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plz guys, it was a joke
DeepElemBlues
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5079 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-02 17:52:16
April 02 2019 17:51 GMT
#81
Finally we get the real hard hitting Rodya insight on Serral recognized by the staff
no place i'd rather be than the satellite of love
Antares777
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1971 Posts
April 02 2019 17:52 GMT
#82
I didn't notice this article until April 2nd, and was quite confused until I realized when it was posted.

Good read!
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
April 02 2019 18:10 GMT
#83
On April 03 2019 01:45 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 01:37 Boggyb wrote:
On April 03 2019 00:25 Xain0n wrote:
Not even mentioning patchX is usually referred to nonames becoming competitive while X race starts to dominate tournaments, korean Zerg didn't reach a single final after April last year, only Reynor did at WCS Montreal; not exactly the overbearing performance one overpowered race should show, don't you think? Zerg was having even or slightly favourable matchups, yet Serral won every tournament he entered while the others failed to even win one.

You're forgetting that in 2018 a tier 3 non-Korean pro finally won a premiere tournament off the back of a match up that was Wings of Liberty level imbalanced in favor of Zerg. The match up was somewhat fixed after that but was still Zerg favored for pretty much all of 2018.


Who and what are you speaking of?

Scarlett winning IEM against sOs
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
April 02 2019 18:27 GMT
#84
haven't even read it in full yet, but my signature is 100
On August 15 2013 03:43 Waxangel wrote: no amount of money can replace the enjoyment of being mean to people on the internet
THERIDDLER
Profile Joined July 2014
Canada126 Posts
April 02 2019 18:37 GMT
#85
this is unironically true
Please don't fricken hack, its just a game.
ASoo
Profile Joined November 2010
2865 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-02 18:49:21
April 02 2019 18:44 GMT
#86
On January 12 2018 14:44 Scarlett` wrote:
featured articles like this make pros lose any respect they had for the site

*edit* Wait shit ninja'd by actual Scarlett`
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
April 03 2019 00:24 GMT
#87
On April 03 2019 01:45 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 01:37 Boggyb wrote:
On April 03 2019 00:25 Xain0n wrote:
Not even mentioning patchX is usually referred to nonames becoming competitive while X race starts to dominate tournaments, korean Zerg didn't reach a single final after April last year, only Reynor did at WCS Montreal; not exactly the overbearing performance one overpowered race should show, don't you think? Zerg was having even or slightly favourable matchups, yet Serral won every tournament he entered while the others failed to even win one.

You're forgetting that in 2018 a tier 3 non-Korean pro finally won a premiere tournament off the back of a match up that was Wings of Liberty level imbalanced in favor of Zerg. The match up was somewhat fixed after that but was still Zerg favored for pretty much all of 2018.


Who and what are you speaking of?


Calling Scarlett tier 3 is actually disrespectful in my opinion; in any of case, that happened months before Serral started dominating globally, it's not even the same patch.
Carminedust
Profile Joined October 2014
487 Posts
April 03 2019 00:34 GMT
#88
always knew serral was a patch zerg we all tasted and used the dark magic that was brood lord infestor back in 2012 at some point this article proves such injustices done by the best in the world back in the day !!!
Maybe was Zoun only Fan before he retired idk
NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
April 03 2019 01:27 GMT
#89
On April 03 2019 01:04 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 00:41 Charoisaur wrote:
On April 03 2019 00:40 Nakajin wrote:
I'm waiting for the meta move of making a response article only compose with post from this thread

would work better if Dave4 wasn't banned

@Xainon: you realize you're getting trolled, right?


NinjaNight is most likely trolling but the joke was becoming persistent so it made me doubt; others in this thread, however, are dead serious so I felt a proper answer was needed.

While Rodya's temp ban should be over in less than one week, Dave4 was permabanned. It would have been fun to see his reaction to this article; moreover, he was right about HSC's Drunk Rank.


