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

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nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3769 Posts
October 22 2014 15:43 GMT
#81
On October 22 2014 23:05 spoonmaster wrote:
Show nested quote +


You need to go 2D

[image loading]




I'm pretty sure Bomber needs to get interjected there somewhere.

Based on Bomber's Law, Bomber it's either:

Bomber > MMA/Mvp/MKP/Polt

or

Bomber < MMA/Mvp/MKP/Polt

recently he is on a rise so I imagine he will crash horribly during BlizzCon.
Siskoz
Profile Joined September 2013
Russian Federation48 Posts
October 22 2014 16:52 GMT
#82
Stardust : MMA 1: 3
Bomber : MMA 2:3
Classic : MMA 1:3
MMA : ? 1:4
VeNoM HaZ Skill
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1528 Posts
October 22 2014 17:57 GMT
#83
On October 23 2014 01:52 Siskoz wrote:
Stardust : MMA 1: 3
Bomber : MMA 2:3
Classic : MMA 1:3
MMA : Innovation 3:4

I believe.
#1 MMA fan! I like you too Taeja. Still patiently waiting for the Crown Prince to become the King.
lantz
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States762 Posts
October 22 2014 20:30 GMT
#84
I have WCS Season 1 player trading cards! who wants an MMA one !
Wuster
Profile Joined May 2011
1974 Posts
October 22 2014 20:31 GMT
#85
On October 22 2014 13:02 Bagration wrote:
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On October 22 2014 12:47 Popkiller wrote:
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


This is true. MMA was the budding underdog darling to save us from boredom (his games against DRG were always fantastic when they were both up-and-coming, capped off with the Blizz Cup game 7 that year).

I don't think MVP got a ton of nostalgia support until the season he beat Squirtle with pure audacity. Artosis always liked MVP though, since he a) was a macro player b) went mech a lot.

On October 22 2014 22:33 TheCzarOfAll wrote:
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On October 22 2014 19:50 Starecat wrote:
Didn't know that Boxer was a asshole.


I think it's less of him being an asshole and more him trying to defend his (now) wife, no matter how ridiculous she and her policies are. She really must've distorted his viewpoints. I think if he had a more solid manager and Jessica would've stayed away from it, everything would've been fine. This is mostly coming from the idea that Boxer is a well-respected player and coach and wouldn't deliberately sabotage his own team without the influence of an outside force.


I dunno, Boxer had a pretty rocky return to SKT-1 as well.

In any case, I don't think we'll ever know exactly what happened with Slayers. What exactly was the 'career-ending' dirt that they never revealed about Alicia for example?

From what we did learn though MMA definitely wasn't innocent with the Slayers drama, nor was he completely to blame. For example, shafting his personal coach was a pretty dick move if true.

In any case, what a lot of people are forgetting was there was an actual conman pretending to represent Intel involved and actually stealing money from the team (IPL admins even caught him trying to siphon off prize money at IPL 3).

Then there's also the entire freeze-out situation with the asshole Startale coach which didn't help either (not the first or last shady incident with the ST coach btw).

So a lot of things came together to destroy Slayers, but if you prefer to say external pressure turned them against each other. Maybe that's the best way to put it than trying to paint one side as villain and another as victim.
TheLittleOtter
Profile Joined December 2013
Norway11 Posts
October 22 2014 21:16 GMT
#86
I cannot believe how much work you guys do with these articles, they're really great!Thank you soO so much! If MMA wins this Blizzcon i will cry tears of joy. Gunna be MMA vs SoO in the finals i feel.


MMA fighting!!
AcerMMA will rule the world!
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-23 00:53:44
October 23 2014 00:51 GMT
#87
Legendary Moments of Starcraft 2:

GSTL Finals Game 9 - Mvp vs. MMA



Blizzard Cup Game 7 - DRG vs. MMA

Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
LynxRage
Profile Joined October 2014
Switzerland5 Posts
October 25 2014 14:41 GMT
#88
Holy shit I never heard about what boxer did to MMA, what bastard. MMA was one of the best players and one of my favorites back in the day, but I feel like he has never quite found his style again. He used to be insane with his multitasking, dropping 6 bases at the same time against Zerg and somehow microing them all. I've never been as impressed anymore when i watch him play. He's still a good solid terran player but he doesn't really have anything special anymore. The magic is missing.
Wuster
Profile Joined May 2011
1974 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-26 04:47:37
October 26 2014 04:40 GMT
#89
MMA's stopped being a championship contender the day coach Ryu left Slayers, the conflicts with Boxer certainly didn't help though and may have started the decline. But like I posted above, its near impossible to tell exactly how things went down between all the different sides.

Edit: I did wonder if we'd see MMA return to form on Acer, but it took so long that it convinced me that Coach Ryu really knew how to get the most out of MMA. But MMa's starting to round into form again, so we'll see if he's rediscovered the touch!
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
October 30 2014 00:36 GMT
#90
On October 26 2014 13:40 Wuster wrote:
MMA's stopped being a championship contender the day coach Ryu left Slayers, the conflicts with Boxer certainly didn't help though and may have started the decline. But like I posted above, its near impossible to tell exactly how things went down between all the different sides.

Edit: I did wonder if we'd see MMA return to form on Acer, but it took so long that it convinced me that Coach Ryu really knew how to get the most out of MMA. But MMa's starting to round into form again, so we'll see if he's rediscovered the touch!


Having a coach helped, but so did having some of the world's best practice partners at Slayers - when the internal conflict started, I'm sure MMA's practice with the players was reduced, if not cut off.

MMA hasn't returned to the top-tier level that he was back in 2011 or early 2012, but he's become a champion again under Acer. That alone shows that he's got grit, and isn't dependent on a coach to win.
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
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