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The Greatest Rivalry Never Told: Life vs Taeja - Page 4

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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
November 20 2015 20:58 GMT
#61
On November 21 2015 05:53 Zealously wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 21 2015 03:28 Shinespark wrote:
This honestly feels less like a real article and a more like a "TL is the greatest team hurr durr bias? never heard of it!".


I don't understand what this post means

I think he means it's an excuse to talk about how great TaeJa was.
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Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5357 Posts
November 21 2015 05:27 GMT
#62
It's pretty obvious just reading through this thread who's relatively new to SC2 and who's actually watched both of the players from the beginning lol. Those ESV Weeklies were the shit. The IPLTAC was going on the same time, but it was so obvious that the level of play in ESV was so much higher than even those of some of the best foreigner pros at the time.
¯\_(シ)_/¯
DonDomingo
Profile Joined October 2015
504 Posts
November 21 2015 12:00 GMT
#63
I miss the well-playing TaeJa once thought a welcome constant in an ever changing world.
DonDomingo
Profile Joined October 2015
504 Posts
November 21 2015 12:01 GMT
#64
On November 21 2015 05:58 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 21 2015 05:53 Zealously wrote:
On November 21 2015 03:28 Shinespark wrote:
This honestly feels less like a real article and a more like a "TL is the greatest team hurr durr bias? never heard of it!".


I don't understand what this post means

I think he means it's an excuse to talk about how great TaeJa was.

Which really is just a sad reminder that he's no longer relevant
Morbidius
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil3449 Posts
November 21 2015 20:14 GMT
#65
That game on Yeonsu is criminally underrated.
Has foreign StarCraft hit rock bottom?
ZerOCoolSC2
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
9010 Posts
November 21 2015 23:53 GMT
#66
I consider myself a good writer. But Stuchiu, you have a way with the keyboard. TaeJa vs Life or TaeJa vs Innovation. He plays the best players and gifts us with some of the best games SCII has seen. Is he irrelevant now? Sure, but his wrists are healing, he's enjoying those $10k checks. Maybe he will make an appearance at one of the GSL/SSL quals and surprise people.
Meckie
Profile Joined September 2012
18 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-22 13:12:59
November 22 2015 13:06 GMT
#67
He's the very reason I kept on playing SC2. Also his matches vs. Innovation are definitely among the best games of all time. I'm not a Terran-player and I'm generally not the biggest fan of mirror-matches but when those two faced eachother, it was one long orgasm.

Some moron in here claimed TaeJa wasn't even in top 10..... And the argument everyone with that retarded opinion uses is the fact that he never won anything on Korean soil - and obviously that's correct. But all of the "best" who won in Korea got stomped when they faced TaeJa at his peak. Just not in Korea. TaeJa travelled the world constantly and still managed to do that. Had he stayed permanently in Korea, he'd probably have about five times the amount of practice - and even a lot better practice - than he had. I'm pretty sure we have a lot of Koreans who appreciates the fact that he travelled a lot.
MoosyDoosy
Profile Joined November 2014
United States4519 Posts
November 22 2015 15:39 GMT
#68
Life just became the best player in SC2 with that Blizzcon run. He just slowly tipped MVP over.
"Just a second too late rsoultin :D" - My 4k Guardian post
Glioburd
Profile Joined April 2008
France1911 Posts
November 22 2015 16:18 GMT
#69
For a second I thought it was Gorush and Nal_rA in the banner.
"You should hate loosing, but you should never fear defeat." NaDa.
sc2chronic
Profile Joined May 2012
United States777 Posts
November 22 2015 22:34 GMT
#70
This article screams elitism. Basically name drops every known old school player to let us know that u watched korean weekly cups and every other caster just focused on flash and jaedong. There was no in depth look at the HUGE tournaments that u keep mentioning. Taeja vs life in gsl was the most anticipated match that season. If you're going to write about a rivalry you should insert more details about their rivalry. 5-4 20-12 etc etc numbers numbers. Amazing you can look up match scores. Omg they both had normal career startups with playing online cups. So when do we get to the part about their rivalry again?

This had a good start but lacked in anything substantial afterwards. 3/10 lazy writing more TL Taeja propaganda.
terrible, terrible, damage
Dapper_Cad
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom964 Posts
November 23 2015 01:45 GMT
#71
You go girlfriend, don't let know TL beetches mess with your alpha strut.

Enjoyed the story and the vids. Was also nice to read one of these in one sitting.
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.
Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5357 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-23 04:58:30
November 23 2015 02:27 GMT
#72
nvm, not gonna get started against ignorant ppl who don't know their history...
¯\_(シ)_/¯
Wintex
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Norway16838 Posts
November 23 2015 03:56 GMT
#73
niiiice
The Bomber boy
Sjokola
Profile Joined November 2010
Netherlands800 Posts
November 23 2015 11:33 GMT
#74
On November 20 2015 11:07 Phredxor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 20 2015 11:03 Blind Io wrote:
On November 20 2015 01:12 MarianoSC2 wrote:
Good Article, but one who thinks that Taeja is on par with Life and one of top 2/3 players of All time is seriously deluded or knows nothing about SC...
The guy isn't even top 10 :/ Was a beast though on his prime thats for sure.

When he retired he had won more premier titles than any other player in SC2 history. You are either seriously deluded or you know nothing about SC...


Losing record against Flash though. Clearly a scrub.

Liquid'Nazgul has a winning record vs Idra
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