhi - TSL Shine Game 3
Recent Results:
Life 2-0 Polt
What is the link to the Russian stream, it's not on the side or in any posts :O
On October 13 2012 19:40 IronSquid wrote: English Stream: Ww SortOf - TSL Value Game 1 French Stream: BBoongBBoongPrime - ST Life Game 1 (Ro8) Russian Stream: NSH Jjakhi - TSL Shine Game 3
Recent Results:
Life 2-0 Polt
What is the link to the Russian stream, it's not on the side or in any posts :O
On October 13 2012 19:40 IronSquid wrote: English Stream: Ww SortOf - TSL Value Game 1 French Stream: BBoongBBoongPrime - ST Life Game 1 (Ro8) Russian Stream: NSH Jjakhi - TSL Shine Game 3
Recent Results:
Life 2-0 Polt
What is the link to the Russian stream, it's not on the side or in any posts :O
On October 13 2012 19:40 IronSquid wrote: English Stream: Ww SortOf - TSL Value Game 1 French Stream: BBoongBBoongPrime - ST Life Game 1 (Ro8) Russian Stream: NSH Jjakhi - TSL Shine Game 3
Recent Results:
Life 2-0 Polt
What is the link to the Russian stream, it's not on the side or in any posts :O
just go the the main stream and then on the top, there are 3 tabs, one for each language. just click on the one with the russian flag
Watching things away from TL is anathema to me! =p
god i hope jjakji wins, but it looks like he'll lose to an early ling muta bling bust
English Stream: Ww SortOf - TSL Value Game 2 (1-0) French Stream: BBoongBBoongPrime - ST Life Game 2 (0-1) (Ro8) Russian Stream: NSH Jjakhi - TSL Shine Game 3
Recent Results: Brown 2-1 Ryung Revival 2-1 ReaL YongHwa 1-0 PiG
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
I agree with this completely. People forget that the last international tournament had a TvT finals even though it was like two weeks ago....
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
I agree with this completely. People forget that the last international tournament had a TvT finals even though it was like two weeks ago....
Are we talking about taeja/mvp and a few more korean terran powerhouses in international tournaments?
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
I agree with this completely. People forget that the last international tournament had a TvT finals even though it was like two weeks ago....
Are we talking about taeja/mvp and a few more korean terran powerhouses in international tournaments?
On October 13 2012 20:21 IronSquid wrote: English Stream: Ww SortOf - TSL Value Game 3 (1-1) French Stream: Ellenkey - TSL Shine Game 1 (Ro8) Russian Stream: Ellenkey - TSL Shine Game 1 (Ro8)
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
I agree with this completely. People forget that the last international tournament had a TvT finals even though it was like two weeks ago....
Are we talking about taeja/mvp and a few more korean terran powerhouses in international tournaments?
we are not talking about the entire history of sc2, we are talking about the state of the game right now and in the recent past. there, terran has been quite underrepresented in most tournaments and only got some titles because taeja and mvp are superhumans.
it is simply frustrating to see that terran is almost extinct in platinum and diamond and that also most "average pro terrans" usually cant get much done in individual tournaments.
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
I agree with this completely. People forget that the last international tournament had a TvT finals even though it was like two weeks ago....
Are we talking about taeja/mvp and a few more korean terran powerhouses in international tournaments?
we are not talking about the entire history of sc2, we are talking about the state of the game right now and in the recent past. there, terran has been quite underrepresented in most tournaments and only got some titles because taeja and mvp are superhumans.
it is simply frustrating to see that terran is almost extinct in platinum and diamond and that also most "average pro terrans" usually cant get much done in individual tournaments.
On October 13 2012 19:57 Asha` wrote: This was supposed to be the nice relief from WCS asia's ZP bombardment, but it seems like no Terran in the 1/4s so I'm out =p
was about to say exaclty the same.
nice event by ironsquid, but the desolate state of terran in the current metagame/patch (excluding mvp) just kills my interest in this game.
What? Terran was the most numerous race in every single round of this GSL. And has also won other big tournaments recently. This selective perception is getting ridiculous.
