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Korea 2015: Battle for the Empty Throne - Page 9

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Shinespark
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile843 Posts
December 12 2014 20:29 GMT
#161
With all due respect to the "nominees" to be crowned as essentially, the "King of HotS", I don't think any of them came even close to having the success and dominance Mvp had during WoL. Well, Soo would have if he had won all 4 GSL finals. But he didn't.

So, I think Mvp's title of, perhaps, "the finest SC2 player so far" or maybe "the most successful SC2 player so far", whichever of the two titles you find most appropriate is justifiably debatable, is safe.

And before you argue that Taeja has twice as many titles as Mvp, are they the same caliber? He's won MLGs, Dreamhacks, HSCs, and whatnot. Again, with all due the respect to Taeja and the organizers of those tournaments, they aren't on the same level as the GSL. They just aren't.
"I, for one, welcome our new Korean overlords."
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8244 Posts
December 12 2014 20:34 GMT
#162
Excellent article. 2015 is going to keep me and all players, not just Koreans, insanely busy. The players will definitely take this opportunity to make sure they stand out from the others. Korea will be a blood bath at the same time as I fear people will be forced into retirement because they simply can't compete in Korea. Just look at the Starleague qualifiers a couple days ago. Some players we expected to qualify dropped out.
ZergX
Profile Joined October 2010
France436 Posts
December 12 2014 22:20 GMT
#163
Excellent article. Thanks for the write-up!

Viva Mvp!
Nestea fightingg ! DRG fightingggg !! Sen fightinggg ! July fighting ! SoO fighting !
halfaspider
Profile Joined August 2013
United States31 Posts
December 12 2014 22:49 GMT
#164
Awesome article, but I agree with some other people that Rain, at least, needs to be considered as a contender. 2015 is so hype right now. Such cool story line potential.
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ukiya2004
Profile Joined March 2014
199 Posts
December 12 2014 22:52 GMT
#165
where is sOs and Rain. and MC's era is long gone. I'd ne suprised if he ends up winning anything next year
Forthandback
Profile Joined October 2014
United States2 Posts
December 12 2014 23:23 GMT
#166
Self Portrait with Gray Felt Hat 1887-1888.
What a weird picture with Zest.
Yakikorosu
Profile Joined March 2013
1203 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-12 23:49:27
December 12 2014 23:34 GMT
#167
On December 13 2014 07:52 ukiya2004 wrote:
where is sOs and Rain. and MC's era is long gone. I'd ne suprised if he ends up winning anything next year


I gotta agree with that, and add INnoVation as well. I like MC and he's certainly no scrub (he looked pretty good against herO at Blizzcon), but his HotS record in offline matches against Koreans is a terrible 39%.

Meanwhile INno, sOs and Rain are sitting right at 66% (they're all within about 1% of each other), which is pretty amazing.

Edit: Also, putting aside who is the most successful player, I feel like sOs is the true spiritual successor to Mvp. Who else but sOs could live up to the legacy of a man who stayed ahead of the curve by mixing top-level macro play with frequent aggressive cheeses and all-ins?
Yorkie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States12612 Posts
December 13 2014 00:50 GMT
#168
Stuchiu too good. Amazing read! ^^
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Dapper_Cad
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom964 Posts
December 13 2014 01:02 GMT
#169
Excellent stuff!
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.
tomastaz
Profile Joined January 2013
United States976 Posts
December 13 2014 01:08 GMT
#170
That feel when G5L will probably never happen =(
No church in the wild --- @tzhang0126
tomastaz
Profile Joined January 2013
United States976 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-13 01:17:44
December 13 2014 01:12 GMT
#171
On December 12 2014 14:28 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 14:27 Brutaxilos wrote:
Can someone explain to me why Taeja is shrugged off from succeeding Mvp? I have to admit I didn't watch a lot of Korean SC2 when Mvp was dominating. But surely, Taeja's last 2 years have been pretty dominating are they not?

4 GSLs >>>>>>>>>>>>> 0 GSLs

can't argue with that logic


edit: also does anyone seriously know what's up with Mvp lately? Not even playing qualifiers?
No church in the wild --- @tzhang0126
Trizztein
Profile Joined August 2014
Canada45 Posts
December 13 2014 01:56 GMT
#172
Great stuff. 2015 hype all the way. I love these articles that give us a view on SC history/competitive scene as a whole, with the changes in dynamics brought by the way Blizzard approaches the game. These team houses are such war machines, it's quite amazing. And how just a few players still managed to gain overall better successes than others. Shouldn't MMa have been mentioned at least once, though? Isn't he the only one to have made 2 blizzcon finals?
Yakikorosu
Profile Joined March 2013
1203 Posts
December 13 2014 02:06 GMT
#173
On December 13 2014 10:56 Trizztein wrote:
Great stuff. 2015 hype all the way. I love these articles that give us a view on SC history/competitive scene as a whole, with the changes in dynamics brought by the way Blizzard approaches the game. These team houses are such war machines, it's quite amazing. And how just a few players still managed to gain overall better successes than others. Shouldn't MMa have been mentioned at least once, though? Isn't he the only one to have made 2 blizzcon finals?


No one has made it to 2 Blizzcon finals.

Blizzcon finals have been:

2010: Genius vs Loner
2011: Mvp vs NesTea
2012: PartinG vs Creator
2013: sOs vs Jaedong
2014: Life vs MMA

MMA won a GSL finals in 2011 that was PLAYED on location AT Blizzcon, but it was not the Blizzcon finals.
Ansinjunger
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2451 Posts
December 13 2014 02:40 GMT
#174
On December 13 2014 10:56 Trizztein wrote:
Great stuff. 2015 hype all the way. I love these articles that give us a view on SC history/competitive scene as a whole, with the changes in dynamics brought by the way Blizzard approaches the game. These team houses are such war machines, it's quite amazing. And how just a few players still managed to gain overall better successes than others. Shouldn't MMa have been mentioned at least once, though? Isn't he the only one to have made 2 blizzcon finals?


