• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 00:06
CEST 06:06
KST 13:06
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
uThermal's 2v2 Tour: $15,000 Main Event5Serral wins EWC 202543Tournament Spotlight: FEL Cracow 202510Power Rank - Esports World Cup 202580RSL Season 1 - Final Week9
Community News
SC2's Safe House 2 - October 18 & 191Weekly Cups (Jul 28-Aug 3): herO doubles up6LiuLi Cup - August 2025 Tournaments5[BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder10EWC 2025 - Replay Pack4
StarCraft 2
General
Rogue Talks: "Koreans could dominate again" uThermal's 2v2 Tour: $15,000 Main Event The GOAT ranking of GOAT rankings RSL Revival patreon money discussion thread Official Ladder Map Pool Update (April 28, 2025)
Tourneys
SC2's Safe House 2 - October 18 & 19 LiuLi Cup - August 2025 Tournaments $5,100+ SEL Season 2 Championship (SC: Evo) WardiTV Mondays RSL Season 2 Qualifier Links and Dates
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 485 Death from Below Mutation # 484 Magnetic Pull Mutation #239 Bad Weather Mutation # 483 Kill Bot Wars
Brood War
General
ASL Season 20 Ro24 Groups Player “Jedi” cheat on CSL BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ StarCraft player reflex TE scores BW General Discussion
Tourneys
KCM 2025 Season 3 Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL20] Online Qualifiers Day 2
Strategy
Fighting Spirit mining rates [G] Mineral Boosting Simple Questions, Simple Answers Muta micro map competition
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Total Annihilation Server - TAForever Beyond All Reason [MMORPG] Tree of Savior (Successor of Ragnarok)
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine The Games Industry And ATVI European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
INnoVation Fan Club SKT1 Classic Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread [Manga] One Piece Movie Discussion! Korean Music Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Gtx660 graphics card replacement Installation of Windows 10 suck at "just a moment" Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TeamLiquid Team Shirt On Sale The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Gaming After Dark: Poor Slee…
TrAiDoS
[Girl blog} My fema…
artosisisthebest
Sharpening the Filtration…
frozenclaw
ASL S20 English Commentary…
namkraft
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 622 users

[OSL] Grand Finals WCS Korea Season 2 2013 - Page 21

Forum Index > StarCraft 2 Tournaments
Post a Reply
Prev 1 19 20 21 22 23 212 Next
Read this before posting.
Maks
Profile Joined December 2010
Ukraine167 Posts
August 09 2013 12:23 GMT
#401
Boxer, Jaedong, Jangbi and now Rain. Let it happen!
Kim "ZerO" Myung Woon: I think that there is no way to beat a good Terran as Zerg. This is mainly because good mutalisk micro just cannot beat good marine-medic micro.
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
August 09 2013 12:47 GMT
#402
And one more to be fair

[image loading]
AdministratorYOU MUST HEED MY INSTRUCTIONS TAKE OFF YOUR THIIIINGS
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
August 09 2013 13:22 GMT
#403
ho ho ho
[image loading]
TL+ Member
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
August 09 2013 14:40 GMT
#404
hahah cool
Community News
TL+ Member
BronzeKnee
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5217 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-09 14:51:07
August 09 2013 14:45 GMT
#405
On August 01 2013 19:49 juicyjames wrote:


[image loading]


What I love about this picture is that they found a chef and popped Maru's head on, but then they couldn't find a chef holding cheese, so they had to paste that in there too.

On August 09 2013 14:13 Sabu113 wrote:
Don't understand how there can be so many Maru Fans. Rain's play is so beautiful.


I became a Maru fan when I saw how much people disrespected his win over Innovation. Had Innovation won the exact same way 4-0 over Maru people would have credited him as a genius, punishing Maru's greedy play.

But instead people have discredited his win.

There is a lot of underlying ESF vs Kespa here too sadly.
pooga
Profile Joined January 2012
5 Posts
August 09 2013 15:24 GMT
#406
When I wake up tommorow and read that Maru won his first OSL, I will not be surprised.
Badfatpanda
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States9719 Posts
August 09 2013 15:44 GMT
#407
On August 09 2013 23:45 BronzeKnee wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2013 19:49 juicyjames wrote:


[image loading]


What I love about this picture is that they found a chef and popped Maru's head on, but then they couldn't find a chef holding cheese, so they had to paste that in there too.

Show nested quote +
On August 09 2013 14:13 Sabu113 wrote:
Don't understand how there can be so many Maru Fans. Rain's play is so beautiful.


I became a Maru fan when I saw how much people disrespected his win over Innovation. Had Innovation won the exact same way 4-0 over Maru people would have credited him as a genius, punishing Maru's greedy play.

But instead people have discredited his win.

There is a lot of underlying ESF vs Kespa here too sadly.


Maru is one of the most underrated adaptable players of all time. When he came onto the scene, nobody respected him because all he did was allin. I will never forget this, I cast a tournament right after the queen patch where he had 8 TvZ's and he literally proxy 2 rax'd in all but 1 match.

Then as the metagame shifted toward the end of WoL, he developed into this really solid macro player and was just shitting on Protoss left and right, developing a lot of really solid 2 base timings in the process too.

Then enter HotS where he comes out of a bit of a slump to upset nearly everyone in beta tournaments and for a few weeks past release. Incredibly solid macro, OUT FUCKING STANDING decision making, something his teammate MKP has always lacked, and never once did he actually look like he needed to walk across the field and kill his opponent, because he was capable of taking it into the late game.

2 weeks ago he has to face off against the best player in world in a mirror matchup. How does he prepare? Flips the switch again and goes for allin after allin, and trounces his opponent 4-0. The only question left is how he's going to prepare for Rain and what Maru will show up.

