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Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12062 Posts
August 28 2010 22:53 GMT
#181
Ï don't see the problem, a couple of weeks ago the complaints were about tanks. Now they are about MM. In another three weeks they will be about banshees and then it will be thors or some such. It is mostly that people have build orders that don't handle these things as well since it is the newer flavour with different timings.
danson
Profile Joined April 2010
United States689 Posts
August 28 2010 22:55 GMT
#182
question thread without a poll is kinda fail, but to answer the question directly, I'd say yes. The tourney was boring, the play didnt feel top tier, I watched only a few matchups and over probably 15 games I cant remember a single expansion going down.

It was all the things that make playing ladder lame, thrown into a live event.

MLG raliegh - 4/10
Sfydjklm
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States9218 Posts
August 28 2010 22:56 GMT
#183
yea unfortunately after Gamescon where the best from the whole world gathered this was like watching B teamers.
Too soon:X
twitter.com/therealdhalism | "Trying out Z = lots of losses vs inferior players until you figure out how to do it well (if it even works)."- Liquid'Tyler
ch4ppi
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany802 Posts
August 28 2010 22:56 GMT
#184
Fun Fact:
#1 New Falvour which cause Complaining about a longer time are all Terran
#2 Marauder and MMM was ALWAYS a problem, since the first Betabuild, but Blizzard just ignored EVERY word about em.
#3 thats not funny
Spiffeh
Profile Joined May 2010
United States830 Posts
August 28 2010 23:01 GMT
#185
Yeah I have to admit the event was really boring to watch. I found myself switching to Halo 3 a lot, just because it was a lot more exciting to watch, even if the Halo players weren't top caliber. It's like the difference between waiting in line at the DMV to watching Game 7 of the NBA Finals Live.


Excitement oozes out of the Halo streams; Puckett commentating, players talking trash, BRs blazing, the victory celebration, the crowd (especially the woman that always roots of Instinct every event, lawl). It's amazing.

Then I switch to SC2 and it's just....BLAHH. Even when Huk won, he calmly shook his opponents hand and talked to his friends and acted as if he just finished ordering a meal from McDonalds. Sure, you might want to be respectful, but you just WON. CONGRATZ, GET ROWDY. I just wanted to see some emotion, some excitement, some passion, anything! It's small stuff like this that gets other people excited and makes esports grow.
branflakes14
Profile Joined July 2010
2082 Posts
August 28 2010 23:04 GMT
#186
On August 29 2010 08:01 Spiffeh wrote:
Then I switch to SC2 and it's just....BLAHH. Even when Huk won, he calmly shook his opponents hand and talked to his friends and acted as if he just finished ordering a meal from McDonalds. Sure, you might want to be respectful, but you just WON. CONGRATZ, GET ROWDY. I just wanted to see some emotion, some excitement, some passion, anything! It's small stuff like this that gets other people excited and makes esports grow.


I'd rather see professionalism to be honest.
ch4ppi
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany802 Posts
August 28 2010 23:05 GMT
#187
professionalism |= emotions?

Watch a Football game...
Cranberries
Profile Joined July 2010
Wales567 Posts
August 28 2010 23:08 GMT
#188
I'd rather watch a Holland footballer ninja-kick a Spaniard in the chest than watch him shake his hand. Riled emotion makes stuff more intense, more funnier, and more dramatic. Imagine watching Harry Potter without Aveda Kedava and the Cruciatus Curse. It'd be horrible.
Demarini
Profile Joined May 2010
United States151 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-28 23:09:26
August 28 2010 23:08 GMT
#189
On August 29 2010 08:04 branflakes14 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2010 08:01 Spiffeh wrote:
Then I switch to SC2 and it's just....BLAHH. Even when Huk won, he calmly shook his opponents hand and talked to his friends and acted as if he just finished ordering a meal from McDonalds. Sure, you might want to be respectful, but you just WON. CONGRATZ, GET ROWDY. I just wanted to see some emotion, some excitement, some passion, anything! It's small stuff like this that gets other people excited and makes esports grow.


I'd rather see professionalism to be honest.


There is nothing unprofessional about celebrating a victory. You aren't celebrating the other player's loss, rather your win. Every sport ever people cheer and celebrate for their victory. Even in BW people do victory dances, celebrate, etc. It's fun, it makes it more interesting, allows you to follow a player because you like him and his style, it just helps growth of the game. To say nothing after winning a big tournament...kind of stiff if you ask me.
zak
Profile Joined April 2010
Korea (South)1009 Posts
August 28 2010 23:10 GMT
#190
On August 29 2010 04:47 Zozo wrote:
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On August 29 2010 04:42 Eiserne wrote:
On August 29 2010 04:41 Kennigit wrote:
On August 29 2010 04:40 cr4ckshot wrote:
If you want to see innovative play, big money tournaments aren't the source. You may get a glimpse of creative plays, but that's pretty much it.

What sort of evidence do you have for a statement like this?

It's logical reasoning. Big money encourages plays that win. Innovative is unreliable.


Shit, broodwar never had room for creativity right?

