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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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zenkicker
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Cyro
United Kingdom20345 Posts
Flash eliminated Ragnarok, Shine and others to advance to Code S that bloody comma | ||
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BlackGosu
Canada1046 Posts
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9175 Posts
On April 17 2014 09:26 BlackGosu wrote: i say this is TLs fault for publishing that elephant article. kespa players are jinxed! Yep, so jinxed they've won the last 4 GSL's and produced 7/8 finalists. | ||
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Yakikorosu
1203 Posts
On April 17 2014 08:16 Baarn wrote: Too bad Flash got knocked out but I wouldn't mind seeing Shine cheese his way to the final. It would say a lot about the state of things imo. The only state of things relevant to Shine is that if you play a known cheeser and do greedy builds you'll probably lose when he, actually, you know, cheeses you. That's the way it's always been and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Though I have to say the casters were really playing down Shine's skill too much, making it sound like he's the Zerg version of BitByBit and shocked that he could win a macro game. He cheeses more than most, but he's also shown strong macro games plenty of times, including in Code S. For example: | ||
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imrusty269
United States1404 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On April 17 2014 09:32 Scarecrow wrote: Yep, so jinxed they've won the last 4 GSL's and produced 7/8 finalists. With Soo taking up 25% of GSL finalists slots the real question is why are KT Zergs so good at SC2? | ||
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WiggyB
United Kingdom103 Posts
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forsakeNXE
Germany539 Posts
 Hwaiting! | ||
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CYFAWS
Sweden275 Posts
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On April 17 2014 10:05 Yakikorosu wrote: The only state of things relevant to Shine is that if you play a known cheeser and do greedy builds you'll probably lose when he, actually, you know, cheeses you. That's the way it's always been and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Though I have to say the casters were really playing down Shine's skill too much, making it sound like he's the Zerg version of BitByBit and shocked that he could win a macro game. He cheeses more than most, but he's also shown strong macro games plenty of times, including in Code S. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_heZoRVmFo Solution: https://www.youtube.com/user/expKR/videos | ||
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tomastaz
United States976 Posts
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Amaroq64
United States75 Posts
Just like every other tournament, it's gonna be a protoss building up a death ball, a-moving it over the zerg's army while he eats popcorn, and then he'll get up on stage and receive his first place cash prize and trophy. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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TaShadan
Germany1982 Posts
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On April 17 2014 09:32 Scarecrow wrote: Yep, so jinxed they've won the last 4 GSL's and produced 7/8 finalists. None of those are bw gods though. The original point of the article was, that early switchers (MC, Mvp, Nestea and so on) were mediocre in bw and so the skill of the guys who dominated bw would directly transition and they would dominate SC2 as well. That point is proven wrong at this point, with neither Flash nor Stork nor Fantasy nor Bisu having a ro8 run after more than a year. That is what was rightfully critisized about the Elephant article. The kespa players who switched had the best infrastructure and some of the best RTS talent on the planet, it was clear that they would make a huge impact, though a bit of their GSL results might have to do with a lot of talent outside of kespa travelling to WCS EU (San/MMA/JJakji/MC/Mvp) or NA(Bomber/Taeja/Hyun/HerO/Revival/Polt). But really, the article itself has been wrong at this point, neither do the bw legends dominate nor are there 300 pros and semipros, that can be named better than Maru/Life/Bomber/PartinG for example. | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9175 Posts
On April 17 2014 18:30 Xoronius wrote: None of those are bw gods though. The original point of the article was, that early switchers (MC, Mvp, Nestea and so on) were mediocre in bw and so the skill of the guys who dominated bw would directly transition and they would dominate SC2 as well. That point is proven wrong at this point, with neither Flash nor Stork nor Fantasy nor Bisu having a ro8 run after more than a year. That is what was rightfully critisized about the Elephant article. The kespa players who switched had the best infrastructure and some of the best RTS talent on the planet, it was clear that they would make a huge impact, though a bit of their GSL results might have to do with a lot of talent outside of kespa travelling to WCS EU (San/MMA/JJakji/MC/Mvp) or NA(Bomber/Taeja/Hyun/HerO/Revival/Polt). But really, the article itself has been wrong at this point, neither do the bw legends dominate nor are there 300 pros and semipros, that can be named better than Maru/Life/Bomber/PartinG for example. Did I mention the article? Did he say the BW gods were jinxed? He said 'kespa players' were jinxed and I refuted that. Then for some reason you launch into a completely unnecessary spiel on why the elephant article is wrong, which has been written ad infinitum elsewhere. Well played. | ||
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On April 17 2014 18:51 Scarecrow wrote: Did I mention the article? Did he say the BW gods were jinxed? He said 'kespa players' were jinxed and I refuted that. Then for some reason you launch into a completely unnecessary spiel on why the elephant article is wrong, which has been written ad infinitum elsewhere. Well played. I'm not trying to start a discussion, I'm trying to clarify. And with mentioning the article, it is to assume that he implied top bw players instead of just kespa. Especially since Flash got eliminated by two other kespa players. So, yeah if you make a passive aggressive comment towards someone mentioning the article, people will talk about the article. Shouldn't be that surprising. | ||
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igay
Australia1178 Posts
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