• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 08:31
CEST 14:31
KST 21:31
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins HomeStory Cup 2914Serral wins Maestros of the Game 243ByuL, and the Limitations of Standard Play3Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12
Community News
Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16)18Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format16[IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend!5Weekly Cups (July 6 - 12): Protoss strike back12BSL Season 22 Full Overview & Conclusion8
StarCraft 2
General
Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16) Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format Is the larve respawn broken? 5.0.16 patch for SC2 goes live (8 worker start) BGE Stara Zagora to be held again in June 2025
Tourneys
Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2) WardiTV Summer Cup 2026 GSL CK #5 Race War RSL Revival: Season 6 - Qualifiers and Main Event HomeStory Cup 29
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
New Map Maker - Looking for Advice - Love or Hate Work In Progress Melee Maps [D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 534 Burning Evacuation Mutation # 533 Die Together Mutation # 532 Nuclear Family
Brood War
General
Etiquete rules in Asl? Recommended FPV games (post-KeSPA) Pros Debate: Zerg Unfairly Nerfed? (ASL S22 map) BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ screpdb: new Starcraft reporting tool
Tourneys
Escore Tournament - Season 3 Small VOD Thread 2.0 [IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend! [Megathread] Daily Proleagues
Strategy
Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Creating a full chart of Zerg builds Relatively freeroll strategies
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile General RTS Discussion Thread Nintendo Switch Thread Beyond All Reason Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Power Rank NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread UK Politics Mega-thread YouTube Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The HerO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Series you have seen recently...
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread MLB/Baseball 2023 McBoner: A hockey love story Tennis[sport] Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Simple Questions Simple Answers FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop How to clean a TTe Thermaltake keyboard?
TL Community
Northern Ireland Global Starcraft The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Poker (part 2)
Nebuchad
The Experiences We Want and …
TrAiDoS
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
Gauntlet SC2: A Retrospectiv…
Ctone23
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 9356 users

[GSL - Spoilers] Welcome to the Elite Eight - Page 4

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 19 20 21 Next All
Overpowered
Profile Joined January 2011
Czech Republic764 Posts
June 09 2011 19:05 GMT
#61
Alicia! He is awesome! Good article, gj
Just another gold Protoss...
FrodaN
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
754 Posts
June 09 2011 19:05 GMT
#62
Any combination of MMA/MKP/TOP would be a sick finals!
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
June 09 2011 19:08 GMT
#63
GSL Tres: Rain makes it to the finals by heavily cheesing some of the favorites and has to meet MC, who at the time, could not be touched by anyone. Rain got a singular victory, but the rest of the final wasn't close. MC crushed him.

I actually dont think Rain gets nearly enough credit for this final... Game 1 was close, game 2 was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY close with the strangest come from behind win ever (that is, until Inca beat Rain last month lol).
Game 3 and 4 kinda meh, but first two games were good, and game 4 DID have some tension with MC losing all his probes.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
12D3
Profile Joined February 2010
United States39 Posts
June 09 2011 19:08 GMT
#64
--- Nuked ---
FarbrorAbavna
Profile Joined July 2009
Sweden4856 Posts
June 09 2011 19:08 GMT
#65
great writeup! Didnt know Polt was on such a tear, sort of had stopped caring about his results ever since he got beat by jinro(no offense to jinro, it just happened at that time). But seeing him being 35-12 I'm now genuinely excited for his games against Alicia, and as you said OP it might possibly be the best of all in that round.

Again, great writeup. Made me look forward all the more to the upcoming rounds.
Do you really want chat rooms?
Lord_J
Profile Joined April 2011
Kenya1085 Posts
June 09 2011 19:08 GMT
#66
Great post. Sometimes it seems like the environment around here is so negative; Esports writing needs more of this kind of passion and enthusiasm.
No relation to Monsieur J.
MotherOfRunes
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2862 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-09 19:10:48
June 09 2011 19:10 GMT
#67
ok if nobody will root for him, i do !
GOGO THE BEST! i wanna see manner mules after some good smelly cheese!

no seriously...MMA, Alicia fighting!
"Your Razor sucks!" -Kuroky's Dad
Rokevo
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1033 Posts
June 09 2011 19:11 GMT
#68
Awesome write up!

I was a little depressed when Nestea got eliminated, kinda lost all interest for the ro8. But reading this got me hyped for it again, so thanks for that

Gonna cheer for Alicia, he's by far my favorite korean protoss player
StutteR
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1903 Posts
June 09 2011 19:11 GMT
#69
great write up. i was really betting on nada making another round of 8. would like to see marineking beat one of the slayers guys for his first championship. Some really nice storylines here.
`~` | effOrt Movie sKyHigh forever & SEn
thirnaz
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden876 Posts
June 09 2011 19:12 GMT
#70
I want marineking to win but I think MMA or Ryung will : (
SlayerS_MMA and TL #1
Fionn
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States23455 Posts
June 09 2011 19:13 GMT
#71
On June 10 2011 04:08 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
Show nested quote +
GSL Tres: Rain makes it to the finals by heavily cheesing some of the favorites and has to meet MC, who at the time, could not be touched by anyone. Rain got a singular victory, but the rest of the final wasn't close. MC crushed him.

