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The Tragic Champion: Woongjin_Soulkey - Road to Blizzcon #…

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Daswollvieh
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
5553 Posts
November 06 2013 07:21 GMT
#81
Still don´t like him. Would like him less, if he ran over Naniwa.
LuckyMacro
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1482 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-06 07:41:34
November 06 2013 07:41 GMT
#82
Not often do I feel the urge to watch star2 nowadays. but these write-ups yo
astray71
Profile Joined February 2012
United States325 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-06 07:56:45
November 06 2013 07:56 GMT
#83
Awesome write up, though I felt that this one was less thrilling of a read than the others
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`dunedain
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
655 Posts
November 06 2013 08:31 GMT
#84
Fuck, all these write-ups are so good!
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dustinth
Profile Joined September 2012
China205 Posts
November 06 2013 08:36 GMT
#85
On November 06 2013 08:15 Kitaen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2013 02:29 prabhbhambra13 wrote:
I think Soulkey is the bet player going into Blizzcon, He's been so consistently good over all of 2013.

The only players who can beat him are Dear, who is coming in with ridiculous momentum and Maru.


no offense, but every terran that plays a good tvz can beat soulkey (read: mma, mvp, taeja, polt most likely)


No offense, I don't think any terran can beat Soulkey instead of Innovation.
miniskirt
Profile Joined December 2012
France487 Posts
November 06 2013 11:13 GMT
#86
On November 06 2013 06:34 slowbacontron wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2013 06:33 miniskirt wrote:
Twice before in the GSL a player had recovered from an 0 – 3 deficit, and he had failed to complete the comeback. Squirtle played the games of his life against Mvp, only to choke against cheese in the final minutes of the final map. DongRaeGu earned himself a game seven against MMA, played his heart out in one of the greatest games of WoL, but ultimately fell short at the conclusion.

leenock - jjakji?

jjakji 4-2, victory was never in doubt

i still consider leenock has win dual sight
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VArsovskiSC
Profile Joined July 2010
Macedonia563 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-06 11:53:40
November 06 2013 11:50 GMT
#87
Yeah, Soulkey's like the champion that almost no-one remembers that was a champion.. Because he failed to "fortify" it with another championship medal at the S1 finals that is.. And PPL were like - well, that was a lucky day for Soulkey I guess..

Other than that - remember that he was like the #1 ranked KeSPa player on SC2 to transfer over.. For quite a long time (before Rain took over that place)

Also - a lot of people who say that Soulkey's gonna have "easy path" to the finals, I really tend to disagree with.. Though the chances of him winning Naniwa are relatively high(er)-ish, say like around 65%, Naniwa's PvZ is a f*cking beast.. Like for example if he played duckdeok instead - pretty sure that THAT would be an easy-path/easy-win or sth..

Also - top on that the fact that Soulkey's ZvP might not be his best matchup IMO (not sure about following data or sth, just a feel that his ZvT is his best thing..)

Still, hope we see some GGs..
Another world, another place, another universe, won the race.. :) ;) :P
slowbacontron
Profile Joined October 2012
United States7722 Posts
November 06 2013 14:01 GMT
#88
On November 06 2013 20:13 miniskirt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2013 06:34 slowbacontron wrote:
On November 06 2013 06:33 miniskirt wrote:
Twice before in the GSL a player had recovered from an 0 – 3 deficit, and he had failed to complete the comeback. Squirtle played the games of his life against Mvp, only to choke against cheese in the final minutes of the final map. DongRaeGu earned himself a game seven against MMA, played his heart out in one of the greatest games of WoL, but ultimately fell short at the conclusion.

leenock - jjakji?

jjakji 4-2, victory was never in doubt

i still consider leenock has win dual sight

But...he didn't :/ And jjakji only won 2 maps before Leenock started to comeback, so the pressure wasn't as high.
jjakji fan
Axxis
Profile Joined May 2010
United States133 Posts
November 06 2013 14:06 GMT
#89
I know soulkey isn't exactly mr. popular but I feel like he is the best player right now. These 16 players are all very good and really, honestly, for once, any of them could win it. I just feel like soulkey can do it. His scouting is impeccable, his macro never slips, he has all the tools. And, as pointed out here, he rarely gets rattled. . . .in the biggest tournament to date that's huge.
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StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
November 06 2013 14:18 GMT
#90
On November 06 2013 20:50 VArsovskiSC wrote:
Yeah, Soulkey's like the champion that almost no-one remembers that was a champion.. Because he failed to "fortify" it with another championship medal at the S1 finals that is.. And PPL were like - well, that was a lucky day for Soulkey I guess..

Other than that - remember that he was like the #1 ranked KeSPa player on SC2 to transfer over.. For quite a long time (before Rain took over that place)

Also - a lot of people who say that Soulkey's gonna have "easy path" to the finals, I really tend to disagree with.. Though the chances of him winning Naniwa are relatively high(er)-ish, say like around 65%, Naniwa's PvZ is a f*cking beast.. Like for example if he played duckdeok instead - pretty sure that THAT would be an easy-path/easy-win or sth..

