EPTIt doesn't make sense.
Anyone in their line of work identifies a problem with their tools, would switch tool. I know it's a bad analogy, still though!
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Lhewoo
7 Posts
It doesn't make sense. Anyone in their line of work identifies a problem with their tools, would switch tool. I know it's a bad analogy, still though! | ||
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imre
France9263 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:40 Lhewoo wrote: What i don't understand is why do players stick to the race so damn hard. I mean it's their living bread. If they feel they are at a disadvantage they should switch. Why doesn't Inno switch to Z or P. Why this hanging on when it's obvious the game designer is drugged up, and loose money an entire year. It doesn't make sense. Anyone in their line of work identifies a problem with their tools, would switch tool. I know it's a bad analogy, still though! Because it's super hard to switch races, not that much skill transfer over | ||
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:39 deacon.frost wrote: There's a reason why we didn't have a good foreign Terran who would be able to win something hard for years now. So no offense to your fanboism and Serral, but nope, he would be worse. It's not just about mechanics, the race needs to fit your style. I agree. I actually checked a while back that the last non-Korean Terran who won a premier tournament was in 2012 when ThorzaiN won a Dreamhack (I believe) | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:40 Lhewoo wrote: What i don't understand is why do players stick to the race so damn hard. I mean it's their living bread. If they feel they are at a disadvantage they should switch. Why doesn't Inno switch to Z or P. Why this hanging on when it's obvious the game designer is drugged up, and loose money an entire year. It doesn't make sense. Anyone in their line of work identifies a problem with their tools, would switch tool. I know it's a bad analogy, still though! Because they realize that learning a different race to get back to a similar level you had with the other race will take longer than it will take Blizzard to patch the game. | ||
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nojok
France15845 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:39 Elentos wrote: Very unfortunate for soO. The attack was too fast for him to either get enough roaches or get enough mutas. The map is too small, zerg need more time to be able to react. | ||
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Penev
28512 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:41 Akio wrote: I agree. I actually checked a while back that the last non-Korean Terran who won a premier tournament was in 2012 when ThorzaiN won a Dreamhack (I believe) uthermal won an IEM | ||
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Jasper_Ty
101 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:41 Akio wrote: I agree. I actually checked a while back that the last non-Korean Terran who won a premier tournament was in 2012 when ThorzaiN won a Dreamhack (I believe) uThermal won an IEM once but it was region locked so it's a bit of a stretch | ||
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:40 Xain0n wrote: What do you mean? During this tournament it seems Serral is playing more aggressively than he did at BlizzCon, maybe relying on the fact everyone expects him to go for a safe route? Or maybe it's just that Nydus is too good to be overlooked. You missed PiG commenting that Serral had amazing plasticity of brain that allows him to adapt to every situation better than his opponents. | ||
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lolfail9001
Russian Federation40190 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:40 Lhewoo wrote: What i don't understand is why do players stick to the race so damn hard. I mean it's their living bread. If they feel they are at a disadvantage they should switch. Why doesn't Inno switch to Z or P. Why this hanging on when it's obvious the game designer is drugged up, and loose money an entire year. It doesn't make sense. Anyone in their line of work identifies a problem with their tools, would switch tool. I know it's a bad analogy, still though! I only recall a small handful of successful race switches and even then they were inter-game race switches (i.e. switcher went from race he kept playing after BW to another). It's far harder to play other races at top level than it looks. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:40 Lhewoo wrote: What i don't understand is why do players stick to the race so damn hard. I mean it's their living bread. If they feel they are at a disadvantage they should switch. Why doesn't Inno switch to Z or P. Why this hanging on when it's obvious the game designer is drugged up, and loose money an entire year. It doesn't make sense. Anyone in their line of work identifies a problem with their tools, would switch tool. I know it's a bad analogy, still though! Yeah, I don't understand that either. I mean if you're a good plastic surgeon you should be able to operate a complicated tumor in the brain, why ask some other specialist. You just identify the problem and change your expertise. | ||
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
Oh my bad, must've missed that | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:41 Akio wrote: I agree. I actually checked a while back that the last non-Korean Terran who won a premier tournament was in 2012 when ThorzaiN won a Dreamhack (I believe) Liquid Bunny actually won a tournament with a 30,000 $ prize pool and over 3k WCS points on the line but that wasn't enough for it to be put under Premier on Liquipedia. And then Thermy won an IEM in 2016. | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:41 Akio wrote: I agree. I actually checked a while back that the last non-Korean Terran who won a premier tournament was in 2012 when ThorzaiN won a Dreamhack (I believe) Yeah, but non-Korean Terrans couldn't beat Protoss with 1-1-1. I have no idea what was up with that. | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:39 RampancyTW wrote: His scouting is just unbelievable He just always gets the info he needs, except for those pesky stealth Battlecruisers Don't think it was really possible to scout these, except maybe if he built 10 overseers and suicided them. ^^ | ||
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Xain0n
Italy3963 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:39 deacon.frost wrote: There's a reason why we didn't have a good foreign Terran who would be able to win something hard for years now. So no offense to your fanboism and Serral, but nope, he would be worse. It's not just about mechanics, the race needs to fit your style. I am quite sure Zerg is the most fitting race for Serral but he likes Terran and he's comfortable with them. I don't think he would be remotely as good with Terran as he is with Zerg, but I'd see him fighting for a WCS tournament, for sure; he may not as well, of course. | ||
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imre
France9263 Posts
he destroyed Neeb's brain in the process, amazing final if you like when one player dismantle the other and pick him apart. | ||
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
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argonautdice
Canada2719 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:43 Elentos wrote: Liquid Bunny actually won a tournament with a 30,000 $ prize pool and over 3k WCS points on the line but that wasn't enough for it to be put under Premier on Liquipedia. And then Thermy won an IEM in 2016. It's because that tournament had 9 invited spots out of 12 total players. | ||
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Elentos
55566 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:43 HolydaKing wrote: Don't think it was really possible to scout these, except maybe if he built 10 overseers and suicided them. ^^ A bonjwa would have identified what was going on via Star Sense. Suck it Serral fanboys. | ||
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Lhewoo
7 Posts
On March 03 2019 01:41 Elentos wrote: Because they realize that learning a different race to get back to a similar level you had with the other race will take longer than it will take Blizzard to patch the game. I think there are lots of benefits of switching. I seem to remember Neeb switched. He's not exactly regretting it. | ||
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