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INnoVation: The Road to BlizzCon - Rank 1 - Page 3

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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
October 25 2017 16:11 GMT
#41
On October 25 2017 23:14 beepbeeeeeeep wrote:
75% win rate vs Z.....insane

And he still maintains that Zerg is OP. Innovation you crazy
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Mun_Su
Profile Joined December 2012
France2063 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-25 16:17:48
October 25 2017 16:16 GMT
#42
On October 26 2017 01:08 curufinwe_wins wrote:
Who had a better year than Innovation? Stats.

Overall a better year in SSL. (1st and 4th vs 1 and 5th
Overall a better year in GSL (1st, top 4, top 8, vs 1st, top 8, top 16)

Similar resumes in the other offline tournaments (Inno's win in GSL v World and Gyeonggi being counteracted by Stat's second in Gyeonggi, in the IEM Worlds, and similar consistency everywhere else.)



And yet 2 trophies against 4. Also that VSL win was a good one. so 50% winrate in finals agasint 100% this year. (also since his defeat against Soulkey, INno is around 90% in final of big tournaments, you can hardly get more clutch.


On October 26 2017 01:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2017 23:14 beepbeeeeeeep wrote:
75% win rate vs Z.....insane

And he still maintains that Zerg is OP. Innovation you crazy



That is just random numbers.
INno <3 - TY - Maru - Taeja - Rain <3 - Classic <3 - Stephano <3 - soO <3 - Soulkey - Dark - SERRAL =O / END REGION LOCK
frazzle
Profile Joined June 2012
United States468 Posts
October 25 2017 16:17 GMT
#43
On October 26 2017 01:07 Odoakar wrote:
Eh, I still think you can't compare him to Mvp.

Article was nice, but has a lot of fancy words, leaves a bit of a bloated feeling...but I might be wrong, English is not my native language.

Out of curiosity, what was meant by the statement ."...when you take into account the Balkanization of the international scene"...is international scene fractured and at war with each other? Is the international scene dead like the hopes and dreams of us living in Balkans?

I think he means the departure of KesPa, along with a slow exodus of big name foreign teams (EG?), leaving players on their own without the old support structure of KesPa/Team life.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
October 25 2017 16:20 GMT
#44
These complaints about the title are a bit weird to me- - it seems fine.
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
October 25 2017 16:26 GMT
#45
On October 26 2017 01:16 Mun_Su wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 01:08 curufinwe_wins wrote:
Who had a better year than Innovation? Stats.

Overall a better year in SSL. (1st and 4th vs 1 and 5th
Overall a better year in GSL (1st, top 4, top 8, vs 1st, top 8, top 16)

Similar resumes in the other offline tournaments (Inno's win in GSL v World and Gyeonggi being counteracted by Stat's second in Gyeonggi, in the IEM Worlds, and similar consistency everywhere else.)



And yet 2 trophies against 4. Also that VSL win was a good one. so 50% winrate in finals agasint 100% this year. (also since his defeat against Soulkey, INno is around 90% in final of big tournaments, you can hardly get more clutch.


Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 01:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On October 25 2017 23:14 beepbeeeeeeep wrote:
75% win rate vs Z.....insane

And he still maintains that Zerg is OP. Innovation you crazy



That is just random numbers.


It's his winrate across all games in 2017, straight from Aligulac!
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Ctone23
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States1839 Posts
October 25 2017 16:33 GMT
#46
Nice read, agree that inno was "myopic and brutish" in his early SC2 career, as if his confidence was so high that series planning was, in his mind, wasted effort, which he alludes to in his WCS Signature Series video when mentioning his transition into SC2.

Going through the rough times that he did, with himself admitting he was always thinking of his accomplishments or 'legacy' (cant remember exact words on his Signature Series vid) imo led to his renaissance in 2017. He probably realized that the effort he was attempting not to waste was actually greater than he could have predicted. It's like he upgraded himself from the T-800 to the T-1000, able to mold himself into whatever he needs to be to win.
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
October 25 2017 16:36 GMT
#47
On October 26 2017 01:26 Olli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 01:16 Mun_Su wrote:
On October 26 2017 01:08 curufinwe_wins wrote:
Who had a better year than Innovation? Stats.

