EPT[WCS Finals] Day 3 Season 3 Grand Finals 2013 - Page 299
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riyanme
Philippines940 Posts
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Elite_
United States4259 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:49 thepuppyassassin wrote: Dear will NOT win Blizzcon. I suspect he won't even make it to the ro4 either. He's painted himself as a target and In SC2 the way it works is if your on the radar it's much too easy to go in and dissect your play. Sadly, winning this championship was the worst thing Dear could have done for his chances. Plus he has the guy that 3-0'd Rain in the Season 2 finals as his first opponent. ;o | ||
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Willzzz
United Kingdom774 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:43 Thrillz wrote: First guy to win his region (the hardest) and the finals. Double title hold is pretty impressive. And Maru repeated his GSL run too, only losing to the eventual champion Dear and showing some really impressive games while doing so. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
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Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:51 Elite_ wrote: Plus he has the guy that 3-0'd Rain in the Season 2 finals as his first opponent. ;o Summer is over | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:51 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: So Dear only just made challenger league in S2, and now wins S3 global finals. That means theres hope for all of us! In a few months YOU could win WCS. I'm already a winner. I get all this free entertainment | ||
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Green_25
Great Britain696 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:47 tdt wrote: LOL I never took another protoss seriously as taking over for MC until now and that includes when parting, seed, rain and other upstarts had their runs. Dear wont be figured out too dynamic. The thing is you can't point to some gimmick he is relying on, Parting had Soultrain, SOS had the crazy DT zealot archon stargate timing weirdness, Hero is addicted to fancy plays and Rain is too predictable. Dear is just super solid with great macro/micro/decision making. | ||
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havok55
United States276 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:51 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: So Dear only just made challenger league in S2, and now wins S3 global finals. That means theres hope for all of us! In a few months YOU could win WCS. As long as you're in WCS Kor CL now. | ||
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Willzzz
United Kingdom774 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:49 thepuppyassassin wrote: Dear will NOT win Blizzcon. I suspect he won't even make it to the ro4 either. He's painted himself as a target and In SC2 the way it works is if your on the radar it's much too easy to go in and dissect your play. Sadly, winning this championship was the worst thing Dear could have done for his chances. Yeah I mean if he'd won GSL he'd never have won here because people would have studied his play. Hang on a second.. | ||
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JazzJackrabbit
Canada1272 Posts
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10bulgares
352 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:49 thepuppyassassin wrote: Dear will NOT win Blizzcon. I suspect he won't even make it to the ro4 either. He's painted himself as a target and In SC2 the way it works is if your on the radar it's much too easy to go in and dissect your play. Sadly, winning this championship was the worst thing Dear could have done for his chances. This and I also wonder how he will handle his success mentally. He said he put a lot of efforts in his GSL win (and I assume in this one). How long can he keep on training like a madman like this? | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
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havok55
United States276 Posts
His path to victory shall be Taeja > Alive > Maru/Innovation > MMA/Polt | ||
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lolfail9001
Russian Federation40190 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:54 Green_25 wrote: The thing is you can't point to some gimmick he is relying on, Parting had Soultrain, SOS had the crazy DT zealot archon stargate timing weirdness, Hero is addicted to fancy plays and Rain is too predictable. Dear is just super solid with great macro/micro/decision making. Well, problem with Dear is that he kinda has help from PartinG, sOs and Rain and probably even some sort of HerO's playstyle study. So he ends up being to Korean toss what Maru is to Prime. | ||
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Steins;Gate
1422 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:49 thepuppyassassin wrote: Dear will NOT win Blizzcon. I suspect he won't even make it to the ro4 either. He's painted himself as a target and In SC2 the way it works is if your on the radar it's much too easy to go in and dissect your play. Sadly, winning this championship was the worst thing Dear could have done for his chances. I disagree, Dear has shown that his play is very dynamic and can play on the fly with pretty damn good mechanics. + Just look at soulkey, soulkey was on the radar yet he's been placing ro8 and higher since 2012 http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Soulkey/Results | ||
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Wingblade
United States1806 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:49 thepuppyassassin wrote: Dear will NOT win Blizzcon. I suspect he won't even make it to the ro4 either. He's painted himself as a target and In SC2 the way it works is if your on the radar it's much too easy to go in and dissect your play. Sadly, winning this championship was the worst thing Dear could have done for his chances. That has happened to players in the past because in the past the best players had play that was innovative and changed the metagame. Stephanos roach max, Partings Soul Train, even the super safe solid play of Rain itself showed how you could play macro Protoss. Innovation's parade push ZvP, and on and on. Those were all things that got "figured out" by their peers. Dear doesn't do some build or strategy that needs figuring out, he just can do all the builds better than everyone else. He has sublime decision making and understanding of timings as well. This sounds like stuff we've heard for past guys, but I think he could be the next Mvp type player | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12033 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:54 JazzJackrabbit wrote: What was the peak viewership at? I think I saw at one point it was around 80k....did it ever get higher than that? The biggest issue with peak viewership with American tournaments is the finals are always on at such a bad time for Europe so the viewers always trail off  | ||
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Green_25
Great Britain696 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:55 havok55 wrote: I just want to watch Dear play Terrans (aggressive, drop-happy ones, which is all of them) all the way into the Grand finals. Dems makes some good makes. Taeja has great TvP, should be an awesome series. But Taeja is a master of ghosts, and actually likes going to late game, so it will be very different. I expect some cheese from Dear. | ||
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Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On October 28 2013 10:57 Wingblade wrote: That has happened to players in the past because in the past the best players had play that was innovative and changed the metagame. Stephanos roach max, Partings Soul Train, even the super safe solid play of Rain itself showed how you could play macro Protoss. Innovation's parade push ZvP, and on and on. Those were all things that got "figured out" by their peers. Dear doesn't do some build or strategy that needs figuring out, he just can do all the builds better than everyone else. He has sublime decision making and understanding of timings as well. This sounds like stuff we've heard for past guys, but I think he could be the next Mvp type player Could be. He just needs to maintain this form for another year or two. | ||
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