I'm trying to remember how unknown thorzain was at the time of TSL, he was already a bit hyped due to taking out fruitdealer(and slightly because of nony), but he was going against the best player in the world.
I think the difference here is that LIFE is considered not just one of the best players in the world but also probably the best ZvT player in the world. It's been a while, but I feel that MC (durring TSL3) was not considered super strong in PvT.
Second, Thorzain not only was already on a roll before meeting MC. Sjow hasn't really done anything this tournament that made anyone think that he's anything other than a former "occasional online cup winner".
I think this is by far a greater upset than Tfunk>MC (although that's still one of the top 5 series of all time in my book).
On June 18 2013 03:02 fearus wrote: I still believe Jinro's GSL run was a bigger upset.
People tend to disregard the advantage of home for e-sports but anyone who watches afk-sports knows the disparity between playing at home vs on the road. Koreans especially, don't travel very well.
What Jinro did to the Koreans in Korea surpasses this.
Home advantage is huge, but the level of play was so much lower back then.
I'm trying to remember how unknown thorzain was at the time of TSL, he was already a bit hyped due to taking out fruitdealer(and slightly because of nony), but he was going against the best player in the world.
I think the difference here is that LIFE is considered not just one of the best players in the world but also probably the best ZvT player in the world. It's been a while, but I feel that MC (durring TSL3) was not considered super strong in PvT.
Second, Thorzain not only was already on a roll before meeting MC. Sjow hasn't really done anything this tournament that made anyone think that he's anything other than a former "occasional online cup winner".
I think this is by far a greater upset than Tfunk>MC (although that's still one of the top 5 series of all time in my book).
On June 18 2013 03:02 ChApFoU wrote: Terrible terrible damage done to Life's stock as a code S player. I hope he won't be the laughing stock of his team when he goes back to korea. Like ....
"Yo what happened you lost to a foreigner ? Was it Stephano, yeah he's pretty good and ZvZ is volatile, don't be so depressed bro !"
"Well, I lost to ...... SjoW ......" *bursts out in tears
" WAIT WHAT ? WHO ? ....................... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA !" "He forgot to plug his mouse !" "We should send Life him to America so he can ladder with ppl his level XD !" "We should make a sticky to help him remember that hotkey for morphing Lair into Hive, he forgot it"
*Entire team rolling on the floor laughing, Life exits and heads over the closest bar to get hammered and forget about his pain*
Poor Life :/ Straight back into dishwasher team after Dreamhack T_T;
Oh I think he can bounce back easily enough, especially if he goes back to the Starleague this season and just crushes faces I don't think anyone will care about him losing in Dreamhack.
We will obviously because we care a lot more when foreigners win than the Koreans do.
On June 18 2013 02:42 DustbinBieber wrote: Shit is reminding me of Vortix taking games off MVP when bl/infestor madness was at its peak. I'm pretty sure there's some imbalance involved in SjoW (SjoW lol...) beating Life, grats to him though, good audience.
On June 18 2013 03:02 ChApFoU wrote: Terrible terrible damage done to Life's stock as a code S player. I hope he won't be the laughing stock of his team when he goes back to korea. Like ....
"Yo what happened you lost to a foreigner ? Was it Stephano, yeah he's pretty good and ZvZ is volatile, don't be so depressed bro !"
"Well, I lost to ...... SjoW ......" *bursts out in tears
" WAIT WHAT ? WHO ? ....................... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA !" "He forgot to plug his mouse !" "We should send Life him to America so he can ladder with ppl his level XD !" "We should make a sticky to help him remember that hotkey for morphing Lair into Hive, he forgot it"
*Entire team rolling on the floor laughing, Life exits and heads over the closest bar to get hammered and forget about his pain*
Poor Life :/ Straight back into dishwasher team after Dreamhack T_T;
Roro lost to Idra before.
Life after this will probably stepped up his game a lot more now.
On June 18 2013 03:02 ChApFoU wrote: Terrible terrible damage done to Life's stock as a code S player. I hope he won't be the laughing stock of his team when he goes back to korea. Like ....
"Yo what happened you lost to a foreigner ? Was it Stephano, yeah he's pretty good and ZvZ is volatile, don't be so depressed bro !"
"Well, I lost to ...... SjoW ......" *bursts out in tears
" WAIT WHAT ? WHO ? ....................... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA !" "He forgot to plug his mouse !" "We should send Life him to America so he can ladder with ppl his level XD !" "We should make a sticky to help him remember that hotkey for morphing Lair into Hive, he forgot it"
*Entire team rolling on the floor laughing, Life exits and heads over the closest bar to get hammered and forget about his pain*
Poor Life :/ Straight back into dishwasher team after Dreamhack T_T;
On June 18 2013 02:52 chisuri wrote: eSF such a disgrace for Korea. Sjow didn't do anything remotely close to top level there and Life lost to that...
And why do people call Life best player in the world? When was the last time he won a competetion with a roster of top Korean players? He lost 2 last GSLs and the OSL as well as WCS, right?
If you're going to be stupid please be stupid somewhere else
Quote has nothing to do with it but u are not life #1fan anymore?
EPT
