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20-Minute-Jackal
Profile Joined May 2015
United States336 Posts
September 22 2015 20:15 GMT
#1001
WTF KT!? I wake up to see sOs reverse-all-killed you!? Right after Flash nearly delivered you an all-kill and this is how you repay God?
b0ub0u
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada445 Posts
September 22 2015 20:23 GMT
#1002
Can someone explain to me the format? The first serie was not winner stay. The second one is? I guess it's a BO3? If they had played a third series would it have been winner stay too?
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
September 22 2015 20:23 GMT
#1003
On September 23 2015 05:23 b0ub0u wrote:
Can someone explain to me the format? The first serie was not winner stay. The second one is? I guess it's a BO3? If they had played a third series would it have been winner stay too?

The last day would have been the same as the first. Normal proleage format different players every map
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swissman777
Profile Joined September 2014
1106 Posts
September 22 2015 20:29 GMT
#1004
People say life was the better choice, but maybe Stats prepared on that map and he was doing good until sOs put a pylon on Stats' natural. I do recognize however that the kt head coach who supposedly makes the decisions was pretty stubborn throughout the year. I just don't know what the KT coach thinks; he's like sOs but doesn't make it work if it isn't SKT. But who are we to blame, Coach Park isn't doing that good too imho.
swissman777
Profile Joined September 2014
1106 Posts
September 22 2015 20:32 GMT
#1005
On September 23 2015 05:23 b0ub0u wrote:
Can someone explain to me the format? The first serie was not winner stay. The second one is? I guess it's a BO3? If they had played a third series would it have been winner stay too?


Nope regular proleague format.
To TL: everyone's asking this question; it'd me nice if you guys make it really obvious on the pro league page.
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24202 Posts
September 22 2015 20:44 GMT
#1006
On September 23 2015 04:51 Silvana wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 04:17 [PkF] Wire wrote:
On September 23 2015 03:57 Silvana wrote:
On September 23 2015 03:50 [PkF] Wire wrote:
On September 23 2015 03:40 rotta wrote:
On September 23 2015 03:31 CakeSauc3 wrote:
Wow, I can't believe they wouldn't field Life to take down sOs. I'm not a Life fan, but I would bet on his zvp.

Yeah, Stats is nowhere near Ace condition right now.

Mind you, neither is Life. Though I would definitely have taken the "great champion wakes up from a long sleep" bet and sent out Life.


In that map tho?

then send Life out earlier. For instance using Life on Vaani then Zest on Echo would have made much more sense to me. Maybe Zest's pride spoke when Vaani came, he said "I shall have my revenge on that very same map", and that didn't end up very well...


I don't really think they can even think about personal pride in such circumstance. They sent Zest because he supposedly prepared that map.

I think if Life showed up in Vaani when he didn't prepare that map then he could have put a poor performance... Remember the guys had only 1 day to practice after being focused on one specific map for a week or more. So in the end it was a choice between 1- sending Life unprepared on Vaani and Zest unprepared on Echo, or 2- send Zest prepared on Vaani and Stats unprepared on Echo. IMO 2- sounds much better.

I think that reasoning doesn't hold. sOs couldn't be prepared on both Vaani and Echo, so in the end it was more a case of sending Life vs sOs then Zest vs sOs on OK maps, rather than sending Zest on a map he lost on yesterday then being pidgeonholed into sending Stats. I'd go for the first option every day. No one will ever know if that would have changed anything, maybe Life gets mauled on Vaani and Zest loses on Echo, but Stats as ace just didn't sound right.
Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
September 22 2015 20:50 GMT
#1007
On September 23 2015 05:01 sharkie wrote:
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On September 23 2015 01:58 stuchiu wrote:
Why would you blame the coach for the loss? That makes no sense.


Because KT went from easy champions to 4th place even though their roster is better than last year.
It's only the coach's fault.

Jin Air also improved a lot from last season. The coach change helped them a lot, KT got worse


It's impossible to determine the extents of a coach's influence on the level of a team league squad. KT's performance has been poor this year compared to last, and I'm inclined to put a part of the blame on the coach, but it impossible to reasonably say that it's only the coach's fault. The coach does not play the games. Everything cannot under any circumstances be pinned on him.
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Silvana
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
3713 Posts
September 22 2015 20:52 GMT
#1008
On September 23 2015 05:50 Zealously wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 05:01 sharkie wrote:
On September 23 2015 01:58 stuchiu wrote:
Why would you blame the coach for the loss? That makes no sense.


Because KT went from easy champions to 4th place even though their roster is better than last year.
It's only the coach's fault.

Jin Air also improved a lot from last season. The coach change helped them a lot, KT got worse


It's impossible to determine the extents of a coach's influence on the level of a team league squad. KT's performance has been poor this year compared to last, and I'm inclined to put a part of the blame on the coach, but it impossible to reasonably say that it's only the coach's fault. The coach does not play the games. Everything cannot under any circumstances be pinned on him.


