With IEM Katowice World championships just around the corner, there will be 3 Regional Qualifiers held to send 3 players on an all expense paid trip to the Championships to compete for the $100,000 grand prize! This qualifier will send One from the European regional server to the event.
Premium Qualifier Cup Restrictions
You must have an active ESL Premium membership. More information here
There is no Region Requirement! You can live anywhere in the world and participate!
All games are played on Europe Stacraft 2 server regardless of location!
Winner recives a spot in IEM Katowice!
You must be at least 16 years of age by March 13th 2014 ( the date of the LAN event)
Hotel and flight cost are paid for in full by ESL.
Qualifier Date and Brackets
Date: Sunday February 9th at 14:00 CET -VIEW BRACKETS Date In Your Local Time: Saturday, Feb 08 1:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
Best of 3 and Best of 5 a map veto (removal and pick) system is used. The high seeded player(seeds can be found at round 1 on the grid page) decides who starts. Players take it in turn removing maps until only 3 maps remain in a best of 3. Then each player picks a map. Maps are played in order they are picked. The remaining map is played last.
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On February 09 2014 22:07 Aeromi wrote: Rofl Grubby just said " Ta gueule " which means " Shut the fuck up " to Ghost. The whole chan is a mess, they are voting for the most BM player. ._.
On February 09 2014 22:07 Aeromi wrote: Rofl Grubby just said " Ta gueule " which means " Shut the fuck up " to Ghost. The whole chan is a mess, they are voting for the most BM player. ._.
On February 09 2014 22:07 Aeromi wrote: Rofl Grubby just said " Ta gueule " which means " Shut the fuck up " to Ghost. The whole chan is a mess, they are voting for the most BM player. ._.
isnt ghost korean, why is he talking french with him? je n'ai pas compris
On February 09 2014 22:07 Aeromi wrote: Rofl Grubby just said " Ta gueule " which means " Shut the fuck up " to Ghost. The whole chan is a mess, they are voting for the most BM player. ._.
isnt ghost korean, why is he talking french with him? je n'ai pas compris
On February 09 2014 22:07 Aeromi wrote: Rofl Grubby just said " Ta gueule " which means " Shut the fuck up " to Ghost. The whole chan is a mess, they are voting for the most BM player. ._.
isnt ghost korean, why is he talking french with him? je n'ai pas compris
On February 09 2014 22:17 DarkLordOlli wrote: Lol, HerO with probably the easiest bracket ever. His hardest opponents up until quarterfinals would be Sortof/HasuObs
we all know it he is going to throw sooner or later
On February 09 2014 22:46 messioso wrote: Website is deciding to hate me today so things are going slow on the default wins and score entering. Apologies!
On February 09 2014 22:46 messioso wrote: Website is deciding to hate me today so things are going slow on the default wins and score entering. Apologies!
Apologies accepted.
Can't help to chuckle, seeing Paranoid being the first players to gratefully jump onto a logical apology for a problem that leaves plenty of space for imagination to what might be causing it.
On February 09 2014 23:05 BaneRiders wrote: Surprised to see so few people in the qualifier. Maybe the IEm format is not appealing? In any case, this will be interesting as it is!
You have to purchase premium to participate. It weeds out a lot of people who would normally just participate for the experience.
On February 09 2014 23:05 BaneRiders wrote: Surprised to see so few people in the qualifier. Maybe the IEm format is not appealing? In any case, this will be interesting as it is!
You have to purchase premium to participate. It weeds out a lot of people who would normally just participate for the experience.
On February 09 2014 22:46 messioso wrote: Website is deciding to hate me today so things are going slow on the default wins and score entering. Apologies!
I've been really enjoying these qualifiers due to casting alone, besides the qualifiers producing good games overall, espec korea. Kaelaris + Apollo are great for these things, good commentary but not too much repetition/explanation, good time-filling between games and during the boring part. Hope they cast a large part of the finals together.
