Incredible show they put on, I enjoyed every second of the grand finales! Awesome to see a nerve wrecked and tired Liquid_HerO struggling his way to the very top! Jawdrop amazing PvT

Tsanibus

Bulgaria1 Post

February 17 2014 15:13 GMT

#103

The moral of this tournament: Toss is OP!

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ElMeanYo

United States1032 Posts

February 17 2014 15:27 GMT

#104

As much as it hurt me to see JD lose to him, I have to tip my hat to Hero. He didn't exactly have an easy time in this tournament. He struggled and sweated out victories vs JD and Polt. He's an emotional player and you can see the toll this tourney took on him. I do really like emotional players who are deeply invested in the moment.

Good job Hero and enjoy that 10K.

HornyHerring

Papua New Guinea1059 Posts

February 17 2014 15:35 GMT

#105

Polt

Parcelleus

Australia1662 Posts

February 17 2014 15:54 GMT

#106

So many sick series in one tournament, and what a final !

webas

75 Posts

February 17 2014 15:57 GMT

#107

Heroes imortals HAS to be nerfed... So basically polt is strongest terran, because innovation got stomped by hero. Wow.. Well this tournament had probably most strongest matches ever!

Titusmaster6

United States5937 Posts

February 17 2014 16:13 GMT

#108

Gotta say the games this tournament were top notch, so many great moments.

Glenn313

United States475 Posts

February 17 2014 16:28 GMT

#109

He earned it. He fought through so many hard games.

Penguinator

United States837 Posts

February 17 2014 16:32 GMT

#110

The final day of iem was 15 hours long. It started at 6am for me... I didn't sleep the night before, expecting the tournament to be over around mid-afternoon. I stayed up through the entire thing and watched every game, and all I can say is... worth it

ensign_lee

United States1178 Posts

February 17 2014 16:38 GMT

#111

Freaking Game 5 vs Jaedong. Man...I could not believe the ungodly micro involved to come back from that position.

littlewisp

United States26 Posts

February 17 2014 16:38 GMT

#112

I've been a fan of HerO for a long time. It's always super hard to watch him play, because you feel so crushed when he loses (because you know how badly he's hurting) -- so this was just perfect. I made it in time to see him vs Jaedong and Polt, and man, by the end of it I was shouting at the computer screen! I was so excited for his wins that even my buddy who is a diehard terran player was happy (I got a few high fives, heheh).

HerO fighting!!!

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

February 17 2014 16:38 GMT

#113

Even the chance to attend to the IEM Grand Final is so heavily fought for, its pretty amazing. But as awesome as IEMs promise to be this year. I miss the times only a few Koreans attended to fight through the masses of foreigners.

geript

10024 Posts

February 17 2014 17:09 GMT

#114

Despite Toss being a bit ahead, this was an amazing tournament start to finish. It proves IMO that a race being a bit ahead on the power curve means nothing. The most important thing is learning how to adapt your play to attack the inherent weaknesses of another race and the opposing player in order to succeed. So much potential for games of the year here; I wasn't able to watch some bits but the Polt v Stardust games were absolutely amazing. Top to bottom quite frankly one of the best tournaments I've ever watched. Just fantastic. I can't wait to see how patience develops. Gratz to the top 8 and Hero for sealing the deal.

SixStrings

Germany2046 Posts

February 17 2014 17:14 GMT

#115

Best tourny in a long, long time and a well deserved victory.

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

February 17 2014 17:16 GMT

#116

On February 17 2014 22:39 teddyoojo wrote:
shellbot did u lose a sig bet to darkhoarse?

Kind of.

Proseat

Germany5113 Posts

February 17 2014 17:44 GMT

#117

Excellent! Congrats HerO! <3

He always rallies when I turn off the live stream, so I did when JD tied their semi final match, haha.

jakethesnake

Canada4948 Posts

February 17 2014 17:47 GMT

#118

Congrats to HerO!

This tournament was so amazing that I didn't want to move from watching even to grab dinner! I was feeling a bit tired of TvP coming into the tournament, but even though the tournament was mostly TvP, I couldn't get enough even at the end. It was an amazing show of skill.

Still, I'm sad jjakji didn't win the whole thing. Guess he is saving it for Katowice where he can get his $100K

Xinzoe

Korea (South)2373 Posts

February 17 2014 18:05 GMT

#119

On February 18 2014 02:47 jakethesnake wrote:
Congrats to HerO!

This tournament was so amazing that I didn't want to move from watching even to grab dinner! I was feeling a bit tired of TvP coming into the tournament, but even though the tournament was mostly TvP, I couldn't get enough even at the end. It was an amazing show of skill.

Still, I'm sad jjakji didn't win the whole thing. Guess he is saving it for Katowice where he can get his $100K

Never give up on the one and only JockG

Ballack

Norway821 Posts

February 17 2014 18:14 GMT

#120

Simply an amazing tournament!