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LemOn[5thF]   Czech Republic. Sep 23 2010 10:21. Posts 15163 | | |
Wow I'm one of the new school Starcraft players (I started playing online in 2004), I never knew you've done more than invented the worker transfer
| Simply put, StarCraft was very much a blank slate upon its release. Ideas as seemingly simple as transferring groups of workers to newly built expansions (rather than building them one at a time) were groundbreaking. It took a player the caliber of Miguel "Maynard" Bombach (a former Age of Empires player), probably the most dominant American player of all time, to invent a concept as simple as the worker-transfer. And it changed the game forever.
Dudey, an accomplished old school StarCraft player also known as ilnp, had this to say about Maynard at his peak:
"You guys have no idea what dominance is -- you weren't around when the game was new. The only people who could come close to Maynard's sort of dominance was Grrr.... and BoxeR. We're not talking win most everything, win a lot, impressive play. We're talking most of the top players were directly influenced by his play and his play alone, after a long period in which many refused to play him because they swore he cheated. We're talking literally invincible in even 2 on 2 play with shitty allies against every other top player in the world in practice, ladder, and tournament games."
Maynard's thorough dominance, borne out mainly on the Kali server and before modern competition had truly taken off, has thus largely been forgotten. He is remembered more for the worker-transfer bearing his name than his God-like status in the first year of Brood War. |
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=154789
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LemOn[5thF]   Czech Republic. Sep 23 2010 10:26. Posts 15163 | | |
Is it the LP maynard! ? |
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rgfdxm   United States. Sep 23 2010 10:43. Posts 1514 | | |
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Carthac   United States. Sep 23 2010 10:56. Posts 1343 | | |
I always smile a little bit hearing a Korean announcer scream "Maynard transfer!" |
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Mariuslol   Norway. Sep 23 2010 11:16. Posts 4742 | | |
He was indeed great, but the tittle is written in the liquid image, there were plenty of others just as good and better in the first year of sc.
I had like 800-9 record, and only losses vs sVEN and Tsunami, I also beat Testie when he was maphacking first year claiming to haven't lost in 3 months, and there were better players than me.
Some just hid in the shadows a lot =p
Slayer was in my eyes far beyond everyone else at the start and the next 4 years, maybe sVEN. godlike compared to the rest I felt.
lala
80% of the things invented and people gotten credit I've seen or done before, day 3 I made the reaver drop strat, and you heard people "claiming" to invent it a year later or so.
Dropping reaver before sunk tongue reached it and stuff before people knew wth u were doing. I love starcraft lol
sry for rant, and slightly selvmasturbating e peening! |
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Maynard!   United States. Sep 23 2010 11:29. Posts 4453 | | |
Yea I basically was the absolute best for first year or two of starcraft. That and a dollar can get me a cup of coffee. Absolute waste of time. 8) |
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Now I really am a busto. Thanks FTP. | Last edit: 23/09/2010 11:30 |
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whamm!   Albania. Sep 23 2010 11:30. Posts 11625 | | |
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blackjacki2   United States. Sep 23 2010 11:30. Posts 2582 | | |
ilnp was pretty good himself. I remember when he raped everyone in the final tournament of WDT to win a trip to Korea |
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collegesucks   United States. Sep 23 2010 11:47. Posts 5780 | | |
| On September 23 2010 10:29 Maynard! wrote:
That and a dollar can get me a cup of coffee. Absolute waste of time. 8) |
lol xD
play HoN with us!!!!
we'll show u a real waste of time |
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LemOn[5thF]   Czech Republic. Sep 23 2010 11:50. Posts 15163 | | |
| On September 23 2010 10:29 Maynard! wrote:
Yea I basically was the absolute best for first year or two of starcraft. That and a dollar can get me a cup of coffee. Absolute waste of time. 8) |
Hey, people make blogs about you and you made it into A BIBLE (Starcaft bible, but still a bible). You are a legend, like Jesus! |
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93% Sure! | Last edit: 23/09/2010 12:02 |
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eso   Sweden. Sep 23 2010 12:25. Posts 285 | | |
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Maome666   Brasil. Sep 23 2010 12:51. Posts 156 | | |
| On September 23 2010 10:30 blackjacki2 wrote:
ilnp was pretty good himself. I remember when he raped everyone in the final tournament of WDT to win a trip to Korea |
banana.milk?
where is this guy? playing poker? |
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noface   United States. Sep 23 2010 12:56. Posts 182 | | |
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i wouldnt touch a cunnis that raszi has stretched out - Illmatic | |
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Sanai   United States. Sep 23 2010 13:33. Posts 643 | | |
| On September 23 2010 10:30 blackjacki2 wrote:
ilnp was pretty good himself. I remember when he raped everyone in the final tournament of WDT to win a trip to Korea |
Wasn't that when he cheated and had some pro play for him instead? lol |
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ya junwi or jinam(recruted by Rekrul) played for ilnp. I think the finnal was against Tomson from pl. I remember some TV game where Maynard went 4pool on TV and failed. |
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HaiVan   Bulgaria. Sep 23 2010 13:59. Posts 2083 | | |
Its been 11 years since i first played the game. Brings back some memories |
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Fox   . Sep 23 2010 14:12. Posts 3110 | | |
rofl lemon knowing now that it's maynard.
"there were plenty of others just as good and better in the first year of sc."
i'm not sure i'm reading this right. but when sc was out maynard was for sure the best player around. i mean the only other person that comes to mind at ALL is incinerate. but maynard was FOR SURE the king when sc1 came out. no one did anything like he did in the macro sense. like not even close, i'm not sure how to stress this. It was thought early on by kali/bnet plaers that he flat out hacked the game. Obv after a while other people started to catch up, but early on... he was legendary. It's funny seeing the players in liquid that used to be gods at starcraft. pillars/maynard/grrrr/etc. |
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Fox   . Sep 23 2010 14:14. Posts 3110 | | |
| On September 23 2010 10:16 Mariuslol wrote:
He was indeed great, but the tittle is written in the liquid image, there were plenty of others just as good and better in the first year of sc.
I had like 800-9 record, and only losses vs sVEN and Tsunami, I also beat Testie when he was maphacking first year claiming to haven't lost in 3 months, and there were better players than me.
Some just hid in the shadows a lot =p
Slayer was in my eyes far beyond everyone else at the start and the next 4 years, maybe sVEN. godlike compared to the rest I felt.
lala
80% of the things invented and people gotten credit I've seen or done before, day 3 I made the reaver drop strat, and you heard people "claiming" to invent it a year later or so.
Dropping reaver before sunk tongue reached it and stuff before people knew wth u were doing. I love starcraft lol
sry for rant, and slightly selvmasturbating e peening! |
slayer was for sure godly back in the day. But i never heard about him until BW. Tsunami was overrated.. testie overrated early as well. sVEN i guess is good. you're bringing back a lot of old memories though lol. |
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whamm!   Albania. Sep 23 2010 14:22. Posts 11625 | | |
hey tsunami used a mac, give the guy a break |
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iop   Sweden. Sep 23 2010 14:59. Posts 4951 | | |
who were you in sc/bw marius?
yeah maynard was sick, and ilnp didnt win that tournament (on his own) |
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Milkman lol i didnt spend half a thousand on a phone so i could play it cool and be all stealth | |
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