Wasn't that a very risky move-out from Polt? If Patience greets him midmap with ~10 stalkers, doesnt Polt just die? Feels like he misread the game completely and Patience just punted it.
On February 09 2014 23:59 DJHelium wrote: Wasn't that a very risky move-out from Polt? If Patience greets him midmap with ~10 stalkers, doesnt Polt just die? Feels like he misread the game completely and Patience just punted it.
If Stim ain't ready there's a high chance of that happening.
On February 09 2014 23:59 DJHelium wrote: Wasn't that a very risky move-out from Polt? If Patience greets him midmap with ~10 stalkers, doesnt Polt just die? Feels like he misread the game completely and Patience just punted it.
If Stim ain't ready there's a high chance of that happening.
Like even with stim, there was only one or two marauders there. Patience can just engage and if Polt stims he blinks away and then slays the low hp marines.
On February 09 2014 23:59 DJHelium wrote: Wasn't that a very risky move-out from Polt? If Patience greets him midmap with ~10 stalkers, doesnt Polt just die? Feels like he misread the game completely and Patience just punted it.
If Stim ain't ready there's a high chance of that happening.
Like even with stim, there was only one or two marauders there. Patience can just engage and if Polt stims he blinks away and then slays the low hp marines.
Just amazes me how little Patience actually micros his units. Every engagement he loses his sentrys because of A move, almost so you could call it "trashy".
On February 10 2014 00:31 Tobblish wrote: Just amazes me how little Patience actually micros his units. Every engagement he loses his sentrys because of A move, almost so you could call it "trashy".
Why would he micro if it's not necessary to win. Sad but understandable.
On February 10 2014 00:31 Tobblish wrote: Just amazes me how little Patience actually micros his units. Every engagement he loses his sentrys because of A move, almost so you could call it "trashy".
Why would he micro if it's not necessary to win. Sad but understandable.
Don't worry he has 'beautiful defense' by storming the entire screen
On February 10 2014 01:17 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Did Strelok mech vs Grubby? Is he still meching TvP like he was a few months ago? His series vs Revenge has been really fun so far.
On February 10 2014 01:17 Liquid`Jinro wrote: Did Strelok mech vs Grubby? Is he still meching TvP like he was a few months ago? His series vs Revenge has been really fun so far.
On February 10 2014 01:16 IAmWithStupid wrote: Some high quality TvT on Strelok's stream!
100% agreed.
The first game - that he lost - was bio atleast, dont know about the others
From what I've seen he mixes in a mech game quite often (as in, more often than the vast majority of TvPers, but that's not hard), but he plays bio at least 50% of TvP, probably more.
On February 10 2014 01:43 sparklyresidue wrote: This map is such a pain in the ass for Zerg, it's so hard to find a good angle of attack.
what was the map? didn't recognize it. (Assuming you're talking about Snute vs Polt)
Heavy Rain (ladder map). It's not like imbalanced hard, you just have to be very map aware and there are a lot of chokes and valleys to get totally owned in.
On February 10 2014 01:48 The_Templar wrote: Developing into a lazerz war in Elfi vs Harstem game 2, Elfi getting a much faster third base. Two base allin from Harstem?
On February 10 2014 01:48 The_Templar wrote: Developing into a lazerz war in Elfi vs Harstem game 2, Elfi getting a much faster third base. Two base allin from Harstem?
On February 10 2014 01:37 NovaMB wrote: HerO 2-0 Alicia
Already wtf?!
He's clearly learned from his series vs MC
HerO's decisionmaking in those games was phenomenal, he just got too aggressive with his army movement D:
And forgot +3 T___T
Yeah, I think even that would've been fine if he'd just chilled and waited for more colossi since MC's robo was down
Hero just tries to play too cute for his own good sometimes with his drops and then if/when the player stabilises their army is much bigger. Against a passive player it can be very good because they might not press their advantage but against a player like MC who has that killer instinct he will just go and kill you every time
This was such an un Polt game. The fact that he left those units in the middle to be killed and didn't respond to the helions is just not like him at all
Polt Not sure what's up with his shape of late, he seems to lose every time I watch him. It's painful but perhaps I am jinxing him and should avoid all contact for a while
On February 10 2014 02:12 coloursheep wrote: Who is this revenge guy?
