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Dark wins the 2019 WCS Global Finals - Page 12

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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25152 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-05 18:45:48
November 05 2019 18:44 GMT
#221
On November 06 2019 01:17 TheAnarchy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 05 2019 23:46 Fango wrote:
Maru just abused his own skill at the game, without having favourable abilities like good macro and multitasking he would never have won anything. Very much overrated player. Nerchio was right


Is not skills if you abuse of poor map pool (in maps that clearly benefits terran exploding those advantage with timming attacks or proxy rax) or abusing of ravens before they were debuffed.
Thats why maru cant abuse anymore of those advanteges against zergs and now he is destroyed. Also thats why maru was always raped by zergs before lotv. He has no metagame, cant compare his metagame against zerg with inno, taeja, polt, bomber and others good terrans (in their peaks).
Terran patch (in the same period of time 2011-2015 Maru won 2 premier tournament, taeja 11, life 10, MVP 9, inno 5, rain 5, polt 7, etc.)

Polt and Bomber? :S I love both players but come on.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25152 Posts
November 05 2019 18:51 GMT
#222
On November 06 2019 01:55 sneakyfox wrote:
Please excuse the interruption but the blizzcon replay pack has been released: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TkP7FMP4tHCh0hefESIMvmkbWEQcRdLJ

Thanks man, looking forward to feeling completely inadequate as a player
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
GoSuNamhciR
Profile Joined May 2010
124 Posts
November 05 2019 19:35 GMT
#223
Hopefully we can get some variety in future events, ZvZ is pretty boring for me to watch all day every day. The event was pretty underwhelming in what has been a bad year for blizzard esports in general.
elluel
Profile Joined October 2019
62 Posts
November 06 2019 06:46 GMT
#224
I feel bad for Dark to be honest. Horrible job blizzard.
SirPinky
Profile Joined February 2011
United States525 Posts
November 06 2019 10:36 GMT
#225
Can we PLEASE STOP having the winning photo be him kissing the trophy!!!! TL content over last 10 years = 10; photo choices = poor
How much better to get wisdom than gold; to get insight rather than silver!
ChinClassic
Profile Joined January 2019
19 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-06 10:43:47
November 06 2019 10:42 GMT
#226
(Z)Dark is doing a great job here! Wish him all the best in 2020.
quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
November 06 2019 10:44 GMT
#227
On November 06 2019 15:46 elluel wrote:
I feel bad for Dark to be honest. Horrible job blizzard.

As long as the trophy gave consent, I don't see the issue.
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2749 Posts
November 06 2019 14:56 GMT
#228
Gratz to him, well deserved considering his career I guess
chuchuchu
Profile Joined July 2019
40 Posts
November 06 2019 15:10 GMT
#229
clean zerg ,DARK!
raga4ka
Profile Joined February 2008
Bulgaria5679 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-06 15:51:39
November 06 2019 15:39 GMT
#230
On November 03 2019 20:25 Charoisaur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 19:50 parksonsc wrote:
Inno said on his stream that gaming is no longer important to him like it was before, after his WESG win. Others Korean like Soo, Rogue also admit they got lazy and did not practice hard anymore (until important tournaments), and more often I see top Protoss in GSL got 10+ probes killed by a widowmine drop while nothing was happening anywhere else. I can't believe people still say that Koreans are not getting worse.

people don't want to admit the truth and want to hype up foreigners finally getting to the level of koreans.


Well of course. I blame the region lock killing of the Korean scene, as korean tournaments only can't sustain all the talented progamers in Korea. That's why most of them retired, but blizzard at least helped bring up the foreigners that way which is stupid, because they had to kill of the biggest and most talented starcraft scene so to help others have a chance, the thing it started with forcing the korean scene to switch from BW to SC2. The little support for the game from Blizzard also helped that, as for them Starcraft 2 is now a third rate game after WoW, Overwatch and Diablo. Probably worse of then Heartstone even, soon to be at the level of Heroes of the storm.
OhrlRock
Profile Joined July 2018
United States18 Posts
November 06 2019 16:55 GMT
#231
like seriously how hard is it for Blizz to add like 5 secs of that video into their Blizzcon recap video wtf
Always be a good person
TheAnarchy
Profile Joined January 2010
Chile1105 Posts
November 06 2019 17:46 GMT
#232
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
November 06 2019 18:08 GMT
#233
On November 07 2019 02:46 TheAnarchy wrote:
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.


IDK if your no1 is soO or Life, but these two are top 10 for me, probably Dark too now, maybe also Serral. Not that bad tbh.
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
November 06 2019 18:09 GMT
#234
On November 07 2019 02:46 TheAnarchy wrote:
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.

Life, soO, and Dark are all in the top 10. Arguably NesTea could be thrown in there.

3-4 zerg in the top 10 sounds pretty good to me.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25152 Posts
November 06 2019 18:26 GMT
#235
On November 07 2019 00:39 raga4ka wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 20:25 Charoisaur wrote:
On November 03 2019 19:50 parksonsc wrote:
Inno said on his stream that gaming is no longer important to him like it was before, after his WESG win. Others Korean like Soo, Rogue also admit they got lazy and did not practice hard anymore (until important tournaments), and more often I see top Protoss in GSL got 10+ probes killed by a widowmine drop while nothing was happening anywhere else. I can't believe people still say that Koreans are not getting worse.

people don't want to admit the truth and want to hype up foreigners finally getting to the level of koreans.


