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Snute hype, keeping the foreign dream alive.
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Jjakji showed a lot of heart and skill in his series against Zest. TRUE's game 1 vs. Stork was definitely the most memorable match, and even though he lost to Snute, he displayed some fantastic ZvZ.
One thing the write-up doesn't really touch on is the lag issues that plagued the players all night. TRUE's series against Innovation started with the two players discussing lag in-game, and featured some crazy micro blunders by TRUE. I'm not saying the guy is a TvZ expert, but there's no way latency wasn't involved. Lag obviously played a huge role in Inno's series against Snute, as Inno lost a Reaper to slow Lings off creep which resulted in him losing his FE and being down 0-1 very early on. During that series, Snute would go on to pause the game due to "laggyu."
Hard to really know the extent to which lag influenced the results, but the players obviously had to compete in subpar conditions. I can't for the life of me understand Blizzard's unwillingness to fix this atrocious, glaring issue.
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Glad to see Snute and Innovation pull through.
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Snute is so good it scary  hope he pulls a good one
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oh my god Snute advanced out of a Code S quality group of players o.O
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Would be so cool if Snute wins it all...
But i think zest will just roll everything... god.. he's so op...
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On July 17 2014 20:58 sharkie wrote:
oh my god Snute advanced out of a Code S quality group of players o.O
perhaps now people will stop say "he only beat guys to bad for code a/code s he never would have a chance there etc" like its usual after the hsc wins etc
he just IS code S caliber
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Northern Ireland174 Posts
snute has always been a monster!
Hopefully he goes on to take the whole thing :D
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Stork ?? TRUE ?? Noooh. Good luck to Snute though !
Thanks for link to VODS, RevolutionX.
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Belgica34432 Posts
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On July 17 2014 20:40 pure.Wasted wrote:
Jjakji showed a lot of heart and skill in his series against Zest. TRUE's game 1 vs. Stork was definitely the most memorable match, and even though he lost to Snute, he displayed some fantastic ZvZ.
One thing the write-up doesn't really touch on is the lag issues that plagued the players all night. TRUE's series against Innovation started with the two players discussing lag in-game, and featured some crazy micro blunders by TRUE. I'm not saying the guy is a TvZ expert, but there's no way latency wasn't involved. Lag obviously played a huge role in Inno's series against Snute, as Inno lost a Reaper to slow Lings off creep which resulted in him losing his FE and being down 0-1 very early on. During that series, Snute would go on to pause the game due to "laggyu."
Hard to really know the extent to which lag influenced the results, but the players obviously had to compete in subpar conditions. I can't for the life of me understand Blizzard's unwillingness to fix this atrocious, glaring issue.
If by fixing you mean giving LAN, then Blizzard wont do it because certain ppl would just play the cracked/pirated version of the game...
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On July 17 2014 21:57 Painiyff wrote:
If by fixing you mean giving LAN, then Blizzard wont do it because certain ppl would just play the cracked/pirated version of the game...
I completely disagree. Right now you can play EVERYTHING with the starter version besides 1v1 Ladder, I think LAN-mode now would even get (at least some) more players into the game because all you would have to do is having an battle.net account which is made up in about 3 minutes
We had some LAN's were we played SC2 with up to 8 Players and it was insane fun (we played standard multiplayer maps, not arcade or sth.) but the laggs were a big problem every time because my internet connection is really bad.
I think giving SC2 a LAN ability now would just make sense in almost every case. The only problem for streamers would be that they can only cast tournaments when they are actually at the place where it happens because they can't join a lobby via Internet anymore.
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To get back to Topic:
I did not catch that many games of IEM but the series between TRUE and Stork was really refreshing and entertaining.
Also I'm sorry for Illusion but it would've been a huge surprise if he'd even took a single map tbh, so many good players there.
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SNUTE!! on top of stork and TRUE! congrats
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On July 17 2014 20:34 19Meavis93 wrote:
Snute hype, keeping the foreign dream alive.
g3 vs Stork was so full of hype
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Mixed feelings. Insanely happy SNUTE made it happen, but equally frustrated I missed the games! Vods were sick though - especially that 3hatch speedling hold g3 vs True! The multitasking needed to for soomething like that 0.0 WP!
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Nice to see a foreigner get through. I don't pay much attention to things outside of korea... but I'll be watching!
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EPT
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Meru/2014/IEM/IEM_Shenzhen.jpg)
Zest topped the group, but 
jjakji gave him a real run for his money in their initial series. ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/DarkLordOlli/IEM_Shenzhen_Day_1_results.png)
Liquid'Snute put on a remarkable performance in a group full of Code S Ro16 players. 
