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Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1906 Posts
March 17 2017 18:01 GMT
#21
On March 18 2017 02:14 cSc.Dav1oN wrote:
damn, it would be impossibly hard to wake up 6 AM local time to watch


People from NA east coast like myself have been waking up at 4/5 am for years. I'll trade you the midnight start to get that time slot back.
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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16021 Posts
March 17 2017 18:03 GMT
#22
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.

TRUE beating Zest was a bigger upset for sure
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Koromon
Profile Joined May 2012
United States304 Posts
March 17 2017 18:54 GMT
#23
Go Ryung~~~
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13990 Posts
March 17 2017 19:29 GMT
#24
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

That DRG series was the single greatest bo3 in history.
Also I really pity the loser of this series...
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
March 17 2017 19:52 GMT
#25
On March 18 2017 03:03 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.

TRUE beating Zest was a bigger upset for sure


With slow lings vs collosus.

slow lings
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
March 17 2017 19:58 GMT
#26
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.


1. I think you underestimate how much of a joke San was coming into that encounter. Also it was a drawn out macro game and NesTea probably lost a lot on ladder (he almost never streamed so who knows) but not offline, which is what the game was.

2. Are you kidding me? Jjakji beating Leenock was absurd and he did so in spectacular fashion. Leenock was the best ZvT at that point in time. He had just won MLG Providence coming from the open bracket, and recently defeated Mvp twice and MMA. Jjkaji had almost no TvZ data to back him and many were surprised he was even in a final.

3. Are you aware of PartinG's PvT record? Him not making it out of that group is like watching a shark get eaten by a pool of seals.

4. MC absolutely demolished Jinro 4-0 in the previous season so coming into the encounter it was seen as an even bigger mismatch than what you see here.

5. When did TRUE beat Zest? In the middle of 2014. In the year of Zest (second most dominant year ever). After Zest won a gsl. After Zest all-killed SKT. After Zest won the World Championship. After pretty much every Zerg before him (including soO and Soulkey) got rekt by Zest. That's when.

6. Yeah DRG was pretty sick in WoL, but this was in the early days of HotS, where DRG had pitiful results leading up to this encounter and was sadly looking to go the way of NesTea. Also consider, it had been month after month after month of Zergs being destroyed by Bogus. Bogus was so good at TvZ that going into a macro game against him was suicide. If he safely got 3 orbitals down, it felt like the Zerg was better off leaving the game. So for DRG of all people to show up one day and crush him at his own game was extraordinary.
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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13990 Posts
March 17 2017 20:21 GMT
#27
On March 18 2017 04:58 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.


1. I think you underestimate how much of a joke San was coming into that encounter. Also it was a drawn out macro game and NesTea probably lost a lot on ladder (he almost never streamed so who knows) but not offline, which is what the game was.

2. Are you kidding me? Jjakji beating Leenock was absurd and he did so in spectacular fashion. Leenock was the best ZvT at that point in time. He had just won MLG Providence coming from the open bracket, and recently defeated Mvp twice and MMA. Jjkaji had almost no TvZ data to back him and many were surprised he was even in a final.

3. Are you aware of PartinG's PvT record? Him not making it out of that group is like watching a shark get eaten by a pool of seals.

4. MC absolutely demolished Jinro 4-0 in the previous season so coming into the encounter it was seen as an even bigger mismatch than what you see here.

5. When did TRUE beat Zest? In the middle of 2014. In the year of Zest (second most dominant year ever). After Zest won a gsl. After Zest all-killed SKT. After Zest won the World Championship. After pretty much every Zerg before him (including soO and Soulkey) got rekt by Zest. That's when.

6. Yeah DRG was pretty sick in WoL, but this was in the early days of HotS, where DRG had pitiful results leading up to this encounter and was sadly looking to go the way of NesTea. Also consider, it had been month after month after month of Zergs being destroyed by Bogus. Bogus was so good at TvZ that going into a macro game against him was suicide. If he safely got 3 orbitals down, it felt like the Zerg was better off leaving the game. So for DRG of all people to show up one day and crush him at his own game was extraordinary.

cannot believe you put all that effort into shutting down Poopi of all people
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12906 Posts
March 17 2017 20:35 GMT
#28
On March 18 2017 04:58 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.


