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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/zOp8L86.png) Hi Everyone, I'm pleased to announce another show matches I am going to be putting on! This time, the prize pool has DOUBLED to $400 & has been kindly sponsored by xtornzvt - check him out on twitter. If you would like to contribute, look below for how you can help make more events like this possible! When? (all games are live) Tuesday, Jun 24 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ZVoPzrx.png) Snute (Z) v HuK (P)Snute is still the highest ranking foreigner in WCS, currently just outside of the global final position in 17th spot! While ZvP has been his strongest match up throughout his career, his current form in the match up is a little lower than normal. With over $95k in prize winnings, the Team Liquid player is arguably one of the strongest foreign players in the world! HuK is currently ranked in the #21 spot for non-Koreans and nearly exactly matches Snute in total prize winnings with just over $95k. His first SC2 game was in April 2010 and since then has had many successful runs in major tournaments, specifically MLG and a win in DH Summer 2011! Having had a stint in Korea and GSL Code S - HuK is a formidable opponent! What the stats say: + Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/xAkgBgT.png) The main English stream will be
 Madals VODS: Live on Youtube stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/GamingLive![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/YX0NdaZ.png) There is $400 on the line. Winner gets $300, loser $100.As I said earlier, the $400 prize pool has been kindly sponsored by xtornzvt - check him out on twitter. If you would like to help more events like this happen though, please consider if you could.... ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/WVppov8.png) There are 3 ways you can contribute that will allow me to put on more events in the future. As this is a new venture, please be assured that 100% of revenue is currently going into the prize pool for more events. I am not "paying" myself with these events. So how can you help and contribute?- Subscribe to my twitch channel. It is $5/month but means I have some consistent money to put on this sort of event / show match. More subs = more content.
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Poll: Who will win?Snute (176) 78% HuK (51) 22% 227 total votes Your vote: Who will win? (Vote): Snute
(Vote): HuK
Poll: Who do you WANT to win?Snute (137) 56% HuK (107) 44% 244 total votes Your vote: Who do you WANT to win? (Vote): Snute
(Vote): HuK
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haha what did poor HuK do though
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This is such a sick matchup. HuK is going to get destroyed, but I will enjoy watching it happen.
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Huk's PvZ seems to be quite good atm, beating Scarlett so many times recently (haven't watched the games tho)
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Snute will win 5-1. Huk will pull out a good 8-gate in one game. 
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Sounds good! Where did you get the stats/predictions for the game?
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Snute is going to win this easy, his ZvP is godly ^^
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United States97276 Posts
HuK has been playing better lately but I think Snute is still too strong
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On June 11 2014 04:10 Schelim wrote:
haha what did poor HuK do though
The last time I read a comment with nearly the same content as this one, was:
On March 21 2011 07:24 hifriend wrote:
RO32 Day 3
Before the match
"What sin did adelscott and goody commit?"
"What sin did these foreigners commit?"
I wonder, if you just cursed Snute.
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On June 12 2014 06:11 Xoronius wrote:The last time I read a comment with nearly the same content as this one, was: Show nested quote +On March 21 2011 07:24 hifriend wrote:
RO32 Day 3
Before the match
"What sin did adelscott and goody commit?"
"What sin did these foreigners commit?"
I wonder, if you just cursed Snute.
what does that post refer to? considering the names involved it sounds like it's like 4 years old :O
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xtornzvt saving esports!!!!!!
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Bisutopia19175 Posts
This tournament is funding team TL. I approve.
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Very nice, but maybe Bo7? Bo9 can be really exhausting. 
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On June 13 2014 00:45 Schelim wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2014 06:11 Xoronius wrote:On June 11 2014 04:10 Schelim wrote:
haha what did poor HuK do though The last time I read a comment with nearly the same content as this one, was: On March 21 2011 07:24 hifriend wrote:
RO32 Day 3
Before the match
"What sin did adelscott and goody commit?"
"What sin did these foreigners commit?"
I wonder, if you just cursed Snute. what does that post refer to? considering the names involved it sounds like it's like 4 years old :O
TSL3.
Adelscott > Mvp
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On June 13 2014 04:24 BisuDagger wrote:
This tournament is funding team TL. I approve.
:D
On June 13 2014 04:22 HighdraL1sk wrote:
xtornzvt saving esports!!!!!!
