On October 02 2011 18:21 Eishi_Ki wrote: Heh, yeah, I did watch GSL Season 2, thanks to the members of Club 2010 for reminding me about that. Yes, I did watch MKP vs Kyrix (live) and yes, I enjoyed the game, did it startle me though? No, no it didn't (maybe experience of BW talking).
Was that series entertaining? I guess some people did. I did not. DRG made mistakes certainly but I'd prefer to watch a match where gimmick, abusive strategies were not utilised.
Well done MKP. Commentators were not interested, nor am I.
Time for bed.
"I watched the game, but I dont understand why it changed the entire TvZ matchup because I played BW, a better game!"
Sick argument there bro, good job mixing up opinions from facts.
On October 02 2011 18:24 HaXXspetten wrote: Wow MKP actually won a tournament? Anyone got a full live report of what happened? (Don't feel like reading through 23 pages -.-)
Well, it's not an official GSL and only a special event, so it's fine for Kongs to win it. YellOw's "Special Event King" powers transferring to MKP in addition to his Kong curse.
Also, there is a lot of misunderstanding going around about MKP in this LR thread. He is a solid Terran player, with solid micro and macro to accompany his sometimes highly stylistic play.
On October 02 2011 18:24 HaXXspetten wrote: Wow MKP actually won a tournament? Anyone got a full live report of what happened? (Don't feel like reading through 23 pages -.-)
game 1:
MKP tries stim/shield +1 timing. DRG crushes it and picks him apart till gg
game 2:
MKP goes 2 rax double expo double ebay. DRG doesn't do anything to it, MKP gets to about 170 sup and 3-3. pushes and wins.
game 3:
MKP goes double reactor hellions, DRG just dies.
game 4:
MKP goes marines + blueflame. DRG just dies.
game 5:
MKP goes mass redflame hellions + follow up banshee. DRG just dies
On October 02 2011 18:21 jjhchsc2 wrote: wow congratz MKP!!!! CHYEA cant believe he beat drg in dual sight, taldarim and belshir.
How were the games?
The games were excellent. Now if mkp only fixes his tvt, which is mainly caused by his refusal to go mech, he'd be back to being a boss in no time! His tvz and tvp and still good, but his tvt is still awful right now. I don't know how many times he needs to lose bio vs mech before he realizes it doesn't work and goes mech himself. Hopefully one day he will learn.
Didn't he beat MMA in the semi finals? i didnt watch any of the games but it was a 3-0 sweep from the results.
also reading through this LR is quite painful with alot of hatred and whining towards MKP.
What I find funny is most people who call MKP gimmicky are huge fans of MMA who completely falls apart when his drops get shut down
He does a lot of timings yes, that's him being smart. MVP does a lot of timings too. Most Terrans... do a lot of timings. It's just that in MarineKing/MVP's case it usually ends the game since they have incredible micro.
On October 02 2011 18:02 Eishi_Ki wrote: I still dont get why people like MKP, what has he actually done to inspire people so? Is it the mass marines thing? Does no one else think marines are one of the most boring units in the game?
Or do people just feel sorry for him?
I dont get it
I agree completely. I feel like I'm in bizarro world where this boring gimmicky abusive 1 baser has a huge fan base. I feel confident in saying if mkp played the way he plays now(now being since the earl seasons where he got popular with marine splits) people would hate him.
Watch this,
Your world wont be as bizzare.
I have seen as 90+% of his games in tournaments, I don't see to see more of his play to know what he does very detailed. I hate it. I hate everything about his play.
I don't understand why MKP is receiving so much hate. He played very well, all his builds were different. He basically won three games with hellions, but he did it in a different way each time. DRG just got outplayed, he even knew the elevator was coming in the last game - well that or a drop and he wasn't prepared for either. MKP just got in his head game 3 and the series was already over after that. It was pretty spectacular to see the "supposed" best ZvT in the world get crushed. I'd put my money on it that Nestea would've beaten him again had they met in this finals. Either way.
On October 02 2011 18:21 jjhchsc2 wrote: wow congratz MKP!!!! CHYEA cant believe he beat drg in dual sight, taldarim and belshir.
How were the games?
The games were excellent. Now if mkp only fixes his tvt, which is mainly caused by his refusal to go mech, he'd be back to being a boss in no time! His tvz and tvp and still good, but his tvt is still awful right now. I don't know how many times he needs to lose bio vs mech before he realizes it doesn't work and goes mech himself. Hopefully one day he will learn.
He destroyed MMA to get to the finals - MKP's tvt is just fine.
On October 02 2011 18:25 usethis2 wrote: I didn't get to watch (didn't pay) but I posted in previous round that if MKP advances to final he would beat DRG. MKP is in my eyes #1 TvZ player. You need not see further than his series v. Leenock where he basically beats Leenock with marines, marines, and more marines.
mmm, i don't know about #1, but he's definitely up there. I still can't forget his Code A games against Slayers_Yugioh, they wern't too pretty
On October 02 2011 18:14 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: So yeah....anyone still putting much stock in AoL lol? MKP 4-1 arguably the strongest zvt in the world. 3-0 MMA. DRG easily 2-0s MVP. Something is fishy
Yeah, its about as credible as MLG.
Comments like this are dumb. Progamers dont play to lose.
Well apparently they aren't playing very hard to win. Nearly all of these games are oddly below expectation of the player. Why is that? Comparing this to MLG is foolish, they play standard there, sometimes better than at the gsl (probably because of the large audience). This just feels like a practice code-S. Fucking lame.
