$18,000 Blizzcon 2011 Chinese Qualifiers - Page 17
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snakzz
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raidon
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man, i like your style of casting games :D | ||
SKYFISH_
Bulgaria990 Posts
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DoomsVille
Canada4885 Posts
On August 19 2011 06:34 SKYFISH_ wrote: good lord there were people in other threads saying the chinese players rival the koreans in skill.... That's because SaSe said he when he went over to China. I think the biggest thing is that there are a small group of chinese players (xiaot, lovecd, xigua etc.) that are at a much much higher level than everyone else. You've gotta remember most of them haven't been playing SC2 for more than a few months. And many of the players in this tournament were very active in the WC3 scene relatively recently. | ||
Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On August 19 2011 06:36 DoomsVille wrote: That's because SaSe said he when he went over to China. I think the biggest thing is that there are a small group of chinese players (xiaot, lovecd, xigua etc.) that are at a much much higher level than everyone else. You've gotta remember most of them haven't been playing SC2 for more than a few months. And many of the players in this tournament were very active in the WC3 scene relatively recently. I thought all the top Chinese players have been playing on Korea for ages now. | ||
babylon
8765 Posts
On August 19 2011 06:39 Numy wrote: I thought all the top Chinese players have been playing on Korea for ages now. Not all of them. Looking at the list, I'd say maybe Loner, Lovecd, LoveTT, F91, XiGua, and a few others. Don't think Lovecd has any serious RTS background, actually, though his brother (Sky) is a WC3 beast. | ||
DoomsVille
Canada4885 Posts
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Blueblister
Sweden321 Posts
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Cadgers
United States514 Posts
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fant0m
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(Overall though, props for casting all this, especially those endless tiebreakers.) | ||
Fighter
Korea (South)1524 Posts
But today. Not so much. | ||
Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
On August 19 2011 09:02 Fighter wrote: You know, after the Gigabytes StarsWar I was really impressed by the Chinese players. I mean, I was REALLY impressed. But today. Not so much. If skill is dropping, that's usually not a good sign for a pro-scene, or a scene in general. Perhaps this is a signal for the demise of SC 2 in China? The game can't be seeing a lot of play, given that the Chinese server has all of 270,000 players, which is abysmal relative to the numbers you'd expect to see from China, and it doesn't seem to be growing anymore. | ||
Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On August 19 2011 09:06 Azarkon wrote: If skill is dropping, that's usually not a good sign for a pro-scene, or a scene in general. Perhaps this is a signal for the demise of SC 2 in China? The game can't be seeing a lot of play, given that the Chinese server has all of 270,000 players, which is abysmal relative to the numbers you'd expect to see from China, and it doesn't seem to be growing anymore. I think the issue is we got a bit spoiled with StarsWar and saw the best of the best. Like i said before the problem seems to be the Top 10 players are awesome, but the skill dropoff is very large after that. | ||
bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
On August 19 2011 09:06 Azarkon wrote: If skill is dropping, that's usually not a good sign for a pro-scene, or a scene in general. Perhaps this is a signal for the demise of SC 2 in China? The game can't be seeing a lot of play, given that the Chinese server has all of 270,000 players, which is abysmal relative to the numbers you'd expect to see from China, and it doesn't seem to be growing anymore. The Stars Wars tournament had a Chinese qualifier and then we only saw the best of the best. This is still early-ish on in the tournament. They definitely have the ability to perform, i just hope the motivation and money is in it for them | ||
babylon
8765 Posts
On August 19 2011 09:02 Fighter wrote: You know, after the Gigabytes StarsWar I was really impressed by the Chinese players. I mean, I was REALLY impressed. But today. Not so much. The StarsWar tournament only had six Chinese players, all of whom had to play through some pretty long, grueling qualifiers to get there. They were the "cream of the crop," so to speak, and among those six, I would say that only three of them (xiaOt, Lovecd, LoveTT -- aka, the Protoss players) were any good - and by "good", I mean potentially GSL-quality players. xiaOt impressed me the most; he was easily Code A level at the time -- maybe even low- to mid-Code S level. I am still depressed at the thought of his retirement. Meanwhile, LoveTT and Lovecd both didn't impress me that much, but I think if they can clean up their play a bit, they could make Code A. XiGua has been getting a lot of hype lately. I don't think he's better than Moon though, to be honest. He's definitely not as impressive as Sen, IMHO. | ||
yypisces
Japan244 Posts
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
On August 19 2011 07:47 Cadgers wrote: Does F91 not play SC2? Thought he would be the favorite for this easy.. F91 has been playing since BETA.... and he got raped 3-0 in this tournament... Are you an F91 fan? You shoulda known that -.- | ||
Primadog
United States4411 Posts
On August 19 2011 10:27 yypisces wrote: Replays Pack Awesome! Thank you and also | ||
yypisces
Japan244 Posts
https://www.battlenet.com.cn/features/zh/esport/bn-invitational/ | ||
phaib
Germany156 Posts
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