Fire and Ice: TaeJa and HerO - Road to Blizzcon #13 - Page 5

The leaves are falling again, temperatures are low. It won't be long now.

On November 08 2013 05:29 Grumbels wrote:
I wonder if someone wrote a Revival article and is now sulking about it.

The word was spreading across the eSports world that a new dragon had been found. There had been tales of dragons in an ancient game, one of which, a being called Bisu, had once terrorized the world with fearsome harass, micro like none had seen before and a strategic eye that was unparalleled. It wasn't long before the community drew the comparison. "Mini-Bisu" they called him, which roughly translates to "Handsome Toss".

On November 08 2013 06:53 YoloSwaggins wrote:


Nice little hype writeup, but this paragraph borders ridiculousness;) Micro that nobody has seen and strategic eye that was unparalelled... simply not true. He played(plays) a flashy style with good micro and multitasking, and that's it. Also, who really called him mini-bisu? he looks nothing like bisu and isn't similar to him in any way, not even playstyle wise. Honestly, the frequent warp prism usage existed in the scene by whitera and sase earlier than the time hero was around, they didn't play as high level as him though that's for sure.

Another point I would make is that Taeja when liquid signed up, had the most ridiculous win streak in korean weeklies. can't find the correct liquipedia article, but it was the most ridiculously stacked online tournament ever, full of code s+a koreans, and taeja was the bonjwa of that league, winning like 5 or 6 of them. basically everyone knew that he was champion material by the time he got acquired by TL. while the article doesn't directly contradict this, basically the only thing TL did for him was to give him money to travel to tournaments and win them, so nothing miraculous happened there.

Also, the fire/cold theme is not fitting for their personalities at all, only to the seasons they were successful in 2012. In truth Hero is very emotional (warm) and taeja doesn't show much more personality than Innovation or Alive. he is not exactly cold but not hot either. these themes aren't really nails hit on the head

On November 08 2013 07:07 Zaphid wrote:

You must really hate it when people get hyped for something.

Taeja wasn't "obviously champion material", nobody wanted to grab him apart from Liquid, stop making stuff up. He was a faceless terran who had trouble showing his skill in GSL, even though he had some results in GSTL, he was overshadowed by many others at that point.

but neither has won THE single championship that commands the most respect in the world. That one championship used to be Code S, but in a world re-ordered by the WCS system it can only be the WCS Grand Finals.

On November 08 2013 07:20 YoloSwaggins wrote:


yes he was. he was a 17 year old kid who raped code s players and won tournaments with them 5-6 times in a row. it maybe wasn't ovious for you though.