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IdrA and Infi to DreamHack Valencia Invitational - Page 12

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Xaerkar
Profile Joined January 2011
United States230 Posts
August 28 2011 21:45 GMT
#221
I don't understand why there's so much hate on Infi just because he focuses on WC3. He's still undeniably one of the best Chinese players in SC2. Maybe you guys should actually wait and see how he performs before complaining. On a side note, Idra is going to tear shit up at DreamHack to make up for his Cologne dodge. Perhaps another Idra vs Huk =D
Kdog3wa
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden40 Posts
August 29 2011 00:05 GMT
#222
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

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Thorzain, MMA, Moon & Nerchio. Also, I hate protoss.
SafeAsCheese
Profile Joined June 2011
United States4924 Posts
August 29 2011 00:11 GMT
#223
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.


Quality inflamatory post right there.

It totally couldn't be that he did well last Dreamhack, finally falling to MC.
hollabackk
Profile Joined December 2010
118 Posts
August 29 2011 00:11 GMT
#224
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

Or it's the fact he is on team EG..also still is better than any na zerg for sure, and on par with other euros.
WhiteraCares
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden339 Posts
August 29 2011 00:13 GMT
#225
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

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Kind of harsh.





But true.
SeeDLiNg
Profile Joined January 2010
United States690 Posts
August 29 2011 00:16 GMT
#226
I want sc2 trading cards
mdma-_-
Profile Joined October 2010
Nauru1213 Posts
August 29 2011 00:19 GMT
#227
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

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agreed.

He really doesnt deserve the invite over other zergs like sheth/dimaga/sen etc.
Fatze
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Germany1342 Posts
August 29 2011 11:14 GMT
#228
lookin forward to see this event =)
Comfort from bottles, cheers from beers the guitars are our weapons and we know how to kill!
bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
August 29 2011 11:27 GMT
#229
On August 29 2011 09:19 mdma-_- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

User was warned for this post

agreed.

He really doesnt deserve the invite over other zergs like sheth/dimaga/sen etc.


And he will be invited for long time, his current skill doesnt matter, its his face/popularity, and the possibility of making next MC vs Idra that will bring 50k people. Sad but true.
Stork[gm]
Kemy
Profile Joined November 2010
105 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-29 12:17:52
August 29 2011 12:01 GMT
#230
On August 29 2011 20:27 bgx wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2011 09:19 mdma-_- wrote:
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

User was warned for this post

agreed.

He really doesnt deserve the invite over other zergs like sheth/dimaga/sen etc.


And he will be invited for long time, his current skill doesnt matter, its his face/popularity, and the possibility of making next MC vs Idra that will bring 50k people. Sad but true.


He is by far the most popular non Korean player in terms of attracting viewers at the moment. Apart from the usual "MUST SEE HIM WIN!" - fans each player has he attracts a lot of "MUST SEE HIM LOSE/RAGE/FAIL!!"-people. I guess the second group is even bigger than the first one. And, most importantly, he somehow manages to constantly satisfy both groups.

Plus, he may have shown some not so successfull play especially the last month and didn't win anything major for some time now but he pretty much always finishes ok among the top foreigners behind all the Koreans. And honestly, there is currently no foreigner who has won a tourney with Koreans participating.
duckTemplar
Profile Joined February 2011
United States204 Posts
August 29 2011 17:14 GMT
#231
If you haven't see this Dreamhack Valencia promo video yet, you should

The first word Kerrigan said to Raynor was "...You Pig!", to Raynor's response "What? ... oh you're a psychic"
WniO
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2706 Posts
August 29 2011 17:49 GMT
#232
On August 29 2011 21:01 Kemy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2011 20:27 bgx wrote:
On August 29 2011 09:19 mdma-_- wrote:
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

User was warned for this post

agreed.

He really doesnt deserve the invite over other zergs like sheth/dimaga/sen etc.


And he will be invited for long time, his current skill doesnt matter, its his face/popularity, and the possibility of making next MC vs Idra that will bring 50k people. Sad but true.


He is by far the most popular non Korean player in terms of attracting viewers at the moment. Apart from the usual "MUST SEE HIM WIN!" - fans each player has he attracts a lot of "MUST SEE HIM LOSE/RAGE/FAIL!!"-people. I guess the second group is even bigger than the first one. And, most importantly, he somehow manages to constantly satisfy both groups.