...



lol owned

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Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
12062 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-28 23:13:25
August 28 2010 23:12 GMT
#191
On August 29 2010 08:08 Demarini wrote:
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On August 29 2010 08:04 branflakes14 wrote:
On August 29 2010 08:01 Spiffeh wrote:
Then I switch to SC2 and it's just....BLAHH. Even when Huk won, he calmly shook his opponents hand and talked to his friends and acted as if he just finished ordering a meal from McDonalds. Sure, you might want to be respectful, but you just WON. CONGRATZ, GET ROWDY. I just wanted to see some emotion, some excitement, some passion, anything! It's small stuff like this that gets other people excited and makes esports grow.


I'd rather see professionalism to be honest.


There is nothing unprofessional about celebrating a victory. You aren't celebrating the other player's loss, rather your win. Every sport ever people cheer and celebrate for their victory. Even in BW people do victory dances, celebrate, etc. It's fun, it makes it more interesting, allows you to follow a player because you like him and his style, it just helps growth of the game. To say nothing after winning a big tournament...kind of stiff if you ask me.


I would say it is a matter of human nature. In any sport you have different types of people doing different things. There were rowdy and flashy players in SC2 MLG. They just didn't make it to the semis, this time.

If you look at a team you often see the people that play offensive positions in a team be flashier than those playing defensive positions. SC2 is a defensive and very methodical game. It is kind of like chess in the type of players it attracts. At the chess tournaments I was at (low level) the losers showed much more emotion than the winners.
Infundibulum
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States2552 Posts
August 28 2010 23:12 GMT
#192
On August 29 2010 07:40 Wrongspeedy wrote:
I didn't watch the whole thing, but the end was great! Huk massing phoenix vs kiwi, after kiwi had been massing stalks every game was awesome! Took some kahunas.


It took some Hawaiian shamans??

I believe you mean... cojones
LoL NA: MothLite == Steam: p0nd
ChickenLips
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
2912 Posts
August 28 2010 23:13 GMT
#193
Bad tournament, so glad I didn't pay for HD (free stream had decent quality, gotta give em that) just bad players overall (seriously, NA just doesn't have top notch players, no matter what you say. There might be some good talents but they could never compete with Eu/Asia) and very boring builds and sometimes just atrocious diamond newbies (diamond league so they gotta have skill) that made my skin crawl.

HD and Husky performed better than expected even though they still have less game knowledge than the avg 700 diamond I meet on ladder. HD saying that he probably plays about 1 game per week explains it all. Just by playing 10 games a day, and never having played RTS in your life before, you will gain more knowledge in a month than those 2 combined can muster up.

Day9 and JP had good casting with excellent humour and just overall came across as comfortable and relaxed. That trollface thing just cracked me the fuck up. brb gonna watch drewbie vs socke now =
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Teken
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom35 Posts
August 28 2010 23:17 GMT
#194
well i have to agree with the rest... the tournamet was quite boring after the 2 first set and all zerg where gone i just wachted the finals.


hopefully hdh invitational 2 gonna be much better.
do whatever its takes to be the best
Herculix
Profile Joined May 2010
United States946 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-28 23:25:04
August 28 2010 23:24 GMT
#195
i thought it was pretty good for what was pretty much a test run tournament that's being overshadowed by a huge EU tournament and a huge KR tournament. i think both of these tournaments which went all out for SC2 made MLG look worse than it really was.

overall, just sounds like more complaining and taking things for granted, which seems more and more typical of SC2 forums as the days go on.
KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-28 23:27:28
August 28 2010 23:26 GMT
#196
not quite sure where to ask this but.. is there a replay pack any where? theres a few games that werent casted that i want to watch...

as for hdh, they just need to work on their knowledge of the game, like use flash cards to practice unit names or something calling a carrier a colossus 3 times is just kinda lol...
PuZzLE.LoKo
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
August 28 2010 23:33 GMT
#197
I'll have to respectfully disagree with many of the previous posters; I thought this was an excellent tournament to watch.

I'd like to think that the casters did the best that they could with what they were given. You could see the casters looking around with confused looks on their faces at many times during the event, and there were some significant periods where nothing was happening in between games. But I think a lot of those issues are due to complications with the way Battle.net is set up and several of the casters and players being relatively unfamiliar/new to these kinds of events.

As for the gameplay, I thought it was fantastic. The drewbie vs Socke games in particular were fantastic. Yea, there was a lot of MMM, but that's what the majority of Terran players are using right now. I enjoyed seeing how players dealt with those comps and it was sooooo refreshing to see a race other than Terran win a major tournament for once.
whomybuddy
Profile Joined August 2010
United States620 Posts
August 28 2010 23:39 GMT
#198
Yes no Idra =!!
Roaches all the way way way.
FraCuS
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1072 Posts
August 28 2010 23:41 GMT
#199
On August 29 2010 07:37 darkmetal505 wrote:
I find SC2 boring to watch in general after a couple of games. I found myself frequently switching to the Halo stream because it was a lot more fun. I don't even follow FPS at all.


I watched both halo and tekken the whole time.

Both excited and fun to watch, i was literally yelling and cheering lol.
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danson
Profile Joined April 2010
United States689 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-28 23:41:41
August 28 2010 23:41 GMT
#200
highlight of tourney was day9's standup.

My build order for dating is 8 dinner, 10 movie, and if that doesnt work i follow up with some harassment around 12.
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