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pawacoteng
Profile Joined June 2019
4 Posts
November 03 2019 09:45 GMT
#61
Great games but I have to agree with the abruptness of the ending and the terrible stage set up.

But I think this year's blizzcon suffered most from comparison - now there is a body of games that makes it seem worse than how epic this tourney would have been just a couple years ago.

Highlight of the year will definitely be Soo's championship - with a biitersweet cast from incontrol.

How could blizzcon 2019 ever match up to that?
GrandSmurf
Profile Joined July 2003
Netherlands462 Posts
November 03 2019 09:48 GMT
#62
Dark was the best ZvZ player this time around. well done.
One time that happened and I just stopped everything, selected the offending SCV, hit Cancel, moved it over to my Barracks, made a Marine, had the Marine shoot it to death, then left the game.
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
November 03 2019 10:04 GMT
#63
As a Zerg player i was disgusted by my own race.

Congrats to the players but damn...
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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
November 03 2019 10:09 GMT
#64
Dark won - I'm fine with that. a ZvZ finals - not sure if I want to watch that...
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HsDLTitich
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Italy830 Posts
November 03 2019 10:11 GMT
#65
On November 03 2019 07:46 kajtarp wrote:
Im still upset to Reynor. Beating Serral to give us a shitty finals. Serral vs Dark could have been an awesome final.


You should be upset at Serral for losing, then.

btw let's not forget Reynor defeated Serral 3 times out of 5 in this year's WCS...
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TheSneak
Profile Joined March 2012
Australia118 Posts
November 03 2019 10:49 GMT
#66
One advantage of the zvz meta is that I went in with low expectations and did not go anywhere near buying a pass this year. I was pretty bitter in the threads when zergs were doing their thing

BUT overall I have to say I was pleasantly surprised how quality this tourney and the games were, especially the Ro16, especially thanks to bo5 change. I think Classic's series with Rogue will go down as one of the games most memorable big matches. Classic's whole run is worth a watch except vs Dark. Reynor vs Serral was a roller coaster and a very worthy zvz (unlike the final).

I think one reason the eventual winner is kind of not getting the attention of normal winners is in part because of serral being KO'd by tyhe runner up and robbing us of 'the final', and also because most of the games he was in were fairly one sided ugly games... vs Classic, vs Reynor and (especially) vs Maru. He knocked out some very popular non-zerg players in pretty dispiriting games.

But overall I actually enjoyed the event, with mild rage-gasms mostly related to Classic who lost the tournament but won our hearts.

Now thank fk this meta will hopefully be drawing to a close and a new era of expensive cooldown worms, super fast zealots, non-instantaneous zerg teleportation and super tanky IT's can begin!
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parksonsc
Profile Joined May 2019
175 Posts
November 03 2019 10:50 GMT
#67
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.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15926 Posts
November 03 2019 11:25 GMT
#68
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.
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12793 Posts
November 03 2019 11:53 GMT
#69
On November 03 2019 08:46 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 08:29 Vindicare605 wrote:
On November 03 2019 08:15 paloma_rivers wrote:
serral fanboy salty at it again?? haha.

congrats DARKKKKK! and South Korea! in solid performance, congrats Reynor for 2nd place, he needs more training in korea and he'll be a great player


I believe he said he wants to go back to Korea and I'm hoping he does.

Since Serral can't be bothered with it, I'm hoping Reynor goes and continues to improve. It'd be great to see him snatch the best foreigner title in the world.


If Reynor surpasses Serral, he becomes the best player in the world, foreigner or not.

As far as I know, Neeb had no intention to live and play in Korea for years; this narrative of winning easy money in WCS...stealing them from Serral and Reynor? It worked out pretty well, I have to say xd

It's one thing to recognize GSL as the home of the majority of the best Sc2 players, it's another to think Korea is the holy promised land. It has actually being shown that you can become the best even without residing in Korea; while having Serral and/or Reynor in GSL would be interesting, it js not(anymore) an essential requirement to be one of Sc2's greats.




No?
Reynor surpassed Serral at this BlizzCon but didn't become the best player in the world, that was Dark, winning the BlizzCon (after GSL S2 and GSL ST2). Well at least the best zerg in the world, we'll see if he stays on top on a more balanced patch but I believe he is more all rounded than Reynor
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Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
November 03 2019 12:20 GMT
#70
On November 03 2019 17:27 Mun_Su wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 07:28 Xain0n wrote:
On November 03 2019 07:14 Vindicare605 wrote:
If it had to be a ZvZ final, I'm glad Dark dominated it. He's looked like the strongest player of 2019 even before all of the dumb stuff.

