Man I woke up at like 1am and couldn't go back to sleep. Downing Orange pekoe to compensate. Hungry as hell even after my rice + chicken dinner before.
36. I've been following Korea Time since 2007. Missed the first Star Invitational (I don't know why I remember all these tournament names) which was the first to feature Nick "Tasteless" Plott but started sometime around the Avertec-Intel Classic Season 1. These were 32 man tournaments streamed at 30fps at I think 640x480 (all the youtube vids are 480x360 so I can't be sure).
As far as I can tell the highest quality of these GOMTV era are gone and youtube backups are all we have. The Koreans released dvds of pretty much all their tournaments but that would be Korean video only.
Wow, there's more seeded players in these old tournamnets than entire list of players now! i really think they should go with 32 player tournaments and i think there's enough of them now.
Jason Lee
zero plays zerg
Easton Gomez
I've watched Flash's Youtube vids and he's losing a fair amount of games so he's not invincible. He's just not on top of his game and it's likely his shoulder is playing a big role in that. Larva and Bisu have beat him recently so there's hope.
This confirms something I've assumed but no one says out loud: Modern Korean Starcraft is limping along and nowhere near as big as it used to be. It's kind of on life support. Enough to have tournaments but a shadow of its former self.
Thomas Baker
To all the Mong gloaters, I'll tell you one thing: the Korea Time thread is, and always will be, Mini territory. OUR territory. The OP of the Korea Time threads has formally endorsed Mini as his favorite player. We will continue to control the thread with images of Mini in emotional pain. So before you start talking shit and bragging about what Mong is eating before the match, I'll have you know that we're well versed in flying our Shuttles directly into Corsairs. Say RIP to your wrists if you try anything dishonest. Assholes.
I recognize those stairs anywhere. That's the GOMTV studio right? I think they use the same one now for Afreeca and the CEO mentioned they're getting a new one which I hope is an updgrade.
Mini is getting out First, Zero second. Two more Terrans for the meat grinder.
Nolan Adams
no it is your welcome
Owen Ramirez
>is limping along and nowhere near as big as it used to be No shit sherlock.
And there's way way more than 32 players but there literally isn't any reason to invite, literally all of those are A-teamers except for a few. There's no reason to invite the #1 guy in the ladder if he's gonna get destroyed by barracks or flash. But yeah, you will never ever have another finals in a plane hangar with flash literally coming out of a plane while it's used as decoration with lights between both players, THANKS BLIZZARD I SURE DO LOVE ME SOME SHITCRAFT 2
the best part about Mini nights is that we can use all our Mini images up at the start of the thread and it'll be okay, because he's going to give us more!
What better players? The only ones that are better are their fellow competitors
Owen Sanchez
Yeah.. there's only the regular intro, at least a ton of intros were saved in actually good quality.. and jaedong dancing tectonic cause god knows we needed to save that one, kinda sucks that all the games seem to be in 360p aids cancer for the eyes.
Oh fuck how late am i i didnt miss anything did i?
Jeremiah King
>Korea time has taught me to see the various differences among Korean faces >Japanese tv shows have done the same for me >Chinese look all the same to me though
give me a tl;dr of the interviews this season so far did anyone say anything interesting at all?
Julian Wilson
>kinda sucks that all the games seem to be in 360p aids cancer for the eyes.
That's just the resolution people uploaded content for 2006-2010 to Youtube. HD wasn't even on our minds for a while. But the good is that as far as I know all the big tournaments got DVD releases so there's hope for good high quality 640x480. btw, I watch a lot of remastered dvds for anime and they look amazing if it's a good rip. Good quality 480 is so much better than trash 360.
Oliver Morris
Everyone but tasteless should be wearing a mask. Keep tasteless safe. Get artosis away from him right now!
Joshua Gray
>woah this interviewer is hot i better not mess up >proceeds to mess interview up
Chinese are very "asian" looking while the Japanese and Koreans have more variation. Some Japanese are downright European looking, other look like Hapas, and then a few very chinese looking. Koreans are the same but they lean more Chinese. Chinese are the most asian looking asians. Han Chinese just look like clones of each other.
Charles Rogers
damn I love that opening so much
I think the song is RJA, not korean btw
William Hall
>Barracks has his mask off while playing THERE IS HOPE
Wyatt Long
god seeing tasteless his good looks whither just is terrible
That's an old meme. Anyone have the Star Invitational Reaver himage? It was a drawing of Nick riding a Reaver.
