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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
March 31 2012 07:52 GMT
#1261
On March 31 2012 16:42 GMonster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 30 2012 01:58 goswser wrote:
After Naniwa lost to haypro at mlg he decided maybe his chances vs stephano were pretty low.


uh... t Haypro is sick good right now. Well hes always been good but hes been having trouble with tournaments ever since he had to face Ganzi in round 1 of code A.

haypro has mlg magic
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sereniity
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Sweden1159 Posts
March 31 2012 07:54 GMT
#1262
On March 31 2012 10:39 Hall0wed wrote:
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On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
i asked stephano at mlg but he denied.. dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money.. we will probably end up in a smaller showmatch soon tho.


Man if it was anyone but Stephano I feel like they would get blown up for dodging like this but too many people are obsessed with him right now to do that.

Seriously what a dodge, back in my day you could never get away with that crap. Ask for a $5000 showmatch only to back down when the person you challenged accepts it.


I agree haha, what kind of chickenshit behaviour is that ?

Props to Naniwa for maning up, hopefully we'll see a regular showmatch atleast!
"I am Day9, Holy shit!"
Flamingo777
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1190 Posts
March 31 2012 08:02 GMT
#1263
Really kind of reminds me of this.


Actually, this showmatch should be done right before Heart of the Swarm is released to celebrate the end of Wings of Liberty! Hopefully it will be as hype as this money match shown above celebrating the end of a decade of Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
how2TL
Profile Joined August 2010
1197 Posts
March 31 2012 08:08 GMT
#1264
On March 31 2012 16:52 MrHighlight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 30 2012 01:58 goswser wrote:
After Naniwa lost to haypro at mlg he decided maybe his chances vs stephano were pretty low.


Why even make a comment like this? As a "pro" shouldn't you be above this? lol.


goswser trying to imply that someone isn't good at starcraft? Hahaha

But hey good luck goswser I'm sure you'll win another series at MLG soon (bad luck at Columbus bro!). 1-4. =/
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
March 31 2012 08:10 GMT
#1265
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )
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Heweree
Profile Joined July 2011
United Kingdom497 Posts
March 31 2012 08:28 GMT
#1266
On March 31 2012 16:54 sereniity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 10:39 Hall0wed wrote:
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
i asked stephano at mlg but he denied.. dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money.. we will probably end up in a smaller showmatch soon tho.


Man if it was anyone but Stephano I feel like they would get blown up for dodging like this but too many people are obsessed with him right now to do that.

Seriously what a dodge, back in my day you could never get away with that crap. Ask for a $5000 showmatch only to back down when the person you challenged accepts it.


I agree haha, what kind of chickenshit behaviour is that ?

Props to Naniwa for maning up, hopefully we'll see a regular showmatch atleast!


Nothing about maning up. I would call it rather childish to put so much money on the table for an ego story.
covetousrat
Profile Joined October 2010
2109 Posts
March 31 2012 08:31 GMT
#1267
On March 31 2012 17:28 TanTzoR wrote:
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On March 31 2012 16:54 sereniity wrote:
On March 31 2012 10:39 Hall0wed wrote:
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
i asked stephano at mlg but he denied.. dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money.. we will probably end up in a smaller showmatch soon tho.


Man if it was anyone but Stephano I feel like they would get blown up for dodging like this but too many people are obsessed with him right now to do that.

Seriously what a dodge, back in my day you could never get away with that crap. Ask for a $5000 showmatch only to back down when the person you challenged accepts it.


I agree haha, what kind of chickenshit behaviour is that ?

Props to Naniwa for maning up, hopefully we'll see a regular showmatch atleast!


Nothing about maning up. I would call it rather childish to put so much money on the table for an ego story.


Do not underestimate a man's ego.
elwoodng
Profile Joined August 2011
Singapore438 Posts
March 31 2012 08:31 GMT
#1268
On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )

Except he's the one who suggested it in the first place...
Wohmfg
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom1292 Posts
March 31 2012 08:33 GMT
#1269
On March 31 2012 17:28 TanTzoR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 16:54 sereniity wrote:
On March 31 2012 10:39 Hall0wed wrote:
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
i asked stephano at mlg but he denied.. dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money.. we will probably end up in a smaller showmatch soon tho.


Man if it was anyone but Stephano I feel like they would get blown up for dodging like this but too many people are obsessed with him right now to do that.

Seriously what a dodge, back in my day you could never get away with that crap. Ask for a $5000 showmatch only to back down when the person you challenged accepts it.


I agree haha, what kind of chickenshit behaviour is that ?