1. I think you underestimate how much of a joke San was coming into that encounter. Also it was a drawn out macro game and NesTea probably lost a lot on ladder (he almost never streamed so who knows) but not offline, which is what the game was.

2. Are you kidding me? Jjakji beating Leenock was absurd and he did so in spectacular fashion. Leenock was the best ZvT at that point in time. He had just won MLG Providence coming from the open bracket, and recently defeated Mvp twice and MMA. Jjkaji had almost no TvZ data to back him and many were surprised he was even in a final.

3. Are you aware of PartinG's PvT record? Him not making it out of that group is like watching a shark get eaten by a pool of seals.

4. MC absolutely demolished Jinro 4-0 in the previous season so coming into the encounter it was seen as an even bigger mismatch than what you see here.

5. When did TRUE beat Zest? In the middle of 2014. In the year of Zest (second most dominant year ever). After Zest won a gsl. After Zest all-killed SKT. After Zest won the World Championship. After pretty much every Zerg before him (including soO and Soulkey) got rekt by Zest. That's when.

6. Yeah DRG was pretty sick in WoL, but this was in the early days of HotS, where DRG had pitiful results leading up to this encounter and was sadly looking to go the way of NesTea. Also consider, it had been month after month after month of Zergs being destroyed by Bogus. Bogus was so good at TvZ that going into a macro game against him was suicide. If he safely got 3 orbitals down, it felt like the Zerg was better off leaving the game. So for DRG of all people to show up one day and crush him at his own game was extraordinary.

So basically only true vs Zest was a comparable upset, but ZvP was easier back then than TvP right now, and Ryung has even less chances than TRUE to win!
WriterMaru
munch
Profile Joined July 2014
Mute City2363 Posts
March 17 2017 20:39 GMT
#29
On March 18 2017 05:35 Poopi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 04:58 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.


1. I think you underestimate how much of a joke San was coming into that encounter. Also it was a drawn out macro game and NesTea probably lost a lot on ladder (he almost never streamed so who knows) but not offline, which is what the game was.

2. Are you kidding me? Jjakji beating Leenock was absurd and he did so in spectacular fashion. Leenock was the best ZvT at that point in time. He had just won MLG Providence coming from the open bracket, and recently defeated Mvp twice and MMA. Jjkaji had almost no TvZ data to back him and many were surprised he was even in a final.

3. Are you aware of PartinG's PvT record? Him not making it out of that group is like watching a shark get eaten by a pool of seals.

4. MC absolutely demolished Jinro 4-0 in the previous season so coming into the encounter it was seen as an even bigger mismatch than what you see here.

5. When did TRUE beat Zest? In the middle of 2014. In the year of Zest (second most dominant year ever). After Zest won a gsl. After Zest all-killed SKT. After Zest won the World Championship. After pretty much every Zerg before him (including soO and Soulkey) got rekt by Zest. That's when.

6. Yeah DRG was pretty sick in WoL, but this was in the early days of HotS, where DRG had pitiful results leading up to this encounter and was sadly looking to go the way of NesTea. Also consider, it had been month after month after month of Zergs being destroyed by Bogus. Bogus was so good at TvZ that going into a macro game against him was suicide. If he safely got 3 orbitals down, it felt like the Zerg was better off leaving the game. So for DRG of all people to show up one day and crush him at his own game was extraordinary.

So basically only true vs Zest was a comparable upset, but ZvP was easier back then than TvP right now, and Ryung has even less chances than TRUE to win!


They haven't even played yet, it's like saying that DRGLing winning GSL last year would have been the biggest upset in GSL history. This whole thread is confusing me
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Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
March 17 2017 20:42 GMT
#30
On March 18 2017 04:58 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.


