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[Code S] Finals Recap - Page 4

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LeLfe
Profile Joined February 2011
France3160 Posts
October 06 2014 12:43 GMT
#61
glad for INnoVation but really didn't enjoy the finals, meh games..
Writer for Red bull (Fr) and Iron Squid (En/Fr) @ClemLeLfe on twitter
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
October 06 2014 13:13 GMT
#62
On October 06 2014 20:47 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 06 2014 09:30 sadiroTnuda wrote:
Congrats (T)INnoVation, now it's time to prove you're the true heir to (T)BoxeR (and learn nothing from beating (Z)YellOw)


Innovation would need a LOT more to be compared to Boxer. And by a LOT i mean... A LOT

No one can compare to BoxeR though. I think he means more the SKT terran lineage
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
October 06 2014 13:56 GMT
#63
On October 06 2014 22:13 GumBa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 06 2014 20:47 FFW_Rude wrote:
On October 06 2014 09:30 sadiroTnuda wrote:
Congrats (T)INnoVation, now it's time to prove you're the true heir to (T)BoxeR (and learn nothing from beating (Z)YellOw)


Innovation would need a LOT more to be compared to Boxer. And by a LOT i mean... A LOT

No one can compare to BoxeR though. I think he means more the SKT terran lineage


I know but no one can compare innovation to boxer.
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
fireforce7
Profile Joined June 2010
United States334 Posts
October 06 2014 17:35 GMT
#64
great finals between 2 great players. Sucks that soO's king of silver reign continues...
I'm terranfying
fishjie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1519 Posts
October 06 2014 19:53 GMT
#65
i was really hoping soo would win here. this is devastating and depressing especially after the dreamhack loss to solar too
sadiroTnuda
Profile Blog Joined October 2014
United States10 Posts
October 06 2014 20:23 GMT
#66
I know but no one can compare innovation to boxer.


As someone who contributed to the development of professional Starcraft in Korea, obviously, no one can compare to Innovation to BoxeR. As a professional Broodwar player, however, after beating Yellow in the Coca-Cola OSL and 1st KGPA tour, Boxer spent the rest of his career mining silver. In fact, the only player to ever collect as many OSL silvers as BoxeR was... Fantasy. So, yeah, the SKT Terran lineage. It's only a "great" legacy, if you squint at it cross-eyed.

Obviously, there was no way you'd get that from what I originally posted. Sorry.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
October 06 2014 21:40 GMT
#67
On October 07 2014 05:23 sadiroTnuda wrote:
Show nested quote +
I know but no one can compare innovation to boxer.


As someone who contributed to the development of professional Starcraft in Korea, obviously, no one can compare to Innovation to BoxeR. As a professional Broodwar player, however, after beating Yellow in the Coca-Cola OSL and 1st KGPA tour, Boxer spent the rest of his career mining silver. In fact, the only player to ever collect as many OSL silvers as BoxeR was... Fantasy. So, yeah, the SKT Terran lineage. It's only a "great" legacy, if you squint at it cross-eyed.

Obviously, there was no way you'd get that from what I originally posted. Sorry.


Mining silver and beeing featured more times in pimpest plays that any other terrans combined. Boxer isn't just a first place terran. He is also an innventor of a LOT of thing. Creative mind and killer practice partner :p
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
Evil_Sheep
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 07 2014 03:32 GMT
#68
This recap doesn't do justice to how hilariously awful these games were. Inno still couldn't hold a simple roach bust even after scouting it both times, but his answer was just to cheese soO before he could even drop a roach warren. This finals was basically a competition to see who could throw harder... and once again soO showed this is the one department where he is second to no one.

On the bright side, order is restored in Korea as terrans finally retake their throne. Hard to believe it's been more than two years and ten seasons since Mvp, the last terran champion! Innovation finally avenges his loss to SK and soO, unbelievably, prolongs a run of wretched failure that has no parallel in any sport or esport.
pedduck
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Thailand468 Posts
October 07 2014 06:42 GMT
#69
I am glad to see terran is coming back. Make me want to play again .
Anyway, no one can compare to Boxer, I can confirm that.
Vari
Profile Joined September 2010
United States532 Posts
October 07 2014 07:14 GMT
#70
On October 07 2014 12:32 Evil_Sheep wrote:
Innovation finally avenges his loss to SK and soO, unbelievably, prolongs a run of wretched failure that has no parallel in any sport or esport.


buffalo bills in the early 90s
Stroke Me Lady Fame
Evil_Sheep
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada902 Posts
October 07 2014 07:51 GMT
#71
On October 07 2014 16:14 Vari wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 07 2014 12:32 Evil_Sheep wrote:
Innovation finally avenges his loss to SK and soO, unbelievably, prolongs a run of wretched failure that has no parallel in any sport or esport.