True. And this is why we need you to get in touch with Life again and get some info on wtf is going on
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24202 Posts
September 22 2015 20:56 GMT
#1009
On September 23 2015 05:52 Silvana wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 05:50 Zealously wrote:
On September 23 2015 05:01 sharkie wrote:
On September 23 2015 01:58 stuchiu wrote:
Why would you blame the coach for the loss? That makes no sense.


Because KT went from easy champions to 4th place even though their roster is better than last year.
It's only the coach's fault.

Jin Air also improved a lot from last season. The coach change helped them a lot, KT got worse


It's impossible to determine the extents of a coach's influence on the level of a team league squad. KT's performance has been poor this year compared to last, and I'm inclined to put a part of the blame on the coach, but it impossible to reasonably say that it's only the coach's fault. The coach does not play the games. Everything cannot under any circumstances be pinned on him.


True. And this is why we need you to get in touch with Life again and get some info on wtf is going on

If Life loses to Lilbow at Blizzcon (or barely wins Lilbow and fails horribly next round), threads about him burning out and slumping will be legitimate. As for me, I'll hold any judgement until Blizzcon. That kind can catch fire at any time.
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
September 22 2015 21:00 GMT
#1010
On September 23 2015 05:56 [PkF] Wire wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 05:52 Silvana wrote:
On September 23 2015 05:50 Zealously wrote:
On September 23 2015 05:01 sharkie wrote:
On September 23 2015 01:58 stuchiu wrote:
Why would you blame the coach for the loss? That makes no sense.


Because KT went from easy champions to 4th place even though their roster is better than last year.
It's only the coach's fault.

Jin Air also improved a lot from last season. The coach change helped them a lot, KT got worse


It's impossible to determine the extents of a coach's influence on the level of a team league squad. KT's performance has been poor this year compared to last, and I'm inclined to put a part of the blame on the coach, but it impossible to reasonably say that it's only the coach's fault. The coach does not play the games. Everything cannot under any circumstances be pinned on him.


True. And this is why we need you to get in touch with Life again and get some info on wtf is going on

If Life loses to Lilbow at Blizzcon (or barely wins Lilbow and fails horribly next round), threads about him burning out and slumping will be legitimate. As for me, I'll hold any judgement until Blizzcon. That kind can catch fire at any time.

The problem is that Life should be the Zerg ace for KT in proleague, that has to be important to him as well, otherwise he probably shouldn't have joined KT :/
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24202 Posts
September 22 2015 21:03 GMT
#1011
On September 23 2015 06:00 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 05:56 [PkF] Wire wrote:
On September 23 2015 05:52 Silvana wrote:
On September 23 2015 05:50 Zealously wrote:
On September 23 2015 05:01 sharkie wrote:
On September 23 2015 01:58 stuchiu wrote:
Why would you blame the coach for the loss? That makes no sense.


Because KT went from easy champions to 4th place even though their roster is better than last year.
It's only the coach's fault.

Jin Air also improved a lot from last season. The coach change helped them a lot, KT got worse


It's impossible to determine the extents of a coach's influence on the level of a team league squad. KT's performance has been poor this year compared to last, and I'm inclined to put a part of the blame on the coach, but it impossible to reasonably say that it's only the coach's fault. The coach does not play the games. Everything cannot under any circumstances be pinned on him.


True. And this is why we need you to get in touch with Life again and get some info on wtf is going on

If Life loses to Lilbow at Blizzcon (or barely wins Lilbow and fails horribly next round), threads about him burning out and slumping will be legitimate. As for me, I'll hold any judgement until Blizzcon. That kind can catch fire at any time.

The problem is that Life should be the Zerg ace for KT in proleague, that has to be important to him as well, otherwise he probably shouldn't have joined KT :/

yeah I definitely agree signing Life isn't turning out to be a good decision, for reasons I don't know he just didn't perform well for KT, which is what he gets a big paycheck every month for. But I still have faith in Life as a champion.
dazed25
Profile Joined August 2014
3566 Posts
September 22 2015 21:56 GMT
#1012
On September 23 2015 02:20 stuchiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 02:17 Zealously wrote:
On September 23 2015 01:58 stuchiu wrote:
Why would you blame the coach for the loss? That makes no sense.


Likely because it's very hard to believe that KT's consistently mediocre performance in Proleague this year (compared to last) came about randomly. It's always difficult to say how much influence coaches have on results (individual or team efforts), but there is a remarkable difference between KT of last year and KT of this year, and I don't think their roster is any worse now than then.


The natural rebuttal then is that Ryu Won has been one of the most consistent coaches of all time.


There is such a thing as overcoaching. And a coach that can get the best out of mediocre players may not be suited as a coach to deal with more talented players that have an ego. It happens in sports all the time.

You can't blame it entirely on the coaches because they aren't the ones in the booth but anyone that has been following KT this year will agree there is a lack of chemistry and negative energy around the team. Also some very visible coaching blunders over the course of the year. This isn't just some knee jerk fan reaction over a loss. KT has been mediocre throughout this year and dragged itself into season playoffs due to some one-off explosive performances and Zest.
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OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
September 22 2015 22:29 GMT
#1013
On September 23 2015 03:14 stuchiu wrote:
Here is how I saw Day 1.