Plus, he may have shown some not so successfull play especially the last month and didn't win anything major for some time now but he pretty much always finishes ok among the top foreigners behind all the Koreans. And honestly, there is currently no foreigner who has won a tourney with Koreans participating.

huk won the homestory cup with mc there

and look, idra is not preforming up to his usual standards but he is still the best non korean zerg behind sen, so of course he is going to get invited.
TeWy
Profile Joined December 2009
France714 Posts
August 29 2011 18:09 GMT
#233
On August 30 2011 02:49 WniO wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2011 21:01 Kemy wrote:
On August 29 2011 20:27 bgx wrote:
On August 29 2011 09:19 mdma-_- wrote:
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

User was warned for this post

agreed.

He really doesnt deserve the invite over other zergs like sheth/dimaga/sen etc.


And he will be invited for long time, his current skill doesnt matter, its his face/popularity, and the possibility of making next MC vs Idra that will bring 50k people. Sad but true.


He is by far the most popular non Korean player in terms of attracting viewers at the moment. Apart from the usual "MUST SEE HIM WIN!" - fans each player has he attracts a lot of "MUST SEE HIM LOSE/RAGE/FAIL!!"-people. I guess the second group is even bigger than the first one. And, most importantly, he somehow manages to constantly satisfy both groups.

Plus, he may have shown some not so successfull play especially the last month and didn't win anything major for some time now but he pretty much always finishes ok among the top foreigners behind all the Koreans. And honestly, there is currently no foreigner who has won a tourney with Koreans participating.

huk won the homestory cup with mc there

and look, idra is not preforming up to his usual standards but he is still the best non korean zerg behind sen, so of course he is going to get invited.


It's not glaringly obvious.
Stephano, Ret, Nerchio are definitely not worse overall than Idra.

And they are most likely quite some Chinese Zerg players who're at least as good as Sen now.

Monkeybay
Profile Joined August 2011
12 Posts
August 29 2011 18:11 GMT
#234
On August 29 2011 09:11 SafeAsCheese wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.


Quality inflamatory post right there.

It totally couldn't be that he did well last Dreamhack, finally falling to MC.


Last Dreamhack he also lost to SaSe and merz. I wouldn't consider 3:3 matches and 7:8 maps "doing well".

IdrA is invited, because he has a huge following of fans (and anti-fans) and not because of his recent results. But i'm fine with it, that's entertainment.
eXNewB
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada291 Posts
August 29 2011 20:48 GMT
#235
On August 29 2011 20:27 bgx wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2011 09:19 mdma-_- wrote:
On August 29 2011 09:05 Kdog3wa wrote:
Funny how Idra keeps getting invited to all the tournaments. It must be 'cause of his fan base, it's not 'cause of his shitty results in every tournament lately, that's for sure. Rofl.

User was warned for this post

agreed.

He really doesnt deserve the invite over other zergs like sheth/dimaga/sen etc.


And he will be invited for long time, his current skill doesnt matter, its his face/popularity, and the possibility of making next MC vs Idra that will bring 50k people. Sad but true.



I will be watching live only for Greg's matches. All the other good games I'll find reps or VODs of them.
THERES NO WAY HE CAN STOP THOSE HYDRAS!
Wolvmatt.
Profile Joined April 2011
205 Posts
August 29 2011 21:38 GMT
#236
Any tournament where Idra and Huk are in the final 8 excites me.
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6330 Posts
August 29 2011 21:49 GMT
#237
I don't quite expect infi to do well, get out of group stage is my highest bet. Being knocked out of WCG National Finals in WC3 this year (lost to sky in a very close 3rd place match) means the chance of playing WC3 in WCG Grand Final again is smaller from now, and which means he will focus more on his SC2 practicing lately, But judging by his play recently (most notably the PSTL team league finals against team WE), his metagame is a bit off, and have a lot of trouble dealing with top Protoss especially. Though his early game micro is insane, but mechanically and decision-making-wise, he still have a lot of room to improve to be a top Terran.
TranslatorIf you want to ask anything about Chinese esports, send me a PM or follow me @nerddigmouse.
Corsica
Profile Joined February 2011
Ukraine1854 Posts
August 30 2011 02:11 GMT
#238
White-ra or Dimaga plox?
ninjamyst
Profile Joined September 2010
United States1903 Posts
August 30 2011 02:25 GMT
#239
Spent 2 mins looking at the website and can't find the date of the event. Major web design failure.
Moxi
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
708 Posts
August 30 2011 08:57 GMT
#240
On August 30 2011 11:25 ninjamyst wrote:
Spent 2 mins looking at the website and can't find the date of the event. Major web design failure.


I found pretty easly.. even if the site is not the best.

Dates: Saturday 17th of September. Starting 15.00
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