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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
January 17 2021 19:08 GMT
#661
On January 18 2021 04:00 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote:
If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality...


Well he just won two championships

Good thing too. Imagine being so good for so long and not even winning the smaller Premier events. Surely eventually you'd give up.


soOrely you would
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
January 17 2021 19:09 GMT
#662
On January 18 2021 04:05 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 04:02 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On January 18 2021 03:56 stilt wrote:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ENCE_Serral/status/1350879479124668424

It's a bit weird


Why did he have low expectations for himself? Humility? Out of practice?


prolly out of habit? humility is basically his default state of mind

He said in his first interview he was still very rusty and only started practicing a week ago, so he didn't have any expectations
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55571 Posts
January 17 2021 19:10 GMT
#663
On January 18 2021 04:08 sneakyfox wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 04:00 Elentos wrote:
On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote:
If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality...


Well he just won two championships

Good thing too. Imagine being so good for so long and not even winning the smaller Premier events. Surely eventually you'd give up.


soOrely you would

soO won after he stopped believing.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33592 Posts
January 17 2021 19:10 GMT
#664
On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote:
If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality...


Well he just won two championships


it's 3, going by the new wax-tournament grading system
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
January 17 2021 19:12 GMT
#665
On January 18 2021 03:56 stilt wrote:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ENCE_Serral/status/1350879479124668424

It's a bit weird


Serral felt rusty coming into this tournament so I guess that's why he isn't as disappointed as he usually is after losing a final.

On a side note, after 2018 Serral has lost all 3 of the Premier finals where he was forced to play to the last map and has been eliminated 11 times from tournaments this way; it seems that he has developed kind of an issue with decider maps.
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
January 17 2021 19:13 GMT
#666
On January 18 2021 04:10 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 04:08 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 18 2021 04:00 Elentos wrote:
On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:
On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote:
If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality...


Well he just won two championships

Good thing too. Imagine being so good for so long and not even winning the smaller Premier events. Surely eventually you'd give up.


soOrely you would

soO won after he stopped believing.


Well he didn't give up.
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33592 Posts
January 17 2021 19:25 GMT
#667
casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9223 Posts
January 17 2021 19:26 GMT
#668
2021 is the year of protoss!
Life/Seed//Mvp/NaNiwa fighting! ZeNEX forever!
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
January 17 2021 19:29 GMT
#669
On January 18 2021 04:25 Waxangel wrote:
casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative

Every year prior to 2018 was a year of parity where any top 15 player had a chance of winning any tournament. We were spoiled by serral and maru, but the "the tournament favorite will actually win the tournament" is a recent phenomenon
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33592 Posts
January 17 2021 19:37 GMT
#670
On January 18 2021 04:29 Pandain wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 04:25 Waxangel wrote:
casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative

Every year prior to 2018 was a year of parity where any top 15 player had a chance of winning any tournament. We were spoiled by serral and maru, but the "the tournament favorite will actually win the tournament" is a recent phenomenon


that's what I wrote
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Nebuchad
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Switzerland12450 Posts
January 17 2021 19:37 GMT
#671
1) How did I forget that this was happening
2) Woooooooooooooooo he did it?
No will to live, no wish to die
Haku
Profile Joined August 2013
Germany550 Posts
January 17 2021 19:56 GMT
#672
On January 18 2021 03:52 Decendos wrote:
Good to See its Not only me losing every Single game to voids into turtle Storm skytoss.

On the other Hand sad to See even serral All inning every game vs this strat cause He thinks its unbeatable lategame.

Still grats to trap really nice guy!!


I don‘t even think its about the composition beeing unbeatable, but which sane player wants to turtle on spore/viper for 30 minutes until you maybe manage to abduct enough to be somewhat costefficent, because you will always loose a direct engagement?

