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On June 24 2014 11:04 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2014 09:31 Kimb3r wrote:
I said that Trap is going to win this.. another proove, that KeSPA Koreans play on another level than EU- or AM Koreans. nvm that RorO and TY didn't even make the ro8 at the last DH. Or that Stork and Armani failed to get far at HSC. Or the failings of soO, Dear, and Stats at the last MLG. Even Trap himself struggled against nearly everyone except Polt and had the big advantage of starting in the pools. Meanwhile, WCS AM's Byul comes back home to Korea and immediately rockets to the upper echelon of the SPL rankings and into code S. Hmm...
Or SKT stars Rain & Classic knocked out by Polt himself at IEM. But he is right *this* time.
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Crazy... 2-1ing everyone except for Polt, whom he 6-0'd...... Wtf? XD
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Are the vods out yet? I can't seem to find them on MLG.
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Trap is good. The 6-0 vs Polt overall was frighteningly lopsided though. Damn that was not expected.
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On June 24 2014 13:15 Shinta) wrote:
Crazy... 2-1ing everyone except for Polt, whom he 6-0'd...... Wtf? XD
Sometimes, you just have a guy's number. We had a whole thread devoted to it a few weeks ago. I would say most of the people Trap loses to would get smacked by Polt in a tournament match. But once in a while, mindgames simply favor the otherwise-underdog player.
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United States1225 Posts
On June 24 2014 08:32 AlternativeEgo wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2014 08:22 Obeast96 wrote:
Lol. Who else caught the East Coast article-bomb at the bottom? I'm guessing the answer to be somewhere in between most and everyone
Lol. I had to throw it in there. I'm a New York guy, so I'm hardcore East Coast.
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MLG still havent added VODs from championship day................
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On June 23 2014 18:23 negativedge wrote:Show nested quote +On June 23 2014 18:12 Dingodile wrote:On June 23 2014 18:06 boxerfred wrote:
Scarlett confirmed best foreigner. Congrats to Trap! By that logic, only Snute and Scarlett are fighting about best foreigner. Vortix has never the opportunity here he never visits a tournament (this year) because of his study. I think that's pretty clearly the best foreigner order, though: 1) Scarlett, 2) Snute, 3) Vortix. Four is maybe Harstem?
What about Huk? He's consistently one of the top-ranked foreigners in every tournament he enters.
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On June 24 2014 11:04 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2014 09:31 Kimb3r wrote:
I said that Trap is going to win this.. another proove, that KeSPA Koreans play on another level than EU- or AM Koreans. nvm that RorO and TY didn't even make the ro8 at the last DH. Or that Stork and Armani failed to get far at HSC. Or the failings of soO, Dear, and Stats at the last MLG. Even Trap himself struggled against nearly everyone except Polt and had the big advantage of starting in the pools. Meanwhile, WCS AM's Byul comes back home to Korea and immediately rockets to the upper echelon of the SPL rankings and into code S. Hmm...
Byul is 3-3 in SPL, that is not quite "rocketing the upper echenlon of SPL rankings". And his run in code S was not especially impressive. If I follow your logic, it would mean that a WCS AM runner up is just worth a 1-4-last-of-his-group-elimination in Code S Ro32 
Anyway, this whole discussion is pointless until all these players regularily compete in the same tournaments. The rest is just personal opinions and tastes. I just find it sad that some people fail to see how high the skill is in SPL atm, the level of play displayed by Zest, soO, herO, Maru and such is just so crazy. Come on guys the Vods are free on youtube, no one should miss them
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So twitch never shut down the guy taking money for restreaming MLG. That's pretty shameless. They'll ban you in minutes for streaming an unreleased game.
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On June 24 2014 03:16 Yorkie wrote:
Hundreds of players in the event, more than half the recap is about a player who got fifth/sixth. Well played Trap!
That's strange, I see no mention of Stardust or Ragnarok. It seems some of that salt may have gotten in your eyes.
Anyway Trap was the best player and deserved to win, Polt and Violet did better than I expected and Scarlett probably salvaged a lot of face for the tournament with her impressive run and race switching shenanigans.
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On June 24 2014 16:27 Gwavajuice wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2014 11:04 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:On June 24 2014 09:31 Kimb3r wrote:
I said that Trap is going to win this.. another proove, that KeSPA Koreans play on another level than EU- or AM Koreans. nvm that RorO and TY didn't even make the ro8 at the last DH. Or that Stork and Armani failed to get far at HSC. Or the failings of soO, Dear, and Stats at the last MLG. Even Trap himself struggled against nearly everyone except Polt and had the big advantage of starting in the pools. Meanwhile, WCS AM's Byul comes back home to Korea and immediately rockets to the upper echelon of the SPL rankings and into code S. Hmm... Byul is 3-3 in SPL, that is not quite "rocketing the upper echenlon of SPL rankings". And his run in code S was not especially impressive. If I follow your logic, it would mean that a WCS AM runner up is just worth a 1-4-last-of-his-group-elimination in Code S Ro32 Anyway, this whole discussion is pointless until all these players regularily compete in the same tournaments. The rest is just personal opinions and tastes. I just find it sad that some people fail to see how high the skill is in SPL atm, the level of play displayed by Zest, soO, herO, Maru and such is just so crazy. Come on guys the Vods are free on youtube, no one should miss them
That's just for round 4 so far, last round he was 6-1. Byul has consistently been near the top of the full ranking. I mean, sOs had a terrible round too and he's also way up there now. So perhaps you should take your own advice and tune into SPL more
With how much people seem to think code S automatically = god and how some tend to view AM/EU Koreans as a bunch of scrubs that just ran away from "real" competition, I would say going from code B to S in one season is still notable enough. Not to mention, he got the group of death in the ro32.
The point I'm making is that Byul probably isn't alone. Properly motivated, I'm sure a lot of the AM/EU Koreans could come back and have some degree of success in Korea. I don't believe it to be this exalted rank of elites outside of the very consistent top-tier. This would be Maru, Zest, herO, Rain, sOs, Soulkey, soO, PartinG, Bogus etc. Even then, there's no telling how well most of them would do in a foreign event (which is the source of this argument) outside of Bogus and herO who have already proven themselves. Wouldn't surprise me at all if you dropped Zest in the next DH and he got his ass kicked. It's just a different beast. A less prestigious beast, but still one that deserves its own type of merit.
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Where those VODS at??? I am hanging to see trap v polt
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Congrats to Protoss..erg.. I mean Trap.
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So sad that i missed the entire event, looks like it was a huge succes?
Loved reading all the people crying and whining in the LR when Scarlett beat DRG (!) with Protoss, beautiful ;D
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On June 25 2014 04:57 SmoKim wrote:
So sad that i missed the entire event, looks like it was a huge succes?
Loved reading all the people crying and whining in the LR when Scarlett beat DRG (!) with Protoss, beautiful ;D
game quality yes
production nah..
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a protoss victory again;; this race so balanced ;;;
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Who cares if Scarlett beat some random scrub playing Pro... Oh my god, DRG?!
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
On June 25 2014 05:41 BadBorz wrote:
a protoss victory again;; this race so balanced ;;;
I guess, when you have Terran, Zerg and Protoss in top-3, it means something.
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