Posted by Slasher @ 17:42 CDT, 24 October 2009 - iMsg
(NOTE: There is a special time change for tomorrow's show, 3 hours earlier, and 4 hours earlier for Europe with DST in effect)
The ESL Extreme Masters Dubai event has concluded with Shane "rapha" Hendrixson and fnatic taking home the Quake Live and Counter-Strike 1.6 titles, respectively.
The American dueler has now won four straight major Quake events, dating all the way back to ESWC Athens. After a loss to Magnus "Fox" Olsson in the group stage, Rapha redeemed himself by taking out Michael "madix" Hindersson and Richard "noctis" Gansterer in convincing fashion to meet up with Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky in the final. The final was a rather defensive, low-scoring affair, rapha able to pull out the victory in 4 maps. The event saw the return of the legend Anton "Cooller" Singov, surprising many by winning his group and barely losing to noctis in double overtime in the quarterfinals, as well as Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty, who was never a Quake 3 player.
This week's special guests will be Quake Live Dubai champion Rapha, and MYM's in-game leader, Jimmy "Jumpy" Berndtsson. We'll talk to Rapha regarding his streak of wins in Quake so far, if he'll be attending Dreamhack, and his impressions of the overall play from Dubai. Jumpy will be chatting with us regarding the team's remarkable performance in Dubai, how the new blood has adapted to a major LAN event, zet's impact on the lineup, and their preperations for Dreamhack.
- SpawN has officially returned and announces that he has joined the Swedish team H2k, along with former SK player zneel
- Slasher attends the Capcom Super Street Fighter 4 Fight Club event in NYC, impressions on the game and conversations with Justin Wong and Capcom Community Manager Seth Killian
- Dreamhack Quake Live and SF4 signups have opened, Brian "dkt" Flander has signed up along with Swedish greats Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfors and Karl "fooKi" Johansson.
- Dutch Starcraft player Jos "ret" de Kroon has arrived in Korea, where he will play at IEF 2009 in the next few weeks, how will he do?
- MLG has confirmed the WoW team list for Anaheim, which includes EG's return, two compLexity teams, two SK teams, and Button Bashers from Korea
rapha's a good guy. Calm but intelligent. I hope his streak continues until other's can adapt to his game, which is already very adaptive in it's own right.
that doesnt make sense. Because I know for a fact if a newb you or me tried to play the same way as rapha against ALL OF THESE "PROS" we would still get hammered. So, just because you don't like a style doesn't mean he is any less of a player. and maybe this style is a winning style so other players are playing like newbs.
but isnt that what he is inferring then???? you're the idiot. It's obvious you guys dont think he
should've won it, but guess what? It's not like he is cheating or breaking some moral rules. HIs
smartness is what wins him games. It may look to you like it's boring, but that's because you
have no brain.
and here we have another idiot, implying that saying rapha's style is boring to watch and that I don't want him to win to win is the same as saying that he doesn't deserve it. All you can blame him on is that he said he doesn't want the one that abuses the game the most to win, but as he said, it's about having different a taste. It's the game to blame if a player playing 'boring' wins, as you said, and there's nothing in juM8o's post showing that he thinks otherwise. And in case you haven't seen it before, stunt.us has been mindlessly 'defending' rapha and other American players all the time even if people don't bring the topic up and just mention rapha and something bad about him, he goes retarded trolling mode.
so how do you know what he was implying you fucktard? are you a mind reader?? i dont think so. Stop making stuff up and stick to your comments. Stop trying to decipher someone elses.
Geez, l2read yourself. He didn't say anything about rapha being unworthy of his wins, and so I don't judge him for that. It's like a guy mentioning black ppl and getting sentenced for racism.
The given times don't make sense. DST is in effect in the USA until the first Sunday of November and the show begins usually at 4 pm EDT. As it is three hours earlier today, LO3 begins at 1 pm EDT which is equivalent to 18:00 CET.