[Gfinity] Summer Masters II - Day 1

On September 24 2015 19:57 MorDka wrote:
We will already have a foreigner in the finals and Lilbow is on the other side of the bracket. Is it going to be non korean final again?

On September 24 2015 21:04 Vedeynevin wrote:


I had no clue this was happening. I don't recall seeing it on liquipedia

On September 24 2015 22:23 Knatterking wrote:
Is that Khaldor and BlinG casting?

On September 24 2015 23:04 LDaVinci wrote:
feels like an arranged game. Lilbow floating 3k min, he could have engaged with so much charge zealot when he lost his colossus...

On September 24 2015 23:04 LDaVinci wrote:
feels like an arranged game. Lilbow floating 3k min, he could have engaged with so much charge zealot when he lost his colossus...

On September 24 2015 23:19 Shellshock wrote:
lol Keen beat Lilbow?

On September 24 2015 23:05 Mlord wrote:


"feels like an arranged game" smart to say that, you can't make unit when you have a full min supply block

On September 24 2015 23:49 LDaVinci wrote:


Ok this is probably not the right way to say it. But what I meant is that if the game was arranged, it would not have gone differently.
Just it's not like Lilbow to be in such position with 1 min + of supply block.

When I looked at the game, I kindda saw myself, supply blocked at 150 with 3k in the bank.

Don't get me wrong though. I know Keen is not the common diamond player I meet on the ladder, and a lot of things Lilbow did were great. But somehow it's just disappointment after a great play to throw the game. In his position in the second game I would have more than surely lost too to anyone above diam, I don't even try to be smart and say "no way I would lose, blabla..."

It just feels like he can do much better than that. And he showed today that he's at least korean level to all of those who doubted cause it was still great play for most of the game. But unfortunately "most of the game" doesn't win if you make the last mistake. I think personally wait failed him is his mental that went down after the second game, and I understand that. This is the last barrier he has to overcome to become full korean.

On September 25 2015 01:22 LDaVinci wrote:
Hey, I didn't say he is RO4 GSL and SSL player. Even if Keen is not the strongest, he's far from being the worst of the Korean. Having bad result against really good players doesn't make you bad. He's probably one of the worst, among the best.
It's like if you say about someone who is ranked 150 in tennis that he's so bad cause he lost to someone ranked 120 which is already bad cause he can't win a big tournament. That guy is still f**ing 150, and he can compete with the best, probably not for a whole tournament but take one big game from time to time. And ti continue with this analogy, a player losing to a top player 3 set to 0 has not necessarily been crushed if he lost 6-7 6-7 6-7. The result is the same in the end, but it doesn't tell the same thing about the level of the player.

By the way, in the video, Lilbow said that there wasn't really any big motivation cause he already won the biggest he could achieve (I don't think that's 100% true, but he said so). Well maybe blizzcon is out of reach for now for any non Korean, but he could try to go to Korea with the goal of making it to a RO16. Could be motivating enough.