Match-ups: Nada (T, Pantech) vs Much (P, CJ) on Hitch Hiker FireBatHero (T, Samsung) vs UpMagic (T, E-Stro) on Neo Arkanoid Midas (T, SKT) vs Light (T, MBCgame) on Reverse Temple Casy (T, OGN) vs Child (Z, STX Soul) on Longinus 2 GoRush (Z, SKT) vs Iris (T, CJ) on Longinus 2 Hwasin (T, STX Soul) vs Yooi (T, STX Soul) on Hitch Hiker
Nada (T, Pantech) < Much (P, CJ) on Hitch Hiker Proxy 6? Gateway in middle of map from much, nada took all scv's off to kill it but lost too many scv/time. Much way ahead thereafter and although nada had amazing defence the economy difference was too 'much'.. after countering reaver harass excellently, much just walked up ramp with goons before siege came.
FireBatHero (T, Samsung) vs UpMagic (T, E-Stro) on Neo Arkanoid Up goes 2 rax floats to middle MnM rush while trying to guess where FBH is, FBH 14cc's. Holds off rush. From there after he is simply outclassed by Up in your usual dropship game.
Midas (T, SKT) > Light (T, MBCgame) on Reverse Temple Nice game, both attack with 4 rine/1 vult but miss each other in middle and both rack up major scv kills. Light seemed to come out on top. Midas just plays really solid and seems to keep ground advantage all game with his macro which eventually whittles light down into GG.
Casy (T, OGN) > Child (Z, STX Soul) on Longinus 2 Rape. 2 Rax opening, run past one sunk and did major drone damage. Child then gets 20 lings that do no damage and its 10 drone 2 hatch lurker/ling vs 2 base terran... I'll let you do the math.
GoRush (Z, SKT) > Iris (T, CJ) on Longinus 2 Not your typical TvZ on Longinus. Iris goe fast tank push and GoRush neatly beats it off in the nick of time with muta/ling. Meanwhile Iris still on one base finally takes nat and then it's a battle of who can lose.. GoRush literally could end it anytime but he just sits there for a millenium letting iris irradiate the shit out of him. Finally gets some balls and attack moves to victory after he has the whole map.
Hwasin (T, STX Soul) > Yooi (T, STX Soul) on Hitch Hiker Quick, one-sided game. Hwasin got the upper hand quickly on the dropship battle by killing Yooi nat gas while yooi was killing neutral buildings. Hwasin just kept up the dropship play and ended it quickly with a drop in main.
4/6 on the predictions, could've been alot worse after being 0/2 Dropped from 19 to 23.
My Predictions:
- Nada > Much on Hitchhiker. I just don't see T's losing TvP on this map even though much is the anti-nada.
-FireBatHero > UpMagic on Neo Arkanoid Really tough one IMO, going with the slightly more expierenced FBH. Anxious to see how these two are at TvT to be honest.
-Midas > Light on Reverse Temple Light is a beast but his TvT is weak, I expect Midas to take this.
-Casy > Child on Longinus 2 Casy strong TvZ on imba T>Z map, should be an easy bet.
-GoRush > Iris on Longinus 2 Super hard bet IMO, Iris is just so unimpressive TvZ, while GoRush is so unpredictable. Factor in the map and it's a toss-up.. I went with GoRush.
-Hwasin > Yooi on Hitch Hiker Two horrible TvT'ers? I'll go with the one that's at least winning other match-ups =/
Hoepfully I get to watch this... There's been an earthquake in Taiwan that has caused disruptions to the internet services in Singapore and Hongkong. Damage to the undersea cables, I think.
On December 27 2006 00:14 The Storyteller wrote: Hoepfully I get to watch this... There's been an earthquake in Taiwan that has caused disruptions to the internet services in Singapore and Hongkong. Damage to the undersea cables, I think.
