[Code S] Grand Finals 2013 GSL Season 1 - Page 89

On March 10 2013 06:46 smogg wrote:
First GSL final I didn't watch. And I don't intend to. Roro winning is complete bullshit.

On March 10 2013 06:45 Scrubwave wrote:
Not even 100 pages? Where are the people who had claimed previously that OH YOU'LL WATCH THE FINALS ANYWAY, YOU WON'T FOOL ANYONE, eh?

On March 10 2013 04:35 Severedevil wrote:

At the time of the article -- and for quite some time after the article -- SC2 was dominated by BW has-beens and BW never-will-be's. The GSL was the minor league, which received disproportionate attention solely because it played a newer game than the players who could hack it in the big leagues. Its competition was a farce.

The elephant observation has nothing to do with new powerhouses like Life, who never quit Broodwar for an easier competitive scene. As you say, we never found out whether they could be Broodwar contenders! But the dominant crowd for a long time was Broodwar wash-outs (or, the best of them, a middle-of-the-road A-teamer). They were not champions -- they were the breakfast of champions.

On March 10 2013 09:06 Salivanth wrote:
Why does it have to be either the matchup or the names? Why not both? Some people dislike ZvZ, which reduces the amount of people watching. RorO and Symbol aren't the most popular Zergs, which again reduces the amount of people watching. Not to mention it's WoL, IEM was on, and G-League was on.

The finals were pretty good though, with the exception of the mistake that cost Symbol the last game. I was going for RorO, but it was a fairly anticlimactic end to a great finals.

On March 10 2013 09:11 courtpanda wrote:


good games dont make people watch, pre-game hype does. honestly, roro beating taeja was the worst thing to happen to GOM. TvZ was the premier matchup of WoL, and taeja and symbol are both fan favorites (im an SC2 guy, not a BW guy). and of all the KeSPA players, we would want a bigger name than roro. yes hes an amazing player, but hes hard to hype up.

On March 10 2013 09:11 mordk wrote:

Bullshit, you're basically saying Roro was the stuff of legend when he was actually nothing special. Roro wasn't a champion either, the champions of BW aren't winning anything yet

The article is still wrong and a massive "fuck you" to the SC2 crowd and scene, and should never have been published.

Edit: Toned it down just a tiny little bit

On March 10 2013 08:33 Ace Frehley wrote:
The fact that both Roro and Symbol are not popular didn't help to counterbalance the zvz hate and bitterness about perceived imbalance on zerg. People had to put up with this once with Sniper x Hyun, but at least Hyun had his fight club hype and Sniper had his ladykiller villain aura to hype things a bit. Now symbol and roro had nothing going for them, unfortunately

In the end, people preferred to watch zerg get steamrolled at IEM on HotS

If the finals were DRG x JD, it'd have been way different

On March 10 2013 09:18 edgeOut wrote:


Glad that a 2 year old article still haunt you, one day you can tell your grandson that you fought against that horrific article. Great way to teach your kids to grow up and move on.

On March 10 2013 09:23 mordk wrote:

Bwahahahahaha had a good laugh. What are you even talking about.

People cite the article, (or rather, the "elephant" situation), a discussion ensues, I chime in because it's a hot topic, and BAM, I'm a terrible parent

What the actual fuck

On March 10 2013 09:23 mordk wrote:

Bwahahahahaha had a good laugh. What are you even talking about.

People cite the article, (or rather, the "elephant" situation), a discussion ensues, I chime in because it's a hot topic, and BAM, I'm a terrible parent

What the actual fuck

On March 10 2013 05:53 Rkie wrote:


I feel like it is more of an oversaturation of everything. There is literally always a tournament going on, and it makes each event less impactful.

On March 10 2013 09:30 WoodLeagueAllStar wrote:
Honestly, this thread had like triple the posts of IEM but it ended way before IEM ended so this thread had way more posts per hour. I am worried Blizzard will overnerf and HotS will be ZvZ all day too.

I feel already like the Protoss were bottlenecking Zerg from getting to finals of IEM and if they only nerf Terran they'll kill Terran. Although that would start the Protoss year which is admittedly only fair if they won like 9 months in a row but still.