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Hey all,
Whilst reading this thread:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=243513
oGsMC mentions that the players holding spots 1-10 in grandmaster in Korea are all terrans, I went onto sc2ranks.com and even though he says so, I was surprised myself at how many terrans were holding the top spots.
Top 20 on Korean Ladder are:
17 Terran
2 Protoss
1 Zerg
I decided to go see the other regions and how they held up.
Top 20 on North American Ladder are:
7 Terran
6 Protoss
7 Zerg
Top 20 on European Ladder are:
7 Terran
6 Protoss
7 Zerg
So interestingly, Europe and North America have equal numbers of each race up at Top 20, whilst the amount of Terrans in Top 20 is lopsided.
Just something I wanted to share with you guys, what do you think?
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Korean Terrans are terrifying
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Terran strategy in Korea seems to be really taking off at the moment, probably in no small part due to the influence of the GSL. I expected Europe to have more toss in the top 20, but I guess high level tournaments don't always necessarily dictate how the general populace plays.
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The top NA random is 31st.
The top KR random is 62nd.
There are no EU GM random players.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?!
This kind of analysis is kinda meaningless. For the most part, the top players in GM are made up of the players (in GM) who had the most ladder time in the past week.
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Terran is a good race for ladder, very resilient to cheese, has a figured out mirror and ladder has these close positions which really favor terran. Seems like Koreans know how to play abusive terran very well.
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Korean Terrans are monsters
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terrans benefit immensely from multitasking, such as for multiple drop's while pushing out with main army, which requires insane APM and control. Koreans are known to be good with such things.
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anyone know who the 2 protoss and 1 zerg are on the Korean list ?
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On July 14 2011 11:31 ShooTouts wrote:
anyone know who the 2 protoss and 1 zerg are on the Korean list ?
yonghwa and tassadar for the protoss, and terror as the zerg.
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On July 14 2011 11:31 ShooTouts wrote:
anyone know who the 2 protoss and 1 zerg are on the Korean list ?
beat me too it
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On July 14 2011 11:12 Midgetman101 wrote:
Korean Terrans are terrifying
I think you mean terranfying. Aside, I think it's not indicative of imbalance, just that there are a lot of really good Korean Terrans.
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Maybe the korean zergs are choosing to not ladder so it appears zerg is in a slump- for more buffs.
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Korean terran actually know how to play their race, many foreign terran do not.
God forbid a foreign terran besides Thorzain make a ghost or control more than 1 medivac at once.
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I don't know about the other servers, but the top 20 of the EU ladder is pretty volatile, the difference in points between #20 and #50 is about a single ladder session for these pros.
At the end of the day, this is a ladder. People that play less on it will be ranked lower. Having someone like NaNiwa @ #32 only shows how much reliable data you can gather about the top pros by looking at the top 20.
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Could mean anything. Maybe there was a huge influx of Terrans that simply stacked the numbers at the top when some BW pros switched over...or Terran was the more popular race to choose because of reasons X Y and Z a few months ago...doesn't indicate balance or imbalance.
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Korean terrans still carrying the torch since Brood War lol
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On July 14 2011 11:33 NExt wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 11:31 ShooTouts wrote:
anyone know who the 2 protoss and 1 zerg are on the Korean list ? beat me too it
Protoss are 엔에스피테사다르, scfou
Zerg is Terror
should be noted that that zerg is ranked 20 and the two protoss are ranked 13 and 14 respectively
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This is nothing new. As long as GSL's been open and i've been checking terran dominates the top of korean ladder.
Why is Koreans play very agro and terran has best/most agro options and holds off agro best. e.g. 3 rax your way from Bronze to Grand master Late game they are weaker though hence the balance at EU who plays more balanced games.
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On July 14 2011 11:39 JiYan wrote:Show nested quote +On July 14 2011 11:33 NExt wrote:On July 14 2011 11:31 ShooTouts wrote:
anyone know who the 2 protoss and 1 zerg are on the Korean list ? beat me too it Protoss are 엔에스피테사다르, scfou Zerg is Terror should be noted that that zerg is ranked 20 and the two protoss are ranked 13 and 14 respectively
sCfOu is Terran. The two protoss are 엔에스피테사다르 (NSHS.Tassadar) and IMYongHwa, and the zerg is Terror.
As KimJongChill said.
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Its a matter of development. The Korean Terrans are more developed than the World's. I don't remember who said it but its like that for Terrans in Korea and similarly the American Protoss are more developed. While the Zergs are stuck somewhere in between.
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