The Greatest Foreigners of All Time Part 1 - Page 9

On December 26 2015 06:06 OtherWorld wrote:
Typo on the TL.net front page, "forigners" instead of "foreigners" in the small preview box.
Other than that, well here's an article that will ignite passionate debates. Disappointed it isn't the top 15 greatest French players of all time though

On December 26 2015 07:06 jubil wrote:

The IPL3 win was not super impressive, imo, I was there. The top Koreans that were there choked HARD, Slayers brought their A squad, Boxer included, but Stephano never ran into them; his opponent in the finals was Lucky... (yeah...who?), and it was a boring steamroll (after a really long boring exhibition match of some MOBA I thought would never take off by the silly name of League of Legends...)

NASL I didn't watch so I don't know, but HuK's MLG win was pretty impressive, and I would add Thorzain taking down Polt at Dreamhack

On December 26 2015 14:38 stuchiu wrote:
Most people don't associate freedom with bl/infestor

On December 26 2015 17:04 Liquid`Jinro wrote:

Thanks but I wasn't even sure I would be on this list lol D:

I think if my 3 tournament placings had happened 1 or 2 years later, you could argue I should be higher but the scene was so young at the time, I think they should be 'devalued' a little bit at least.

Doesn't mean I'm not proud of those two GSL semi finals, of course


I didn't even play the traditional 1-1-1 at first, the version I preferred was the Brat_OK one with ravens and bio instead of tanks.

I like to think I popularized blue flame hellion drops in TvT on the korean ladder tho (indirectly, it was before I'd really made it into anything, but nobody was using blue flame hellion builds TvT when I got to Korea and after I started using them a lot on ladder, suddenly it was one of the like 3 standard TvT openings for a while).

One of my favorite memories from around this time was hearing oGsTOP complaining about how he can't beat the bio guys TvT on ladder (specifically bomber and marineking).... I'm like "Really? I think bio openers are pretty easy to beat". So TOP, who at this time is like top 5 KR GM (which was far higher than me rofl) tells me to login to his account and play some games so he can watch.

Mentally Im like "oh crap my big mouth", but I say "OK". First game I get MarineKing, cloak banshee into blue flame hellion drop into sick game win. 2nd game Bomber, same thing. Looked pretty boss IMO even though it involved a fuck ton of luck :D

EDIT: Then around the time I was playing Marineking in the GSL semis, I was experimenting with this fucking BATTLECRUSIER tank 1 base push on scrap station with an SCV pull, knocking down the rocks (it won some games but was really inconsistent), TOP - who at this point was a really strong TvT:er and avid blueflame hellion user - was like "why dont you just use the blueflame hellion into banshee build..?". Which I did for game 1 which I won. Full circle : )

Disappointed about the Jungle Basin game tho, I had this really interesting mech build planned (nobody meched TvT at this time except goody lol), but it was such a new build that it didn't have all the kinks worked out and I got flustered and screwed it up when MKP did something I didn't expect. It was really similar to some of the later day double armory mech styles tho, and it worked well in practice vs Select and some others (split map gameplan fairly strong on jungle basin).

Also remember having like a 4-5 game TvT marathon with MVP on the ladder when he first started climbing it (just before I made GSL for the first time), and a ton of long TvTs vs boxer, also on ladder... Man I'd forgotten how cool ladder was around that time.

Speaking of ladder builds, while my blue flame hellion TvT style got a little bit popular, dario's 1/1/1 one gas TvT marine/hellion/medivac opener became THE build when he used it on ladder. It was insane, almost every good korean terran would use it at least sometimes.

Spunky was like "in the future, never use your good builds on the ladder dario wtf" :D