Makes Elazer's win in GSL vs the World all the more hilarious though lol.


Dark was constantly good this year but he was far from looking the best; soO, Inno, Classic, Maru, Stats, Serral, Rogue all looked stronger than Dark in 2019.
Dark looked unstoppable yesterday and, before, at Super Tournament.

I am still convinced he is not the best current player(debatable), but he has had the best accomplishment this year.



INno is my fav' but i can't see how he looked stronger than Dark overall this year.


That's definitely not what I meant. It should have been clear by reading the previous post, but I admit this sentence actually make it seem that I meant what you understood, my bad.

I meant that there were periods in 2019 year when other players looked better than Dark, who actually convincingly seemed the best(Serral being supposedly better, but Dark actually looked better at BlizzCon) in October.
Overall, Dark is the most consistent player(tied with Serral) and the most accomplished player in 2019, but it's not like he looked dominant this year.

On November 03 2019 15:08 Ej_ wrote:
It's nice that Xainon found a way to derail a thread about Dark's victory as well.

Everything good on TeamSerral.net


One may think that your capability of identifying causal links isn't the best, but I'm pretty sure you are doing intentionally to personally attack me every time. You don't like me? Be sure that I don't like you as well.

The thread "derails" because every "non Serral player wins x" degenerates into "that player is much better than Serral, who basically sucks" or "that player is the best that we have ever seen on earth", which most of the times is a sound exaggeration. That's not TeamSerral.net more than it is KoreanElitist.net, the respect some people here pay to Serral is much inferior to those any progamer would deserve.

[/QUOTE]
No?
Reynor surpassed Serral at this BlizzCon but didn't become the best player in the world, that was Dark, winning the BlizzCon (after GSL S2 and GSL ST2). Well at least the best zerg in the world, we'll see if he stays on top on a more balanced patch but I believe he is more all rounded than Reynor[/QUOTE]

Defeating someone in one bo5 means surpassing them? That's new to me. Following this line of thought would lead to extremely funny situations in a game as volatile as Sc2 xd

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.


Either pick one: the koreans have become bad and everything happened after KeSpa's demise is diminished so that Maru's never enough incensed 4xCode S isn't as impressive as repeatedly say it were or korean scene at its top, in its best player, is as competitive as ever and it has lost depth, which means top foreigners are more legit than you would like to admit. Again, you encourage others to ignore my posts then make very controversial ones yourself...

[/QUOTE]


A win against Showtime, Has, Special? You can hardly call that an achievement. At this point Serral has only done what Neeb has achieved before - surprise everyone. He has lost all tournaments where there are no restrictions. He's only won tournaments where half of it are circuit players.

Reynor has already tried Code S and got destroyed. Serral, full of excuses.

To be the best, you have to compete where the best players are found, no matter how you sugar-coat it.

Sure I'll give you that. WCS > winning 3 GSL Code S IN A ROW. Dream on![/QUOTE]

Serral suprised everyone and then he kept winning titles the way any top player is expected to: losing some tournament, winning some other. It's not like there is no competition, if you are the best you don't win every tournament everytime, that's not how Sc2 works.

Reynor advanced to the ro16 over classic and got narrowly eliminated by the eventual winner, Maru. You call that being destroyed?

To be the best, you have to be able to consistently beat the best ones when you get to face them.

Hah sure, it has to be that all of the Sc2 progamers were wrong when they called Serral the best and that the notoriously pro foreigner TL.net site committed a huge error when giving Serral player of the year 2018.
parksonsc
Profile Joined May 2019
175 Posts
November 03 2019 12:50 GMT
#71
It's hilarious that none of the "expert EU Zergs" is doing any "Blizzcon analysis stream" like they were all doing after GSL vs TW. I guess becoz Serral didnt win it, or maybe they have no clue why do Dark's style work.
TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
November 03 2019 12:53 GMT
#72
On November 03 2019 21:50 parksonsc wrote:
It's hilarious that none of the "expert EU Zergs" is doing any "Blizzcon analysis stream" like they were all doing after GSL vs TW. I guess becoz Serral didnt win it, or maybe they have no clue why do Dark's style work.


Lambo did an analysis stream yesterday, if I do recall correctly.
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Bombit
Profile Joined February 2016
Belarus20 Posts
November 03 2019 13:09 GMT
#73
Comparing to 2018, Blizzcon 2019 looks poor. Even celebration moment was without confetti rain...
Stormhoof
Profile Joined January 2015
Serbia182 Posts
November 03 2019 13:10 GMT
#74
Yes, Lambo did it.
Also @topic : maybe couple of bo5's isn't making Reynor better then Serral but kid is close! I would like to see raise of Special, HeroMarine and at least 1 more protoss player. Can't stand all thiose zvzvzvz's at every WCS Finals.