Aww not really but thanks
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On June 13 2014 00:45 Schelim wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2014 06:11 Xoronius wrote:On June 11 2014 04:10 Schelim wrote:
haha what did poor HuK do though The last time I read a comment with nearly the same content as this one, was: On March 21 2011 07:24 hifriend wrote:
RO32 Day 3
Before the match
"What sin did adelscott and goody commit?"
"What sin did these foreigners commit?"
I wonder, if you just cursed Snute. what does that post refer to? considering the names involved it sounds like it's like 4 years old :O
The "darkest day of korean esports", the day in which GSL champions Mvp and Nestea got knocked out of TSL3 by Adelscott and GoOdy respectively, while reigning Blizzcon champion Genius got knocked out by QXC.
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Due to clashes - the showmatch has been moved a day forward - to the 24th June!
Tuesday, Jun 24 6:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)
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Good luck to Huk, the odds are stacked a mile high against you.
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Well, HuK will always try to find the "Gateway" to victory and FAIL MISERABLY! >:D
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5-0 to snute if they both played their best. 5-2 because snute will use some crazy strats that won't work out.
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Well I don't know what the point of organising such showmatch is. This is such a mismatch and showmatches should be all about close games.
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The amount of times I've heard that for the showmatch to then go on and be incredibly close is crazy. I see no reason you shouldn't pit two fan favourites against each other in a less pressured, non-tournament environment.
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Very much looking forward to these games, Madals always has an entertaining casting style!
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Just a few hours left, let's do this, Snute vs HuK!
Expecting awesomeness here :D
sugar daddy approves
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hypehypehype Snute vs HuK will be awesome! Snute!
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While Snute obviously is the favourite here, I think HuK could upset!
Prediction is 5-3 to Snute, with some long ass SH games :D
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Brace yourself, swarmhosts are coming.
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Hmm, I do not know who this @xtornzvt guy are, but he sure does sponsor a lot of events! Thanks everything you are doing by sponsoring these show matches Sir!
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On June 13 2014 06:56 Aeromi wrote:Show nested quote +On June 13 2014 00:45 Schelim wrote:On June 12 2014 06:11 Xoronius wrote:On June 11 2014 04:10 Schelim wrote:
haha what did poor HuK do though The last time I read a comment with nearly the same content as this one, was: On March 21 2011 07:24 hifriend wrote:
RO32 Day 3
Before the match
"What sin did adelscott and goody commit?"
"What sin did these foreigners commit?"
I wonder, if you just cursed Snute. what does that post refer to? considering the names involved it sounds like it's like 4 years old :O TSL3. Adelscott > Mvp
I met Adelscott on ladder once, and beat him (I rushed a widow mine drop and went full allin). :D
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United Kingdom10443 Posts
Should be an awesome showmatch, looking forward to it
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Nice to donate so much to Snute. More beer than usual this week.
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Who is the co-caster with madals ?
A bit disappointed that Source quality is for subscribers only.
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Is the image stuttering a little bit, or is it my stream?
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On June 25 2014 03:12 shabby wrote:
Is the image stuttering a little bit, or is it my stream?
I have the same
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Interesting use of Hallucinations
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How many obs does HuK have?
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This game is incredibly boring, much prefer ling/roach/hydra into muta games, a la the games at MLG. I hope Snute switches it up a bit =/
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Not really close. THroughout that entire trade, Snute didn't lose swarm host numbers.
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your Country52797 Posts
Snute's running out of buildings…?
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This must be the most boring showmatch ever
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On June 25 2014 03:30 The_Templar wrote:
Snute's running out of buildings…?
More drones, cover the map in extractors.
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Don't think Madals should stream in 1080/60fps. Those $2500 he spent on hardware don't seem to do the trick ><
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On June 25 2014 03:32 shabby wrote:
Don't think Madals should stream in 1080/60fps. Those $2500 he spent on hardware don't seem to do the trick ><
Too many protoss building animations while moving the screen is dropping the fps. SC2 isn't exactly designed for FPS/MMO frame rates.
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Whoever are observing these games, step up your job. You're missing most the of the action.
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Was that a six pool? I just came back to see Huk has actual damage on his nexus.
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Tip: Use the French stream instead, much better frame rates. Also better observing.
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your Country52797 Posts
lol HuK, watch that debris
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Could someone please be so kind to post the mapscores?
First Map was Frost which Snute won. And then?
HuK Frost Snute
Huk Alterzim Snute ?
HuK ??? Snute ?
HuK King Sejong Snute
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On June 25 2014 04:22 Benz0 wrote:
Could someone please be so kind to post the mapscores?
