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Heraklitus
Profile Joined September 2010
United States553 Posts
September 28 2011 21:28 GMT
#181
It's the reason I didn't buy it. I play zerg and the biggest reason I watch GSL is to see what the best zergs are doing. There are a few still, but I'm just not going to pay that much money for so few games in which Code S zergs are playing. If zerg were to make it to the finals I might buy it afterwards so I could go back and watch all the games, but it didn't make any sense to buy it ahead of time when they could all get knocked out early.
farnham
Profile Joined January 2011
1378 Posts
September 28 2011 21:31 GMT
#182
On September 29 2011 06:28 OldManZerg wrote:
It's the reason I didn't buy it. I play zerg and the biggest reason I watch GSL is to see what the best zergs are doing. There are a few still, but I'm just not going to pay that much money for so few games in which Code S zergs are playing. If zerg were to make it to the finals I might buy it afterwards so I could go back and watch all the games, but it didn't make any sense to buy it ahead of time when they could all get knocked out early.

wait a sec

you like zerg and there is losira, coca, nestea, drg and leenock in there which are pretty much the top 5 zergs in the world right now (probably july instead of leenock but the rest pretty much is)

i could understand protoss players boycotting gsl but for zerg players gsl is still very interesting.
blackone
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany1314 Posts
September 28 2011 21:31 GMT
#183
We need to have some kind of licence for making polls. This one is horrible, mostly because a "I wouldn't have bought it anyways" options is missing.

And I bought a pass, TvT is a fine matchup in my opinion, I like it better than the other mirrors and probably more than ZvP.
jdreamer
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia296 Posts
September 28 2011 21:34 GMT
#184
I have to be honest that I haven't bought the season ticket for Oct GSL mainly because TvT and current dark era of Protoss. I watch GSL to gain more strategies or tactics to play as Protoss but nothing encourages me at the moment. Well, maybe next season then..
My life for Aiur!
farnham
Profile Joined January 2011
1378 Posts
September 28 2011 21:35 GMT
#185
On September 29 2011 06:34 jdreamer wrote:
I have to be honest that I haven't bought the season ticket for Oct GSL mainly because TvT and current dark era of Protoss. I watch GSL to gain more strategies or tactics to play as Protoss but nothing encourages me at the moment. Well, maybe next season then..

code a was great for protoss

jyp, hero, oz and especially sage!
BigLighthouse
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom424 Posts
September 28 2011 21:40 GMT
#186
On September 29 2011 04:05 omisa wrote:
I find it sad that because of one season of terran dominance, people are actually boycotting the GSL. While i do agree that excessive amounts of TvT can really wear on you, the quality of the games this season have really been above any prior season. I feel as though the people who are not buying a season pass are also the same people who are all for supporting eSports, when its convenient.

At least its TvT, could you imagine if every night of GSL was PvP?


Its not really a boycott though, thats a really negative way to pigeon hole people. Theres a difference between an active boycott of 1 service and a decision that you actually would favour another service over it. Just because people have decided that they dont wish to continue buying GOM season tickets doesnt mean they arnt "supporting esports" either because competative gaming does not begin and end with the GSL. Theres only so many hours in a day that a person can spend watching starcraft 2 (20, with 4 hours to sleep/play) and if a person chooses to use those hours watching a different provider because TvT isnt their favourite matchup that doesnt make them a worse supporter.
MrCon
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
France29748 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-28 21:47:10
September 28 2011 21:42 GMT
#187
In fact, if you look by days, there wasn't so much TvT this season. The first code S day was the most painful, with 7 terrans in 2 groups, but after that it was quite ok. (which is normal as 35% of the terran played in 25% of days)


We had in GSL October :
19 TvT
3 ZvZ
1 PvP
19 TvP
22 TvZ
33 ZvP

That's a lot of TvT in the mirror match group, but in the whole it's like 20% TvT overall, one game of five, it's not unbearable. Before the season started I was afraid of TvT saturation, but in fact I didn't really felt it.

Unrelated : this month was played the 2000th GSL game
suejak
Profile Joined March 2010
Japan545 Posts
September 28 2011 21:44 GMT
#188
On September 29 2011 05:22 EcstatiC wrote:
lol i thought this thread was about not enough black people in the GSL.


honestly though, its sooo annoying. my team buys a GSL ticket each season, so although i did technically buy it, i dont think ive watched a TvT other than Sjow and Select's games. i saw group A of Code S, and raged hard, then saw group B and raged harder.

What's not to like about this season? TvT is a fun match-up, and there are lots of zergs doing great now. Killer will probably go down to CoCa, but it's all good fun either way.
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Badfatpanda
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States9719 Posts
September 28 2011 21:46 GMT
#189
There's not an option for buying a pass because of lack of racial diversity.

