| jeeeeohn United States. October 29 2011 08:44. Posts 860 | Profile Blog # |
By today's Terrans I mean the likes of Bomber, MMA, MVP, and MKP, not Joe Shmoe playing on the ladder.
Each of these players are either dominant (see: MVP) or huge fan favorites (see: MKP). What this reminds me of is the phenomenon of the Six Dragons. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it true that since the MLG/GSL player merge only one non-Korean, non-Terran player has won? Sounds like domination to me.
And the most recent GSL finals? TvT, MMA vs MVP.
I mean, maybe I'll get slapped down for suggesting something like this, but can we give these four Terrans a nickname, like how the Dragons had their nickname?
If it were up to me, I'd call them the Four Headed Chimera. Lame, but, eh, it's the best I can come up with at the spur of the moment after writing a seven page paper (and a cool 8-1 record on ladder today).
Leave your suggestions/flames in the comments! I'm being completely serious about this, by the way.
Edit: Facts checked.Last edit: 2011-10-29 08:55:13
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| Cruncharoo United States. October 29 2011 08:48. Posts 135 | Profile Blog # |
On October 29 2011 08:44 jeeeeohn wrote:
And the most recent GSL finals? TvT, Bomber vs MVP.
Might wanna check your facts on this one |
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| jeeeeohn United States. October 29 2011 08:55. Posts 860 | Profile Blog # |
On October 29 2011 08:48 Cruncharoo wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 29 2011 08:44 jeeeeohn wrote:
And the most recent GSL finals? TvT, Bomber vs MVP.
Might wanna check your facts on this one
I meant MMA, thanks. 
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| EdSlyB Portugal. October 29 2011 08:55. Posts 1620 | Profile Blog # |
You can't force a nickname. The best nicknames simply appear naturally.
Remember the Gracken. |
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 Praetorial United States. October 29 2011 09:28. Posts 3631 | Profile Blog # |
| The Four Pharohs of Fear? |
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| red4ce United States. October 29 2011 09:35. Posts 7301 | Profile Blog # |
| The problem with this is that there is not a clear enough cutoff line. You say MVP, MMA, Bomber and MKP, but MKP isn't and hasn't been a top 4 terran in absolute skill for a while. What about someone like Polt who has won a GSL and owns MMA head to head? Bomber is S class in terms of talent, but he has no GSL results to show for it. What made the 6 dragons the 6 dragons was that they were head and shoulders above the rest of the protoss in BW. The drop off after the weakest of the dragons (Kal) and whoever happened to be the 7th best protoss was immense. |
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| Itsmedudeman United States. October 29 2011 09:50. Posts 8561 | Profile Blog # |
| I think the hierarchy between the 4 is too obvious right now to warrant this, but they do have good rivalries between some of them every now and then. |
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| [uci] Fizik United States. October 29 2011 09:51. Posts 260 | Profile Blog # |
"The 4for4"
referring to any BO7 against any other non terran progamer. |
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| Aphetto United States. October 29 2011 09:56. Posts 17 | Profile Blog # |
| Regardless of hierarchy or past success, casters definitely need some nicknames for MMA and MVP. Blizzcon was a bit of a pain, casters would say a name and then have to tailor their comment to which one actually came out of their mouth. Its distracting. |
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 heyoka Administrator October 29 2011 10:18. | Profile Blog # |
On October 29 2011 08:55 EdSlyB wrote:
You can't force a nickname. The best nicknames simply appear naturally.
Remember the Gracken.
Actually a lot of the famous BW nicknames were totally forced for marketing. Thats why a lot of them make no sense, NaDa Tornado Terran is the one that comes to mind most readily. The 6 dragons was the same thing, a clever journalist came up with it to sell a piece he was writing about Protoss dominance.
So that's my advice. Come up with something cool and write a good piece about it. |
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 turdburgler England. October 29 2011 10:24. Posts 4662 | Profile Blog # |
just call them what they are
TvT specialists
el oh el |
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| Scarecrow Korea (South). October 29 2011 11:01. Posts 4580 | Profile Blog # |
With how many Terrans there are in Code S I'd probably expand it to 'The Dirty Dozen'.
tbh it's too early to force a name on them, particularly because all terrans are doing so well atm. Losira, Nestea and DRG might make for a better named trio but again I would wait a few more seasons. |
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| djbhINDI United States. October 29 2011 11:11. Posts 372 | Profile # | |
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| DarkPlasmaBall United States. October 29 2011 11:51. Posts 19998 | Profile Blog # |
As a group, I don't think so.
Individually, they already exist:
MKP is already the new King of Silver, SC2's Yellow. (He named himself Boxer, and yet he became Yellow. Heh.)
MMA = Legend Killer.
Bomber = ...Macro Terran?
MVP = The Best Player In The Whole Fucking World (TBPITWFW for short- say it five times fast). |
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| Jedclark United Kingdom. October 29 2011 12:44. Posts 847 | Profile Blog # |
| Is this some TBLS thing for SC2? I don't think we should do that just yet. |
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| tobi9999 United States. October 29 2011 13:05. Posts 1212 | Profile # |
On October 29 2011 10:18 heyoka wrote:
Show nested quote +On October 29 2011 08:55 EdSlyB wrote:
You can't force a nickname. The best nicknames simply appear naturally.
Remember the Gracken.
Actually a lot of the famous BW nicknames were totally forced for marketing. Thats why a lot of them make no sense, NaDa Tornado Terran is the one that comes to mind most readily. The 6 dragons was the same thing, a clever journalist came up with it to sell a piece he was writing about Protoss dominance. So that's my advice. Come up with something cool and write a good piece about it.
wasn't tornado terran NaDa's nickname because tornados have something to do with vultures and Nada used a lot of vultures? I always liked his nickname, regardless of origin, but I agree that sometimes they are pretty random |
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