On September 24 2011 01:44 Mattchew wrote:
Ladder results dont seem thread worthy to me personally.. but GL at IPL this guy is a beast who should always be watched

^ this
ladder means jack and shit basically

ScaSully

United States488 Posts

September 24 2011 03:10 GMT

#302

heck we all already knew he was a beast and he decided to ladder a bit, zergs need to take a lesson to him.

Nagano

United States1157 Posts

September 24 2011 03:30 GMT

#303

Besides his personal twitch.tv stream, does anyone have a link to vods of Stephano's play?

VirgilSC2

United States6151 Posts

September 24 2011 03:40 GMT

#304

On September 24 2011 12:05 sc14s wrote:

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^ this
ladder means jack and shit basically

Ladder means nothing USUALLY.
Being #1 GrandMasters and going on a streak like that is actually proof of skill, it's not like he's facing High Diamond scrubs.

aFganFlyTrap

Australia212 Posts

September 24 2011 04:38 GMT

#305

ladder means a lot more than people are giving credit in this thread. thats not to say im equating it to winning tournaments. but jesus come on guys.

HEROwithNOlegacy

United States850 Posts

September 24 2011 06:41 GMT

#306

Naniwa "NA very easy, EU easy, Korea Hard" Ladder doesn't mean that much, we already know Stephano is a monster zerg, dominating EU ladder doesn't mean much, winning vs the best in the world in EU and America in tournaments is what counts.

chocolatebunny

301 Posts

September 24 2011 06:44 GMT

#307

that's very impressive. hopefully ladder results will turn into tournament results

mtn

729 Posts

September 24 2011 06:47 GMT

#308

On September 24 2011 12:40 VirgilSC2 wrote:

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Ladder means nothing USUALLY.
Being #1 GrandMasters and going on a streak like that is actually proof of skill, it's not like he's facing High Diamond scrubs.

Still. It's ONLY practice.

gulati

United States2241 Posts

September 24 2011 06:48 GMT

#309

64-2? Dude, that's like so impossibly hard, I can't even fathom that. Insanity.

Granted, ladder doesn't mean anything in the scope of professional gaming, however it is a good benchmark of consistency.

Buddhist

United States658 Posts

September 24 2011 06:49 GMT

#310

On September 24 2011 15:47 mtn wrote:

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Still. It's ONLY practice.

Yeah, it's not like he went 64-2 in tournament games. Still, it's extremely impressive. Progamers practice on ladder in every region, even if they don't perform as well as they do in tournaments.

Vira

573 Posts

September 24 2011 06:55 GMT

#311

For people saying "He should go with CoL to train in Korea"

Actually , as we can read in all this interview, I think he just dont want go to Korea for many month ( he will probably go one month at the end of the years) He dont follow GSL and it's not his dream to play in Korea, I dont think you can "forced" him to play in a country he dont wanna go even if it's make him better and it will probably not working.

Then , He will go to MLG after IPL and Millenium will send him in all event he got an invitation ( That wasnt the case in the begin of the years and he was under 18 , so he couldnt travel as he want)

So, probably CoL can support him better but I am not sure his wish is to live in Korea and travelling in all lan world as far I can know him in interview and Millenium tv.

Anyway, gogo crush IPL Stephano !

ForlornHope

Vietnam111 Posts

September 24 2011 06:58 GMT

#312

On September 24 2011 11:39 Elean wrote:

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Yeah, his weakest match up is definately ZvP.

he beat puzzle 2-0 too but yeah i think ZvP is his worst

minhbq299

United Kingdom566 Posts

September 24 2011 06:58 GMT

#313

I dont know if anyone stated this before or the same but here is the win rate on NA ladder,
BcuzofuPros is actually Fnatic.Rain, we can also see that the winrate on American is much higher and there are so many no name on that list --->>> EU>>>> AM by far

arbitrageur

Australia1202 Posts

September 24 2011 07:01 GMT

#314

On September 24 2011 15:58 minhbq299 wrote:
I dont know if anyone stated this before or the same but here is the win rate on NA ladder,
BcuzofuPros is actually Fnatic.Rain, we can also see that the winrate on American is much higher and there are so many no name on that list --->>> EU>>>> AM by far

He has a smaller sample size so this doesn't mean anything whatsoever.

80-10 score isn't impressive if it's a new account bceause you have to play through tens and tens of gold and diamond noobs.

foxmeep

Australia2337 Posts

September 24 2011 07:01 GMT

#315

Djokovic's 64-2 after US Open was more impressive

mango_destroyer

Canada3914 Posts

September 24 2011 07:02 GMT

#316

Ladder doesn`t even mean much on the korean server so I am not sure why it would mean much on EU.

PhiliBiRD

United States2643 Posts

September 24 2011 07:03 GMT

#317

damn thats pretty good

minhbq299

United Kingdom566 Posts

September 24 2011 07:04 GMT

#318

European Zerg is really good.

Phenrock

United Kingdom132 Posts

September 24 2011 07:11 GMT

#319

Credit where credit is due. I have watched his stream and he tries a lot of different strategies. Including asking the users on the stream what to do. He's having a blast, it's as if he's just toying with them. People say 'oh no-one takes ladders run seriously', well nor does Stephano from my experience, and yet he's still winning. Incredible!

In that sense, maybe he's still a little immature. And the true test will come playing offline in front of a crowd, with more pressure and money on the line.

This is still very impressive, given the standard of the EU ladder.

arbitrageur

Australia1202 Posts

September 24 2011 07:11 GMT

#320

On September 24 2011 16:02 mango_destroyer wrote:
Ladder doesn`t even mean much on the korean server so I am not sure why it would mean much on EU.

This is such balls.

He's playing against people that are the best in EU, and he 64-1 them. We can conclude that ladder DOES mean something in this case.

This is NOT the same as comparing someone with a 55% win rate to a 62% win rate, and concluding 62% guy is superior to 55% guy.