I was wondering about the upcoming semifinal in the Msl. One thing that bothers me is that both Jangbi and Stork are in the same team.
So I was wondering, do these two still practice with each other for their upcoming match? If they did, wouldn't they know what the other one would do in map whether it be a specific BO or specific strategy?
Also, has there been any progamer drama where one teammate wins over his teammate?
Not the first time Stork has had to play a teammate, there was Stork vs. FBH during Gom MSL S... 2 or 3? the one with Stork Bisu finals and the FBH/Savior dance.
A while ago, Stork actually picked Jangbi for his EVER 08 OSL group. I don't think we ever got an answer as to why he'd pick his own teammate, but I regarded it as justice when he was knocked out of the OSL by jangbi. There was also the boxer-oov finals, maybe you've heard of that one . And Jaedong-ForGG MSL finals. And Jaedong vs Lomo in GOM S1. Bisu vs Best and Hwasin vs by.hero in the current OSL ro8. Jangbi beat Frozean on the way to beat stork. There are certainly more, I just can't think of them right now.
Jangbi took out Frozen ealier this MSL, Frozen being his teammate. As jangbi said in the winner's interview, practicing wasn't easy. They basically go train in other areas of the house and try not to let the other one see their strats.
I persoanlly like inter team matches very well, since they usually give out very good games. As called earlier, savior vs irisin shinhan 3 if i'm not mistaken was one of the best series I've seen. Just about anything can happen.
Inter-team matches are excellent, because each player knows the other so intimately. They are always so well prepared. Some of the best matches/games came out of inter-team.
Iris/sAviOr in shinhan BoxeR/oov on RoV Jaedong/Lomo on Katrina SE
On March 12 2009 22:59 G.s)NarutO wrote: BOXER VS OOV EVER 2004 FINALS. T_T!
I was just about to comment on that series. God damn, Boxer cried.
I think he made mistakes that he know he shouldn't have done. He wrote in his biography something like "my greatest enemy is myself".
He was probably sad for not getting the Golden Mouse too.
I always feel bad for him, like I feel that such an influential player should have won the highest trophy. He's gotten 4 silvers at an OSL, almost as many silvers as Stork.
Bisu and Best are also playing each other in the OSL, I think they said they did practice together for it at least a bit. Apparently Bisu "only knows the feeling after victory and not the feeling after defeat"
July vs Pusan from Shinhanbank 2005 OSL were also between two team-mates. July wrapped it up in about 25 minutes. Then he made a speech afterwards where he said he was sad he had to knock out his team-mate, and that everyone should applaud Pusan for his perfomance in the league so far, and cheer for him in the 3rd/4th place match vs Casy.
The match was highly anticipated because Pusan had boasted a high winning percentage in PvZ matches in practice. Up until that point Pusans PvZ hadnt been tested against high calibur zergs in BO3/5s, so there was much excitement to see if he was as good as he said.
As shown from interviews, stork seems to really respect/fear jangbi so jangbi's got him beat psychologically and I think jangbi is just a better pvp'er than stork at the moment just because he's aggressive and really solid mechanically... go jangbi
Got my money on Stork. Although he falters at times in the finals, he's usually rock solid in best of 5 series. The guy comes up with some great builds and has just rock solid play overall.
I look for Stork to take Jangbi possibly 3-1 or 3-2 and win the finals convincingly over the victorious zerg from the other side of the bracket.
On March 13 2009 01:07 EpiK wrote: As shown from interviews, stork seems to really respect/fear jangbi so jangbi's got him beat psychologically and I think jangbi is just a better pvp'er than stork at the moment just because he's aggressive and really solid mechanically... go jangbi
That's unfortunate, does Stork seem like he always is in fear of his opponents? The guy needs some confidence.
Stork is capable of playing Protoss as well as Bisu, and we know that Bisu crushes JangBi every time... JangBi is very consistent, but he's no match for Stork's A-game. I just hope Stork comes ready to play that well.
I think win/loss percentages are not as important when it's the semifinals/finals. Players bring a different type of game into the booth when faced with that magnitude of pressure. Things like experiences and mind games comes into play. In the end it's all about who wants it more.
i remember forgg and jaedong were in the finals vs each other for arena msl. forgg stomped JD because JD practiced with him for his Bo5 vs Hwasin earlier I think (also forgg is already really good vs Z and the maps kinda sucked for Z(hello Tiamat)). I remember how for the thread before hte finals everyone hated forgg for beating flash and depriving us of a flash-JD final, and everyone predicted a 3-0 in favor of JD. LOL
On March 13 2009 05:59 Ideas wrote: i remember forgg and jaedong were in the finals vs each other for arena msl. forgg stomped JD because JD practiced with him for his Bo5 vs Hwasin earlier I think (also forgg is already really good vs Z and the maps kinda sucked for Z(hello Tiamat)). I remember how for the thread before hte finals everyone hated forgg for beating flash and depriving us of a flash-JD final, and everyone predicted a 3-0 in favor of JD. LOL
Look, I was technically right when I said that the series would go 3-0.