On July 18 2013 11:50 Branman wrote:
It also helps that the foreigners in this season of WCS America are far better than the invitees of last season. State, hellokitty, Capoch, Fenix, Maker, and Killer are nowhere near the level of puCK, DeMusliM, and the Chinese players.

are you saying that me beating a korean makes me a shit player?

nam nam

Sweden4672 Posts

July 18 2013 05:20 GMT

#304

On July 18 2013 11:18 Bagration wrote:

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It's one of those questions that keep me up at night: Should casters point out the mistakes and criticize bad play (Khaldor-Wolf style) or should they try to focus on positives?

I mostly have a problem with caster casting a game with two lesser players (relative to the best of the world) and just take the easy road out and criticize everything they do needlessly. It would be like a professional commentator casting a game from a lower division in soccer and just keep bashing them because they are not doing things as well as Barcelona. That's not how you do it. You cast to the level of play you are seeing and you don't point out the same things in a game between two NA pros as you do in a game with two of the best Korean's playing each other. Same goes for the praise.

Olli

Austria24422 Posts

July 18 2013 06:21 GMT

#305

YEAAAAAAAH Chadwick!

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

July 18 2013 06:25 GMT

#306

On July 18 2013 15:21 DarkLordOlli wrote:
YEAAAAAAAH Chadwick!

Community preview so close

AlternativeEgo

Sweden17309 Posts

July 18 2013 09:07 GMT

#307

Minigun got his revenge? Not bad, Chad.

Lorning

Belgica34432 Posts

July 18 2013 09:45 GMT

#308

Never excpected Minigun to get out, good job

{ToT}ColmA

Japan3260 Posts

July 18 2013 10:07 GMT

#309

good performance by minigun, not a high quality group thou, i think apocalypse is one of the weakest "pro" terrans next to dragon

Sirrush

Netherlands165 Posts

July 18 2013 10:49 GMT

#310

On July 18 2013 14:06 hellokittySC2 wrote:

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are you saying that me beating a korean makes me a shit player?

No, he's not saying that you're shit, he's saying that you're not at the skill level of the latter group. Beating /a/ Korean is not a measure of skill in and of itself (and that Korean completely bombed out of WCS, which IS an indication of his skill level).

nihlon

Sweden5581 Posts

July 18 2013 12:07 GMT

#311

On July 18 2013 19:49 Sirrush wrote:

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But it's not like puck or the Chinese players, or even demuslim that he mentioned have all that much results to speak of either. Seems a bit random to draw the line there.

Sirrush

Netherlands165 Posts

July 18 2013 15:09 GMT

#312

On July 18 2013 21:07 nihlon wrote:

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But it's not like puck or the Chinese players, or even demuslim that he mentioned have all that much results to speak of either. Seems a bit random to draw the line there.

Puck defeated two Koreans to get into Challenger (Sage & HyuN), most of the Chinese players defeated multiple Korean in both Challenger and Premier Qualifiers and then again in their Challenger League brackets/groups, as did DeMusliM. The people on the first list were all given free passes into Premier League and then failed to retain those spots (and two of those even dropped out of Challenger), while the latter three fought their way in from the qualifiers against Premier level competition.

Not /that/ arbitrary, tbh.