1. I think you underestimate how much of a joke San was coming into that encounter. Also it was a drawn out macro game and NesTea probably lost a lot on ladder (he almost never streamed so who knows) but not offline, which is what the game was.

2. Are you kidding me? Jjakji beating Leenock was absurd and he did so in spectacular fashion. Leenock was the best ZvT at that point in time. He had just won MLG Providence coming from the open bracket, and recently defeated Mvp twice and MMA. Jjkaji had almost no TvZ data to back him and many were surprised he was even in a final.

3. Are you aware of PartinG's PvT record? Him not making it out of that group is like watching a shark get eaten by a pool of seals.

4. MC absolutely demolished Jinro 4-0 in the previous season so coming into the encounter it was seen as an even bigger mismatch than what you see here.

5. When did TRUE beat Zest? In the middle of 2014. In the year of Zest (second most dominant year ever). After Zest won a gsl. After Zest all-killed SKT. After Zest won the World Championship. After pretty much every Zerg before him (including soO and Soulkey) got rekt by Zest. That's when.

6. Yeah DRG was pretty sick in WoL, but this was in the early days of HotS, where DRG had pitiful results leading up to this encounter and was sadly looking to go the way of NesTea. Also consider, it had been month after month after month of Zergs being destroyed by Bogus. Bogus was so good at TvZ that going into a macro game against him was suicide. If he safely got 3 orbitals down, it felt like the Zerg was better off leaving the game. So for DRG of all people to show up one day and crush him at his own game was extraordinary.

the PartinG 1 is not true, at the time that group took place, he had already been not playing much SC2 (iirc he cruised through ro32 on full chill and didn't really care)
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12906 Posts
March 17 2017 20:44 GMT
#31
Of course it would have been. DRGLing is a rookie.
Of course Natural beating Stats in bo7 in GSL ro4 would be a bigger upset than Ryung but he'll struggle to even qualify for code S.
WriterMaru
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany16021 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-17 20:52:15
March 17 2017 20:48 GMT
#32
On March 18 2017 05:42 Ej_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 04:58 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 18 2017 02:18 Poopi wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games

Ryung beating Stats in a bo7 is a far greater upset are you joking?
Like San beating Nestea in bo1? It's bo1, Nestea lost a ton of ZvP on ladder...
Jjakji was not the favorite but it wasn't that big of an upset.
Again bo3, groups of death happens, not a big upset.
Jinro beating MC is quite an upset but MC was cheesy and in the same team iirc so Jinro "just" had to play it smart.
TRUE beating Zest? Ok so what? When?

DRG was the ZvT monster for a long time in WoL, him beating Bogus isn't especially an upset.


1. I think you underestimate how much of a joke San was coming into that encounter. Also it was a drawn out macro game and NesTea probably lost a lot on ladder (he almost never streamed so who knows) but not offline, which is what the game was.

2. Are you kidding me? Jjakji beating Leenock was absurd and he did so in spectacular fashion. Leenock was the best ZvT at that point in time. He had just won MLG Providence coming from the open bracket, and recently defeated Mvp twice and MMA. Jjkaji had almost no TvZ data to back him and many were surprised he was even in a final.

3. Are you aware of PartinG's PvT record? Him not making it out of that group is like watching a shark get eaten by a pool of seals.

4. MC absolutely demolished Jinro 4-0 in the previous season so coming into the encounter it was seen as an even bigger mismatch than what you see here.

5. When did TRUE beat Zest? In the middle of 2014. In the year of Zest (second most dominant year ever). After Zest won a gsl. After Zest all-killed SKT. After Zest won the World Championship. After pretty much every Zerg before him (including soO and Soulkey) got rekt by Zest. That's when.

