EG-TL: From Heaven to Hell - Page 9

On March 08 2013 03:56 Gamegene wrote:


You forget Sea's credentials as a veteran of Proleague. Contrast this with the current EG-TL lineup: besides Jaedong and PuMa, the rest of the players on EG-TL are completely inexperienced with Proleague. Yes, they have a lot of experience in individual competitions and online team leagues/GSTL in the past 2 years, but they're in a league where a lot of players have been doing this for much much longer.

They have to not only learn how to deal with the specific pressure of competing on a televised and prestigious league, but also how to prepare, train, plan for a SINGLE game or thousands of different scenarios for an All Kill formats. And do it again and again and again for months.

Should I do this all in this game? How would that affect the other team's mentality towards my other teammates matches. If I do THIS build today, would I be able to use it the next for the other team? Would they expect that? Would they not expect that?

Almost all of these players have been training for best of multi-game series in either marathon tournaments or BO3-BO5-BO7 individual matches in GSL. Having players who can be the hyung/older brother to the other teammates and lend their knowledge and know-how is a huge asset to have.

On March 08 2013 05:27 ACrow wrote:

That's really good points, he probably would be very helpful that way.
Shouldn't Jaedong also be able to fill that role of hyung/mentor as well?

On March 08 2013 05:43 Gamegene wrote:


He's only one man. A very capable man but still only one man.

On March 08 2013 05:58 mrRoflpwn wrote:
Lol, I love how they say maybe by switchign uip the foreigners they can win- ya right, Idra and demuslim can barely compete at an NA level- nobody in their right mind is expecting them to win even a single game in proleague.

On March 08 2013 06:03 Gamegene wrote:


Although DeMusliM is competent I wholeheartedly agree that he's going to have a really difficult time in Proleague considering ThorZain's results.

IdrA on the other hand you can never underestimate. He's been playing HOTS for a very very very long time now and will probably have the most understanding of the game in the first rounds. That and never forget that he is IdrA. The guy Koreans respect, the guy who's been on a CJ and worn their uniform, who knows how important Proleague is. He is always relevant and always an asset not dead weight.

On March 08 2013 06:11 Zrana wrote:



Hmm no, as much as i love idra for the hilarity he brings to the scene, if you watch him stream his play is very uninspiring; he always seems to be a few months behind everyone else in the metagame and i think he's have trouble in hots as he'll have to wait for korean zergs to figure out what to do and then copy them.

On March 08 2013 06:11 Zrana wrote:



Hmm no, as much as i love idra for the hilarity he brings to the scene, if you watch him stream his play is very uninspiring; he always seems to be a few months behind everyone else in the metagame and i think he's have trouble in hots as he'll have to wait for korean zergs to figure out what to do and then copy them.

On March 08 2013 06:15 Neptuneajax wrote:
Look at how quickly the Kespa pros got good at SC2 in general. Like within 6 months they came from a totally different game to dominating established pro with 2-3 years experience. Why do people think an expansion with a few new rules here and there is going to change anything? Kespa players will continue to dominate and ESF players will slowly fall by the wayside to these superior gamers. Not that I want this to happen of course but in reality I honestly think that in a year's time we will be saying..."Taeja, who?"

On March 08 2013 03:01 krutopatkin wrote:


But the best players on ROOT are Korean aswell.

On March 08 2013 03:30 Marti wrote:
I don't really see what the problem is. I think EGTL is doing a fantastic job of replacing Air Force ACE ( no offense ).



yeah i get you.
edit : there's thorzain and stephano so that's two actually.

On March 08 2013 05:52 Zealously wrote:


I imagine you'd receive a warning the first time it happens; if it were to happen a second KeSPA would be pretty pissed. But I don't think Idra not GGing in SPL is anything to worry about - as far as I know he holds KeSPA pros in very high esteem.

On March 08 2013 03:53 Shellshock1122 wrote:

I believe that was me you quoted. The story is apparently during the GSTL preseason Korean Netizens were angry at the FXO players for all inning Prime in a couple of the games to get wins instead of showing off HoTS units and Choya ended up apologizing for his team winning that way. Khaldor was pretty upset about it.


oh yeah btw my comment on the first page about kespa having 13 players in code s already was just a joke with opterown I know it's not what the article was saying