Unlike in the group stage, IdrA did not opt to play his usual macro style but went for two all-ins in what was widely regarded as a result of nerves. Combined with a successful Cannon Rush, IdrA fell behind in the series. In the final game he went back to his macro style and was ahead of MC for a long time before losing to some undetected Dark Templars and MC's powerful Blink micro. Neither of the players attempted to cheese, which produced an even series similar to the first set at MLG Columbus ; however, this time MC claimed a win.
Although their onstage behaviour has lead to speculations about them disliking one another, both IdrA and MC have described the other as a "nice guy". In an interview at DreamHack Summer , IdrA stated that although he does not particularly like the WWE-like ceremonies and the trash talk that is characteristic of MC, he is happy to play along [13]. Later IdrA and MC met again. Eventually MC finished the tournament on second place while IdrA was 4th. Their final engagement to date was in Iron Squid where MC once again emerge victorious The result is in MCs favor.
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Xel'Naga Caverns , Dual Sight. That was just the way StarCraft worked back then. Instead, eSTRO, one of the worst teams in Korea at the time, extended him an invitation to officially join the team and stay as long as he played well.
By , Fields was already one of the best StarCraft players outside of Korea. By moving to Seoul, he could potentially secure the throne for years to come. In , Idra was the king outside Korea. The biggest event of the year, the Team Liquid Starleague, was going to be the greatest and final Brood War tournament before most of the world switched over to StarCraft 2.
And Fields had already beaten him handily early in the competition. He predicted a sweep. The series between the two American heavyweights featured short, furious games of utter weirdness and skill. Both players knew each other extremely well and planned accordingly. There was no coming back from that point. Fields fought hard in that last game.
But the rush worked, and early on it was obvious Fields had lost. Seoul knows vice. After the first generation of foreign StarCraft players left the game, many moved on to poker. Players naturally gravitated towards people they knew, which pulled them to backroom poker games and bottle-service at the nightclubs, far away from the screens and keyboards where they practiced.
StarCraft legends like Patry and Grospellier were able to thrive in Seoul despite not putting in the marathon hours that Korean professionals did. He was different from those who came before him, Fields told Korean media, because he was not distracted by Seoul. Arriving in early , Fields trained for months in seclusion. As the rookie, his daily schedule included scrubbing the floors and cleaning the house.
He practiced from noon to midnight with breaks for meals and an hour of exercise, tallying up around ten hours of StarCraft per day. In the training room he is receiving the same intensive training as everyone else.
Fields said he aimed to make the starting lineup in the team league faster than new Korean players do and then to compete for individual titles. Fields played one televised series which he lost in March For the next two years, Fields lost every single series he played in Korean professional leagues—except one, in the first round of the losers bracket of an Ongamenet Starleague qualifying tournament in Aug. Even so, he was still on a level that no non-Korean had reached in a half decade.
Was he a failure or a success? In Brood War , he was the only non-Korean playing in Seoul. Code S, the division at the top of the GSL pyramid, sported the best talent in the game. A long-time StarCraft: Brood War community member and poker shark, he dedicated himself to a pro StarCraft 2 career early on and achieved fantastic results.
And while Fields was finally seeing favorable results in Korea after all these years, Walsh waltzed in and competed against Fields at the top levels almost immediately. Walsh was known at the time for his solid, conservative play. Like Fields, he often eschewed aggression or gimmicks to allow his superior skill to shine.
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