buffalo bills in the early 90s

Haha nice one. Ominously for soO, the Bills went into a tailspin after losing 4 straight superbowls and never made it to another one. It's impossible that soO is not a broken man after losing in 5 straight finals in the past year. Maybe, like the Bills, that was his last chance.
GrayFox90
Profile Joined January 2013
Malaysia23 Posts
October 07 2014 08:15 GMT
#72
awww no more delicious Terran tears
There is only one good: knowledge, and one evil: ignorance.
TerranOwnsAll
Profile Joined January 2014
359 Posts
October 07 2014 17:45 GMT
#73
Next time SoO makes it to the finals, he needs to pretend he's still in the semi's that for some reason there's 2 rounds of semi finals to finally take home that gold!
Why are you SOOOO Godlike until you come to the finals, are you cursed?!?
SoO, your mental block is bigger then any player I have heard of in both SC Broodwar and SC2.
Man, I miss how dominant seige tanks were in SC1. Wish they would bring that back in SC2
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10141 Posts
October 08 2014 00:38 GMT
#74
This time however INnoVation would not be denied. All the desolating defeats and all the hearbreaking losses had finally changed him. He was less predictable and became willing to change it up, to play it safe when the situation called for it and to be cheesy when an opening presented itself. He became safer: much more willing to scout and asses his situation while less prone to overextend. Most of all his composure under pressure had improved. He would no longer falter and fall with everything on the line.

Game 3
For the following game on King Sejong Station, INnoVation decided enough was enough. He to a much more defensive style,

I see that Team Liquid still refuses to have an editor checking the articles before publishing x(
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Dapper_Cad
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom964 Posts
October 08 2014 13:21 GMT
#75
Nice recap, really unhappy that I missed it.

If we notice problems in the text we should pm ... teamliquid esports?

+ Show Spoiler +

the armies of Aiur were mere smothering husks in space
probably not in the matter he imagined
But he is never making short-term prediction, everyone of his prediction are based on fundenmentals, but he doesn't exactly know when it will happen... So using these kind of narrowed "who-is-right" empirical analysis makes little sense.
Havik_
Profile Joined November 2011
United States5585 Posts
October 08 2014 13:33 GMT
#76
This is soO's third second place finish in a row? Or is it his fourth? I've lost count now. haha. KING OF KONGS
"An opinion is only as good as the evidence that backs it up."- William O'Malley, S.J.
-Celestial-
Profile Joined September 2011
United Kingdom3867 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-08 13:45:30
October 08 2014 13:44 GMT
#77
On October 07 2014 12:32 Evil_Sheep wrote:
Hard to believe it's been more than two years and ten seasons since Mvp, the last terran champion!


Its been a long time. They reached the same number of GOM Code S level competitions without a winner as Protoss suffered between MC and Seed, 9 competitions without a win (though more time because of way fewer Code S competitions these days, I miss the days of a bunch of Code S every year ).

Another interesting thing is that the last time Terran won was right before the Protoss losing streak was broken by Seed.


Only race to go through a period without an equivalent dry patch now is Zerg, they're current on their longest streak of 5 competitions since Soulkey won (previous streak was 4 without a win I think). Which is strange considering Zerg actually has a similar medals total to Protoss.



Anyway, feel so bad for soO. The guy deserves to win Blizzcon.
"Protoss simultaneously feels unbeatably strong and unwinnably weak." - kcdc
lailaiwd
Profile Joined October 2012
United States65 Posts
October 08 2014 18:19 GMT
#78
I think some other old folks like me would have realized that Soo was the guy who knocked Mvp out of code A and sent him down a deteriorating path. These consecutive second places might just be the curse planted by Mvp. Now that Innovation finishes it against a Zerg, it definitely fulfills the Major prophecy to every extent. Remember how Life is also failing now, lol.
In Mvp I trust.
Axxis
Profile Joined May 2010
United States133 Posts
October 08 2014 20:24 GMT
#79
I wondered if Innovation would ever have a chance to make it back to the finals. He seemed much better than a one season wonder. I knew he would be code S material for a long time coming but I wasn't so sure about code S champion. Glad to see him back on top. Innovation, more so than anyone else seems to play so much better with confidence. When this guy has his mind right he's probably the scariest player in code S.
What we obtain too cheaply; we esteem too lightly. It is in dearness only that gives everything it's value.
Locke-
Profile Joined December 2011
499 Posts
October 09 2014 23:15 GMT
#80
On October 09 2014 05:24 Axxis wrote:
I wondered if Innovation would ever have a chance to make it back to the finals. He seemed much better than a one season wonder. I knew he would be code S material for a long time coming but I wasn't so sure about code S champion. Glad to see him back on top. Innovation, more so than anyone else seems to play so much better with confidence. When this guy has his mind right he's probably the scariest player in code S.

Never doubt Innovation!
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