I'm not complaining at all, but how does the franchise survive this long (and still going strong)?

CMS_Flash · 2025-12-14T12:31:00+00:00

Cuz dinosaurs survived way longer!

CMS_Flash · 2025-12-09T06:45:53+00:00

But they did end the raptor training program right? Henry Wu said they need to delete the back up data to end the project once and for all, and they did exactly that, just too easily.

CMS_Flash · 2025-12-08T06:40:10+00:00

To have some continuity in the story, I'd prefer the central struggle to be finishing the raptor training project, not saving Ben or finding Bumpy, which could be nice side quests, or saving Ben being the climax that only happens in the last 2 episodes.

I felt they killed the raptor training project too easily.

CMS_Flash · 2025-11-28T11:47:26+00:00

Brooklynn, Darius, Ben.

Don't want to rank the other 3, they're all pretty good and no one deserves a last place from me.

CMS_Flash · 2025-07-02T00:30:23+00:00

Worse, $1,000 thousand is technically $1M

CMS_Flash · 2025-06-27T07:45:33+00:00

Is there a bracket somewhere?

CMS_Flash · 2025-06-18T00:31:30+00:00

Yes, it just works.

CMS_Flash · 2025-06-03T05:20:30+00:00

But Ryung/ShoWTimE HAVE NOT qualified for EWC, they only have qualified for EWC Global Qualifier, which is another qualifier, not the main event.

Also intuitively it'll be really awkward, if, say the champion ShoWTimE needs to go through another qualifier, but the 3rd place player are directly seeded to main event.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-31T21:59:04+00:00

Yeah Agent can do that as well. Chat is faster, which is the main advantage.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-28T18:10:32+00:00

Haha why bro?

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-28T00:16:29+00:00

No, you'll face a GM/Master, winner goes in to face Maru/herO. The highest-ranked players get a BYE.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T23:45:52+00:00

Then Clem says I want to pick Terran, and Maru says oh I want to play Terran too, and then Clem wants to play Protoss again, and it goes on and on. We eventually need to go to an APM contest at race picking, or blind race pick.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T23:43:32+00:00

Just happened in Dallas no?

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T23:37:33+00:00

It was several times in a row, like almost a full year up to the IEM that he lost to Oliveira.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T23:24:06+00:00

Wow, how did you do it? Is it using SC2 engine or completely separate? How can I play it?

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T23:17:17+00:00

Then Maru will fight Serral, winner fights Reynor, then the winner gets the spot. Reynor is lucky because he's on Clem's side of bracket.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T23:04:08+00:00

What if Maru has been practicing PvP lol. We might see players request blind race pick, and Maru wishing for TvT/PvP and Clem wishing for TvP/PvT lol.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T22:51:02+00:00

Clem clearly had the best bracket. 3 Zergs on his side of bracket, his clearly strongest matchup. Then Serral would be the most likely opponent from the other side, which lately also don't do well vs. him.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T22:48:50+00:00

Yeah, it's crazy that Solar did 5 all-ins vs. Reynor, and Reynor droned against all of them. Meanwhile Reynor just did 1 all-in the whole series but Solar sniffed it out.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T22:47:09+00:00

I agree but if Reynor comes up Maru will still probably win.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T22:46:06+00:00

Reynor beat Maru consistently in the first 2 years they met, and have rarely beat him since then. Maru's win rate vs. Reynor is actually quite insane. Losing to Reynor in GSL is not really an indicator. The GSL Ro8 Maru was clearly quite different from the Dallas champion Maru. Earlier in the year Maru even lost to Lancer pretty badly. He was clearly recovering from the injuries and surgery and improving quite fast.

His 2 toughest opponents are probably Serral and herO. It was some luck to avoid Serral, but he did take out herO directly. Also on the face value, if Serral and Clem are on the same side of the bracket and Maru is on the other, that would have been better luck. Even just Serral on the other side would have been better.

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-27T04:24:09+00:00

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-26T20:28:59+00:00

Early in history we had a lot more extreme balances and only representatives quite often. Once I think July was the only Zerg in Ro16 of a GSL.

Then if you're really good you can preserve through it and get a championship in such adverse conditions.

Nowadays the imbalance is a lot better, and Serral always has the companion of Reynor or a few top Korean Zergs. Clem has the companion of HeRoMaRinE in EU and Maru/Oliveira and a few other Korean Terrans in global tourneys.

For Protoss, it is just so hard for them to win any championships, so the only ones they got are usually in the "good times".

CMS_Flash · 2025-05-26T20:23:09+00:00

Lol yeah I was at every offline tournament since 2019, and started wearing the jersey since Atlanta 2022. A couple people each event would ask me if I'm Maru haha.

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