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Rokevo
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1033 Posts
December 10 2011 18:57 GMT
#221
There's no doupt hes a good player, one of the top foreigners. I'm not sure if the OP is a 100% serious, or if there's some trollin' mixed in... But this kind of fanboyism is the reason why I root against him. Stephano fans tend to get out of control way too often.
Cloud9157
Profile Joined December 2010
United States2968 Posts
December 10 2011 18:57 GMT
#222
Stephano is really damn good, but until he goes to Korea, he will never be better than them.
"Are you absolutely sure that armor only affects the health portion of a protoss army??? That doesn't sound right to me. source?" -Some idiot
chosenkerrigan
Profile Joined May 2011
858 Posts
December 10 2011 18:58 GMT
#223
Since people enjoy lists I'll give a try...
1. Nestea
2. DRG
3. Leenock
4. LosirA
5. Coca
6. Stephano
7. Curious
8. IdrA
9. July
Vorenius
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Denmark1979 Posts
December 10 2011 18:58 GMT
#224
On December 11 2011 02:57 Big J wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2011 02:54 BlondeOna wrote:
On December 11 2011 02:45 sitromit wrote:
Speed up to the actual tournament. Korean Code S players are suddenly rolled by this French Zerg, and I said rolled. Not just because he had a weird infestor plus really highly upgraded lings combo against Terran, but also because he played a weird style of ZvP that either outright killed Protosses or slowly constricted them until Broodlords make players like EG_Incontrol cry about how sad his race was. ZvZ was equally as impressive for not only me, but anyone watching him.

Stephano went on to win that tournament, and not without some insane memories like the Mothership vortex by Kiwkaki on Shattered Temple. At the end of it call Stephano decisively eliminated the following Koreans from his path:
FXO_Lucky (4-0 in the finals)
Ogs_TheSTC
FXO_Inori
MVP_Violet
Slayers_Boxer
Slayers_MMA


This french Zerg, who had been dominating EU ladder and even placed #1, was unbeknowst by other pro players. EG_Incontrol even admitted he had no idea who this guy was, although he crashed through waves of Code S korean players and made his wins look so convincing.


The only Code S player in that list is MMA and Stephano didn't beat him at the LAN, but at the online qualifiers for the LAN, which for MMA was played at something like 6 AM, at which point MMA had already qualified for the tournament after staying up all night playing qualifiers, the last of which being a very long and difficult series against July which he won with a comeback. And Stephano didn't roll him, he won 2-1.

Btw, Stephano did play a Code S Korean in the LAN, he played alive and got rolled 2-0 in the group stages...


thank you sir for having some sense

I'm going to list 5 players that are better than Stephano, and I don't need evidence to back this up

Mvp
NesTea
Leenock
MMA
Jjakji

I could go on, but I feel this thread should have already been closed.


Why should this thread be closed? Agreed that it is pretty bad, yet I prefer this thread over the thousand and one "why *some broodwar pro who noone has ever seen playing starcraft2* would be the best in starcraft2".

The subject doesn't excuse the content.

If someone presents a nice thought out analysis explaing something and backing it up with facts, the thread deserves a chance no matter what the subject is. This is anything but that though.

Claiming that Stephano is the best in the world because he beat four Code A/B koreans at IPL and then took one game against fOrGG on the ladder is at best utterly ignorant or much more likely just a retarded troll. Either way it should be closed.
Hazuc
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada471 Posts
December 10 2011 18:58 GMT
#225
On December 11 2011 03:57 Rokevo wrote:
There's no doupt hes a good player, one of the top foreigners. I'm not sure if the OP is a 100% serious, or if there's some trollin' mixed in... But this kind of fanboyism is the reason why I root against him. Stephano fans tend to get out of control way too often.


