On May 11 2013 12:44 Hrrrrm wrote: For those looking for a little more information Incontrol talks a bit more why this last incident was the final straw for Idra. Idra has an outburst (whole Capoch and cancer dieing thing) sponsors go to EG management say they can't stand for that type of talk. Management talks with Idra, management tells sponsors they've had a chat and it won't happen again. A week later Idra makes basically a worse comment since it's directed to the community that this whole industry relies on and they have to pull the plug. Idra did it to himself sadly.
I had the general gist of the situation with all the information getting thrown around, but it's good to hear what Geoff had to say about the things that went on behind the scenes.
On May 11 2013 15:06 ZenithM wrote: This almost eclipses MaximusBlack's own release from Quantic.
Wait who's that? ^_~
The thread has slowed down quite a bit, so discussions are much easier to have now. Sort of nice. Maybe everyone is just over with the news already!!!!
I find it a bit interesting the kind of thoughts that people have regarding Idra's release; the cause, his personalty, attitude, mindset, and his effect on scene. I really disliked Idra's attitude and actions that revolved around the players and the game. If he hated so much the game, calling it dumb and only dumb players win. Why did he keep playing a game he disliked? Proving a point, maybe, but I didn't like his negative approach where he would complain about balance and exploits. Some balancing where warranted but you could see players with the same tools doing better than what he was doing. If you could watch his stream and go by what he is known for, he was known really good macro, but you never heard anything about him being really good at engaging and army battles. Yet why didnt anyone say anything? Idra would have army dieing cause bad army control and bad decision making when came to army engagements. It was his fault but yet he blamed other things. This kind of mindset was poisonous in my opinion cause of most the zerg in NA region adopted his attitude, lashing out at the players and not looking at his errors. Also people looked at his records and say he has major tournament and good records in WoL. From my perspective in WoL was the strongest, but Idra was struggling to have major success. Watch his development from the beginning he was trying to use the same builds, compositions and style until some other player would bring some new tool to the table. Idra was not an innovator he was another zerg player that could exploits and the really good tools that zerg had. The only positive that idra could bring would be the attention but i feel that the credit he got his plays that were developed more by the other zerg players were given to him. I wish success for his life, but i will not miss him presence in the sc2 scene.
Does no one else think it's strange that EG happened to announce Idra's departure 10 minutes into SOTG (while they were talking about idra)? Incontrol sheds some light on the circumstances of his firing, but they are sure milking all the publicity they can from it..
I am really surprised no one has made a meme saying "release the gracken!!". In all seriousness, I hope he makes a strong come back. I think a change of pace would be great for him. Maybe he doesn't agree *shrugs*
On May 11 2013 16:07 FuzZyLogic wrote: Does no one else think it's strange that EG happened to announce Idra's departure 10 minutes into SOTG (while they were talking about idra)? Incontrol sheds some light on the circumstances of his firing, but they are sure milking all the publicity they can from it..
Had Idra beaten Polt and qualified for WCS, it would´ve been the same amount of attention.
On May 11 2013 16:24 YuTz wrote: I am really surprised no one has made a meme saying "release the gracken!!". In all seriousness, I hope he makes a strong come back. I think a change of pace would be great for him. Maybe he doesn't agree *shrugs*
Idra got treated way way way way way way better than what he deserved by EG. I think anyone who held any kind of animosity toward EG for something like this is really fucken blind. My opinion of EG actually went up from this unfortunate event.
"Out of the loop and isolated from his peers..." I don't think so. Where exactly are you getting this? He watches the latest tourneys. He knows what is going on. He's a pro player for god's sake - he knows all these things.
If he's so flawless as you seem to think, then you have to ask yourself WHY IN THE NAME OF HELL players like Suppy, who don't practice nearly as much, are objectively better players than him.
You have to ask WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK someone with his experience, and who started HotS in the beta, didn't qualify for the Shoutcraft league of top 16 Americans.
The answer is that he doesn't even evaluate his own replays, he won't be told anything, he doesn't have practice partners because he flames everyone who beats him, he attributes almost every defeat to his opponents playing badly, and he's constantly behind the meta-game -- sometimes to almost farcical lengths. As an example of the latter, Demuslim pointed out that Idra's creep spread is nowhere near as effective as Stephano's and is literally minutes behind. And that's creep spread...a fundamental part of the game, which was fleshed out even in WoL. And all this time, Idra's been out of the loop on that.
I'm afraid no amount of high-powered analytical skills and veteran savvy will compensate for an unprofessional attitude and a Dunning–Kruger syndrome.
"Out of the loop and isolated from his peers..." I don't think so. Where exactly are you getting this? He watches the latest tourneys. He knows what is going on. He's a pro player for god's sake - he knows all these things.