Congratz to Dark even I don't like him. I cheered for EU duo, Reynor in particular and still think if he has beaten Serral he could beat Dark too. Maybe tired or Dark didn't show off his zvz up to finals. Hope next year we will have more equal number of KR vs Circuit and races in ro8.
DBooN
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany2727 Posts
November 03 2019 14:30 GMT
#75
On November 03 2019 17:27 Mun_Su wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 07:28 Xain0n wrote:
On November 03 2019 07:14 Vindicare605 wrote:
If it had to be a ZvZ final, I'm glad Dark dominated it. He's looked like the strongest player of 2019 even before all of the dumb stuff.

Makes Elazer's win in GSL vs the World all the more hilarious though lol.


Dark was constantly good this year but he was far from looking the best; soO, Inno, Classic, Maru, Stats, Serral, Rogue all looked stronger than Dark in 2019.
Dark looked unstoppable yesterday and, before, at Super Tournament.

I am still convinced he is not the best current player(debatable), but he has had the best accomplishment this year.



INno is my fav' but i can't see how he looked stronger than Dark overall this year.

He won a series against serral, so he's the goat of 2019.
starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
November 03 2019 14:59 GMT
#76
On November 03 2019 15:08 Ej_ wrote:
It's nice that Xainon found a way to derail a thread about Dark's victory as well.

Everything good on TeamSerral.net

Lol underrated comment
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
November 03 2019 14:59 GMT
#77
On November 03 2019 23:30 DBooN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 17:27 Mun_Su wrote:
On November 03 2019 07:28 Xain0n wrote:
On November 03 2019 07:14 Vindicare605 wrote:
If it had to be a ZvZ final, I'm glad Dark dominated it. He's looked like the strongest player of 2019 even before all of the dumb stuff.

Makes Elazer's win in GSL vs the World all the more hilarious though lol.


Dark was constantly good this year but he was far from looking the best; soO, Inno, Classic, Maru, Stats, Serral, Rogue all looked stronger than Dark in 2019.
Dark looked unstoppable yesterday and, before, at Super Tournament.

I am still convinced he is not the best current player(debatable), but he has had the best accomplishment this year.



INno is my fav' but i can't see how he looked stronger than Dark overall this year.

He won a series against serral, so he's the goat of 2019.


You might have cared to read my answer before coming out with this low quality bait.
DBooN
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany2727 Posts
November 03 2019 15:06 GMT
#78
On November 03 2019 23:59 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 03 2019 23:30 DBooN wrote:
On November 03 2019 17:27 Mun_Su wrote:
On November 03 2019 07:28 Xain0n wrote:
On November 03 2019 07:14 Vindicare605 wrote:
If it had to be a ZvZ final, I'm glad Dark dominated it. He's looked like the strongest player of 2019 even before all of the dumb stuff.

Makes Elazer's win in GSL vs the World all the more hilarious though lol.


Dark was constantly good this year but he was far from looking the best; soO, Inno, Classic, Maru, Stats, Serral, Rogue all looked stronger than Dark in 2019.
Dark looked unstoppable yesterday and, before, at Super Tournament.

I am still convinced he is not the best current player(debatable), but he has had the best accomplishment this year.



INno is my fav' but i can't see how he looked stronger than Dark overall this year.

He won a series against serral, so he's the goat of 2019.


You might have cared to read my answer before coming out with this low quality bait.

Why would anyone care to read your posts?
alpenrahm
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany628 Posts
November 03 2019 15:20 GMT
#79
in the raynor serral series during the muta ling bane vs roach hydra lurker wars why did neither of the players ever transition into BL ? it just seemed quite counterintuitive to me that they would always opt to go for Ultra ling bane which was clearly inferior in straightup fights to lurker comps. I mean in that last game Serral went up to 7! Bases and had them saturated for a while how is that not enough time to make a worthwhile transition?
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-03 15:23:47
November 03 2019 15:23 GMT
#80
On November 04 2019 00:20 alpenrahm wrote:
in the raynor serral series during the muta ling bane vs roach hydra lurker wars why did neither of the players ever transition into BL ? it just seemed quite counterintuitive to me that they would always opt to go for Ultra ling bane which was clearly inferior in straightup fights to lurker comps. I mean in that last game Serral went up to 7! Bases and had them saturated for a while how is that not enough time to make a worthwhile transition?

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