6. Yeah DRG was pretty sick in WoL, but this was in the early days of HotS, where DRG had pitiful results leading up to this encounter and was sadly looking to go the way of NesTea. Also consider, it had been month after month after month of Zergs being destroyed by Bogus. Bogus was so good at TvZ that going into a macro game against him was suicide. If he safely got 3 orbitals down, it felt like the Zerg was better off leaving the game. So for DRG of all people to show up one day and crush him at his own game was extraordinary.

the PartinG 1 is not true, at the time that group took place, he had already been not playing much SC2 (iirc he cruised through ro32 on full chill and didn't really care)

Also not advancing out of a group with Flash, INnoVation and Gumiho isn't a very surprising thing, no matter how insane your vsT record is.

Also a bo1/bo3 upset isn't nearly as much of an upset as a bo7 upset.
Ryung beating Stats would definitely be top 3 upset for me.
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-17 21:34:43
March 17 2017 21:32 GMT
#33
Meh, Stats will tear Ryung apart without even trying. No tension, no competition.
Not even worth getting up to watch, unless you are a huge fan of Stats or really really believe in Ryung.
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Croatia2489 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-17 21:51:13
March 17 2017 21:44 GMT
#34
On March 17 2017 23:18 zealotstim wrote:
Question is can (P)Stats keep up that level of play for this long? I think he can, but there's always a chance Ryung makes it.


Stats was a beastly consistent player in the BW proleague. Even if Flash failed, Stats would get a win. I couldn't believe some of his wins. He'd win by either playing pretty much immaculately, or winning from far behind by doing everything perfectly, move by move, and slowly coming back. The only reason he wasn't as known is because his starleague results were lagging behind his proleague ones, but anyone who followed proleague knew he was a monster. It seems he finally got himself together and applied the same logic to a starleague format. I'm really happy for him, since he's probably my favorite protoss player from BW and SC2.

I don't doubt he's here to stay at the top.
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geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8244 Posts
March 17 2017 23:27 GMT
#35
On March 18 2017 00:35 Olli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games


Retired man Taeja knocking out GSL champion Zest


One of the best moments in GSL history.
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13990 Posts
March 17 2017 23:30 GMT
#36
On March 18 2017 08:27 geokilla wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 00:35 Olli wrote:
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games


Retired man Taeja knocking out GSL champion Zest


One of the best moments in GSL history.

Not nearly as good as me correctly predicting that group
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therabit
Profile Joined August 2011
795 Posts
March 17 2017 23:41 GMT
#37
I hope ryung gets through just because soO would prob has a better chance against him in the final
Togekiss
Profile Joined January 2013
Canada154 Posts
March 18 2017 02:45 GMT
#38
I will admit, Stats is the better of the two players on paper, yet I refuse to believe Ryung will go down so easily without a fight. I am hoping this series makes it to game 6, if not a game 7, but I guess it all really just comes down to how well each player has prepared, and ultimately how well they can execute what they've prepared in-game vs their opponent.

Here's to hoping Ryung really gets an honest shot at a finals vs soO!
verecunda
Profile Joined July 2015
Korea (South)121 Posts
March 18 2017 03:26 GMT
#39
Stats does seem like the clear favorite here, but I can't count Ryung out after seeing him beat Maru like that in the ro8.

Also, great preview as always - it's really interesting how Stats and Ryung's images have changed since the last year.
Morbidius
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil3449 Posts
March 18 2017 03:39 GMT
#40
On March 18 2017 00:35 Olli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 18 2017 00:23 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
On March 17 2017 23:25 Poopi wrote:
Yeah Ryung winning this would even be the greatest upset of GSL ever!


Not even close. Just a few off my head:

- San beating NesTea even in a bo1 back in the day

- Jjakji beating Leenock to win a gsl

- PartinG not making it out of a group of Terrans at the end of HotS

- Jinro beating MC twice to advance to the ro8

- TRUE destroying Zest in the ro8 with corruptor/queen/ling

and perhaps my all-time favorite, because it was totally fucking epic:

- DRG defeating Bogus in a bo3, all macro games


Retired man Taeja knocking out GSL champion Zest

Taeja has the gift of making Zest look like an idiot tho.
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