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On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on....
Well if those accomplished non-Koreans actually were in Korea I'm sure they would get seeded instead. Kinda hard to seed someone who isn't in the country. So out of the players that would have and are going to play in Code A, moonglade is a very good choice.
Also, Loner is quite good.
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GLAAADE! Favourite Aussi player, in both Wc3 and SC2. I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...). Anyway, sign me up. Im definitely a fan!
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moonglade is too good.
gl in korea sir
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You shouldn't favour a player that's in Korea already because you can't expect people to fly all the way to Korea just hoping that they'll get into the GOMtv house, that's pretty ridiculous. If a player applies for the GOMtv house, they're going to be committed to come over otherwise they wouldn't have applied. So that argument doesn't really make any sense.
Loner may have once been quite strong, but if you watched the finals between him and moonglade you can see he's dropped off quite significantly.
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Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea.
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On January 31 2011 03:21 LittLeD wrote: GLAAADE! Favourite Aussi player, in both Wc3 and SC2. I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...). Anyway, sign me up. Im definitely a fan!
It wasn't tod, he beat grubby in the group stages.
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On January 31 2011 10:53 Space Invader wrote: You shouldn't favour a player that's in Korea already because you can't expect people to fly all the way to Korea just hoping that they'll get into the GOMtv house, that's pretty ridiculous. If a player applies for the GOMtv house, they're going to be committed to come over otherwise they wouldn't have applied. So that argument doesn't really make any sense.
Loner may have once been quite strong, but if you watched the finals between him and moonglade you can see he's dropped off quite significantly.
Please do not turn this into another 'seeding' debate thread. Go to one of the other various threads for that, this is about Glade support. Cheers.
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Sign me up for sure! So glad an aussie is representing at such a high level :D
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Please accept me into the fan club. Moonglade is one of my favorite zergs to watch, because of his great macro and micro in ZvT. It's rather special = )
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Glade has been one of my favourite players for a while now. Probably because im yet another biased aussie. I hope he has fun beating koreans in GSL!
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On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea. I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here.
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On January 31 2011 13:14 Space Invader wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea. I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here.
Yeah he is not top 100.....
+ Show Spoiler +oh wait, yes he is, in fact the FXO manager said he was 85 on the KR ladder, ahead of all other foreigners except HuK (Idra, Jinro, Haypro, Ret, etc.).Take it out of the thread.
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On January 31 2011 03:21 LittLeD wrote: GLAAADE! Favourite Aussi player, in both Wc3 and SC2. I still remember when he beat ToD at WCG I think it was 2 years ago (Or maybe it wasnt him, but Wolf, cant remember...). Anyway, sign me up. Im definitely a fan!
I think it was kowi who beat ToD, glade beat grubby I think...
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I'm in. Moonglade Code A Finals? I think so. (vs. HuK )
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Duckville add his twitter!! twitter.com/moongladeau
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On January 31 2011 15:30 kellymilkies wrote: Duckville add his twitter!! twitter.com/moongladeau
Oh right, done. :D
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Two more interviews, though they are old:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=118061 http://www.cybergamer.com.au/forums/thread/134979/CG-interviews-MoonGlade/
On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on.... NonY, iNcontroL, Machine have done less than GLaDe in SC2 recently. SeleCT and White-Ra are the only players I'd put ahead of GLaDe in terms of achievements there.
On January 31 2011 13:14 Space Invader wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea. I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here. Similarly, I can't recall anything slush, catz, lzgamer, socke, bratok, demuslim, or TLO have done recently of note - though it might be because of a lack of familiarity with big EU events. In fact, I don't know why you mention them when they are not even in Korea.
I don't know how you can call IEM qualification a 'small tournament' and say there's no one good in SEA when Kowi for one was #1 in Top 200 on NA, as well as various other players playing in higher ping getting top50 NA a while back. And GLaDe didn't just do well in these events (with 200ms ping mind you) but dominated every single event he was in. There's no guarantee anyone from that list would do the same and for half of them there's not even a really high probability.
