NO KOREA TIME LIKE THE PRESENT KSL IS BACK AND THIS ONE'S A FUCKIN' DOOZY
>Last vs Rain (PvT, bo5, winner advances) >Jaedong vs Stork (PvZ, bo5, loser is eliminated) TASTOSIS CASTING GET THE FUCK IN HERE, THIS MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEE JAEDONG PLAY BROOD WAR
The frustrating part is that JD is not washed up, but rather he's made big improvements. But he's gone from washed up to mid-tier. He just can't reach the same heights of his past, and the top players stomp him.
So he exists in this gamer limbo where he's too good to quit, but he can't win anything.
Stork is legit washed up.
Rapid actually hangs out with Tasteless. They're friends.
Soething about Rain I don't like. Maybe he looks too much like a smug pop idol?
Mind and Last should switch bodies, since Mind is a decent, but not great player, but he looks like a brainy nerd. Last visually doesn't make any impact on me, and he doesn't look as good as he is.
Wyatt Morales
>Last vs Rain Last wins >Jaedong vs Stork Stork wins. JD isn't that great these days.
Thomas Jackson
>Stork wins. JD isn't that great these days.
We're talking about Stork. A few seasons ago in ASL he let a no-name Toss player get like 26 kills in his base. In the thread, I described Stork's body as slumping over, allowing his opponent to win.
Noah Perez
>JD isn't that great these days. Normally I would agree but I honestly think JD can stomp all over Stork. >Maybe he looks too much like a smug pop idol? He's cute, no bully.
Jonathan Martin
Let's talk about that crazy game last night FourGG played.
That night overall was pretty lame, but that nonsense game made up for it.
Austin Nguyen
lol his name is dong
Gabriel Price
>tfw having to ACHTSHULLY fags who called DongRaeGu "the dong" in SC2
Rain 3-2 Jaedong 3-1 It's less that he can't reach the same heights, but more that the field of competition is much more stacked. Same can be said of Flash, who failed to win the last two ASLs iirc
>Couldn't watch it live yesterday because I was babysitting my 4 year old nephew and that casual doesn't care about broodwar >remember to watch the vod like 12 hours later >turns out it ends with the greatest game in the universe god damn
Blake Garcia
Why do you assume that every institution across the globe uses the same format as the individual one you currently attend?
Parker Peterson
>WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB Jesus Christ I can't wait for the ASL music again
Lucas Parker
Guys JD's wrists need your help. Send them your energy!
Carson Richardson
Fight until you DIE BY THE BLADE OF THE ONE YOU HATE
Wait, for real? I actually had to tune out after the ZvZ since i had to drive and send my sister somewhere. Guess it's time to load up the VODs later. I trust you folks ain't lying and the games were really great.
tastosis themselves both said it was the best game of the entire ksl
Adam James
It was amazing. I hope nobody spoils it for you before you see it.
John Davis
Pure kino
Dylan Wilson
>JAILDONG
Kayden Gomez
you missed a great game followed by one of the craziest games of all time
Ryder Phillips
Don't dismiss the series on how bad the first few games are. The final game is one of the coolest games i've ever seen. ever. Old korea time, new korea time.
Hunter Adams
>WE ARE YOUNG >WE ARE STRONG >BORN IN THIS WORLD WHEN IT ALL FALLS APART
I was on the edge of my seat. I've never seen anything like it. One of the tensest games I've ever. They were in uncharted territory.
Nolan Wilson
I was spoiled by who won because of the time left on the vod and it was still a super tense and fun game for me, I was leaning forward completely focused on what was going on.
Henry Young
You're just reminding me how handsome Young Nick was. Now he's a bloated mess retracing the life of Orson Welles without the writing/acting/directing talent (so just eating and wit).
Isaac Morris
Download a program like Twitch Leecher and put the video in the search. It lets you download it as a local file and watch it in MPC or whatever media player you use. It's also much quicker since it downloads it in small chunks at the same time
Landon Lopez
Nope, you can wait until it gets uploaded here: youtube.com/user/WCSStarCraft/videos Twitch VODs aren't a death sentence anymore so I'd just watch it
Yea Forums introduced me to competitive Korean Starcraft. I missed the Star Invitational, which I beliee was the first thing Tasteless casted in Korea, but I saw all three seasons of the Avertec Intel-Classic.
