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On June 11 2015 00:06 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:Show nested quote +We must never allow that to happen to Brood Lord-Infestor. It was a horribly broken and imbalanced unit composition that was allowed to exist for so long that it actually did significant damage to the health of StarCraft 2. If you lived through those times and still find yourself forming a thought that's in any way pleasant or nostalgic, consider literally knocking some sense into yourself by bashing your head against a table repeatedly. It wasn't that bad, there I said it. Yes it was an pretty boring period, but some of the best games occurred in that era as well (Gumiho vs Losira in particular), and the final WoL season was one of the best. Zerg never ever hit the record numbers in code S like Protoss and especially not Terran (who hold the crown for most imbalanced season). As for "patchzergs", umm.. 3/4 of the ro8 in the final WoL season also made ro8+ in the following season in HotS. Good write-up though.
After the infestor nerfs there were some exceptionnal ZvT. PvZ was still retarded on the other hand.
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Wax I love you come back ;;
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To add to this scary list.
Last pick in WCS 2015 season 2 : Elfi
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man i love parting 
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Ho man, that NesTea entry made me tear up a little.
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Excellent idea, well writen, fun to read, well done 
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Gomtv still not dead yeat ? :S
great article, original and entertaining, i never thought i could read it till the end^^
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On June 11 2015 00:06 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:Show nested quote +We must never allow that to happen to Brood Lord-Infestor. It was a horribly broken and imbalanced unit composition that was allowed to exist for so long that it actually did significant damage to the health of StarCraft 2. If you lived through those times and still find yourself forming a thought that's in any way pleasant or nostalgic, consider literally knocking some sense into yourself by bashing your head against a table repeatedly. It wasn't that bad, there I said it. Yes it was an pretty boring period, but some of the best games occurred in that era as well (Gumiho vs Losira in particular), and the final WoL season was one of the best. Zerg never ever hit the record numbers in code S like Protoss and especially not Terran (who hold the crown for most imbalanced season). As for "patchzergs", umm.. 3/4 of the ro8 in the final WoL season also made ro8+ in the following season in HotS. Good write-up though.
balance wise it definitely wasn't the worst era of sc2 but the problem was that it made the game horribly boring to watch and play for months. Literally every game was zerg turtling to BLs while the other player tried to hit a timing push. Either the push failed and the zerg won or it was succesful and the zerg lost.
Even worse were the PvZs where two deathballs danced at each other for one hour until it came to an archon toilet that decided the game.
It's true that we had some great games during that period but the average game was FAR more boring than in any other period.
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How do you like the pop-up endnotes? It took me like 2 hours to figure out how to rip-off the code from someone who actually knows how to do web-development and implement it on TL :D
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On June 11 2015 01:14 Waxangel wrote:
How do you like the pop-up endnotes? It took me like 2 hours to figure out how to rip-off the code from someone who actually knows how to do web-development and implement it on TL :D
It's great, some of them reminded me of the notes that Pratchett would put in his books.
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On June 11 2015 01:14 Waxangel wrote:
How do you like the pop-up endnotes? It took me like 2 hours to figure out how to rip-off the code from someone who actually knows how to do web-development and implement it on TL :D
Those are great.
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On June 11 2015 01:20 nimdil wrote:Actaully when Bomber won Code A it wasn't for Code S spot - he still played in Up & Down: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2011_LG_Cinema_3D_Global_StarCraft_II_League_May/Up_and_DownDirect seed started in July. EDIT: that's why some say Bomber's Code A final was fairly meaningless. 500$ for Mvp wasn't meaningful, he already had two full GSL championships and there was little benefit. That also puts a slight question mark next to Bomber's Triple Crown
I missed TL's crowd-sourced factchecking and copyediting
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Life was never last pick because he was always one of the seeds.
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When Losira was picked last for his group, I think it coincided with when he won the stacked korean qualifier for HSC. He did a lot of early pools there, (perhaps a good idea if you're hungover). I'm just assuming he was an online monster around that time.
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Bommer's 2011 is the only true last pick imo. Despite winning zero GSL, his starcraft during that time was still the most dominant I've seen in SC2. Some games come to mind are the one against DRG in MLG, the one he lost to MVP on TDA in GSTL or the first two games against ByuN in the (ironically) bo5 that started his downfall.
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Huk was at his best only when he was on TL. I dont know what happened to him after that but he some how lost his skill or motivation. If he had stayed on TL, he would still be the top 3 Protoss that he was hack then.
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On June 11 2015 01:47 GoodSirTets wrote:
When Losira was picked last for his group, I think it coincided with when he won the stacked korean qualifier for HSC. He did a lot of early pools there, (perhaps a good idea if you're hungover). I'm just assuming he was an online monster around that time.
It also coincided with soO being there to be picked second last.
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This was a thoroughly enjoyable read. Thanks for compiling!
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