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On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote:
I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games?
The biggest storyline ever in sc2 has nothing to do with the actual games or tournament run. It's just nationality of course.
Or that's what blizzard seem to want to push anyway.
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On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote:
I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games?
Don't forget MMA! His win against MVP was still my second-favorite moment in all of SC2 (as a Canadian, I'm sorry but I can't help but have my favorite moment be at a Barcraft in Calgary, eating "mutalisk" chicken wings and drinking "stim packs" --think it was vodka + monster energy drink?-- watching HuK win MLG Orlando against the Boss Toss himself).
I can understand some of the hype for Serral, but it wouldn't top MMA vs DRG, MMA vs MVP, or HuK's MLG Orlando win. In my eyes anyway.
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On November 01 2018 23:48 Fango wrote:Show nested quote +On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote:
I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games? The biggest storyline ever in sc2 has nothing to do with the actual games or tournament run. It's just nationality of course. Or that's what blizzard seem to want to push anyway.
Big storylines happen when you give people something to root for. It isn't really Blizzard's fault that nationality is the one lasting thing in SC2 that partisanship formed around. As for tournament run, part of it is also that we have the undefeated GSL champion vs the undefeated WCS champion.
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On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote:
I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games?
So nobody is allowed to root for Serral because racism?
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On November 01 2018 23:30 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
sOs is going to win the entire thing. His crap performance in group stage is a next level mind game
It was no crap performance, he try to surprise Serral because he know it almost inposibal to beat him in PvZ standart game, but he fail, and few hours later Zest try to play normal PvZ game and look like a bronze player vs Serral.Them SOS beat Zest who is one of best PvP players.
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On November 01 2018 23:45 TheDougler wrote:
Seriously? Every single prediction has Serral reaching the finals? I mean I'm rooting for the guy, I'm liquibetting for him, but I've been around long enough to know there's a VERY good chance he doesn't make it past Dark, let alone making it through the semi-finals.
You have to keep in mind that this is "most likely" guessing. So let's say Serral has a 60% chance to beat Dark. Everyone would likely put Serral down as beating Dark even though everyone acknowledges it's far from certain.
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Life vs Flash, PartinG vs Flash, PartinG vs Life... watching Scarlett play Flash for the first time... sadly I dont think this tournament or any other can live up to these matches of the past. But maybe that is why we are rooting for Serral and Maru: they are the only ones who have a chance at approaching the legacy of the best ( for Serral the legacy of Scarlett and Snute and Idra and for Maru the legacy of Life Mvp PartinG and Inno).
Man I miss Life annd Flash in sc2.
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On November 01 2018 23:17 Psychonian wrote:Show nested quote +On November 01 2018 23:14 Fango wrote:
This must be the least amount of faith people have ever had in Dark (in the last you years at least) He's in an absolutely disgusting bracket against the best ZvZ player in the world
check the bracket again - soO isn't playing here.
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Serral had some shaky games against reynor and scarlett. I'm pretty sure he's going to have a really tough time even making it to the finals.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if he breezes right on through.
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Don't think any Blizzcon will ever come close to how good the 2014 one was which had several of the best games of the year, but this is still pretty hype. Lots of cool outcomes here in terms of storyline.
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On November 01 2018 23:47 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
The dream finals, Maru vs Serral, is the most likely of the 16 possible finals, but even then realistically I don't think it has more than a 20-25% chance of happening.
Aligulac agrees with you at 23%.
Man, there is so much fun to be had with that service 
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On November 02 2018 00:34 Pandain wrote:Show nested quote +On November 01 2018 23:45 TheDougler wrote:
Seriously? Every single prediction has Serral reaching the finals? I mean I'm rooting for the guy, I'm liquibetting for him, but I've been around long enough to know there's a VERY good chance he doesn't make it past Dark, let alone making it through the semi-finals. You have to keep in mind that this is "most likely" guessing. So let's say Serral has a 60% chance to beat Dark. Everyone would likely put Serral down as beating Dark even though everyone acknowledges it's far from certain.
That's true. Good point.
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On November 02 2018 00:07 ZigguratOfUr wrote:Show nested quote +On November 01 2018 23:48 Fango wrote:On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote:
I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games? The biggest storyline ever in sc2 has nothing to do with the actual games or tournament run. It's just nationality of course. Or that's what blizzard seem to want to push anyway. Big storylines happen when you give people something to root for. It isn't really Blizzard's fault that nationality is the one lasting thing in SC2 that partisanship formed around. As for tournament run, part of it is also that we have the undefeated GSL champion vs the undefeated WCS champion.
I mean blizzard actively promoted this korean vs foreigner rivalry with the region-lock and stating it's cool to see local heroes standing up against koreans - then organizing tournaments like GSL vs the world etc
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I have always liked making bold predictions based on my gut, and at first look this bracket should provide many close matches. And yet, sadly, the best I've got right now is slightly favoring Stats over Maru. I'm genuinely struggling to see a world where it's not one of the two facing Serral in the finals.
I guess I don't mind.
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I would actually rather enjoy a Serral-Stats final, now that I think about it
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The last one was the best match of the year thus far.
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On November 01 2018 23:38 ParksonVN wrote:
I'm so disappointed by how biased some parts of the community are. It's been 8 years of wonderful SC2 with countless fantastic moments and some people still say that it would be the best thing in the history of the game "for them" that Serral wins Blizzcon ??? Best thing for what? A foreigner finally wins? Were you not that entertained when guys like MVP, Life, sOs, Inno, Taeja ... gave us their best games?
Honestly for me Serral winning would mostly be amazing because it would top what is by far the longest winning streak in SC2 history with his 5th straight premier win a 6 months periods with an almost 90% match win rate for the year. Maru winning would equally be amazing, but we have seen him lose a lot more often then Serral this year, against much harder opposition of course but it's always nice to follow the story of someone who just seems totally unbeatable.
But anyway with all that said, I still wish sOs win and we get to see him lift that trophy one more time.
Edit: Hey 3000 posts broken!
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Man, Dark is going to smash Serral so hard... he'll be prepared this time. A Maru vs. Dark final would be the best one I could possibly imagine!
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I never saw so much fail in TL's predictions
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I would honestly cheer for everyone winning this tourney because i like all the players still in, but i really want Serral to reach the final so people finally stop doubting him just because hes not korean and doesnt play GSL. If he looses to Maru/Stats thats fine.
I can agree with every one of the predictions in some way.
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