The whole concept of "e-sports" was novel to me. The idea that Koreans of all people were playing Starcraft and putting it on tv and filling up stadiums? That was nuts. And there was an English caster so it was so easy to get into.
I ducked out after GOMTV moved to SC2, since I never cared for that game. Then in 2016, I saw a random Yea Forums thread talking about the return of BW. Tasteless was accompanied by some pasty nerd guy I never saw. ("Tastosis" started with SC2, Nick had multiple partners before). I grew to love Artosis too.
Now we're 6 seasons into ASL, and two into KSL. My god it's been three years since the return, and 12 since I started watching.
Jonathan Carter
mmmmmm drobes
James James
Looks like the terrain is favorable to carriers, haven't seen it all though
>tfw I can't watch Korea time with you bros today Have fun lads
Parker Sanders
gg
Kevin Morris
Yay for Last.
Mason Stewart
>A terran other than flash can actually beat carriers holy shit protoss on suicide watch
Henry Collins
How did Last win? Rain hit hard first match and killed 80% of the tanks. Few minutes later it's like nothing happened and Rain had a huge army with 2-1.
Connor Mitchell
>Maek carriers >Not win The absolute conclave of Rain
Asher Smith
does that mean rain is a shit?
gg
what was up with the interceptors there? That was weird.
>Nick says it doesn't make sense interceptors get full HP when they come back
Carriers are just floating factories for interceptors. When they return they get repaired or replaced.
2-1 is a powerful upgrade to unupgraded Carriers. I think he literally just killed all the interceptors and there was only a trickle that rain was desperately trying to use to fight with as they were being made.
Nathaniel Brooks
Rain lost too many probes and didn't kill any SCVs. Also fighting uphill against the tanks was not very smart.
Tyler Williams
Jiji?
William Ward
use mpv or bakamplayer or something like that to watch. Way easier to make screenshots.
the harrasment probably and the time spent idling by Rain probably evened up the counts. Plus, 2-1 is some kind of shit
Dominic Miller
>peacock >fireworks >doves what background would fit for nick & dan?
Noah Myers
Generally it is considered an "even" game if protoss is 1 base ahead of terran. But in this game last got his 2nd up at the same time as Rain, and his 3rd was not much later than Rain's.
Rain invested a lot in carrier tech while all of Last's income went directly into army (and upgrades), so Last's army was stronger.
The big engagement on the hill also worked unbelievably well in Last's favor. He only had like 6 vults and 3 gollies who held off 12+ speedlots. If those speedlots managed to melee the tanks it wouldve been a whole different story.
Samuel Brooks
>"Tastosis" started with SC2, Nick had multiple partners before Actually it started a little bit before starcraft 2 released, but they were already practiced as "Tastosis" by the time sc2 tourneys were happening.
Nicholas Nelson
been meaning to set that up something like that again, used to watch the stream through livestreamer+vlc
>Actually it started a little bit before starcraft 2 released, but they were already practiced as "Tastosis" by the time sc2 tourneys were happening.
Last season of GOMTV's Avertec Intel Classic was Tasteless and Super Danielman. It went Nick Solo season 1, Nick + Lil Susy, and Nick and Super Danielman.
I understand it better than the "pros" I just don't have the autism to practice
Caleb Wright
I've beat the campaign many times and sometimes i play vs ai but i get destroyed everytime i play against real people
Joshua Hughes
I used to only play custom matches on battle.net when I was younger (like 12). There were some good fucking custom maps , I remember one where everyone was DBZ characters. I haven't played BW for like 10+ years
Christopher Powell
Never played, only a bit of SC2 years ago. Want to pick it up to do the single player at some point, I don't have time to learn the multiplayer.