Haha, not exactly trolling. It was pure sarcasm =)
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-03 01:45:50
April 03 2019 01:38 GMT
#90
On April 03 2019 09:24 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 01:45 Xain0n wrote:
On April 03 2019 01:37 Boggyb wrote:
On April 03 2019 00:25 Xain0n wrote:
Not even mentioning patchX is usually referred to nonames becoming competitive while X race starts to dominate tournaments, korean Zerg didn't reach a single final after April last year, only Reynor did at WCS Montreal; not exactly the overbearing performance one overpowered race should show, don't you think? Zerg was having even or slightly favourable matchups, yet Serral won every tournament he entered while the others failed to even win one.

You're forgetting that in 2018 a tier 3 non-Korean pro finally won a premiere tournament off the back of a match up that was Wings of Liberty level imbalanced in favor of Zerg. The match up was somewhat fixed after that but was still Zerg favored for pretty much all of 2018.


Who and what are you speaking of?


Calling Scarlett tier 3 is actually disrespectful in my opinion; in any of case, that happened months before Serral started dominating globally, it's not even the same patch.


Is it really? How big are your tiers?

Depending on how finely you wanna divide tiers, I could see an argument for Tier 3. Like, tier 1 being only a champion or two, the guys that looked unstoppable. Tier 2 being the championship contenders, the ones that had a chance but missed, maybe 5-10 players. Then Scarlett would be tier 3.
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Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
April 03 2019 02:06 GMT
#91
On April 03 2019 10:38 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 09:24 Xain0n wrote:
On April 03 2019 01:45 Xain0n wrote:
On April 03 2019 01:37 Boggyb wrote:
On April 03 2019 00:25 Xain0n wrote:
Not even mentioning patchX is usually referred to nonames becoming competitive while X race starts to dominate tournaments, korean Zerg didn't reach a single final after April last year, only Reynor did at WCS Montreal; not exactly the overbearing performance one overpowered race should show, don't you think? Zerg was having even or slightly favourable matchups, yet Serral won every tournament he entered while the others failed to even win one.

You're forgetting that in 2018 a tier 3 non-Korean pro finally won a premiere tournament off the back of a match up that was Wings of Liberty level imbalanced in favor of Zerg. The match up was somewhat fixed after that but was still Zerg favored for pretty much all of 2018.


Who and what are you speaking of?


Calling Scarlett tier 3 is actually disrespectful in my opinion; in any of case, that happened months before Serral started dominating globally, it's not even the same patch.


Is it really? How big are your tiers?

Depending on how finely you wanna divide tiers, I could see an argument for Tier 3. Like, tier 1 being only a champion or two, the guys that looked unstoppable. Tier 2 being the championship contenders, the ones that had a chance but missed, maybe 5-10 players. Then Scarlett would be tier 3.


My tiers are evidently larger than yours, I would call dominating players like Serral or Maru in 2018 S-tier, the élite tier 1, the solid outsiders tier 2; a tier 3 player should be a good one who really has few chanches to win a tournament, Scarlett won a IEM and just got a fourth place at WESG(not considering the results she had before LoTV), I think she's tier 2 at least.
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
April 03 2019 02:16 GMT
#92
Let's just say that I was very confused to see "Aprillipäivä" at the end not because it wasn't relevant to the article but because I though google had done its share of auto-translating again
Mine gas, build tanks.
Boggyb
Profile Joined January 2017
2855 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-03 02:30:09
April 03 2019 02:28 GMT
#93
On April 03 2019 10:38 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 09:24 Xain0n wrote:
On April 03 2019 01:45 Xain0n wrote:
On April 03 2019 01:37 Boggyb wrote:
On April 03 2019 00:25 Xain0n wrote:
Not even mentioning patchX is usually referred to nonames becoming competitive while X race starts to dominate tournaments, korean Zerg didn't reach a single final after April last year, only Reynor did at WCS Montreal; not exactly the overbearing performance one overpowered race should show, don't you think? Zerg was having even or slightly favourable matchups, yet Serral won every tournament he entered while the others failed to even win one.

You're forgetting that in 2018 a tier 3 non-Korean pro finally won a premiere tournament off the back of a match up that was Wings of Liberty level imbalanced in favor of Zerg. The match up was somewhat fixed after that but was still Zerg favored for pretty much all of 2018.


Who and what are you speaking of?


Calling Scarlett tier 3 is actually disrespectful in my opinion; in any of case, that happened months before Serral started dominating globally, it's not even the same patch.


