[SPL] STX SouL vs. EG-Liquid R3 - Page 56

On January 29 2013 04:24 skatblast wrote:


Yeah i know what you mean. He pretty much smashed that sentry immortal all in. Plus he had a gold base. Still lost



I hear people in Code S are terrible.

On January 29 2013 07:36 Grumbels wrote:
I think EG-TL should start to only practice HotS, with perhaps only a few hours of WoL warm-up before proleague. The reason is that most of their players can still coast on past experience, while they can gain an advantage in HotS now that will last them for several months.

On January 29 2013 07:46 Devolved wrote:
I don't particularly agree with Stephano not playing the last few rounds because he has important Code S games coming up. If the Code S games were maybe 1 or 2 days away I could understand, but he hasn't been fielded for weeks with this excuse.

On January 29 2013 04:25 FineAndDandy wrote:



Zenio's games should be played by stephano. Other than that, not much to complain.

HerO is already in the lineup for this match, just not lucky with the map draw to get to that point. Jaedong has played good amount of games recently, with less than expected wins in all-kill format though. Puma as the best terran other than Taeja, he has to replace Taeja with his injury.

2nd tier players need to step up to win some games, can't rely upon only 4 players in regular format. Right now, supporting players can't even win 1 game.

On January 29 2013 08:12 Arzar wrote:
By the way Stephano did a Q/A at the end of his stream session today and some of his answer on the french chat chanel were quite interesting :

1) When it come to proleague, it's the coach and only the coach that take decisions about what player to field, on what map and in what order. The coach also decides who train against who at the gaming house.

2) Stephano doesn't focus that much on GSL. It would be very nice if he can go deep in GSL but he is in Korea first to train and to globally up his level of play. He don't plan to do any special preparation, or some kind of special training for his match in group H, just regular training. (mostly laddering)

On January 29 2013 08:28 Grumbels wrote:

I guess Stephano can't be tamed. He doesn't prepare, he won't practice, it's no wonder that the coach has no faith in him.

On January 29 2013 08:32 4ZakeN87 wrote:


Exactly, he has all his faith in Puma instead.

It feels safe to know the outcome before and I prefer to keep playing the same player over and over while doing it. And god forbid any foreigner should play, no lets keep playing the Koreans with sub 40% win rate.

Still, let's look at their roster they can throw out if they're all in the same place: (T)TaeJa, (P)HerO, (Z)Stephano, (P)JYP, (Z)Jaedong, (T)PuMa, (T)Sea and then one of their strong foreigners like (Z)IdrA, (P)HuK, or (T)ThorZaIN if they like. In a league that is all about having a strong core, when this team is all together, they should dominate the other teams. KeSPA is still trying to catch up to the more experienced ESF players, so the Unholy Alliance will have an advantage especially in the early months of the season. By the end everything could be flipped upside down, but the player line-up is too star studded to bet against.

It's scary how good this team could dominate in the first few months of the league if even half of their main roster can stay in Korea. With Hero, Taeja, Sea, (Z)Zenio, JYP, Jaedong and Puma more than likely staying in Korea for the duration of the Proleague season except for foreign tournaments, you can expect those players to be the heart of the team with Stephano and Idra making cameo appearances every so often.

There is a lot that can go wrong with this newly formed team, but if things even go somewhat right, they will be in the finals come the end of the year. Prepare yourselves, Proleague, you just unleashed a monster into your tournament.

On January 29 2013 08:12 Arzar wrote:
By the way Stephano did a Q/A at the end of his stream session today and some of his answer on the french chat chanel were quite interesting :

1) When it come to proleague, it's the coach and only the coach that take decisions about what player to field, on what map and in what order. The coach also decides who train against who at the gaming house.

2) Stephano doesn't focus that much on GSL. It would be very nice if he can go deep in GSL but he is in Korea first to train and to globally up his level of play. He don't plan to do any special preparation or some kind of special training for his match in group H, just regular training. (mostly laddering)

On January 29 2013 09:14 dsousa wrote:


So..... they're not playing him because he doesn't practice well enough? Puma and Zenio had a greater chance to win on stage in the minds of the coaches?

It just seem like neglect. Its a poor decision from a competative standpoint IMHO, but undoubtedly its a bad move from the stance of "esports". All for the sake of what? Its one thing if its working, but the team performance is just getting worse.

Obligatory

On January 29 2013 09:32 Arzar wrote:

Maybe I worded incorrectly, he obviously practice a *ton* when in Korea. But it's regular practice. He won't do some kind of special training for GSL like when you play only against the race of your opponent of your next match with practice partner, analyze your opponent to death etc.

So all the excuses said in this thread like Stephano is "exempt of PL because he has to prepare to GSL/ can't play PL because he is focusing on GSL/wan't to keep his strat etc" are probably wrong.