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Balance whining will be moderated aggressively

-Wax
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9049 Posts
February 12 2023 17:16 GMT
#861
Serral only losing to Zergs, Maru only losing to HeroMarine.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55586 Posts
February 12 2023 17:17 GMT
#862
It just occured to me that Maru has always been called the 4th race, but that there's no need to call herO the 5th race because Protoss is completely dead aside from him.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33659 Posts
February 12 2023 17:17 GMT
#863
u gotta be afraid when the players who are perennial balance whiners and/or over-humble actually start being confident in interviews
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17741 Posts
February 12 2023 17:18 GMT
#864
I was on page 12 of this thread, then refreshed and now there's 44 pages lol
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Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
February 12 2023 17:18 GMT
#865
On February 13 2023 02:16 Garnet wrote:
Serral only losing to Zergs, Maru only losing to HeroMarine.


HeroMarine was the Zerg Cabal the entire time. Quod erat demonstrandum.
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France13003 Posts
February 12 2023 17:18 GMT
#866
What did Maru say in the interview? I forgot there was even an interview after that slaughter
WriterMaru
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3502 Posts
February 12 2023 17:18 GMT
#867
On February 13 2023 02:17 Elentos wrote:
It just occured to me that Maru has always been called the 4th race, but that there's no need to call herO the 5th race because Protoss is completely dead aside from him.

Would love to see MaxPax in this tournament, I think he has a very good shot at going deep, better than Clem and HM.
parksonsc
Profile Joined May 2019
175 Posts
February 12 2023 17:19 GMT
#868
If Maru wins this, he is GOAT without questions (except for certain players' fanboys of course). But how is herO's PvT thus far? What is his winning chance against Maru if they meet?
Athenau
Profile Joined March 2015
577 Posts
February 12 2023 17:19 GMT
#869
Are we going from the worst to the best possible timeline (Maru vs Hero)? What a turnaround!
Fanatic-Templar
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada5819 Posts
February 12 2023 17:19 GMT
#870
On February 13 2023 02:18 tigera6 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2023 02:17 Elentos wrote:
It just occured to me that Maru has always been called the 4th race, but that there's no need to call herO the 5th race because Protoss is completely dead aside from him.

Would love to see MaxPax in this tournament, I think he has a very good shot at going deep, better than Clem and HM.


As someone who only watches GSL and some of the bigger international tournaments, this MaxPax sounds like an urban legend.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33659 Posts
February 12 2023 17:19 GMT
#871
On February 13 2023 02:18 Poopi wrote:
What did Maru say in the interview? I forgot there was even an interview after that slaughter


nothing super interesting except that he preferred to face herO instead of TIME since TvT has too many variables

And even that I feel like was said with a smirk
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16124 Posts
February 12 2023 17:20 GMT
#872
On February 13 2023 02:14 darklycid wrote:
Still interesting that for all the fear etc with the new Patch we actually get No zerg in the Finals and only one in the ro4.


Well we have 3 Elite Zergs and 2 very strong ones.

Maru killed Solar and Ragnarok, the two weaker Zergs who he has VERY one sided records against.

Ragnarok killed Serral in a ZvZ snipe.

Reynor who was overconfident got tilted and threw a series against a defensive Terran Oliveira who was playing out of his mind.

And Dark just didn't show up in his best form. He was struggling all tournament especially vs Protoss so herO destroyed him.

The only two big surprises are how Reynor and Serral went out and then you remember that both of them got beat by falling to their big notable weaknesses and it makes sense. Reynor has lost series he should win exactly how he did against TIME this weekend and this isn't the first time that Serral has been knocked out in ZvZ either.

It all adds up. It was a very lucky break for the viewers that things lined up so that each Zerg met their end against one of their big weaknesses.

Except for Dark. It's a shame Dark just wasn't feeling it this weekend. This might have been his last big tournament before he goes to the army, so I wish he could have had a better time of it.
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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 12 2023 17:20 GMT
#873
On February 13 2023 02:06 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2023 02:05 Pandemona wrote:
Rough on RagnaroK, seems Maru really does have his number, that makes it 7-0 in their last two series?


it's as bad as 13-0 right now

Wow poor RagnaroK lol
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Gescom
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada3513 Posts
February 12 2023 17:21 GMT
#874
On February 13 2023 02:19 Athenau wrote:
Are we going from the worst to the best possible timeline (Maru vs Hero)? What a turnaround!

I mean, even on Wednesday it was an extremely real possibility. *checks Power Rank notes* .. top of the Tier1 championship players teeing off.

(not discounting TIME out though... yet)
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France13003 Posts
February 12 2023 17:21 GMT
#875
On February 13 2023 02:19 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 13 2023 02:18 Poopi wrote:
What did Maru say in the interview? I forgot there was even an interview after that slaughter


nothing super interesting except that he preferred to face herO instead of TIME since TvT has too many variables

And even that I feel like was said with a smirk

Okay thanks!
I think herO has a good shot but I will be rooting for Maru. Maybe Oliveira can do the magic happen once again?
WriterMaru
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16085 Posts
February 12 2023 17:21 GMT
#876
On February 13 2023 02:14 darklycid wrote:
Still interesting that for all the fear etc with the new Patch we actually get No zerg in the Finals and only one in the ro4.

Well, Serral left a won game and Reynor threw against Time. Though obviously terran is still competitive but I don't think anyone doubted that considering early-mid game is largely unchanged and that's where terran usually won anyways. That doesn't mean the changes to TvZ lategame aren't bullshit.
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Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9319 Posts
February 12 2023 17:22 GMT
#877
Nice tempo, the grand final is scheduled to start 3 hours from now
You're now breathing manually
youaremysin
Profile Joined August 2015
119 Posts
February 12 2023 17:23 GMT
#878
There's no way Maru wins this, that would be a too perfect story. herO will destroy both terrans, well it'll be a cool story too.
Zaros
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom3692 Posts
February 12 2023 17:25 GMT
#879
To be fair a lot of the balance complaints are PvZ where its only herO nuking dark right who already lost to neeb and looked shaky to Creator.

Serral thrashed hero and lambo beat Classic, have we seen any other top tier PvZ this tournament?
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33659 Posts
February 12 2023 17:26 GMT
#880
Apropos of the last cast, I have one random pet peeve about ZG and it's that she frequently says "dedicated" when the almost everyone else would use "committed" (as in "committed all-in"). It's not a big deal but I notice it every time.
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
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