Tournament winners since release - Page 9

On September 14 2010 04:25 Backpack wrote:


The game is brand new and people are already spending more time discussing balance than playing.

On September 14 2010 01:40 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
A silent Zerg tear has been shed by this sheep.

On September 14 2010 04:09 Rabiator wrote:

Finally someone with at least a minimum amount of knowledge how to look at statistics without a blind eye.

If there are only a handful of Zerg in each tournament the number of Zerg winners has to be lower than the rest and the "we are so underpowered" propaganda from the Zerg has quite a lot of people not even start playing the race because they think it is too hard. Everyone likes to win and its not a good idea to play a race which is branded with a big sign of "LOSER" by the loudest propaganda across all forums.

Sure there are hardships for the Zerg race, but these arent caused by other races being overpowered, but rather by the map design and their currently too small size.

On September 14 2010 04:09 Rabiator wrote:

Finally someone with at least a minimum amount of knowledge how to look at statistics without a blind eye.

If there are only a handful of Zerg in each tournament the number of Zerg winners has to be lower than the rest and the "we are so underpowered" propaganda from the Zerg has quite a lot of people not even start playing the race because they think it is too hard. Everyone likes to win and its not a good idea to play a race which is branded with a big sign of "LOSER" by the loudest propaganda across all forums.

Sure there are hardships for the Zerg race, but these arent caused by other races being overpowered, but rather by the map design and their currently too small size.

On September 14 2010 04:41 FabledIntegral wrote:


God these posts piss me off. No, I would assume a great majority people are not spending more time discussing balance. In fact, if players are anything like me, it would be a mere fraction, and I frequent these forums more than most people.

I go and play ~4 hrs every other day, then I spend maybe 20 minutes actually writing up posts each time? Sure, I may spend more time browsing the forums, but there's some people actually enjoy discussing balance, as surprising as that might be to you. Many people browse TL in between games, when they aren't in the mood for a game, when they are waiting for someone, when they are work (aka me right now), etc. People need to stop bitching about "people should play more QQ less," because it's 10x worse than the people actually whining.

On September 14 2010 04:09 Rabiator wrote:

Finally someone with at least a minimum amount of knowledge how to look at statistics without a blind eye.

If there are only a handful of Zerg in each tournament the number of Zerg winners has to be lower than the rest and the "we are so underpowered" propaganda from the Zerg has quite a lot of people not even start playing the race because they think it is too hard. .

On September 14 2010 04:39 Arakash wrote:
i can't hear the whole "the maps are imbalanced" thing. You CANT say "the maps are imbalanced" or "the game is imbalanced" because BOTH are tools to balance the races.
In my opinion "maps that suit Zerg more" is the same as a Zerg buff via patch...

On September 14 2010 05:02 Backpack wrote:


Overreact much?

I can see why you dislike people who share my opinion but we aren't the ones who are plaguing the main page of every forum with countless "balance discussions" AKA zerg tears. Im just sick of every thread on TL either blatantly whining or (in the case of this thread) posting some random statistic that hints at imbalance and then everyone goes crazy over it.

On September 14 2010 05:02 Backpack wrote:


Overreact much?

I can see why you dislike people who share my opinion but we aren't the ones who are plaguing the main page of every forum with countless "balance discussions" AKA zerg tears. Im just sick of every thread on TL either blatantly whining or (in the case of this thread) posting some random statistic that hints at imbalance and then everyone goes crazy over it.

On September 14 2010 05:01 Senx wrote:
Community: Can you talk a little bit about the balance of SC2?

Blizzard: Sure, so we feel the balance between races is good right now, every race is close to 50% win ratio on the ladders.

Community: But don't you see that the imbalance amongst tournaments and top players, isn't that what you should be balancing for anyway?

Blizzard: We really like to look at statistics when we balance the game, so according to our metrics, its looking good.

Community: Could you answer the question directly instead?

Blizzard:
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On September 14 2010 05:15 MrCon wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=PhoeNixWeRRa

this man is making the zerg race look so balanced.
(I didn't took check or cool because they make the zerg race look VERY overpowered)

What I mean is, I'm not a great player, just average, perhaps a little better average if I took time to play a lot. But I never, ever felt that I lost because something is op. I can always find what I did wrong, what mistakes I made, that cost me the game.
Terran maybe op, but I think the sc2 community is not very mature, and a lot of people see imbalance too much. There is certainly imbalance in sc2, but I'm sure that even without imbalance, there would be whine nerf X threads.

On September 14 2010 05:15 MrCon wrote:
Terran maybe op, but I think the sc2 community is not very mature, and a lot of people see imbalance too much. There is certainly imbalance in sc2, but I'm sure that even without imbalance, there would be whine nerf X threads.