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Road to BlizzCon #5 - Acer.MMA - WCS 2014 - Page 3

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Lemonayd
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States745 Posts
October 22 2014 03:43 GMT
#41
Is MMA still planning on retiring after this year concludes?
Popkiller
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
3415 Posts
October 22 2014 03:43 GMT
#42
On October 22 2014 10:56 iTzSnypah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2014 10:12 Bagration wrote:
MarineKing is one of the legends, one of the greatest players of Starcraft 2. In WoL, he was 2nd best Terran after Mvp, literally. A timeless champion.

I fixed this for you, I hope you like it.


this is a pretty good joke.
negativedge
Profile Joined December 2011
4279 Posts
October 22 2014 03:43 GMT
#43
people forget that MMA was always the fan favorite in his matches against MVP, not the other way around.
Popkiller
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
3415 Posts
October 22 2014 03:47 GMT
#44
On October 22 2014 12:43 negativedge wrote:
people forget that MMA was always the fan favorite in his matches against MVP, not the other way around.


noo, definitely not true. People were mad when he 3-0ed Mvp in the Blizzard Cup. Check out the thread.

Even Artosis sounded completely biased and disappointed haha.
Ruyn
Profile Joined August 2014
Switzerland17 Posts
October 22 2014 03:56 GMT
#45
On October 22 2014 12:43 Lemonayd wrote:
Is MMA still planning on retiring after this year concludes?


He said that he will play for at least one more year.
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
October 22 2014 04:02 GMT
#46
On October 22 2014 12:47 Popkiller wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2014 12:43 negativedge wrote:
people forget that MMA was always the fan favorite in his matches against MVP, not the other way around.


noo, definitely not true. People were mad when he 3-0ed Mvp in the Blizzard Cup. Check out the thread.

Even Artosis sounded completely biased and disappointed haha.


He was a fan favorite against Mvp during the summer (GSTL, MLG, GSL October), because while Mvp was ridiculously dominant, Mvp was seen as a "boring champion" (crazy, right?) and MMA was the exciting underdog.

By late 2011, people really started to respect Mvp's dominance, plus in the Blizz Cup series only G1 was a longer game - games 2 and 3 were short timing attacks by MMA, and people were upset that such a potentially great Bo5 ended so quickly
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
October 22 2014 04:25 GMT
#47
I love MMA. One of the coolest guys I have ever met.
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8240 Posts
October 22 2014 04:25 GMT
#48
If someone wants to reply to me here or PM, what was the truth behind the SlayerS scandal? BoxeR was a jerk, MMA was the cancer in the team, Alicia and Ryung were turning on each other, etc etc.? I stopped following it back then because it was simply progressing too fast and the information was all over the place.
Siskoz
Profile Joined September 2013
Russian Federation48 Posts
October 22 2014 04:29 GMT
#49
Well, i'm pretty sure that MMA can beat anyone in his half of the bracket. The most difficult part before final will be ro8.
God bless you MMA!
Jampackedeon
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2053 Posts
October 22 2014 04:37 GMT
#50
I'm actually baffled, even though I've closely followed Starcraft 2 since just after the beta and I never felt like the shame was on MMA, who has never done anything but give it his all. To me, the drama brought by Jessica (and I guess Boxer himself) was just completely outrageous and killed an amazing team. I was happy that Acer picked up so many of their great players and that MMA was brought back.

He's certainly back in top form, and I hope he can walk the road to a Blizzcon championship that he started so long ago....
xenoZhang
Profile Joined July 2012
China142 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-22 05:03:18
October 22 2014 05:02 GMT
#51
tbh, i like the last year's article more...
MMA from what I see, is always the protagonist and fan favored against MVP and Team MVP, this article goes little too far to portray a hero/antihero theme..

I have never try to dig deep for the Slayers drama, since Boxer and MMA are two of my favorite player and Slayers is my all time favorite esports team :/
toss is op is op is op ( ̄へ ̄) || Slayers MMA / BOXER / NESTEA / PARTING / DRG / F91 / COMM
Gwavajuice
Profile Joined June 2014
France1810 Posts
October 22 2014 06:27 GMT
#52
Big thanks to Acer (and Kaoru) to have recruited MMA and allowed him to rebuild himself. He seems happy now, always nice and playing well, it's really cool to have him at Blizzcon.

