On December 18 2018 20:19 CicadaSC wrote: Found this cool moment of his career from his liquipedia, wanted to share
In 2014 Proleague Round 4 SalvatioN (Forte) won against Cure and achieved the only point in the match for Prime. He was overwhelmed by the result and, despite the team losing, he was invited to an interview after the regular MVP one.
This is one of my favourite games ever of StarCraft 2. Forte played his heart out vs a Cure that was starting his best period of his career. The game was intense and I didn't know what would happen. MKP played the next game terribly.
RO32 was way better back then, but ro8 is better nowadays imo.
And i dont see where the gap closed between 2016 and 2018 between top kr and top for except for Serral ( none of the EU/AM Terran are able to match the top KR T )
Even though the Korean scene is getting worse and worse, some people still say that top Korean are not weaker than before. Dude, think logically, do you really believe that top guys of a much more competitive scene are actually worse than a dead scene? Do you really think that guys like Maru and TY, after a long time being losers in big tournaments suddenly became gods and won titles? Nah, the rest are just becoming weaker, i see that in their mechanic as well as strategies and preparation. Watch their streams and you too can see that, they play carelessly.
Wish the best of luck to Forte in the future, he was an interesting BW player to watch as well back in the day as well, if he is the same Forte from BW.
region lock destroyed scene in korea. foreigners can compete in gsl but koreans can't take foreigner lunch money in oversea weekenders. meanwhile region lock isn't even needed since foreigners have closed the gap. was very disappointed on pylon show when the hosts weren't even considering it from this angle and still supported region lock.
I just found him streaming! I thought he was playing Brood War at first but instead it was some amazing Proleague simulator(someway similar to Football manager); he was playing as CJ Entus and enjoying himself
On December 19 2018 00:18 Charoisaur wrote: I wouldn't say it's a "dumb excuse" to say that the korean scene was stronger in 2013-2015.
Is it, though?
I mean, the korean scene is smaller now, that's for sure. Especially a lot of the 2nd and 3rd tier players are gone or have it at least a lot harder now to make a living out of starcraft 2. (in other words, they are now at the same level as most of the foreigner players ...) So regarding the width of the spread of pro players in Korea ... that is weaker now, okay. But is that really the only point to meassure the strength of a scene?
The top players from Korea ... i don't think they really got weaker in the last years. Maru, Innovation, Zest, Stats, TY, Rogue, Dark ... and your can add some more names in that list for sure ... i don't think it's true saying they are all weaker now then 3 or 4 years ago. Of course every player has his ups and downs ... but overall the level of play in sc2 nowadays is much higher then for example in the HotS Days, and that is not just because the top of the foreigners are closing the gap to korea quite a bit (this especially because of Serral) but also because the top korean players also have gotten stronger.
And always the blaming of the region lock ... Code A or TeamLeague wasn't cancelled in Korea because of the region lock, it was cancelled because sc2 in korea just never was that big of a success and didn't have enough viewers. Making the foreign scene stronger was the only way to keep the scene alive, and right now the Increase in Viewership shows Blizzard has made the right call there.
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