Is it really? How big are your tiers?

Depending on how finely you wanna divide tiers, I could see an argument for Tier 3. Like, tier 1 being only a champion or two, the guys that looked unstoppable. Tier 2 being the championship contenders, the ones that had a chance but missed, maybe 5-10 players. Then Scarlett would be tier 3.

That's what I was thinking.
Tier 1 - Champions (Serral, Neeb)
Tier 2 - Contenders (SpeCial, ShoWTimE, Lambo, Reynor, HeRoMaRinE etc.)
Tier 3 - Players I've heard of
Tier 4 - Who?

You have to make a top 4 more often than once every 2 years to be placed in my contender list.

You could probably split Tier 3 into playoff regulars and players I've heard of.

The split of the WCS Circuit into EU and Americas throws a giant wrench into that.

God help me, I have to add soO to my champions tier for Korea.

On April 03 2019 11:06 Xain0n wrote:
My tiers are evidently larger than yours, I would call dominating players like Serral or Maru in 2018 S-tier, the élite tier 1, the solid outsiders tier 2; a tier 3 player should be a good one who really has few chanches to win a tournament, Scarlett won a IEM and just got a fourth place at WESG(not considering the results she had before LoTV), I think she's tier 2 at least.

She was a solid tier 3 player prior to that win. She's definitely up in the Champion/Contender tier now, especially with the WCS America being only a few players deep.
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-03 02:48:49
April 03 2019 02:45 GMT
#94
I don’t know who Rodya is, but every player who has been “undeniably the best in the world” has suddenly started losing tournaments throughout the history of sc2. Serral is still young though, it’s possible he hasn’t reached his full potential yet.
BadHabits
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada45 Posts
April 03 2019 02:48 GMT
#95
even as a joke the things said in the article are kind of harsh, i've seen posts get warned for less.... this places moderation makes nooo sense. probably why no one bothers to post here.
i'm just here to have fun
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19300 Posts
April 03 2019 02:50 GMT
#96
On April 03 2019 11:48 BadHabits wrote:
even as a joke the things said in the article are kind of harsh, i've seen posts get warned for less.... this places moderation makes nooo sense. probably why no one bothers to post here.

These are direct quotes from someone who was banned. That was the joke. As usual, none of our writers wrote anything original.
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
April 03 2019 02:54 GMT
#97
On April 03 2019 11:50 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 11:48 BadHabits wrote:
even as a joke the things said in the article are kind of harsh, i've seen posts get warned for less.... this places moderation makes nooo sense. probably why no one bothers to post here.

These are direct quotes from someone who was banned. That was the joke. As usual, none of our writers wrote anything original.


What about that time when soO wrote his own article?
Denominator of the Universe
TL+ Member
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19300 Posts
April 03 2019 02:55 GMT
#98
On April 03 2019 11:54 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 11:50 BisuDagger wrote:
On April 03 2019 11:48 BadHabits wrote:
even as a joke the things said in the article are kind of harsh, i've seen posts get warned for less.... this places moderation makes nooo sense. probably why no one bothers to post here.

These are direct quotes from someone who was banned. That was the joke. As usual, none of our writers wrote anything original.


What about that time when soO wrote his own article?

Between 2004 and 2010 all TL did was copy and paste Fomos articles.
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pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-03 03:02:37
April 03 2019 03:02 GMT
#99
On April 03 2019 11:55 BisuDagger wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2019 11:54 pvsnp wrote:
On April 03 2019 11:50 BisuDagger wrote:
On April 03 2019 11:48 BadHabits wrote:
even as a joke the things said in the article are kind of harsh, i've seen posts get warned for less.... this places moderation makes nooo sense. probably why no one bothers to post here.

These are direct quotes from someone who was banned. That was the joke. As usual, none of our writers wrote anything original.


What about that time when soO wrote his own article?

Between 2004 and 2010 all TL did was copy and paste Fomos articles.


Korean pros regularly write articles on fomos? That's actually pretty cool.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33503 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-03 03:41:38
April 03 2019 03:41 GMT
#100
TFW everyone was Rodya all along
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
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