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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17411 Posts
November 09 2015 23:06 GMT
#201
On November 10 2015 08:05 Sinusx wrote:
Probably great games. I hate those morons who put the results in the news on the main page.


isn't there some kind of spoiler toggle button in your set up you can change ?
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
November 09 2015 23:08 GMT
#202
On November 10 2015 08:06 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 08:05 Sinusx wrote:
Probably great games. I hate those morons who put the results in the news on the main page.


isn't there some kind of spoiler toggle button in your set up you can change ?

No, we no longer support a spoiler-free TL.
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Sinusx
Profile Joined February 2013
Germany6 Posts
November 09 2015 23:09 GMT
#203
On November 10 2015 08:06 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 08:05 Sinusx wrote:
Probably great games. I hate those morons who put the results in the news on the main page.


isn't there some kind of spoiler toggle button in your set up you can change ?


It used to be, but apparently no more.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17411 Posts
November 09 2015 23:15 GMT
#204
damn.
generally i go to SC2Links.com for old matches
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
Big J
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria16289 Posts
November 10 2015 00:15 GMT
#205
On November 10 2015 08:04 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
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On November 10 2015 07:27 Big J wrote:
On November 10 2015 04:10 deacon.frost wrote:
On November 10 2015 01:13 Big J wrote:
On November 09 2015 23:43 deacon.frost wrote:
On November 09 2015 22:22 sAsImre wrote:
On November 09 2015 22:04 deacon.frost wrote:
On November 09 2015 19:44 Elentos wrote:
On November 09 2015 19:40 cheekymonkey wrote:
On November 09 2015 18:28 thecrazymunchkin wrote:
[quote]

Because obviously future events should have been predicted at the time of writing


Well, I think his point is that sOs's impact on the scene didn't come overnight, and that it ought to have been appreciated beforehand.

Keep in mind that was stuchiu's article, and I believe criteria were, among others:

tournament wins (sOs has gotten 2 more since then)
consistency (sOs isn't very consistent)
peak skill (sOs does well in that department)
influence on the game (sOs doesn't influence the meta, he plays his own game)

sOs cannot influence the meta. He is using his superb knowledge to make decisions no one below GM would be able to(And I have feeling that it would be hard for GM players to read the game the way sOs does).


Ptitdrogo said it was impossible for him to or any foreign P to copy sOs. And i'd willingly bet it's impossible for anyone.

Not sure how much Ptitdrogo talks with sOs I think sOs plays a style which needs to be explained by his author. In a lots of other styles(eg. templar opening by Parting) you can see the pattern, you can see the signs. You don't see this when sOs plays because because they are too subtle I wonder if Classic/Zest/herO can see these moments and say why is sOs doing what he's doing. It can be too risk for them to play his style or maybe he's that knowledgeable that even other top level Protoss cannot copy him.

because I think it's really confusing what I wrote I give you an example.
+ Show Spoiler +
There was a game in WCS last year(I think, not sure) where a Protoss went gas - gate to fake proxy oracle(or something) because pro players click on geysers to check how many gas was mined. The Terran player then scouted like a madman for proxy building which was not on the map because Protoss went full greed. Casters smartly said that they expect a lot of sad protoss players on ladder because standard low level player do not check the mined gas thus they won't be fooled

sOs does similar things but on much higher level


Can you be a bit more precise, e.g. give examples for such decisions based on the final series? I very well think there are pretty clear patterns. not that I'm superfamiliar with every tiny decision in his play which I guess is what PtitDrogo means, but the general direction of his plays is not that hard retrace I think.

Well as I stated, I cannot see why is he doing some builds and decisions and it is actually hard for everyone to see. Though in these games he went almost every time blink/sentry, which as its pattern pretty clear. I meant in general.

E.g. Life has blind spore crawlers almost every game and even though he goes for DTs twice. Why? He goes airtoss carrier storm in TvP agains jjakji(?) and wins, he haven't done that after the series. OK, the map was huge and OK, jjakji isn't the best Terran out there but still... what did he saw, why did he went for that build?

Some of his decisions are simply weird, but I think there has to be some reasoning behind them which only sOs knows. And I believe the reasoning is actually pretty good because when he reads the subtle signs well he wins in an extraordinary fashion. But sometimes he reads them wrong and he fails miserably

I think sOs just has a ton of builds. Sometimes they even feel a tad bit weaker than when played by masters of those builds (e.g Parting would hit that Soultrain with 3immortals and extraordinary prism micro sometimes up to 20seconds faster, see for example his build in the 2013 proleague showmatches), but given the amount of prepartion play by Koreans it must be extremely hard to play sOs for them.


i don't think he has a tonne of builds. they are not set builds and so they appear weaker than a close approximation of someone else's build you've seen be pulled off 1000X in a row by someone else... which is why he has no problems stirring up crazy shit at the start of a match.

