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imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
April 30 2015 10:18 GMT
#241
On April 30 2015 18:52 Inzan1ty wrote:
Mvp = King of Wings
Life = Emperor of Swarm

Its all tied, let LotV be the deciding "map" :D

Much respect for what Mvp has build and accomplished, but Life belongs the future.


There is no doubt Life will overcome Mvp in the future. The main question is when.
Zest fanboy.
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
April 30 2015 10:19 GMT
#242
Stuchiu, amazing work, i wonder how this is even possible to write so many while being so passionate about it

thanks for this
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
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Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-30 10:20:23
April 30 2015 10:19 GMT
#243
On April 30 2015 19:18 sAsImre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2015 18:52 Inzan1ty wrote:
Mvp = King of Wings
Life = Emperor of Swarm

Its all tied, let LotV be the deciding "map" :D

Much respect for what Mvp has build and accomplished, but Life belongs the future.


There is no doubt Life will overcome Mvp in the future. The main question is when.


Just over a month ago, in fact
AdministratorBreak the chains
RaiKageRyu
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada4773 Posts
April 30 2015 10:24 GMT
#244
Mvp section was such a beautiful read.
Someone call down the Thunder?
Berry_CruncH
Profile Joined April 2015
5 Posts
April 30 2015 10:27 GMT
#245
On April 30 2015 06:46 Zealously wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2015 06:44 JJH777 wrote:
On April 30 2015 06:37 SpunXtain20 wrote:
Hey guys just wanted to weigh in and say you counted Blizzcon 2011 twice.

In terms of Life vs MVP, MVP did it during GomTvT; Life did it when his race was the weakest. Life also has prevailed in the wake of KeSPA.

MVP was a good player. He was certainly the best Terran of 2011. He won a remarkable number of titles during this period because there were more of them to win. GSL was almost monthly then; now its 3 times a year. It's not really a fair comparison.

1. Life 2. MC 3. MVP 4. Zest 5. soO


Life's highest peak was during the BL/Infestor era.... MVPs GSL win vs Squirtle came at a time where Protoss was ridiculous dominant.

MVP's list of achievements is missing gainward. Definitely deserves to be at least a Tier 3 event. Godly player pool for the time it happened and was played offline.


You're making an uneven argument. Life's most dominant streak was during the BL/infestor era, yes, but Mvp's most dominant streak was not when Terran was at its weakest - it was in early 2011, when Terran was universally considered the strongest race. For proper comparison, you should compare Mvp's win vs Squirtle to Life's win at MLG Dallas or his out-of-the-blue win at Blizzcon 2014.


I really hate the Blizzcon win being referred to as out of the blue... Like for real, almost everyone i know said and many others i don't know have all said that if he beat Zest in the first round he would most likely win the entire tournament. This community is so Zerg biased because the best foreigners are all Zergs.
Inzan1ty
Profile Joined September 2012
1163 Posts
April 30 2015 10:29 GMT
#246
On April 30 2015 19:24 RaiKageRyu wrote:
Mvp section was such a beautiful read.


I do agree.
RIP Seung Hyun 'Space' Park † 6/5/2013 - Undead hero and eSports rolemodel
Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
April 30 2015 10:35 GMT
#247
On April 30 2015 19:27 Berry_CruncH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2015 06:46 Zealously wrote:
On April 30 2015 06:44 JJH777 wrote:
On April 30 2015 06:37 SpunXtain20 wrote:
Hey guys just wanted to weigh in and say you counted Blizzcon 2011 twice.

In terms of Life vs MVP, MVP did it during GomTvT; Life did it when his race was the weakest. Life also has prevailed in the wake of KeSPA.

MVP was a good player. He was certainly the best Terran of 2011. He won a remarkable number of titles during this period because there were more of them to win. GSL was almost monthly then; now its 3 times a year. It's not really a fair comparison.

1. Life 2. MC 3. MVP 4. Zest 5. soO


Life's highest peak was during the BL/Infestor era.... MVPs GSL win vs Squirtle came at a time where Protoss was ridiculous dominant.

