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KeSPA vs GSL players cross-match - Page 9

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hangene92
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Canada258 Posts
July 05 2012 15:49 GMT
#161
I wish the best of luck flash!
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one"
ScienceRob
Profile Joined April 2010
United States382 Posts
July 05 2012 15:56 GMT
#162
I imagine the people who loved them in BW will find ways to make it seem like an incredible achievment if they manage to take a single game off any of the sc2 pros.
Carpe Diem
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10668 Posts
July 05 2012 15:56 GMT
#163
I'm excited to see this, I am hoping that the KeSPA players win over the GSL players for sure, old time BW pros time to make yourself known now. :-D
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SyDwaeji
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada4 Posts
July 05 2012 16:05 GMT
#164
Nestea vs Flash
and
Jaedong vs Mvp

Oh yea!!! <3
Go big or Go home
GuitarBizarre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom332 Posts
July 05 2012 16:08 GMT
#165
On July 06 2012 00:56 ScienceRob wrote:
I imagine the people who loved them in BW will find ways to make it seem like an incredible achievment if they manage to take a single game off any of the sc2 pros.


Just like back in Broodwar it was an incredible achievement if a Foreigner could take a single game from a Korean, right?

Lets not begrudge people for supporting who they support. There's no reason to take people's knees from under them if we can all be realistic and accept potential and results are two different things and should be kept in their own discussions.


For my money, I'm confident the GSL players will win. However GOM may want to send out fan favourites rather than players who are the current hot shit. I'd expect MKP and DRG to be involved for that reason, but I might suspect that someone like Symbol or Monster would be left out in favour of slightly more stalwart players. It'll be interesting to see if Naniwa is asked, although given his personality I'd suspect he'd question being asked to show his builds to GSL players outside of the GSL itself.

On the Broodwar side, I think its fine that the fans want success and want the Broodwar skill to translate into SC2, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The broodwar players might be humble, but they're not liars, and they've all made very strong statements about their standings vs current pros and the time it will take them to be at that level. Even the most confident estimates have said 6 months practice in SC2 before they challenge current GSL pros. We're a long way from that, and I don't much fancy hearing a load of bellyaching and excuse making from the Broodwar contingent if/when Flash loses.

In shorter terms, what I want to see is this:

Broodwar Players Lose to SC2 Players > Broodwar fans accept it, say they put up a good show, and hope for the future, within which there is every chance the Broodwar players might turn out to be very, very good indeed. MAYBE.

What I DON'T want to see is this:

Broodwar Players Lose to SC2 Players > Broodwar fans start a flamewar about how the Broodwar players are still, despite losing, somehow supposed to be miraculously better than everyone else, and the discussion devolves into another bullshit elephant in the room argument that goes nowhere.

Of course, if the BW players win, then all of that is blown out of the water. But I don't think even the BW players would suspect that should be happening.
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Noxie
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2227 Posts
July 05 2012 16:11 GMT
#166
This will be interesting to watch... hopefully some english coverage.
one-one-one
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden551 Posts
July 05 2012 16:13 GMT
#167
On July 05 2012 21:30 megid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2012 15:59 one-one-one wrote:
On July 05 2012 15:38 LanTAs wrote:
On July 05 2012 15:26 one-one-one wrote:
On July 05 2012 14:44 Kluey wrote:
On July 05 2012 13:54 SupLilSon wrote:
On July 05 2012 13:48 Sea_Food wrote:
Afaik the kespa,players aint even forgeiner pro level yet.


Considering many of them have reached GM level on Korea server, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


Many players are able to get GM level on Korea server... IdrA was like rank 60 or something iirc.


Yes, and idrA is really really f-ing good. What is your point ?


He's saying that a foreigner who has barely been putting up any results at all for the past 3 months can get into GM on the KR server.

KeSpa players are just gonna get buttfucked, this is way too early for them to start even competing in code A level play. Flash and BaBy are probably the only ones who can maybe barely make it past round 3 or 4 of the Code A qualifiers, wayy too early to embarrass them like this.