This is racist.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -Beethoven | Mech isn't a build, it's a way of life. -MajOr | Charlie.Sheen: "What is sarcastic, kids who have no courage to fight?" | #TerranPride #yolo #swag -Naama after 2-0'ing MC at HSC VI
Shiladie
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1631 Posts
September 28 2011 21:53 GMT
#190
I'm a zerg player cheering for all the terrans, because if we can make it to 28+ terrans in code S maybe blizzard will realize there's a problem...
I actually don't mind watching TvTs, it's the most developed matchup, because terran still has the most potential of any race. I anticipate new styles and builds to keep being made for TvT, while the other terran matchups don't require new innovations yet, so they sit rather stale.

One of the benefits of this is that there's lots of ZvTs to study...
Sith Inquisitor
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany113 Posts
September 28 2011 21:56 GMT
#191
I'm Terran and TvT is by far my worst matchup, since like forever... so I bought it, because I could never ever watch the Free-200kb-Stream
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Herculix
Profile Joined May 2010
United States946 Posts
September 28 2011 22:00 GMT
#192
I bought AOL but not GSL 100% because of the fact that GSL has way too many terrans. TvT is my least favorite mirror now because it's so drawn out and passive so i'm not going to spend money to watch people play it even if they're better at it than anyone else.
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
September 28 2011 22:01 GMT
#193
Code A is great for protoss. Even if it isn't code S does that mean you won't watch anything but code S? No, as long as it is a high level (and code A is a higher level than just about anything but code S) it's still fun to watch. Twilight, JYP, Sage, and Hero have all shown some great tactics and builds.
Kaiwa
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Netherlands2209 Posts
September 28 2011 22:02 GMT
#194
First season DongRaeGu is in Code S, with 20 (?) terrans. Hell yes I will watch that!
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kedinik
Profile Joined September 2010
United States352 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-28 22:03:56
September 28 2011 22:03 GMT
#195
Well, I haven't really ever bought tickets.

But I completely stopped staying up to watch live, which I used to do pretty often.

I can only watch marine/bfh/mule steamroll anything and everything so many times.
Wuster
Profile Joined May 2011
1974 Posts
September 28 2011 22:03 GMT
#196
On September 29 2011 06:42 MrCon wrote:
In fact, if you look by days, there wasn't so much TvT this season. The first code S day was the most painful, with 7 terrans in 2 groups, but after that it was quite ok. (which is normal as 35% of the terran played in 25% of days)


We had in GSL October :
19 TvT
3 ZvZ
1 PvP
19 TvP
22 TvZ
33 ZvP

That's a lot of TvT in the mirror match group, but in the whole it's like 20% TvT overall, one game of five, it's not unbearable. Before the season started I was afraid of TvT saturation, but in fact I didn't really felt it.

Unrelated : this month was played the 2000th GSL game


This is how I feel too. There's a lot of TvT, but it's far from the worst mirror so it's not so bad (although the new PvP seems to have potential for good games).

I feel that people who focus on GomTvT don't watch Code A, which is short sighted. A full 21/32 Code S players came from Code A. And that's ignoring Leenock, Polt, MKP, MVP who all requalified after losing their up/down matches. Seriously, except at the very top (Nestea, MVP, Bomber, ect) the gap between Code A and Code S isn't that big.

Plus Wolf/Doa are becoming a pretty good casting pair (Moletrap is getting better too imo).
ckunkel1
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States181 Posts
September 28 2011 22:06 GMT
#197
I actually don't think zerg will be the best race after HOTS. Zerg isn't the only race getting new units and I think terran has the best players because of how the race is setup instead of units. The flexibility of terran is a great quality. With that said it makes the best mirror matchup because of the multitude of builds the player can do. So lets be grateful it isn't pure pvp or zvz haha!
MileyCyrus
Profile Joined August 2010
United States285 Posts
September 28 2011 22:08 GMT
#198
I didnt buy this ticket (bought just about everyone so far) because im just not a fan of moletrap =\
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Jeremy Reimer
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada1220 Posts
September 28 2011 22:09 GMT
#199
I bought it because I bought every GSL. It's Tasteless and Artosis. I would buy a premium package for a video of them just sitting around talking.

And because of that, I got Arena of Legends for free! Yay!
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -- Carl Sagan
Zhyq
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom117 Posts
September 28 2011 22:11 GMT
#200
TvT has developed so much, it's actually maybe the most worth watching matchup. I think it's good there are so many terrans in this season.
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