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Northern Ireland24979 Posts
On November 10 2020 08:52 CicadaSC wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2020 13:17 Morbidius wrote:On November 05 2020 03:26 Fildun wrote:On November 04 2020 10:28 Nathanias wrote:
Polt has always been a fantastic LoL player afaik. Dude is super smart and maybe didn't have the talent but certainly has the brains to be an interesting coaching component. Head coach is quite odd tho! He's currently Gold 2 on NA with a not insignificant amount of games, which is probably somewhere around Plat 2 in SC2. At the moment he for sure doesn't have the League skills, but he's obviously a talented learner. I do think someone like Polt with his history is a valuable addition to any team, but the head coach role seems maybe a bit too much for his first job of this type. How the fuck is Polt gold 2? I really don't believe one of the smartest players to ever touch this game is gold 2, its shit even by my standards. Lets not even go into the fact that he's on top of TFT ladder. It seems SKT doesn't believe he's ''gold 2'' either since they hired him. I know people will talk about football coaches and how you don't need to win a world cup to be a coach but don't you need to at least know where the goalposts are? If magnus carlson started playing league he'd be iron or bronze. Being smart isn't everything to a game, a lot is mechanics and practice.
No he wouldn't, it's Magnus Carlsen mang. I don't think he'd be a League savant or anything but he probably wouldn't suck hardcore after more than a few days (if he desired to improve at the game)
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On November 11 2020 08:39 WombaT wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2020 08:52 CicadaSC wrote:On November 09 2020 13:17 Morbidius wrote:On November 05 2020 03:26 Fildun wrote:On November 04 2020 10:28 Nathanias wrote:
Polt has always been a fantastic LoL player afaik. Dude is super smart and maybe didn't have the talent but certainly has the brains to be an interesting coaching component. Head coach is quite odd tho! He's currently Gold 2 on NA with a not insignificant amount of games, which is probably somewhere around Plat 2 in SC2. At the moment he for sure doesn't have the League skills, but he's obviously a talented learner. I do think someone like Polt with his history is a valuable addition to any team, but the head coach role seems maybe a bit too much for his first job of this type. How the fuck is Polt gold 2? I really don't believe one of the smartest players to ever touch this game is gold 2, its shit even by my standards. Lets not even go into the fact that he's on top of TFT ladder. It seems SKT doesn't believe he's ''gold 2'' either since they hired him. I know people will talk about football coaches and how you don't need to win a world cup to be a coach but don't you need to at least know where the goalposts are? If magnus carlson started playing league he'd be iron or bronze. Being smart isn't everything to a game, a lot is mechanics and practice. No he wouldn't, it's Magnus Carlsen mang. I don't think he'd be a League savant or anything but he probably wouldn't suck hardcore after more than a few days (if he desired to improve at the game)
nah im leaning towards the likelihood of him sucking way more than him not.
good players are intelligent but intelligent people dont make good players.
i dont know if magnus carlsen has played go before but im willing to bet hed suck for a long time at that too, and thats the smallest jump he could make since its board game to board game
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Northern Ireland24979 Posts
On November 11 2020 10:46 evilfatsh1t wrote:Show nested quote +On November 11 2020 08:39 WombaT wrote:On November 10 2020 08:52 CicadaSC wrote:On November 09 2020 13:17 Morbidius wrote:On November 05 2020 03:26 Fildun wrote:On November 04 2020 10:28 Nathanias wrote:
Polt has always been a fantastic LoL player afaik. Dude is super smart and maybe didn't have the talent but certainly has the brains to be an interesting coaching component. Head coach is quite odd tho! He's currently Gold 2 on NA with a not insignificant amount of games, which is probably somewhere around Plat 2 in SC2. At the moment he for sure doesn't have the League skills, but he's obviously a talented learner. I do think someone like Polt with his history is a valuable addition to any team, but the head coach role seems maybe a bit too much for his first job of this type. How the fuck is Polt gold 2? I really don't believe one of the smartest players to ever touch this game is gold 2, its shit even by my standards. Lets not even go into the fact that he's on top of TFT ladder. It seems SKT doesn't believe he's ''gold 2'' either since they hired him. I know people will talk about football coaches and how you don't need to win a world cup to be a coach but don't you need to at least know where the goalposts are? If magnus carlson started playing league he'd be iron or bronze. Being smart isn't everything to a game, a lot is mechanics and practice. No he wouldn't, it's Magnus Carlsen mang. I don't think he'd be a League savant or anything but he probably wouldn't suck hardcore after more than a few days (if he desired to improve at the game) nah im leaning towards the likelihood of him sucking way more than him not. good players are intelligent but intelligent people dont make good players. i dont know if magnus carlsen has played go before but im willing to bet hed suck for a long time at that too, and thats the smallest jump he could make since its board game to board game
I don’t know what iron/bronze league look like in League to be fair, I’m going off bronze in SC2 which is pretty unrecognisable from the game most of us play even at mediocre levels.
Maybe if Carlsen hasn’t played any games before, which seems unlikely for someone of his age profile or has zero hand-eye coordination or some similar impediment. Otherwise I just don’t see him being stuck in bronze hell.
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Looks like he will be the General Manager of operations and communications.
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Polt as GM is really interesting.
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Not sure what's stranger, seeing Polt on T1 or seeing Polt in a suit!
Polt as GM and communications director is interesting. I still think Polt's fluent bilingual skills was a major factor in his hiring by T1.
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Well it*s at least much easier on the wrists than progaming and hopefully pays better, so good luck to Polt! Always hoped for him to make a bigger splash post military but it was not to be.
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that bump...
I also learned the other day that Stardust is a coach on T1 - cool to see retired SC2 pros staying involved in esports.
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Woah, this took me back. Watching TL in Worlds 2024 is making me think about all the good times this team has provided for us.
It's just sad that they'll have to square off against Fly today, but at least 1 NA team is guaranteed to move forward.
Let's go TL!
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