It would be surprising if he won the whole thing though, but the MMA from 2011 could have crushed any of the 15 others, so who knows?
Dear INno and all the former STX boys.
pure.Wasted
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada4701 Posts
October 22 2014 07:27 GMT
#53
Great article. I got into SC2 after MMA's heyday, so this was a really nice and dramatic recap!

On October 22 2014 09:41 Destructicon wrote:
Alas it was not to be. Internal strife tore apart the mighty team SlayerS: constant fights, bickering, management issues.


Obligatory "thanks for wasting three hours of my life, assholes."
INna Maru-da-FanTa, Bbaby, TY Dream that I'm Flashing you
Dreamer.T
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3584 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-22 07:28:22
October 22 2014 07:27 GMT
#54
For me, MMA, along with Life, will always be the players who denied MVP ultimate glory in the GSL. I will forever root against them because of this, but at the same time, I can't help but admire their skill.
Forever the best, IMMvp <3
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3748 Posts
October 22 2014 07:45 GMT
#55
On October 22 2014 16:27 Dreamer.T wrote:
For me, MMA, along with Life, will always be the players who denied MVP ultimate glory in the GSL. I will forever root against them because of this, but at the same time, I can't help but admire their skill.

He is four time champion. This is ultimate glory. But mma beat Mvp when Mvp was probably strongest so there's that.
Dreamer.T
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3584 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-22 08:03:23
October 22 2014 08:00 GMT
#56
On October 22 2014 16:45 nimdil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 22 2014 16:27 Dreamer.T wrote:
For me, MMA, along with Life, will always be the players who denied MVP ultimate glory in the GSL. I will forever root against them because of this, but at the same time, I can't help but admire their skill.

He is four time champion. This is ultimate glory. But mma beat Mvp when Mvp was probably strongest so there's that.


I'm glad you think so too, but 6 time GSL champion would've put Mvp into undisputed Bonjwa can't touch me status. But as you said, it's indeed a feat that MMA beat Prime Mvp, and his rivalry with Mvp is in my top 5 rivalry list.
Forever the best, IMMvp <3
jarod
Profile Joined September 2010
Romania766 Posts
October 22 2014 08:17 GMT
#57
Really nice story, enjoyed reading it.
Also, what a visionary was Boxer with slayers.. just think about it.. top 3 terrans all time in sc2 are MVP,Taeja and MMA, where MMA and Teaja are Boxers creation somehow.
MMA is one of the most consistent players since SC2 came out, they are really few players who won tournaments in every year after their first premier winning (MMA didn`t win any in first year FruitDealer, Nestea, MC).
I guerss MMA is easily in the TOP10 of all SC2 players.
Will be hard for him to win Blizzcon, he is in great shape after wining WCS and DH.. but the lineup for this one is much more stronger. I feel like players like Zest, Innovation and Bomber are the clear favourites.
Maru | Life | herO
Veluvian
Profile Joined December 2011
Bulgaria256 Posts
October 22 2014 08:49 GMT
#58
First match is against Star_Dust - one of the most difficult opponents. Actually both of them are really great, but even for my protoss nature I always supported MMA. Of course what he did 3 years ago cannot be repeated anymore or with any other player. But still MMA proved that he has a psyche for a champion. In general, MMA is situated in the easier semi final bracket and has the chance to make it to the final match, it will be amazing! But the other bracket will be more epic with the chance to see at least two GSL final rematches again. GL!
Oz; MMA; Rain; sOs; Classic, Soulkey, TY, Dark
AxiomBlurr
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
786 Posts
October 22 2014 08:54 GMT
#59
MMA is an amazing player...and I think he can take Stardust...but he wont. The Dust is training hard for this...he is serial cereal serial serious for this Blizz...

Anybody disagree??
Jett.Jack.Alvir
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Canada2250 Posts
October 22 2014 09:04 GMT
#60
On October 22 2014 17:54 AxiomBlurr wrote:
MMA is an amazing player...and I think he can take Stardust...but he wont. The Dust is training hard for this...he is serial cereal serial serious for this Blizz...

Anybody disagree??

I do, but only because I don't like Stardust.

MMA is going to shrug off Stardust of his shoulder and move onto the next competitor.
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