So because idrA doesn't win stuff all of the time the kespa players will lose to the GSL players. I don't get it.

idrA is top GM on NA and GM on KR.

It is funny how ppl like you guys keep using the "omg he hasn't won anything lately and therefore he must be bad" argument. It doesn't work like that. There is a whole bunch of players at the absolute top who hasn't showed any special results in a while. That doesn't make them bad. Why is that ?

Well, there are only so many tournaments , and each tournament can only have one winner ...





Yes, and that's why esports is not for any1. It's hard to win and a career is build of wins. No wins, no nothing. Tought.


No, you are wrong.

Take Polt , Bomber and ForGG as example.
Everyone knows they are really really good. If you watch them stream they show a level of play so high that they could take a bo 7 series against anyone on a good day.

Are they bad players you mean ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1BFY4R7IIP4#t=1710s
Random_Guy09
Profile Joined April 2012
Canada1010 Posts
July 05 2012 16:13 GMT
#168
On July 05 2012 22:10 DayWalk3r wrote:
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On July 05 2012 13:41 HappyTimePANDA wrote:
Flash vs Symbol
Bisu vs DRG

I can dream lol


I'd rather see Nestea take Flash on, it'd be like the more famous student meeting his master once again :-)


Nestea in a match where he gets to study and prepare given his talent for game plans in GSL would just make it one sided :p all he'd have to come up with is how easily can I punish a greedy 14 CC every game :p
jnd
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Czech Republic915 Posts
July 05 2012 16:28 GMT
#169
The most important thing is that the matches will be anonymous until finals. No GSL-style preparation, no exploiting of specific opponent weaknesses unless you actually spot them. Basically it will be like ladder games live on TV between pro players.

That means the Kespa players have really high chance to succeed, I don't think it will be so one sided as people are saying here. Being great Code S player doesn't help so much here.
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IamPryda
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1186 Posts
July 05 2012 16:30 GMT
#170
On July 05 2012 13:54 docvoc wrote:
The question is who is Gom gonna send, I think we all realize how bad TvZ is right now for pros so wouldn't it be an easy win to send in Symbol against the terrans... Seriously the scariest players besides Jaedong play Terran so for Symbol it would be an "easy" win. It would be a great game though. I think that if they put in Inori in a PvP it would be all but over for anyone he played. My point here is that Gom can easily win this but is that the point? If that is not the point, what would be the point of the showmatch?

So basically what your saying tsl should play the kespa players?
Moar banelings less qq
RyanRushia
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2748 Posts
July 05 2012 16:31 GMT
#171
i can't see the kespa players being able to compete with code s players yet... should be a wipeout
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Xxio
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada5565 Posts
July 05 2012 16:37 GMT
#172
Hm, I'd rather see this happen in 4-6 months. But even then, I don't see the need for it. They can play each other in tournaments.
KTY
0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-05 16:39:10
July 05 2012 16:38 GMT
#173
On July 06 2012 01:13 Random_Guy09 wrote:
Nestea in a match where he gets to study and prepare given his talent for game plans in GSL would just make it one sided :p all he'd have to come up with is how easily can I punish a greedy 14 CC every game :p

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Nestea, an old guy who 10 pools in the deciding game because of a lack of stamina?

Surely if things go to mid-late game Flash/Jaedong/Bisu/Fantasy have a chance. I might actually take Fantasy or Flash on liquibet right now, to be honest.
jaQi
Profile Joined December 2010
1121 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-05 16:40:49
July 05 2012 16:40 GMT
#174
I don't think anyone needs this "test" or rather the results, since the outcome is more than clear. But I think this can help BW players develop faster.
Valeranth
Profile Joined August 2010
United States100 Posts
July 05 2012 16:47 GMT
#175
On July 06 2012 00:56 ScienceRob wrote:
I imagine the people who loved them in BW will find ways to make it seem like an incredible achievment if they manage to take a single game off any of the sc2 pros.


