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Stop arguing about what is or isn't killing tournaments.
MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
January 19 2013 18:08 GMT
#1921
Galatukas
VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG
r1flEx
Profile Joined October 2012
Belgium256 Posts
January 19 2013 18:08 GMT
#1922
shave socke and give him thinner body = SCARLETT!
Swiv
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany3674 Posts
January 19 2013 18:09 GMT
#1923
them assassin gloves
[_] Terran [_] Zerg [_] Protoss [X] Random ------- Fantasy - hyvaa - sOs
Prog455
Profile Joined April 2012
Denmark970 Posts
January 19 2013 18:09 GMT
#1924
On January 20 2013 02:43 Hiea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 02:36 goswser wrote:
On January 20 2013 02:34 vthree wrote:
On January 20 2013 02:31 Prog455 wrote:
On January 20 2013 02:21 BretZ wrote:
On January 20 2013 02:20 stuchiu wrote:
I wonder if its the downtime or the IT nerf that is helping protoss do so well in this tournament.


I've honestly been wondering that the whole weekend. Is the IT nerf that bad for WoL?

My HoTS games in PvZ have been going well when I'm usually losing convincingly. Does it really deter people that much to avoid ITs?


I don't think it is bad for WoL, quite the opposite actually. But i do think that Zerg is doing worse because of the Infestor nerf. Next to every Zerg game i have seen the last few months has been an Infestor based build. Now that these builds don't work as well anymore Zerg players are forced to come up with new builds, and they may not have adapted quite yet.

I am really looking forward to see how this patch is going to affect Zerg in future tournaments. I know that the term "patchzerg" is frowned upon, but i nevertheless think that it is a little funny the first tournament after Infestor nerf, has the worst Zerg representation of any major tournament in the last six months


I think it has more to do with the line up more than anything.

If you look at the IPL Korean qualifiers, zergs are doing better than fine.

Not really the lineup actually has a lot of strong zergs if you look at it. A lot of it has to do with the group distribution, which resulted in most zerg players losing in group stages. You can't really take a single tournament such as the ipl qualifier to make a balance statement. Only two zergs did well - Jaedong, who is amazing, and Symbol, who scraped by multiple rounds with 2:1 wins.

As far as IEM goes, then there were not a large amount of top tier zergs, with only Snute, Nerchio and VortiX being part of the top, where as the rest is middle ish class, with bly/golden inbetween it all. I didn't see every game in the group stages, but I have seen all of the playoff, and TLO's play was disappointing, he got ahead and then just didn't follow it up properly, and Nerchio just played extremely greedy and got crushed.

And for the IPL, I don't even know how many of those games were shown, but probably not a huge amount, so you can't comment on that, and what is wrong with 2-1 wins?


I know that there has not been as many top tier Zergs at this tournament, but i actually think that is all the more reason to discuss whether patchzerg was a thing or not. If you look at Dreamhack Bucharest it was basicly the same Zergs that is playing in this tournament. This was a tournament with 8 Zergs in RO16 and a ZvZ final. Patchzerg was never used to describe players such as DRG or Stephano, but rather a lot of the relatively unknown European Zergs who was all of a sudden winning alot.
Bam Lee
Profile Joined June 2012
2336 Posts
January 19 2013 18:09 GMT
#1925
goddamn it kas and his buddy. Who knows what will happen to socke if he beats kas....
kafkaesque
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Germany2006 Posts
January 19 2013 18:10 GMT
#1926
On January 20 2013 03:05 Godwrath wrote:
Socke to Grubby : "See ? That's how it's done."



Socke doesn't have to face IM fucking Yoda.
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Roman666
Profile Joined April 2012
Poland1440 Posts
January 19 2013 18:10 GMT
#1927
On January 20 2013 03:06 Bagration wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:05 DaNom wrote:
On January 20 2013 02:56 Bagration wrote:
Don't know who I'd rather see win, Kas or Socke.

Either way, as a history buff, this tournament reminds me of the partitions of Poland, with Germany, Russia (yes Kas is Ukrainian, but Ukraine used to be part of Russia), but instead of Austria, we have Korea, and they look to be taking most of Poland :p

Really bad comparision, what common do have an Esports event with such a dark period of history (for Poland at least)? Stop beggining the flame wars.