Also - top on that the fact that Soulkey's ZvP might not be his best matchup IMO (not sure about following data or sth, just a feel that his ZvT is his best thing..)

Still, hope we see some GGs..


When we say that it isn't just about Nani. He does have the easiest path and what do you know that's what the no. 1 seed is supposed to get, no? Just because he lost to Dear in the manner he did doesn't mean his ZvP isn't really good LOL.
lolfail9001
Profile Joined August 2013
Russian Federation40190 Posts
November 06 2013 14:54 GMT
#91
On November 06 2013 20:50 VArsovskiSC wrote:
Yeah, Soulkey's like the champion that almost no-one remembers that was a champion.. Because he failed to "fortify" it with another championship medal at the S1 finals that is.. And PPL were like - well, that was a lucky day for Soulkey I guess..

Other than that - remember that he was like the #1 ranked KeSPa player on SC2 to transfer over.. For quite a long time (before Rain took over that place)

Also - a lot of people who say that Soulkey's gonna have "easy path" to the finals, I really tend to disagree with.. Though the chances of him winning Naniwa are relatively high(er)-ish, say like around 65%, Naniwa's PvZ is a f*cking beast.. Like for example if he played duckdeok instead - pretty sure that THAT would be an easy-path/easy-win or sth..

Also - top on that the fact that Soulkey's ZvP might not be his best matchup IMO (not sure about following data or sth, just a feel that his ZvT is his best thing..)

Still, hope we see some GGs..

Naniwa's PvZ winrate is about as relevant in measurement of match as sOs'. They play similar macro styles and Naniwa throws in all-ins, that as we all know Soulkey is pretty darn good at holding.
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iloveav
Profile Joined November 2008
Poland1479 Posts
November 06 2013 15:09 GMT
#92
The only guy im not seeing here is alive.

Not that he aing good, but among all those players, id say he is the weakest player.
I can think of many Korean and a few non korean players who "should" on paper beat him.
aka LRM)Cats_Paw.
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
November 06 2013 16:19 GMT
#93
On November 06 2013 02:23 Sabu113 wrote:
"Soulkey's title win came right at the height of the age of (T)INnoVation, as the robot Terran was hitting 70%+ win rates in each match-up (that's bonjwa class)"

Christ. It would be nice if Innovation could not be hyped to hell for one moment. It was obvious that the boost and hellbats played a massive role in differentiating him from past multi-taskers. Maybe I'm just jaded by never ever catching one of those games were INnovation was so impressive like a Rain or Life.

Poor soulkey though. Kinda modern Sniper in terms of recognition for his title.

Well then I guess you didn't watch any of his games. Innovation's play has been as impressive or more so.
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Joneleth
Profile Joined July 2012
Denmark90 Posts
November 06 2013 16:41 GMT
#94
They are a bit late with these updates if they plan to do 9 more of them in 2 days.
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dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
November 06 2013 19:55 GMT
#95
On November 06 2013 03:19 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2013 03:17 Destructicon wrote:
What blows my mind is how good each and every one of these articles is.
After reading the initial batch I thought to myself, that its going to be a tall order just to match those, but each and every one of the articles coming up is just as good if not better in some ways.

Power to you guys, this is some awesome stuff and makes me even more eager for Blizzcon.

yeah, but there are fewer people posting in each one :\

I'm not posting in them much, but I'm reading them all and getting mega-hyped - this is really exceptional work.

I really hope Blizzard utilizes these articles in some way, even though there is likely zero time for them to, since they aren't all out and Blizzard is already all at BlizzCon setting up the event.

It'd be cool if they used the titles that have been given here as player subtitles or something on introduction screens.
189984268
Profile Joined August 2012
Canada299 Posts
November 06 2013 22:17 GMT
#96
gogo sk!
189984268
Profile Joined August 2012
Canada299 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-06 22:20:42
November 06 2013 22:20 GMT
#97
not watch sc2 for a long time
im very excited for this tournament
Goldfish
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
November 07 2013 09:42 GMT
#98
On November 06 2013 07:17 GulpyBlinkeyes wrote:
These previews continue to be incredible. This is how you build hype and construct a storyline.

Blizzard seriously needs to pay TL for the rights to these articles, have someone with a good voice read them over some game footage/b-roll, and play them throughout the tournament. Valve had those cool little video introductions for each team at TI, and I hope Blizz has something similar in store for perpetuating the players' storylines in that way.


I agree. I only started reading some of these articles today and they're all really good.
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sithvincent
Profile Joined July 2013
24 Posts
November 10 2013 11:20 GMT
#99
On November 06 2013 16:21 Daswollvieh wrote:
Still don´t like him. Would like him less, if he ran over Naniwa.


Do you remember that time when Naniwa had an extremely low chance of getting into Blizzcon? When both Trap and Oz is about to knock him out of the race? Guess who took them both out? Soulkey. If you are going to get emotional at least be a grateful fan. Without Soulkey crushing his opponents Naniwa need not even dream of getting into Blizzcon.
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