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On August 09 2012 13:04 power-overwhelming wrote:
I don't see why people think Stephano will just improve that much. His mechanics is already good. His weakness will only surface more with his style of play. Only his zvp is truly top notch, and in korea he will get studied to death and just get countered like Oz did.
Stephano has shown his ability to adapt his builds to deal with strong opponents. Players like Polt, MC, Hero and MKP used to crush him in tournaments, but after playing them several times he's had a chance to adapt his play and now he does quite decently against them. People on the EU server just aren't comparable in terms of builds and unit control, so without getting challenged Stephano won't develop as a player.
Consider when Stephano lost to Oz on Daybreak to the fast 3rd build. Stephano could have scouted the 3rd earlier, and he could have been much more effective with his zergling attack which put him behind. The thing is, when practising on the EU server against an EU pro he can afford to make mistakes like that and still manage to win. Also consider game 1 vs QXC to game 1 vs Ryung, both on Antiga, from that weekend. Stephano did the same roach/ling/baneling attack which was defended efficiently by each opponent, putting him quite behind. Against QXC it didn't matter, he just outmanoeuvred him in the midgame and won it anyways, whereas Ryung played it out perfectly without mistakes to secure the win. It's when you lose that you're forced to make adjustments and refinements.
Also, mechanics wise Stephano has been poorer lately compared to earlier in the year. The reason is that recently he's been taking weeks off at a time whereas he was streaming for hours a day at the start of the year. You can tell, he gets more supply blocks and sometimes falls behind on his larvae injects. A return to a more regular practice routine will surely help here.
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On August 09 2012 14:44 figq wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 13:22 OneOther wrote:On August 09 2012 11:37 SeeKeR wrote:On August 09 2012 10:06 Roggay wrote:On August 09 2012 10:02 SeeKeR wrote:On August 09 2012 08:45 Everest9 wrote:
"successfully unpacked his belongings"
:D :D Y is this funny? Can you fail at unpacking your belongings? Huh... I uh... may have mistranslated Oo;; Yea, well, it's using "unpacked his belongings" to say that he has settled down at the house, not to literally point out he managed to unpack his baggages. Ah, and here I thought it indicates discreetly that he has ginormous amounts of luggage (all moisturizers, of course). Or that he was almost sober when unpacking.
Fixed. Hopefully no more errors
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Potentially only 2 weeks? ;; hope not.. hope he goes back to Korea after MLG
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If Stephano, made it into the Round of 8 or farther GSL viewers would increase 3 fold.
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Stephano said something about GSL in October since there was no international tournament at that time. So I think he will go back after MLG
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Is 2 weeks worth the jetlag he is going to have at MLG?
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On August 09 2012 09:28 Daray wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 09:21 Lukeeze[zR] wrote:
Polt's english is code S, don't think the communication should be a problem. But Polt is not leaving in the team house right?
Polt is living there.
Inori have pretty good english too, so I think the communication between him and TSL must be okay.
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What happened to him going into Code S eventually?
I don't think you can call him the no1 foreigner until he at least matches Naniwas efforts in GSL but looks like he won't even play in it :/ .
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Since there's a lot of confusion on the GSL topic, I allow myself a little self promotion, sorry about that, but I was the one interviewing Stephano at WCS France where he confirmed he will play GSL in October.
can find the interview here : http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=353742 (GSL question at 10'45 in part 1)
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Stephano x Polt shipping here we come
In all seriousness, this is sick news. Love Stephano and practising with TSL is only great news. Training with Polt is only going to make his TvZ real scary and TSL's zergs will make his ZvZ pretty balls as well
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Quite exciting. Seems long overdue!
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Is he only gonna stay for 2 weeks? Dont really see the point in that...its hard to improve at all in such short time...and the travel almost makes it worse if hes got a tourney in 2 weeks.....much luck though.....
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On August 09 2012 08:27 coverpunch wrote:
Stephano vs/+ Symbol training sessions must be sick.
jaeh ^^ but in alot things i think symbol can learn more from stephano xD
all stephano can learn is to fuckn TRAIN xD (imagine him with alot train xD)
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TSL is like a zerg magnet O_____o
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Judging by his performance on his stream yesterday he looks as strong as ever.
Ofourse, he wasn't playing any top level players (i think) but he won pretty convincingly vs master and GM korean players, making it look easy at times and with a record of 34-5..
Hope he will stream again soon 
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He'll stream almost every day while in Korea.
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I wonder if the first period in Korea will make him worse as it happens for most foreign players or he is able to skip that part. Let's see how he does at MLG.
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On August 09 2012 17:18 aTnClouD wrote:
I wonder if the first period in Korea will make him worse as it happens for most foreign players or he is able to skip that part. Let's see how he does at MLG.
korea made a lot of foreign players worse in the first period because they didn't have the level and enough confidence, it won't happen for stephano
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Oh this is quite exciting! I can't wait to see what he becomes after some Korea time!
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