Props to Naniwa for maning up, hopefully we'll see a regular showmatch atleast!


Nothing about maning up. I would call it rather childish to put so much money on the table for an ego story.


Nono, there's a big difference between simply declining to play a 10k showmatch for whatever reason, and doing what Stephano apparently did here and ASK for a showmatch then BACK OUT.
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Matkap
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Spain627 Posts
March 31 2012 08:52 GMT
#1270
well, the frenchman chickened out....big surpise there, right?

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emis
Profile Joined November 2011
Estonia409 Posts
March 31 2012 09:08 GMT
#1271
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money..


Dude, he's making more than you with SC2...
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
March 31 2012 09:10 GMT
#1272
On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )


lol?

This is exactly the kind of crap I was talking about, some people are just blind and can't call things how they really are but rather how they want to see it. Stephano was the one that wanted the match to be $5000 each in the first place. He obviously made the proposal thinking that Naniwa would back down right then and there, but when Naniwa said he was cool with it (and he has said that and offered to play the match MANY times now) Stephano immediately backed down.

It is what we call a dodge. A very blatant and sad dodge.
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Gladiator6
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden7024 Posts
March 31 2012 09:14 GMT
#1273
On March 31 2012 16:52 MrHighlight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 30 2012 01:58 goswser wrote:
After Naniwa lost to haypro at mlg he decided maybe his chances vs stephano were pretty low.


Why even make a comment like this? As a "pro" shouldn't you be above this? lol.


If you play on ladder or in online tournaments you will see that some of the semi-pros & pros can be really badmouthed, they're people just like us.
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ThatGuy89
Profile Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1968 Posts
March 31 2012 09:18 GMT
#1274
On March 31 2012 18:08 emis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money..


Dude, he's making more than you with SC2...

that doesnt mean that stephano would be willing to put 10k of his own money on the line for it
sereniity
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Sweden1159 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 09:22:05
March 31 2012 09:20 GMT
#1275
On March 31 2012 18:08 emis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money..


Dude, he's making more than you with SC2...


In that case he should have no problem to live up to the challenge he himself posed towards NaNiwa? Since he earns so much you know... 5k wont be a big deal, right?

Wether he earns more than NaNiwa or not, atleast Nani accepted ....


On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )


If it's so ridicolous then why did he challenge NaNiwa to it? It's Stephano who challenged Naniwa, not the other way around...
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sopas
Profile Joined July 2011
509 Posts
March 31 2012 09:28 GMT
#1276
On March 31 2012 18:20 sereniity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 18:08 emis wrote:
On March 31 2012 10:22 Naniwa wrote:
dont count on him ever daring to put up this kind of money..


Dude, he's making more than you with SC2...


In that case he should have no problem to live up to the challenge he himself posed towards NaNiwa? Since he earns so much you know... 5k wont be a big deal, right?

Wether he earns more than NaNiwa or not, atleast Nani accepted ....


Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )


If it's so ridicolous then why did he challenge NaNiwa to it? It's Stephano who challenged Naniwa, not the other way around...

you're in no place to call him out though. challenge was made to naniwa, not you, so you can just stfu and stop pretending like you're involved, antboy

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Eshra
Profile Joined April 2011
France1009 Posts
March 31 2012 09:45 GMT
#1277
On March 31 2012 17:52 Matkap wrote:
well, the frenchman chickened out....big surpise there, right?


Here we go again.
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 09:54:23
March 31 2012 09:52 GMT
#1278
On March 31 2012 18:10 Hall0wed wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )


lol?

This is exactly the kind of crap I was talking about, some people are just blind and can't call things how they really are but rather how they want to see it. Stephano was the one that wanted the match to be $5000 each in the first place. He obviously made the proposal thinking that Naniwa would back down right then and there, but when Naniwa said he was cool with it (and he has said that and offered to play the match MANY times now) Stephano immediately backed down.

It is what we call a dodge. A very blatant and sad dodge.


Oh then my bad..

Well I'm guessing (though I don't know for sure) that Stephano was joking? Silly stephano... he's still right to dodge, sad as that is. I'd rather look like a dodger and not risk 5 grand (in a semi-broken mu xD). But yeah my bad about not being a bit more aware of what really happened.

To be clear though, the show match itself is what I find ridiculous, 10k is too much even between two Bonjwa caliber players (no one in the SC2 scene is bonwja yet btw).
maru lover forever
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
March 31 2012 10:31 GMT
#1279
On March 31 2012 18:52 Incognoto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 18:10 Hall0wed wrote:
On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )


lol?

