EPTWho is the Terran King - Page 12
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slicknav
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rickybobby
United States405 Posts
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cz
United States3249 Posts
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
The players with the most potential in my opinion are MVP/MMA, Bomber/Byun, Polt/Puma. Funny alliteration going on here. Taking the first letters gives us MBP, which is how Koreans pronounce "MVP". Coincidence? | ||
Fionn
United States23455 Posts
MVP can win his throne back if he can do work in GSL again. | ||
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lunchforthesky
United Kingdom967 Posts
On August 01 2011 13:31 SafeAsCheese wrote: Go look at NesTea's bracket last GSL. It was way easier than MLG up to Losira. Fact is, sometimes GSL has really hard or really easy sides of a bracket. July, Coca, Hongun, Losira and Ensnare is not a particularly easy run, and most of those players beat some very good players to get there. And of course if GSL were easy to win we wouldn't have 7 out of 9 won by 3 players. | ||
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rysecake
United States2632 Posts
On August 01 2011 13:53 lunchforthesky wrote: July, Coca, Hongun, Losira and Ensnare is not a particularly easy run, and most of those players beat some very good players to get there. July's zvz is laughable. Can't speak for coca. Hongun isn't particularly impressive either, nor is ensnare. | ||
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GenoPewPew
United States347 Posts
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KoshkaTV
United States430 Posts
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lunchforthesky
United Kingdom967 Posts
On August 01 2011 13:54 rysecake wrote: July's zvz is laughable. Can't speak for coca. Hongun isn't particularly impressive either, nor is ensnare. July beat Sen in ZvZ at Dreamhack, can't be too laughable. Coca has barely played ZvZ so can't comment on that but his other matchups especially ZvP are very good. Hongun is really underrated, he beat Supernova, Zenio and MC to reach Nestea. As countless foreign tournaments show you don't just randomly beat those standard of players without being good (given Huk is the only foreigner with any kind of continued success vs Koreans in anything). Ensnare's pretty weak for a Code S player but he obviously has managed to stay in Code S since the first season for a reason. | ||
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C.W.
88 Posts
On August 01 2011 13:52 KimJongChill wrote: Still no king yet, in my opinion, but MVP is looking really strong again. The players with the most potential in my opinion are MVP/MMA, Bomber/Byun, Polt/Puma. Funny alliteration going on here. Taking the first letters gives us MBP, which is how Koreans pronounce "MVP". Coincidence? The fact that there are this many aspirants (together with others I'm sure; you can never write off MKP, TOP gained momentum recently too) just shows that none of the top terrans could dominate long enough to get reasonably ahead in the "Best Terran"-race. So I (agree and) say: currently no1. | ||
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Horse...falcon
United States1851 Posts
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
On August 01 2011 13:54 rysecake wrote: July's zvz is laughable. Can't speak for coca. Hongun isn't particularly impressive either, nor is ensnare. I think people just don't give enough credit to the mid-range code S players. We've all seen how fierce code A has become recently, so this makes even staying in Code S that much more impressive, in my opinion. The weaker players like MarineKing, FruitDealer, and Inca--all iconic players in their own right--are already getting quickly weeded out, so I really think that people should take the average Code S players more seriously. Give them the chance to go to MLG, and I'm sure they'd do extremely well. | ||
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Awesomeness
Germany1361 Posts
On August 01 2011 14:00 KimJongChill wrote: The weaker players like MarineKing[...] wat. | ||
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LordLuo
United States37 Posts
 ? He seems to always be improving, made top 4 in the last GSL, has perhaps the strongest TvT in the world right now (at least in terms of consistency and stamina), and easily one of the smarter, consistent players right now. I would still say MVP is the best terran, only terran right now that is amazingly strong in every matchup (I'd say Bomber's tvz right now is weak) and MVP always plays well and refined. Some say his TvP is slightly weak but I completely disagree, he's very consistent. | ||
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Elefanto
Switzerland3584 Posts
MarineKing cheeses awfully lot and 1-bases. But his management games i seen of him in the recent past were absolutely not impressive. | ||
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
He's been slumping hard, underperforms in GSTL, and has been knocked down into code A. In my opinion, he is no longer a top tier Terran player. | ||
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
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mordk
Chile8385 Posts
Yes, he's been on somewhat of a slump for a while now, but whenever I see him play I see the spirit of BW channeled into his play. He's solid as a rock, has the safest, most stable play, if not the most creative. MVP has the potential to become a true terran star if he can be more consistent. His macro is flawless, his micro is pretty damn good and he's a tactical genius to boot. He's also got some of that "cheater terran" thing going on. He just loses an army and suddenly an even larger army is out there. This is somewhat of a unique characteristic of him, and every great player has one of these. For instance, MC always seems to have that tech a few seconds before other protoss players, and NesTea can defend rushes other players can't dream of defending. Those 3 are the kings of their respective races, the rest can only stare in awe for now. | ||
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Awesomeness
Germany1361 Posts
On August 01 2011 14:07 KimJongChill wrote: He's been slumping hard, underperforms in GSTL, and has been knocked down into code A. In my opinion, he is no longer a top tier Terran player. Marineking made it to the semi-finals of the super tournament (and was up 2:0) not even 2 months ago and fell down in like the sickest code s group, losing to Alicia and Losira. I mean he had some bad results lately, but he is not a "weaker code s"-player because of that, just not playing up to his potential. (The fact that his tvt-style doesn't really work anymore doesn't help either...) | ||
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