First Map was Frost which Snute won. And then?
HuK Frost Snute
Huk Alterzim Snute ?
HuK ??? Snute ?
HuK King Sejong Snute
Soon to beShould have been 3-1. Snute.
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Unfortunately that doesnt help me much... I need to know the maps and who won. Can you tell me please?
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HuK has almost infinite Forcefields.
That was a Roach massacre near HuK's third.
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United States97276 Posts
I'm no pro but I think that engagement may have gone bad for Snute
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Even if Snute has a good Hydra count HuK's Immortal/Sentry army is going to melt it.
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Forcefields makes game so dull...
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your Country52797 Posts
On June 25 2014 04:23 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2014 04:22 Benz0 wrote:
Could someone please be so kind to post the mapscores?
First Map was Frost which Snute won. And then?
HuK Frost Snute
Huk Alterzim Snute ?
HuK ??? Snute ?
HuK King Sejong Snute
Soon to be 3-1. Snute.
HuK beat Snute on Alterzim and Snute won on Overgrowth
And it's 2-2 not 3-1
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As far as i know now the recent score is 2-2:
HuK Frost Snute
Huk Alterzim Snute
HuK ??? Snute
HuK King Sejong Snute
Is that right?! And what was the third map?
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your Country52797 Posts
On June 25 2014 04:39 Benz0 wrote:
As far as i know now the recent score is 2-2:
HuK Frost Snute
Huk Alterzim Snute
HuK ??? Snute
HuK King Sejong Snute
Is that right?! And what was the third map?
See my above post. Overgrowth.
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Didn't see your post until now. Thank you very much!
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On June 25 2014 04:34 The_Templar wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2014 04:23 ThomasjServo wrote:On June 25 2014 04:22 Benz0 wrote:
Could someone please be so kind to post the mapscores?
First Map was Frost which Snute won. And then?
HuK Frost Snute
Huk Alterzim Snute ?
HuK ??? Snute ?
HuK King Sejong Snute
Soon to be Should have been 3-1. Snute. HuK beat Snute on Alterzim and Snute won on Overgrowth And it's 2-2 not 3-1
Servo Jinx. I fixed it anyway
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Okay, I lied, that didn't completely fix it.
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think it was me lagging :O im out of this last game now so it should be better lol
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Surprised it went to game 9. Nice to see that Huk's still got it.
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that was a superb game :O
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On June 25 2014 05:46 jarod wrote:
who won? huk or snute?
Last game starting now
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Huk's making far more of a fight of this than I expected. he's fighting back hard. I have to question Snute's choice of strategy on Alterzim, going hosts twice. It's just no a good build on that map imo.
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Snute should have offraces as toss more games, haha jk.
Huk is making this pretty close
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I heard carriers. I swear I heard it.
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your Country52797 Posts
On June 25 2014 06:00 Dimagus wrote:
I heard carriers. I swear I heard it.
HuK got the carrier upgrade
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HuK played really well, I'm impressed.
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HuK overwhelming
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On June 25 2014 06:05 Arnstein wrote:
Scarlett is better.
Nobody questioned that ever
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That was around 5 good spore hits away from a Snute hold.
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seems like huk is pretty good again.
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Holy sh*t, glad I didn't bet on this series, Huk's performance would've destroyed my money.
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Didn't quite expect that tbh.. Congratz to HuK.
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Norway839 Posts
On June 25 2014 06:09 Strela wrote:
Snute in a slump?
yes. something is wrong with me. ggs
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Snute went full foreigner. He sacrificed 15+ drones trying to make spore crawlers when huk's army was on top of his swarmhost. wtf lol
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Great Games and very entertaining series. GG <3
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On June 25 2014 06:09 ptbl wrote:
Snute went full foreigner. He sacrificed 15+ drones trying to make spore crawlers went huk's army was on top of his sawmhost. wtf lol
probably queued up far beforehand
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United States23455 Posts
On June 25 2014 06:09 Strela wrote:
Snute in a slump?
eh I wouldn't worry too much about showmatches. Polt lost his showmatch to Stephano then made finals at MLG and no one is saying, "Stephano MLG finalist confirmed"
Except me. Right now. Stephano MLG finalist confirmed.
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On June 25 2014 06:07 Nerchio wrote:Nobody questioned that ever
You didn't see the MLG LR?
Anyway, WP Huk, surprisingly strong showing. Not enough protoss play from Snute.