This is exactly the kind of crap I was talking about, some people are just blind and can't call things how they really are but rather how they want to see it. Stephano was the one that wanted the match to be $5000 each in the first place. He obviously made the proposal thinking that Naniwa would back down right then and there, but when Naniwa said he was cool with it (and he has said that and offered to play the match MANY times now) Stephano immediately backed down.

It is what we call a dodge. A very blatant and sad dodge.


Oh then my bad..

Well I'm guessing (though I don't know for sure) that Stephano was joking? Silly stephano... he's still right to dodge, sad as that is. I'd rather look like a dodger and not risk 5 grand (in a semi-broken mu xD). But yeah my bad about not being a bit more aware of what really happened.

To be clear though, the show match itself is what I find ridiculous, 10k is too much even between two Bonjwa caliber players (no one in the SC2 scene is bonwja yet btw).


Why would you say it is semi-broken? From your post I assume you are trying to say Protoss is favored?

Then why does Stephano say that protoss needs a buff to compete with zerg (though I personally do not agree with him and I do not believe he is in the position to say that)? Also DRG, the best zerg in the world, says that zerg is currently the strongest race (though he probably wouldn't say the same thing after getting manhandled by MKP and his Terran filled Code S group).

My point being that Stephano obviously feels extremely confident (or cocky rather, though I do not know his feelings after losing to Inori) in the match-up so I do not see why he would worry about losing so badly. From everything he has said in the past one would assume that Stephano thinks he would destroy Naniwa and that he would definitely be willing to try his hand at taking $5000 from him. Obviously as we have seen now though, this is not the case. The fans want it, Naniwa wants it, but Stephano does not, just strange and quite lame really.

Also I should add that Stephano definitely didn't look like he was joking when he offered to play for $5000. Naniwa offered to play for $500 each at first after Stephano initially called him out on twitter, and so Stephano said that that was too low and that they should each put $5000 on the table. Naniwa accepted, so Stephano dodged.
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c78331
Profile Joined November 2011
Greece64 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-31 10:57:07
March 31 2012 10:51 GMT
#1280
On March 31 2012 19:31 Hall0wed wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 31 2012 18:52 Incognoto wrote:
On March 31 2012 18:10 Hall0wed wrote:
On March 31 2012 17:10 Incognoto wrote:
10k show match is ridiculous, Stephano would have been nuts to accept it. He didn't chicken out he just has a brain. With 10k you can run a nice little tourney with more players and more games. A show match with a better prize pool is just as good. : )


lol?

This is exactly the kind of crap I was talking about, some people are just blind and can't call things how they really are but rather how they want to see it. Stephano was the one that wanted the match to be $5000 each in the first place. He obviously made the proposal thinking that Naniwa would back down right then and there, but when Naniwa said he was cool with it (and he has said that and offered to play the match MANY times now) Stephano immediately backed down.

It is what we call a dodge. A very blatant and sad dodge.


Oh then my bad..

Well I'm guessing (though I don't know for sure) that Stephano was joking? Silly stephano... he's still right to dodge, sad as that is. I'd rather look like a dodger and not risk 5 grand (in a semi-broken mu xD). But yeah my bad about not being a bit more aware of what really happened.

To be clear though, the show match itself is what I find ridiculous, 10k is too much even between two Bonjwa caliber players (no one in the SC2 scene is bonwja yet btw).


Why would you say it is semi-broken? From your post I assume you are trying to say Protoss is favored?

Then why does Stephano say that protoss needs a buff to compete with zerg (though I personally do not agree with him and I do not believe he is in the position to say that)? Also DRG, the best zerg in the world, says that zerg is currently the strongest race (though he probably wouldn't say the same thing after getting manhandled by MKP and his Terran filled Code S group).

My point being that Stephano obviously feels extremely confident (or cocky rather, though I do not know his feelings after losing to Inori) in the match-up so I do not see why he would worry about losing so badly. From everything he has said in the past one would assume that Stephano thinks he would destroy Naniwa and that he would definitely be willing to try his hand at taking $5000 from him. Obviously as we have seen now though, this is not the case. The fans want it, Naniwa wants it, but Stephano does not, just strange and quite lame really.

Also I should add that Stephano definitely didn't look like he was joking when he offered to play for $5000. Naniwa offered to play for $500 each at first after Stephano initially called him out on twitter, and so Stephano said that that was too low and that they should each put $5000 on the table. Naniwa accepted, so Stephano dodged.

Not very long ago(before the twitter exchange) when asked on his stream about nani, he said he is not sure who is better and in general he is modest about his skill.I am pretty sure that would translate to him joking about the 5k, given that he doesn't seem to like gambles.
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