KOREA TIME STARTS IN 20 MINUTES
TODAY IS THE GROUP OF NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST-TIER DEATH, IF YOU STAY UP FOR ANY MATCH THIS SEASON LET IT BE THIS ONE
BISU
EFFORT
SEA
SOULKEY
TWO WILL BE ELIMINATED
twi tch tv/gsl (they're back on the old GSL channel)
https://gaming.youtube com/channel/UCK5eBtuoj_HkdXKHNmBLAXg#tab=1 (youtube version and VODs of games)
DISCLAIMER: To the mod who was deleting/moving threads the other week, this is NOT a general thread. It doesn't belong in /vg/, these are only made twice a week when the games are on, and it dies when they end, and only for the duration of the tournament. General threads go 24/7, this is only up for 3-4 hrs a week.
aw yissss
time for pizza & sc
>>375701337
got my chips and dip ready, sitting in a blanket in front of the heater
>>375701293
>(they're back on the old GSL channel)
the fuck. no wonder I couldn't find a stream by going to /gsl like last season
>I forgot about Korea Time
THANK YOU OP YOU ARE NOT A FAGGOT, NOT TODAY
>>375701546
yeah, I think they tried making it /asl but it seemed to get like half the viewers so they're switching it back. I think most people didn't even know it had switched.
hype for tonight's games oh booooy
>>375701293
>watching the two biggest clowns in history of SC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIp-2MGOxaY
>tfw missed part of korea time
first time watching this kinda stuff, only played campaign and back when I was a kid/teen
what I'm in for?
>turns out i didn't miss korea time and korea time is starting late today
>>375702015
not even, it doesn't start for another minute
this is a gay as fuck music tho.
only 10 sec left tho
BISU HYPE
Thanks OP, totally forgot about this. Just sat down for dinner too.
>>375702027
Basically it's the same game but played on a completely different level to how we play it. These guys are making 300-400 commands a minute, and they understand every intricacy of the game.
Luckily all 4 of tonight's players are A grade so it should be some good, close games.
Plus, the two guys are commentate it are total bros.
There may be better pros, but there will never be any esportz player as hot as Bisu
I tried to watch flash streaming the other day and just couldn't. It's so fun to watch casted games but the koreans I tried to watch remind me more of pewdiepie than anyone else.
Loud obnoxious noises, yelling into the mic. Flash was literally going "wah wah wah" into the mic. What the fuck?
Also is this the stacked as fuck group?
wtf is wrong with the music.
stop it, it sucks
>>375702456
Not going to happen, they've been doing that for more than a decade
I hope we get some long games tonight, rather than the clowny rushes I've been seeing lately.
>>375702027
prepare to hear a lot of shit about strategies/playstyles you won't have done while playing campaign. As long as you know most of the units you should understand what is going on though
this is halfway through the tournament, and the final group stage. So they'll all play eachother and the two with 2 wins each will advance.
After this round, it goes to 1v1, best of 5 rounds.
>>375702485
the same songs for 10 years?
fuck i don't remember it to ba that bad for sc2
FUCK YEA ITS GOOK CLICK TIME
>>375702553
Well, hopefully all of these guys are too good to die cheese, and nobody attempts it and goes for long macro games. I srsly want to see a 30 min effort/bisu pvz
ORANGE BEST COLOR IN STARCRAFT!
>>375702485
>PAPER BAGS AND PLASTIC HEARTS
>linkin park
>generic buttrock
>>375702570
>implying emo buttrock isn't all the same
>>375702442
Interesting, I find the english casting to be somewhat obnoxious and I like Flash's stream. He's almost always playing matches.
>>375702651
Who are you quoting
WHY IS THIS NOT FEATURED ON TEAMLIQUID?
THEY SALTY?
>>375702623
>effort/bisu
Effort is going 2-0 and bisu is going 0-2, they won't even play eachother
>>375702694
>He's almost always playing matches.
Ah maybe that was it. He seemed to be in the middle of some weird king of the hill queue thing and would not shut the fuck up.
I'll have to give him another try.
>in a hotel because driving across country in 4 hours
>stream lagging
fugg I should have paid the extra $5 for faster internet
those medics healing the SCVs
>tfw primetime starcraft
>medivacs
>>375703305
Are you the autist that sperged in the chat?
