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tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3346 Posts
July 30 2023 08:30 GMT
#21
In one year things really change around. This point last year, Maru just got crushed by herO for his 3rd Final loss, some of us wonder if he could really win his G5L but now the guy winning his 7th GSL and people think it doesnt matter much, lol. I get the downsizing and prize-pool drop, but the competition is still high enough comparing to DH EU or other international event.

Btw, Afreeca still hasnt announced how they would split the fan contribution? Maybe somebody should contact the KR players/team and see how that went. So that we can have an "official" number on those.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25038 Posts
July 30 2023 11:43 GMT
#22
On July 30 2023 04:49 Vindicare605 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 30 2023 00:17 Woosixion wrote:
On July 29 2023 23:42 Vindicare605 wrote:
On July 29 2023 23:31 Woosixion wrote:
Terran is OP, theres no way around it.


The way Dark absolutely man handled Gumiho in the previous series it definitely didn't look that way, and Gumiho had been on fire over the last few months.

Like Maru won convincingly enough vs Dark but the way Dark destroyed Gumiho was just brutal.


Also the 4th season in a row where the playoffs have been mostly terran, and this year the general population of the gsl have been mostly terran, they are OP pls fix


There are more Terrans than any other race in the GSL by a significant margin, just look at the list of players in the qualifiers.

If you wanted an "even" dispersion of races in the final rounds you would have to eliminate more top Terrans than both of the other two races combined.

It is simply a more popular race in Korea and it always has been in Starcraft 2. Assuming a balanced game (which the game isn't due to the state of Protoss right now) you are more likely to see more Terrans simply because there are more of them.

And then you take into consideration that Maru is just better than everyone else so you have to give him a higher chance than other players of advancing.

So the question always comes down to this. Which Terran do you think is only here because the race is overpowered? Which one do you think would be swept aside if the game was more balanced in your mind? Because the Terrans I see advancing are the same ones that always are and that in a perfectly balanced game I'd always favor against the likes of players like Nightmare, Ragnarok, Armani and Creator.

Terran isn’t OP, Toss is just rather lagging at the minute.

Add to that Korea has only one real S class Zerg in Dark, and some solid A tier ones in the likes of a Solar or Rag

Add to that Maru and Cure being stellar lately, I wouldn’t really expect much different.

It’s only going to get worse if they don’t bring Protoss back up to some kinda par level. TY is likely to get into better shape, Dark can’t be that far off military service.

If Protoss wasn’t so impotent right now we’ve seen herO bring a title home, Classic’s starting to look more like his old self and Stats’ return hasn’t been without promise.

There’s the talent there if their tools were a little more potent

Also obligatory grats to Maru, played out of his skin again!
'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 Ireland25038 Posts
July 30 2023 11:52 GMT
#23
On July 30 2023 00:28 [Phantom] wrote:
I do think Terran seems to strong in the lategame.

That being said I think zergs aren't aproaching the matchup correctly, and letting the terrans get into the lategame in the position they want to.


Also I think nydus are underutilized. Most Zergs use them for shitty all ins, but if you think about it, it's an insta recall, anywehere on the map, that has no cooldown and you can have multiples of. People complain about warpgate, nydus is a super warpgate as it can warp any type of units near the enemy base.

the most helpless match I've ever played was with a guy who was masters and used nydus like that. He created Nydus on opossite sides of the map. Atacked with his full focrce one side, then ran quickly and isntantly teleported to the other side of the map and atacked there, then ran quickly and repeated. It didn't matter how many times I roamed and looked for nydus/overlords. Nydus are so cheap and you only need 1 second of vision to create them.

I always wondered what that strategy would look like in the hands of a pro. Although it doesn't work on all maps, it works best in big ones.


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In any case, Maru played great games, but also showed that he struggles with TvT.