A guy I thought was really terrible until... Three hours ago?
Sounds like you know more about him then me, I had no idea he existed till now... What's his background, where did he come from? Who was he? On what team?
On February 10 2014 02:12 coloursheep wrote: Who is this revenge guy?
A guy I thought was really terrible until... Three hours ago?
Sounds like you know more about him then me, I had no idea he existed till now... What's his background, where did he come from? Who was he? On what team?
Plays for Alien Invasion, lives in Germany I think. As far as I know he didn't really make it far in ESL's Pro League (EPL) so I just kind of assumed that he wasn't too good.
On February 10 2014 02:12 coloursheep wrote: Who is this revenge guy?
A guy I thought was really terrible until... Three hours ago?
Sounds like you know more about him then me, I had no idea he existed till now... What's his background, where did he come from? Who was he? On what team?
Plays for Alien Invasion, lives in Germany I think. As far as I know he didn't really make it far in ESL's Pro League (EPL) so I just kind of assumed that he wasn't too good.
It's hard to tell if he's making Polt look ridiculous, or if Polt is pulling it off all by himself...
On February 10 2014 02:12 coloursheep wrote: Who is this revenge guy?
A guy I thought was really terrible until... Three hours ago?
Sounds like you know more about him then me, I had no idea he existed till now... What's his background, where did he come from? Who was he? On what team?
Plays for Alien Invasion, lives in Germany I think. As far as I know he didn't really make it far in ESL's Pro League (EPL) so I just kind of assumed that he wasn't too good.
It's hard to tell if he's making Polt look ridiculous, or if Polt is pulling it off all by himself...
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
It's his highest rated matchup and he did just beat ShoWTimE so... who knows... ;s
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
Did Revenge participate in the EPS at all?
He got top 8 in a single cup as far as I know.
And no, contrary to what JustPassingBy said, his TvP is his best match-up.
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
Did Revenge participate in the EPS at all?
He got top 8 in a single cup as far as I know.
And no, contrary to what JustPassingBy said, his TvP is his best match-up.
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
On February 10 2014 02:36 The_Templar wrote: Wonder how Revenge's TvP is going to do... very likely that's all he'll play until this tournament is over
Not good, I attribute him underperforming in the German scene to that. D:
and carriers etc still its far from optimal vs lategamezerg. Grubby had an evenbigger army yesterday, cause he had NO workers left (had 20 k minerals, 15k gas) still he lost, because he couldnt engage the zerg. zerg was smart enough to make infestors, killed grubby's arm over and over again just with fungals and pulling by vipers, although grubby had 75% of the map he then gave up, shouting in anger "thank you blizzard for the amazing lategame matchup" :D
Wouldn't a sky army consisting mainly of carriers be much scarier?
Sort of, you don't need more then 5 tempest, the resources would be better spent into more voids or carriers.
I'm no pro, But I don't think Dimaga would of lost all his corruptors if he didn't have all those tempest.
Tempest are garbage vs Corrupters, they deal way to little DPS and are massive, if the zerg flyers close in they die very fast and not very cost efficiently. However if he tried to do that against Void rays then all the Corrupters would melt, since Voids deal bonus to armor + prismatic alignment and Corrupters are armored.
It's not scary at all vs. what Dimaga had, but he decided to sacrifice all his corruptors for some reason.
I don't see how he could beat that with corruptors tbh
He was going to win by slowly moving forward with his forest of spines, spores, and swarmhosts. Obviously he couldn't go out with the corruptors in a direct engagement, but the idea is to keep pulling a couple units at a time while locusts put on constant pressure.
