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  • SaarutoSaaruto Registered User regular
    Without a doubt, my first thought of @Biosys is

    If you can chill, chill.
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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    well this is a crazy game

    but mana might be about to get code s guys.

  • SorCSorC Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Mana advances 2-0 :D

    SorC on
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  • JibbaJibba Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    theSquid wrote: »
    What I am amazed that LoL players do not display the highest levels of maturity given the highly complex and cerebral gameplay the game requires
    To be fair, KeSPA players have a history with match fixing too. Even before the sAviOr thing, there was one foreign tournament in China, where Hwasin and Calm literally decided how the game would go do in the chatroom before the game. It should've been a big deal, but the Korean scene was extremely arrogant and didn't care about foreign tournaments (despite the 20k prize or w/e), so fixing the match didn't register as an issue for them.

    hwasinfaketw4.jpg

    Sure enough, when Hwasin's first poke is applied Calm has 2 sunkens (1 made, 1 morphing) and no lings.

    Jibba on
  • BiosysBiosys Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    manaaaaaaaa~

    second foreigner to make it through up and down matches, only one in the current format

    Biosys on
  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    why does mana have to play bomber still even though he's in?

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    reading about the format more carefully, it looks like he is 90% in, but there are still possibilities for him to not be in or for there to be tiebreakers if he loses to either Bomber or Jjakji. If he beats either of those two he is in though.

  • BiosysBiosys Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    dhal is a butt and ruins everything

    Biosys on
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    WE ALL HEARD KHALDOR EXPLAIN IT OK BIOSYS

  • BiosysBiosys Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    NO

    i am the smart european here

    fine i edited it

    Biosys on
  • JibbaJibba Registered User regular
    Yilias wrote: »

    I love watching Scarlett play, but she is a really, really bad interviewee. It's like some of those early GSL interviews where Artosis can only get one word out of the guy.

  • WydrionWydrion Registered User regular
    Jibba wrote: »
    Yilias wrote: »

    I love watching Scarlett play, but she is a really, really bad interviewee. It's like some of those early GSL interviews where Artosis can only get one word out of the guy.

    I think it's because she's not comfortable with her voice yet.

  • Joe KJoe K Registered User regular
    Wydrion wrote: »

    thought it was newer, was just posted on another site... sorry if its a repost.

  • JibbaJibba Registered User regular
    Joe K wrote: »
    This map design makes my brain hurt.

    I hope Blizzard doesn't have dedicated, paid mappers for the MP maps, cause they are not getting their money's worth.

  • narwhalnarwhal monodon monoceros Registered User regular
    Saaruto wrote: »
    Watching MLG on EU time is really weird guys...

    I agree.
    Also, @saaruto what part of Europe are you in again?

    Narwhal#1834
  • narwhalnarwhal monodon monoceros Registered User regular
    Rofflor wrote: »
    Now that Narwhal has moved to continent of class, will any PA'ers start being online in Europe soon?
    I have trunkers and Biosys on my friendlist, but I think Bio has been online like, once, in a year.

    Is it because the NA ladder is terrible, and you pro euros want to move up a league by playing there? :rotate:

    Well, how long until HotS and I don't have to worry about what version of the game I have? I don't really have the money to blow on an EU account at the moment, so unless someone is buying me one...

    Narwhal#1834
  • narwhalnarwhal monodon monoceros Registered User regular
    Wydrion wrote: »
    Jibba wrote: »
    Yilias wrote: »

    I love watching Scarlett play, but she is a really, really bad interviewee. It's like some of those early GSL interviews where Artosis can only get one word out of the guy.

    I think it's because she's not comfortable with her voice yet.

    She's probably not comfortable with her own body, let alone her voice. Maybe she will use the money towards becoming more feminine and then she can start feeling more comfortable just being herself :)

    Narwhal#1834
  • GnomeTankGnomeTank What the what? Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
    I hope so. Scarlett is a great player, and I want her to be embraced by the community...uphill battle though :( Sometimes the dickery of gamers and e-Sports bothers me (though I still feel Scarlett probably chose the right e-Sport, as the StarCraft community is one of the more mature...though it's still relative).

    Sagroth wrote: »
    Oh c'mon FyreWulff, no one's gonna pay to visit Uranus.
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  • narwhalnarwhal monodon monoceros Registered User regular
    yeah well she has at least 500 very strong supports in the Girls of Starcraft group. They all go nuts about her :P

    Narwhal#1834
  • SaarutoSaaruto Registered User regular
    narwhal wrote: »
    Saaruto wrote: »
    Watching MLG on EU time is really weird guys...

    I agree.
    Also, @saaruto what part of Europe are you in again?

    Switzerland. Some people were extremely interested in going Budapest, should I do it?