I agree, he needs a little more love when talking about all-time greats of SC2. He's been the ace for roughly 2 gstls, back when they were 3-4 day events, and 2 acer teamstory cups, which as far as I can tell is not reflected on the aligulac earnings, where he's currently 3rd.

I'll admit he looks unimpressive in defeat sometimes, but he often looks very dominant in victory. He should be a strong candidate for terran of the year.

2011 Blizzcon was Mvp over NesTea, including a very infamous Shakuras Plateau game that got ghosts perma-nerfed. GSL finals was held at Blizzcon for GSL October, where MMA was the first person to beat Mvp in a GSL finals.

P.S. That ghost nerf still bugs the crap out of me; why they didn't just nerf snipe vs massive is anyone's guess. It even makes sense lorewise, a freaking ultralisk should be more impervious to snipe than a zergling.

P.P.S. This is still a very engaging article and fun read. I skim a lot these days, but this one I read.
ThetrueSmug
Profile Joined July 2012
Australia14 Posts
December 13 2014 02:50 GMT
#175
Great article get hyped!
IMMvp the greatest there ever was.
tadL
Profile Joined September 2010
Croatia679 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-13 05:42:47
December 13 2014 05:29 GMT
#176
Beyond that are the relative importance of patches to both games. Like I mentioned before, Brood War was remarkable (by today's standards) for the off-hands approach of its developer.


And there I stopped! Wont call out Blizzard right?

You call Blizzard not giving a fuck remarkable...that's not a approach that's what all tripple AAA fuckers do and so many others too... They sell it and look that it runs kind of? And than don't give a fuck! Other company's get blamed for such behaviour and its deserved but here its remarkable. That is bullshit on Bush Jr level...omg

And than you don't even go to the conclusion. Blizzard is not able to even balance one of their games. They should fire this idiots. Give control to players so that the game is somehow balanced. Because as long Blizzard is touching it this game will not be the great balanced rts title.

If one gets offended by this just take a deep breath. THINK! And than agree on me. Well its like this, and i am proud to use it

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Thank your God for me


ps: Rest of Article is like IGN, Titenfall, Believe the Hype. We all know where this went.
pps: Thank your for the effort you put in. You made my day with it.

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NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
December 13 2014 05:48 GMT
#177
On December 13 2014 10:12 tomastaz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 14:28 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On December 12 2014 14:27 Brutaxilos wrote:
Can someone explain to me why Taeja is shrugged off from succeeding Mvp? I have to admit I didn't watch a lot of Korean SC2 when Mvp was dominating. But surely, Taeja's last 2 years have been pretty dominating are they not?

4 GSLs >>>>>>>>>>>>> 0 GSLs

can't argue with that logic


edit: also does anyone seriously know what's up with Mvp lately? Not even playing qualifiers?

Perhaps recovering his wrists till LotV?
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p14c
Profile Joined May 2010
Vatican City State431 Posts
December 13 2014 09:18 GMT
#178
On December 12 2014 19:44 Zealously wrote:
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On December 12 2014 19:05 p14c wrote:
MVP got lucky. He was dominant in a period when the best players were still playing BW. It all depends if Lotv comes with gimmicky units or not like Hots.


The best players like Life, Taeja, San, Parting, Marineking, MC? There's a long list of players that were nothing or didnt even play in Brood War that have won tournaments since the KESPA switch, so this argument holds little merit

After Kespa switch, GSL is like 90% Kespa players and almost all champions are ex-Broodwar players. (Maru is the only one non-Kespa that won after the full switch).
All those players did not do that well in Korea and this is why they travel outside where they don't even need to qualify. They are just invited. Look at Taeja, he tried to qualified for IEM Toronto and Kespa Cup and he failed in the first rounds. It's not easy to qualify in Korea. Life also end up in Code B in 2014..
It was much easier for MVP to be dominant, when the game was fresh and the most experienced RTS players were still playing BW.
Game Over, Man! Game Over!
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
December 13 2014 09:38 GMT
#179
^ Taeja just qualified for Ro32 in SSL fyi
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Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-13 10:28:34
December 13 2014 10:22 GMT
#180
On December 13 2014 18:18 p14c wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2014 19:44 Zealously wrote:
On December 12 2014 19:05 p14c wrote:
MVP got lucky. He was dominant in a period when the best players were still playing BW. It all depends if Lotv comes with gimmicky units or not like Hots.


The best players like Life, Taeja, San, Parting, Marineking, MC? There's a long list of players that were nothing or didnt even play in Brood War that have won tournaments since the KESPA switch, so this argument holds little merit

After Kespa switch, GSL is like 90% Kespa players and almost all champions are ex-Broodwar players. (Maru is the only one non-Kespa that won after the full switch).
All those players did not do that well in Korea and this is why they travel outside where they don't even need to qualify. They are just invited. Look at Taeja, he tried to qualified for IEM Toronto and Kespa Cup and he failed in the first rounds. It's not easy to qualify in Korea. Life also end up in Code B in 2014..
It was much easier for MVP to be dominant, when the game was fresh and the most experienced RTS players were still playing BW.


I can hit you with a wall of facts to dispute your claims if you're interested, because you seem to have gotten the chain of events a little wrong or at the very least omitted some significant results. Are you interested in a different, more factually based view, or are you here just to harp on the ex-eSF and non-KeSPA players?
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