SC2 E-Sports Thread

[altwight]

fruitdealer*

[Thunder]

FD won that first season mostly in part because it was such a new game, imo. Nothing much changed in patches after that and Zerg was, "the best race" during season 2. And then again nothing much changed in patches when Rain took a series off Nestea and zerg was UP again(not to mention ALL the zergs who made it through qualifiers and then got rofl stomped).
FD's a good player so he just managed to win when strategies people used were more or less players just winging shit.

This season was definitely the best one so far, hopefully it gets better further down the road when more good players start playing in the GSL and people like liveforever, that zenex guy, and the other baddies aren't playing at all.

The finals were lackluster. The defining moments were when MVP was playing like a boss when MK was predictable enough to make it look like MVP was a god damn mind reader.

Edit: oh, and did anything cool happen on blistering? I fell asleep during GSL's stupid 5 minute break.

[Foxer]

^lol this 100%. FruitDealer was a mean player winning all beta and pre-GSL tourneys if I'm not mistaken. I believe him and Tester was just ballin' everybody up, but only because like above poster said, game was new and builds were new as they came into play. Where's Tester now? :3

And yes, FruitDealer, sorry : (

[Thunder]

Tester lol.. could make posters: "He's a favorite to win GSL this season" - lose to rainbow and then don't qualify for the next 2 GSL seasons.
"His zerg is unbeatable" - lose to Zenio.

Only people who have impressed me so far is MC for having some pretty baller build orders VS terran. He obviously has more but when I think of his vs terran I'm just like, "wall in? Yes -> void ray/gates. No-> epic sentry forcefield win.

Spoiler: show

Figured I'd spoiler since it's a bit long.

I don't believe jinro's mech is what won him the games vs MC; perhaps game 2, but game1 MC had won had he forcefielded the bunker like he usually does. When he was retreating the sentries had tons of energy. I don't know if he wanted to give jinro a fighting chance, couldn't see the bunker under the air jinro had, or just fucked up. But he could have rolled over that harder than he rolled over Rainbow's 3 base/4 bunker ramp.

And obviously MVP impressed me. He's like the first guy who just plays it really safe and doesn't let anybody get any sneaky advantage over him, be it hidden expo, tech rush, all-in, etc. It was really shocking watching that after seeing him lose to choya(which by the way, LOL at losing to choya in season3 and then winning against tester 3-0).

[Foxer]

MVP kinda looking like a BW terran keeping it low to mid tier on multiple bases. Jinro is good too. I can't believe he's actually getting into the semis the way he is. I think he'll grow

[Thunder]

I think he'll grow too. Idra described it best when he said something like, "he wasn't copying how other people played and did everything himself, which is why he didn't even qualify for the first two GSLs and was lackluster in beta. Now that he's figured things out himself he's playing the way terran ought to play and he's doing really well".

And yeah, I was really excited for Jinro since a win vs MK wasn't too far off to imagine. I doubt jinro would have gotten 4-0'd, but I also doubted MK would get 4-0'd so idk. It would have been epic had jinro won the whole thing..

[Foxer]

GSL going on for a bit over an hr now if anyone cares. : (

Code A

[Foxer]

HuK up.

[Thunder]

STOP GETTING SICK ARTOSIS, YOU WEAK LITTLE BITCH.

I got up specifically to watch huk but he really didn't impress me. I just tuned into incontrol's live stream with JP and Idra on skype together. "he's such a little loser" -idra@huk, good times, lol.

Also, I feel bad for kelly >_> I'm certainly enjoying myself with all the jokes/hating/memes/etc going around but when has anything been great the first time around? Even tasteless/artosis sucked hard the first couple of casts together.

[Maguspk]

The difference is that milkies is the female totalbiscuit, she has no qualifications to be casting SC2.

[Thunder]

Huh? She was a pretty seasoned caster in Dota/war3/someshit for some big events. And she also plays starcraft. So, yeah. She adds just as much as tasteless does to games nowadays so I don't know what the problem with her is, other than her accent.

[Deftscythe]

What the fuck was with Huk's interview? Complaining about the chairs in a tournament that gave you a spot when you failed to qualify? Really? I used to think Huk was a decent guy who took himself too seriously, but he came off like a total douche last night between the interview and whatever that little hand-motion was after his win.

As for Kelly, she was alright. She certainly wasn't the horror everyone was making her out to be. I think Incontrol nailed it when said she was a decent caster who's still uncomfortable and happens to have a hilarious accent. That being said, I think Artosis is going to quietly troll the shit out of her in the next cast and it's going to be hilarious.

[Thunder]

Why do I keep hearing about artosis and kelly being together, doesn't tasteless/artosis cast code A and they're trying to get torch/kelly for code A? I thought today's code A games were a weird circumstance thing.. or something, idk.

Is it Artosis who casts both Code S/A as the analyzer while kelly is the commentator for Code A and tasteless is the commentator for Code S?

[Maguspk]

http://NASL.tv

Interview by Lbelle from these forums if you guys remember her, with incontrol on NASL:
http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...-Robinson.html

[Foxer]

:Q

[Minions]

So how about that north american star league?

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...-Robinson.html

[Bweigelt]

Wow that's just awesome.

[Deftscythe]

Why do I keep hearing about artosis and kelly being together, doesn't tasteless/artosis cast code A and they're trying to get torch/kelly for code A? I thought today's code A games were a weird circumstance thing.. or something, idk.

Is it Artosis who casts both Code S/A as the analyzer while kelly is the commentator for Code A and tasteless is the commentator for Code S?

No. Tasteless and Artosis will cast Code S together as always, but for Code A they're going to always have Kelly there and alternate between Tasteless and Artosis to cast with her. Torch is not casting anything for GSL.

[Maguspk]

Kelly is adorable but she really makes the casting so choppy. I have to try to parse what she's saying, like I speak native English so it's not an issue on my end, she is just very difficult to interpret and understand. This is not something that can be improved in a season or two, and is actually a deal breaker for me. Thank god she is only casting code A and code S is secure.

[Foxer]

Thank God Code A has been bad enough to not wanna stay up. That, combined with the mega-annoying girl caster is enough to not wanna stay up for Code A. As far as Code S goes, games like July v MVP is why I'm always gonna be up for it lol. Shit was pretty epic.