Fire and Ice: TaeJa and HerO - Road to Blizzcon #13 - Page 6

On November 08 2013 07:22 Aunvilgod wrote:


Now that is just absolute bullshit. GSL is still the hardest tournament by far.

On November 08 2013 07:57 astray71 wrote:
Hero vs Taeja finals. Calling it now!

On November 08 2013 07:58 aRyuujin wrote:
don't get me wrong, I love taeja so much, but i hate how people say that taeja was like a hardcore fan pick before liquid. he had already made his name with ro4 code a, and going into code s, and 2 GSTL allkills ALL before he even joined liquid. It just feels like people disregard the amount of work slayers' put into him, and that's really sad because the biggest reason he wins anything today is that eye of boxer picking him up

On November 08 2013 08:06 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Shoulda talked about Taeja's bullshit run through IPTL, it was something crazy like 25-2 against top Korean teams. That's where the Summer of Taeja really started.

Meanwhile, the online IPL Team Arena had become a massacre with entire teams falling to TaeJa alone.

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

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 08:38 astray71 wrote:


You obviously haven't been keeping up with Hero since he first joined Liquid... Go watch Day9 Daily #349. Day9 explains it quite nicely.

As for Taeja, he won 6 out of 7 ESV Korean weeklies, but when he left SlayerS, Liquid was the only one that tried to sign him. Everyone knew he had talent, but no one else attempted to pick him up. Even Nazgul said it (I think it was in Liquid Rising but not sure) that Taeja was the biggest acquisition in skill because Liquid's philosophy was to help people with talent flourish.

Fire and ice is just something to sound cool and it's only used to hype them up so I don't understand why you're so touchy on it. Perhaps you would have preferred "Team Taeja" and "Team Hero"?