[MLG] Day 3 Winter Championship - Page 569

On March 19 2013 01:55 WigglingSquid wrote:
Are there HD vods for Flash vs Innovation game 2? The only ones listed on MLG are low quality.

On March 19 2013 02:05 THM wrote:
Blizzard please don't make balance changes until we see more!

On March 19 2013 01:19 DODswe4 wrote:


this mlg was quite stacked with good players. many who went out early could have made it to the semifinals

On March 19 2013 02:17 blackone wrote:


Sure, but you need an MLG subscription.

On March 18 2013 22:58 Irre wrote:
Absolutely loved this MLG. I think HotS is looking great the top 4 players at that tournament definitely came in top 4. Life and Flash played just insanely well throughout. I think Flash needs to have more up his sleeve in TvZ, that was his downfall, but Life's timings were really difficult to stop. I think both Polt, Innovation and Last showed better overall TvZ, but flash was better mechanically than them (well at least polt and last), so he will eventually get there. MC also showed a lot of early good ideas and builds to keep Terran on their toes in the early game, and I think in GSL you are going to see a lot of innovation coming from the protoss and zergs pretty quick. Overall, HotS really is a big step up from WoL, mechanics seem to really mean a lot more and the better players will win more of the time. Less randomness may be a downfall for foreigners who are lacking that, but as a fan of the game I think the result is better. All Korean games sunday and the viewership was very strong, we don't have anything to worry about!

As for MLG feedback:
Overall amazing event just based on the games and player lineup. I think it was good to have some foreigners in there in the early stages even if their results didn't pan out well. It at least drew more of a crowd to start and then let them fall in love with the game from there. Based on the all Korean sunday numbers it seemed to have been a positive. The venue looked cool and the lighting and camera shots came out pretty well, a little delayed but whatever. Observing was pretty damn good all weekend. The interviews were pretty good, Anna tried her best but I feel maybe too many interviews of the same players over and over..we don't need to have a winners interview of the same player 5 times. Flash was probably getting sick of it lol!

I really hope that MLG tries to improve on the speed of series. The downtime between each game in the matches was probably extremely frustrating for the players, and it made Bo5 drag on for way too long. GSL does this much much better. Also, the analysis desk was overused. Day9 did provide some good insight here and there, but we really don't need to have a 5 minute analysis of every single game, especially when the game was pretty straightforward. This added to the downtime issue between games. Frustrating for the players I'm sure.

I think the casting/analysis was subpar. Day9 was actually fairly good analysis wise, but I did not enjoy the casting. It was very tailored to noobies and fanboys rather than actual gameplay. Axeltoss/Axslav was not a great pairing. Day9 Husky was ok for what it was, but the substance was kind of meh and at times it was just so loud and the anti terran bias was just fueling the flames so hard. TotalBiscuit is very professional, and Incontrol has great knowledge. I think they could have been GREAT, but they spent so much time trying to be "funny" and pander to the live crowd that they missed out a lot on substance. I hope that all parties try to improve, and give more of a balance between substance/entertainment.

I rarely say this, but holy crap Blizzard you did such an amazing job with the game. I hope this continues and I hope they will learn from WoL and let things play out. It seemed to be widely accepted in our community that the game was quite imbalanced, but the best players in the world came in and basically completely disproved that. There were little to no upsets, the best players won. Cannot wait for GSL.

[B]On March 19 2013 00:20 TimENT
As for the tournament: Innovation really blew my mind in this tournament. I don't think he made a single mistake vs Leenock or Rain. His second game vs Flash was the most amazing thing I've seen in SC2. People really need to pay attention to how perfectly he played that game. And I mean PERFECT. I also think he was nervous vs Flash which is why he lost his tanks in game 3 and lost the medivac in game 4. I honestly believe if he overcame his nerves he could have beaten Flash 3-0 and Life 4-0. His 9 games prior to game 1 vs Flash he played the most flawless SC2 I think we have ever seen.

On March 19 2013 03:37 KuroYami wrote:

I think after seeing the gsl and now mlg innovation series, innovation is the single strongest Terran player in the world right now. His play in his gsl series was probably the most sophisticated play i have ever seen in sc2.

On March 19 2013 01:46 KingDime wrote:


That is an issue with a lack of a seeding system, not a single elimination tournament. Top seeds usually are in the opposite side of the bracket with third and fourth taking the other quarters. Also they should receive relatively easy rounds initially.

On March 19 2013 01:40 Anchen wrote:
I hope jaedong takes a look at what life did this tournament instead of stephano. I don't know if jaedong still has it in him but the aggressive mechanics orientated strategies involving kings names mutas into powerful late games while microing nearly perfectly is very much what I remember of the tyrant in bw. I hope if he emulates someone or adapts someone's game it will be life and not stephano as it had been.

On the other hand I feel like flash vs life is looking like a great rivalry. In many ways I'm remind of flash vs jaedong except now flash is the elder and life is the young upstart. I hope flash has it in him to win some against life still.

On March 19 2013 06:11 blackone wrote:
They don't, for quite some time now.