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The Iconoclast: EG.aLive - Road to Blizzcon #12 - Page 5

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R3DT1D3
Profile Joined January 2012
285 Posts
November 07 2013 17:12 GMT
#81
Sad to say, the only times I ever cheered for Alive was if he was the last Terran in a tournament and in Proleague.
McBrungus
Profile Joined April 2011
United States265 Posts
November 07 2013 17:21 GMT
#82
The only problem with these articles is that they're making me want to root for every single player.

This one might be the best so far, excellent work!
So I says to Mabel, I says...
leakey
Profile Joined May 2013
United States21 Posts
November 07 2013 17:31 GMT
#83
Loving these writeups, but this oozes with false hype. Dude has never displayed the traits of a Coyote or whatever sort of spirit animal you want to call him. Just another polite, mechanical Korean Terran with the interview personality of a brick. Heck, just call him a brick.
EnanoMaldito
Profile Joined February 2013
Argentina39 Posts
November 07 2013 17:35 GMT
#84
I'm not the greatest SC fan, I watch it occasionally and more as a casual thing than as an actual hobby.

But is this really the way to treat a player who is among the 16 best in the world? The article basically says: he's mediocre, don't cheer for him, he sucks.

This is even more painful to read when other players are praised without stop even if they are not in their best form. The community I belong to would never do this to a player on a professional level, this is just... sad, that you treat a player this way.
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
November 07 2013 17:36 GMT
#85
On November 08 2013 02:31 leakey wrote:
Loving these writeups, but this oozes with false hype. Dude has never displayed the traits of a Coyote or whatever sort of spirit animal you want to call him. Just another polite, mechanical Korean Terran with the interview personality of a brick. Heck, just call him a brick.

YOU'RE A BRICK
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300ml
Profile Joined January 2011
United States32 Posts
November 07 2013 18:12 GMT
#86
On November 08 2013 02:35 EnanoMaldito wrote:
I'm not the greatest SC fan, I watch it occasionally and more as a casual thing than as an actual hobby.

But is this really the way to treat a player who is among the 16 best in the world? The article basically says: he's mediocre, don't cheer for him, he sucks.

This is even more painful to read when other players are praised without stop even if they are not in their best form. The community I belong to would never do this to a player on a professional level, this is just... sad, that you treat a player this way.


Being at wcs finals doesn't automatically make you top 16 in the world. Also I don't think the article is implying he sucks and don't cheer for him. It is saying don't count him out because he has the ability to knock anyone out in his best form.



but yeah my personal opinion? Few of these guys are nowhere near top 16 in the world and will get smashed.
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
November 07 2013 18:23 GMT
#87
best one so far
TL+ Member
VKCA
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada391 Posts
November 07 2013 18:39 GMT
#88
alive has the worst overall winrate of anybody going to blizzcon (according to tlpd) at 55%
Larkin
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United Kingdom7161 Posts
November 07 2013 18:43 GMT
#89
Go Alive!
https://www.twitch.tv/ttalarkin - streams random stuff, high level teamleague, maybe even heroleague
Assirra
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium4169 Posts
November 07 2013 18:44 GMT
#90
On November 07 2013 16:02 Shellshock wrote:
aLive leads Polt 14-12 in head to head and beat him in WCS AM this year 2-1. Definitely don't count aLive out

That is actually pretty impressive considering Polt's TvT.
Wintex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Norway16838 Posts
November 07 2013 18:50 GMT
#91
I just lost to aLive while doing my placement matches on NA. GL HF ~~~~~ He slayed me with toss.
The Bomber boy
DiLiGu
Profile Joined December 2011
United States185 Posts
November 07 2013 19:01 GMT
#92
Great writeup, I'm loving this series.

The biggest fan favorites (cept MVP and JD and MC... damn there's a lot) are still not done!? AND GAMES START TOMORROW!
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
November 07 2013 19:30 GMT
#93
On November 08 2013 03:50 Wintex wrote:
I just lost to aLive while doing my placement matches on NA. GL HF ~~~~~ He slayed me with toss.

So Alive > Bomber kk
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igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
November 07 2013 19:53 GMT
#94
he's the only one that i'm really surprised to see in the top 16
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
St3MoR
Profile Joined November 2002
Spain3256 Posts
November 07 2013 20:32 GMT
#95
excellent writeup, nonetheless as good as he might be i never liked alive so i just hope he doesn't crush my favourite >________<
Prophet in TL of the Makoto0124 ways
Yakikorosu
Profile Joined March 2013
1203 Posts
November 07 2013 22:14 GMT
#96
aLive is the ultimate example of a player where you have to let his play speak for itself, in part because he's the ultimate bad interview combo: incredibly soft-spoken, extremely unemotional AND seemingly shy. The memory I always have of him is from when he played MMA in Iron Squid I (I think it was in the semifinals?). MMA won the series, but they had a match on Belshir Beach Winter where MMA tried his trademark drop-heavy style and aLive completely crushed him playing the same style. I seem to recall MMA even saying after that game that he gave up trying to use drop play against aLive because he was better at it than MMA was. And this was MMA at the height of his powers...
[17]Purple
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom3489 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-07 22:20:21
November 07 2013 22:19 GMT
#97
On November 08 2013 02:35 EnanoMaldito wrote:
I'm not the greatest SC fan, I watch it occasionally and more as a casual thing than as an actual hobby.

But is this really the way to treat a player who is among the 16 best in the world? The article basically says: he's mediocre, don't cheer for him, he sucks.

This is even more painful to read when other players are praised without stop even if they are not in their best form. The community I belong to would never do this to a player on a professional level, this is just... sad, that you treat a player this way.


I didn't read it as that at all. I saw it as pointing out an obvious underdog that isn't even a fan favourite, someone that not a lot of people rally behind for a multitude of reasons. There are obviously more players that have more fans and I would probably bet the aLive has the smallest fanbase in comparison to the rest of the 16 players going to Blizzcon.

He doesn't suck and can definitely take out a good portion of the players going to Blizzcon, it's just that he doesn't have a huge fanbase behind him like others and the article reflects and laments on it.
"Turn Disadvantages into Disadvantages" and "Collect Telephones". The secrets of Chinese success.
GWdeathscythe
Profile Joined November 2012
Brazil1091 Posts
November 07 2013 22:59 GMT
#98
"Alive doesn’t specialize in winning championships or engaging audiences: he specializes in ruining dreams and pissing us off." That made me rofl so hard!!!
Nice writeup, you made me decide to cheer for alive if JD gets knocked out, the logic is: I get pissed because my favourite player lost, everybody shall feel the same.
JD is BONJWA!
Obeast96
Profile Joined October 2012
United States106 Posts
November 08 2013 00:27 GMT
#99
"Alive doesn’t specialize in winning championships or engaging audiences" Only the brilliance of TeamLiquid writers could manage to turn a "mediocre and emotionless" Korean Terran into the ultimate super villain. Even I remember the bitter taste in my mouth when Alive slew the mighty Scarlett. Definitely hope for Naniwa to win, but would be really happy if Alive takes some names, slays some monsters, and cook up bloody noses.
pookums
Profile Joined December 2010
151 Posts
November 08 2013 03:38 GMT
#100
This is the article that is supposed to generate hype for Alive? I must be misreading it then. I see paragraphs talking about how he is mediocre, has no emotion and a penchant for eliminating fan favorites. There's basically nothing talking about his qualification for Blizzcon because it was so boring. He mostly beat the dregs of the NA scene (big deal) and looked bad while doing it. I don't blame the author though. He definitely had the hardest task of them all.
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