Idra, as Brad described  "a giant cock", won the Tournament. He seemed pretty quiet so, he probably only bitches online.

Idra doesn't bitch as much as people say. He did just wipe the floor with everyone, so at least he can back up the shit he talks.

" Idra doesn't bitch as much as people say. He did just wipe the floor with everyone, so at least he can back up the shit he talks. "

Were they playing on the new patch or before this recent patch?  That will make a big difference on what my comment would be. 
 
If it was with the new patch, my comment will be:  "Now he's going to say that thanks to the patch, the game is finally balanced for Zerg". 
 
If it was before the new patch, my comment will be:  "Muthafucker needs to shut the fuck now."

Ye he played really well, he makes me think that Zerg are overpowered, but it is actually balanced, it is just him making it look easy.

yeah grats to idra. 
 
@jakob187: 
it was the new patch. Idra pretty much stuck to muta ling, but tarren harass was still nerfed so its prolly a bit of of both
 
@R3Qui4M:
i think Day9 was talking about how Zerg were actually winning more matches than Terran at some point in the stream.

What about Fruit Fucker, or Fruit Seller or whatever the fuck his name is. Did he participate?

" What about Fruit Fucker, or Fruit Seller or whatever the fuck his name is. Did he participate? "

Idra rocks, and his raging is sooo funny :P, glad to see an american making income with sc2:p.

No, just no. I love how for some reason everyone thinks Idra is some complete and utter dick even though he clearly isnt. He used to be when he was a little teenager and playing Brood War, but now he is much much better in front of the camera and with sportsmanship. It's like all these people that didnt follow Brood War at all are getting into the game and the only way they know Idra is "That's that kid who is a complete asshole a right" even though they know nothing about how he actually acts now. The only people he talks shit against anymore is people that talk shit first, for instance Silver and Drewbie who are even bigger douches than Idra is incorrectly know to be. He gives people credit where credit is due and yeah, he can be pretty cocky sometimes but he deserves to be because he is by far the best North American to ever play Starcraft or Starcraft 2. 
 
On a side note, I feel like the game is super super balanced right now after these last few patches. Watching all these games I feel like the best players won and no matter what race you were playing you still had a great chance to win. I felt like there wasnt nearly as much stupid bull shit going on, and people were just straight up out playing an opponent, or getting out played. It was really exciting to see Select dominate so many good players, Idra clean house the whole way to victory, and the great mothership rush from Huk. Although these werent the best players in the entire world, it was great to see what the North Americans are made of. I will say though that this tournament really exposes how fucking insane Korea is at this game. Idra lost in the second round of the GSL to a dude that isnt considered to be among the tip top best in Korea, but yet he comes in here to MLG and just destroys everyone. It's actually kinda scary lol.

Good to see Idra doing well.  He seems like a cook kid.  Yeah, he rages, but W/E, I don't really care either way.

Have they uploaded the replays from it so I can watch the final match? If so, where can I find a link?

I hope these matches get casted later.

Doesn't Idra live in Korea so he counts as Korean or something? i could be wrong 
Also, I like Idra, however he still rages a lot, maybe it's just when he plays online 
Because in one replay I saw with him he raged a lot 
Not swearing but lots of insulting the other player 
Also for all his cockiness he's one of the few who can back it up

" Idra, as Brad described  "a giant cock", won the Tournament. He seemed pretty quiet so, he probably only bitches online. "

" @Feanor: I don't know if they could or not.  That's why I was wondering.  Speedlings and muties?  Oh, so he played like every other Zerg player then?  lol "

Idra got sanctions against him in several different leagues, so he's cut back a lot on his cheeky comments recently. I actually really like watching IdrA games, because as a zerg player it gives me something to look to emulate. He's just a really great macro player, and I imagine now that terran harass and extreme turtling has been toned down, he'll be a lot stronger player.

Idra's a bitch. Crying all the time about how he plays the "hardest race in the game" and asking Terran players to "apologize for playing that race". Also, in his post match interview he insulted every Terran player except qxc and SeleCT. SeleCT, I feel, would have won that match based on his performance earlier, but  his decision making changed completely in that set against Idra; It was like watching a different player. 

Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra.

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

I'm really glad Idra won, he can play really well, I'd like to see a North American actually bringing some competition to the Koreans!

" I hope these matches get casted later. "

" Idra's a bitch. Crying all the time about how he plays the "hardest race in the game" and asking Terran players to "apologize for playing that race". Also, in his post match interview he insulted every Terran player except qxc and SeleCT. SeleCT, I feel, would have won that match based on his performance earlier, but  his decision making changed completely in that set against Idra; It was like watching a different player.  "

" @DoctorWelch said:

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

I know right?  No one thinks for themselves they just take what Brad says or what Husky said. "

" @LeetBalla said:

" Idra's a bitch. Crying all the time about how he plays the "hardest race in the game" and asking Terran players to "apologize for playing that race". Also, in his post match interview he insulted every Terran player except qxc and SeleCT. SeleCT, I feel, would have won that match based on his performance earlier, but  his decision making changed completely in that set against Idra; It was like watching a different player.  "

No he didn't. I watched that video and he was talking about all the good terran people HE PLAYED. all the others he played were protoss or zerg. 
And Select did the same 1 reaper harass into MM play, taking an expansion, then going into MMM constant harass. it's just that IdrA is used to dealing with that(he faced it earlier during QXC) and had a specific gameplan to deal with it.

" @Skytylz:  yes and he lost in Ro32 to some korean 2-1. First loss due to void rays, 2nd loss bc of bad scouting.  Hes back in GSL 2 tho thats about to start this monday, I think he will get further this time due to the recent patch buffing zerg.  "  

" @DystopiaX said:

" @LeetBalla said:

" Idra's a bitch. Crying all the time about how he plays the "hardest race in the game" and asking Terran players to "apologize for playing that race". Also, in his post match interview he insulted every Terran player except qxc and SeleCT. SeleCT, I feel, would have won that match based on his performance earlier, but  his decision making changed completely in that set against Idra; It was like watching a different player.  "

No he didn't. I watched that video and he was talking about all the good terran people HE PLAYED. all the others he played were protoss or zerg. 
And Select did the same 1 reaper harass into MM play, taking an expansion, then going into MMM constant harass. it's just that IdrA is used to dealing with that(he faced it earlier during QXC) and had a specific gameplan to deal with it.

I don't think anyone can really make a definitive judgement of a player based on a half-second message during the final round of a tournament. As for SelecT's play though, I definitely noticed a change in one of the games. He dropped everything that had worked earlier for a weak marine-tank play which never actually seems to work in any high-level games I've seen, and unsurprisingly it got slaughtered. "

By the way, the placements. The ones with dashes (7-8, etc.) means that they have to play placement rounds for exact placings: 
 1. EG Idra
2. Select
3. Liquid Huk
4. Kiwikaki
5-6. Liquid Tyler
5-6. Root.drewbie
7-8. Slush
7-8. Agh_Antec
9-12. qxc
9-12. Pain.User
9-12. Nadagast
9-12. avilo
13-16. TTOne
13-16. LiquidRet
13-16. MasqLB
13-16. FnaticMSI.Gretorp
17-24 . TorcHgaming
17-24 . EG.iNcontroL
17-24 . KingSpades
17-24 . EG.LzGameR
17-24 . nesh.650
17-24 . AlexCMoi
17-24 . Duckload.White-Ra
17-24 . KawaiiRice
24-32 .Newsh
24-32 CheeseGrater_525
24-32 LuckyFool
24-32 ajtls
24-32 Time.175
24-32 inka
24-32 Taurent128
24-32 UNC-oRe.saMa     
totally stole this off the user "BraveGhost" on teamliquid. Assuming his brackets are right...Nice to see Torch (white guy who qualified GSL) still playing competitively, as well as Nony (tyler), Slush, and a bunch of non-invite players make it. Thought IncontroL would've done better (if anyone watched the stream, he was the freaking huge dude), since he played BW and really knows his shit.

