[s] Mouz.Thorzain wins DREAMHACK Stockholm with a 3-1 victory over TSL.Polt!
Beautiful series with amazing play from both players!
Posted Apr 22, 2012, 10:10 PM UTC
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Not to mention the last three times they faced each other, Polt won in convincing fashion. Just goes to show how far Thorzain has come.
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If I'm going to be honest, I didn't think Thorzain would get past Ro16... Guess I got told bigtime :D
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In sveeden wee cåll it slutspel.
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He dominated in the early game the final two games. Shut down Polt's banshees and elevator play, then spooned his way to victory. Great to see the Swede win on home turf.
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spooned his way to victory.
I never get tired of hearing that, especially in the context of Thorzain
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Is... is there another context you hear it in?
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you're mom
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Or it's two different series with a small sample of games in each. It's quite possible that T-zain could have done it the first time if he got another bo5 set to play with but who knows. It's why single tourney results aren't the best benchmark for players, and why pros say x unknown player may actually be the best, they just haven't broken out yet.
Not taking the victory away from T-zain or anything, just that you can't draw such broad conclusions from just 2 sets.
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Finally a foreign terran wins a big event!
and it is none other than my favourite foreign terran, THORZAIN !!!!!!
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When was the last time a foreign Terran won a major event anyway? Thorzain won TSL3 like... a year ago, but other than that I'm drawing a blank.
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its because we only have 2 foreign terrans, Kas and Thorzain :( Foreigner Protoss and Zerg are far more successful resultwise and #wise
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The other foreign terrans that have won a major tournament are Sjow, Jinro, Fenix & Morrow but they won a long time ago and they never faced any koreans.
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for anybody who missed out on the action, here is the vod:
http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhacktv/b/315814339?t=7h27m
p.s.: /r/starcraft I am disappoint, no post on the frontpage yet? how come this has so little upvotes?
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Because the mods decided to delete the 50 other posts saying this and all of there upvotes were lost.
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Uh no, reddit derped and didn't count upvotes for submissions. Stop blaming mods if you don't know what's going on.
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their
but didn't we have a gigantic collective shitfit last time a mod removed a high upvote post? how come whenever a big final happens they are getting all antsy and delete congratulatory hype posts and on slow days the frontpage is filled with memes, day9 gifs and destiny being epic sax man?
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Thanks for the correction :)
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i love you
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Thank you for posting this, I missed most of the matches except Thorzains v Monster.
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Since the other high ranking thread is being crucified for posting before the gg, I'll throw this here as well.
Hi, r/all! Dreamhack is a renowned esports tournament, and this post refers to the finals of the Starcraft 2 section of the event. Swedish player Thorzain of team Mouzsports defeated Korean player, and former GSL champion, (highest honor in SC2,) Polt, of Team SCV Life, in a best of five game series, winning over $10,000 as a result.
It's also worth noting that South Korean players tend to dominate SC2 at a professional level, and have won the past two Dreamhack events. This particular tournament took place in Stockholm, and a Swede took back the title and the grand prize.
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posting before the gg
Pretty dick move tbh. What's next, posting 1h before a game starts? I truly doubt this kind of whoring for attention occurs in other game reddits
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The nerd-chill meter exploded when Polt typed "GG" in the 4th match.
I am so happy I was there to watch it all, and see a fellow swede win in his hometown!
Got 4 hours of sleep ahead of me before work, but it was worth it!
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Yeah I was there too and I somehow felt emotionally attached to his success because of his nationality, as in ice hockey :> The feeling was amazing and it really felt good to be a part of such a great crowd!
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Amazing play; sick control over the flow of the game.
Du är bäst, Thorzain. Det är du, SaSe och Naniwa som håller fortet så resten av världen vet var lilla Sverige ligger. :)
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Amazing controll!
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I used to have amazing leg control... but then I took an arrow to the knee!
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Stop that.
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Amazin games. Sick hold from Polt at the last game and nice drops from Thorzain!
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MARCUS FRICKIN EKLÖF!
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Was interesting to see some of that drop play he have been working on and turning the spoon into a knife!
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I see he's played knifey-spooney before!
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Spork?
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Spife.
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Aaah, very happy for ThorZain, great win for him!
The aggressive way he played was so fun to watch, really enjoyed his style of play throughout the knockouts.
GG ThorZain and what an overall awesome event Dreamhack was!
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This is the first starcraft event I've watched streamed and it was very entertaining. I have one question though... what exactly is spooning? They mentioned it multiple times regarding thorzain and I was totally lost.
Edit: autocorrect correction
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"The Spoon Terran" is the nickname the Koreans gave Thorzain while he was there because, while showing very solid play, he was always afraid of countering and capitalising quickly on his advantage, leading himself to drag out games that could have been finished in half the time.
The spoon is used as opposite to the knife: instead of killing his opponents quickly with a stab he tortured them with weak blows.
He sort of lost the habit of spooning recently, but the name stuck.
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Thanks for the explanation. It definitely seemed like he wasn't hesitant to counter in the games I saw. Guy seems like a class act too. It was fun to watch.
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very tense!
was so worried after game 1, but damn Thorzain plains amazing!
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What an amazing final in front of a huge crowd like that, it was awesome!
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Why isn't this on numero uno spot allready, I mean reddit loves Thorzain right?
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Tens of threads after the win. Plus, the other thread that was high was rapidly downvoted after people realized it was posted before the actual gg
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Thorzain has also been crowned the King of the North
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First Foreign win in a premier tournament in nearly 6 months. Hopefully we see some more foreigners winning premier tournaments.
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Is it just me or did Europe kick ass at DH?
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Ah, yes. I think we should pick this one guys.
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I like it. Not too much, not to little. Good production value.
Yup.