Julian Sanders
I've beaten the campaign, same with warcraft 3. But I'm horrible at multiplayer, as soon as i have to juggle microing my units and doing shit back in my base i get flustered and forget stuff. I get too focused on microing my units and forget my production. I know if i bothered to stick at it i would get over the hump but i can't be bothered devoting the time to actually getting good.
Nathan Mitchell
I have won one game on the ladder
Ryder Gutierrez
>BW zerg campaign I wanted to fucking die. >20 minute time limit >Trying to get my fuckers onto that island in the middle >it's populated solely by full energy high templars, reavers and unlimited observers fuck that mission
Adrian Peterson
we could use a man like you over at www.teamliquid.net
Dominic Rodriguez
oh god no, not really
I crushed friends and friends of friends in our ffa games, but I was never really good. I know the units, I know the basics of micro(during a lan I had friends take the lords name in vain when they were taken out and watched my micro, so my apm is probably good for casuals) and macro, but I have no real strats If I got remastered and laddered I'd have a humiliating experience.
Jordan Thomas
I only got through the single player as a kid because I used cheats.
I played my nephew and the score screen told me my APM was 35.
Juan Phillips
He casted that tourney, yes. Check VODs. clips.twitch.tv/AlertSilkyAmazonGingerPower Also they still did BW tourneys. Does anyone remember those threads where we tried to ask questions for the interviews, but we gave Artosis and Tasteless funny names to say?
Matthew Thompson
Why did they change the adbreaks from after every 2nd game to every game? It was perfect before
>RAIN MICRO ON THAT DRAGOON
Robert Clark
>Does anyone remember those threads where we tried to ask questions for the interviews, but we gave Artosis and Tasteless funny names to say? youtube.com/watch?v=Nmqs_6CBzcU
wow last looks like you totally rekt me with that rush oh wait
Charles Barnes
if he maek reaber, you maek wraith. Last brought that on himself by not fucking making a wraith immediately after that dropship
Henry Nelson
Who's the show me the money caster?
Nicholas Walker
90% sure the Reaver is meant to be a defensive unit, and to act as a siege machine.
>"What if you combo'd the Reaver with a shuttle and turned them into some super fast kil crazy machine of death?
This never occured to the devs. Wonder who figured this out!?
Blake Harris
I remembered someone asking what a player was gonna do if a photon cannon was pushed up his back side
Jayden Thompson
just cripple his economy and lose anyway because toss makes one unit
Oliver Edwards
Anyone know what the fuck this announcer pack coomercial says?
Lincoln Sanders
yeah bro he totally screwed himself by not performing the mandatory response to 1 (one) incredibly powerful game winning unit It's not like the game is unbalanced or anything. He just didn't do the thing his opponent forced him to do. If only he danced like a puppet in the protoss's arms he'd have survived long enough to get shit on by 8 reavers instead of 1
Artosis clearly the smartest BW player. He would've scouted Rain and beat him.
Christopher Lee
iirc in one of the broodwar campaign maps The one against Aldaris I think. He likes to send Reavers over to your base and then recall them back, like a primitive ineffective version of reaver drop.
also >Reavers are renowned for their ability to level entire colonies in moments I don't think that sounds very defensive
What makes me truly sad is that jaedong probably won't make it out of the group now. Last should have won, that way JD could bop rain in the final game.
Fuck protoss
Ethan Sanchez
So, will Dong finally retire if he gets eliminated by Stork? Will this be his last set of games?
Logan Sanchez
jaedong will beat Last and save us from the Protoss only future
Matthew Reyes
Interesting to see how a protoss of rain's caliber is gonna deal with tesagi.
Any win against protoss is honest fuck protard scum
Samuel Richardson
t. Last
Isaac Rivera
The advance in Streaming tech shcoked me. I didn't follow streaming too much after 2010 to 2015. I was used to watching these 30fps, 640x480 heavily compressed streams, to suddenly 1920x1080p at 60fps.
I have no idea what changed or how, but I like it.
Angel Johnson
You could literally stand up from your chair, walk over to the t*ss player, unzip your pants, and rub your dick on his face, distracting him long enough so you can hit Alt-F4 on his keyboard, and it would be an honest win. The very act of being a Pr*t*ss is dishonest. Their very existence is dishonesty. They must be eliminated by any means necessary.