>>375703276
Feels good mate
who even need lurkers lmao
damn, why didn't sea go mech? (competitive starcraft noob here)
>>375701293
>posted 3 hours ago
every fucking time
Effort showed how to play that ZvT clean as fuck just using lings as your backbone. God damn.
damn I guess effort finally got tired of getting knocked out early
>>375703276
it's pretty bonza
carn bisu
>>375703487
you only missed 1 match dude, 4 to go
>>375703567
My stream shows some korean girl punching her stream and some gay streamer with a 1997 pc playing battleship
>>375703589
the best selection of korean ads
>>375703648
Dear god I hate korean ads
>>375703485
Mech is really inefficient against zerg until the very late game (15- 20+ minutes) because you need that huge mass of tanks to be able to wreck zerg armies.
So most of the time you'll see them go "bio" or "SK terran" which is using mostly Marines and Medics with Science vessels out in front to spot for lurkers (which wreck M and M) and irradiate their spellcasters.
It used to be the old tactic to stay on that for the whole game because trying to switch into mech makes you too vulnerable to attack, but in the last few seasons we've seen Terran switch from that into mech halfway through the game with a lot of success, so it's become the new norm.
WHEN I WAS
>Bisu picks My chemical romance as his intro song
Jesus christ bisu
>>375703485
Terrans use infantry against Zerg most of the time, and only switch to mech in the late game. A Marine-Medic army does fine until Defilers come to play.
What did Flash choose as his theme song?
>>375703989
All these gooks look cute as fuck.
It just isn't fair bros.
>>375703932
Electric Romeo.
He really seems to like it.
How do I play pvt? Every time I try, I can't break through their tanks/mines/turrets slow crawl expansion. I know you're supposed to drop zealots on the tanks/mines so they blow each other up but the turrets make it really hard to not lose shuttles.
Am I supposed to just take more bases and spam shuttle drops on to their mineral lines? How do you break their tank/mine lines? I miss immortals...
>>375704138
arbiters?
>bisu
Jesus that hydra bust was fucking terrifying
that was a little dissapointing
>bisu
BIISSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>look away for a second
>bisu getting hydra busted
THE CITY OF BISU
>bisu
Was bisu ever a good player?
>>375704712
No, I always beat him on ladder
>y u cryen bisu
>thingken bout hydra busts
>mirrors
The recent resurgence of Korean progamers dicking around in BW is not as fun as the Broodwar AI Tournament for some reason.
>mirror match
>ZvZ
boring af. going back to quake
quake > sc weebshit
>>375704804
TvT is a war of attrition
PvP is ariba ariba ariba
ZvZ is a knife fight on roller blades
>>375704804
Sooner or later every match will be a mirror match, since Zerg is the best race
>>375704950
>be Bisu
>playing favourable matchup
>lose to hydra spam
Woah .... so this is the power .... of pro gamers ....
>>375705035
The fuck effort was doing with that muta control
>>375705035
>ZvZ is a knife fight on roller blades
pretty accurate desu senpai
just look at the shit we just witnessed.
>>375705046
>storm the hydras
>they survive
>make DT's when the map is covered with detectors
>be literally retarded
>can still be a pro gamer
>>375705303
>make more cannons instead of trying to take a greedy extra nexus
>defeat hydra bust with storms
>win
>>375705303
he had corsairs he just wasn't prepared with cannons at the front
>>375705046
niggah shoulda got units instead of just expanding like a fagget
>>375701293
>games last 5 minutes
>only do best of ones
am I missing something here?
I jumped through the vod of group A.
Absolute shit and a complete surprise who advanced.
Fuck both Flash and the retarded group selection.
>>375705308
are you saying the majority of pro gamers are mentally normal
>>375705431
Most other matchups can last a good amount of time. ZvZ is short as fuck because it's hilariously volatile.
True long matches are rare outside TvT but they are so damned good
Is that normal? Advertising other games?
>>375705431
Some matchups end faster than others. Last season Flash and Sea had a TvT go into the 40 minute mark where they both had massive Battlecruiser fleets.
