On January 12 2021 07:32 deacon.frost wrote: Now honestly, what was he doing the time and why is he returning now? Is he more optimistic about the future than the rest of us, or he didn't notice how the European scene looks like
Hilarious. If any vaguely known korean would have returned you'd be ecstatic...
On January 12 2021 07:32 deacon.frost wrote: Now honestly, what was he doing the time and why is he returning now? Is he more optimistic about the future than the rest of us, or he didn't notice how the European scene looks like
Hilarious. If any vaguely known korean would have returned you'd be ecstatic...
Welcome back, Lilbow!
I love how certain people know me better than I do myself... stop commenting on me finally, epsecially when you're trying to read my mind and you fail at it.
On January 12 2021 06:58 starvingbox wrote: For newcomers to the scene, who exactly is this?
Foreigners struggled a lot vs koreans before region lock, especially during HotS. During last HotS year (2015 iirc), Lilbow who is a french protoss player became the best foreigner, mostly on the back of his great blink play (during protoss blink era), and was the only foreigner to qualify for BlizzCon.
People thus had high hopes for him, and he got cheesed thrice by Life and lost the bo5 3-0 in something like 30 minutes. It would have been relatively harmless if he didn't say that with everyone practicing LotV, it was hard to find practice partners or something like this. People started mocking him for what they considered a poor excuse for his performance.
On January 12 2021 06:58 starvingbox wrote: For newcomers to the scene, who exactly is this?
Someone that was "good" because of region lock and that everybody suck on like he was going to be the next great foreigner but had absolutly no chance of beating Koreans.
He won one WCS and placed a few time second i believe
On January 12 2021 07:32 deacon.frost wrote: Now honestly, what was he doing the time and why is he returning now? Is he more optimistic about the future than the rest of us, or he didn't notice how the European scene looks like
Hilarious. If any vaguely known korean would have returned you'd be ecstatic...
Welcome back, Lilbow!
I love how certain people know me better than I do myself... stop commenting on me finally, epsecially when you're trying to read my mind and you fail at it.
I know very few of you, I know extremely well how you post on Tl.net.
On January 12 2021 07:32 deacon.frost wrote: Now honestly, what was he doing the time and why is he returning now? Is he more optimistic about the future than the rest of us, or he didn't notice how the European scene looks like
He was playing Overwatch at semi-pro or pro level afaik! I don’t know why he is returning though, but I saw him tweet about his streams recently so I am not totally surprised by the news. Maybe he thinks OW future is worse for him than sc2?
I asked him on Twitch and he replied that he desired to stream and that he thought Sc2 was the most logical choice.
Lilbow is hard because he was kind of monobuild and probably not as good as his results, but he also got shit on way more than he deserved. So like, whatever you think, you were both correct and wrong about him. Heh.
Well if he can't even be bothered to post a picture of himself with his new team's shirt on then it seems he has the same conscientiousness as always. Probably will amount to nothing like most of the other talented foreigners with the work ethic of a sponge.
On January 12 2021 19:24 Steelghost1 wrote: I may be wrong but I never got the feeling that Lilbow would succeed in LOTV, his play was always centered around strong 2 base all ins and tricky builds such as going for insane amount of stalkers so he could hit very specific timings in the midgame. His macro never seemed great and it does not seem like you can go immortal sentry/collossus stalker max or just plain gateway all ins anymore.
Good luck to him. It would be very interesting to see how he adapts to such a different apm intensive game as LOTV.
Zest and his bank beg to differ ^^
The thing about Zest though is that he is masterful at macroing up until that point were he just banks resources while doing only micro.
I hope he comes back in good form, but as far as lingering resentment toward him as he's coming back goes, it wasn't like he quietly left the SC2 scene for OW. As far as I recall, there were a fair amount of parting shots from him at SC2 as a game while he was heading out the door.
On January 13 2021 03:08 coogerdark wrote: I hope he comes back in good form, but as far as lingering resentment toward him as he's coming back goes, it wasn't like he quietly left the SC2 scene for OW. As far as I recall, there were a fair amount of parting shots from him at SC2 as a game while he was heading out the door.
OTOH it would be great to have a good Protoss winning something outside the Korea. And unless HuK or NaNiwa find their lost mojo and fully properly return(which is unlikely), Lilbow has the biggest chance. He was really good back then.
(OK, maybe Neeb can find his 2016 form again, which would be great)
Edit> Like c'mon, it happened 5 years ago, let it go. Also let Let It Go go!
On January 13 2021 03:08 coogerdark wrote: I hope he comes back in good form, but as far as lingering resentment toward him as he's coming back goes, it wasn't like he quietly left the SC2 scene for OW. As far as I recall, there were a fair amount of parting shots from him at SC2 as a game while he was heading out the door.
OTOH it would be great to have a good Protoss winning something outside the Korea. And unless HuK or NaNiwa find their lost mojo and fully properly return(which is unlikely), Lilbow has the biggest chance. He was really good back then.
(OK, maybe Neeb can find his 2016 form again, which would be great)
Edit> Like c'mon, it happened 5 years ago, let it go. Also let Let It Go go!
You forgot a Protoss! I give you a tip:
a vertical structure, often made of stone or brick, that divides or surrounds something
On January 12 2021 06:58 starvingbox wrote: For newcomers to the scene, who exactly is this?
Someone that was "good" because of region lock and that everybody suck on like he was going to be the next great foreigner but had absolutly no chance of beating Koreans.
He won one WCS and placed a few time second i believe
Dude that is harsh! He won quite a few matches vs Korean opposition like JD, TY, ForGG, Rain, ...
EPT