I actually dont think Rain gets nearly enough credit for this final... Game 1 was close, game 2 was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY close with the strangest come from behind win ever (that is, until Inca beat Rain last month lol).
Game 3 and 4 kinda meh, but first two games were good, and game 4 DID have some tension with MC losing all his probes.


Thanks Jinro. I should rewatch the series. I haven't seen it in a few months, but I never feeling worried that Rain was going to win. Maybe it was because I didn't buy into Rain, but I'm going to go rewatch the games and see how close it was.

Also I'm really glad this article is getting people to want to watch the Super Tournament. I got into Starcraft through the players a few years ago and not the game. Players personalities like FBH, Savior, Reach and all the storylines that went on really got me interested. Then I got more into the game after that. I think every tournament and match-up has a story, but you just have to look for it.

Writerhttps://twitter.com/FionnOnFire
Fubi
Profile Joined March 2011
2228 Posts
June 09 2011 19:14 GMT
#72
I think it is still very far up in the air for who's gonna win. There are a few major deciding factors.

1) MMA's inconsistent plays. I'm sure all of you agree that at times, MMA plays like he really deserves to stay in Code A. This is usually when he doesn't feel the pressure and what not. But then at other times, he literally goes into god mode. MMA will come out ahead against MKP if he goes into his god mode imo, but he won't even get past Ryung if he doesn't.

2) Alicia vs Polt. Alicia is the best PvT out there, BUT Polt is undefeated against Protoss afaik, being the one to consistently take out MC. Being only a Bo3, this could really go either way, and I'm really excited to see this match. If Alicia goes thru, there is going to be another factor after that...

3) Tops vs Line. If Line goes thru, I think Alicia will have a difficult time beating him seeing how bad his PvZ is. But Top managed to take down Nestea, so logically he should be able to take down Line. If this is the case, I'm pretty sure Alicia would decimate Tops, then go on and take out MKP or MMA in the finals. But Tops vs Line is a Bo3, so anything can happen.

So this is going to come down to how tonight's games pan out. Really excited!
BadgerBadger8264
Profile Joined March 2011
Netherlands409 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-09 19:16:05
June 09 2011 19:15 GMT
#73
TheBest vs Line in the finals; and it'll be the most epic macro-intensive finals we've ever seen with TheBest winning 4-3 after an 8 hour long set of games all cast by Wolf
Utopi
Profile Joined July 2010
Denmark176 Posts
June 09 2011 19:16 GMT
#74
Thank you for a great read.
Foxer fighting!
no.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10379 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-09 19:19:18
June 09 2011 19:17 GMT
#75
GSL Tres: Rain makes it to the finals by heavily cheesing some of the favorites and has to meet MC, who at the time, could not be touched by anyone. Rain got a singular victory, but the rest of the final wasn't close. MC crushed him.

I actually dont think Rain gets nearly enough credit for this final... Game 1 was close, game 2 was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY close with the strangest come from behind win ever (that is, until Inca beat Rain last month lol).
Game 3 and 4 kinda meh, but first two games were good, and game 4 DID have some tension with MC losing all his probes.


I REALLY agree with this. People always say Rain can't play a macro game, but he can! Set 2 on Lost Temple vs MC was VERY EPIC. I remember how many people were saying wow, that was one of the most epic matches I ever saw. But it seems all the hate has made them forget it.

That game on Lost Temple showed a lot of promise for SC2; there was a shit ton of harass and action everywhere with smart use of the map's "imba" terrain. It was long, and very fun to watch. Not to mention MC making a miracle hold against Rain's push at the beginning.


Rofl, no wonder, the Min vs TheBest match I saw was from April >.> (where Min + Show Spoiler +
won a close match
)

Damn it TheBest! lol, would have been even more epic if Min made it through (and because there would actually be another non-terran player)

Omg can't believe Nestea lost T_T

Anyways, good writeup, and I agree, I always looked at Polt as a very meh player back then but now he is really owning.

Overall I like the Top 8, SLAYERS FIGHTING!
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-09 19:19:22
June 09 2011 19:17 GMT
#76
Awesome write up, now that im at the end

Just one thing:
Oh, and he also goes to university at one of the best colleges in the world at Seoul National University. If a guy, who has to split his time between going to school and Starcraft, can be this good, how would he look if he spent all his time at the game? Being one of the smartest players in the tournament, what kind of builds we show us for the next round?