Caleb Reed
18
Jeremiah Davis
But Tasteless looks great as Orson Welles
Lucas Phillips
>god seeing tasteless his good looks whither just is terrible
You can get away with being a lazy hard partyier in your 20's but once you hit your 30's that lifestyle catches up to you. Live clean lives, eat real food, and exercize.
played the campaign as a kid lost my cd key got back into it when they made it free started seeing Korea Time threads because my sleep schedule was fucked
Dylan Jenkins
you're a good lad
Brandon Sullivan
The only romance of the three kingdoms game ive played is this one
>Mini is going to be the only protoss to lose to a terran on Inner Coven Of course, who else?
Joshua Watson
how do I find the game anyway, is it a game?
Aiden Stewart
This is the least satisfying protoss play I have ever seen in my entire life. Everything he does is immediately shut down or completely bizarre.
Alexander Brooks
the fuck is a cpl?
Ian Nelson
inb4 shuttle shot down by a ground unit inside a D web somehow
Austin Rivera
>how do I find the game anyway, is it a game? its 90% VN, 10% game which is just rock paper scissors in which the enemy is predicatible so after losing once you automatically win. Its only fun if youre into romance of the three kingdoms and seeing how it reads if there are instead a bunch of sexy girls fighting, or if youre into VNs and want to see cute girls get RICED by a japanese guy that dropped into their world.
Coach Pupil League. It is a league designed to help new players get into the game. It sets you up into teams with coaches and other players around your skill level. If you wanna ladder then its the best thing for you.
Blake Morris
>me drop on expo >me drop on expo >me drop on expo >me drop on main (with 1 life reaver) >me drop on expo >me drop on expo STOP MINI, JUST GG THIS IS DISGUSTING
Chase Phillips
Kino as fuck
Logan Young
stop bullying Mini
he's a good boy!
Eli Brooks
this is so sloppy
Dominic Ortiz
That sounds pretty cool actually I don't have a lot of time to game right now tho, lot of stuff happening in my life
Aaron Anderson
.... Artosis calls Tasteless a bimbo at least three times a week. Your must be new here.
I want Mini to get through because then we get more of him, but imagine if he gets knocked out in RO24
Colton Lee
Well the beatiful thing about the league is that you only have one opponent you have to play against per week. The biggest thing about the league is that you get to be part of the community as well as some high level players who will help you out.
Signs-ups were two weeks ago but there is a waiting list so if people drop out you can still jump in. I know that there are available sits available though so if you sign up you should still get in.
Gavin Fisher
SPONGEBOB ME BOY I THREW AWAY ME GOVERNMENT-MANDATED FREE WIN AGAINST TERRAN ON INNER COVEN AND NOW ME KIDNEYS ARE SHUTTING DOWN FROM DRINKING TOO MUCH HOT6IX AGH AGH AGH AGH AGH AGH
If Mini is so mindbogglingly terrible at everything than how does he keep consistently showing up to tournaments?
Nathan Parker
terran music out of nowhere
Parker Barnes
There is no schedule, you have to talk to your opponent to see when you guys can meet up. So it goes around you schedule. You just have to play against your opponent sometime during the week and send the replays in.
Noah Turner
hackin like a motherfucker
Ayden Adams
shitters don't get to clog up the studio
Juan Murphy
He has someone in a mask pretending to be him qualify for all the tournaments.
Justin Harris
He is the demon of absolute failure and disappointment. If you truly believe he will fail, then he will fail to fail and end up winning.
David Harris
>does it have porn and if so can I play it in english its a porn game. First thing you see is cao cao forcing a servant girl to eat her out
Ryan Smith
Oh I'll definitely be checking this out then, thanks for telling me about it
He's quite good vs Zerg. He's less good in the other two matchups
Jack Reed
He’s friends with the producer
Zachary Jenkins
karen best girl
Jacob Jackson
is terran the only race that can steal center?
Joshua Rivera
Protoss probably can if they make 100 cannons
Cooper Harris
>coughing please don't die
Colton Brown
When season 9 was announced I was hype as fuck and decided to rewatch all the old ASLs Don't worry user, Tastosis have been coughing for their whole fucking casting lives, even with Corona, this is nothing new
Easton Bailey
He should be making wraiths or possibly even valks right?
4 terran semifinals when Cant wait for a seven hour final of siege tanks
Carson Parker
There was nothing great about Mini crucifying himself.