If he's so flawless as you seem to think, then you have to ask yourself WHY IN THE NAME OF HELL players like Suppy, who don't practice nearly as much, are objectively better players than him.
You have to ask WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK someone with his experience, and who started HotS in the beta, didn't qualify for the Shoutcraft league of top 16 Americans.
The answer is that he doesn't even evaluate his own replays, he won't be told anything, he doesn't have practice partners because he flames everyone who beats him, he attributes almost every defeat to his opponents playing badly, and he's constantly behind the meta-game -- sometimes to almost farcical lengths. As an example of the latter, Demuslim pointed out that Idra's creep spread is nowhere near as effective as Stephano's and is literally minutes behind. And that's creep spread...a fundamental part of the game, which was fleshed out even in WoL. And all this time, Idra's been out of the loop on that.
I'm afraid no amount of high-powered analytical skills and veteran savvy will compensate for an unprofessional attitude and a Dunning–Kruger syndrome.
That's the most disappointing thing of all. Idra used to be able to do pretty well for himself when Zerg was, to an outside observer a lot weaker than it was in other periods. His stubborn mentality and adherence to a pretty defined playstyle with emphasis on mechanical chops seemed to be a bonus to him then (in terms of maintaining a certain skill level), and subsequently became a massive hindrance.
I mean, Idra or Ret taking out GSL level Terrans with Muta/ling/bling was a big deal, to the degree that many people really remember those games.
However, both those guys never really pushed from being really top-tier foreign Zergs when the metagame/whatever you want to call it was clearly more favourable to Zergs towards the end of WoL. It's always been pretty bizarre to me.
I like people to speak their mind. Even if it's nasty, at least it's honest. I don't like sponsor drones who always try to be politically correct.
Only reason for me to stop watching Idra is if he went to LoL. I really hope not. Riot probably already poaching him though with shitloads of money and promises he can say whatever he wants :/
"Out of the loop and isolated from his peers..." I don't think so. Where exactly are you getting this? He watches the latest tourneys. He knows what is going on. He's a pro player for god's sake - he knows all these things.
If he's so flawless as you seem to think, then you have to ask yourself WHY IN THE NAME OF HELL players like Suppy, who don't practice nearly as much, are objectively better players than him.
You have to ask WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK someone with his experience, and who started HotS in the beta, didn't qualify for the Shoutcraft league of top 16 Americans.
The answer is that he doesn't even evaluate his own replays, he won't be told anything, he doesn't have practice partners because he flames everyone who beats him, he attributes almost every defeat to his opponents playing badly, and he's constantly behind the meta-game -- sometimes to almost farcical lengths. As an example of the latter, Demuslim pointed out that Idra's creep spread is nowhere near as effective as Stephano's and is literally minutes behind. And that's creep spread...a fundamental part of the game, which was fleshed out even in WoL. And all this time, Idra's been out of the loop on that.
I'm afraid no amount of high-powered analytical skills and veteran savvy will compensate for an unprofessional attitude and a Dunning–Kruger syndrome.
That's the most disappointing thing of all. Idra used to be able to do pretty well for himself when Zerg was, to an outside observer a lot weaker than it was in other periods. His stubborn mentality and adherence to a pretty defined playstyle with emphasis on mechanical chops seemed to be a bonus to him then (in terms of maintaining a certain skill level), and subsequently became a massive hindrance.
I mean, Idra or Ret taking out GSL level Terrans with Muta/ling/bling was a big deal, to the degree that many people really remember those games.
However, both those guys never really pushed from being really top-tier foreign Zergs when the metagame/whatever you want to call it was clearly more favourable to Zergs towards the end of WoL. It's always been pretty bizarre to me.
I actually know why idra/ret still didn't do very good at end of WoL even when zvp/zvt was zerg favored. Playing the style of turtle till deathball and win while it worked is just something that doesn't work for everyone.
For example, when that style became pretty much the only way to consistently win games, I dropped in skill a ton. Something that was easy to do, I sucked at. I couldn't handle the bl/corr/infestor. Now by couldn't handle I mean it was so boring I hated having to do it.
There are just some players like me (and presumably ret/idra) who just can't do that style very good because it was incredibly boring and doesn't play to the players strengths. For instance I would say my mechanics are pretty good. When it came down to that deathball style play, mechanics didn't really matter as it mainly came down to just getting the army. If you somehow lost a 200/200 bl/corr/infestor army (something that was very rare lol) you can't really remax on that in a timely frame and that's usually gg.
Short version: Some players can't play that boring turtley style very well, I would guarantee idra/ret and many others were that way which is why their results didn't get better.
You have to ask WHY IN THE NAME OF FUCK someone with his experience, and who started HotS in the beta, didn't qualify for the Shoutcraft league of top 16 Americans.
I thought it was because Idra insta-leaves too many ladder games, especially vs. demuslim.