Road to BlizzCon #16 - KT.Zest - WCS 2014 - Page 4

On November 01 2014 03:15 Kihshra wrote:
So the authors of the articles believe that MMA is the strongest of those 16 ?

On November 01 2014 03:31 Kihshra wrote:

The Tarot card you chose for MMA is the 20th trump card whose number is greater than the cards you chose for the other players. I know you only wanted to associate the signification of the cards with the players but come on, did you really expect nobody would notice ?

Edit: could be Bomber too.

On November 01 2014 03:31 Kihshra wrote:

The Tarot card you chose for MMA is the 20th trump card whose number is greater than the cards you chose for the other players. I know you only wanted to associate the signification of the cards with the players but come on, did you really expect nobody would notice ?

Edit: could be Bomber too.

On November 01 2014 01:28 stefan16 wrote:
this guy will grab all the trophies and money, finish his 2 years military service, get recruited as K-Drama actor (while other post-military-service player struggling to get any job at all), and making more money by kissing and flirting with beautiful girls

On November 01 2014 04:58 pure.Wasted wrote:
Thanks for these articles. They helped me get a little bit into some of the players I don't follow at all (San, StarDust, HyuN), catch up with players I know well but haven't seen much of lately (Jaedong, MMA, jjakji), and just plain hyped for the rest, whom I both know and love.

And of course Classic.

I don't know how much of this was planned out and how much was happy accident, but taken together, these articles paint a wonderfully complete picture of SC2. Starting with Classic's relation to the balance issues of 2014, to the SlayerS/Boxer legacy with MMA, the transition from SC1 to SC2 with Jaedong, inevitability of military service through StarDust, the value of charisma and identity with MC, the place Koreans have in WCS through San, and the ESF/Kespa rivalry and SC2 bonjwas with Zest. We got a sense of real world stakes through HyuN and a real world success story with Polt. The importance of picking up the right player at the right time with Bomber and the importance of choosing the right venue to compete with Innovation. The wildly different attitudes progamers bring to the competition, like herO and soO, two players who have shown remarkable perseverance but obviously reach it from entirely different mental states. And in some cases great biographies like Taeja and Life. (sorry Jjakji)

The whole series was great, but Taeja's article really stands out for me as an ambitious and almost entirely successful attempt to comprehend a player whose talent seems to defy comprehension. At the very least, it does justice to his legacy. AM/EU championships generally don't hold much weight with me, but there comes a point, eventually, when you reach a critical mass of success that cannot be denied no matter what. For soO, whose gameplay I found an effective sleeping aid throughout most of 2013 and 2014, that tipping point was his third consecutive GSL finals. I don't care if it looks like you're A-moving to victory at that point, when you're facing the caliber of players soO was, he must know something about A-moving that others don't. If you respect anyone outside of KR, you have to respect Taeja.

Thanks again.