The design is just bad and always has been.
Nobody wants to play spore/turret against it.
Jaedong | Life | MKP | PartinG | LosirA | ByuN | TaeJa | TY | TLO | Bomber | HerO | Rotti | Dark | Stephano | Maru | Ragnarok | MC | IdrA | Serral | Creator | Bunny | INnoVation | Liquid | Prime | JinAir
Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4967 Posts
January 17 2021 19:57 GMT
#673
Traaaaaaaaap!!! Congraaats!!!!
Rogue | Maru | Scarlett | Trap
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Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
January 17 2021 20:03 GMT
#674
On January 18 2021 04:37 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 04:29 Pandain wrote:
On January 18 2021 04:25 Waxangel wrote:
casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative

Every year prior to 2018 was a year of parity where any top 15 player had a chance of winning any tournament. We were spoiled by serral and maru, but the "the tournament favorite will actually win the tournament" is a recent phenomenon


that's what I wrote

Oh I just saw the word "unprecedented" and was picking at that haha
irvnasty
Profile Joined July 2019
United States211 Posts
January 17 2021 21:34 GMT
#675
Serral for over a year now seems to be in an odd rotation of strength. At any given moment, he seems like the world's best player in certain matchups, but vulnerable in others. For a time, he felt unbeatable other than by Reynor in ZvZ. Then, he lost series to Cure, Inno, ByuN, Clem, and Maru. Recently, he looks unbeatable in ZvT, but has also lost in ZvZ to Dark and Solar, and in ZvP to ShoWTimE and Trap.

It feels like he can train himself up to an unbeatable level in any matchup, but he can't maintain that level in a universal sense. Clearly one of the best players in the world under any circumstance. I would consider TY the world's best player, despite his having been roundly beaten by Serral this weekend, but Serral remains a certain favorite at Katowice.
GuMiho | TY | TIME | AqueroN | Rogue | RagnaroK | Scarlett | sOs | Astrea
makeSC2greatAgain
Profile Joined January 2021
5 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-01-17 22:17:15
January 17 2021 22:16 GMT
#676
Missed the finals. Quick yes or no question. Is the finals worth watching or not? The 4-3 says yes, but games could be low quality.

Thank you.
InfCereal
Profile Joined December 2011
Canada1759 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-01-17 22:18:35
January 17 2021 22:18 GMT
#677
On January 18 2021 07:16 makeSC2greatAgain wrote:
Missed the finals. Quick yes or no question. Is the finals worth watching or not? The 4-3 says yes, but games could be low quality.

Thank you.


Not really. It was mostly timings from either side.
Cereal
makeSC2greatAgain
Profile Joined January 2021
5 Posts
January 17 2021 22:25 GMT
#678
On January 18 2021 07:18 InfCereal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 18 2021 07:16 makeSC2greatAgain wrote:
Missed the finals. Quick yes or no question. Is the finals worth watching or not? The 4-3 says yes, but games could be low quality.

Thank you.


Not really. It was mostly timings from either side.


Thanks man! I actually missed every single game. Do you have outstanding games that you'd recommend?
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland26730 Posts
January 17 2021 22:36 GMT
#679
On January 18 2021 06:34 irvnasty wrote:
Serral for over a year now seems to be in an odd rotation of strength. At any given moment, he seems like the world's best player in certain matchups, but vulnerable in others. For a time, he felt unbeatable other than by Reynor in ZvZ. Then, he lost series to Cure, Inno, ByuN, Clem, and Maru. Recently, he looks unbeatable in ZvT, but has also lost in ZvZ to Dark and Solar, and in ZvP to ShoWTimE and Trap.

It feels like he can train himself up to an unbeatable level in any matchup, but he can't maintain that level in a universal sense. Clearly one of the best players in the world under any circumstance. I would consider TY the world's best player, despite his having been roundly beaten by Serral this weekend, but Serral remains a certain favorite at Katowice.

Trap’s got to be up there now surely. He seems to have undergone Serral’s journey only in reverse. Top tier PvT, decent if not outstanding PvP and a PvZ that was a real bad weakness to have considering who he was having to face. He’s kept the stellar PvT, his PvP is better and his PvZ is close to the best around (although I think the world’s best ZvPers are better still).

GSL TY is on another level to weekender TY, although he’s still obviously good even in his weaker form.

Agreed on Serral, he’s still a monster but not quite as scary as a while ago where it seemed he was equally fearsome across all matchups.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Rubicant1
Profile Joined October 2019
115 Posts
January 17 2021 23:09 GMT
#680
Oh man, Trap certainly deserves this and has basically been carrying the Protoss torch for awhile now. Congrats to him!
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