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On November 10 2014 19:22 ejozl wrote:
Looks like we're heading back to the good ol' trio of TaejA, Life and Parting. It was those guys that was on the top of each of their respective races, when WoL got to a point where the metagame didn't change as much.
Due to their insane mechanics and indepth knowledge of the game.
Of course kespa players confuse things and Parting is not exactly dominating at the moment, but I predict an upswing by him.
TaeJa is retiring and I'm not convinced PartinG will be back to its WoL level (yeah, the soul train lost efficiency)
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On November 10 2014 15:59 LongShot27 wrote:
Life is by no means the most skilled player in the world, I wouldn't even put him in the top ten. But he did what he needed when he needed to and at least for a while he's the best.
The fucking ignorance.
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Northern Ireland281 Posts
On November 10 2014 17:05 vult wrote:
Life so fucking good when no one expects him to be. He is insane.
He needs to work on his trophy lifting. Maybe hit the gym.
lol bless him i saw him pick it up and instantly was like wtf is this thing made of lol.
Grats to him, insane play all the way through!
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
I think the trophy was something like 10kg+, pretty heavy stuff
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
10kg is far from heavy D:
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On November 10 2014 15:59 LongShot27 wrote:
Life is by no means the most skilled player in the world, I wouldn't even put him in the top ten.
I know it's against the TL rules to be rude to an American, but you are a moron.
Why is it that whenever anyone accomplishes something great in SC2, some TL lurker has to shit all over their parade?
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On November 10 2014 20:26 lichter wrote:
10kg is far from heavy D:
Awkward to lift though, not like these guys are really strong either. Dont think most trophies are nearly that heavy ^/
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On November 10 2014 15:59 LongShot27 wrote:
Life is by no means the most skilled player in the world, I wouldn't even put him in the top ten. But he did what he needed when he needed to and at least for a while he's the best.
I think he reads the game better than most other players. He showed that in almost all the games, as he was rarely caught off guard (game 1 against Taeja and Game 3 against MMA he was though). Even in chaotic games as Game 2 against Taeja he knew what he had to do to come back from a disadvantage, while Taeja seemed rather uncertain in his attempts to attack.
On November 10 2014 17:12 HolydaKing wrote:
Just watched the VOD of the 2nd game between Life and Taeja. The opening of Life was very cool and gave him an advantage. But his midgame was pretty bad to be honest. He threw away units left and right without killing anything. Until the small basetrade happened and Life somehow defended Taeja's attack, I felt like Taeja was winning.
I don't know if the opening really gave him a huge advantage (I'd assume he expected a proxy 2-rax, not a reaper opening :-P ). He might have been ahead in economy etc., but because of the opening, the Mutalisks were insanely late and the one drop in his main was quite hard to deal with, imo.
And I think he played decently in the midgame, Zerg struggle at this stage of the game in general, but somehow he defended Taeja's attacks while still being able to harass with Mutalisks and Banelings - and that was really impressive, imo. Especially the one Baneling attack where he killed like... 60 workers was just sick.
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Korea (South)227 Posts
Its odd that people keep forgetting the truth mentioned by Dear last year
"I don't know about any other day, but today I'm the champion of the world.".
Life played the BEST out of all the 16 players, and he sustained his level of mechanical and psychological play to win the championship, just like sOs did last year.
Haters gonna hate, but there is no reason to crap on Life and say hes not top 10 in your list or whatever. Don't piss off Zealously as well 
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pretty much you can win a weekend tournament, but that's not indicative of long term skill, consider that all the starleagues have staggered finals. no one will take world champ chess seriously for example if you play 3-4 games in one day.
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kudos to life being able to pull out cheeses after cheeses and still managed to win the series. taeja should be proud that life didnt even try to play normal games against him lol
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it seems to me that in those big games, the players who play more cheesy have an advantage over straight up macro players.
think about it, we had three world champion. First we had parting with his soultrain, then sOs with his cannonrushs and proxy oracles and now life with banelingbusts and proxy hatches.
I have the feeling that when the pressure is so high, cheesy players just have an advantage above macro players.
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On the other hand, one could say Life's opponents couldn't even survive into "normal" macro games against him. Personally I find it a bit puzzling that people still rate lategame ability higher than aggression after all the split map turtlefests we've seen again and again in SC2. Macro games can be every bit as boring as cheese, and the boredom last longer by definition.
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Props to Life for not Swarmhosting the finals.
That being said yes I think MMA and Taeja had the superior mechanics but Life had the best response and fastest decision making.
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On November 10 2014 15:59 LongShot27 wrote:
Life is by no means the most skilled player in the world, I wouldn't even put him in the top ten. But he did what he needed when he needed to and at least for a while he's the best.
Life is actually the most skilled player in the world. His macro, timings and game sense is out of this world. Evidence: He is the world champion.
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I feel bad for soO. I feel like Taeja is the only player he would've lost to in this tournament given how their styles match up (maybe Zest too). Taeja is such a monster in standard macro games that it takes someone like Life to defeat him. I'm also pretty sure soO would crush Life's zvz - soO's best and Life's worst match up. It's funny how the randomness of match-ups goes some way to deciding the winner.
Also, I'm sure most would agree Taeja vs. Life was the real final given how much more stacked lower bracket was. Such a great series. Congrats Life!!!!
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On November 10 2014 15:41 lichter wrote:
since people never actually read the intro, i'm just gonna repeat that this is just the recap thread. expect other stuff when zealously wakes up from his drunken orgasmic stupor
Hey, I always read the articles in full!
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Fitting for the tower to be the one standing at the end.
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It was mega sad to see Taeja not winning his last big tourney even playing godlike (even TvT), but anyways the tourney was fun after all that shit of "not stand a chance on GSL" he smashed both the champion and the soOcond place of the most recent tournament and watching the rest of KeSPA gods barely reaching the Top 4 was priceless.
I will never 4get this Starcrash tournament.
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On November 10 2014 19:47 Keeemy wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2014 15:59 LongShot27 wrote:
Life is by no means the most skilled player in the world, I wouldn't even put him in the top ten. But he did what he needed when he needed to and at least for a while he's the best. The fucking ignorance.
And apparently you and everyone else is fucking illiterate.
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