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Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Zorodius posted:

How does this even work? :psyduck:

https://youtu.be/WlYSqcKdkHI?t=4456

The EMP clearly connects before the Recall happens; you can see it drain the shields. But the Recall goes through anyway. What's up with that?

could be an artifact of momentum/decel, possibly he already "cast" it but the movement AI didn't stop doing its crazy thing until later?

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Antares
Jan 13, 2006

I'm worried it will be a blowout but Shine rules and i hope he at least gets a map

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

there was another mini-tournament a weekend or two ago i think too, but ASL will be back with tastosis this weekend.



flash, bisu, shine, and soulkey are already seeded into the next round.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

animatorZed posted:

afreeca player is a laggy mess for me. The downloader that got posted works fine, though.

VOD is up on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwraGZl7MJk

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

dogmother1776 posted:

No ASL this weekend??

probably delayed because of GSL super tournament this weekend

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Elephunk posted:

Are tastosis doing GSL? Is that star2 or bw?

yeah, 'regular' GSL is the premier SC2 league and super tournaments are weekend cups, almost always cast by tastosis. day 1 just finished so the vod should be up any minute now at https://go.twitch.tv/gsl

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

there's something puppy-like about rapid where he's objectively bad, but god bless him he's energetic and trying hard and just self aware enough that i kind of like him.

it's low praise but i would take him over GTR

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

extremely good FPVOD of Larva v Flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhPag1FnCmA

two control groups of queens and an infested command center but no infested terrans smh

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

mostly mid 20s yeah, Flash is 25. Stork is the oldest ASL player I can think of and he's 29.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Groovelord Neato posted:

are those their real ages or the dumbass ways koreans do age?

that's what they are on the english liquipedia so i assume it's gregorian, they have DOBs on there too so I'd assume age is a derived field

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Mike N Eich posted:

This is the first I've heard this guy and he's not terrible until battle start and then he screams his head off? Maybe he shouldn't do that.

he's memey and his analysis mostly sucks but he's 100% passion

https://twitter.com/RAPiDCasting/status/925347158617763841

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

super fart shooter posted:

I just walked in in the middle but I think they said there's gonna be a jaedong vs bisu SCR showmatch tonight after SC2?

at blizzcon i mean

yeah sounds like they'll do it shortly after sc2 and the last bo5 for today is about to start

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

the brood war was good but I am extremely online for tastosis casting csgo/tekken and reading people get insanely mad at them for calling the toilets "bathroom" or whatever

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Zotac Cup vods worth checking out if only for the insane Larva BM https://www.twitch.tv/zotac_cup/videos/all

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

lol Zotac have banned him for life for making people pay attention to an otherwise pointless match in a pointless tournament people were only watching for the casters

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Zorodius posted:

going back a ways here, but-


This was badass. Much better games than the ASL finals. Wish Soulkey had made it there instead.

Despite what Tastosis keep saying, ZvZ really does feel like a coin flip a lot of the time.

I watch both sc1 & 2 and would defend SC2 ZvZ, but BW ZvZ is far and away the worst matchup in either game.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Not to defend the dumb rear end decision to have a huge dead zone between ASL3/launch, but isn't Blizzard's ante a significant part of the prize pool too though?

I do kinda wonder what will happen with Bisu gone, JD fading, and eventually even Flash and to a lesser extent Larva having to do their military service.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Everyone probably already knows this because its been organized so well in coordination with the launch of SC:R, but I've been living under a rock and just found out ASL5 starts Sunday!

http://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Afreeca_Starleague_Season_5

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

http://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/31766795

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

i was a lot more sympathetic to rapid before i read an article about him being a huge creep in the LoL scene. the article might've been scrubbed but basically he imposed himself on people and slept in their hotel rooms without permission all in some weird gambit to ingratiate himself with Riot. i guess he got run out of that poo poo and now we're stuck with him.

e: lol. i swear an actual journalist investigated this and wrote it up but it seems to be gone now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130907092326/http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1lohuw/a_tale_of_an_unwanted_hotel_guest_pax

Antares fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Apr 4, 2018

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

The first three games were incredible

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

the atmosphere in the studio was so great too, it's a shame you can't usually hear the crowd going apeshit like that.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

The way Artosis says "yeeeahhh..." when someone says something really awkward or plain wrong is good to me

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

third world seems decent enough for a 'weird' map but as expected sparkle wore out its welcome in the ro24

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Elyv posted:

Mini vs Larva was not a good series

Larva looked absolutely outclassed

I usually look forward to Larva games but that series really disappointed.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Not sure how much you can read into this, but supposedly these are stats taken from sponsored matches on Sparkle and Third World.



I'm pretty sure a sponsored match is when two "progamer" streamers will play a best of X once they hit some donation goal. I don't watch their streams so I could be completely wrong and it includes everyone on Afreeca.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

First semifinal was a bit forgettable. I just went back and caught up on Flash v Snow and that was an incredible series. Wild that even with this map pool Flash only barely lost his first TvP in 11 years. I'm glad Artosis suggested he should've gone for the base trade in set 5, I was wondering the same thing but I don't know that I've ever actually seen a basetrade work in BW.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Not ASL games but if you youtube "FPVOD" + a player you wanna watch you can find stuff from one or both players perspectives from their streams. There are some really good FlaSh v Larva dual FPVODs.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

SoulKey has been one of my favorites to watch since the BW revival second only to when Shine and Larva were going nuts.

Sad to see JD getting dunked on. They weren't the cleanest games but Mind v Horang was pretty good, at least it went to 5 games.

Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Fanatic posted:

ASL is in to the round of 16 now. Broadcasts can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK5eBtuoj_HkdXKHNmBLAXg/videos

Atleast one video was taken down due to music copyright though (lol) and another is muted for the same reason I guess.

Yeah I've had to go to the actual Afreeca website for a couple VODs because they got themselves deleted from YouTube. Good news is the Afreeca website works in Chrome now, and without logging in!!

Group D where FlaSh picked JD will be awesome but unfortunately it's like two weeks away on account of Korean holidays.

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Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Fanatic posted:

Oh that's good to know, it looks like they're held here: http://www.afreecatv.com/?hash=staffpicks_42

Doesn't seem to work on Safari but yeah Chrome works. I'm surprised it isn't https encrypted but I guess it fits the 'camsite from last decade' design lol.

Yeah Group D should be good. Given what we saw in KSL it's gonna be tough for JD to take a game off Flash I would think.

Yeah on form I think Flash batters him but Flash v JD is always special. Shame ro16 is just bo1s.

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