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-eXalt
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States462 Posts
July 19 2011 18:55 GMT
#141
Typical idra, every tournament he just says "The zergs had hard groups and the protoss had easy". It's a perfect way to avoid the fact that zerg is fine, because saying a group is 'hard' is an extremely GENERAL comment.

mr.reee
Profile Joined November 2010
121 Posts
July 19 2011 19:18 GMT
#142
Great interview
Amoment
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany175 Posts
July 19 2011 19:34 GMT
#143
haha
6000 MMR/competitive Dota 2 player. SC2 LOTV Grandmaster - WoL Top 75 EU, 150 World. YouTuber.
ZidaneTribal
Profile Joined September 2007
United States2800 Posts
July 19 2011 19:36 GMT
#144
who is the woman in tarson's interview?
fuck lag
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States46220 Posts
July 19 2011 19:38 GMT
#145
Awesome IdrA interview! Thanks for this
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
elmoscousin
Profile Joined June 2010
United States30 Posts
July 20 2011 06:22 GMT
#146
Thanks for the great interview!
I've been wondering where Idra disappeared to for the last week or so, good to see that he is still active.
Brood War is hard T_T
han_han
Profile Joined October 2010
United States205 Posts
July 20 2011 06:54 GMT
#147
Great Idra interview, very informative, very clean.

Tarson's interview was also great, and I liked that bit where apparently he said he was the best in Europe then laughed and asked to redo that question.
RaLakedaimon
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1564 Posts
July 20 2011 07:03 GMT
#148
Nice Tarson interview, I noticed she was always looking him in the eye but he was looking at her lips, maybe I'm just watching too many old Poirot shows but seems like he was into her. I can't say I liked the Idra interview though but not because of Carmac but because idra always makes it sound like Zerg sucks, his opponents only lose because they mess up or because they suck and he won't switch races because he's gone so far with it. Never have seen someone do that little circle over and over and yet have so many fans, give them drama and they love you I suppose. I was hoping for some trolling but Carmac was all straight up, still great job by him as always.
Skaya
Profile Joined August 2010
United States126 Posts
July 20 2011 08:15 GMT
#149
i never really cared for tarson but that interview changed my mind.

keep the interviews coming, and i'll keep watching )
Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
July 20 2011 08:31 GMT
#150
Great interview! You're awesome Carmac.
I believe in the almighty Grötslev! -- I am never serious and you should never believe a thing I say. Including the previous sentence.
Disquiet
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia628 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-20 08:55:28
July 20 2011 08:54 GMT
#151
this statement is so wrong...
ladder stats being 50% just indicates one thing: the matchmaking works.
The ladders only goal is to keep players artificially at 50%

If i lose very often, my MMR will drop and i will get weaker opponents till i reach 50% again.
If i win too much, i will get stronger opponents till i reach 50% again.

So ladder staticstics doesnt say anything.

If i win 90% of my zvz, 52 % of my ZvT and just 8% of my ZvP im still at 50% win rate.

Even if my pvz is 50% it tells you nothing about how balanced it is, because you cant see the MMR. There is a huge possibility that the toss i lost to were on the same MMR as me and the ones i won where on lower mmr


Care to explain?


Lol. Obvious troll is obvious.

Care to explain how IdrA's logic of the matchmaking system is wrong. You are right about it being explained a thousand times on TL, but every time it says "The matchmaking systems only goal is to have each player reach a 50% win rate" so idk wtf you're talkin about bro. IdrA is pretty spot on.


If one matchup was significantly easier e.g TvP, you would see terran players with a higher average win ratio in TvP, and a Lower ratio in TvZ, while still maintaining the 50% average overall winrate.

The total win ratio for a player will always trend to 50% yes, but the match up specific averages will not, and can indicate imbalance.
Rannasha
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Netherlands2398 Posts
July 20 2011 09:36 GMT
#152
The real remaining question is: If Idra would play his Toss-clone and he would lose, would he gg?
Such flammable little insects!
Charon1979
Profile Joined October 2010
Austria317 Posts
July 20 2011 09:58 GMT
#153
The total win ratio for a player will always trend to 50% yes, but the match up specific averages will not, and can indicate imbalance.


you dont see the matchup specific averages. You just see the overall average.

and even then:

imagine TvZ would be unbalanced in a straight up game. Z would always dominate.
But most terrans will go for an marine + scv cheese anyways, bringing the terran MU specific winrate to 53%
Balanced?
freerolll
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Belgium1056 Posts
July 20 2011 10:28 GMT
#154
lol Idra still not giving nestea any credit !?!?

Is he blind?
Always give without remembering & always receive without forgetting.
Diavlo
Profile Joined July 2011
Belgium2915 Posts
July 20 2011 10:58 GMT
#155
Typical idra, every tournament he just says "The zergs had hard groups and the protoss had easy".

He said the exact opposite. According to him, the zergs who qualified had easy groups.
He had grubby,cloud and delphi,
Xlord had mc (who he lost to), demuslim (who was just coming back to competition) and tyler.
Stephano had huk,insolence and naruto



lol Idra still not giving nestea any credit !?!?

Is he blind?


He has said multiple time that nestea is very good. But in that gsl he played in order:
jinro and clide in group stage then
fruitdealer,anypro, sc (the only really good player he faced, and he barely won) and inca.
You can't take that result as a proof that zerg are doing Ok, especially against protoss.

Now i'm not saying that IdrA is right but the examples he takes are very well chosen to serve his point.
"I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it."
Helvig
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark55 Posts
July 20 2011 12:41 GMT
#156
What a nice interview done by Carmac. Very intelligent questions and answers done by both of them, and I really like the questions asked by Carmac, which are not the typical questions being asked over and over again.

As said previously in this thread, it is so good to see an interview which consists of Carmac and Idra having an actual conversation instead of the ask and answer type of style.

A+ for Carmac!
http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/291409/1/Helvig/ - Veni, vidi, vici
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2596 Posts
July 20 2011 13:08 GMT
#157
Excellent interview with Idra. I really enjoy listening to the guy talk. Even though I'm agnostic on the point of game balance (I simply don't have the required knowledge or information to discuss the balance of the game in its current state), and get annoyed when people discuss it from the position of ignorance that the vast majority of people have, I feel like his arguments are very well thought-out and interesting to listen to.

The conversational style of the conversation, as Helvig says above, was also a definite plus. It was very cool that they spent a good deal of time discussing a few questions instead of just doing a rapid-fire question/response.
The frumious Bandersnatch
Spekulatius
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2413 Posts
July 20 2011 13:15 GMT
#158
Those were some of the most professional interviews I've seen so far.
Always smile~
EnSky
Profile Joined June 2011
Philippines1003 Posts
July 20 2011 13:15 GMT
#159
The interview with Idra was great. Learned a bit about him and how he thinks.
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
July 20 2011 13:38 GMT
#160
Carmac asked great questions, Idra gave great answers. The interview with Tarson was very good as well
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