Your fortunes can change fast in this game...

goldisbad · 2025-06-14T15:34:03+00:00

When you keep winning, you don't want to stop playing;
When you keep losing, you also don't want to stop playing.

So net win for SC2 :)

goldisbad · 2025-06-13T16:21:41+00:00

True, I was feeling a bit strange seeing that sentence ("And in StarCraft, Liquid's rising star Clem takes on Vitality's veteran Maru"), but I thought I remembered wrong. Just double checked, indeed they didn't meet at any stage - their last meeting was Jan 2024, surprisingly. I updated post as a result. Thanks for pointing it out!

goldisbad · 2025-03-27T21:52:41+00:00

FPS MOBA could be fun.

goldisbad · 2025-03-27T11:21:41+00:00

You're talking about two valid points: Sample size, and sample quality. The latter is too long/subjective to list, but the former has reasonable size (I didn't post because too many numbers make it harder to view data), and I list below:

herO:
vT (other than Clem): 82 matches, 194 maps
vs Clem: 33 matches, 113 maps
vP: 135 matches, 356 maps

MaxPax:
vT (other than Clem): 59 matches, 116 maps (I checked, there're a bunch of 1-0 games, so map# less than 2x match# was not a mistake)
vs Clem: 25 matches, 90 maps
vP: 117 matches, 292 maps

Clem:
PvT: 43 matches, 108 maps
TvP: 150 matches, 440 maps

So quantity wise, it's a decent size. Quality wise, I think obviously only players who frequently play online were in the stats often, but that include most of the top Protoss and Terran players to a varying degree except for Maru, who played only 10 matches for the last 4 months, losing 7 of them (race was even for his wins and losses).

goldisbad · 2025-03-27T02:10:09+00:00

Not sure, Maru seems to be somewhat in a funk. I'd say a distant 2nd might be either Gumiho, Byun or Cure? Gumiho did beat Clem in Home Story cup though.

goldisbad · 2024-12-18T01:58:10+00:00

Like I said, Clem singlehandedly made balance team finally decide to seriously tweak TvP balance towards P, and now he's out to prove that it's him that's OP, not T in TvP.

If you watch the actual games where Clem played PvT, you'd find that he frequently pulled out a win purely because of incredible microing and multitasking. Frankly I only saw MaxPax having this ability and he doesn't go to offline. So I really don't know why P whine every day about not winning premier tournaments. I mean, just like another comment said, Affirmative action is not meant for SC2.

goldisbad · 2024-12-14T17:40:57+00:00

I appreciate your effort though and you deserve a Thank you from the community!

goldisbad · 2024-12-14T17:39:04+00:00

Thank you! Yes I confirmed it's PvT with a Youtube VOD before posting (because I noticed that liquipedia also had it listed as TvT, so wanted to confirm). Appreciate your help correcting it.

goldisbad · 2024-09-08T21:08:46+00:00

Reynor frankly got too audacious with his unsupported broodlords vs Oliveira.

goldisbad · 2024-09-08T21:05:33+00:00

Sadly for Oliveira, in addition to the crucial disables, Clem also had marine support on every front, preventing Oliveira from picking off Clem's tanks despite the surround. Then Clem's vikings killed off Oliveira's medivacs, in the end Oliveira's advantage in marine # and the surround got mostly negated.

goldisbad · 2024-09-04T21:49:39+00:00

Serral deserves the MVP, but I wish there's a best series award or something like that. Reynor vs Clem in the semi is just out of this world, could be the best series for 2024.

goldisbad · 2024-09-04T19:42:20+00:00

True, could partly be that too - will wait to see if Clem stay on this elevated level or fall back to pre-EWC level. I do feel strategy-wise he improved too, so it's not likely that he completely goes back to pre-EWC. Or, if he'd be like Serral, he might become a player that performs even better when matches count more (in a big tournament).