MVP's list of achievements is missing gainward. Definitely deserves to be at least a Tier 3 event. Godly player pool for the time it happened and was played offline.


You're making an uneven argument. Life's most dominant streak was during the BL/infestor era, yes, but Mvp's most dominant streak was not when Terran was at its weakest - it was in early 2011, when Terran was universally considered the strongest race. For proper comparison, you should compare Mvp's win vs Squirtle to Life's win at MLG Dallas or his out-of-the-blue win at Blizzcon 2014.


I really hate the Blizzcon win being referred to as out of the blue... Like for real, almost everyone i know said and many others i don't know have all said that if he beat Zest in the first round he would most likely win the entire tournament. This community is so Zerg biased because the best foreigners are all Zergs.


That's a lot like saying "if Mvp only beats the good Protoss players, he'll most likely win the tournament"... Well, obviously. If you beat the toughest opponent (although Zest was second in difficulty to Taeja, who has always been a thorn in Life's side), the tournament just became a whole lot easier. The thing is that few people thought Life had a realistic shot against Zest, even fewer that he was favored to win. San had never lost a televised game to Life prior to Blizzcon.

So say what you will, but it was not just "Life only had to do X to win the tournament", and this is not an ill-defined 'Zerg bias' resulting from some irrational love for foreigners - I find that argument somewhat insulting. Life's Blizzcon run was, taking into account his matchup preferences and his historical records, one of the most difficult roads he could have possibly taken to the finals. If you want to discredit it to raise Mvp to the skies, fine, but don't twist history into it being a simple run.
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Negius
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Netherlands290 Posts
April 30 2015 11:28 GMT
#248
Excellent. Just excellent. Amazing read, nerdchills, wonderfully done.
I hope this article will go on as one of the classics on this site.

For now (LG)IM_mvp is #1, my guess is he'll be number one for the whole of HotS. Life is amazing, but the fact that "but it's mvp" has more power than "life finds a way" is for my enough.

Mvp made starcraft. Life bends starcraft to his own will.
Mvp creates miracles. Life finds a way to make a miracle happen.
Mvp can't win... but it's mvp. Life finds a way to win.
[Terran] mvp | maru | innovation | mma [Protoss] mc | squirtle [Zerg] nestea | soo
ffrozenfish
Profile Joined May 2011
820 Posts
April 30 2015 11:29 GMT
#249
It was worth the wait. Hail to the King.
Give us our snipe back - Ghost
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3750 Posts
April 30 2015 11:34 GMT
#250
On April 30 2015 05:54 stuchiu wrote:
I know most of you just read the order but #1 is 8900 words long, that is 1/4th the entire article for all 15 players combined.

To be honest I enjoyed Mvp more than the other 14.
ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3441 Posts
April 30 2015 11:46 GMT
#251
When Life gets his 3rd Triple Crown, MVP can just geeeet out...
SC2 Archon needs "Terrible, terrible damage" as one of it's quotes.
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
April 30 2015 11:46 GMT
#252
On April 30 2015 19:19 Zealously wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2015 19:18 sAsImre wrote:
On April 30 2015 18:52 Inzan1ty wrote:
Mvp = King of Wings
Life = Emperor of Swarm

Its all tied, let LotV be the deciding "map" :D

Much respect for what Mvp has build and accomplished, but Life belongs the future.


There is no doubt Life will overcome Mvp in the future. The main question is when.


Just over a month ago, in fact


nothing from 2015 was included right? if so it's already the case and saddening :'(.
Zest fanboy.
Darrkhan
Profile Joined February 2012
Finland1236 Posts
April 30 2015 12:01 GMT
#253
I miss Mvp so much! Mvp vs Squirtle GSL finals must be best finals ever in SC2. I was so hyped
Inzan1ty
Profile Joined September 2012
1163 Posts
April 30 2015 12:13 GMT
#254
On April 30 2015 21:01 Darrkhan wrote:
Mvp vs Squirtle GSL finals must be best finals ever in SC2.