Josiah Peterson
Wait Flash is competing?
Robert Myers
He certainly played better but up until he threw away all his guardians, Queen looked in complete control. Much like the first game, The terran didn't so much win the game as the other guy lost it.
Awesome. Any estimate what day that will be? And is liquidpedia the usual place for brackets? Normally I just watch and dont really look at the bracket.
Jack Ross
His exploded shoulder wasn't as bad as everyone feared. Meanwhile, Rain dropped out of this tournament due to wrist issues.
John Hall
>TvT, most best match-up...
Jaxon Robinson
Probably next Sunday. They'll say for sure at the end of todays play when they decide the groups
Hunter Sullivan
Aw fuckin lame. Is this entire tournament BO1 single elim?? Kind of a bummer that its all BO1.
Jace Sanders
i got in late and just caught up without reading the thread yet
No, just round of 24 I think because of the possibilities of tvt.
Robert Ward
>PvP above ZvP what's wrong with you nigger TvZ is the best matchup for sure though
Benjamin Kelly
Ro24 is always Bo1 Ro16 goes to Bo3
Connor White
>qualifiers is b03 double elim >lose 4 games to exit tourny >groups are b01 double elim >lose 2 games to exit tourny >when players can absolutely cheese you twice Why do they run it like this? Aren't we trying to find the best player?
Storm/Reaver drops in the army and having huge armies where positioning matters and it's a back and forth all game is 100% more interesting than I MAEK CORSAIR I MAEK HYDRA BUST
Anthony Taylor
It's so the ADD children who were bitching about the BO5's in KSL don't switch off because it's their bed time
Levi Wright
qualifiers are b03 single elim, but if you lose one qualifier you can try again next time
I just love watching goons and zealots get brutally murdered, they are the best army to kill
Jace Butler
My mistake, check the wiki and it certainly is b03. However, losing in b03 single elim is still completely different from losing two b01s Groups as a contained 4 player double elim bracket is ideal. ie, what asl already does but make each matchup a b03 set
Dominic Rogers
Did Artosis just say "dropships can do drops"? The virus has taken him.
Carson Nelson
That map control by Rush is so good but he's still missing these drops
John Rodriguez
it's still baffling to me how much shit these guys can keep track of. it's incredible.
Jacob Wilson
this game is great
Dylan Turner
>BCs mentioned The sign of a kino TvT
Mason Powell
Barracks nuts are HUGE that fucking drop
Carter Gomez
mmmmm scbs......
Gavin Sullivan
god. this 4d chess. Im sure some pr*toss fags in this thread RIGHT NOW have problems comprehending this kino
Nicholas Foster
did rush unsiege half his tanks to the left for some reason? I have no idea why that drop didn't vaporise the second it touched the ground
I can't stop laughing, the fact that Barracks won is hilarious. GG Barracks, I will watch your future games with great interest.
Jordan Jones
God, that was such good TvT. Haven't seen such a good one in such a long time. Very proud of Barracks, he played phenomenally. The one least expected to get out of the group is now the first one to get out. Damn. As a Terran player it feels good to see him do so well. Hope he gets quite far and isn't bullied by Flash in the round of 16.
what the fuck dude why would you ruin my day like that
Gabriel Green
THE POWER OF THE BLACK MASK
Owen Thomas
i don't want to suffer alone
Ian Kelly
tfw light or flash will never flash you a conspiratorial smile when they see you leave stargirls room all flushed and sweaty as youve just become eskimo brothers
the way barracks started his attack and split his tanks to kill multiple bases reminded me of flash. the level of commitment to drop and push, amazing.
Bentley Ward
It's almost always better to have upsets Flash losing makes the whole tournament bust wide open and the threads absolutely explode That said, when one of your favorite players gets rekt is always heartbreaking
it's hard to tell honestly. I think rush decided to sudoku his wraiths because there were only like 5-6? and raxx was pushing with goliaths already so he figured he might get something done with them before they become completely useless ( if you keep only 5-6 you can't do much ) so trading for 4 drops is completely fine. in hindsight yes, those wraiths would have helped defending his 3rd a lot but we don't know what would have happened if raxx was allowed to have those 5 drops.