I agree with this completely. People forget that the last international tournament had a TvT finals even though it was like two weeks ago....
Are we talking about taeja/mvp and a few more korean terran powerhouses in international tournaments?
we are not talking about the entire history of sc2, we are talking about the state of the game right now and in the recent past. there, terran has been quite underrepresented in most tournaments and only got some titles because taeja and mvp are superhumans.
it is simply frustrating to see that terran is almost extinct in platinum and diamond and that also most "average pro terrans" usually cant get much done in individual tournaments.
I did not notice that they are underrepresented. Just look at GSL Code A terrans dominate there.
haha tries to have the curse waste all his energy on this second place. But I just think he played nothing but ZvT for some days now and was wondering why those marauders hit so hard and don't die.
Yay for brown, although I dislike this color alot.
So, I didn't watch this. Did Life actually try to play or did he rush the games and tried to end them quick due to the law about not playing past midnight?
On October 14 2012 00:19 sitromit wrote: Immortal Sentry is that good. Someone should make statistics on win rate of that build in Korean tournaments, I wonder what it is.
would be interesting but what's fun about that build is that when it fails it's in spectacular fashion too, close games are really rare with it.
On October 14 2012 00:40 Canucklehead wrote: So, I didn't watch this. Did Life actually try to play or did he rush the games and tried to end them quick due to the law about not playing past midnight?
On October 14 2012 00:40 Canucklehead wrote: So, I didn't watch this. Did Life actually try to play or did he rush the games and tried to end them quick due to the law about not playing past midnight?
On October 14 2012 00:40 Canucklehead wrote: So, I didn't watch this. Did Life actually try to play or did he rush the games and tried to end them quick due to the law about not playing past midnight?
What the fuck is this law ? O_o"
It's for U16's only, it was only very recently introduced - Blizzard Korean client has ingame parental controls for anyone who's registered under the age of 16 because of the new law.
On October 14 2012 00:40 Canucklehead wrote: So, I didn't watch this. Did Life actually try to play or did he rush the games and tried to end them quick due to the law about not playing past midnight?
What the fuck is this law ? O_o"
It's for U16's only, it was only very recently introduced - Blizzard Korean client has ingame parental controls for anyone who's registered under the age of 16 because of the new law.
On October 14 2012 02:02 CosmicSpiral wrote: Is their any validity to the claim that Life was playing weird because of this new law?
Scene: GSL Season 4 finals
Due to unforeseen technical delays, and 6 long mined out games, it is now 11pm Korean Time and the finals are still not over. MVP and Life are playing yet another long ace match to determine the GSL Season 4 champion. After holding off MVP's numerous drops, Life finally breaks through MVP's center. His Broodlords siege MVP's production, and Startale fans are going wild, as Life is about to become the youngest GSL champion yet.
The clock strikes midnight. Suddenly Life's Startale uniform transforms into a school uniform, and Korean SWAT teams storm the venue, and arrest Life for playing past midnight as a minor, and send him to rehab for being a video game addict. MVP wins by default, and eSports dies. As he is dragged from the venue, Life drops his mouse on the stage. MVP spends the rest of his life trying to find the young boy whose hand matches the mouse of the young Zerg he fought with that fateful night.
On October 14 2012 02:02 CosmicSpiral wrote: Is their any validity to the claim that Life was playing weird because of this new law?
Scene: GSL Season 4 finals
Due to unforeseen technical delays, and 6 long mined out games, it is now 11pm Korean Time and the finals are still not over. MVP and Life are playing yet another long ace match to determine the GSL Season 4 champion. After holding off MVP's numerous drops, Life finally breaks through MVP's center. His Broodlords siege MVP's production, and Startale fans are going wild, as Life is about to become the youngest GSL champion yet.
The clock strikes midnight. Suddenly Life's Startale uniform transforms into a school uniform, and Korean SWAT teams storm the venue, and arrest Life for playing past midnight as a minor, and send him to rehab for being a video game addict. MVP wins by default, and eSports dies. As he is dragged from the venue, Life drops his mouse on the stage. MVP spends the rest of his life trying to find the young boy whose hand matches the mouse of the young Zerg he fought with that fateful night.
