And who's the last person you know who went and watched the globetrotters?

and the last person to compare them to anyone professional?

the analogy would be more apt if he won, considering the globetrotters have lost 1 game in their history.

in a joke league.

once again, i'm not judging, and i don't care, but to idolize huk for throwing a game in a competitive tournament is just beyond me. when you're a pro, you just don't do that.

KillerPlague

United States1386 Posts

October 17 2010 07:20 GMT

#82

awesome video! lol that he thought he heard mothership rush from the fans and actually went through with it! if his expo hadn't been sniped that game would have been so much different!

Puddles

United States5 Posts

October 17 2010 07:22 GMT

#83

Love Huk, man. It was great to be at this show and see this. Kudos to OG poster of the vid, he's the man.

Goggalor

United States310 Posts

October 17 2010 07:26 GMT

#84

Watching the replay, I wouldn't say he threw it just by mothership rushing.

The botched vortex was the big mistake. Those were all the units seleCT had at the moment, and Huk could have inflicted serious damage to the expo or the main while bringing in more units. But he did botch the vortex, and ended losing his army with only his mom and a cycle off his 4 gates, plus phoenix production.

Then when he tried to push again his units were all scattered about. He had phoenix to counter the vikings as well as more ground units. If he had stayed back, kept his units together, he might have had another round of reinforcements with him when select finally came for the engagement and they would not have been scattered.

Sprouter

United States1724 Posts

October 17 2010 07:29 GMT

#85

it's cool that huk did this but at the same time it feels like he gave up after seeing how strong select was playing

stroggos

New Zealand1543 Posts

October 17 2010 07:32 GMT

#86

didn't find the game very entertaining tbh, huk made a ton of mistakes. The chat was funny though.

The 1st game on metalopolis was much more entertaining imo.

Unas

Germany56 Posts

October 17 2010 07:32 GMT

#87

Has anyone a link to the original video?
I would like to see that.

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

October 17 2010 07:36 GMT

#88

I was cheering for HuK to take the game, but the misclicked Vortex made me extremely sad. Such a great game though. Everyone needs to loosen up about him "throwing the game". Probably his last chance to have a bit of fun at a major tourney before he starts GSL

TMTurtle

183 Posts

October 17 2010 07:37 GMT

#89

On October 17 2010 16:32 stroggos wrote:
The 1st game on metalopolis was much more entertaining imo.

Maybe it was just because it had been 5 hours of play beforehand, but HuK's play was just a huge relief. I'm sure after the path SelecT had to take to get there, with just hours and hours of Tournament play, a little bit of humor was welcome.

Mouth

United States122 Posts

October 17 2010 07:37 GMT

#90

On October 17 2010 16:12 leve15 wrote:
And who's the last person you know who went and watched the globetrotters?

and the last person to compare them to anyone professional?

the analogy would be more apt if he won, considering the globetrotters have lost 1 game in their history.

in a joke league.

once again, i'm not judging, and i don't care, but to idolize huk for throwing a game in a competitive tournament is just beyond me. when you're a pro, you just don't do that.

Bad analogy. What Huk did would equate to a kobe bryant or lebron james do a trick shot in a pro game, which star players do alot and the crowd always loves it. Your analogy of the globetrotters would be more like a semi-popular non-featured streamer doing a mothership rush in his stream.

Helluva

United States651 Posts

October 17 2010 07:42 GMT

#91

Awesome! LOL :D

leve15

United States301 Posts

October 17 2010 07:43 GMT

#92

On October 17 2010 16:37 Mouth wrote:

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wasn't my analogy.

have you ever seen a pro player miss a dunk?

fans of the team get pissed.

rackdude

United States882 Posts

October 17 2010 07:49 GMT

#93

On October 17 2010 13:22 Goggalor wrote:

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There was a halo tournament going on at the same time as SC2, and you could often hear the halo crowd cheer really loud. So when his mom popped out and the crowd roared, he pretended to cop it off on the halo fans.

Now THAT'S metagaming.

epik640x

United States1134 Posts

October 17 2010 07:53 GMT

#94

Select was the real hero playing as many games in a row as he did. What a beast.

FarbrorAbavna

Sweden4856 Posts

October 17 2010 07:53 GMT

#95

This reminds me so much of the double rainbow video :D

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4376 Posts

October 17 2010 07:55 GMT

#96

Sorry guys but this was more depressing than anything.
Guy tries something new PvT gets rolled by mass marauder.

leve15

United States301 Posts

October 17 2010 08:00 GMT

#97

On October 17 2010 16:55 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Sorry guys but this was more depressing than anything.
Guy tries something new PvT gets rolled by mass marauder.

yawn

Mouth

United States122 Posts

October 17 2010 08:01 GMT

#98

On October 17 2010 16:43 leve15 wrote:

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wasn't my analogy.

have you ever seen a pro player miss a dunk?

fans of the team get pissed.

have you ever seen a pro player throw it off the backboard and make a dunk but his team still loses? the fans at least get that show. Whether or not either of us like or dislike it the vast majority of the fans like it and therefore gives himself, his team, and esports good publicity which is more of what it needs to succeed. I totally understand peoples argument that esports needs to become more professional in order to become big but at the same time we need to remember the audience. This isn't like basketball where there are fans from little kids to the elderly.

JIJI_

United States123 Posts

October 17 2010 08:01 GMT

#99

He pretty much threw away the game / didn't take it seriously. Sir Idra would never do something like that.