Connor Lopez
pvz cheese builds are pretty entertaining
Alexander Brown
This game is a mess I fucking love it There are so many Zealots around the map
Matthew Bennett
IIE SENPAI
Tyler White
This is the ZvZ of PvZ
Elijah Long
WHAT THE FUCK AM I WATCHING WHAT THE FUCK DID MINI JUST DO BRO YOU HAD 584357435943 ZEALOTS WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT
Korean Air tried to sponsor a tournament 2 years ago and it only lasted a season. No shots of the audience and it was Wolf+Rapid casting. I can never remember where it was on Youtube.
No. Is it on his youtube? I'll watch it after this
Luis Hughes
Yes man holy shit I've been LOVING all the videos Arty has been uploading. Makes me so hype every day for a new video He had a real chance to win that game. He was so fucking close. Then Rain started playing with him and it was over 100 different ways. I want him to upload the replay just to see what crazy shit Rain was doing youtube.com/watch?v=cr8HoGB009g
Adrian Bailey
>casters describing zerg oppression >mfw this sounds just like fighting someone good in quake
That webm will literally, LITERALLY be posted in every season and every time Mini plays for all of eternity. Even after Mini retires it'll still be posted.
what the fuck is up with these terrans. everyone hates flash because he wins all the times but I rather watch flash dominate and play a good game rather this... whatever the fuck this is. let me suicide my army in lurkers, let me lose vessels for no reason, let me build 2 useless drops instead of vessels. yeah no.
Cameron Martin
weird that artosis got matched up vs rain, but I guess since rain has barely touched starcraft recently he had to do some ladder placement matches or whatever
Juan Moore
I think I've said this every fucking day this season is on but holy shit ASL 9 has been great Has there been a single bad day this season yet? Every day feels like it's better than the last
Chase Reyes
>irradiating a scourge new meta
Joshua White
Did I just see a Defiler consume a Defiler?
Aaron Wright
Did he irradiate a scourge?
Jace Reyes
Does Rush just hate his fucking marines?
Aiden Scott
That is so many fucking vessels holy shit
Jordan Adams
>no plague+mutalisk on the vessels It's like queen wants to throw this
Mong is great, always fun to watch A huge shame Last didn't make it This is a really good group This ASL season has been wild, I can't wait to see it keep going
I'm annoyed because I'm convinced the only terran player that realises in order to win they need to keep their vessels alive is Flash. Now another terran actually does it but sends his entire army into a lurker dark swarm meat grinder instead
Parker Jones
>Bingsu Bingsu Wahoo!
Luke Martin
>only group selection next week lame
Andrew Diaz
>oh shit I'm only a few seconds in and this already perfect.
yes. the player banter will be shit but we can't miss out on stargirl shoulders
James Bell
Sci vessels are like these fingers of god that you just decide lurkers and defilers are going to die. You're just constantly squishing these little ugly bug creatures and that forces Z to spend all those resources to just maintain their current numbers. Without irradiate the Z units get too overwhelming.
Plus Defensive matrix is under-rated.
Aaron Perry
oh wait, does that mean our next night of games is next tuesday, with the group selection on sunday?
Parker Garcia
Then he'll get special training from Larva and use his feet in tournaments.
David Williams
He makes 400,000 USD a year in donations alone plus his winnings. Of course Afreeca takes a cut of that, but he's a small time millionaire. If he takes 2 years off there's no guarantee that SC will be even be alive when he comes back and this is the best money train he'll ever get.
Nah, he'll just get the final version of Jaedong's robo-wrists ensuring his eternal reign.
Andrew Gray
who's this again?
Aaron Lewis
Unless Corona virus completely kills all of Korea, I don't see how BW doesn't last til the end of time It's been so fucking long and people are still playing this shit It's incredible
There's only 1 consistent big tournament right now. They tried to revive the OGL and failed and KSL seems dead. So the tournament scene is limping along on life support. In contrast the streamer scene is healthy.
But most of the pro-scene rests on players hitting 25-35 who are starting to get shoulder/wrist problems. The Team Houses were cruel sweatshops of practice, but they at least pumped out a consistent amount of new players while now there's only a trickle of new players.
Ryder Morris
im not gay, but i'd let young tasteless murder my butthole
Daniel Morgan
>polo shirt chad
vs
>bearded drunk
Landon Walker
careful When he first got to korea he couldn't find condoms that fit
Aaron King
Wish I saved that old picture of Nick, around 2007-2009 of him shirtless and drunk at some party.
>Korea is a place of many wonders. Properly fitting condoms is not one of them. Please bring some.
Camden Rivera
my if wont lip for a week after letting him take me it wouldnt be proper