People can discredit him all they want but until now we haven't had a young player in the scene be able to adapt to so many different styles in order to win, and with damn good execution. All of the previous youngin's honed their own style and were extremely successful with it for lengths of time, then fell off as it ceased to be as useful.

Both take an equal amount of skill, but are two various strategies to approaching these Korean based tournaments where you have time to prepare against your opponent in advance. Now that Maru's on his game again, we'll have to see how he fares going forward, or if he'll fizzle out.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -Beethoven | Mech isn't a build, it's a way of life. -MajOr | Charlie.Sheen: "What is sarcastic, kids who have no courage to fight?" | #TerranPride #yolo #swag -Naama after 2-0'ing MC at HSC VI
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
August 09 2013 16:14 GMT
#408
I think Maru has been predicted to lose in every single match from the ro32 to now by both the fans and writers and casters (except once by Fionn). At some point you just have to side with Maru.
Moderator
Gudge
Profile Joined June 2013
542 Posts
August 09 2013 17:20 GMT
#409
Good luck Mr. Rain !!
づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ ・。*。・゜✧・。*・゜゜・✧ *。・゜*✧
blobrus
Profile Joined August 2011
4297 Posts
August 09 2013 17:23 GMT
#410
Not super excited for these finals, Maru's playstyle just doesn't entertain me. I'll watch the vods probably, don't really care who wins either way.
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
August 09 2013 17:31 GMT
#411

THIS AUGUST

ALL BAD THINGS MUST COME TO AND END

FULL MEASURES TAKEN

HEISENTOSS IS COMING TO GET YO ASS


[image loading]

Darrkhan
Profile Joined February 2012
Finland1236 Posts
August 09 2013 17:34 GMT
#412
This thread needs more Maru hype
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-09 17:44:04
August 09 2013 17:37 GMT
#413
On August 10 2013 02:34 Darrkhan wrote:
This thread needs more Maru hype

Ok, ask me what time it is
Community News
TL+ Member
Heartland
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Sweden24580 Posts
August 09 2013 17:44 GMT
#414
On August 10 2013 02:37 Lorning wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2013 02:34 Darrkhan wrote:
This thread needs more Maru hype

Ok, ask me what time it is


What... what time is it?
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-09 17:50:03
August 09 2013 17:45 GMT
#415
On August 10 2013 02:44 Heartland wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2013 02:37 Lorning wrote:
On August 10 2013 02:34 Darrkhan wrote:
This thread needs more Maru hype

Ok, ask me what time it is


What... what time is it?

[image loading]

Rain isn't actually smiling in this pic. It's his face of fear.
Community News
TL+ Member
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
August 09 2013 18:09 GMT
#416
On August 10 2013 02:45 Lorning wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 10 2013 02:44 Heartland wrote:
On August 10 2013 02:37 Lorning wrote:
On August 10 2013 02:34 Darrkhan wrote:
This thread needs more Maru hype

Ok, ask me what time it is


What... what time is it?

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]

Rain isn't actually smiling in this pic. It's his face of fear.

TOO.WEAK.Try harder dude. Even the wolves smell fear in my pic!

Btw I made a graphic for maps. Please add to OP
[image loading]
Apoteosis
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile820 Posts
August 09 2013 18:14 GMT
#417
In this finals we will see:

1.- BiyByBit posessing Maru and pulling SCVs here and there.
2.- InCa posessing Rain and warping DTs all over the map.

Mark my words.
Life won like 200k and didn't hire a proper criminal lawyer.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44353 Posts
August 09 2013 18:26 GMT
#418
Such hype! :D

gogo Rain! SKT fighting ^^
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
ffadicted
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3545 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-09 18:29:05
August 09 2013 18:27 GMT
#419
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain
(T)Maru <> (P)Rain


As a less bold prediction, 4-2 Rain
SooYoung-Noona!
Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
August 09 2013 18:28 GMT
#420
13 hourssss hypeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Prev 1 19 20 21 22 23 212 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
RSL Revival
02:00
S2: Americas Server Qualifier
EnkiAlexander 83
davetesta42
Liquipedia
The PiG Daily
23:25
Best Games of EWC
Clem vs Solar
Serral vs Classic
Reynor vs Maru
herO vs Cure
PiGStarcraft466
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
PiGStarcraft466
Nina 238
StarCraft: Brood War
Leta 334
ggaemo 153
NaDa 118
Icarus 7
yabsab 5
Stormgate
WinterStarcraft521
Dota 2
monkeys_forever844
NeuroSwarm133
League of Legends
JimRising 563
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor117
Other Games
summit1g15448
ViBE183
Nathanias34
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick983
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH330
• practicex 31
• Migwel
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• sooper7s
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
StarCraft: Brood War
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo807
• Stunt225
Other Games
• Scarra1028
Upcoming Events
RSL Revival
5h 55m
SC Evo League
7h 55m
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
10h 55m
CSO Cup
11h 55m
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 5h
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
1d 10h
Wardi Open
2 days
RotterdaM Event
2 days
Replay Cast
2 days
WardiTV Summer Champion…
3 days
[ Show More ]
RSL Revival
3 days
PiGosaur Monday
3 days
WardiTV Summer Champion…
4 days
The PondCast
5 days
WardiTV Summer Champion…
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
LiuLi Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

ASL Season 20: Qualifier #2
FEL Cracow 2025
CC Div. A S7

Ongoing

Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
BSL 20 Team Wars
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Qualifiers
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
HCC Europe
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025

Upcoming

ASL Season 20
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
BSL Season 21
BSL 21 Team A
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
SEL Season 2 Championship
WardiTV Summer 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
MESA Nomadic Masters Fall
CS Asia Championships 2025
Roobet Cup 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.