The guy chugging down energy drinks looks like he is having a seizure
>>375705527
>but they are so damned good
Holy fuck yes, when two high level competitors pull out all the stops and end up evenly matched it's such a thrill
The games we see now aren't quite there yet but just thinking back to the good old days makes me excited for what's to come once BW is revived
>>375705431
Generally, matchups involving zerg are the quickest, with ZvZs rarely going beyond the 10 minute mark
>>375705676
He's a Terran, probably having PTSD flashbacks from dark swarm during practice that morning
>>375702638
What's the best colours for each faction /v/?
>>375705732
ZvT can be pretty damned long, fuck defilers.
>>375705710
>excited for what's to come once BW is revived
I'm pretty worried about what happens when all the big talent and especially TBLS retire. I'm not seeing much new talent flow in despite the revival, and eventually the current players will retire or do their military service.
>>375705830
Teal and Grey
In warcraft and Starcraft this is true
>>375705830
Blue Terran, Red Zerge, Yellow Protoss. Fight me
>>375705710
There were a couple of those last season, where you could just feel the two pros throwing everything they had at eachother. Rain vs. Effort and Flash vs. Jaedong came to mind, those were some great games
.
But yeah, I'd kill for more series like 2009-2010 era, that was some hype shit.
>>375705909
>Yellow Protoss
My nigga.
>>375705909
>red zerg
>not purple or orange
kinda partial towards yellow protoss, it clearly fits them, but it looks retarded on archons
>>375705856
To be fair the BW revival has only just started
Just wait until BW HD is released andSC2 dies
>>375705830
>terran
UED white master race
>zerg
purple/orange
>protoss
yellow/blue
>>375706025
Purple and OJ zerg are fine. pretty much all Zerg color are fine but teal. fuck teal
>terran not playing vs a terran gets smashed again
woah .. so balance
BIIIISUUUUUUUUUUUUU
bisu t_t
>Bisu
>bisu
>bisu builds no units again and just builds buildings
Does he realise he's not playing vs AI?
>>375705830
purple. same for warcraft 3
>hip shooting Reavers
lmao
>>375705830
orange zerg, red terran, blue protoss.
but teal looks good on all 3, i can admit that
Holy shit that storm
STOOOOOOOOOOOOOORMS
>That psistorm drop
Those fucking
holy shit these >>375706608 >>375706580
>massively fuck up
>still win because lol lightning
PROTOSSSSSSSSSS
>>375705830
>place storm
>doesn't move his SCV's away
What is wrong with Sea?
How the fuck does Sea have an army still? His economy has been dead for like 5 minutes
He can't keep getting away with this.
Sea has been possessed by the ghost of fantasy
>>375706223
;^)
>sea just not leaving
He should float his buildings to the corners of the map to be honest
>...
gg...
>...
gg....
SAY MY NAME BITCH
>>375706881
>Ass Full of Juice, Face Full of Zeus
anon please its early in the morning i cant wake up my neighbors
korean eat dog
gg...
Super entertaining match
Suck my psi-dick protoss haters.
effort is going to win easily
>gg...
>>375707135
Daily reminder every protoss cut off his dick in sc2
>>375707139
don't you mean effortlessly?
>>375707101
I can't get over how cute that cockroach looks in that little tie
>>375707179
Will sea kill himself, ... is the sign of a broken man
>gg...
What are these fucking aliens?
Anybody got the Bonjwa Haypro and Gorilla Terran pics saved somewhere?
>>375702623
COME ON LORD TASTELESS, ANSWER MY PRAYERS
Is this the last match of the day?
Are there any generic pro rules for upgrades? Prioritize weapons over armor? Armor before weapons?
>>375707430
>there is so many people here , the seats are filled everyone is watching, people are standing.
Jesus christ .. no-one is watching this shit live are they?
>>375707562
????????????????
>>375707562
I'd imagine that there's a ton of people who would
>>375707508
think so
>>375707556
More if you have them senpai
RIP Bisu
How much longer does he have before he has to do his military service?
plz win fast effort I want to go back to bed
I'd laughed my ass off if Bisu lost to the same hydra push 2 times on the same day. Doesn't look like that now, though
EGG WALL
THAT WALL
E G G S
G
G
S
SICKEST EGG WALL TASTELESS
>That egg wall
>THOSE FUCKING EGGGGGSSSS
4Base Toss vs 4Base Zerg
hmmmmmmmmmm
what a bloodbath
Eggs didn't save him
Bisu fucked that zerg faggot right in his little korean boipussy.
