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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
March 02 2019 18:41 GMT
#1681
well that wasn't even close now was it
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
March 02 2019 18:41 GMT
#1682
On March 03 2019 03:37 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2019 03:26 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:59 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:56 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:52 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:50 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:48 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Good games. I hope soO doesn't get another 2nd place... And Serral still manages to look pretty good in defeat (unlike Maru).


Now that Terran is out of the tournament I think Maru looks very good. His 2-0 vs Dark is the single most impressive thing a Terran did during this tournament. It is more impressive than Innovation 2-1ing Serral. While Serral is probably the best ZvP and ZvZer (despite this loss to Soo) I don't even think he is top 3 in ZvT.


Do you really? Leenock and Neeb played well, but not that well.


He looked off but he still barely lost to them. Almost every terran in this tournament lost to someone you wouldn't normally expect them to.

Maru probably had the most impressive single match performance of the whole tournament for Terran but at the end of the day he was still out in the group stage. Hard to say he performed strongly with that in mind.


All Terrans were out in the group stage besides TY who had a 3 terran group and really easy zergs. Maru would have gotten out of that group as well.

Maru's group was not nearly hard enough that he should have been eliminated. I can justify Special not making it. I can justify Inno and Gumiho not making it. I can justify Bunny and uThermal not making it. But Maru has no excuse, and you're using one match that was played after Dark already won the group to make it out like Maru got eliminated while playing really strong.

In reality, Maru played far below his potential, which is true for most of the Terrans in the main tournament, including TY. None of them were really convincing for more than 1 series.

yeah I like Maru but he just underperformed big time, it happens
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
March 02 2019 18:41 GMT
#1683
Someone lipread that
Neosteel Enthusiast
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
March 02 2019 18:41 GMT
#1684
Convincing 3-0
Mine gas, build tanks.
Anc13nt
Profile Blog Joined October 2017
1557 Posts
March 02 2019 18:41 GMT
#1685
Stats never falters seriously.
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
March 02 2019 18:42 GMT
#1686
Stats is so good
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15845 Posts
March 02 2019 18:42 GMT
#1687
On March 03 2019 03:41 Heartland wrote:
Wow, we reached 84 pages?

And minus one series it was only sweeps.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
March 02 2019 18:42 GMT
#1688
A bit sad Stats can't win the tournament playing only pvp
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
March 02 2019 18:42 GMT
#1689
my heart says soO will win this but i have a feeling in the end Stats will take it, which tbf I am ok with
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
March 02 2019 18:43 GMT
#1690
So how is that famous gap doing?
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
TL+ Member
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55566 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-03-02 18:45:30
March 02 2019 18:43 GMT
#1691
On March 03 2019 03:39 JJH777 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2019 03:37 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 03:26 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:59 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:56 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:52 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:50 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:48 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Good games. I hope soO doesn't get another 2nd place... And Serral still manages to look pretty good in defeat (unlike Maru).


Now that Terran is out of the tournament I think Maru looks very good. His 2-0 vs Dark is the single most impressive thing a Terran did during this tournament. It is more impressive than Innovation 2-1ing Serral. While Serral is probably the best ZvP and ZvZer (despite this loss to Soo) I don't even think he is top 3 in ZvT.


Do you really? Leenock and Neeb played well, but not that well.


He looked off but he still barely lost to them. Almost every terran in this tournament lost to someone you wouldn't normally expect them to.

Maru probably had the most impressive single match performance of the whole tournament for Terran but at the end of the day he was still out in the group stage. Hard to say he performed strongly with that in mind.


All Terrans were out in the group stage besides TY who had a 3 terran group and really easy zergs. Maru would have gotten out of that group as well.

Maru's group was not nearly hard enough that he should have been eliminated. I can justify Special not making it. I can justify Inno and Gumiho not making it. I can justify Bunny and uThermal not making it. But Maru has no excuse, and you're using one match that was played after Dark already won the group to make it out like Maru got eliminated while playing really strong.

In reality, Maru played far below his potential, which is true for most of the Terrans in the main tournament, including TY. None of them were really convincing for more than 1 series.


All of the best Terrans in the world played below their potential. That's so much more likely than the alternative.

I thought we were discussing who was the most impressive Terran this tournament. Which to me was none of them. I didn't realize this discussion had anything to do with game balance.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Toua
Profile Joined February 2017
Denmark318 Posts
March 02 2019 18:43 GMT
#1692
Stats !
Stats, Dark, Maru <3
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
March 02 2019 18:43 GMT
#1693
On March 03 2019 03:43 opisska wrote:
So how is that famous gap doing?

the gap is erhm closing, its always closing highest skill era something something zerg
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
March 02 2019 18:43 GMT
#1694
On March 03 2019 03:43 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2019 03:39 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 03:37 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 03:26 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:59 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:56 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:52 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:50 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:48 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Good games. I hope soO doesn't get another 2nd place... And Serral still manages to look pretty good in defeat (unlike Maru).


Now that Terran is out of the tournament I think Maru looks very good. His 2-0 vs Dark is the single most impressive thing a Terran did during this tournament. It is more impressive than Innovation 2-1ing Serral. While Serral is probably the best ZvP and ZvZer (despite this loss to Soo) I don't even think he is top 3 in ZvT.


Do you really? Leenock and Neeb played well, but not that well.


