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On January 18 2021 04:00 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote: If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality... Well he just won two championships Good thing too. Imagine being so good for so long and not even winning the smaller Premier events. Surely eventually you'd give up.
soOrely you would
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On January 18 2021 04:05 Waxangel wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 04:02 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Why did he have low expectations for himself? Humility? Out of practice? prolly out of habit? humility is basically his default state of mind He said in his first interview he was still very rusty and only started practicing a week ago, so he didn't have any expectations
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On January 18 2021 04:08 sneakyfox wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 04:00 Elentos wrote:On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote: If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality... Well he just won two championships Good thing too. Imagine being so good for so long and not even winning the smaller Premier events. Surely eventually you'd give up. soOrely you would soO won after he stopped believing.
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On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote: If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality... Well he just won two championships
it's 3, going by the new wax-tournament grading system
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Serral felt rusty coming into this tournament so I guess that's why he isn't as disappointed as he usually is after losing a final.
On a side note, after 2018 Serral has lost all 3 of the Premier finals where he was forced to play to the last map and has been eliminated 11 times from tournaments this way; it seems that he has developed kind of an issue with decider maps.
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On January 18 2021 04:10 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 04:08 sneakyfox wrote:On January 18 2021 04:00 Elentos wrote:On January 18 2021 03:55 sneakyfox wrote:On January 18 2021 03:54 Xamo wrote: If Kong Trap is scary, imagine if he develops a champion mentality... Well he just won two championships Good thing too. Imagine being so good for so long and not even winning the smaller Premier events. Surely eventually you'd give up. soOrely you would soO won after he stopped believing.
Well he didn't give up.
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casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative
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2021 is the year of protoss!
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On January 18 2021 04:25 Waxangel wrote: casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative Every year prior to 2018 was a year of parity where any top 15 player had a chance of winning any tournament. We were spoiled by serral and maru, but the "the tournament favorite will actually win the tournament" is a recent phenomenon
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On January 18 2021 04:29 Pandain wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 04:25 Waxangel wrote: casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative Every year prior to 2018 was a year of parity where any top 15 player had a chance of winning any tournament. We were spoiled by serral and maru, but the "the tournament favorite will actually win the tournament" is a recent phenomenon
that's what I wrote
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1) How did I forget that this was happening 2) Woooooooooooooooo he did it?
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On January 18 2021 03:52 Decendos wrote: Good to See its Not only me losing every Single game to voids into turtle Storm skytoss.
On the other Hand sad to See even serral All inning every game vs this strat cause He thinks its unbeatable lategame.
Still grats to trap really nice guy!!
I don‘t even think its about the composition beeing unbeatable, but which sane player wants to turtle on spore/viper for 30 minutes until you maybe manage to abduct enough to be somewhat costefficent, because you will always loose a direct engagement?
The design is just bad and always has been. Nobody wants to play spore/turret against it.
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Traaaaaaaaap!!! Congraaats!!!!
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On January 18 2021 04:37 Waxangel wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 04:29 Pandain wrote:On January 18 2021 04:25 Waxangel wrote: casters are so behind; they should really get aboard wax's "unprecedented age of parity" narrative Every year prior to 2018 was a year of parity where any top 15 player had a chance of winning any tournament. We were spoiled by serral and maru, but the "the tournament favorite will actually win the tournament" is a recent phenomenon that's what I wrote Oh I just saw the word "unprecedented" and was picking at that haha
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Serral for over a year now seems to be in an odd rotation of strength. At any given moment, he seems like the world's best player in certain matchups, but vulnerable in others. For a time, he felt unbeatable other than by Reynor in ZvZ. Then, he lost series to Cure, Inno, ByuN, Clem, and Maru. Recently, he looks unbeatable in ZvT, but has also lost in ZvZ to Dark and Solar, and in ZvP to ShoWTimE and Trap.
It feels like he can train himself up to an unbeatable level in any matchup, but he can't maintain that level in a universal sense. Clearly one of the best players in the world under any circumstance. I would consider TY the world's best player, despite his having been roundly beaten by Serral this weekend, but Serral remains a certain favorite at Katowice.
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Missed the finals. Quick yes or no question. Is the finals worth watching or not? The 4-3 says yes, but games could be low quality.
Thank you.
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On January 18 2021 07:16 makeSC2greatAgain wrote: Missed the finals. Quick yes or no question. Is the finals worth watching or not? The 4-3 says yes, but games could be low quality.
Thank you.
Not really. It was mostly timings from either side.
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On January 18 2021 07:18 InfCereal wrote:Show nested quote +On January 18 2021 07:16 makeSC2greatAgain wrote: Missed the finals. Quick yes or no question. Is the finals worth watching or not? The 4-3 says yes, but games could be low quality.
Thank you. Not really. It was mostly timings from either side.
Thanks man! I actually missed every single game. Do you have outstanding games that you'd recommend?
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On January 18 2021 06:34 irvnasty wrote: Serral for over a year now seems to be in an odd rotation of strength. At any given moment, he seems like the world's best player in certain matchups, but vulnerable in others. For a time, he felt unbeatable other than by Reynor in ZvZ. Then, he lost series to Cure, Inno, ByuN, Clem, and Maru. Recently, he looks unbeatable in ZvT, but has also lost in ZvZ to Dark and Solar, and in ZvP to ShoWTimE and Trap.
It feels like he can train himself up to an unbeatable level in any matchup, but he can't maintain that level in a universal sense. Clearly one of the best players in the world under any circumstance. I would consider TY the world's best player, despite his having been roundly beaten by Serral this weekend, but Serral remains a certain favorite at Katowice. Trap’s got to be up there now surely. He seems to have undergone Serral’s journey only in reverse. Top tier PvT, decent if not outstanding PvP and a PvZ that was a real bad weakness to have considering who he was having to face. He’s kept the stellar PvT, his PvP is better and his PvZ is close to the best around (although I think the world’s best ZvPers are better still).
GSL TY is on another level to weekender TY, although he’s still obviously good even in his weaker form.
Agreed on Serral, he’s still a monster but not quite as scary as a while ago where it seemed he was equally fearsome across all matchups.
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Oh man, Trap certainly deserves this and has basically been carrying the Protoss torch for awhile now. Congrats to him!
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