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Exclusive interview with the top NA Protoss, HuK. - Page 4

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ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
June 16 2010 23:25 GMT
#61
The fact that the game is in beta doesn't mean shit when we are comparing skill levels.
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GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
June 16 2010 23:25 GMT
#62
On June 17 2010 08:11 ReachTheSky wrote:
so what team is huk going to? i'm gonna guess either liquid or root


Millennium, new team with Moman. Theres a thread out about it.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
Bibdy
Profile Joined March 2010
United States3481 Posts
June 16 2010 23:25 GMT
#63
On June 17 2010 01:48 Back wrote:
Does HuK live in the Montreal area? I would love to stand by his house and just stare at the window. If I eat his hands I will gain his starcraft power. I'm not crazy btw.

User was given a restraining order for this post.


You idiot.

You have to chop off his head with a katana for that.
kajeus
Profile Joined May 2010
United States679 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 23:38:03
June 16 2010 23:29 GMT
#64
On June 17 2010 08:21 Anfere wrote:
i could do the same for NonY or incontroll or what ever other protoss players around, link replays, and say hey this one won this or this so he is the best !

what i'm saying is that there isn't enough for us to say, OMG HuK the best NA protoss player ! The game is in beta and there wasn't that much major tournements around for us to say something like that.

It's not like Huk was dominating the sc2 scene for a long period of time, winning many major tournements and stuff, there you can say, yes HuK is the best protoss player, for now he is indeed a strong protoss player, one of the best around, but let's stay objective and don't forget that the game is in beta, there isn't much to base that on, and there is also a lot of other strong protoss players that are as capable as HuK.

You can't say this guy is the absolute best as you seem to be convinced to after 1 or 2 wins during a 3 month beta, that's just not smart at all.

Give time for the scene to develop, the game to get released, and players to start taking part to tournements and stuff, before jumping to conclusions, so strongly :p

Huh? I linked a replay and a tournament because I didn't want to track down and link more than that. I can show you replays of NonY losing to the same people, if you want.

P.S. I don't have "strong opinions". I just think it's pretty clear that HuK is the only NA protoss player who proved to be really good over the course of the beta. And I think it's pretty clear from this thread that what I think is very very important.
pro-MoMaN, pro-HuK, pro-Millenium
Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 23:36:23
June 16 2010 23:35 GMT
#65
There's alot of badass players in the NA Protoss scene. But to me HuK is the best currently.

To consider he was winning all kinds of major showmatches and events when he was FORCED to go all low econ cause of his computer. He dominated a good deal of top players.

Don't get me wrong all the other mentioned names (Nony, inControl, Kiwi) did amazing as well, but HuK was the most active and was quite dominant for most of his time here. He pretty much laid the foundation for insane one base attacks.
Ballistix Gaming Global Gaming/Esports Marketing Manager - twitter.com/esvdiamond
Anfere
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada231 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 23:39:07
June 16 2010 23:36 GMT
#66
Humm you don't seem to understand, i don't care about nony or huk or what ever player loosing to this or winning to that, i'm not a fan of either nony or huk, or anyone else (except day9 of course the mighty thought hammer!).

The game have 3 months beta without any leagues/standings or major tournaments and you'r already able to label who is the best and who's not, man you are strong. /respect ! Sorry i doubt you'r higher intellect in judging peoples skills.

And yes if you are already able to say who's the best without any doubt possible, you'r opinion is very very important just like you said.
Immortal or no Immortal, that is the question ! Someone give me a hamlet skull !
ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
June 16 2010 23:40 GMT
#67
lol no major tournaments!?!? ROFFFLLLLL there were several major tournaments. several invitationals several zotacs several esc's or w/e they are called. if u wanna go see huk's LONG list of accomplishments go to his new team's website. you will see all of it there. uggggggh....i'm so tired of people that try and act like the know some shit when they wouldn't know if it hit em in the face ;P
cheers!
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Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 23:43:25
June 16 2010 23:41 GMT
#68
On June 17 2010 08:36 Anfere wrote:
Humm you don't seem to understand, i don't care about nony or huk or what ever player loosing to this or winning to that, i'm not a fan of either nony or huk, or anyone else (except day9 of course the mighty thought hammer!).

The game have 3 months beta without any leagues/standings or major tournaments and you'r already able to label who is the best and who's not, man you are strong. /respect ! Sorry i doubt you'r higher intellect in judging peoples skills.


No I do understand. I can tell you if I play Idra I will lose 104 times out of 100. I can judge the skill difference.

Don't forget I hand pick every ITL matchup and about 90% of them go exactly how I think they will.

We don't need a stupid number system to tell who is the best. Once you play alot and watch 1000+ matches (like I did) you start to be able to tell the differences.

On June 17 2010 08:40 ReachTheSky wrote:
lol no major tournaments!?!? ROFFFLLLLL there were several major tournaments. several invitationals several zotacs several esc's or w/e they are called. if u wanna go see huk's LONG list of accomplishments go to his new team's website. you will see all of it there. uggggggh....i'm so tired of people that try and act like the know some shit when they wouldn't know if it hit em in the face ;P
cheers!