Austin Foster
Twitch happened
Bentley Harris
Yeah, I get that. But what's the underlying tech upgrades? Is it just better compression? All sites, including twitch made streaming way easier.
Kespa and Gom just didn't give a fuck because they had a monopoly on the streaming rights. As soon as Kespa and Gom disappeared, Afreeca and Twitch stepped in with full 1080/60 streams services.
Owen Cruz
QUICK, who wins this series: Jaedong or Stork?
Juan Ross
thanks to sc2 and league esports(and the players themselves being popular and streaming regularly)people started investing into the infrastructure and once money started being poured into it,the tech rapidly advanced.Before 2010 very few westerners cared about streaming(or watching games at all)
incontrol did his part to prevent people watching it
Juan Wright
They weren't getting any money because they were streaming in 240p exclusively through their own shitty player and you could only access the stream through a specific page on their website in Korea. And they still regularly got 50k+ viewers despite all that. If they had been streaming it on twitch at the time they would have been raking in tons of money just from advertising. But they didn't, because they were retarded.
Lucas Ortiz
>JD vs Stork is it 2009 again?
Robert Myers
>Having to subscribe to get anything above 360/480 Heh, those were the days.
Ayden Richardson
Gogogo JD
Nathan Collins
There was a paid stream with higher quality
Kayden Long
they did that so they can hide the good streams behind a paywall,ogn did it too but they had the paywall under the twitch sub they knew people were gonna watch anyway,there was no other choice
Robert Wood
he just hasn't lost the baby weight yet
Camden Gutierrez
Rooting for the dong
Hudson Scott
Hahahhaha Brood War. They show this in nursing homes?
Oliver Murphy
stream fucking up for anyone else?
Nolan Lewis
nah
Levi Cruz
SNEAKY CAPE BOI
Jack Young
I hope this series goes the full 5. ZvP is always fun to watch.
Colton Phillips
MMMM SHUBBLES
Alexander Clark
Nice sloppy shuttle play
Kevin Williams
Doesn't matter, hes protoss
Logan Flores
Is the Dong too dishonest for his own good or not dishonest enough?
Cooper Moore
>2 base for a decade >Still win Pr*t*ss sh*tt*rs!
Matthew Powell
He needs to go full scumbag dishonesty.
Ayden Gutierrez
>
Brayden Adams
JD a bust
Samuel Adams
Honest to god Protoss skill prevails over fraudulent z*rg once again.
only because the actually good players didnt choose the easy way out and went for terran
Colton Flores
You're embarrassing.
Ayden Perry
name one (1) good terran player
Noah Jones
What are your guys' favourite KSL map?
Nathaniel James
NaDa (Current form)
Lincoln Adams
Blue Storm
Camden Russell
If you think any of the races are bad then you don't actually know or love the game. The game is still fun to watch because it's balanced so well and all the races are good. Keep whining, though, it just makes you look like a bitch.
Jacob Morales
Rain????? It's always Rain v Last, and it showed today that Rain > Last, thus P > T
god korean girls are so disgusting,literally a mask on their face
Henry Morales
I stand corrected
Thomas Ramirez
Rain hasn't made it to the finals of either KSL and he hasn't reached the ASL finals since his win which was 3 seasons ago.
Luis Cooper
grack
Jayden Bennett
>good >terran Pick one!
Josiah Parker
anyone here play starcraft
Christian Russell
That sounds gay as fuck. No way.
