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[SamuraiX-]

TLO knows wazzup.

Commercial breaks longer than the games.

/dead

 

[Omega]

Being upset at something I love to watch upsets you so much? There have been some great games in this tournament and these first 2 games were not entertaining at all. It's ridiculous that the end of the tournament stats like that.

We're supposed to share opinions here as it is a forum.

I'd like anyone else to speak up if posts like that "drive ppl from the community".

I'm just a casual SC2 viewer and that's not bothering me.

I mean I kind of agree with the post. I don't watch much SC2, but this is just meh. For a $100k grand finals it's kind of embarrassing.

 

[Syf]

I think it's fine to express opinions. There's been a lot of fan frustration in the past few months. This finals is hardly even showing the kind of game Starcraft is. Just proxy cheese every map. It's pretty embarrassing for the game considering the setting.

 

[sep]

Yesterday was great and I wanted to believe...but this is actually sad.

 

[Draft]

Incontrol :lol

 

[kasane]

Guys TvZ pls

 

[HoodWinked]

im enjoying this i dont care.

 

[kasane]

another one?

come on gimme macro games

 

[GC|Simon]

I don't lilke the "winner takes it all" rule. There is ALWAYS luck involved and everyone who went to this championship has great skill. Why not give them at least a bit of money?

 

[Syf]

Terrible final. Holy shit.

 

[kasane]

gg guys i guess

 

[Omega]

That was awful.

That grand final was like 30 minutes gameplay, 45 minutes commercials/talking

 

[Aaron]

I've seen a LOT of pvp lately. This was the worst series easy. MC vs San was 10x this finals. Sad really.

 

[Into]

Great day for SC

SoS proved the doubters wrong

 

[demosthenes]

"Guys, I feel like we're going to get some REALLY REALLY long games".

Finals was disgusting. Some serious awesome and amazing games this weekend but what a bad finals.

 

[Nzyme32]

I suppose I'll just watch the LoL final then haha

 

[Boken]

err i went to the toilet and the match was over

what coinflip did we see in the final game?

 

[SamuraiX-]

The grand final barely went over an hour.

At least sOs is giving IEM good footage for their 2014-2015 highlight reel.

$200,000 in less than 4 months. Proto$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[survivor]

Pretty disappointing finals

 

[Niflheim]

Finals was as bad as the price structure...hope to never see this happen again.

 

[SamuraiX-]

I don't lilke the "winner takes it all" rule. There is ALWAYS luck involved and everyone who went to this championship has great skill. Why not give them at least a bit of money?

The commentators are shamelessly playing it off like they go home with nothing. herO still wins 800 WCS Points and that'll definitely mean something for him.

All travel expenses are paid for the players as well.

 

[peakish]

Sad finals. I was really hoping for hero and good games in general but no luck this time.

As for whine it's definitely grating to some extent to constantly see it in threads. Commenting on balance or boring match-ups is one thing but when a protoss can never take a game without comments about his race it stacks up quickly.

 

[GC|Simon]

$200,000 in less than 4 months. Proto$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

He made $245,260 in total so far. With that amount he entered the top five (Stephano dropped out): http://www.sc2earnings.com/

 

[-COOLIO-]

pvp putting sc2 tournaments ahead of schedule.

 

[demosthenes]

The commentators are shamelessly playing it off like they go home with nothing. herO still wins 800 WCS Points and that'll definitely mean something for him.

All travel expenses are paid for the players as well.

All 16?

 

[SamuraiX-]

All 16?

The travel expenses you mean? I'm pretty sure at least 14 of them... HyuN and Dear may be shit outta luck since they qualified through the open bracket.

 

[Dice]

He showed weakness with this.

 

[Double]

I don't lilke the "winner takes it all" rule. There is ALWAYS luck involved and everyone who went to this championship has great skill. Why not give them at least a bit of money?

Yeah that's just a horribly shitty PR-move. I don't like that IEM is doing this at all.

 

[SporeCrawler]

i feared for the absolute worst and it was even worse than that... at least seed vs. mc (another pvp finale that was anticlimactic) had some cool new builds. hero vs. sos was just lol.

 

[kasane]

Yeah that's just a horribly shitty PR-move. I don't like that IEM is doing this at all.

iem did a lot for sc and they fell off

they needed to make some noise

 

[Sickafant]

Wow, I tuned in late expecting to have missed only the first map. Instead, I only caught the final game...

At least yesterday's games were good.

 

[Leezard]

Let's hope Fnatic can keep up their performance against the Koreans now.

 

[-COOLIO-]

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments

oh man

 

[Ikuu]

I don't lilke the "winner takes it all" rule. There is ALWAYS luck involved and everyone who went to this championship has great skill. Why not give them at least a bit of money?

They were doing it as a PR stunt, make it seem epic, I wouldn't have bothered going if I were a pro.

 

[sep]

Aside from the final, gotta say I had a lot of fun watching IEM and for me SC2 is still the most entertaining e-sport to watch.
CS:GO was cool too, but I don't know much about it and it's so quick. To figure out what was going on I ended up looking at the minimap most of the time.

 

[SamuraiX-]

World Championship StarCraft II In-Game Replays Released

 

[kasane]

World Championship StarCraft II In-Game Replays Released

yes!

 

[Syf]

Aside from the final, gotta say I had a lot of fun watching IEM and for me SC2 is still the most entertaining e-sport to watch.

Yeah, agreed. There were some spectacular games and the tournament has been done really well by ESL/IEM. Just a shame so many tournaments lately have been coming down to this sort of frustrating play in the later rounds. I hope the necessary changes are made so SC can shine again.

 

[SamuraiX-]

And of course no ESL/IEM event is complete without this:

 

[RayStorm]

So why was there no interview with sOs at the end or anything really? They hardly ran out of time. So why that sudden end?

 

[demosthenes]

KT Rolster on the verge of sweeping LoL finals.

 

[Archie]

Let's hope Fnatic can keep up their performance against the Koreans now.

lol

 

[Omega]

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments

oh man

man what happened.

2013 had a nice mix. 2014, while not as many tournaments, is almost entirely Protoss with 1 Terran

 

[SamuraiX-]

man what happened.

2013 had a nice mix. 2014, while not as many tournaments, is almost entirely Protoss with 1 Terran

Senseless buffs to Protoss followed by players discovering how broken the MSC is along with an effectively universal map pool that maximizes the effectiveness of Blink all-ins.


Hearthstone tournament has begun: http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_hearthstone

Artosis just wins, man.

 

[Crimsonlink]

I was hopeing the score would be 4-3 or even 4-2 but it was a measly 4-1 and it ended so fast.

So disappointed at how the finals ended. Was hopeing herO would win as well.

Oh well GGWP to everyone as there were some awesome games except the finals and Naniwa.

I hope ESL does another IEM but without the top only prize pool.

Congrats to the CS: GO team that won!.

 

[survivor]

So KTB won the tournament without dropping a single map and apparently they aren't even top 3 best teams in Korea going by various comments online. I don't really watch LoL, but is it becoming like SC2 where it's Korea vs the world?

 

[bjaelke]

Remove "becoming" and the answer is yes.

 

[Mr Swine]

Did SOS win?

 

[Harlock]

Totalbiscuit about the comparison between SC2 and LoL in e-sports health:

https://soundcloud.com/totalbiscuit/official-starcraft-2-dick

 

[grumpy]

I LoLed.