that would be MMA vs DRG @ Blizzard Cup 2011 but close enough
RIP Seung Hyun 'Space' Park † 6/5/2013 - Undead hero and eSports rolemodel
Apoteosis
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile820 Posts
April 30 2015 12:15 GMT
#255
On April 30 2015 21:13 Inzan1ty wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2015 21:01 Darrkhan wrote:
Mvp vs Squirtle GSL finals must be best finals ever in SC2.


that would be MMA vs DRG @ Blizzard Cup 2011 but close enough


Both aren't even close to the epicness that was Leenock vs Jjakji finals.
Life won like 200k and didn't hire a proper criminal lawyer.
moofang
Profile Joined June 2011
508 Posts
April 30 2015 13:08 GMT
#256
Even reading just a fraction of Mvp's writeup brought back so many incredible, nerd-chilling memories of the great sc2 stories of the years. May we have many more to come. Great writeup! (Even though I'm still sore over taeja > MC )
Khai
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia553 Posts
April 30 2015 13:20 GMT
#257
Mvp! Mvp! Mvp! Mvp! Come on guys, he thoroughly deserved it, who else had achieved more (Especially given his circumstances)? Mvp had been the best player in SC2 so far, other players might overtake him eventually, but Mvp's achievements would still be legendary. Can you imagine an injury free Mvp playing SC2 from the age of 15? He could potentially be many times the beast he was!
Apoteosis
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile820 Posts
April 30 2015 13:20 GMT
#258
On April 30 2015 17:36 TheDwf wrote:

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On April 30 2015 14:36 Apoteosis wrote:
And as per the finals vs Life, he did not make the same build all the finals: he switched between helion banshee and 2fact BFH. Why did he do that? Both were extremely difficult to discern with overlord scouting. So, Mvp switched between a macro build and a cheesy one. That's why Life opted throughout the series by making 2base muta.

That's some epic rewriting of history if I ever saw it.


Yea sure, look at the VODs...

At that time, overlord scout for zerg should hit at 6:30. By that time you can only see a factory and a tech-lab. Mvp exploited that fact and switched between 2fact BFH and 1-1-1 hellion banshee. G1 was 2fact BFH. G3 was Hellion Banshee.

Why 2fact BFH is considered cheese? Because if you don't do enough damage with the BFH (and by damage, I mean 15+ drone kills), you get so behind that is nearly impossible to come back. Watch the VODs and you will see what I'm pointing at. In the games that Mvp went fot 2fact BFH and didn't do enough damage, his follow-up 3 base mech push (which, by the way, was Mvp build of choice in the late game throughout all the series) was easily thwarted by Life.

And by the way, throughout all the series, Life actively made the effort to deny Mvp's map control. Look at the VOD's. Hellions and banshees give map control for Terran until mutas came. What did Life to counter that? His trademark backstabs and run-bys. They barely made damage to Mvp's economy, but if you look closely, Life was active with his zerglings all the early and midgame, in order to always being aware of where were the hellions of Mvp. So, while Life was making a runby at the third fo Mvp, he sent another pack of lings to surround and kill the hellions, thus denying Mvp's map control.

Mvp vs Life was a great series. All these details, all that mindgames, it was a beautiful series, worthy of the two best SC2 players of all-time.
Life won like 200k and didn't hire a proper criminal lawyer.
Dismay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1180 Posts
April 30 2015 13:23 GMT
#259
I always have complicated feelings when it comes to Mvp. He's terran, but he's also Mvp. I love Life too, but I was hoping Mvp would get his G5L.

Maybe Life can do it for him. Great write up.
In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same.
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
April 30 2015 13:40 GMT
#260
On April 30 2015 19:19 Zealously wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2015 19:18 sAsImre wrote:
On April 30 2015 18:52 Inzan1ty wrote:
Mvp = King of Wings
Life = Emperor of Swarm

Its all tied, let LotV be the deciding "map" :D

Much respect for what Mvp has build and accomplished, but Life belongs the future.


There is no doubt Life will overcome Mvp in the future. The main question is when.


Just over a month ago, in fact


So not robbed after all
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