Overall a better year in SSL. (1st and 4th vs 1 and 5th
Overall a better year in GSL (1st, top 4, top 8, vs 1st, top 8, top 16)

Similar resumes in the other offline tournaments (Inno's win in GSL v World and Gyeonggi being counteracted by Stat's second in Gyeonggi, in the IEM Worlds, and similar consistency everywhere else.)



And yet 2 trophies against 4. Also that VSL win was a good one. so 50% winrate in finals agasint 100% this year. (also since his defeat against Soulkey, INno is around 90% in final of big tournaments, you can hardly get more clutch.


On October 26 2017 01:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On October 25 2017 23:14 beepbeeeeeeep wrote:
75% win rate vs Z.....insane

And he still maintains that Zerg is OP. Innovation you crazy



That is just random numbers.


It's his winrate across all games in 2017, straight from Aligulac!


"That's just a number." is the best INnoquote.
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-25 16:37:23
October 25 2017 16:36 GMT
#48
On October 26 2017 01:26 Olli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 01:16 Mun_Su wrote:
On October 26 2017 01:08 curufinwe_wins wrote:
Who had a better year than Innovation? Stats.

Overall a better year in SSL. (1st and 4th vs 1 and 5th
Overall a better year in GSL (1st, top 4, top 8, vs 1st, top 8, top 16)

Similar resumes in the other offline tournaments (Inno's win in GSL v World and Gyeonggi being counteracted by Stat's second in Gyeonggi, in the IEM Worlds, and similar consistency everywhere else.)



And yet 2 trophies against 4. Also that VSL win was a good one. so 50% winrate in finals agasint 100% this year. (also since his defeat against Soulkey, INno is around 90% in final of big tournaments, you can hardly get more clutch.


On October 26 2017 01:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On October 25 2017 23:14 beepbeeeeeeep wrote:
75% win rate vs Z.....insane

And he still maintains that Zerg is OP. Innovation you crazy



That is just random numbers.


It's his winrate across all games in 2017, straight from Aligulac!

Inno's method call to calculateWinrate (T, Z) returned 10%.

Therefore, Zerg OP.
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nick00bot
Profile Joined November 2010
326 Posts
October 25 2017 16:43 GMT
#49
Great article! I wanna say it's best one of the series.

Previous articles I think have been a little overly focused on writing around a concept more than the players, so they have a lacked a bit of the historical context and style analysis that this one had. They were still good articles but just overindulgent, and that flaw that I think prevented some of the newer folks from learning about the players.

This article retained a lot of the best part of this concept-centered writing style, while still providing a lot of good information about the player and doing so in a pleasing narrative fashion. Number #1 in the Power rank article power rank
SoO~Speed~Serral~$o$~Dark~Myungsik~TY~Byun~Classic
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13991 Posts
October 25 2017 17:01 GMT
#50
On October 26 2017 01:43 nick00bot wrote:
Great article! I wanna say it's best one of the series.

Previous articles I think have been a little overly focused on writing around a concept more than the players, so they have a lacked a bit of the historical context and style analysis that this one had. They were still good articles but just overindulgent, and that flaw that I think prevented some of the newer folks from learning about the players.

This article retained a lot of the best part of this concept-centered writing style, while still providing a lot of good information about the player and doing so in a pleasing narrative fashion. Number #1 in the Power rank article power rank

Oh you are doing on of those too?
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
October 25 2017 17:14 GMT
#51
On October 26 2017 01:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2017 23:14 beepbeeeeeeep wrote:
75% win rate vs Z.....insane

And he still maintains that Zerg is OP. Innovation you crazy


To be fair I can understand him to some extent. Any top level player will have insane winrates if they play enough, but HLB has been looking OP against bio for a while now, the mech resurgance allowed Inno and Gumi to win GSLs, but it looks like that's figured out now as well
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Mun_Su
Profile Joined December 2012
France2063 Posts
October 25 2017 17:14 GMT
#52
@Olli : don't worry, like ZigguratOfUr and pvnsp said it's a famous INnoquote :D
INno <3 - TY - Maru - Taeja - Rain <3 - Classic <3 - Stephano <3 - soO <3 - Soulkey - Dark - SERRAL =O / END REGION LOCK
jpoiv
Profile Joined April 2013
15 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-25 17:24:41
October 25 2017 17:23 GMT
#53
this is a beautiful bit of sc2 writing olli, well done!
ProKey
Profile Joined October 2017
3 Posts
October 25 2017 17:31 GMT
#54
Horrible title. All 16 are on the "road to blizzcon". Uncreative, would have been a letdown as the title for number 16 two weeks back.
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stevemachine17
Profile Joined April 2017
45 Posts
October 25 2017 17:42 GMT
#55
Man, innovation is so freaking good, he makes zerg and protoss look underpowered. He just seems unstoppable at this point in time. I Hope Rogue takes it for the zerg, but oh boy inno looks tough
nick00bot
Profile Joined November 2010
326 Posts
October 25 2017 18:08 GMT
#56
On October 26 2017 02:01 Cricketer12 wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 26 2017 01:43 nick00bot wrote:
Great article! I wanna say it's best one of the series.