It’s looked strong when players have experimented with stuff like that, least that I’ve seen

I wonder if it just ends up too difficult to coordinate those extra moving parts when there’s already so much to manage in super late game scenarios

'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
Curufinwe Feanor
Profile Joined August 2012
Brazil91 Posts
July 31 2023 00:08 GMT
#24
The vice GOAT strikes again
Aure Entüluva
tommey.liang
Profile Joined November 2020
United States362 Posts
July 31 2023 03:32 GMT
#25
Maru continuing to make history and etch his name as being one of the greatest, if not the greatest, to ever play SC2. And he just recently turned 26 to boot.
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HeroSandro
Profile Joined July 2019
524 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-31 08:55:22
July 31 2023 08:31 GMT
#26
On July 30 2023 10:24 Vindicare605 wrote:
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On July 30 2023 06:08 Riner1212 wrote:
this tournament isnt what is used to be though. lackk of new players and less prize pool makes it hard to say that it is a prestigious tournament


So we're just going to apply that to all of Starcraft 2 right? Because it's the same for every tournament. Unless we get a massive Saudi Arabian tournament that injects tons of new money like other esports are getting, no one is replacing the Blizzard prize pool money from yesteryear.

You are not addressing the other issue he brought up. The lack of new players has made GSL a bit stale for many. The number of top contenters is lower than ever.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16056 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-31 09:21:41
July 31 2023 09:17 GMT
#27
On July 31 2023 17:31 HeroSandro wrote:
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On July 30 2023 10:24 Vindicare605 wrote:
On July 30 2023 06:08 Riner1212 wrote:
this tournament isnt what is used to be though. lackk of new players and less prize pool makes it hard to say that it is a prestigious tournament


So we're just going to apply that to all of Starcraft 2 right? Because it's the same for every tournament. Unless we get a massive Saudi Arabian tournament that injects tons of new money like other esports are getting, no one is replacing the Blizzard prize pool money from yesteryear.

You are not addressing the other issue he brought up. The lack of new players has made GSL a bit stale for many. The number of top contenters is lower than ever.


And that goes for other SC2 tournaments as well. The most recent new players in the foreign scene are Clem and MaxPax and they've been in the scene for years.

The entire scene has stagnated and shrunk over the last few years. You want to call out just GSL for it? Doesn't make sense to.
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HeroSandro
Profile Joined July 2019
524 Posts
July 31 2023 12:33 GMT
#28
On July 31 2023 18:17 Vindicare605 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 31 2023 17:31 HeroSandro wrote:
On July 30 2023 10:24 Vindicare605 wrote:
On July 30 2023 06:08 Riner1212 wrote:
this tournament isnt what is used to be though. lackk of new players and less prize pool makes it hard to say that it is a prestigious tournament


So we're just going to apply that to all of Starcraft 2 right? Because it's the same for every tournament. Unless we get a massive Saudi Arabian tournament that injects tons of new money like other esports are getting, no one is replacing the Blizzard prize pool money from yesteryear.

You are not addressing the other issue he brought up. The lack of new players has made GSL a bit stale for many. The number of top contenters is lower than ever.


And that goes for other SC2 tournaments as well. The most recent new players in the foreign scene are Clem and MaxPax and they've been in the scene for years.

The entire scene has stagnated and shrunk over the last few years. You want to call out just GSL for it? Doesn't make sense to.

Every scene has become more stale, but in my opinion Korea has suffered much more than EU. Who is the latest championship-caliber player from Korea? In a way i would say that EU is more competetive than in years, with Serral, Reynor, Clem, Maxpax and Heromarine. Overal skill-level might be higher in Korea, but i don’t see much difference in the very top of EU/Korea.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16056 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-07-31 12:57:10
July 31 2023 12:54 GMT
#29
On July 31 2023 21:33 HeroSandro wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 31 2023 18:17 Vindicare605 wrote:
On July 31 2023 17:31 HeroSandro wrote:
On July 30 2023 10:24 Vindicare605 wrote:
On July 30 2023 06:08 Riner1212 wrote:
this tournament isnt what is used to be though. lackk of new players and less prize pool makes it hard to say that it is a prestigious tournament


So we're just going to apply that to all of Starcraft 2 right? Because it's the same for every tournament. Unless we get a massive Saudi Arabian tournament that injects tons of new money like other esports are getting, no one is replacing the Blizzard prize pool money from yesteryear.

