On October 11 2012 02:19 laerteis wrote: This kid is way to naive. Hasn't he witnessed the fate of his overconfident predecessors?
Confidence wins him games? Against MVP confidence will lose him games.
Haha I was thinking this the whole time I was reading the interview. Gotta hand it to Life though the kid has confidence! Don't confuse it for cockiness, he's not saying MVP is bad and he's better, he's just got this raw confidence that he MUST win and I gotta say I love it. That however doesn't change the fact that as you stated, confidence is sometimes an enemy vs MVP. I also thought it was entertaining when he said he hadn't studied MVP much. Bad move Life! Better hit those books and be ready for the big finals test!
His comment about being from Zenex originally was priceless, must say this interview has made me really take a shine to Life
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
On October 10 2012 22:45 Lockitupv2 wrote: I remember what happened last time someone got super cocky and said they would beat mvp.
ye , parting , now code b right ? still a beast pvter
There's something in the air about Life though. As far as Parting, Squirtle and Rain goes, all of them "should" have won their encounters with Mvp but there was always that feeling that it was just not gonna happen. I dunno, maybe it's just in my head, but the type of confidence Life has is different, not to mention he's a different race compared to the other three. Guess there's only one way to find out
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
Still true nonetheless.
No, it was never true and was just a myth stephano spread to build up this image as a gosu player who doesn't practice. It's worked because people still believe it to this day.
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
Stephano used to play 2 hours a day back when he was a War3 semi-pro. He never claimed to play such a few amount of hours in Starcraft 2, that's a myth. Use your head man, how could he, as a non-working and non-studying person whose contacts are almost all related to e-Sports, spend his time differently than practicing most of the time ? Not necessarily 8 hours a day, but anything below 5 hours is naive imo.
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
Still true nonetheless.
Life's better than Stephano tho.
I'm not sure if people seriously believe this Stephano thingy that he doesn't/didn't practice (he might not be practicing a lot in match-ups he is good at / understands, but when he is lacking he practices hard) and if you seriously believe that Life is better than Stephano...
For instance, he played a shit ton of games (like as much or more than Kas) when he started SC2 in order to understand the game and stuff. He used to say that he was in the medicine school when he was not so I guess this "I don't practice" thing is also a troll.
On October 10 2012 23:56 mikedebo wrote: The GSL finals were decided when MVP beat Rain. Life is going to get dismantled by MVP. Unless his words are sheer bravado, his attitude is going to lose him the match. If you have a stylistic way of playing a race, MVP will break you.
I hope he puts up a good fight though He's super entertaining to watch, even when the infestors come out.
i disagree...at least for TvP, MVP is best at breaking those who rely on a 'safe build' most of the time - Parting and Squirtle... with Rain he went 2-2 vs rain's standard build since rain > parting and squirtle, but had the foresight to suspect something and bitchslapped the DT -> 3 base build
On October 11 2012 00:52 Noocta wrote: It's so scary that Life is that good while having little practice due to school. I think it's gonna play in his defavour that he don't have as much time as in the summer.
Overall, MVP for his fifth GSL title, and the official status starting with a B and finishing by onjwa that everyone is so afraid to use.
I don't know. Stephano got pretty good as well playing 2 hours a day.
It's getting less and less every time i hear people say this.
Still true nonetheless.
No, it was never true and was just a myth stephano spread to build up this image as a gosu player who doesn't practice. It's worked because people still believe it to this day.
You're not obligated to believe it, doesn't change anything to anyone.
On October 11 2012 04:04 HaXXspetten wrote: ...how does Stephano end up being compared to every single player everywhere?
Because he is the only foreign player who can be compared to koreans but doesn't participate in the GSL, thus some people doubt he could do something here and others are sure he could?
On October 10 2012 22:54 anatem wrote: noone's gonna remember Life's win if he takes MVP down, what remains from this season for future generations is MVP's destruction of Rain and his advancement to his 6th finals in spite of all adversity
Yeah, youngest ever finalist in GSL history walks the royal road and wins against 4 time GSL champion and no one will remember? Life will make history, and it will be just the beginning.
Youngest ever finalist is not really that impressive. 5 time champion in the hardest league on Earth? That's worthy of remembering.
Also it wouldn't be too unlikely for a 13 year old progamer to pop up in the future and take a GSL, what would Life be then?
Also 'royal-roader' isn't exactly the most impressive title either, at least I don't think of it when I see Jaedong, there's not really too much 'epicness' about it.
for sc2 fans it will be epic, and thats really what matters.
im not even trying to be a bw-elitist -- its just that for those whos history is limited to sc2, this is a (somewhat bastardized) potential Bisu vs Savior moment.
dont kill me for saying that. i did say bastardized. and i obviously mean that its at a different (lower) level. but life's setting the stage with his trash talk.
personally i think life will take the first two games and mvp will sweep 4-2.
EPT