    If you can chill, chill.
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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    the footnote is that naniwa hasn't had to deal with up and downs lately because he made top 8 the last 2 seasons

    (I typed this last night before I laid down but for some reason it didn't post)

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  • BiosysBiosys Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Variable wrote: »
    the footnote is that naniwa hasn't had to deal with up and downs lately because he made top 8 the last 2 seasons

    (I typed this last night before I laid down but for some reason it didn't post)

    that's true, but with the current state of his pvz especially i dunno how he'll do next gsl

    hopefully he'll prove me wrong, but the last few tournaments have just been terrible for him T.T

    Biosys on
  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    Jibba wrote: »
    This map design makes my brain hurt.

    I hope Blizzard doesn't have dedicated, paid mappers for the MP maps, cause they are not getting their money's worth.

    I really hope the pro scene is more proactive about getting all the shitty maps out of the pool once HoTS releases, but I wouldn't be surprised if they went back to just using the new Blizzard maps when the expansion first comes out. It's really silly how many bad non-community maps survived for years (and still do) in tournament map pools.

  • mEEksamEEksa Registered User regular
    Bad map pools are a big problem with a lot of tournaments; there definitely needs to be more of an uproar in the community when MLG has fucking Tal'darim Altar in their map pool still.

  • fatalspoonsfatalspoons Registered User regular
    Anybody know the attendance numbers on this MLG compared to last MLG? Just curious.

  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    mEEksa wrote: »
    Bad map pools are a big problem with a lot of tournaments; there definitely needs to be more of an uproar in the community when MLG has fucking Tal'darim Altar in their map pool still.

    At least it isn't Metalopolis.



    is it bad that I remember a time when that was the largest macro map in the map pool?

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  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    people used to think scrap station was a zerg map because it was the only one you could always hatch first on

    blizzard smell bad sometimes

  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    All I can say is that anyone who makes a shitty troll comment about Scarlett on screddit is immediately downvoted to hell.

    Which I guess is good. I just wish the comments would get hidden or marked as spam entirely like in Youtube.

  • YiliasYilias Registered User regular
    Even the GSL pool has mostly bad maps.

    Antiga Shipyard - Super T favored
    Atlantis Spaceship - Way too big (atleast it's not Calm Before the Storm I guess)
    Whirlwind - Way too big
    Metropolis - Way too big
    Ohana - Abysmal for Zerg

    Which leaves us with Cloud Kingdom, Daybreak, and Entombed Valley as the good ones.

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  • BiosysBiosys Registered User regular
    edited August 2012


    koreans at twitchtv hq

    revival playing p atm

    Biosys on
  • mEEksamEEksa Registered User regular
    Korean TLPD has TvZ at 54% for both Ohana and Antiga Shipyard. That doesn't sound super T favored/abysmal for Zerg.

    International TLPD actually has those maps at under 50% in TvZ, but that is understandable because foreign Terran have historically been pretty weak compared to their Korean counterparts.

  • kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Biosys wrote: »


    koreans at twitchtv hq

    revival playing p atm

    This is... amusing.

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  • mEEksamEEksa Registered User regular
    Taeja is trolling Alicia by putting hats on his head while he is playing, it is pretty funny.

    "If you do anything I'll kill you, I'll kill you" - SlayersAlicia

  • redraptorredraptor Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    Honestly there should be like 6 maps at any time, which are standard for EVERYTHING. And four of those should change like bimonthly.

    This weird nebulous shit with huge diverse pools of maps floating around forever is awful, and having a small crisp rotating schedule is one of the main ways to keep things fresh and battle the menacing hyper stimulation of constantly changing games like MOBA. As well keeping it very tight promotes a lot deeper strategy, makes it easier for casual players to learn, and gives the awesome meta-meta-metagame elements that occur when you see a map multiple times in a series.

    There needs to be a fucking committee that does this and is holding public contest for the new maps 2 months out of every flip, then they could have a two month testing/tweak period where they narrow the field. A couple favorites could rotate back into the pool, but honestly the whole thing needs to be decided by some higher up so the responsibility gets pulled out of the hands of all the idiots.

    redraptor on
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  • kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    edited August 2012
    mEEksa wrote: »
    Taeja is trolling Alicia by putting hats on his head while he is playing, it is pretty funny.

    "If you do anything I'll kill you, I'll kill you" - SlayersAlicia

    :lol:

    They somehow found a pointed wizard's hat? They put it on whoever's playing now.

    Edit: Hey look, a mothership one-shots drones, apparently. Never knew that haha

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  • mEEksamEEksa Registered User regular
    Taeja was harassing with a mothership.

    Mothership harass is going to be the new PvZ meta.

    Dhalphir
  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    then you recall it with your other mothership!

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