On October 14 2012 02:02 CosmicSpiral wrote: Is their any validity to the claim that Life was playing weird because of this new law?
Scene: GSL Season 4 finals
Due to unforeseen technical delays, and 6 long mined out games, it is now 11pm Korean Time and the finals are still not over. MVP and Life are playing yet another long ace match to determine the GSL Season 4 champion. After holding off MVP's numerous drops, Life finally breaks through MVP's center. His Broodlords siege MVP's production, and Startale fans are going wild, as Life is about to become the youngest GSL champion yet.
The clock strikes midnight. Suddenly Life's Startale uniform transforms into a school uniform, and Korean SWAT teams storm the venue, and arrest Life for playing past midnight as a minor, and send him to rehab for being a video game addict. MVP wins by default, and eSports dies. As he is dragged from the venue, Life drops his mouse on the stage. MVP spends the rest of his life trying to find the young boy whose hand matches the mouse of the young Zerg he fought with that fateful night.
On October 14 2012 03:21 Dodgin wrote: Wow, Brown beat Life 4-1?
I might have to reconsider the Slayers curse.
Brown's been trained by Slayers as a PvZ sniper for the Team Leagues - It paid off alot last season in GSTL, it's probably the least surprising result ever despite Brown's lack of spotlight
On October 14 2012 02:02 CosmicSpiral wrote: Is their any validity to the claim that Life was playing weird because of this new law?
Scene: GSL Season 4 finals
Due to unforeseen technical delays, and 6 long mined out games, it is now 11pm Korean Time and the finals are still not over. MVP and Life are playing yet another long ace match to determine the GSL Season 4 champion. After holding off MVP's numerous drops, Life finally breaks through MVP's center. His Broodlords siege MVP's production, and Startale fans are going wild, as Life is about to become the youngest GSL champion yet.
The clock strikes midnight. Suddenly Life's Startale uniform transforms into a school uniform, and Korean SWAT teams storm the venue, and arrest Life for playing past midnight as a minor, and send him to rehab for being a video game addict. MVP wins by default, and eSports dies. As he is dragged from the venue, Life drops his mouse on the stage. MVP spends the rest of his life trying to find the young boy whose hand matches the mouse of the young Zerg he fought with that fateful night.
Lol, considering GSL start at 3 pm Korean time. We need the games to 'average' like 1.5 hours each. IF it does take that long, I think everyone would be fine with giving Mvp and Life a dual championship.
On October 13 2012 23:54 Zerofinal wrote: Life is 14 year old
15
Yeah awesome name I know! From what I was told he is ex IM but changed his name, hopefully NSHS should have some social media up running soon, so people can keep track of what's going on down there with their rebuilding process
Also this keeps up the trend of SlayerS lesser known players (Dark, Miya, Arthur, Brown) being the players in the spotlight for SlayerS lately
On October 13 2012 23:25 Tidus Mino wrote: WWSortOf and NSHSEllenKey getting to round 3!
Some nice results considering how stacked the bracket is, also impressed by PiG
ahh, ellenkey is some new NSH zerg? nice!
On October 13 2012 23:54 Zerofinal wrote: Life is 14 year old
15
Yeah awesome name I know! From what I was told he is ex IM but changed his name, hopefully NSHS should have some social media up running soon, so people can keep track of what's going on down there with their rebuilding process
Also this keeps up the trend of SlayerS lesser known players (Dark, Miya, Arthur, Brown) being the players in the spotlight for SlayerS lately
Brown was in the spotlight at the start of the year when he demolished losira to get to code S, then it turned out he can only play PvZ and he dropped off nice to see a resurgence from him though. The only ex IM player on liquipedia without a new taem is minseok/yeah so ellenkey may be him.
same thing, 15 in Korean age is 14 in Western age, they count the day you were born as Age 1 since you've already spent 9 months in your mother's womb.
same thing, 15 in Korean age is 14 in Western age, they count the day you were born as Age 1 since you've already spent 9 months in your mother's womb.