On February 10 2014 02:57 plogamer wrote: So, is Polt knocked out?
Yes, remember me last time when Polt managed to qualify for an event outside of free win AM region?
So salty. He's only a parttime player.
I mean that he is usually good at the events itself then in prelims no offense here but I doubt he would qulaify for any IEM if he played in Asian region
On February 10 2014 02:57 plogamer wrote: So, is Polt knocked out?
Yes, remember me last time when Polt managed to qualify for an event outside of free win AM region?
So salty. He's only a parttime player.
I'll watch his games even if he loses. It's just the way Polt plays. So intuitive, stable, safe but flexible. Perfect to emulate for my ladder. <3 <3 <3
On February 10 2014 03:04 Mozdk wrote: In spite of whine, terran should never really lose on this map. Just hold and all in if coming and drop drop drop.
In spite of counter-whine, protoss should never really lose on this map. Just hold the drops if coming, and aoe aoe aoe (due to the map being full of chokes and lack of open spaces).
On February 10 2014 03:04 Mozdk wrote: In spite of whine, terran should never really lose on this map. Just hold and all in if coming and drop drop drop.
In spite of counter-whine, protoss should never really lose on this map. Just hold the drops if coming, and aoe aoe aoe (due to the map being full of chokes and lack of open spaces).
If you can hold 1 medivac drop, he goes for 3. If you can hold that he goes for doom drop. If you can hold that... then you wont be able to hold the 3rd. That's pretty much how this map plays out in TvP if P goes for 3 bases at any point.
Revenge is killing some really strong TvTers. Very interesting. Still, I don't really see the people from the bottom half of the bracket not qualifying.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
I watched the same thing in the SSL9 just the other day. I am sure you know which game I am talking about.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
What does this have to do with SC2 ? Both guys didn't play very good and are not top players . If you want better TvP games go watch Parting vs TY or something.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
What does this have to do with SC2 ? Both guys didn't play very good and are not top players . If you want better TvP games go watch Parting vs TY or something.
I'm pretty sure I didn't say SC2 vs "anything else". But yes, I groan whenever I observe poor unit control like that.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
What does this have to do with SC2 ? Both guys didn't play very good and are not top players . If you want better TvP games go watch Parting vs TY or something.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
that moved over hyun and other well players. Hmm does that tell us a mid tier foreigner is better then a high tier korean, or that that tell me, with some races it is easier to win, then with others. Where is the foreigner terran that gets that far?
On February 10 2014 03:32 Nirel wrote: Does anyone Know who Revenge is?
It begins to stop being funny.
Sorry for not knowing every Korean Terran especially in these T dominating times. I think I saw his name in some tournys but I don't know anything about him.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
On February 10 2014 03:32 Nirel wrote: Does anyone Know who Revenge is?
It begins to stop being funny.
Sorry for not knowing every Korean Terran especially in these T dominating times. I think I saw his name in some tournys but I don't know anything about him.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
that moved over hyun and other well players. Hmm does that tell us a mid tier foreigner is better then a high tier korean, or that that tell me, with some races it is easier to win, then with others. Where is the foreigner terran that gets that far?
I don't know what's funnier, the broken English or the "protoss ez 1a race" bit.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
that moved over hyun and other well players. Hmm does that tell us a mid tier foreigner is better then a high tier korean, or that that tell me, with some races it is easier to win, then with others. Where is the foreigner terran that gets that far?
It tells us that playing from Korea puts you at an enormous disadvantage
On February 10 2014 03:32 Nirel wrote: Does anyone Know who Revenge is?
It begins to stop being funny.
Sorry for not knowing every Korean Terran especially in these T dominating times. I think I saw his name in some tournys but I don't know anything about him.
On February 10 2014 03:27 wangstra wrote: And this is why I hate SC2. Instead of controlling groups of units, we have protoss sending useless zealots after air units.
