The CPL 2006 World Season will visit Sweden, The USA, Brazil, China and Italy and feature Quake 3 (Challenge ProMode Arena (CPMA) with VQ3) and Counter-Strike 1.6.
imo, the dm6 showed me again, why i dont play q3 anymore
cooller played so much smarter but czm timed and had a little better aim
and the slightest difference in aim can make it nowadays; if you do timing right and dont fuck up otherwise
also, i dont quite agree with cooller's rocketjump through the map tactic working
that shouldnt be possible
well, that's my 2 cents; i didnt ever regret to stop playing the game; still, very fun maps to watch at this CPL and also in this very matchup
the eternal q3 whine: "I'm much smarter than him but I lost because he has 5% better aim!"
getting real tired. is it smart not to practice your aim? if aim wins, it is smart to only play smart?
and it never ceases to amaze me how you can judge how smart someone is with such accuracy. if someone can rely on his aim, of course he's not gonna get into sneaky rail duels or keep his distance, he's just gonna come right out and fucking frag you.
So he still dominated the scene, czm has never managed that whereas the others have (cooller is more style than zero4 and zero4 in more style than fat).
And to brush aside Fatal1ty's dominance because the game was "new" or whatever is kind of childish, if that is the case czm is only where he is because he's been playing it for 7 years whereas Fatal1ty dominated without as much experience! (If you want to talk about who I think were the "best" players in skill that's another story)
Edit: Also when czm was in his "dominance" and "best" phase he still managed to lose the WB final against an (largely) inactive ZeRo4, I think that speaks volumes on ZeRo4's ability !
Edited by iiiiiiiiii at 14:37 CST, 19 December 2006
Like, have you not watched the demo? This game was predictable, there really is hardly anything you can do on pdm6 once a player has perfect control. The comeback by lexer was just insane, considering how badly he played in the ffa's and he came back to win the tournament. It was also one of the best tournaments of the time.
You never watched the tournament from the start over GTV did you? A lot of expectation was put on LeXeR being the first russian to play in the US, and his first result was a 5th place in the ffa, wtf? Someone like me, who was supporting lexer, found this shocking, what was even worse was that he was put against a high seed, chaoticz, and during the game, he's 8 frags behind and only 3 minutes left :(
Lexers comeback would always be better.. since honestly enough it was the first ever such comeback.. and it was truely awsome.. and he won a big arse tourney too .. hence me and TBONE are on the same side..
My adsl was playing up today. I managed to watch the second half of the second game, then it was into the decider with czm 3 frags down. Then I get buffering for 2 mins! When the screen comes back czm is 3 frags ahead and wins it. FFS I missed the best bit!
don't know how cooller lost to czm on dm6 and to jibo...seems cooller start at 100% every match and later he relax and lose control, don't know why...anyway great played by cooller
be watchful at around 13:30 in the dm6 demo if that mega appeared a mili second later it would be coollers game once more, czm drops down to 4 health and regains, but I cannot understand why cooller started to hide in a very lame manner in easily accessible places when he was up 15-11, should have ran +back style or something, why just try to hide like tht.
that was really very strange. he was holding all the necessary strings of the match, but let all of them go. it looked as if he decided to lose implementing some devious strategy
czm's superior spawn raping skill on this map pretty much make his win inevitable each time. there is always a string of bad spawns happening on this map, and czm excels at seizing that opportunity. the game was even untill cooller got his first bad spawn and that was it
czm woke up a bit late, but he still managed to get almost twice more frags than Cooller. When czm is on fire on hub --> nobody can stop him, I just don't see him losing that map like ever.
He started the map on fire then cooller sussed him out a bit and got his own game going. czm won one/two key battles then at the end got a "lucky" 5 odd spawn frag string which allowed him to take control of the map.
Yeah but that only works so far. He still got those unlucky spawns at the end of the day. But that's how hub3aeroq3 works, rail-rail-rail-spam-spam-spam-spawn-spawn-spawn....
What makes you so sure that if that MH you're refering to was a few secs later, that czm would of still engaged in that fight at the time he even did? Once he regained focus, his timing was impeccable and you shouldn't try to discredit this or write it off as pure luck.
Yeah and if czm had hit his rail 1mm more to the right @ xx.xx he would've dominated that game. And if cooller had taken that 25 health when he already had 95 @ xx.xx he would've won the duell 10 seconds later and won with 38-2 or something. And bla bla bla bla doesnt matter this is what happend this is how the game went.
look carefully how well cooller prepared the last attack at ra from above.
it seems to me like he prepared this infight 1,2 minutes before.
this is just chess at it's best level, you can't see this in any other game.
unfortunately, his attack did not fit because of czm beeing smart enough not to go for ra but shafting the shit out of cooller instead.
He basically did the exact same thing he did last time against czm at eswc...I think that's what cost him the game...czm just knew where he was this time...bad move imho.
Edited by HammerSmashFace at 11:59 CST, 19 December 2006
Isn't talent the thing that happens between the patches of good-luck and bad-luck?
I think czm and Cooller are extremely close to being equal in terms of skill.
Cooller may have done some stupid things, which are obvious to the spectator (because they see everything that's going on), but to Cooller's pov it looked completely well-played and same to be said to czm's pov. czm just had more lucky patches than bad patches.
You know what they say in chess: "The winner is the one who makes the second to last mistake."
Edit: Also when czm was in his "dominance" and "best" phase he still managed to lose the WB final against an (largely) inactive ZeRo4, I think that speaks volumes on ZeRo4's ability !
Also when czm was in his "dominance" and "best" phase he still managed to lose the final against an (largely) inactive cooller, I think that speaks volumes on cooller's ability !
true hes was and is the master
Edited by thelawenforcer at 19:28 CST, 19 December 2006
cooller is better than czm, more balanced player, but czm does it better this time. not coollers day i think. anyway i like both styles. aim and control.
I just saw the ztn game with cooller's pov and I'm really amazed. He just plays this map so perfect, that and his rail was really on this time.
They are both masters on different maps; cooller on ztn and czm on hub, although it looks like cooller is catching him up lately. I see cooller beat him on the next event.