I think it would be amazing.

The BW Pro's are really good at Sc2 already but many of them are not even able to get into grandmaster yet, in part due to having to play both SC2 and BW at the same time and due to the time they have played. The meta game they are playing with is also more geared towards broodwar builds right now. Overall if they play the top class Code S guys seriously right now I don't see any of them taking a game off unless it is early game cheese.
Kommander
Profile Joined March 2011
Philippines4950 Posts
July 05 2012 16:49 GMT
#176
Hmm, I wonder if they will be using barcode accounts to maintain the anonimity.
sCCrooked
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)1306 Posts
July 05 2012 16:52 GMT
#177
On July 06 2012 00:37 StarStruck wrote:
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On July 06 2012 00:36 sCCrooked wrote:
On July 06 2012 00:19 EL33T_COL wrote:
On July 06 2012 00:03 ragz_gt wrote:
On July 05 2012 23:59 EL33T_COL wrote:
Sorry to ask that but some peeps here claim that some kespa player are already KR-GM in less than 3 months of practice, do you have a source or something?


http://kr.battle.net/sc2/ko/ladder/grandmaster

While most KeSPA player plays as barcode (so people can't easily scout them), you can see that Stork is #185.
http://kr.battle.net/sc2/ko/profile/2153042/1/Stork/



Thank you, its quite impressive to say the least.


Its even more impressive when you take into consideration that there's a significant percentage of KR-GM made up of KeSPA after only 12 weeks.



Guys honestly being GM really doesn't mean that much at all. A lot of these guys were going to hit that mark regardless.

I have to say it over and over. There is a huge division between the GM players alone.

Being GM isn't enough.


I'm not saying they'll take over the scene in the Fall tournament season or anything, but out of the total starcraft 2 players in the world, how many do you think actually make GM in 12 weeks of picking up the game?

Was anyone here GM in 12 weeks after their first glimpses into "over...seer? hmm... maurader... wonder what that does"-stage? I know I wasn't. Now imagine a large pro-gaming organization who has just about everybody making a minimum of 1200pt++ masters within 4 weeks and of all those new strong players smushed into the upper masters, already so many are becoming GM and rising there too.

I'm trying to put into perspective for us mortals exactly how good these people really are at RTS games. Meeting/hanging out with them is the only thing that really made me realize how in-depth these guys are and how far beyond comprehension they have taken their understanding of every timing, combination, etc.

tl;dr Basically saying these guys aren't going to be considered "not-up-to-pro" level SC2 for much longer.
Enlightened in an age of anti-intellectualism and quotidian repetitiveness of asinine assumptive thinking. Best lycan guide evar --> "Fixing solo queue all pick one game at a time." ~KwarK-
Denzil
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom4193 Posts
July 05 2012 16:54 GMT
#178
On July 05 2012 13:54 SupLilSon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 05 2012 13:48 Sea_Food wrote:
Afaik the kespa,players aint even forgeiner pro level yet.


Considering many of them have reached GM level on Korea server, you don't seem to know what you are talking about.


It would be interesting to see someone like flash go full foreigner
Anna: So Sen how will you prepare for your revenge v MC? Sen: With a smile.
Kajarn
Profile Joined September 2010
United States126 Posts
July 05 2012 16:55 GMT
#179
BW Pros playing a game they aren't familiar with vs SC2 Pros who know all the tricks and established meta game.....
Just sounds like an oportunity for a few BW Pros to show they are good at adapting to a different game, thats it.

BTW: BW Pros aren't necessarily talented, just faster. Look at Nestea, who never had the mechanics to play BW, but is a genious in SC2. Even in current SC2 world Nestea is considered a slower Zerg!

Maybe BW Pros will change the game by playing faster, but I highly doubt it. They will change the game due to their work ethic more than anything, which is not gonna happen for 6months to 1 year time.
A-p-p-l-e-s
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada314 Posts
July 05 2012 17:01 GMT
#180
OMG!!! was waiting for something like this : )
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