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On August 05 2020 06:04 Calliope wrote: Still, how strange it is that we consider the mirrors to be volatile and prone to end in upsets (with TvT perhaps a little less so). They are the only truly balanced matchups so victory should correspond to skill rather than racial advantages. And yet we are often unhappy about them, such as having to watch mirror finals. Fact: mirror matches are equal in balance. Observation: racial traits are not designed to encounter themselves (excluding shield batteries and armor tag on oracles). Corollary: strenghts in offence and weakness in defence can make an unfortunate overlap, e.t. banes one shots lings and adepts can shade through ffs and two shot probes. Analysis: the mirrors may be balanced, but that does not mean that they are true tests of skill as luck with attention and mis-micro will make things volatile.
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Damn,beside dark ,scarlett anf noregret, there's no one that will practice with rogue in korea. Unless somehow serral and reynor wiredly wake up in the middle of the night and practice with him, things do not seems to be good for him.
Oh did not notice noregret went back to Canada
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On August 05 2020 06:33 Howard_Kao wrote: Damn,beside dark ,scarlett anf noregret, there's no one that will practice with rogue in korea. Unless somehow serral and reynor wiredly wake up in the middle of the night and practice with him, things do not seems to be good for him.
Oh did not notice noregret went back to Canada
you forgot ragnarok!
but yeah, with impact going to army it's getting even tougher to find Zerg practice it seems
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On August 05 2020 06:44 Waxangel wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2020 06:33 Howard_Kao wrote: Damn,beside dark ,scarlett anf noregret, there's no one that will practice with rogue in korea. Unless somehow serral and reynor wiredly wake up in the middle of the night and practice with him, things do not seems to be good for him.
Oh did not notice noregret went back to Canada you forgot ragnarok! but yeah, with impact going to army it's getting even tougher to find Zerg practice it seems DRG holding true to his ideals of not joining Kespa finally working out.
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On August 05 2020 06:20 Chemist391 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2020 05:01 Cricketer12 wrote:On August 05 2020 04:28 Elentos wrote:On August 05 2020 04:20 ZigguratOfUr wrote: We'd be much more likely to get a watchable finals if Rogue loses here, but it seems unlikely. I have hope in the other side of the bracket to make the finals watchable regardless. No more and no less. Have faith Elentos. DRG Stats for GOAT finals can still happen DRG v Stats would truly be incredible. DRG's ocean crashing against Stats' fortress. Sadly, I think that Rogue v TY is much more likely. TY usually makes for cool games though
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Rogue is always fun. But DRG is great.
Either one will be funfor the finals.
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On August 05 2020 07:17 neptunusfisk wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2020 06:20 Chemist391 wrote:On August 05 2020 05:01 Cricketer12 wrote:On August 05 2020 04:28 Elentos wrote:On August 05 2020 04:20 ZigguratOfUr wrote: We'd be much more likely to get a watchable finals if Rogue loses here, but it seems unlikely. I have hope in the other side of the bracket to make the finals watchable regardless. No more and no less. Have faith Elentos. DRG Stats for GOAT finals can still happen DRG v Stats would truly be incredible. DRG's ocean crashing against Stats' fortress. Sadly, I think that Rogue v TY is much more likely. TY usually makes for cool games though
If anything is easily to assume, a TY-Rogue finals would likely make for more than a couple games with unique build orders and exotic strategies. In a way somewhat unlike DRG and Stats, TY and Rogue have been players who have set many of the innovative builds for their respective races over the past few years. From this, I can't see an intuitive reason to believe that a DRG and Stats final as having the same level of strategic variation or interesting builds in an extended seven game set as we might from TY-Rogue. At least this can be inferred from watching their respective play in this season of Code S. Stats is a generally defensive and reactive Protoss, with DRG primarily focusing on vanilla macro play. Contra to this Rogue and TY have been cheesier and a bit more unorthodox than the respective standard play of the current matchups at the moment. It's probably fair to assume that the prep time given for the finals would likely result from quite a bit of prepared game-planning from both of them and as such an interesting series.
With all this said, I doubt DRG will beat Rogue tomorrow anyway
Rogue 4-2 ala Wax's predictoin
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Rogue is a hype-killer extraordinaire Perfect description, denied Maru 2 katowices, crushed soO's dreams at Blizzcon and shut down Zest and Protoss hopes. Hope he wins this code S, best player in the world when he's on form.
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The lack of available zerg practice never occurred to me, thank you Lord Wax for your insight.
DRG's grown in my heart since he got out of the group stages in GSL and he's my favorite zerg in Korea right now. Hoping he does great! It's incredible to see him as a symbol of hope for any military returnees- makes me wonder how well ByuN could do next year.
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I'm glad the writer picked Rogue. Pretty much guarantees a complete blowout for DRG
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rooting for ty-rogue final too
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Looking forward to the DRG upset. He was one of the greatest players of all time but often overlooked in the modern day. Theres a slew of Zergs lining up to challenge the goat Serral at the moment.
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Had to create account just to say I got chills reading this about DRG's return. Great read thanks
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On August 05 2020 06:44 Waxangel wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2020 06:33 Howard_Kao wrote: Damn,beside dark ,scarlett anf noregret, there's no one that will practice with rogue in korea. Unless somehow serral and reynor wiredly wake up in the middle of the night and practice with him, things do not seems to be good for him.
Oh did not notice noregret went back to Canada you forgot ragnarok! but yeah, with impact going to army it's getting even tougher to find Zerg practice it seems Rag is good friend of afreeca freecs crew, so I suppose he'll be practicing with DRG
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On August 05 2020 14:34 Howard_Kao wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2020 06:44 Waxangel wrote:On August 05 2020 06:33 Howard_Kao wrote: Damn,beside dark ,scarlett anf noregret, there's no one that will practice with rogue in korea. Unless somehow serral and reynor wiredly wake up in the middle of the night and practice with him, things do not seems to be good for him.
Oh did not notice noregret went back to Canada you forgot ragnarok! but yeah, with impact going to army it's getting even tougher to find Zerg practice it seems Rag is good friend of afreeca freecs crew, so I suppose he'll be practicing with DRG StarTale best Tale
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With that in mind, imagine this scenario: DongRaeGu comes in with the institutional knowledge of the Korean Zerg Brain Trust behind him, having collectively devised all sorts of devious builds. Honorary Afreeca clubhouse member Solar (who beat Rogue in the RO24) has canvassed the top Zerg minds of the EU scene, giving DRG additional access to forbidden knowledge. On the other hand, Rogue has had to scramble to find any kind of help, getting a "what's in it for me?" from Dark and a "you must be truly desperate to come to me for help" from frequent nemesis Scarlett. While Rogue's superior instincts and mechanics are noticeable in the match, DongRaeGu powers through on the back of well-planned builds and all-ins.
Improbable. But still plausible.
Love that part I hope for the Upset, but I expect Rogue to crush our drerams, like he allways does
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I'm a big Rogue Fan due to the fact that I'm a Zerg player. I wish both players best of luck! It's an interesting matchup. May the force be with you and the better one win.
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Actually DRG is admitting that he watches every Serral match. Probably the only Korean pros that's humble enough to learn from the best. I bet he watched Serral vs Rogue series. Only tricks from Serral's book can help to handle Rogue. Tough call this one. Mind says Rogue, but my heart is with DRG just because him winning this GSL would be a great story, compared only to Serral winning Blizzcon.
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Depends which Rogue will show up. But considering it's BO7 and he passed the RO8 curse trap, I hope he goes to the finals and wins it all.
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