On October 14 2012 02:02 CosmicSpiral wrote: Is their any validity to the claim that Life was playing weird because of this new law?
Scene: GSL Season 4 finals
Due to unforeseen technical delays, and 6 long mined out games, it is now 11pm Korean Time and the finals are still not over. MVP and Life are playing yet another long ace match to determine the GSL Season 4 champion. After holding off MVP's numerous drops, Life finally breaks through MVP's center. His Broodlords siege MVP's production, and Startale fans are going wild, as Life is about to become the youngest GSL champion yet.
The clock strikes midnight. Suddenly Life's Startale uniform transforms into a school uniform, and Korean SWAT teams storm the venue, and arrest Life for playing past midnight as a minor, and send him to rehab for being a video game addict. MVP wins by default, and eSports dies. As he is dragged from the venue, Life drops his mouse on the stage. MVP spends the rest of his life trying to find the young boy whose hand matches the mouse of the young Zerg he fought with that fateful night.
Lol, considering GSL start at 3 pm Korean time. We need the games to 'average' like 1.5 hours each. IF it does take that long, I think everyone would be fine with giving Mvp and Life a dual championship.
Never underestimate the power of regames and technical difficulties. :p
ironically, a player who wasn't even listed in the OP's ad won the qualifier. LOL GJ Brown, I've been a fan ever since you destroyed ST_SUPERSTAR (ST_Max) in GSL Nov Code A. (#hipster, yah i know) Hopefully, we can see a resurgence in Brown's play and he can make code s like he did at the end of last year. Slayers sure could use the boost. He's been playing well lately, going undefeated in the EG Master's cup and scoring a 3 kill in the ipl this past week. On another note, yonghwa's qualifier curse is still in full effect, reaching semis (technically finals in terms of qualification) yet again. Sigh, yonghwa, very likely top 16 code s level, can't get out of code B. =(
Also to note: Brown is a half-time pro-gamer, he goes to a university as well. Pretty impressive to be a half-time pro and be able to be good enough to be sent out by SlayerS in team leagues imo.
Brown is crazy good in PvZ. His PvP is not bad either but his PvT is suspect. PvT still favors P imo. If he can work on that, he'll be another Protoss to take the world by storm :>
Tough Life in third grade of middle school: Forced Shutdown + Unable to attend the press conference for GSL Finals
Life was taking part in the finals of the online Korean qualifiers for the Iron Squid 2 tournament, where he lost 1-4 to Brown.
The problem occurred in the second set. At that time, he was just going about playing, when Life received a reminder regarding a forced shutdown. It was then that he remembered, and mentioned in the chat "Oh yea, I am supposed to be forced shutdown." After that, he just grabbed all his army and forced an all-in on his opponent, which ended up failing.
Even though Life eventually lost to Brown, it doesn't affect his qualification.
There were more than 10000 foreign viewers watching via TwitchTV, and people were expressing their concerns regarding the actions of Life, and were quite shocked when they knew about the law in Korea which forces youths to go offline after a certain time.
Life is only 15 this year, and he's still a 3rd-grader in middle school. This Korean law which forces youths to go offline applies to youths below the age of 16, and they are not allowed to play online from 12am to 6am.
What gives Life even more of a headache is that he is still a student having his compulsory education in middle school and is unable to miss lessons. As a result, he will be unable to attend the GSL finals press conference held on the morning of the 17th, even though this is a standard for every season of GSL.
Startale's coach has this to say. "Because of the law for the compulsory shutdown, the tournament had to be played earlier, and to have enough attendance at school, Life is unable to attend the press conference in the morning. As a student in middle school, Life faces a lot of restrictions. We can overlook the compulsory education, but now there's this law for the forced shutdown. This makes it really difficult for the player to play to the best of his ability, and I think it's quite a pity."
On October 16 2012 12:50 mordk wrote: It's a good policy... in Asia people have died playing games... died
I don't know if this has happened elsewhere, but the ones that hit the news are always asian
Really.. it's a good policy
I think you're taking this way out of context. The ones that died were doing stupid marathons of gaming for ridiculous hours on end. Far longer amounts of time than what even kespa players practice for.