He graduated, thats what his whole schpiel was before our rematch; that now he has graduated and can focus full time on gaming so he wont lose :p

Looking forward to Polt vs Alicia quite a lot, and TOP vs Line as well.... Actually heck, looking forward to it all.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
tuho133
Profile Joined June 2011
120 Posts
June 09 2011 19:19 GMT
#77
Wow, fucking awesome write-up !!
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10379 Posts
June 09 2011 19:20 GMT
#78
Ah thanks for clearing up Jinro, no wonder he's doing so much better now!

BTW for my Economy project my group is making it an analysis of eSports on the global economy, it's ok for us to use a picture of you to represent Sweden right?
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
Xacalite
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany533 Posts
June 09 2011 19:20 GMT
#79
Terran is back....and they still get high tournament rankings by doing allins/cheese. Nothing has changed since rain got owned. I pray to whatever high entity watches starcraft that either alicia or line takes this. Terran is just too much bullshit to root for anyone (maybe MMA).

If either Alicia or Line make it to the Finals, they will win. In a GSL Final where there was a Terran and another race, terran always lost. So all I can do is hope and cheer for those two beacons of light in a dark GSL (kinda like fruitdealer).


I feel fear...for the last time
tehplank
Profile Joined October 2010
977 Posts
June 09 2011 19:21 GMT
#80
On June 10 2011 04:17 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
He graduated, thats what his whole schpiel was before our rematch; that now he has graduated and can focus full time on gaming so he wont lose :p


That explains why Polt's been beasting as of late.
Minatozaki Sana / Hirai Momo / Myoui Mina / Yoo Jeongyeon / Zhou Tzuyu / Im Nayeon / Son Chaeyoung / Kim Dahyun / Park Jihyo
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 19 20 21 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
WardiTV Qualifier
12:00
Summer Cup, Qualifier #2
WardiTV384
Liquipedia
CrankTV Team League
11:00
Crank Gathers S4: Group Stage
LiquipediaDiscussion
Replay Cast
09:00
Crank Gathers S4: Group Stage
CranKy Ducklings122
LiquipediaDiscussion
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
OGKoka 200
SortOf 171
BRAT_OK 81
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 6313
Rain 2720
Sea 1717
Jaedong 966
Hyuk 698
Shuttle 599
Mini 369
BeSt 359
firebathero 295
EffOrt 209
[ Show more ]
Soma 189
Snow 186
Stork 164
Rush 132
Hyun 120
Zeus 109
ggaemo 100
Larva 95
Sea.KH 56
ZerO 46
scan(afreeca) 43
Free 41
hero 37
soO 35
Terrorterran 29
ToSsGirL 22
sorry 22
JYJ 21
Sharp 18
Barracks 16
Bale 16
zelot 15
Hm[arnc] 15
IntoTheRainbow 13
Sacsri 13
Sexy 11
ajuk12(nOOB) 10
JulyZerg 9
Purpose 8
Icarus 6
Dota 2
Gorgc7037
syndereN106
League of Legends
Doublelift2180
Other Games
singsing1504
B2W.Neo738
crisheroes347
Lowko337
Happy225
hiko195
XaKoH 176
DeMusliM98
amsayoshi61
ZerO(Twitch)14
Trikslyr13
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick2330
BasetradeTV219
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 12 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• escodisco2354
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Jankos2353
Upcoming Events
Epic.LAN
30m
Big Brain Bouts
3h 30m
SHIN vs Elazer
Percival vs Nicoract
Reynor vs Lambo
Replay Cast
11h 30m
RSL Revival
20h 30m
Clem vs Lambo
Scarlett vs Cure
CranKy Ducklings
21h 30m
Epic.LAN
1d
IPSL
1d 3h
Dragon vs Hawk
RSL Revival
1d 20h
Classic vs Trap
herO vs SHIN
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1d 21h
OSC
2 days
[ Show More ]
IPSL
2 days
Bonyth vs Ret
WardiTV Weekly
2 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
PiGosaur Cup
4 days
The PondCast
4 days
Replay Cast
5 days
CrankTV Team League
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
CrankTV Team League
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-07-13
HSC XXIX
Eternal Conflict S2 E2

Ongoing

IPSL Spring 2026
Acropolis #4
CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
Escore Tournament S3: W3
RSL Revival: Season 6
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
SCTL 2026 Spring
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026

Upcoming

ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 1
Escore Tournament S3: W4
ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 2
Escore Tournament S3: W5
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HSC XXX
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
Light Tournament 2026
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale
Eternal Conflict S2 E3
Logitech G Connect 2026
StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.