HomeStory Cup XXII

On December 17 2022 23:24 Nakajin wrote:
Clem is so good at tvp, his macro compleatly grinded Zoun down.

On December 17 2022 23:45 Captain Peabody wrote:

Micro is good, too, he's sniped so many disruptors and Colossi this series. It does feel like Zoun is playing kind of wasteful, though, very "Korean macro Protoss."

On December 18 2022 08:35 Die4Ever wrote:

not that surprising, he doesn't seem to want to show his face

On December 18 2022 08:40 chipmonklord17 wrote:


I mean, I don't know about you, but if I didn't even RESPOND to my boss about a work opportunity they knew I didn't want to do I'd be pretty fucked

On December 18 2022 11:37 TossHeroes wrote:


I’m okay with maxpax only competing online.

No need to appear offline just to “please” the haters.

Pretty sure there are lots of personal factors / reasons for his decision Which is pretty much none of our business

On December 19 2022 04:03 BelethielQT wrote:


Where was the destroying Part?

On December 19 2022 04:51 tigera6 wrote:
Now Byun and Astrea need to fight it out and then lose to Reynor so that Zerg has no excuse to roll out the patch at least until IEM is finished.

On December 19 2022 05:05 Nakajin wrote:


I feel like at this point it's just straight up hubris to imagine anyone care enough about SC2 esport to organize a conspiracy about it.

On December 19 2022 09:34 Nakajin wrote:


But who's that in 2022 really? Obviously, you have the casters and the players but outside of that? There's Alex007 at ESL and maybe one or two persons around him, the rest of the production guys would work there anyway on other projects. Maybe management at ESL care a bit about SC2 numbers, but it's definitely just another contract amongst their long list of product.
Then you have the GSL and the Afreeca TV staff and the WTL guys, but it's not them you are talking about. And we are left with...a couple of team managers (maybe) and the AlphaX guys and that's it?

And finally Blizzard of course, after all, they are the ones pumping money in the scene. Well, they haven't put out a SC2 product in half a decade, most if not all of the RTS dev team is out, and they just did their first patch in years that was essentially crowd sourced to the community. It's a bit silly to imagine that anyone working there has the game knowledge or is allowed the time to analyze how a 0.33 speed upgrade to the BL will play out in relation to a sensor tower vision radius nerf.

So we're pretty much just accusing Alex007, someone who has dedicated a decade of his life to doing Ukranian rebroadcast and organizing the eastern-european scene, of having come into the job at ESL with the secret plan (or secret order whatever) to craft an elaborate balance patch so that one of two players (Serral or Reynor, but also not Dark, Solar or Ragnarok) would win the next world championship, in order to maybe marginally increase viewership numbers in order to maybe convince an executive at Activision to resign on a financing deal for 23-24.

Or, we could choose the much more uplifting option that a bunch of people who really, really, like Starcraft and wish it continue, put a bunch of ideas together and convinced Blizz to actually put it into the game. Maybe it'll be good for the balance, maybe not but I find it a bit sad to throw them under the bus out of nowhere.

On December 20 2022 00:58 dysenterymd wrote:

Yeah, Astrea seemed to get the good end of the build order RPS but just couldn't execute, probably a mix of nerves and tiredness from playing so many games. With the rate he's improving and his current level I do feel like he has the capacity to win an international event at some point though, he's arguably the #2 Toss right now though still obviously far behind herO.