Fuck yeah that was a good game finally.
GG great game gook click is based
great match
>>375707550
Depends on matchup.
Just woke up, how much did I miss?
>>375708360
You missed an amazing match of Bisu vs Effort.
>>375708360
all of it
>>375708360
everything, well done, sleepyhead
>stream dies
>bisu getting interviewed when it comes back
what happened?
>>375707061
BISU BISU BISU
>>375708360
EVERYTHING
>>375708360
All of it
>>375707550
generally it's weapons over armor, but there's a few matchups with different prioroties. I'm not an expert but I know for Mutalisk vs Mutalisk Armor is more important than Attack
Is the next match the same time next week?
>>375708413
After a protracted tug that went back and forth Bisu ejaculated all over Effort
I never stopped believing.
>>375708509
nah, it's 6 eastern sunday morning (assuming eastern time) then a week from now for group d
>>375708509
Next match is on Sunday. There's also the SSL, a different BW tournament with 2 different english casters but good players. That's the same time on Thursday.
Group C: Best will win easily, but who will get second?
>soulshit and shine advancing instead of effort
Fuck you Flash.
Fuck the group selection.
>>375708695
Why don't we have resource counters anymore?
>>375708679
>>375708641
Thanks!
>>375708695
fucking hell I haven't laughed at anything like that for a while. Is there a VOD of this match?
>>375708679
>2 different english casters
On a scale of 0 "le cynical ass cancer shout man" to "Tasteless glory days" 10, how terrible are they?
>>375708695
Idra was such a fucking joke. What is he up to these days?
>>375708858
>apologizing
>>375708852
It's rapid, so he's about a 1. Basically the definition of a cringey shout caster. He's been a bit better then when he was doing ASL though. I would put Wolf at 5 or 6 though. He's more of an Artosis style caster, at least he knows what is actually going on at a pro level.
>>375708858
>stop being entertaining!!!
i bet you also hated destiny back then and only like Innovation because he literally has zero emotions.
fug I missed it
>>375709358
We can watch it here https://youtu.be/iVcPf_yj21Q?t=871 at least
>>375708707
/ourguy/, the all consuming pig beast
gook
Wait, they have theme music now?
>>375708852
>>375709180
Rapid is not shouty. He's a big dork and very insecure. He keeps pointing out all his own mistakes as a means of apologizing for them. Rapid and Wolf are a decent combo.
>>375709780
yes pls
we need a new July Zerg
at least until the old one comes back ;_;
>people nto taking screenshots of the nice signs
>cosair reaver
They need to call it "Sair-Reaver" since it sounds cooler.
Did anybody get a screencap of Sea praying at the end of his map against bisu?
sea got fucking dismantled in that first match, jesus christ
>>375705830
Protoss:
Orange or aqua
Terran:
Blue or red
Zerg:
White or purple
>>375704138
Your goal as P is to reduce the tank count always. Even losing a few units as they're more expendable than Tanks. So be okay trading them.
Arbiters and Carriers and storms.
Storm drops on their SCVs.
Carriers depends on the map. Hide them. Then reveal them and then wreck them. A goon army under it will wreck the T army as they need Goliaths to fight the Carriers. Can't do this every game though.
Arbiters are your back bone. Recall into their base. They will use mines thoguh so be careful. Try to recall into expansions to deny them.
In big fights, the Arbiters freeze sci-vessles and tanks. Templars psi-storm the tanks.
Recall on TOP of sieged tanks too.
Refugee toss is an option. Take another main or two. Just keep expanding. So you lose your main? It won't matter if you have two others. Just keep running away and drain the T army.
A great strategy is to recall on top of the main base. If it's a high ground, there tends to be a choke point on the low ground where the tanks will park to shoot your guys. Great, so now you can use psi storm to attack those tanks. You can take out like 16 tanks.
