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mishimaBeef
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2259 Posts
May 11 2013 05:49 GMT
#3781
On May 11 2013 14:27 0x5f3759df wrote:
fuck idra's butt with a hot metal rod. that is all.

User was temp banned for this post.


if this doesn't warrant a jackie chan wtf i don't know what does

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Diaresta
Profile Joined February 2012
United States597 Posts
May 11 2013 05:54 GMT
#3782
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.

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Thanks for the clarification.

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.
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ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
May 11 2013 06:06 GMT
#3783
This almost eclipses MaximusBlack's own release from Quantic.
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2102 Posts
May 11 2013 06:07 GMT
#3784
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!!!!
PsyChoRo
Profile Joined October 2010
Romania85 Posts
May 11 2013 06:35 GMT
#3785
Just like HuK moved to EG, wouldn't it be as crazy, now, for Idra to move to TL ?
Daft Commander
Profile Joined April 2011
United States79 Posts
May 11 2013 06:39 GMT
#3786
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.
"I should have let him drown"
FuzZyLogic
Profile Joined December 2010
United States141 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-11 07:18:51
May 11 2013 07:07 GMT
#3787
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..
ne4aJIb
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Russian Federation3209 Posts
May 11 2013 07:11 GMT
#3788
On May 11 2013 15:35 PsyChoRo wrote:
Just like HuK moved to EG, wouldn't it be as crazy, now, for Idra to move to TL ?


liquid'idra sounds cool
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Facultyadjutant
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Sweden1876 Posts
May 11 2013 07:15 GMT
#3789
On May 11 2013 16:11 ne4aJIb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2013 15:35 PsyChoRo wrote:
Just like HuK moved to EG, wouldn't it be as crazy, now, for Idra to move to TL ?


liquid'idra sounds cool


Idra joins Liquid

He becomes the epitome of manner

Meets huk in wsc

Idra:
Just so you know
Our friendship
Huk:
Fuck off
Idra:
Was just a halluc
LOL
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Infernal_dream
Profile Joined September 2011
United States2359 Posts
May 11 2013 07:20 GMT
#3790
On May 11 2013 16:11 ne4aJIb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2013 15:35 PsyChoRo wrote:
Just like HuK moved to EG, wouldn't it be as crazy, now, for Idra to move to TL ?


liquid'idra sounds cool


No thanks. Not until he becomes more mannered towards the community and his teammates.
YuTz
Profile Joined September 2010
United States119 Posts
May 11 2013 07:24 GMT
#3791
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*
Old School.....
unkkz
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Norway2196 Posts
May 11 2013 07:25 GMT
#3792
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.
Grovbolle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Denmark3805 Posts
May 11 2013 07:36 GMT
#3793
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*

Has been said 20 times in this thread already
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Yamoth
Profile Joined February 2009
United States315 Posts
May 11 2013 07:36 GMT
#3794
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.
Morlock
Profile Joined May 2013
68 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-11 07:40:02
May 11 2013 07:38 GMT
#3795
On May 11 2013 14:28 Qwyn wrote:

"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.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25118 Posts
May 11 2013 07:44 GMT
#3796
On May 11 2013 16:38 Morlock wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2013 14:28 Qwyn wrote:

"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.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Zandar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1541 Posts
May 11 2013 07:47 GMT
#3797
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 :/
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
habeck
Profile Joined February 2011
1120 Posts
May 11 2013 07:48 GMT
#3798
On May 11 2013 16:15 Facultyadjutant wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2013 16:11 ne4aJIb wrote:
On May 11 2013 15:35 PsyChoRo wrote:
Just like HuK moved to EG, wouldn't it be as crazy, now, for Idra to move to TL ?


liquid'idra sounds cool


Idra joins Liquid

He becomes the epitome of manner

Meets huk in wsc

Idra:
Just so you know
Our friendship
Huk:
Fuck off
Idra:
Was just a halluc
LOL


that was quite funny
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
May 11 2013 07:49 GMT
#3799
On May 11 2013 16:44 Wombat_NI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2013 16:38 Morlock wrote:
On May 11 2013 14:28 Qwyn wrote:

"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.
When I think of something else, something will go here
sumsaR
Profile Joined January 2013
Sweden1812 Posts
May 11 2013 07:52 GMT
#3800
On May 11 2013 16:38 Morlock wrote:

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.
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