He looked off but he still barely lost to them. Almost every terran in this tournament lost to someone you wouldn't normally expect them to.

Maru probably had the most impressive single match performance of the whole tournament for Terran but at the end of the day he was still out in the group stage. Hard to say he performed strongly with that in mind.


All Terrans were out in the group stage besides TY who had a 3 terran group and really easy zergs. Maru would have gotten out of that group as well.

Maru's group was not nearly hard enough that he should have been eliminated. I can justify Special not making it. I can justify Inno and Gumiho not making it. I can justify Bunny and uThermal not making it. But Maru has no excuse, and you're using one match that was played after Dark already won the group to make it out like Maru got eliminated while playing really strong.

In reality, Maru played far below his potential, which is true for most of the Terrans in the main tournament, including TY. None of them were really convincing for more than 1 series.


All of the best Terrans in the world played below their potential. That's so much more likely than the alternative.

I thought we were discussing who was the most impressive Terran this tournament. Which to me was none of them. I didn't realize this discussing had anything to do with game balance.


Gumiho at least had the BC game. that wins the award since they all were destroyed several times.
Zest fanboy.
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12907 Posts
March 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#1695
On March 03 2019 03:37 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2019 03:26 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:59 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:56 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:52 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:50 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:48 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Good games. I hope soO doesn't get another 2nd place... And Serral still manages to look pretty good in defeat (unlike Maru).


Now that Terran is out of the tournament I think Maru looks very good. His 2-0 vs Dark is the single most impressive thing a Terran did during this tournament. It is more impressive than Innovation 2-1ing Serral. While Serral is probably the best ZvP and ZvZer (despite this loss to Soo) I don't even think he is top 3 in ZvT.


Do you really? Leenock and Neeb played well, but not that well.


He looked off but he still barely lost to them. Almost every terran in this tournament lost to someone you wouldn't normally expect them to.

Maru probably had the most impressive single match performance of the whole tournament for Terran but at the end of the day he was still out in the group stage. Hard to say he performed strongly with that in mind.


All Terrans were out in the group stage besides TY who had a 3 terran group and really easy zergs. Maru would have gotten out of that group as well.

Maru's group was not nearly hard enough that he should have been eliminated. I can justify Special not making it. I can justify Inno and Gumiho not making it. I can justify Bunny and uThermal not making it. But Maru has no excuse, and you're using one match that was played after Dark already won the group to make it out like Maru got eliminated while playing really strong.

In reality, Maru played far below his potential, which is true for most of the Terrans in the main tournament, including TY. None of them were really convincing for more than 1 series.

Hard to look convincing if you are playing an uphill battle, so I don't see that as a very good argument
WriterMaru
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
March 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#1696
On March 03 2019 03:42 nojok wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2019 03:41 Heartland wrote:
Wow, we reached 84 pages?

And minus one series it was only sweeps.


Tbf. half of the pages is people accusing each other from not distributing the love for players according to their skin color in the exact way they like it.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
TL+ Member
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28512 Posts
March 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#1697
2019: Revenge of the gap
I Protoss winner, could it be?
CynicalDeath
Profile Joined January 2012
Italy3546 Posts
March 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#1698
"the gap is closing" cit. noone 2019
ModeratorSC2 LP Admin - My Life for Aiur - Let the Metal flow - @Cynical_Death
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15845 Posts
March 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#1699
On March 03 2019 03:43 opisska wrote:
So how is that famous gap doing?

It's closing as usual. It's always closing.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
March 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#1700
On March 03 2019 03:43 imre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 03 2019 03:43 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 03:39 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 03:37 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 03:26 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:59 Elentos wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:56 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:52 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:50 JJH777 wrote:
On March 03 2019 02:48 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
Good games. I hope soO doesn't get another 2nd place... And Serral still manages to look pretty good in defeat (unlike Maru).


Now that Terran is out of the tournament I think Maru looks very good. His 2-0 vs Dark is the single most impressive thing a Terran did during this tournament. It is more impressive than Innovation 2-1ing Serral. While Serral is probably the best ZvP and ZvZer (despite this loss to Soo) I don't even think he is top 3 in ZvT.


Do you really? Leenock and Neeb played well, but not that well.


He looked off but he still barely lost to them. Almost every terran in this tournament lost to someone you wouldn't normally expect them to.

Maru probably had the most impressive single match performance of the whole tournament for Terran but at the end of the day he was still out in the group stage. Hard to say he performed strongly with that in mind.


All Terrans were out in the group stage besides TY who had a 3 terran group and really easy zergs. Maru would have gotten out of that group as well.

Maru's group was not nearly hard enough that he should have been eliminated. I can justify Special not making it. I can justify Inno and Gumiho not making it. I can justify Bunny and uThermal not making it. But Maru has no excuse, and you're using one match that was played after Dark already won the group to make it out like Maru got eliminated while playing really strong.

In reality, Maru played far below his potential, which is true for most of the Terrans in the main tournament, including TY. None of them were really convincing for more than 1 series.


All of the best Terrans in the world played below their potential. That's so much more likely than the alternative.

I thought we were discussing who was the most impressive Terran this tournament. Which to me was none of them. I didn't realize this discussing had anything to do with game balance.


Gumiho at least had the BC game. that wins the award since they all were destroyed several times.

Bunny was definitely not the best terran but I was really happy with how he played and I think overall he showed good games
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