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

IdrA did a damn good job. I was rooting for HuK, but IdrA shut him down and ended his winning streak. Still there were some great games - Kiwikaki's DT rush and win with 5 probes left was one of the best.

" @DoctorWelch said:

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

omg you guys stop posting about Idra! you don't know him like I do!  Well that's how I interpreted your post anyway.  Also go make a video on youtube and tell everyone to leave Idra alone! "

if you guys think idra is rude you should check out the pro css scene

Idra only bitches a lot when he's losing.
 
I swear he does it just as a psychological thing...

This thread is one of the reasons I'm too scared to click the little starcraft II logo on my desktop. 

If Idra played less starcraft than I did and beat me I'd be impressed.
But dudes been practicing all day every day for 12 years.  And still isn't the best in the world.  That to me is wrong. It says to me that he is a naturally untalented player.

Loved watching Selects TvP

" @haffy said:

" @DoctorWelch said:

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

omg you guys stop posting about Idra! you don't know him like I do!  Well that's how I interpreted your post anyway.  Also go make a video on youtube and tell everyone to leave Idra alone! "

You're right, cause thats exactly what I said... More like very few people, if anyone, in this community know anything about Starcraft 2 and people just seem to come into the forums spewing useless shit that makes no sense and doesn't contribute to a discussion in any way. Case in point, your post. "

" If Idra played less starcraft than I did and beat me I'd be impressed. But dudes been practicing all day every day for 12 years.  And still isn't the best in the world.  That to me is wrong. It says to me that he is a naturally untalented player. "

" if you guys think idra is rude you should check out the pro css scene "

" @haffy said:

" @DoctorWelch said:

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

omg you guys stop posting about Idra! you don't know him like I do!  Well that's how I interpreted your post anyway.  Also go make a video on youtube and tell everyone to leave Idra alone! "

You're right, cause thats exactly what I said... More like very few people, if anyone, in this community know anything about Starcraft 2 and people just seem to come into the forums spewing useless shit that makes no sense and doesn't contribute to a discussion in any way. Case in point, your post. "

Funny watching people run their mouths about stuff they obviously don't know anything about.
 
Brad causally reading what TL flamers say, taking it seriously and relaying it on the bombcast =/= Facts

Idra seemed quite mild mannered when he was winning, I'd bet it would be a much different story had he lost.

Cocks do prosper. 
Wait, was that the right expression?

" @DoctorWelch said:

" @haffy said:

" @DoctorWelch said:

" Okay, I am officially never posting about Starcraft on Giant Bomb again. Very few if anyone on here knows anything about this game or the competitive scene. It's just embarrassing reading some of these posts by people talking about Idra. "

omg you guys stop posting about Idra! you don't know him like I do!  Well that's how I interpreted your post anyway.  Also go make a video on youtube and tell everyone to leave Idra alone! "

You're right, cause thats exactly what I said... More like very few people, if anyone, in this community know anything about Starcraft 2 and people just seem to come into the forums spewing useless shit that makes no sense and doesn't contribute to a discussion in any way. Case in point, your post. "

 Yeah, you telling everyone your opinion on someone is far superior to everyone elses really contributed to the discussion nicely. I don't really care about the pros opinions either because they're just as biased as anyone else. You might of noticed I didn't actually state my opinion of Idra, I just took the piss out of you. Personally I'd rather talk about the game and only care about the pros when they play a good game.   Anyway I thought you were offically never posting about Starcraft again on Giantbomb? Or was that just for attention? Well done you queer little drama queen. "

I've twisted nothing. Show one part where I took your words out of context. I even said I was taking the piss out of you in my second post if it wasn't clear enough in the first place. Also your right, I don't understand how your opinion on someone is better than everyone elses. It doesn't help that you've gave no evidence what so ever to back this up.
 
Anyway where wern't you talking about Starcraft? 
 
To be honest the only way I'm sure your directing your posts at me is your quoting me. You kind of wounder off the arguement fairly quick.

Idra is and will always be a dick. He has become a professional dick though.