I'm so sick of reading people saying that "x player fans are this, etc.".
Simonius
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany98 Posts
December 10 2011 18:59 GMT
#226
On December 11 2011 03:55 Denzil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2011 03:50 Kira__ wrote:
I agree, Stephano is pretty damn good. Definately one of the better foreigners out there, and I'd put him in top ten zergs in the world. How he does in Blizzard Cup will determine if he's actually as good as the best koreans.

1. Nestea
2. Leenock
3. LosirA
4. Destiny
5. DongRaeGu
6. Stephano
7. Spanishiwa
8. Morrow
9. Machine
10. IdrA

Edit: Damn spelling errors :/


I've never seen a more well composed troll list although I'd put spanishiwa above Destiny just to make destiny fans more mad


Top 10 Protoss in the world:

1. Incontrol
2. Axslav
3.SEn
4.SEn
5.SEn
6.SEn
7.Deezer
9.SEn
10. MC
Mzimzim
Profile Joined June 2011
United States221 Posts
December 10 2011 19:00 GMT
#227
On December 11 2011 03:50 Kira__ wrote:
I agree, Stephano is pretty damn good. Definately one of the better foreigners out there, and I'd put him in top ten zergs in the world. How he does in Blizzard Cup will determine if he's actually as good as the best koreans.

1. Nestea
2. Leenock
3. LosirA
4. Destiny
5. DongRaeGu
6. Stephano
7. Spanishiwa
8. Morrow
9. Machine
10. IdrA

Edit: Damn spelling errors :/


I love that machine is higher on the list than idra. For your sake, I hope you're just trolling
Hazuc
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada471 Posts
December 10 2011 19:00 GMT
#228
On December 11 2011 03:50 Kira__ wrote:
I agree, Stephano is pretty damn good. Definately one of the better foreigners out there, and I'd put him in top ten zergs in the world. How he does in Blizzard Cup will determine if he's actually as good as the best koreans.

1. Nestea
2. Leenock
3. LosirA
4. Destiny
5. DongRaeGu
6. Stephano
7. Spanishiwa
8. Morrow
9. Machine
10. IdrA

Edit: Damn spelling errors :/


Destiny, Spanishiwa, Morrow and Machine in the top 10? And above IdrA? Not sure if serious.
Olinimm
Profile Joined November 2011
1471 Posts
December 10 2011 19:00 GMT
#229
On December 11 2011 04:00 Hazuc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2011 03:50 Kira__ wrote:
I agree, Stephano is pretty damn good. Definately one of the better foreigners out there, and I'd put him in top ten zergs in the world. How he does in Blizzard Cup will determine if he's actually as good as the best koreans.

1. Nestea
2. Leenock
3. LosirA
4. Destiny
5. DongRaeGu
6. Stephano
7. Spanishiwa
8. Morrow
9. Machine
10. IdrA

Edit: Damn spelling errors :/


Destiny, Spanishiwa, Morrow and Machine in the top 10? And above IdrA? Not sure if serious.

Of course he isn't...
Hazuc
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada471 Posts
December 10 2011 19:01 GMT
#230
On December 11 2011 03:58 chosenkerrigan wrote:
Since people enjoy lists I'll give a try...
1. Nestea
2. DRG
3. Leenock
4. LosirA
5. Coca
6. Stephano
7. Curious
8. IdrA
9. July


Great list, but I'd put Sen before July.
HappyChris
Profile Joined October 2011
1534 Posts
December 10 2011 19:02 GMT
#231
On December 11 2011 03:57 Cloud9157 wrote:
Stephano is really damn good, but until he goes to Korea, he will never be better than them.


He is in Korea o.0
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
December 10 2011 19:06 GMT
#232
I love watching him play, and he's no doubt one of the best zergs in the world, and certainly top 3 outside Korea. Just how much further that will take him remains to be seen, but I'm a fan so
Elean
Profile Joined October 2010
689 Posts
December 10 2011 19:08 GMT
#233
There is absolutely no content in the OP. If you want to make a post about Stephano, you could at least describe what makes him unique, about his playstyle, his personnality or anything.

