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the 100K man strikes again! that was one of the best finals in SC2 ever!!!WCS Grand Finals Post-Game Thread - Page 2
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Nirel
Israel1526 Posts
the 100K man strikes again! that was one of the best finals in SC2 ever!!! | ||
The_Templar
your Country52797 Posts
On November 08 2015 17:26 endy wrote: can we say $O$ again now? More like $$O$$. | ||
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Frenchy91
France36 Posts
I think I would still rank him as the greatest Hots player. Then Taeja, then sOs, then tie between Inno, Parting, and herO... Then Maru, Rain, soO, Classic.... then Byul, Polt, Zest, Bomber Taeja ? Are you serious ? In terms of terran Innovation is clearly ahead, 2 GSL win, one GSL final versus Homestory cup... Maru is a lot better too. Same with Parting. Classic is clearly ahead for me, 2 stealeagues and a very stacked IEM, 2 Blizzcon semis, great performance in Proleague. It's always hard to make this ranking because life has done very bad for example in team league and Proleague is very important in Korea. It also depends how you value consistency. Maru is a monster in this regard, SOS and Life have absmyssal low and big breakout performance. I think TL staff will do a power rank of the best HOTS player we will see (if Taeja is ahead of Inno/Maru joke of the year). | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On November 08 2015 17:41 Frenchy91 wrote: Taeja ? Are you serious ? In terms of terran Innovation is clearly ahead, 2 GSL win, one GSL final versus Homestory cup... Maru is a lot better too. Same with Parting. Classic is clearly ahead for me, 2 stealeagues and a very stacked IEM, 2 Blizzcon semis, great performance in Proleague. It's always hard to make this ranking because life has done very bad for example in team league and Proleague is very important in Korea. It also depends how you value consistency. Maru is a monster in this regard, SOS and Life have absmyssal low and big breakout performance. I think TL staff will do a power rank of the best HOTS player we will see (if Taeja is ahead of Inno/Maru joke of the year). Yeah Taeja would be unlikely to breach the top 5 HotS players because he was non-existent this year. He could be ahead of maru, but inno has been more consistent over the entirety of HotS and must be ahead of Taeja. Life has been the best overall, for sure, and sOs has to rank somewhere. | ||
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FusionCutter
Canada974 Posts
ugh. Anyway, congrats to sOs. | ||
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sircaw
10 Posts
Great final,Great players and what a great way to say goodbye to Heart of the swarm. | ||
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MoonFan
Vietnam55 Posts
A little sad for life though But to be fair Life showed a lot of his ZvP in his recent matches for SoS to study | ||
digmouse
China6329 Posts
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REyeM
2674 Posts
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SourPatchParent
United States44 Posts
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On November 08 2015 18:20 digmouse wrote: Retrospectively, if sOs did not replace Zest at MSI he won't be at BlizzCon in the first place so he probably have to buy Zest a good meal lol. Life must be really happy that KT did not send Zest there  | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On November 08 2015 18:34 deacon.frost wrote: Life must be really happy that KT did not send Zest there Proleague > Individuals, the KeSPA players have it in their blood, the others learn it the hard way. | ||
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Roadog
Canada1670 Posts
Oh my god I had work right as the Grand Final started RIP but I got back and I just watching finished the replay DAMN THE STUPID TWITCH PREVIEW THUMBNAIL FUNCTION FOR SPOILING THE FIRST 6 GAMES + Show Spoiler + On October 19 2015 15:36 Roadog wrote: FIRST TIME IN A BLIZZCON LR THREAD HYPE HYPE HYPE $♥$ HYPE ![[image loading]](http://puu.sh/iEjU6/5e6ad17431.gif) I'M GOING TO STOP UNDERRATING sOs AND GO FULL FANBOY  herO 3:0  FanTaSy Classic 3:2  ByuL Zest 2:3 INnoVation Life 3:0 LilbowRain 3:1 PoltsOs 3:1 PartinGDream 3:1 HydraMaru 3:2 Rogue herO 3:2 ClassicINnoVation 3:2 LifeRain 2:3 sOs Dream 3:1 MaruherO 2:3 INnoVationsOs 3:1 DreamsOs 4:1 INnoVation in the finalIn the end, my bracket fell completely to shit, except for one guy, my guy, the absolute madman sOs $♥$ he actually did it, the