Flash and Life lost because they were outplayed.
sOs/Pigbaby won off of prep, but the way they won was so out of eft field that no one should have been able to predict what they were going to do.
Super won off prep.

Ryu Won cannot literally go into the game and make Flash/Life play better.

Here'"s how I see it : any coach > that Ryu Won scrub who made KT go from PL champions to 4th place. It's not even about losing to JAGW, that's just a match in a season which is nothing, it's about the way they played terribly during the whole fucking season despite having always a top3 toss (Stats or Zest), the best Zerg in the world when he was bought, and two traditional PL monsters (TY and FlaSh). I don't know if you realize : KT, 2014 PL champions, were basically carried to the season playoffs thanks to Zest. It means there's something very wrong about the team, and since the players didn't change much, and we can only assume that environment didn't change much either, well... that leaves us only with the coaching, be it relationships with players or method of training.
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The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-22 22:34:58
September 22 2015 22:33 GMT
#1014
Well said!
I wonder if they will change the coaching staff and/or players for next season.
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
September 22 2015 22:36 GMT
#1015
On September 23 2015 07:29 OtherWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 03:14 stuchiu wrote:
Here is how I saw Day 1.

Flash and Life lost because they were outplayed.
sOs/Pigbaby won off of prep, but the way they won was so out of eft field that no one should have been able to predict what they were going to do.
Super won off prep.

Ryu Won cannot literally go into the game and make Flash/Life play better.

Here'"s how I see it : any coach > that Ryu Won scrub who made KT go from PL champions to 4th place. It's not even about losing to JAGW, that's just a match in a season which is nothing, it's about the way they played terribly during the whole fucking season despite having always a top3 toss (Stats or Zest), the best Zerg in the world when he was bought, and two traditional PL monsters (TY and FlaSh). I don't know if you realize : KT, 2014 PL champions, were basically carried to the season playoffs thanks to Zest. It means there's something very wrong about the team, and since the players didn't change much, and we can only assume that environment didn't change much either, well... that leaves us only with the coaching, be it relationships with players or method of training.


All Ryu Won ever did was get multiple championships and top placings for Slayers, WJS and JA. All he was ever given was high praise by his peers and players. Yes surely it must be his fault!
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Silvana
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
3713 Posts
September 22 2015 22:37 GMT
#1016
Maybe Ryu Won was still working secretly for Jin Air all year long...
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
September 22 2015 22:40 GMT
#1017
On September 23 2015 07:36 stuchiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2015 07:29 OtherWorld wrote:
On September 23 2015 03:14 stuchiu wrote:
Here is how I saw Day 1.

Flash and Life lost because they were outplayed.
sOs/Pigbaby won off of prep, but the way they won was so out of eft field that no one should have been able to predict what they were going to do.
Super won off prep.

Ryu Won cannot literally go into the game and make Flash/Life play better.

Here'"s how I see it : any coach > that Ryu Won scrub who made KT go from PL champions to 4th place. It's not even about losing to JAGW, that's just a match in a season which is nothing, it's about the way they played terribly during the whole fucking season despite having always a top3 toss (Stats or Zest), the best Zerg in the world when he was bought, and two traditional PL monsters (TY and FlaSh). I don't know if you realize : KT, 2014 PL champions, were basically carried to the season playoffs thanks to Zest. It means there's something very wrong about the team, and since the players didn't change much, and we can only assume that environment didn't change much either, well... that leaves us only with the coaching, be it relationships with players or method of training.


All Ryu Won ever did was get multiple championships and top placings for Slayers, WJS and JA. All he was ever given was high praise by his peers and players. Yes surely it must be his fault!

What kind of logic is that? Because he did good things in the past it automatically means he will always be on the same level of coaching, regardless what happens around him?
Euh, no.
This obviously also applies to KT's players and their performance last year, but both parties are probably to blaim here and it is more common to change the coach, then all/most of the players
IU | Sohyang || There is no God and we are his prophets | For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” | Ignorance is the parent of fear |
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
September 22 2015 22:43 GMT
#1018
Players arent chess pieces, they all have ups and downs in skill range and so do the other teams.

Blaming coaching staff as the major factor is just scapegoating. I'm not saying it was or wasnt his fault, but no one can verify or even back up that claim. People's skills and results go up and all down all the time regardless of coach/team. It could just as easily be the case that Ryu Won is a great coach, but doesnt work well with this team or the team as a whole failed to execute what they practiced.

Also you dont need team synergy to win in SC2 team leagues, what?
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Silvana
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
3713 Posts
September 22 2015 22:44 GMT
#1019
Why are we trash talking Ryu Won anyways? I think if we are to blindly blame someone here it has to be H.O.T. no?
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
September 22 2015 22:45 GMT
#1020
On September 23 2015 07:44 Silvana wrote:
Why are we trash talking Ryu Won anyways? I think if we are to blindly blame someone here it has to be H.O.T. no?


Anyone even know what a manager does?
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