If you want recent results and BoX series not on SEA server look at the last FXOpen Invitationals where GLaDe threw coLstalife to the lower bracket, and then knocked out CatZ, Spades (in Korea), HayprO (another Code A invite) and Azz to come top 6 in a tournament of 32 world class players. Then in the next one he put an oGs member oGsJ into the lower bracket BO3 and lost a close series 1-2 against another top oGs protoss and ex-BW player.
On top of this, GOM actually specified ladder rank would hold weight in these selections and GLaDe has been consistently among the top ranked foreigners on the Korean ladder while playing with 400 ping while in Aus - and he has just jumped up further now he is over there with the latency everyone else is using.
I am beginning to think you got beaten up by Andy as a kid or something. Can we get it out of a thread full of people who appreciate and celebrate GLaDe now?
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I'm in, Aussie represent!
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On January 31 2011 16:03 deL wrote:Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 02:52 Space Invader wrote: I'm kind of curious what moonglade did to get seeded into Code A, I've never really heard of him and the only accomplished player he's beaten is Loner, who doesn't seem to be much good anymore anyway. I mean if all you have to do to get into GSL is be kinda good and win a minor tournament then cool, but it seems a little strange since that means a few hundred other people should be qualifying, but they should definitely all be qualifying behind actual accomplished non-koreans like iNcontrol, NoNy, White-Ra, Machine, Select..... the list goes on.... NonY, iNcontroL, Machine have done less than GLaDe in SC2 recently. SeleCT and White-Ra are the only players I'd put ahead of GLaDe in terms of achievements there. Show nested quote +On January 31 2011 13:14 Space Invader wrote:On January 31 2011 10:59 FXOpen wrote: Space Invader.. Glade is top 100 on KOR ladder... He beats code A and code S players on a daily basis. excluding huk he is the highest ranked foreigner from outside of Korea.
He has won everything in SEA, he is easily top 10 foreigner outside of Korea. i.e foreigners not in korea. I mean I really hope moonglade does well in GSL and I'm rooting for him but he's not top 100, it's kind of easy to beat anyone in a bo1 ladder situation, and he's lower ranked than a ton of players inlcuding people probably worse than him, also HuK is in Korea. And SEA success is not really much of a gauge because there's literally no one good down here, and of course it would be silly to say he's top 10 non-korean when you're considering... White-Ra DeMusliM Tarson MorroW TLO DIMAGA KiWiKaKi Socke BratOK SeleCT Kas CatZ drewbie qxc slush iNcontrol LzGaMeR uhhh i probably forgot a lot. I'm not hating on moonglade but lets be realistic here. Similarly, I can't recall anything slush, catz, lzgamer, socke, bratok, demuslim, or TLO have done recently of note - though it might be because of a lack of familiarity with big EU events. In fact, I don't know why you mention them when they are not even in Korea. I don't know how you can call IEM qualification a 'small tournament' and say there's no one good in SEA when Kowi for one was #1 in Top 200 on NA, as well as various other players playing in higher ping getting top50 NA a while back. And GLaDe didn't just do well in these events (with 200ms ping mind you) but dominated every single event he was in. There's no guarantee anyone from that list would do the same and for half of them there's not even a really high probability. If you want recent results and BoX series not on SEA server look at the last FXOpen Invitationals where GLaDe threw coLstalife to the lower bracket, and then knocked out CatZ, Spades (in Korea), HayprO (another Code A invite) and Azz to come top 6 in a tournament of 32 world class players. Then in the next one he put an oGs member oGsJ into the lower bracket BO3 and lost a close series 1-2 against another top oGs protoss and ex-BW player. On top of this, GOM actually specified ladder rank would hold weight in these selections and GLaDe has been consistently among the top ranked foreigners on the Korean ladder while playing with 400 ping while in Aus - and he has just jumped up further now he is over there with the latency everyone else is using. I am beginning to think you got beaten up by Andy as a kid or something. Can we get it out of a thread full of people who appreciate and celebrate GLaDe now?
just goes to show how little coverage of the people over on the SEA server gets. some people are clueless on even whats happening on thier own backdoor.
back on topic, good luck glade! time to put us on the map!
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