You hate SC2 because Harstem is a mid-tier foreigner? ok
that moved over hyun and other well players. Hmm does that tell us a mid tier foreigner is better then a high tier korean, or that that tell me, with some races it is easier to win, then with others. Where is the foreigner terran that gets that far?
I don't know what's funnier, the broken English or the "protoss ez 1a race" bit.
does this come from the doubleposter-pro, that doesnt know how to edit, or that doesnt get sarcasm ("terran domination" answered with "are u high?") Guess my english is fine (my autoinput/correct maybe not), propably not the best, but who cares on the internet, where you cannot even write easy but have to do it the cool way "ez" right? Didn't say it is easy in general, just some strats are easier to pull of at lower levels then with other races. Maybe in Korea it is balanced, we will see in the future when more tournaments like code a and s are being played and we have a higher number of played games...
On February 10 2014 03:50 Destructicon wrote: This certainly has been the day of upsets.
That KR-EU lag. I remember when all the ex-oGs guys got absolutely slaughtered in the WCS EU qualifiers last year. Also Genius was fairly shaky too.
Finally, StarDust vs Dear!
Yeah I know, but I was more or less thinking of Revenge, guess it just goes to show, there are always hidden gems in infinite depths of Code B.
Well I guess technically anyone who's not in the GSL is considered Code B, but Revenge has been in Germany for like half a year now? More even, I think. Hasn't had much activity prior to that as far as I know.
On February 10 2014 03:32 Nirel wrote: Does anyone Know who Revenge is?
It begins to stop being funny.
Sorry for not knowing every Korean Terran especially in these T dominating times. I think I saw his name in some tournys but I don't know anything about him.
The thing is that you make the question that was answered about 3-4 times already in this thread just type his name in search to see if there was the same question or not before asking.
On February 10 2014 03:53 DarkLordOlli wrote: This is a really smart mindgame by Dear
Really smart conflip?
Yeah! See that's a korean coinflip. Proxying something with your second pylon and double gas is a super fast stargate 99% of the time. The way you respond to this is chronoboosting stalkers into your mineral line and teching to blink. In other words no detection.
Why are they not getting the ESL casters in this game? Pre- game 2 lobby took forever until they started, at an admin's request no less, surely they could've gotten at least one of Apollo or Kaelaris into it?
On February 10 2014 04:28 mythandier wrote: Who the heck is Revenge and why haven't I heard of him?
Because even if you'd heard of him you would probably have forgotten him
nah Zealously you're just a chobo, no matter how you try to justify this :D
On February 10 2014 04:35 Destructicon wrote: Well, if you only watch premier tournaments and not even the qualifiers, like I do, then its quite easy for a lot of good players to evade your gaze.
On February 10 2014 04:40 stuchiu wrote: I've known who revenge was for a long time. Do I get bonus points?
You get them when he wins something! I got bonus points for being a finale hipster
You win if he comes back out of retirement.
That's really unfair, if you do that then everyone who was ever a hipster will insa-lose all his points once his player retires, and retirement is just like death and taxes.
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
Really? Because if I had to point out a main characteristic of Polt's TvT across the years it would be his Bio (especially bio vs mech). Funnily enough from what I caught he seems to have lost in marine-tank vs marine-tank.
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
Really? Because if I had to point out a main characteristic of Polt's TvT across the years it would be his Bio (especially bio vs mech). Funnily enough from what I caught he seems to have lost in marine-tank vs marine-tank.
His vTaeja games last year were full of marine-tank I believe
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
Really? Because if I had to point out a main characteristic of Polt's TvT across the years it would be his Bio (especially bio vs mech). Funnily enough from what I caught he seems to have lost in marine-tank vs marine-tank.
At the end of WoL, he was the best bio vs bio player and had only ever lost one series to Ryung.
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
Really? Because if I had to point out a main characteristic of Polt's TvT across the years it would be his Bio (especially bio vs mech). Funnily enough from what I caught he seems to have lost in marine-tank vs marine-tank.
