I am talking about none other than the recent article posted by TL giving letter grades for player performances in the Code S round of 16 group selection process.
The author of that article gave poor marks to every player at the head of a group except the Terran player Innovation, who was awarded an A Plus.
Why was Innovation given an A plus?
Apparently, because his decision to co-opt another top Korean player, Zest, to bring Canadian Zerg Scarlett into his group so they can "beat up on her" since she is the only "foreigner" was considered a great move not only by themselves but also TL writing.
Well, look what happened.
This behaviour by Innovation and also by Zest, though it may be considered "normal" strategizing, also smacks of racism, sexism and just overall elitism. Take the player you think is the easiest to beat, which "of course" is the Non-Korean Girl, and easy path to the round of 8 for two previous Code S winners (sorry, Leenock). Furthermore, the awarding of an "A PLUS" by a TL writer for this behaviour is frankly embarrassing. TL should also be calling out this biased behaviour rather than greenlighting it and gushing about how brilliant a strategy it is.
Except that, for a change, JUSTICE has been served. REAL JUSTICE.
Innovation and Zest, you made Scarlett mad.
You broadcast to everyone that you think she is the Code S punching bag.
AND YOU GUYS BOTH GOT OWNED BY HER. SHE TRASHED YOU BOTH LIKE YOU WERE ALSO-RANS IN A FOREIGNER TOURNAMENT.
You know why?
She studied your play carefully, and designed strategies to beat you, and she's good enough to pull that off.
Innovation DESERVES to be knocked out of Code S for his overconfident and biased attitude, and in no more perfect way than getting knocked out by the player he picked and by the player he told that player to pick. he is the engineer of his own destruction and very deservedly. Innovation getting OUTPLAYED BADLY by a NON-KOREAN GIRL in the round of 16 is as good an ending as I could possibly have imagined for his season.
Next time, I bet you won't pick Scarlett for your group.
Oh, wait. you aren't going to be the one picking first now.
Maybe Scarlett will be picking you next for her group because, clearly, she doesn't seem to have much trouble beating you.
Then there's all the haters who think it's zerg imba responsible for this. Silly, silly stuff. She picked apart their playstyles and found holes, and hit them at the weakest parts of their builds. That's smart. and it's not even cheesing. Cheesing, in case you don't know, is how the ALLEGED "best player ever" (ha) MVP got his last championship against Squirtle. MVP didn't outplay him. MVP by cheesing admitted at the start of Game 7 that he was not the better player in that finals.
So TL how about you stop calling Terran players who abuse units "gods" and stop calling successful zerg players who win with superior overall game strategy and extremely difficult lategame engagements patch zergs. If anything, since Innovation rose to his fame in the era of the snowballing reaper and permanently cloaked widow mine, before it was finally balanced out, he should be called a Patch Terran, shouldn't he?. So, either write an article and call Innovation a Patch Terran, or write an article apologizing for calling Rogue a Patch Zerg. OR, probably I'll get banned again. Proud to be, while sticking up for fairness.
GO SCARLETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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