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Northern Ireland24427 Posts
On February 28 2022 09:54 geokilla wrote: Does anyone have the VODs? I missed half the tournament so I want to watch it from the beginning. Catz’s put his stream VoDs up for what he and Drogo cast
ESL have whatever they broadcast up on YouTube now, or at least yesterday they were up to date, not sure if the final day’s action is up yet
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France12761 Posts
On February 28 2022 08:54 WombaT wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 08:41 Morbidius wrote: This game will die the same way it fell off to mobas when it was at its prime, imcompetent(nonexistant now) balance team forcing people to endure this shit. In WoL and Hots they let balance problems fester so people would buy their expansions, now they just let it be. 8 world championships in a row to the same race, threads popping on the forum about how absurdly bad other races are compared to Zerg, and we are to believe the game is in a decent state. Congrats to Serral, our new Sniper. To our Roros too, for this exquisite performance. Thank god this is the last year of this torture. It’s ridiculous hyperbole to compare Serral to those guys. Who to be fair were still decent players. Heromarine took Reynor to the wire for a place in the final, Clem didn’t show anywhere near his best form, Maru underwhelmed against Serral. Yeah Zerg are absurdly dominant if we don’t talk Korean premiers, or other international premiers and exclusively use Katowice/Blizzcon as our metric. I think it’s absurd to deny that Zerg at the top end aren’t too at least some degree the strongest race, but it’s aided by having 4 monsters in their ranks. It’s not like Zergs outside the ‘big 4’ have done anything of note for ages, unlike say the BL/Infestor era where Zergs across the board were getting bumps in their results. The fact that HeroMarine two map wins were 2 and 3 base allin is pretty telling. The Bunny strategy on Blackburn was also a neverending allin. Maru was not really underwhelming vs Serral except in his reaction time on Pride but it would not have mattered, and then he played more like the Maru we know in the next maps and it still did not matter.
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On February 28 2022 16:29 Poopi wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 08:54 WombaT wrote:On February 28 2022 08:41 Morbidius wrote: This game will die the same way it fell off to mobas when it was at its prime, imcompetent(nonexistant now) balance team forcing people to endure this shit. In WoL and Hots they let balance problems fester so people would buy their expansions, now they just let it be. 8 world championships in a row to the same race, threads popping on the forum about how absurdly bad other races are compared to Zerg, and we are to believe the game is in a decent state. Congrats to Serral, our new Sniper. To our Roros too, for this exquisite performance. Thank god this is the last year of this torture. It’s ridiculous hyperbole to compare Serral to those guys. Who to be fair were still decent players. Heromarine took Reynor to the wire for a place in the final, Clem didn’t show anywhere near his best form, Maru underwhelmed against Serral. Yeah Zerg are absurdly dominant if we don’t talk Korean premiers, or other international premiers and exclusively use Katowice/Blizzcon as our metric. I think it’s absurd to deny that Zerg at the top end aren’t too at least some degree the strongest race, but it’s aided by having 4 monsters in their ranks. It’s not like Zergs outside the ‘big 4’ have done anything of note for ages, unlike say the BL/Infestor era where Zergs across the board were getting bumps in their results. The fact that HeroMarine two map wins were 2 and 3 base allin is pretty telling. The Bunny strategy on Blackburn was also a neverending allin. Maru was not really underwhelming vs Serral except in his reaction time on Pride but it would not have mattered, and then he played more like the Maru we know in the next maps and it still did not matter.
I disagree. HeroMarine winning with timing pushes is kinda business as usual? He's never really been one for super late game. Always building up a good economy and then just go-go-go until either his opponent's defense crumbles or he himself runs out of steam. He doesn't generally do the super cheesy stuff, but also isn't comfortable sitting back and doing it lategame. Him doing these timings isn't the surprising part of this...
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I would love to see these guys play SC:BW specially Serral.
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wow.. 3 out of 4 in the top 4 from EU! That's a very unexpected but also quite cool outcome.
Big congratz to the winner
GG WP
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On February 27 2022 19:41 Fecalfeast wrote: Lurkers have always been my favourite unit since BW but I can certainly see why they're frustrating to play against boy howdy
Giving Zerg fast burrowing Lurkers and taking away the seeker missles ruined this game...
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On February 27 2022 20:26 Poopi wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2022 20:19 Durnuu wrote: Glad to see the patchzergs still going strong 5 years after the baneling buff Don’t think it’s patch, these top zergs are just built different
Bruh... they make banes and lurkers replaced Broods. They the same ole Zergs...
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France12761 Posts
It was a joke. There was a commercial from Nike iirc 1 or 2 years ago « built different » that was popular on social medias so athletes did say it after a win etc. In sc2 Reynor was also using it often at the time
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GOAT did it again ! Demolished all todays best players, except Reynor, who made it very close as always. He is still so unstoppable, when he can get the full potential out. And even when he is "out of shape", he is still almost always in top4 nevertheless. GG WP
Anybody knows what has happened to Clem ? Very poor results recently ?
