EPT[TSL] Day 2 Recap and Interviews - Page 16
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ttomelle
Sweden243 Posts
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Varpulis
United States2517 Posts
I would definetly wanna play againts hasuobs. I'm not very confident in general vs Protoss because of the imbalance (Yes its imbalanced, get over it). Did nobody else notice MorroW's little baller imba statement? even if you don't agree with him, the way he said it is awesome. | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
 How unfortunate for White-Ra to meet such a strong vPer so early in the tournament! | ||
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HolyArrow
United States7116 Posts
On March 22 2011 03:38 Liquid`Tyler wrote: The TL patch is a result of partnership between TL and oGs, not some shoutout to our community. Disrespect is disrespect. If you want to observe a difference, then MC's disrespect is calculated while Ciara's is a result of uncontrollable emotion. Most philosophies would say MC's is worse. If MC was like Flash/Jaedong/Bisu/Stork/Savior/NaDa etc, then his confidence would be a little more fun. But he's more like if Kwanro or Backho won a few starleagues in a row. It'll just be better for everyone when his reign is over. I disagree that MC is showing any disrespect - if anything, he's showing huge amounts of confidence in himself - indeed, you would be perfectly right in calling him extremely cocky - but I don't remember when he actually outright insulted anyone else. He's honest about what he thinks his opponent's skill level relative to his is, and that's fine. I don't think that's disrespect. He never outright verbally BMs people like IdrA does. I do think that his "I'm the best and I'll crush everyone" attitude is still quite premature considering he's only won two GSLs, but I think that if anyone is justified in calling themselves the best right now, it's MC. From what I hear, MC was always very good but suffered from nerve issues, so he exudes extreme cockiness to help himself deal with them, and it seems to be working, so there's another point to MC's credit - he's not being cocky merely for the sake of it (though I don't deny that he also derives plenty of enjoyment from bragging  ).I sound like a huge MC fanboy and I definitely am, but let me justify my feelings a bit -, even though the TL patch may have not been a shoutout to the community, MC has done plenty of things to reach out to his foreign fans - most prominently, the english segments of his interviews and english twitter updates. It shows that he's been making sincere efforts to learn english, and if that's not a shoutout to the foreign community, I don't know what is, and I respect him for that, if anything else. Oh, and all that aside, I greatly enjoyed your series against Strelok. The comeback in game two was incredible (I knew you'd won 2-0 from seeing the results already, and at one point I think there was a 50 food differential in Strelok's favor, so I was scratching my head wondering how you'd actually pull out a win), and that one hero Zealot really made my day. | ||
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
On March 21 2011 14:09 rysecake wrote: Considering Ciara didn't even gg him, I'm perfectly fine with MC being an ass. Yeah he has the right to be cocky against Ciara, even if you're mad that you lost you really should gg. It's the TSL, stuff like that goes on your reputation. I like MC's confidence though, yeah he's cocky but he's coming off winning the freaking GSL for the second time and he really is the best Protoss in the world so it's definitely justified. | ||
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suejak
Japan545 Posts
On March 22 2011 06:26 S.O.L.I.D. wrote: Yeah he has the right to be cocky against Ciara, even if you're mad that you lost you really should gg. It's the TSL, stuff like that goes on your reputation. I like MC's confidence though, yeah he's cocky but he's coming off winning the freaking GSL for the second time and he really is the best Protoss in the world so it's definitely justified. Haha, let's get the order straight on this. MC started out by saying Ciara was bad even before the match started. THEN Ciara didn't gg. And now MC is rude. Just sayin'. | ||
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HolyArrow
United States7116 Posts
On March 22 2011 06:49 suejak wrote: Haha, let's get the order straight on this. MC started out by saying Ciara was bad even before the match started. THEN Ciara didn't gg. And now MC is rude. Just sayin'. I thought MC said that "he's not that great". Sure, it wasn't a compliment, but it's not the same as saying "He's bad." It's the difference between tact and lack of tact. And the fact that Ciara lost to 3gate pressure with MC not losing a single unit makes MC's comment true in my eyes: He's not that great. That is, however, not the same thing as saying "He's bad". Personally, I don't see Ciara's lack of gg as BM, since it really wasn't a good game, but since it seems to be plain old traditional manners by now, I can see where MC's coming from. In most tournaments people gg even when they get cheesed out in obnoxious ways. | ||
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Heavenly
2172 Posts
I think he's just being honest. While it was BM of him to do the zealot dance and manner nexus in the GSL finals, it was a calculated mind-game. He later went on to say he respects July and thinks he's one of the best zergs. He didn't trash his opponent afterwards and say that July was horrible and didn't deserve to play him or something. He also beat SanZenith and later went on to say he believes San is one of the best protoss in the world. People saying they're tired of MC's cocky attitude baffle me, really. He never unnecessarily BMs his opponents beyond stating whether or not he thinks they're good, and acknowledges the people he has beaten if they did indeed play well. Tyler stated he didn't like MC, and maybe since he is a member of Liquid he would know much better than me whether MC is truly a cocky BMer or it's just playacting, but as far as I can tell other Liquid members like Jinro and Huk really like him. | ||
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PoopLord
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VuFFeR
Denmark38 Posts
Whenever I try to make my friends watch a sc2 match with me, the thing they are most interested in is who the two players are. Having a personality that is somewhat different from the average calm or raging nerd (the two stereotypes according to me) is a good way to make friends, who don't play the game, show interest in the game. I hope White-Ra will take it tho'! ^_^ | ||
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
I guess it just says how nice an event this has been so far! | ||
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
On March 22 2011 06:49 suejak wrote: Haha, let's get the order straight on this. MC started out by saying Ciara was bad even before the match started. THEN Ciara didn't gg. And now MC is rude. Just sayin'. Like HolyArrow said, MC did not say Ciara was bad, I believe he said something like he wasn't impressed by him or anything. It's VERY different to say someone's straight up bad (which MC didn't say) and that he didn't feel Ciara was anything special (which is along the lines of what MC did say). I can only guess that Ciara didn't GG because he was mad that he lost how he did as opposed to because of MC's pregame comments. | ||
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namedplayer
844 Posts
"sometimes people blame me because they think I'm rude to my opponent. ...well, I don't diss my opponent, I do express how good I am." anyway It could be bm for some people, but is not like Idra's bm. | ||
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-RamPaGe-
France17 Posts
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PinkPrincess
United States149 Posts
My recollection of MC's original comment was that he was relating what he was told anyway, not that he was familiar with Ciara and was saying that Ciara sucks. | ||
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cocosoft
Sweden1068 Posts
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MyLovelyLurker
France756 Posts
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wangabe
United States5 Posts
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
BALLER ALERT! BALLER ALERT! THERE IS A BALLER IN THE HOUSE! | ||
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Existential
Australia2107 Posts
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