General Bisu discussions can go in Bisu's stream thread rather than here. This is only about China and Bisu's matches with them.
Also this is not a thread that comes to say "Bisu is the best" or whatever, because obviously these guys aren't (at least not consistently) pro-level. This is just to share a fun event that is happening. You also get to see fun Bisu strategies that quite honestly rarely work vs other pros. Consecutive cannon rushes, or failed strategies then turning back a loss situation into a win, etc...
If anyone from China team is seeing this, would be nice to read a comment from you
Edit: sc19980331 from China replied below with a lot of great information, confirming these are indeed China's top player with a top tier list! Thank you sc19980331.
To try and organize, so far there's been kind of 3 phases.
Phase 1: The Chinese players realized that now that Bisu is streaming, he accept sponsored games, and they started challenging him with some of China's (confirmed) best players. The games are sponsored by the Chinese players, with a 3rd party observer "Sanpao" that streams and commentates the games in Chinese streaming services.
September 8th, Bo3:
Bisu vs Mihu (PvT) - VOD - Timestamp: 45min
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Mihu is considered China's top Terran (or top player period) atm.
Bisu 2-0
Bisu 2-0
September 9th, Bo3:
Bisu vs [SvS]Jedi (PvZ) - VOD - Timestamp: 1min as stream starts.
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Jedi is an oldschool Chinese player who played games against the likes of Movie and sAviOr back in the WCG/Chinese events days, and is still considered one of the best.
Bisu 2-0
Bisu 2-0
September 11th, Bo3:
Bisu vs CN_Bus (PvT)
Bisu pov VOD - Timestamp: 26min
VOD observer Sanpao - Timestamp: 58min
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu 2-0
At this point Bisu is really enjoying these challenges, as the stream viewers are loving the "Korea vs China" theme. After every victory Bisu plays the audio from this video, that as evilfatsh1t has commented, "any korean who remembers watching the 2002 world cup will feel more nationalistic pride from that song than the actual national anthem", and the stream chat is flooded by Korean flags nonstop. In other words its all good and fun for everyone even though the skill gap.
Phase 2: China hosts a sponsored event with a whole bunch of oldschool Chinese players. This thing was a riot. An evrage of 7k viewers on Bisu's stream at all times that took hours to complete.
The entire series is played match by match in this VOD, a few hours long, from Bisu's point of view. Or if you want to see the Sanpao's (Chinese Commentator) observer point of view, you can watch it here or here.
September 12th, all Bo3 sets:
Bisu vs KukuBoy (PvP)
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu 2:0
Bisu vs Mihu (PvT)
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu 2:0
Bisu vs Fengzi (PvZ)
Bisu remembered Fengzi from PLU and was happy for the match.
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu 2-0
Bisu vs TheFJ (PvZ)
Fj and Bisu also played in Chinese events of the past.
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Fj requested first map to be Tres Pass, which made Bisu seriously lol, and he accepted.
Bisu 2-0
Bisu 2-0
Bisu vs DuGuQiuBai (PvZ)
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu 2-0
Bisu vs JayStar (PvP)
Bisu also remembered JayStar of course
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu 2-0
So apparently China were casting via a few streams: 1 observer stream, one copy of Bisu's FPVOD stream, plus a couple other top players commentating on other streams, and someone in chat said they were having over 13k total viewers in China, though I don't know if that was true. But there were indeed a lot of admiration messages from Chinese players in Bisu stream throughout the series.
From what I understood, including viewer donations and the sponsored payment, Bisu earned well over 1k$ that day.
Phase 3: Relies on Spoiler results of previous matches. + Show Spoiler +
As China has yet been able to gain even 1 game victory let alone set, it is time to balance the clear skill gap, introducing Bisu vs (2) Team Melee controlled Zerg, where the 2 Zerg players clearly know each other, create strategy beforehand, and communicating during the match. You can also clearly see the games last longer than the 1vs1s and the players do much better, the final set took a full hour.
Bisu's official youtube video of Fullpower Scouts is from this phase.
September 15th, Bo3:
Bisu vs Jedi (PvZ)
Bisu pov VOD - Timestamp: 15min
VOD observer Sanpao - Timestamp: 3min
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
These 2 Zerg players first each get a 1vs1 with Bisu, if they both lose, they will then play a (2)vs1 Team Melee.
Bisu 2-0
Bisu 2-0
Bisu vs Haitun (PvZ)
Bisu pov VOD - Timestamp: 49min
VOD observer Sanpao - Timestamp: 36min
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Bisu goes scouts.
Bisu 2-0
Bisu 2-0
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Bo3:
Bisu vs (2) Jedi and Haitun (PvZ, Z team melee)
Bisu pov VOD - Timestamp: 1h 28min
VOD observer Sanpao - Timestamp 1h 15min.
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
After losing 0-22 total in games up to this point, this is the first ever victory of China team.
Final result Bisu loses 1-2
Final result Bisu loses 1-2
Bo5:
Bisu vs (2) DuGuQiuBai and Haitun (PvZ, Z team melee)
Bisu pov VOD - Timestamp: 2min as stream starts.
VOD observer Sanpao - Timestamp: 11min
Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Games lasted quite a while, the set about an hour long.
Bisu 3-0
Bisu 3-0
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Will update this post with more matches, if I realize they took place. I don't watch Bisu's stream daily. I do have a couple of Korean friends that share with me about new fun matches, but they might also miss a few (and there might have been more matches I didn't link here as well).
All in all, I think its really awesome that the Chinese BW community is so active, and use the opportunity to play with such a legend. I also believe they gain a lot of value for their streams including donations that may very well surpass what they pay for the sponsored matches.
I think its very cleaer that the game aren't about victories anymore, but just everyone having fun and finding value from all sides of the equation, which is the kind of things that keep the scene alive and kicking.