>>375705830
Z: Purple or Orange
P: Brown or Yellow
T: Blue
>Tastosis under-estimated Soulkey
They didn't see Soulkey dismantle Flash in the Team Battle? Don't under-estimate this guy.
Bisu's winrate on Fish means nothing.
These groups are un-even. The weak players all piled into Group A. The weak ones should have been spread out so that they get eliminated for sure. Too many good players being taken out. They should get into the round of 8 to get best of 3 matches.
>>375713501
No, they def. did but Soulkey has been a bit of a shakey player. He can play unbelievably good games and also just get humped by pretty good players. The bisu 6-0 Soulkey on fish this month still means a lot regardless, so they were using that as a general guide to base their predictions on. But he always seems to do better on his staged matches than his online ones.
>>375713642
They were better before Flash moved Effort from Group A to Group B and unbalanced A and B way the fuck out. If he hadn't we'd have Effort in the ro8 instead of shine, which would have made a much more entertaining match.
>>375713821
Is Shine the observer?
>>375713712
>Soulkey intentionally throws all his Fish server games to lull Bisu into a false sense of security
Soulkey playing the mind games.
>>375714038
Yep. He's kind of the lucky amateur this season. He scraped through in the ro24, and was lucky enough to be in Flash's group where he took all the hard players out. The fact that he's in the ro8 over Effort is criminal though.
Are they playing on the "HD" version now?
>>375714206
I swear I know that name. Is he an older player? or did someone have a similar name?
>>375714304
No, just the 640x480 version and upscaling it with Lanczos.
>tfw you'll never a refreshing drink of Hot6
>>375714324
Yup, he just started proleague in 2009-2010 before he left to join SC2. He had a pretty memorable match vs Bisu in one of the OSLs from what I remember.
Stasis lasts fucking forever
>>375712879
>>375715782
You have to balance 3-3 Mech army somehow.
Why are people still posting like the stream is still on?
>>375716176
i'm watching >>375709540 because i missed it desu
>>375716176
Other people are watching the match. They're catching up.
Chewy
>>375716406
Gawoobing
>killed the space submarines with his flying banelings
Best tastosis quip in a while
>>375716532
>people don't make quote compliations anymore
;_;
>>375716406
scchwooooon
>>375716532
10 seconds later one guy sperged in a chat complaining about Tastosis being "unprofessional" and that he should have "done his homework"
>>375716406
Dhu-komm
>>375716176
>everyone wakes up at 6am
>>375716784
>about Tastosis being "unprofessional"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icHgKNHymr0
>>375716646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHyJvsV-rzw
it's not completely dead
>>375716930
to be fair, he was 90% spot on
>>375716930
>Star Invitational was 9 years ago
>Sea gone
>Effort Gone
>Fucking Shine in round of 8
Bulllshiiiiiiiiiiiiit
Nice crowd size for a studio round of 16.
Is Starcraft back?
>It's a 30 somethings hide their hairloss with strategic hair placement build order
>>375718385
I prefer it that way, this is soul crushing
>>375701293
>DISCLAIMER: To the mod who was deleting/moving threads the other week, this is NOT a general thread. It doesn't belong in /vg/, these are only made twice a week when the games are on, and it dies when they end, and only for the duration of the tournament. General threads go 24/7, this is only up for 3-4 hrs a week.
Just avoid putting twitch in the OP entirely. My bet is that they have a new bot that alerts mods of "twitch" or any variation of it. Then that clueless mod did what they thought the rules should be. This is the first time they've seen "Korea Time" threads and have no understanding of what they are or what Korean competitive play is.
It's also on Youtube, so we should use that.
>>375709540
man this is some sick plays. Thanks for the motivation to gitgud, back to Broodwar now
These are the next matches. See you guys on Sunday.
>>375719143
Best + IamMang
jaedong + Last
>tfw work during korea time
To be a kid again
>>375720813
There's always vods. It's like it's live to you!
What kind fo viewers are they getting?
>>375701293
tfw gotta watch old videos and don't get the same reaction
>>375720813
My condiments
Will be funny if they never fight up each other.
>>375724929
>>375724929
There is a good chance they will, isn't it?
>>375725725
Decent, but not impossible they won't. Jaedong could maybe be knocked out in the round of 16.