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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 12 2018 08:13. Posts 13024 | | |
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FrinkX   United States. Mar 13 2018 14:17. Posts 7561 | | |
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blackjacki2   United States. Mar 19 2018 06:37. Posts 2581 | | |
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Island map this season? wow
Not sure how I feel about making the gas inaccessible to terran and protoss though. I understand something is necessary but that feels kind of lame, like changing unit properties or something |
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Ryan Neilly   United States. Mar 20 2018 06:57. Posts 1631 | | |
they gotta keep it as fresh as possible imo
that first ZvT had a lot of great action, loved it |
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Ryan Neilly   United States. Mar 20 2018 07:02. Posts 1631 | | |
love when they talk about all the past island maps.....
Dire straights and ummm none else are memorable |
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blackjacki2   United States. Mar 20 2018 20:06. Posts 2581 | | |
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wow, some really cool games from group D |
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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 21 2018 07:08. Posts 13024 | | |
Mong looks like a bodyguard for the other three guys. |
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spets1   Australia. Mar 21 2018 18:56. Posts 2179 | | |
Lets go BW! we need some new players to smash the veterans.
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Jaedong is playing on group F :O I thought he retired last season |
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Daut   United States. Mar 22 2018 21:32. Posts 8955 | | |
Cool games thus far, new maps always bring out creative cheese until defenses against every attack vector are chunked together in a working adaptive strategy for each race.
Random question for people who kept up with SC more over the years than I did: tasteless and artosis often talk about the 4 best players ever and name Flash, Jaedong, Bisu, and Stork. Why stork? Not just why is he listed alongside the other 3 players who were clearly at the top, but also why is he listed above the other candidates like savior, iloveoov, fantasy, jangbi, or guys like nada who were dominant for long periods of time? An analogy I would use is tennis: instead of saying Roger, Novak, Rafa are the three best ever, someone says the four best ever are Roger, Novak, Rafa, and Murray, and simultaneously places Murray alongside three players he shouldn't be named with and above players like Sampras, Borg, Lendl, and McEnroe which is unclear. |
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I was curious about that myself. I would have thought Nada would have been the logical 4th choice.
I'm pretty certain savior would be have been solidly there except he is unmentionable after being so instrumental in the match-fixing scandal. |
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Technics   Bulgaria. Mar 23 2018 11:59. Posts 541 | | |
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Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Mar 23 2018 15:26. Posts 9634 | | |
I can tell you why they do that with tennis, and it's probably equivalent here in BW, they say Murray is in the big four cause he smashed the other 3 in 1-2 seasons. People ignore previous legends cause tennis is virtually a different game compared to when Sampras played. Skillwise its very likely that Murray is indeed top4 most skilled ones ever, achievements-wise that's a whole different topic.
Generally, though people just prefer to focus on the present and project that into different aspects. It's the same with every sport, its the current players that are "the best ever" etc... |
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blackjacki2   United States. Mar 23 2018 19:56. Posts 2581 | | |
| On March 22 2018 20:32 Daut wrote:
Cool games thus far, new maps always bring out creative cheese until defenses against every attack vector are chunked together in a working adaptive strategy for each race.
Random question for people who kept up with SC more over the years than I did: tasteless and artosis often talk about the 4 best players ever and name Flash, Jaedong, Bisu, and Stork. Why stork? Not just why is he listed alongside the other 3 players who were clearly at the top, but also why is he listed above the other candidates like savior, iloveoov, fantasy, jangbi, or guys like nada who were dominant for long periods of time? An analogy I would use is tennis: instead of saying Roger, Novak, Rafa are the three best ever, someone says the four best ever are Roger, Novak, Rafa, and Murray, and simultaneously places Murray alongside three players he shouldn't be named with and above players like Sampras, Borg, Lendl, and McEnroe which is unclear. |
I don't know why they rank stork so highly either and I think the tennis analogy is a good one. |
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Daut   United States. Mar 24 2018 01:23. Posts 8955 | | |
It makes sense from the perspective that he had a long period where he was mostly among the top 5 (notably while the other 3 best ever were dominant) and briefly reached #1 a few times. But if you go by the extended dominance metric then savior, iloveoov, and nada are all better all time greats. And if you go by peak skill level metric, then I think Fantasy is better as he had a higher peak ELO (so did savior, but during an easier time period) and reached #1 at a later point in history while games were still very difficult and was higher ranked from 2010-2012. Fantasy was also 9-13 vs flash and had a winning record vs jangbi.
I'm ok deferring to people who watched actively while it was happening and have thought about this more and giving stork the tiebreaker as he was amongst the top 5 during the hardest era of starcraft for 4-5 years. |
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FrinkX   United States. Mar 24 2018 16:18. Posts 7561 | | |
i was 100% sure the 4th greatest player he was going to say was Boxer
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