StarCraft World Champion Beaten By 16-Year-Old Kid

10 responses to “StarCraft World Champion Beaten By 16-Year-Old Kid”

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   asd

   August 2, 2013 at 8:33 am

   check the demeanor of both players. true class, none of that “inyourfaceillbeatyourmomsplace” crass

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   1. 

      nicka

      August 2, 2013 at 12:49 pm

      Yeah this is why I’d be the worst professional gamer….

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   socialitegamer

   August 2, 2013 at 9:18 am

   I’ve never really liked competitions such as this, makes my own skills look very inadequate. 🙂

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   mind

   August 2, 2013 at 10:37 am

   This isn’t that uncommon. The median age is under 20…

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4. 

   bradleythreat

   August 2, 2013 at 10:44 am

   To be fair he’s not just a ’16 year old kid’, Maru has been quality for a fair while now. One thing that Maru has obviously added to his game recently is his ability to plan for a series effectively, like MVP is so good at. And this is an example of perfect match planning against one of the greediest terrans around

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      trjn

      August 2, 2013 at 1:27 pm

      Calling Maru a kid really is doing him a disservice. He’s been competing in GSL and at other high level competitions for over and year.

      Life and Leenock have both been very successful since they were 16 and Flash has been competing at the highest level since he was just 14.

      To an outsider, a kid beating a champ might seem like a way to tell this but it just isn’t what happened.

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   marcus

   August 2, 2013 at 11:11 am

   lol to think this culture of Starcraft came from the IMF bailout and the downturn in the Korean Economy.

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6. 

   tails

   August 2, 2013 at 1:01 pm

   It must be annoying having to type INnoVation every time with the capitals like that.

   I don’t get it.

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      trjn

      August 2, 2013 at 1:22 pm

      It’s surprisingly common that progamers have odd capitalisation in their names. HuK, IdrA, Australia’s own mOOnGLaDe and a good number of others.

      Some of these are older names that they’re stuck with but INnoVation recently changed his handle from Bogus.

      Bogus was a rad name. Wish he’d kept it because I love the idea of the best player having that name.

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   big_boss

   August 2, 2013 at 8:24 pm

   I like to see if the person was 12yo only played SC for 4months and beats a world champion SC player. That be hilarious and a good plot to make a underdog Hollywood movie about.

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