Yea man just cause there was only one event with a major prize pool does not mean thier not major events. The MSL KOTBH, HDH, TLI's, Zotac's, ITL's, etc are all really major events. You know why? The feature the best players in the world. They don't need big $ to be amazing games.
Ballistix Gaming Global Gaming/Esports Marketing Manager - twitter.com/esvdiamond
ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
June 16 2010 23:45 GMT
#69
oooo not to mention ITL , which by far is my favorite. ran smoothly, very entertaining, great casting.
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Renaissance
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada273 Posts
June 16 2010 23:46 GMT
#70
It's true that this is just the beta. As stated before, making conclusions about who is going to be the best is absurd. But there is no doubt that during the beta, HuK has achieved the most for a Protoss in NA. If there are other players who claim to be good, the only way to really "show" is to do what he did--place #1 in many tournaments.

Remember, you may be the best player, but if there's no one there to see it--you're nothing. Also HuK did not elaborate on this interview as much so he accepted to do another one emphasizing on game play. It'll be updated soon!
Live forever or die trying.
Wargizmo
Profile Joined March 2010
1237 Posts
June 16 2010 23:55 GMT
#71
HuK: I don't think it’s the best balance it could be but I don't think its OP either. Brat_OK simply played a lot better than me that day, and definitely changed his play up. He was the better player that day and it showed, the mistakes I made in that game were obvious, especially because a failed DT rush just puts you super behind.


Great to see a top player who respects his opponents and doesn't cry imbalance whenever he loses to something.
PokePill
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
June 16 2010 23:58 GMT
#72
On June 17 2010 08:55 Wargizmo wrote:
Show nested quote +
HuK: I don't think it’s the best balance it could be but I don't think its OP either. Brat_OK simply played a lot better than me that day, and definitely changed his play up. He was the better player that day and it showed, the mistakes I made in that game were obvious, especially because a failed DT rush just puts you super behind.


Great to see a top player who respects his opponents and doesn't cry imbalance whenever he loses to something.


Did you forget to read the first 9 words of that sentence?
Darpa
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada4413 Posts
June 17 2010 00:04 GMT
#73
There are essentially 4 top tier NA protoss players, HuK, Kiwikaki, Nony, and Incontrol. Huk is arguably the best, but has the best tourny results as far as I am aware.
"losers always whine about their best, Winners go home and fuck the prom queen"
Destro
Profile Joined September 2009
Netherlands1206 Posts
June 17 2010 00:10 GMT
#74
go canada!

Grr -> jianfei -> huk!
bring back weapon of choice for hots!
Wargizmo
Profile Joined March 2010
1237 Posts
June 17 2010 00:10 GMT
#75
On June 17 2010 08:58 PokePill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 17 2010 08:55 Wargizmo wrote:
HuK: I don't think it’s the best balance it could be but I don't think its OP either. Brat_OK simply played a lot better than me that day, and definitely changed his play up. He was the better player that day and it showed, the mistakes I made in that game were obvious, especially because a failed DT rush just puts you super behind.


Great to see a top player who respects his opponents and doesn't cry imbalance whenever he loses to something.


Did you forget to read the first 9 words of that sentence?


no.
kajeus
Profile Joined May 2010
United States679 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-17 00:14:04
June 17 2010 00:13 GMT
#76
I'm not sure why InControl and NonY are considered top sc2 players. Could somebody show me some good replays please?

Edit: Nothing from the HDH, please. I've seen those.
pro-MoMaN, pro-HuK, pro-Millenium
Alou
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States3748 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-17 00:52:04
June 17 2010 00:51 GMT
#77
On June 17 2010 09:13 kajeus wrote:
I'm not sure why InControl and NonY are considered top sc2 players. Could somebody show me some good replays please?

Edit: Nothing from the HDH, please. I've seen those.


InControl consistently does well in what he enters. I'm not going to spend my time finding games he's played because anyone can find them. He probably doesn't enter as much as he should, but when he does play, he plays well.

NonY? How is he not a top sc2 player? I'm never find any reason to think NonY did bad. He's a great player.

Plenty of good Protoss players out there, no point in trying to make some standard list because they all have good and bad days and they're all so damn good.
Life is Good.
kajeus
Profile Joined May 2010
United States679 Posts
June 17 2010 00:56 GMT
#78
On June 17 2010 09:51 Alou wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 17 2010 09:13 kajeus wrote:
I'm not sure why InControl and NonY are considered top sc2 players. Could somebody show me some good replays please?

Edit: Nothing from the HDH, please. I've seen those.


InControl consistently does well in what he enters. I'm not going to spend my time finding games he's played because anyone can find them. He probably doesn't enter as much as he should, but when he does play, he plays well.

NonY? How is he not a top sc2 player? I'm never find any reason to think NonY did bad. He's a great player.

Plenty of good Protoss players out there, no point in trying to make some standard list because they all have good and bad days and they're all so damn good.

I'm sorry, why did you even respond? :-/
pro-MoMaN, pro-HuK, pro-Millenium
nEAnS
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada161 Posts
June 17 2010 01:03 GMT
#79
On June 17 2010 09:13 kajeus wrote:
I'm not sure why InControl and NonY are considered top sc2 players. Could somebody show me some good replays please?

Edit: Nothing from the HDH, please. I've seen those.


Wow I think this guy likes digging himself a hole....

TBH though beta is... well beta. I'm sure there will be a lot of great players in SC2 once retail hits because I'm sure there are it will reach ppl who haven't had a chance to play sc2.

What's with all the hate/elitism/whatever you wanna call it against other top NA toss players? The game isn't even out and its still buggy as hell. You're basically arguing about who is the best in a game that is still an unfinished product.
Renaissance
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada273 Posts
June 17 2010 01:05 GMT
#80
Updated the original post with MANY game play related questions thoroughly answered by him. Hope this helps out a lot of people and not just Protoss players. Enjoy.
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