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Anybody knows what has happened to Clem ? Very poor results recently ?
Stress maybe + he was one map away to go to RO12 in the hardest group by far, first 2 matches were maru and reynor..., there is a good chance that if you swap heromarine and clem you have the same results, that is HM does not make it out of the group and clem beat solar...
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Northern Ireland24427 Posts
It’s hard to get to the top level and be a tournament threat, it’s harder still to stay there.
I wouldn’t worry about Clem I think he’ll show some great tournaments again this year
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Looking forward to the news of our new world champion on the front page
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On March 02 2022 21:07 sim999999 wrote:Stress maybe + he was one map away to go to RO12 in the hardest group by far, first 2 matches were maru and reynor..., there is a good chance that if you swap heromarine and clem you have the same results, that is HM does not make it out of the group and clem beat solar...
It was also his first big live tourney since he has become one of the top players during the covid online era. I completely expected him to struggle a little at first, but I am confident he is gonna ease into it eventually.
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Imagine. Same guy was the first to break 10K, 20K, 30K on Aligulac's HOF: http://aligulac.com/records/hof/
How it can be even possible without very high consistency levels - time by time - without the skill, while being 'patch zerg', and generally being the player of no-bull-shit?
17 Premier Victories, 27 Premier Finals.
Unprecedented winning ratio vs. Top Koreans as a group.
While not maybe THE GOATest GOAT, that all encompassing ang diminishing shittalk needs to cease now.
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The only real surprising thing about Clem's performance was his map score. He had a tough group, his performance against koreans has always been a lil shaky, and he had to do it in his worst matchup. He still almost made it out but yeah, not winning a single map vs Reynor or Maru was rough (but certainly not out of the realm of possibility no matter how good he is).
He may have underperformed results wise in the tournament overall, but his result in the group stage was somewhat expected given how hard it was. Put him in any other group and he probably makes it out.
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On February 28 2022 18:04 Acrofales wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2022 16:29 Poopi wrote:On February 28 2022 08:54 WombaT wrote:On February 28 2022 08:41 Morbidius wrote: This game will die the same way it fell off to mobas when it was at its prime, imcompetent(nonexistant now) balance team forcing people to endure this shit. In WoL and Hots they let balance problems fester so people would buy their expansions, now they just let it be. 8 world championships in a row to the same race, threads popping on the forum about how absurdly bad other races are compared to Zerg, and we are to believe the game is in a decent state. Congrats to Serral, our new Sniper. To our Roros too, for this exquisite performance. Thank god this is the last year of this torture. It’s ridiculous hyperbole to compare Serral to those guys. Who to be fair were still decent players. Heromarine took Reynor to the wire for a place in the final, Clem didn’t show anywhere near his best form, Maru underwhelmed against Serral. Yeah Zerg are absurdly dominant if we don’t talk Korean premiers, or other international premiers and exclusively use Katowice/Blizzcon as our metric. I think it’s absurd to deny that Zerg at the top end aren’t too at least some degree the strongest race, but it’s aided by having 4 monsters in their ranks. It’s not like Zergs outside the ‘big 4’ have done anything of note for ages, unlike say the BL/Infestor era where Zergs across the board were getting bumps in their results. The fact that HeroMarine two map wins were 2 and 3 base allin is pretty telling. The Bunny strategy on Blackburn was also a neverending allin. Maru was not really underwhelming vs Serral except in his reaction time on Pride but it would not have mattered, and then he played more like the Maru we know in the next maps and it still did not matter. I disagree. HeroMarine winning with timing pushes is kinda business as usual? He's never really been one for super late game. Always building up a good economy and then just go-go-go until either his opponent's defense crumbles or he himself runs out of steam. He doesn't generally do the super cheesy stuff, but also isn't comfortable sitting back and doing it lategame. Him doing these timings isn't the surprising part of this...
Poopi's point is that there is tremendous pressure on non-Zergs to stop letting Zergs get into end-game easily.
Except, blizz buffed Queens so much that light pushes are easily held off without impacting Zerg economy. Only all-ins can do enough damage; and when held, it means the Zerg has won.
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On March 04 2022 08:10 blooblooblahblah wrote: The only real surprising thing about Clem's performance was his map score. He had a tough group, his performance against koreans has always been a lil shaky, and he had to do it in his worst matchup. He still almost made it out but yeah, not winning a single map vs Reynor or Maru was rough (but certainly not out of the realm of possibility no matter how good he is).
He may have underperformed results wise in the tournament overall, but his result in the group stage was somewhat expected given how hard it was. Put him in any other group and he probably makes it out.
Depends on how you were hoping Clem to perform. If people were really hoping this could be a break-away tournament where he could regularly hang with the big boys, this tournament is pretty disappointing (losses to Reynor, Maru, Byun).
If you're just viewing him as a top European terran who can (but not always) hit up, then yeah the results aren't too surprising.
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Clem needs time. Reynor also needed more than a year to be able to truly shine.
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