Mason Campbell
Deep down the pr*t*ss player knows he is dishonest and doesn't deserve to win They subconsciously throw out of shame before the finals
Benjamin Nelson
No, you misunderstand. There is shit each race can do to eachother in each matchup that is total bullshit. This is the source of the P>Z>T>P. It's not that once race is unbalanced, but say, terrans have every right to complain about protoss. Artosis knows this and he's played the game for 20 years
Caleb Wilson
Jesus, the donger is making horrible mistakes.. This just looks bad
Oliver Wilson
>Iloveoov was nicknamed "Bus Driver" in Korea. The Korean word for rape is "gang gan", but because the use of such a word is frowned upon in a professional setting, 'gang gan' was transformed into the word 'gwan gwang' which means 'tour' or 'to go on a trip'. The one who takes someone on a 'tour' is the 'bus driver'. This idea came right out after the match between iloveoov and Goodfriend on nostalgia, where iloveoov took Goodfriend 'on a trip' with pure wraiths while goodfriend was defending with goliath and turrets. [1]
Stork dropping a DT like a baby. Fucking JD get it together.
Aaron Murphy
Jaedong is just making it exciting for stork because he's so fucking old, now here comes the sweep, get ready!
Joshua Thompson
I've been looking at the charts and it seems whatever shit was going on with jaedong's wrists has spread to his cerebrum. Made him into a real smoothbrain. Nothing we can do, it's a real shame. Ship him off to the military.
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No thanks
Joseph Young
>failed 5 pool 0% chance Jaedong recovers
Jordan Williams
>5 pool into 5 hatch So very good man!
James Sullivan
its over
Parker Reyes
fair enough
Gavin Taylor
GO DONG GOOOOOOOOOOOO
Christian Diaz
>Hey jaedong, how come your overlord lets you have two hydra dens?
Tyler Butler
why is jd so bad
Austin Price
His hands are literally duct taped to his arms because his wrists disintegrated into dust and blew away.
Eli Watson
>only hydras hey he stole my build
Andrew Nguyen
So if Jaedong's wrists are truly fucked, do you guys think he's still able to fap somehow?
>you flirt with other units but come back to your first love, the zergling
that is fucking poetry because it describes zerg so well
Julian Hernandez
Wow Stork played like he was young again. Jesus Christ that was a great game considering the 5 pool start.
Tyler Richardson
he tried a few times He had a hatch growing there that was destroyed. Stork left one (1) zealot there and JD sent another drone up there which the zealot killed. Then JD gave up on that one.
Connor Gomez
Hard to believe Jaedong retired midway through the game
Charles Cox
DARK SWARM!? WHAT DOES THAT DO??
Ryan Morgan
There was one zealot there killing his drones. Nothing he could do.
Brandon Bennett
man I never realized that zerg doesn't have anything like feedback or emp to instantly destroy shield on all those archons. spawn broodling doesn't even work on archons. what bullshit
Cooper Gonzalez
SEND JAILDONG BACK TO JAIL
shame it was a 3:0 but that was a tight fucking game. Storms are such a life support for protoss, stork just had to sit back and let JD run through the meat grinder
Hunter White
>Zerg crying about Storms It's just a fact that the best race should have the best spell to fuck up Zerg.
Kayden Moore
Jaedong, please retire. You had a great career, but it hurts to watch you do this.
Shields are quite weak, only the +3 from upgrades, and 300 gas to get one.
Ian Young
archons are truly the unbalanced unit vs. zerg. forget reavers, archons are bullshit. zerg's only counter is to sucide hydras into them.
Jack Walker
he still makes it into the tournaments so why not
Thomas Green
Because he's getting embarrassed and BTFO. A competitor who was at the top for years does not enjoy losing this badly in group stages, not to mention doctors have told him if he keeps playing professionally he will be doing permanent damage to his wrists.
James Evans
they don't. you need 5-10 hydras to kill a single archon. Also, why are the fuck is the archon's splash damage harmless to protoss units, while every other units splash hurts its own units?
Aiden Myers
lurker spines hit friendlies?
Caleb Foster
eh, lurker spines are their own category. They're not the same. I looked it up, Archons, Valks, Corsairs and Reavers only hit enemies, while Infested terrans, tanks, lurkers and spider mines hit anybody. It's strange to think I've always known that from watching the games without actually researching it. You just get a feel for which units are going to wreck other units.
Evan Richardson
woops, lurkers should be in the former category
Austin Myers
Because tournaments don't make you any money even if you win so he's better off just coasting on his reputation with streaming and not permanently destroying his wrists even more