I mean we can quarrel again what a build order is (I guess gameplan is a more vague term we can both live with?)... but I hope we can agree that he uses a lot of different openings and has good follow up plans that reactively try to emphasize on the various outcomes of his and his opponent's openings.
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17411 Posts
November 10 2015 01:03 GMT
#206
true, and his very high micro-talent lets him sneak out of situations that would cripple a more regimented player.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
swissman777
Profile Joined September 2014
1106 Posts
November 10 2015 02:07 GMT
#207
JimmyJRaynor, what is a BO win for you? Game 2 hydra vs rogue should have been a BO win for hydra imo
evilMage
Profile Joined October 2015
5 Posts
November 10 2015 04:19 GMT
#208
The final (sOs vs Life) probably the best match I have ever watched
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
November 10 2015 05:22 GMT
#209
"sOs then attempted to go in an entirely different direction with the infamous soul train, but Life sniffed it out and forced a Game 7".
Can't agree with that. If only sos managed to keep his warp prism alive, there would be no game 7. It's 4-2 for me.
Less is more.
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10310 Posts
November 10 2015 05:22 GMT
#210
On November 10 2015 08:08 Plexa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 08:06 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
On November 10 2015 08:05 Sinusx wrote:
Probably great games. I hate those morons who put the results in the news on the main page.


isn't there some kind of spoiler toggle button in your set up you can change ?

No, we no longer support a spoiler-free TL.

Can I ask why, and consequently why do you then put spoilers on the front page?

Just curious, it never bothered me.
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-10 07:27:47
November 10 2015 07:27 GMT
#211
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
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On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.

#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
cheekymonkey
Profile Joined January 2014
France1387 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-10 07:55:10
November 10 2015 07:51 GMT
#212
On November 10 2015 16:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.



I just bookmark the twitch vods, delete TL bookmark, and thank the lord that blizzard don't put stupid spoiler titles to their vods. I remember GOM once did that, they split each game (not match) into separate vods with titles like "Bomber vs Life game 1", effectively spoiling both results and number of games of a series.
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
November 10 2015 09:38 GMT
#213
On November 10 2015 16:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.


You can turn an anti-spoiler thing on.
'StarCraft is just a fairy tale told to scare children actually.'
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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-10 09:47:34
November 10 2015 09:46 GMT
#214
On November 10 2015 18:38 Ansibled wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 16:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.


You can turn an anti-spoiler thing on.


I would need to subscribes to these sites which could be a solution you are right. But i don't want to go to every starcraft site for every functionallity i would like to use (i'm exagerating of course but you see the point). TL is the big site. Everything is in there.

On November 10 2015 16:51 cheekymonkey wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 16:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.



I just bookmark the twitch vods, delete TL bookmark, and thank the lord that blizzard don't put stupid spoiler titles to their vods. I remember GOM once did that, they split each game (not match) into separate vods with titles like "Bomber vs Life game 1", effectively spoiling both results and number of games of a series.


Yeah could do that but i would have to go to twitch "on time" to bookmark the VODS. sadly sometime i don't browse a starcraft site for a week so when i want to know where is the twitch/youtube channel i come to TL for it but results are out.

I made a website feedback thread to continue the discussion there if you want since it's not really the subject of this topic (my bad sorry i started)
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
munch
Profile Joined July 2014
Mute City2363 Posts
November 10 2015 09:53 GMT
#215
On November 10 2015 16:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.



Lorning is your best friend

Small SC2 VOD thread is invaluable. Everyone who wants spoiler free stuff should use it
WriterForm is temporary, MMA is permanent || http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/508630-article-archive
niekoz
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands350 Posts
November 10 2015 10:48 GMT
#216
Thanks for the spoiler
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
November 10 2015 12:25 GMT
#217
On November 10 2015 18:53 thecrazymunchkin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2015 16:27 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 10 2015 08:05 Ansibled wrote:
On November 10 2015 07:10 FFW_Rude wrote:
On November 09 2015 04:39 Ansibled wrote:
People who want to hide spoilers from everywhere are so incredibly annoying, maybe if you don't want to be spoiled don't look at community websites until after you watched the VoDs.



And where are the VODS ? Community websites ! Man you are a genius.

Well i won't watch it then. Would have pisses me off though

https://www.youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft

http://www.sc2tube.com


Sc2tube shows "sos vs life" on the Frontpage.
The Youtube channel automaticly load : "sos vs Life" final.



Lorning is your best friend

Small SC2 VOD thread is invaluable. Everyone who wants spoiler free stuff should use it


Yup. That's where i was going when i opened TeamLiquid.
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
swissman777
Profile Joined September 2014
1106 Posts
November 10 2015 22:24 GMT
#218
On November 08 2015 14:56 Plexa wrote:
I'm sure the the rest of the writing team will have many things to say about this weekend and this series, so stay tuned for their recaps!


And where are their recaps? Are they too busy trying out lotv ?
CptMarvel
Profile Joined May 2014
France236 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-11 02:44:15
November 11 2015 02:38 GMT
#219
sOs has the two things that make you win games in SC2 above all else : stellar crisis management and an undeniable talent to fuck your opponent's brain up with the clutchest, weirdest cheeses ever.

MVP and, to a smaller extent, Life, have that too. They're the three players who have repeatedly pulled it off when it truly matters and I feel like that's the way they should be remembered. These guys are not only mechanically gifted, they're downright insane (granted sOs is on another level of crazy).

On a game where macro is so fragile and fights so volatile, we should have known from the start that THIS was the road to success.

Edit : sry about the double post, haven't had coffee yet
CptMarvel
Profile Joined May 2014
France236 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-11 02:43:48
November 11 2015 02:42 GMT
#220

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