His vTaeja games last year were full of marine-tank I believe
Maybe, but as stuchiu also pointed out, he is probably the most iconic pure Bio TvT player.
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
Really? Because if I had to point out a main characteristic of Polt's TvT across the years it would be his Bio (especially bio vs mech). Funnily enough from what I caught he seems to have lost in marine-tank vs marine-tank.
At the end of WoL, he was the best bio vs bio player and had only ever lost one series to Ryung.
Hm, I've seen a lot of Polt and it was always his marine-tank that I loved most, although that includes his vZ. I remember when MLG was actually improving production and had the FP feeds, watching him do his 3 Fac 2/2 timing and splitting across about 3 screens, unbelievable.
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
No shame in losing to Jjakji, albeit I'm not sure what is going on in TvT atm. Marine-tank and positioning that composition was always Polt's main strength in that matchup and it seems to me that it's a bit more mech-centric of late. Could be wrong though!
Really? Because if I had to point out a main characteristic of Polt's TvT across the years it would be his Bio (especially bio vs mech). Funnily enough from what I caught he seems to have lost in marine-tank vs marine-tank.
At the end of WoL, he was the best bio vs bio player and had only ever lost one series to Ryung.
Hm, I've seen a lot of Polt and it was always his marine-tank that I loved most, although that includes his vZ. I remember when MLG was actually improving production and had the FP feeds, watching him do his 3 Fac 2/2 timing and splitting across about 3 screens, unbelievable.
Speaking of Polt's not-TvT, isn't it funny that he's responsible for popularizing some of the most hated builds? (1/1/1 timing push and hellion-marauder vZ) ^^
On February 10 2014 04:54 herMan wrote: Who the fuck is revenge?
p.s Polt's tvt seems to be pretty shitty lately. 0-2 here and 0-3 by jjakji in sao paulo
In these games, jjakji is 69–24 (74.19%) in games and 36–10 (78.26%) in matches.
jjakji's TvT in HotS. Barring his loss vs Happy at HSC8 (which could have been a 2-0 as jjakji threw away quite a huge lead in the first game), he only lost TvT masters such as Bomber, Flash or Maru in the past few months. Polt is also part-time, so odds are his play cannot be as clean as jjakji's.
On February 10 2014 05:36 Wombat_NI wrote: I don't understand how people can't be a HerO fan. The style, the highs, the throws, the sheer intensity! Ah tis fun
Also he had just warped in 7 templar right when Stardust engaged. If the 4 archons were ready and fighting instead of morphing at the time of the fight HerO had it
On February 10 2014 05:44 Zealously wrote: I must say that when I looked at the line-up I did not expect Revenge vs Stardust in the finals
Yeah of course, easy to say it now...
When you even need a mod message on top to tell you who a player is...
It is one of my favourite mod notes. Maybe in a few months someone will discover this LR thread and wonder why the mods felt the need to explain who Revenge is.
I like players who teams take a punt on and give them a chance to express their talent, and who remain and play in the region they compete in, giving better practice for those players. Stardust was about the only streamer I watched who wasn't on the featured sidebar for quite some time, think he was called SsonLight or something at that stage? Cool to see him make his breakthrough when it happened
Honourable other mentions ofc, but I do like the Stardust story the best
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
I think he's in the mYi house for as long as he can legally stay, much like StarDust.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
On February 10 2014 05:44 HolydaKing wrote: Europe holds! Stardust ftw.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
Supposedly he's sporting a 90% win ratio on EU.
I guess hes #1 GM atm, 70% win ratio. Dear is also in there with 80%(with way less games though)
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
And he's facing Revenge, an "all-European" finals.
What a hold
Stardust wins in WCS EU: "Damn Koreans... Europeans can compete" Stardust wins in something else: "EUROPE HOLDS!"
Is that really true of Stardust? He was living in Europe even before the WCS EU started. He is our Polt.