absolute madman AGAIN And in one of the top series in the HotS era. A fitting way to end the HotS era, really. Two of some of the most infamous "attackers" (or to put it more cynically, cheesers), with big arsenals full of stupid shit, all-in in the biggest tournament of the year, and one of the biggest of this expansion. sOs needed a miracle just to get in to Blizzcon after a bad first 2 seasons and dual Ro16 exits in both Starleagues in Season 3. Time was running out, but he got that miracle when Zest was pulled from the MSI MGA for Proleague, and sOs took his chance and stepped in for him. With a victory at MSI MGA and a semifinal finish at DreamHack Stockholm, sOs had luckily dodged the #16 and #15 spots and dodged dates with either herO+INnoVation/Life, or Maru. This wasn't a case of two prizefighters playing it safe, feeling each other out gradually in the beginning before throwing their standard punches. This was like a duel between street fighters, of Krav Maga masters, with sucker-punches right out of the gate(way), throwing their dirtiest nut-shots, eye-gouges and charley-horses, right to the end. Things got stupid right in the beginning with the serial escalation of 11gate Zealot into Cannon rush into proxy Oracle at the Cannon Rush location into a final gateway all-in for sOs to take Game 1. Countless times I saw some fearful deja vu: sOs pulling out the Tempests again (shoutout to #Rotti), Lifeling drama on Moonlight Madness, the Protoss trying to take a third with a completely inadequate army on Bridgehead, losing both, and trying a DT attack that in the end was too little, too late. It all came down to Game 7, #esportsfanfiction, on a Zerg-favored map, the map with the Zerg symbol right in the middle, Iron Fortress. Despite having never trailed in the series, the odds were suddenly stacked against sOs. Game 7. When I saw the 14/14 I got horrible flashbacks of the GSL 2015 Season 1 Final, Game 7, where Life clutched it out and 10pooled out PartinG. A cheese? In Game 7? PvZ on Iron Fortress again? But! Just in this tournament alone we have seen sOs pull Houdini move after Houdini move, making sick comebacks against every opponent he faced, if not in the series overall, in the individual games. Stupid shit vs. stupid shit, 14/14 colliding with the dual-probe-scout Cannon Rush. I don't really have anything more to say about this game; I lost my fucking mind when I saw the Stargate, when another $100,000 was in sight for sOs, even though in the end, it was the Blink attack that finished off the tournament. sOs will probably never achieve bonjwa status. Even now he is derided as a cheeser and a fluke (well, it's been 3 flukes now), a weekend warrior who has not acheived the consistency needed to make him one of the greatest of all time. But whether it's a no-name tournament with players from the Middle East and a prize pool of exactly $0 and 0 WCS points but with no VODs and no replays, or the year-end World Championship with all the greatest Starleague and WCS champions of the year and a $100,000 grand prize, as long as sOs is in the tournament, he is a guy you can never, ever count out. + Show Spoiler + Now, out of all the sports bandwagons I have jumped on: - 2008: Red Wings, Patriots, Celtics, Chelsea FC, Germany in football, Sweden in hockey, Roger Federer - 2014 November: sOs Another one has delivered me a major, major championship. PASSHUN OVERFLOWING SORRY FOR THE BLOG AHHHHHHHHHHHH WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY | ||
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AKAvg
Brazil298 Posts
I guess 30k-40k pots don't motive him enough, :D | ||
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theMagus
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RandomPlayer
Russian Federation393 Posts
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baldgye
United Kingdom1092 Posts
I also felt that Life really messed up in the game with Tempest and he had that game won but he moved into the choke instead of staying defensive and threw it. In HotS we never had a champion of the level of MVP, i hope that changes in LotV. | ||
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Draconicfire
Canada2562 Posts
That said, what's everyone's opinions on the best one or two series from this weekend? I didn't have a chance to watch many of them due to the time difference. | ||
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Mikku
Czech Republic58 Posts
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Ctesias
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