You are not addressing the other issue he brought up. The lack of new players has made GSL a bit stale for many. The number of top contenters is lower than ever.


And that goes for other SC2 tournaments as well. The most recent new players in the foreign scene are Clem and MaxPax and they've been in the scene for years.

The entire scene has stagnated and shrunk over the last few years. You want to call out just GSL for it? Doesn't make sense to.

Every scene has become more stale, but in my opinion Korea has suffered much more than EU. Who is the latest championship-caliber player from Korea? In a way i would say that EU is more competetive than in years, with Serral, Reynor, Clem, Maxpax and Heromarine. Overal skill-level might be higher in Korea, but i don’t see much difference in the very top of EU/Korea.


There are more players capable of winning a championship in Korea than there are in Europe. In Europe there are 3 maybe 4 tops if you include Maxpax who doesn't play offlines. In Korea there's at least 5 if not 6 or 7. This goes for international championships as well as within their own sphere.

How exactly is the Korean scene more stale? Because it has declined more? Well that's because it had further to decline in the first place. It's hard for you to say that Europe has declined as much when its closer to its peak now than it was years ago, years ago it never even had a chance of being competitive with the Korean scene at all.

Even now, by your own admission even after all of the declining the Korean scene has done the skill level there is still higher.

But here's something else you're not accounting for. The Korean scene has players returning to Starcraft 2 because a bunch of them had to leave to do their mandatory military service, something that Europe doesn't have to deal with. While Korea is unlikely to see any new breakout talent emerge from the ladder, it will gain additional players as more and more of them return from the army.
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williamella
Profile Joined August 2023
2 Posts
August 01 2023 00:44 GMT
#30
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spenzzer
Profile Joined March 2018
19 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-08-01 08:05:30
August 01 2023 08:04 GMT
#31
The void Rogue left in GSL is simply too big.
Drahkn
Profile Joined June 2021
190 Posts
August 08 2023 01:37 GMT
#32
Look at other 1v1 sports, you have some people who are extremely dominant and better then the rest and there is always a very few at that level, its the same in SC2. That being said I wouldn't worry to much about Terran and Zerg over performing , I would be more worried by players like herO being skill capped because he plays Protoss.
Gescom
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada3370 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-08-08 02:09:16
August 08 2023 01:50 GMT
#33
On August 08 2023 10:37 Drahkn wrote:
I would be more worried by players like herO being skill capped because he plays Protoss.

When herO plays up to his peak, he can win GSL (just like he's won tons of small tourneys recently against top players), but too often he makes mistakes and is sloppy. See his recent 5 games vs Nightmare in GSL (where he goes 2-3) if you want to watch a PvP to take all race discussions off the table.

The only series that the Gamers8 world champion lost all weekend was to a Protoss.

Sure there's a skill ceiling, but point me to a game where a Protoss played 'perfectly' and lost, and we'll talk. <posting this as MaxPax wins 2x ESL weeklies on the same day for the second week in a row>
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phodacbiet
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1740 Posts
August 08 2023 02:02 GMT
#34
Dude is just farming at this point lol
Andrewwatson
Profile Joined August 2023
1 Post
August 10 2023 11:22 GMT
#35
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master237
Profile Joined August 2023
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2023-08-27 22:02:14
August 27 2023 21:59 GMT
#36
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master237
Profile Joined August 2023
4 Posts
August 27 2023 22:03 GMT
#37
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
August 28 2023 02:27 GMT
#38
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