This really looks like a thread made specifically to provoke the Stephano haters.
HappyChris
Profile Joined October 2011
1534 Posts
December 10 2011 19:08 GMT
#234
On December 11 2011 04:08 Elean wrote:
There is absolutely no content in the OP. If you want to make a post about Stephano, you could at least describe what makes him unique, about his playstyle, his personnality or anything.

This really looks like a thread made specifically to provoke the Stephano haters.


Im sure it is
Sina92
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden1303 Posts
December 10 2011 19:09 GMT
#235
OK
My penis is 15 inches long, I'm a Harvard professor and look better than Brad Pitt and Jake Gyllenhaal combined.
pPingu
Profile Joined September 2011
Switzerland2892 Posts
December 10 2011 19:09 GMT
#236
On December 11 2011 03:59 Simonius wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2011 03:55 Denzil wrote:
On December 11 2011 03:50 Kira__ wrote:
I agree, Stephano is pretty damn good. Definately one of the better foreigners out there, and I'd put him in top ten zergs in the world. How he does in Blizzard Cup will determine if he's actually as good as the best koreans.

1. Nestea
2. Leenock
3. LosirA
4. Destiny
5. DongRaeGu
6. Stephano
7. Spanishiwa
8. Morrow
9. Machine
10. IdrA

Edit: Damn spelling errors :/


I've never seen a more well composed troll list although I'd put spanishiwa above Destiny just to make destiny fans more mad


Top 10 Protoss in the world:

1. Incontrol
2. Axslav
3.SEn
4.SEn
5.SEn
6.SEn
7.Deezer
9.SEn
10. MC


I think you are right, in bw sen beat day9 with his protoss, and knowing that day9 is the best player in the world (in all games, I will make a thread about this to prove it, but for exemple he finished amnesia, that's impressive) and knowing how harder bw was, sen would have no problem to be in the top 10 multiple times. But I think that mc doesn't deserve it, he lost to DRG and we all know that every foreigner zerg is better than DRG, because he never took first place of a GSL (which is one of the reasons why fruitdealer is totaly better than him), and that's the only thing which counts in korea to prove that a player is good.

I m a big fan of every people I mentioned here btw <3
The_Darkness
Profile Joined December 2011
United States910 Posts
December 10 2011 19:10 GMT
#237
A non-trolling top 10 zerg list:

Tier 1: 1-2 -- Leenock; Nestea.
Tier 2: 3-5 -- DRG, Losira(?), Coca
Tier 3: 6-10 -- July, Stephano, Sen(?), Curious, Lucky(?)

It was actually harder to compose a top 10 Zerg list than I thought. So many zerg players seemed so awesome a short time ago but have played poorly of late -- Losira and July especially.
To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
LiquidFahq
Profile Joined January 2011
United States34 Posts
December 10 2011 19:10 GMT
#238
How can you mention top 10 protosses without CombatEX?
"Sometimes you look like a genuis and sometimes you lose to HongUnPrime"-EG_Idra
shadymmj
Profile Joined June 2010
1906 Posts
December 10 2011 19:11 GMT
#239
this kind of topic definitely needs a warning because it is downright inflammatory for no good reason.

during their prime boxer, july and nada were untouchable. they have stood at the pinnacle of starcraft, invented (and re-invented) the game, and became the face of professional gaming in korea. they have nothing much to prove in sc2, an easier game because of many factors.

these legends invented strategies. their influence throughout the scene was completely dominant. before boxer, nobody thought playing terran was a good idea. before july, nobody would fear muta harass. name me one player in sc2 who can change the way the game is played. it sure as hell isn't stephano.
There is no such thing is "e-sports". There is Brood War, and then there is crap for nerds.
Flowjo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States928 Posts
December 10 2011 19:15 GMT
#240
What happened to TL.... we used to have good quality threads... this thread lacks both support and evidence.... and is really misleading...
IMNestea's biggest fan.
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