Well of course. I blame the region lock killing of the Korean scene, as korean tournaments only can't sustain all the talented progamers in Korea. That's why most of them retired, but blizzard at least helped bring up the foreigners that way which is stupid, because they had to kill of the biggest and most talented starcraft scene so to help others have a chance, the thing it started with forcing the korean scene to switch from BW to SC2. The little support for the game from Blizzard also helped that, as for them Starcraft 2 is now a third rate game after WoW, Overwatch and Diablo. Probably worse of then Heartstone even, soon to be at the level of Heroes of the storm.

They’ve still supported it pretty well, for quite some time.

The Korean scene has many structural problems that go beyond region locked tournaments.

You also don’t have as many third party international tournaments either to fill those gaps. MLGs, IPLs, regular IEMs outside of Katowice, Dreamhacks etc.

Blizz absolutely could have mitigated these issues better and helped but they’re hardly singularly to blame.

'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
TheAnarchy
Profile Joined January 2010
Chile1105 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-06 18:56:16
November 06 2019 18:51 GMT
#236
On November 07 2019 03:09 Fango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2019 02:46 TheAnarchy wrote:
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.

Life, soO, and Dark are all in the top 10. Arguably NesTea could be thrown in there.

3-4 zerg in the top 10 sounds pretty good to me.


I would say life and maybe dark (nestea and soo clearly not top 10). So yeah 1-2 is very poor. Clearly top 10 players life, mvp, maru, inno, taeja, zest, mc, mma. Dark maybe fighting his spot with stats, classic and sos.
soO is not top 2 zerg anymore (2 premiers and 9 second places against 5 premiers and 8 second places and many more semis). Even soO played in a harder time not enough too be second.
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
November 06 2019 18:56 GMT
#237
On November 07 2019 03:51 TheAnarchy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2019 03:09 Fango wrote:
On November 07 2019 02:46 TheAnarchy wrote:
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.

Life, soO, and Dark are all in the top 10. Arguably NesTea could be thrown in there.

3-4 zerg in the top 10 sounds pretty good to me.


I would say life and maybe dark (nestea and soo clearly not top 10). So yeah 1-2 is very poor. Clearly top 10 players life, mvp, maru, inno, taeja, zest, mc, mma. Dark maybe fighting his spot with stats, classic and sos.


soO behind MC, MMA and Classic? I need to restart my poll.

MC-Classic are maybe one thing (and still it sound ludicrous to me) but MMA is just out of nowhere.
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
November 06 2019 18:58 GMT
#238
Imagine thinking soO isn't a top 10 player but MMA is
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
TheAnarchy
Profile Joined January 2010
Chile1105 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-06 19:03:58
November 06 2019 18:58 GMT
#239
On November 07 2019 03:56 Nakajin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2019 03:51 TheAnarchy wrote:
On November 07 2019 03:09 Fango wrote:
On November 07 2019 02:46 TheAnarchy wrote:
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.

Life, soO, and Dark are all in the top 10. Arguably NesTea could be thrown in there.

3-4 zerg in the top 10 sounds pretty good to me.


I would say life and maybe dark (nestea and soo clearly not top 10). So yeah 1-2 is very poor. Clearly top 10 players life, mvp, maru, inno, taeja, zest, mc, mma. Dark maybe fighting his spot with stats, classic and sos.


soO behind MC, MMA and Classic? I need to restart my poll.

MC-Classic are maybe one thing (and still it sound ludicrous to me) but MMA is just out of nowhere.


MMA 8 premiers and 4 second places against 2 premiers and 9 second places. Even if soO tournaments were harder not enough wins for me.
Like people joined after 2010 in liquid forum shoudnt have a vote in this kind of discussion. Like people not reconicing savior as the greatest player all games and boxer against yellow in cocacola as the best game ever.
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
November 06 2019 19:04 GMT
#240
On November 07 2019 03:58 TheAnarchy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2019 03:56 Nakajin wrote:
On November 07 2019 03:51 TheAnarchy wrote:
On November 07 2019 03:09 Fango wrote:
On November 07 2019 02:46 TheAnarchy wrote:
Now Dark is undoubtly N°2 zerg in history. That clearly shows how Zergs have had very poor representation in sc2 history. Dark with a very favourable zerg meta and low competition is considered N°2 and it cant be denied.
Probably dark isnt even in the top 10 of all times.

Life, soO, and Dark are all in the top 10. Arguably NesTea could be thrown in there.

3-4 zerg in the top 10 sounds pretty good to me.


I would say life and maybe dark (nestea and soo clearly not top 10). So yeah 1-2 is very poor. Clearly top 10 players life, mvp, maru, inno, taeja, zest, mc, mma. Dark maybe fighting his spot with stats, classic and sos.


soO behind MC, MMA and Classic? I need to restart my poll.

MC-Classic are maybe one thing (and still it sound ludicrous to me) but MMA is just out of nowhere.


MMA 8 premiers and 4 second places against 2 premiers and 9 second places. Even if soO tournaments were harder not enough wins for me.

This is what happens when you simply count the number of tournaments liquipedia considers premier instead of actually knowing how good these players were and how difficult it was to acheive what they did.
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
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