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On June 25 2014 06:07 Nerchio wrote:Nobody questioned that ever
I did and rightfully so. With recent results, she probably overtook him again but a month ago, there was every reason to rate Snute above Scarlett.
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On June 25 2014 06:07 Nerchio wrote:Nobody questioned that ever
Neither gets close to your level though  .
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On June 25 2014 06:22 Musicus wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2014 06:07 Nerchio wrote:On June 25 2014 06:05 Arnstein wrote:
Scarlett is better. Nobody questioned that ever Neither gets close to your level though .
Let's stay modest!
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Pff, Huk isn't even best NA protoss since MLG.
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Hi everyone, thanks for watching - firstly, awesome games from both players; was a pleasure to cast!
Just wanted to touch on a couple of the issues that occurred tonight (will write a longer blog tomorrow):
"lag" on stream. This is, as far as I can tell NOTHING on my side of things, I didn't drop any frames, my FPS in games was solid and stable all evening and my CPU use was never maxing out. I have contacted twitch to try and work it out.
Source only for subs: this is something I tested out for some of tonight (until lag issues). Tonight, the stream gained 1 new subscriber. My goal with this show matches that have been kindly sponsored is to make them self sustaining, so that if sponsors can no longer be found, we can still all enjoy great games. Currently, subs / ad revenue / donations (aside from sponsor) does not even come close to matching the cost of these prize pools, on any of them I have done so far. Source was an experiment to see if people would be more inclined to sub if they got something more for it. I will unlikely do it again.
Observer issue: As always, I am the observer in game. Doing obs, while casting & panicking and trying to work out why some people were getting lag meant that something started to slip - it is something I need to work on a lot. Getting a dedicated obs means another level of production and also another person who may want pay for doing it.
VODs are uploading at the moment, will update when they are done <3
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On June 25 2014 06:55 Squat wrote:
Pff, Huk isn't even best NA protoss since MLG.
Wait, what? I wasn't able to watch day 3 due to uni, what did I miss going on in LR? Did the americans claim Trap or did some hype get ridiculos very fast?
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On June 25 2014 07:48 Xoronius wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2014 06:55 Squat wrote:
Pff, Huk isn't even best NA protoss since MLG. Wait, what? I wasn't able to watch day 3 due to uni, what did I miss going on in LR? Did the americans claim Trap or did some hype get ridiculos very fast?
Scarlett switched to protoss and beat DRG. She is now officially the best NA zerg and protoss.
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On June 25 2014 08:06 Squat wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2014 07:48 Xoronius wrote:On June 25 2014 06:55 Squat wrote:
Pff, Huk isn't even best NA protoss since MLG. Wait, what? I wasn't able to watch day 3 due to uni, what did I miss going on in LR? Did the americans claim Trap or did some hype get ridiculos very fast? Scarlett switched to protoss and beat DRG. She is now officially the best NA zerg and protoss.
Oh. Well, that is a bit of a surprise.
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Thanks for the games!! I don't like the whole "foreigner rating" nonsense. Why not just enjoy smart, entertaining performances in a closely contested series? Any one of Snute's many wins made him seem better -- same with HuK.
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On June 25 2014 06:55 Squat wrote:
Pff, Huk isn't even best NA protoss since MLG.
"What? An NA player beat an EU player in a showmatch? Obviously everyone must think he's the best NA Protoss now! ABSURDITIES!!!!!!!!!!"
Why isn't this thread full of more "wow, well played HuK"'s or, "darn, Snute so close!" etc. This thread needs to practice more.
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On June 25 2014 06:09 Liquid`Snute wrote:yes. something is wrong with me. ggs
The games were super close Snute, there is nothing wrong you fought amazing, mad respect.
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On June 25 2014 12:11 Shinta) wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2014 06:55 Squat wrote:
Pff, Huk isn't even best NA protoss since MLG. "What? An NA player beat an EU player in a showmatch? Obviously everyone must think he's the best NA Protoss now! ABSURDITIES!!!!!!!!!!" Why isn't this thread full of more "wow, well played HuK"'s or, "darn, Snute so close!" etc. This thread needs to practice more.
You may have missed something here,
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Why are you so obsessed with Snute? Every time I see you post something it's something negative about him.
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On June 25 2014 21:10 OKMarius wrote:Why are you so obsessed with Snute? Every time I see you post something it's something negative about him.
How is posting a result something negative?
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One of the best showmatches I've ever watched.. so tense!
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