Sorry

Bah, Poland owns Korea in handball at this very moment.
joeschmo
Profile Joined January 2011
United States167 Posts
January 19 2013 18:10 GMT
#1928
That guy next to Kas is ready to stab a neck
Hiea
Profile Joined March 2012
Denmark1538 Posts
January 19 2013 18:11 GMT
#1929
On January 20 2013 03:10 kafkaesque wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:05 Godwrath wrote:
Socke to Grubby : "See ? That's how it's done."



Socke doesn't have to face IM fucking Yoda.

He already did.

Socke won.
BeaTeR
Profile Joined March 2003
Kazakhstan4130 Posts
January 19 2013 18:11 GMT
#1930
On January 20 2013 03:09 Bam Lee wrote:
goddamn it kas and his buddy. Who knows what will happen to socke if he beats kas....

i think he's kas' brother
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10165 Posts
January 19 2013 18:12 GMT
#1931
On January 20 2013 03:10 kafkaesque wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:05 Godwrath wrote:
Socke to Grubby : "See ? That's how it's done."



Socke doesn't have to face IM fucking Yoda.


Socke did 2-1 Yoda ;p
kafkaesque
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Germany2006 Posts
January 19 2013 18:13 GMT
#1932
On January 20 2013 03:11 Hiea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:10 kafkaesque wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:05 Godwrath wrote:
Socke to Grubby : "See ? That's how it's done."



Socke doesn't have to face IM fucking Yoda.

He already did.

Socke won.


What?

Artosis' ironic voice:

"Is he the best player in the world right now?"
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stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
January 19 2013 18:14 GMT
#1933
I like this double stalker build. The poke always tells him if T is doing a 2 base or 3 base build.
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eGoRama
Profile Joined July 2011
Bulgaria1542 Posts
January 19 2013 18:14 GMT
#1934
Damn I was at work today just arrived home. YES First, crush them. How were the games?
Kasaraki
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Denmark7115 Posts
January 19 2013 18:15 GMT
#1935
On January 20 2013 03:13 kafkaesque wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:11 Hiea wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:10 kafkaesque wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:05 Godwrath wrote:
Socke to Grubby : "See ? That's how it's done."



Socke doesn't have to face IM fucking Yoda.

He already did.

Socke won.


What?

Artosis' ironic voice:

"Is he the best player in the world right now?"


Tasteless sarcastic voice:

"Is Socke the next zerg bonjwa?"
Hiea
Profile Joined March 2012
Denmark1538 Posts
January 19 2013 18:15 GMT
#1936
On January 20 2013 03:14 stuchiu wrote:
I like this double stalker build. The poke always tells him if T is doing a 2 base or 3 base build.

How so? There isn't gonna be any additional marines from a 1rax expo into 3rax or a 3CC build.
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
January 19 2013 18:16 GMT
#1937
On January 20 2013 03:15 Hiea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:14 stuchiu wrote:
I like this double stalker build. The poke always tells him if T is doing a 2 base or 3 base build.

How so? There isn't gonna be any additional marines from a 1rax expo into 3rax or a 3CC build.


There are additional marines. First game there were 4. In this game there were 7.
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Killmouse
Profile Joined August 2010
Austria5700 Posts
January 19 2013 18:18 GMT
#1938
trademark german harassment???? rofl
yo
Hiea
Profile Joined March 2012
Denmark1538 Posts
January 19 2013 18:18 GMT
#1939
On January 20 2013 03:16 stuchiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:15 Hiea wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:14 stuchiu wrote:
I like this double stalker build. The poke always tells him if T is doing a 2 base or 3 base build.

How so? There isn't gonna be any additional marines from a 1rax expo into 3rax or a 3CC build.


There are additional marines. First game there were 4. In this game there were 7.

Nope, you will have that amount of marines if you don't stop the production of marines, which is done a lot by terran players to get buildings out quicker.
kafkaesque
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Germany2006 Posts
January 19 2013 18:18 GMT
#1940
On January 20 2013 03:15 Kasaraki wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 20 2013 03:13 kafkaesque wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:11 Hiea wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:10 kafkaesque wrote:
On January 20 2013 03:05 Godwrath wrote:
Socke to Grubby : "See ? That's how it's done."



Socke doesn't have to face IM fucking Yoda.

He already did.

Socke won.


What?

Artosis' ironic voice:

"Is he the best player in the world right now?"


Tasteless sarcastic voice:

"Is Socke the next zerg bonjwa?"


Man I'm suffering from serious Tastosis-withdrawal...

I haven't seen these guys in months.
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