Great write up Fionn, write officially for TL already~ =P

@spacemonkeyy: you're right, the question is why you think any of these four are unknown or underrated when people who are actually watching this have known for some time how good these four are. Oh wait, if that was a racial imbalance whine then go blame all the good Zerg and Toss players who lost, not the Terran players who won.

What sort of world do we live in where the winner is the one at fault?

Drazerk

United Kingdom31255 Posts

June 12 2011 00:38 GMT

#102

Amazing write up I really enjoyed it.

Now start writing the official news

Lynkilen

Norway211 Posts

June 12 2011 00:40 GMT

#103

Great article love the insights!

Kallehoe

Sweden67 Posts

June 12 2011 00:40 GMT

#104

"Polt? He's the guy you know who used to sit in the back of the class, be covered in pimples, and have the second creepiest smile in the world behind TheBest."

thank you for making me spray coca cola all over the screen and keyboard

PraetorianX

Sweden780 Posts

June 12 2011 00:41 GMT

#105

Nice OP

But I must admit, I will not be watching the rest of this season of GSL. The one matchup I really hate is TvT, so a TvTvTvT is pretty much my worst nightmare. I used to watch all games in the GSL, but nowadays I'm only really interested in MC's and Huk's games.

425kid

416 Posts

June 12 2011 01:04 GMT

#106

On June 12 2011 09:21 spacemonkeyy wrote:
You really got to question things when you have so many relatively unknown/underated players making it to the pointy end of the tournament from one race whilst only the best of the other two races get anywhere near it.

The best of each of the races lost near the beginning, cya mvp, bomber, nestea and mc. Theres a ton of variance in sc2 right now. If you dont want variance go watch brood war

imkp

United Kingdom139 Posts

June 12 2011 01:21 GMT

#107

On June 12 2011 10:04 425kid wrote:

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The best of each of the races lost near the beginning, cya mvp, bomber, nestea and mc. Theres a ton of variance in sc2 right now. If you dont want variance go watch brood war

Pretty sure a certain Terran who is better than Bomber and has proven so is still in. If you had just said the best of each race which would be MVP, Nestea, MC then it would've been ok.

MarineKing is the second best Terran and maybe he'll prove he's better than MVP.

Szubie

United Kingdom294 Posts

June 12 2011 01:42 GMT

#108

Fun write up, enjoy reading these, thanks! :D

iGX

Australia414 Posts

June 12 2011 02:08 GMT

#109

On June 12 2011 05:49 Mioraka wrote:
Dude, just, stop.

If you keep writing amazing articles like this, you are going to make the TL writter's union go on a strike, because you took away their employment opportunities.

Great fucking article, especially the part with TheBest's face in it

I agree but the picture of girls with TheBest's face in the back freaked me out at first LOL

GJ!!

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

June 12 2011 02:34 GMT

#110

Thanks for all the kind words and enjoying the article.

Don't hold any hard feelings to people who just don't like TvT. To be fair, MarineKing doesn't play the average TvT style and Polt really doesn't either, so I think we'll get some exciting matches. We also might get

Artosis: HE'S SLIGHTLY MOVING HIS TANK FORWARD
Tasteless: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*10 minutes later*

Artosis: HE MOVED IT AGAIN. ALMOST IN RANGE! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Tasteless: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

But hopefully we get some exciting matches.

cyberspace

Canada955 Posts

June 12 2011 02:35 GMT

#111

These are some really great write-ups. Keep it up.

kl3zero

United States27 Posts

June 12 2011 02:42 GMT

#112

very nice article as im pretty new to starcraft i really enjoyed the facts from older gsl's. I can not wait for the MMA vs MKP its going to be epic

Golgotha

Korea (South)8418 Posts

June 12 2011 02:56 GMT

#113

MMA MMA MMA!

Charger

United States2405 Posts

June 12 2011 02:57 GMT

#114

I don't normally read through long posts like this but damn, what an awesome write up! I hope more people realize we may actually get the best finals yet of the GSL. It won't be based off name recognition but off of pure skill. I'm looking forward to it even more after this read, thanks!

bearhug

United States999 Posts

June 12 2011 03:06 GMT

#115

On June 12 2011 11:34 Fionn wrote:
Thanks for all the kind words and enjoying the article.

Don't hold any hard feelings to people who just don't like TvT. To be fair, MarineKing doesn't play the average TvT style and Polt really doesn't either, so I think we'll get some exciting matches. We also might get

Artosis: HE'S SLIGHTLY MOVING HIS TANK FORWARD
Tasteless: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*10 minutes later*

Artosis: HE MOVED IT AGAIN. ALMOST IN RANGE! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Tasteless: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

But hopefully we get some exciting matches.

"MarineKing doesn't play the average TvT style"? Can you find one such non-average TvT MKP played ever since his GSL match vs Nada?

Anyway, go to check the replays MKP vs Scfou (FXOpen # 3 finals, 9 games), and GSL up/down match MKP vs MMA, as well as MKP vs TheBest the other day. All of them are marine tanks solid play.

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

June 12 2011 03:16 GMT

#116

I can't say I hold the same enjoyment for TvT, but whatever happens I hope we don't have another player crumble like Alicia. It's so easy to make the slightest mistake in TvT and just lose the game. I'd like to see MKP get another silver medal as well, but I won't be waking up before dawn to watch TvT. If the games are interesting there's always vods

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

June 12 2011 03:17 GMT

#117

On June 12 2011 11:42 kl3zero wrote:
very nice article as im pretty new to starcraft i really enjoyed the facts from older gsl's. I can not wait for the MMA vs MKP its going to be epic

Thanks.

If I can get any new fans into watching GSL, I'll feel really happy. The only way for the GSL to get bigger and better, is to get new fans.

Clearout

Norway1060 Posts

June 12 2011 03:35 GMT

#118

Great article! Really enjoyed reading it, will make the semis more enjoyable for me with you hyping things up

Makavillin

113 Posts

June 12 2011 04:02 GMT

#119

Marineking vs MMA will be a sick matchup. I see MMA taking it. He'll be Marineking's new kryptonite. haha.

imkp

United Kingdom139 Posts

June 12 2011 04:09 GMT

#120

On June 12 2011 12:06 bearhug wrote:

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I don't think he meant it as a bad thing. MarineKing usually makes TvT entertaining.

His Scfou matches were amazing though and aside from that huge blunder in game 2 in the up and down he completely destroyed MMA in both games so I'm hoping for a 3-0!