EPT
Dark Wins Code S Season 2 (2024)
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Mizenhauer
United States1913 Posts
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Gescom
Canada3509 Posts
On July 04 2024 09:34 Mizenhauer wrote: I miss the days when roach timings and nydus abuse was frowned upon Meh. This isn't Stefano era 'abuse'. Korean Terrans got way too greedy and Dark slapped their teeth in. Why try to play standard macro from behind when Terrans are going lowground 3cc with starports and double ebay early. Just bop them. It's always been there and people got too shy about punishing. I'd rather watch a Zerg just smash a greedy Terran quickly than playing 30 minute games at an efficiency disadvantage where the map gets mined out. | ||
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Mizenhauer
United States1913 Posts
On July 04 2024 11:41 Gescom wrote: Meh. This isn't Stefano era 'abuse'. Korean Terrans got way too greedy and Dark slapped their teeth in. Why try to play standard macro from behind when Terrans are going lowground 3cc with starports and double ebay early. Just bop them. It's always been there and people got too shy about punishing. I'd rather watch a Zerg just smash a greedy Terran quickly than playing 30 minute games at an efficiency disadvantage where the map gets mined out. Ling bane muta vs bio mine is the aesthetic ideal of sc2. | ||
Waxangel
United States33559 Posts
On July 04 2024 15:18 Mizenhauer wrote: Ling bane muta vs bio mine is the aesthetic ideal of sc2. Those dishonorable Zergs shouldn't have gone for Roach-Bane timings back then, and just let Terrans get away with the same double ebay fast 3 CC's  | ||
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Mizenhauer
United States1913 Posts
On July 04 2024 16:13 Waxangel wrote: Those dishonorable Zergs shouldn't have gone for Roach-Bane timings back then, and just let Terrans get away with the same double ebay fast 3 CC's Finally someone understands. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26265 Posts
On July 04 2024 11:41 Gescom wrote: Meh. This isn't Stefano era 'abuse'. Korean Terrans got way too greedy and Dark slapped their teeth in. Why try to play standard macro from behind when Terrans are going lowground 3cc with starports and double ebay early. Just bop them. It's always been there and people got too shy about punishing. I'd rather watch a Zerg just smash a greedy Terran quickly than playing 30 minute games at an efficiency disadvantage where the map gets mined out. Yeah there’s exploiting an opponent’s tendency and there’s just actual abusive plays in a particular meta. Dark and recently Serral I feel have just cleverly punished a few of Maru’s tendencies in recent times. Especially with Dark as we’ve had series in the not-too-distant past where Maru read Dark like a book and survived his shenanigans relatively unscathed and absolutely smacked him once the late game came in. Abusive is pain like Trap’s GSL final against Rogue where he wasn’t even particularly greedy or cutting corners hugely. Not a great time for PvZ all-told Was a fun finals day and honestly I completely wrote Dark off so fair play to the lad! Inspiration from a fellow parent that that’s no excuse for me not to ladder so I’ll have to find another :p Great write-up as per usual! | ||
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rwala
329 Posts
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Locutos
Brazil272 Posts
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
On July 04 2024 09:34 Mizenhauer wrote: I miss the days when roach timings and nydus abuse was frowned upon I'd be frowning if Rogue won like this. But Dark has tried to make bad comps work for long enough that he gets the pass for actually playing strong builds. It's like when TY finally said screw it and cheesed every single game the year he finally won (2) Code S. No one cared because he'd served his duty as an honourable player. | ||
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Haighstrom
United Kingdom207 Posts
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Balnazza
Germany1262 Posts
On July 07 2024 03:03 Haighstrom wrote: When will we find out if there will be a GSL 2025? Presumably ESl will announce the future of EPT at the World Cup, so I would guess that we get any GSL-related announcements with that or afterwards. Especially of course should GSL really end and be absorbed into the EPT Asia | ||
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Bennito_bh
15 Posts
On July 04 2024 22:19 Fango wrote: It's like when TY finally said screw it and cheesed every single game the year he finally won (2) Code S. No one cared because he'd served his duty as an honourable player. That was peak Starcraft | ||
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CicadaSC
United States1865 Posts
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CicadaSC
United States1865 Posts
On July 07 2024 03:53 Balnazza wrote: Presumably ESl will announce the future of EPT at the World Cup, so I would guess that we get any GSL-related announcements with that or afterwards. Especially of course should GSL really end and be absorbed into the EPT Asia why is that presumable? I dont even know if esl will have that much of a presence besides behind the scenes. As far as im aware, this is the saudis own tournament. | ||
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Balnazza
Germany1262 Posts
On July 07 2024 21:12 CicadaSC wrote: why is that presumable? I dont even know if esl will have that much of a presence besides behind the scenes. As far as im aware, this is the saudis own tournament. It's just one option. Considering that the Saudis also initiated the EWC Partner Program, there is a chance they will push the entire thing even further, so that the EPT would actually re-name to something like EWC Circuit. Should there be another EPT run, it also would make sense to announce it somewhat quickly, since the first Masters tournament would probably still be in 2025. But sure, could also be that there will be no news whatsoever (at best a little tease) and we get infos much later on Twitter | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26265 Posts
On July 07 2024 21:26 Balnazza wrote: It's just one option. Considering that the Saudis also initiated the EWC Partner Program, there is a chance they will push the entire thing even further, so that the EPT would actually re-name to something like EWC Circuit. Should there be another EPT run, it also would make sense to announce it somewhat quickly, since the first Masters tournament would probably still be in 2025. But sure, could also be that there will be no news whatsoever (at best a little tease) and we get infos much later on Twitter It’s certainly one plausible possibility, among a few others, many of which are considerably less positive | ||
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
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Biedrik
United States94 Posts
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lestye
United States4186 Posts
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boirhan34
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