Previous articles I think have been a little overly focused on writing around a concept more than the players, so they have a lacked a bit of the historical context and style analysis that this one had. They were still good articles but just overindulgent, and that flaw that I think prevented some of the newer folks from learning about the players.

This article retained a lot of the best part of this concept-centered writing style, while still providing a lot of good information about the player and doing so in a pleasing narrative fashion. Number #1 in the Power rank article power rank


Oh you are doing on of those too?



You know, I looked through them again and briefly considered it, but then I realized most of my favorite articles were written by the same person, and my least favorite by another, so I figured it would just be unnecessarily mean to spend the bottom 4 shitting on mostly one guy lol, especially since I don't really dislike any of the articles anyways hahaha
SoO~Speed~Serral~$o$~Dark~Myungsik~TY~Byun~Classic
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
October 25 2017 18:22 GMT
#57
On October 26 2017 02:31 ProKey wrote:
Horrible title. All 16 are on the "road to blizzcon". Uncreative, would have been a letdown as the title for number 16 two weeks back.


I'm so glad you made an account just to post that. Thank you so much.
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-25 18:31:59
October 25 2017 18:24 GMT
#58
On October 26 2017 03:22 Olli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 02:31 ProKey wrote:
Horrible title. All 16 are on the "road to blizzcon". Uncreative, would have been a letdown as the title for number 16 two weeks back.


I'm so glad you made an account just to post that. Thank you so much.

All the title criticism is actually from the same person, who really, really didn't like your choice of title and so created multiple alts to spam how much he hated it

Still, I would have preferred a subtitle myself. Anything at all, even if only for consistency's sake.
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Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
October 25 2017 18:27 GMT
#59
On October 26 2017 03:24 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 03:22 Olli wrote:
On October 26 2017 02:31 ProKey wrote:
Horrible title. All 16 are on the "road to blizzcon". Uncreative, would have been a letdown as the title for number 16 two weeks back.


I'm so glad you made an account just to post that. Thank you so much.

All the title criticism is actually from the same person, who really, really didn't like your choice of title and so created multiple alts to spam how much he hated it

Still, I would have preferred a subtitle myself. Anything at all, even if only for consistency's sake.


Fair enough. At least with you I'm quite confident you actually read the piece and that your criticism is not for the sake of criticism.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
October 25 2017 18:35 GMT
#60
On October 26 2017 03:27 Olli wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 26 2017 03:24 pvsnp wrote:
On October 26 2017 03:22 Olli wrote:
On October 26 2017 02:31 ProKey wrote:
Horrible title. All 16 are on the "road to blizzcon". Uncreative, would have been a letdown as the title for number 16 two weeks back.


I'm so glad you made an account just to post that. Thank you so much.

All the title criticism is actually from the same person, who really, really didn't like your choice of title and so created multiple alts to spam how much he hated it

Still, I would have preferred a subtitle myself. Anything at all, even if only for consistency's sake.


Fair enough. At least with you I'm quite confident you actually read the piece and that your criticism is not for the sake of criticism.

I rather liked the piece, especially how it stuck close to Inno's career and let the narrative develop naturally from there. Some of these articles barely mention the player's actual deeds and it feels as though they are trying to cram a fabricated narrative down our throats. So, congratulations for that.

Just off the top of my head, because I have a fondness for pithy titles: something simple like "The Greatest of All Time?" or "The Empty Throne" gets the message across quite clearly. Something a bit more literary, like "The Machine Who Would Be King," or "Tῷ κρατίστῳ" could work but at the risk of going over people's heads.
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