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Naniwa returns to IEM Kiev, defeats Titan 2-0
Posted by Radoslav "Nydra" Kolev 4 months ago
After thinking over his decision to forfeit the tournament, Naniwa returned in the boot to play Russian protoss Titan. With a convincing victory, the Swede is on his way to recovery from the opening loss earlier that day.
Right after his 1-2 loss to homeground player Strelok in the IEM Kiev opening match, it was announced on Twitter that Naniwa had decided to forfeit his remaining games due to the technical issues that delayed the whole tournament for approximately two hours. One hour later, ESL tweeted that Naniwa was not officially out of the tournament - the Swede would return to playing Group A.
With his active status confirmed, Naniwa proceeded to play Titan and try to come back from a 0-1 game disadvantage. On Shakuras Plateau, Naniwa employed a strong blink rush that caught the two-basing Titan off position and sniped his important robo tech. Operating in this window of opportunity, Naniwa launched a frontal attack to gain an important supply lead. Titan tried to get back in the game with a similar blink guerilla tactics but Naniwa denied his hopes as his colossi hit the field.
On Antiga Shipyard, Naniwa displayed an outright better control than his opponent, turning an early supply disadvantage into an uncontested victory.
Currently on top of group A is WhiteRa, who doubled his lead by defeating Strelok with a convincing 2-0.
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| Now that's the way to go! Go Naniwa! |
| mentally unstable Naniwa... |
| he makes himself look silly most of the time.. O_o |
| @2 agree :\ sux, cuz he is a very strong player. |
| he needs to team up with idra. |
| Naniwa just earned a lot of respect from me. Way to be a man and professional about it. |
| 5 The student surpassed the master. |
| 6 hope that was sarcazm, otherwise most stupid thing i've ever heard. |
| Naniwa actually starting to piss me off. If he does something like this again I hope he just gets kicked/never invited to any of big tourneys. |
| #9 After GSL everything is more possible :D |
| Naniwa knows how to piss off people. What a well-thought-out move. And the organizers allowed it, because of the impossibility of a replacement for him. Certainly, they begged on knees. What comes next? Youthful carelessness leads him straight way to despisement... |
| Naniwa told before the games started that it was impossible to play at the computer and he wa angry because he had traveled for 20 hours to play with huge lag. The games vs strealok he had a very bad computer, if you saw the first game how he lost half his army when it jsut run in to strealok army and left his stalkers out for like 10 seconds. That kind of play dont happends on this lv. So he gave up because he couldnt play with the huge lag. But then he received a bether computer and decided to play. Even Grubby whanted a rematch when he lost his first game because of lag and he is like the most mannered guy in the sceen. So easy on the hate... |
| Lol, how stupid are u guys? He travels for fking 20 hours and they cant get him a computer that dont lag? My fking laptop can do that. Offcourse Naniwa shouldnt have to put up with shit like that, he is to good 4 that. Shame on the tournament! |
| IEM was a complete joke today with below average computers and shitty internet. I liked what NaNi did because that's no way to be treated on a tournament for which you flew half way across the world. Same shit happened to Grubby and NightEnd. When someone like Grubby gets pissed off, which initself is a hard thing to do because Grubby has nerves of steel and is one of the calmest progamers, then something was terribly wrong with IEM. |
| lolwat ??? |
| #15 Completely agree. Even though I usually don't agree with Naniwa's decisions, this was the right one. |
| Any other progamer would try to solve this problem in a professional way rather than saying that he would forfeit and then take it back. There are ALOT of other progamers that experience what Naniwa did and holding it together and trying to solve the problem between the games instead of fooling around and saying "I will forfeit the rest of the games". It's very unprofessional and disapointing towards other gamers. People tend to forget this.., he is not the only one. It's also a very huge misstake by IEM obviously but the way he is fooling around with this is just so silly since so many other have experienced it before and they never forfeit cuz they getting paid to play these games by their sponsors and teams etc...they simply know that their contracts are on the line that they play no matter what the circumstances are. It's the GomTV scenario over again almost....but with a twist with Naniwa coming back and actually play. |
| #18 Except NaNi complained about the computers before the game even started, admins went over there, changed a few network parameters and told him to play on without letting him to switch to another computer. So he tried playing the games, but he experienced insane lags, hence his decision to forfeit the rest of his games. Rotti confirmed this as he went to NaNi's computer personally and saw that he was experiencing at least 3 seconds lag. There is nothing unprofessional what NaNi did, in fact, it was the right thing to do. I'm sorry, I also don't agree with your opinion that players should play the game no matter what the circumstances are. True, they are paid to play their games, heck its in Nani's own interest to play the game, but you can't poop on them the way IEM pooped on NaNi (NightEnd, Grubby and Zenio as well) and ask them to play their games. This would be the equivalent of asking a football player to play an important match without his soccer shoes and expect him to perform well. I understand people hating on NaNi for his foolish things in the past, but its totally unfair and uncalled for to blame him for what happened today. IEM failed today, even Carmac admitted in his post on TL apologizing to Nani and all the players. But still, the damage has been done, NightEnd and Zenio will do a rematch of their last game, so that kind of sets the record straight. I'm just sorry for Grubby that he didnt get his rematch because these two situations were identical, but the admins decided to apply different rules. #17 Thanks man. |
| ^Yeah because Grubby is so good that he went 0-3 and obviously that one re game would let him go out of the group. |
| #max1c are u dumb for real? or just acting to dont understand what it is all about. |
| #20 You're right, a rematch between Grubby and Zenio won't change much, I was merely pointing out a big flaw and injustice that the admins of IEM caused. As #21 said, you're missing the point of my post. |
| I checked the most of the matches and it seemed like it was computer lag and not the internet, Also Apollo and TLO said it appeared to be computer lag. |
| #23 I guess I should have responded somewhere in the lines of: omg you shouldn't make excuses for a fail tournament hosted in your country? Was that the response you were expecting? Sorry to disappoint, I'm not gonna go all racist on you because I realize your country has nothing to do with IEM's failure. Besides, is NaniWa is from my country? Zenio? NightEnd? A little bit of reading comprehension wouldn't hurt. |
| #20 I think you need a food for thought mate. Because that post was pretty darn dumb. #23 So your actually saying that it has nothing to do with the computer? Jesus christ people these days. |
| You can make up all excuses you want, but the fact stays the same. Every single SC2 tournament has had lag issues IEM, DH, MLG, ASUS, CPL, Assembly, HSCup and even GSL, FACT. These are just ones that I remembered of top of my head, and I watch them all. So keep living in your own little world trolls and kiddies. |
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