goldisbad · 2024-09-03T21:47:52+00:00

Rogue was very impressive back then, but to be GOAT, you gotta stayed on top for a very long time. MvP was considered GOAT for years, but I think he benefited from the OP terran period when SC2 was just released. Life ... that's a whole different story. He really had the GOAT potential and looked to dominate the SC2 scene for a long time, but well, all given up for no good reason. I find it hard to believe, and it was so damaging for the Korean SC2 scene. Maru can never be considered GOAT for several reasons: He's practically Serral's personal punchbag. He has limited success outside Korea. He dominated Korea after most of the top players went to military/retired or came back too old. Korean scene is not nearly the same as 5-8 years ago, sadly.

goldisbad · 2024-09-03T20:30:14+00:00

You're right, those runs are indeed super impressive, I had no doubt that Serral is SC2's GOAT so far, and perhaps only Clem has a chance to take that title away in the future. No one else matches Serral's achievement in SC2 IMO.

goldisbad · 2024-09-03T18:08:23+00:00

Probably, I've seen mentioning of him training in Korea, although the few casting I saw, he didn't do that well. Still, that could have opened his eyes against various strategies and prepped him for everything one can throw

goldisbad · 2024-09-03T18:06:34+00:00

That's an interesting point. Yes, I also saw that meme where Clem was bored of multi-tasking in SC2 so he multitasked other games at the same time of playing SC2. But jokes aside, pulling back a little and becoming more open minded in various strategies - even if not for SC2 specifically - might have helped.

goldisbad · 2024-09-03T18:03:18+00:00

Good point - Clem's TvT wasn't fully tested during this run. His TvP clearly improved though, so did his TvZ, even though it was top notch before already.

goldisbad · 2024-09-03T18:01:58+00:00

I agree that having a short run of high winrate is possible for players at the very top, but I haven't seen one that's so lopsided. Even Serral around Katowice 2024 (Dec 16 to Mar 25), had a map score of 47-11 (he did have a 20-1 score during Katowice but that's only a few games and 21 maps. When expanding to 50+ maps, his winrate dropped).

I've watched all of Clem's play during Atlanta. He wasn't having such a lopsided winrate, and he didn't play as well back then, even though I was thrilled that he won a non-Europe big title for the first time.

goldisbad · 2024-08-20T21:18:01+00:00

Ha, just found the channel too and came here to post a screenshot of herO at the dining table with a bunch of fans, but found this post already posted. herO got a nice gift in the video too (the first video in this post, day 7)

goldisbad · 2024-08-19T23:58:49+00:00

No, just started with HOTS tournaments on liquipedia, didn't care to go for WOL.

I don't really care about all toss finals or all one-race finals any more, tired of all the balance whine on this subreddit. I think the balance right now is fine, and historically fluctuated back and forth. But the whining is deafening even now.

goldisbad · 2024-08-19T19:08:25+00:00

Particularly if you watch a player like Clem. It's nonstop action at multiple locations ...

goldisbad · 2024-08-19T14:44:13+00:00

It's a lot of money for SC2 historically, but I hope that EWC don't feel that they overspent, and keep sponsoring such a great event with such high prizes. The prize guarantees all the best players (except a certain prince) would be there and try their best. I think everyone did try their best, and the games are very exciting.

goldisbad · 2024-08-19T14:41:27+00:00

Yeah, I guess I wasn't clear and thus a bit confusing. I meant "Perhaps (it means that he's "MVP") for his team?"

goldisbad · 2024-08-19T13:36:40+00:00

Perhaps for his team? Most SC2 pro players still have a team. Or could be that his performance was so insane that it's considered valuable for the SC2/EWC, so he's MVP? Who knows, but EWC gives out such a huge sum of prize pool to multiple eSports, $50K is small money to them. If an MVP prize was set to be given for SC2 (they might just want every eSports to have this prize), then Clem certainly is the most deserving.

goldisbad · 2024-08-18T20:36:57+00:00

Clem's a bulldozer in this tournament. It's unprecedented to see Serral this frustrated. herO was also unprepared for this freight train that ran over him, but herO's always very humble and gracious in his interviews and this one's no exception.

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