Our Polt is Jjakji
Has Jjakji moved permanently to Europe? I thought he would come for WCS and leave again, as MMA and Duckdeok etc. did last year. Although I may have that wrong.
He moved
Cool. That will improve the ladder and help people in Europe practice. I'm all in favour of that.
Also, Revenge looked a little poor in that game. A bit disappointing.
Protoss is such an intricate race that takes a lot of multitasking and finesse to play. It's like you can't ever mess up on macro or micro to play Protoss.
On February 10 2014 06:30 kckkryptonite wrote: Protoss is such an intricate race that takes a lot of multitasking and finesse to play. It's like you can't ever mess up on macro or micro to play Protoss.
On February 10 2014 06:30 kckkryptonite wrote: Protoss is such an intricate race that takes a lot of multitasking and finesse to play. It's like you can't ever mess up on macro or micro to play Protoss.
On February 10 2014 06:30 kckkryptonite wrote: Protoss is such an intricate race that takes a lot of multitasking and finesse to play. It's like you can't ever mess up on macro or micro to play Protoss.
Trying to bait Romanians?
We need a mod for that
Please don't stop posting this, I feel like most people have forgotten about it! XD
On February 10 2014 06:30 kckkryptonite wrote: Protoss is such an intricate race that takes a lot of multitasking and finesse to play. It's like you can't ever mess up on macro or micro to play Protoss.
Trying to bait Romanians?
We need a mod for that
Please don't stop posting this, I feel like most people have forgotten about it! XD
Well, I did get temporarily permabanned for the first time I posted it, I'll keep shoving it down people's throats as long as I can
On February 10 2014 06:30 kckkryptonite wrote: Protoss is such an intricate race that takes a lot of multitasking and finesse to play. It's like you can't ever mess up on macro or micro to play Protoss.
On February 10 2014 06:46 kckkryptonite wrote: BEAUTIFUL MICRO by stardust out playing revenge all three games with clean macro mechanics and beautiful storms.
On February 10 2014 06:46 kckkryptonite wrote: BEAUTIFUL MICRO by stardust out playing revenge all three games with clean macro mechanics and beautiful storms.
are you implying stardust won this because of imbalance?
I guess the Terran didn't make enough bunkers? Btw, I didn't watch the game. I'm here just because of that ridiculous (had to google for correct spelling) nerd rage post.
On February 10 2014 07:02 ReMinD_ wrote: I guess the Terran didn't make enough bunkers? Btw, I didn't watch the game. I'm here just because of that ridiculous (had to google for correct spelling) nerd rage post.
On February 10 2014 07:02 ReMinD_ wrote: I guess the Terran didn't make enough bunkers? Btw, I didn't watch the game. I'm here just because of that ridiculous (had to google for correct spelling) nerd rage post.
4 Bunkers, dead after the first blink
You need 6 bunkers with improved building armor and neosteel frame and 3 marauders in each bunker to hold it and keep the game going
On February 10 2014 07:02 ReMinD_ wrote: I guess the Terran didn't make enough bunkers? Btw, I didn't watch the game. I'm here just because of that ridiculous (had to google for correct spelling) nerd rage post.
4 Bunkers, dead after the first blink
You need 6 bunkers with improved building armor and neosteel frame and 3 marauders in each bunker to hold it and keep the game going
You know what, tomorrow I'll play a game and streamline towards this setup, just to see how long it would take
On February 10 2014 06:46 kckkryptonite wrote: BEAUTIFUL MICRO by stardust out playing revenge all three games with clean macro mechanics and beautiful storms.
are you implying stardust won this because of imbalance?
I'm implying StarDust is an amazing player and Revenge isn't as good as he got heavily outplayed all three games.
Revenge got good so fast... when he came from korea, he was like a mid gm terran, i could beat him from time to time. for like 2 months now, he beats top pros regularly, and now he does this.
EPT
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