On October 02 2011 18:21 jjhchsc2 wrote: wow congratz MKP!!!! CHYEA cant believe he beat drg in dual sight, taldarim and belshir.
How were the games?
The games were excellent. Now if mkp only fixes his tvt, which is mainly caused by his refusal to go mech, he'd be back to being a boss in no time! His tvz and tvp and still good, but his tvt is still awful right now. I don't know how many times he needs to lose bio vs mech before he realizes it doesn't work and goes mech himself. Hopefully one day he will learn.
He destroyed MMA to get to the finals - MKP's tvt is just fine.
That series was about the worst TvT in the GSL lol
I think after the change, terminus is quickly becoming the least favourite map for Zergs.........I think it's actually very imbalanced the way it is right now.
On October 02 2011 18:02 Eishi_Ki wrote: I still dont get why people like MKP, what has he actually done to inspire people so? Is it the mass marines thing? Does no one else think marines are one of the most boring units in the game?
Or do people just feel sorry for him?
I dont get it
I agree completely. I feel like I'm in bizarro world where this boring gimmicky abusive 1 baser has a huge fan base. I feel confident in saying if mkp played the way he plays now(now being since the earl seasons where he got popular with marine splits) people would hate him.
I have seen as 90+% of his games in tournaments, I don't see to see more of his play to know what he does very detailed. I hate it. I hate everything about his play.
Well u are completly entitled to hate him, we all have players we don't like of course.
But dont label him as a gimicky 1 base player, he actually is more known for 1 rax expanding.
On October 02 2011 18:21 jjhchsc2 wrote: wow congratz MKP!!!! CHYEA cant believe he beat drg in dual sight, taldarim and belshir.
How were the games?
The games were excellent. Now if mkp only fixes his tvt, which is mainly caused by his refusal to go mech, he'd be back to being a boss in no time! His tvz and tvp and still good, but his tvt is still awful right now. I don't know how many times he needs to lose bio vs mech before he realizes it doesn't work and goes mech himself. Hopefully one day he will learn.
Didn't he beat MMA in the semi finals? i didnt watch any of the games but it was a 3-0 sweep from the results.
also reading through this LR is quite painful with alot of hatred and whining towards MKP.
Guess haters are gonna hate.... -.-
He beat him because Mech is back to no longer being the insanely strong strat that it was when MKP fell down to code A. Now it is completely viable and maybe even better to just do multi tasking bio in TvT.
On October 02 2011 18:14 FrostedMiniWheats wrote: So yeah....anyone still putting much stock in AoL lol? MKP 4-1 arguably the strongest zvt in the world. 3-0 MMA. DRG easily 2-0s MVP. Something is fishy
Yeah, its about as credible as MLG.
Comments like this are dumb. Progamers dont play to lose.
Well apparently they aren't playing very hard to win. Nearly all of these games are oddly below expectation of the player. Why is that? Comparing this to MLG is foolish, they play standard there, sometimes better than at the gsl (probably because of the large audience). This just feels like a practice code-S. Fucking lame.
This format is the same as MLG. People didn't get time to prepare for their opponents, therefore they didn't play as well as they would usually. They still played standard.
On October 02 2011 18:02 Eishi_Ki wrote: I still dont get why people like MKP, what has he actually done to inspire people so? Is it the mass marines thing? Does no one else think marines are one of the most boring units in the game?
Or do people just feel sorry for him?
I dont get it
I agree completely. I feel like I'm in bizarro world where this boring gimmicky abusive 1 baser has a huge fan base. I feel confident in saying if mkp played the way he plays now(now being since the earl seasons where he got popular with marine splits) people would hate him.
you should not even reply to some of these people.
a dude claiming that MKP is a "gimmicky abusive 1 baser" when he basically popularized the 1 rax expand and was ALREADY expanding in season2/3 where all the other terrans were 1 basing...
this guy obviously does not watch the GSL or he's seriously uninformed
I have seen almost the entirely of GSL. I have missed a few games here and there but 99% of GSL I have seen. I call him a gimmicky abusive 1 baser not because everything he does is a gimmicky abusive 1 base play but because he does many gimmicky strategies, many abusive strategies, and many 1 base strategies. He can play a straight up game just fine, that just makes it more annoying when he does such a high rate of really lame builds.
He is famous for mass marine vs banes. This is the definition of a gimmicky play. He is famous for base trades. For MMM vs zerg and vs terran(both gimmicky). He does stuff like double reactored hellions, or 2port banshee a lot. He was very well known for 2 rax with scv pull. He does the 1/1/1 quite a lot. I can go on all day with this.
On October 02 2011 18:02 Eishi_Ki wrote: I still dont get why people like MKP, what has he actually done to inspire people so? Is it the mass marines thing? Does no one else think marines are one of the most boring units in the game?
Or do people just feel sorry for him?
I dont get it
I agree completely. I feel like I'm in bizarro world where this boring gimmicky abusive 1 baser has a huge fan base. I feel confident in saying if mkp played the way he plays now(now being since the earl seasons where he got popular with marine splits) people would hate him.
I have seen as 90+% of his games in tournaments, I don't see to see more of his play to know what he does very detailed. I hate it. I hate everything about his play.
Well u are completly entitled to hate him, we all have players we don't like of course.
But dont label him as a gimicky 1 base player, he actually is more known for 1 rax expanding.
Don't bother with Maghetti. I have had detailed arguments/discussions with him in previous LR threads concerning MKP before and they're all the "same" MKP hate/1 base gimmick things. Check my profile if you want to see them.