Glad that you can still go here and post this. I got a slight heart attack with the news about tsunami threat yesterday =)
Much vs Nada: I want Much to win.... that's ALL anyone needs to know UpMagic vs FireBatHero: UpMagic has been impressing me an INCREDIBLE amount as of late. I predict him to take a solid win Midas vs Light: Tough decision. Both are practice machines, but known to have a bit of a soft spot in the mirror matchup. I'll vote for Midas because he beat Savior : ] Casy vs Child: Child will only win by miracle. This is the easiest bet of the night; solid solid solid TvZ player on a terran favoured map Gorush vs Iris: TOSSUP. I'll vote iris though. I have a hunch (ami gay or what?) Hwasin vs Yooi: Never seen either of them play TvT. My vote goes to Hwasin, as he is in better overall shape
Nada < Much on Hitchhiker. - I smell cheese... much is the anti-nada, and nada is cursed... despite the massive imba, im sure much will win
FireBatHero > UpMagic on Neo Arkanoid - FBH eliminated boxer from the last osl... i have faith in his tvt... i like FBH too
Midas < Light on Reverse Temple - Light is my favourite terran... his multitasking is the best in progaming imo.. so imma vote him.. midas isnt particularly noticed for his tvt and light isnt terrible at tvt.. so light!
Casy > Child on Longinus 2 - No brainer.... unless child 4pools and casy 14cc
GoRush < Iris on Longinus 2 - The map says iris.. gorush has never been a strong contender in my book.. sooooo i vote iris.. who is semi-inform
Hwasin > Yooi on Hitch Hiker - Im hopinh hwasin's realised that if he wants to get out the group stages he must win this game... sooooooooo i hopes hes practiced alot... then he will lose to pusan tomorrow muahahah
what happens in a situations like this: - in a group 3 players are 2-1, other is 0-3; - in a group one player is 3-0, 3 others are 1-2; do they rematch?
On December 27 2006 01:57 One Page Memory wrote: not out yet 3rd place finishers has a chance to qualify, since there are 6 groups 6x2 = 12 6 3rd place finishers plays for 4 spots
oh yeah, i really forgot this...c'mon NADA you've got to go hanbang now...
ok, nada is not out yet, he needs to at least stay in 3rd place for the wild car. here is the rule:
These 6 seeds are important for the first stage of the OSL. Those 6 seeds each pick a respective player who picks in turn picks another respective player, and in turn picks another respective player. That gets us 6 groups of 4. Cool. This stage is called the Group of 24 Stage (24 강). These 6 groups play a round robin. (A round robin group means everybody plays everybody once.) After necessary tiebreakers, each group has a 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, and 4th place. The players who got 1st place and 2nd place in their group get to skip stage 2 which only involves the 3rd places from each group. The 4th place of each group ends his/her OSL run and gets sent to ODT.
The second stage involves all the 3rd places from each group. This stage is called the Wildcard Round. The third stage has 16 spots but only 12 advanced from the Group Stage. That means the 6 players in the Wildcard Round are fighting for the 4 remaining spots. The 6 players are split into two groups of three. These groups do another round robin. The top two of each group take their spots in Stage 3, the last place of each group is sent to ODT
On December 27 2006 02:02 exihea wrote: is it a wise move to use so many scvs to attack gate? he should be able to use 3 or 4 scvs with 1 or 2 machines to hold ramp, no?
or just block the ramp old style with barak and suplay :D
If he had destroyed the gateway before the zealot (that is like 2 secs earlier) the amount of SCVs would have been justified.. but as it was now he not only lost a lot of mining time but 4-5 SCV as well...
Much did some really nice stalling on the ramp with his probe (like stalled 8 SCV with 1 probe for 1 sec) giving him that seconds he needed..
This Sea.Up guy has been amazing so far. Proxy factory into 2 port wraiths in his first OSL game? Raping the shit out of a well known ZvT user in the process? Man.
maybe he should kill the pyon instead, then use 3/4 marines with all scvs to rush back
On December 27 2006 02:05 Adamthegreat wrote: If he had destroyed the gateway before the zealot (that is like 2 secs earlier) the amount of SCVs would have been justified.. but as it was now he not only lost a lot of mining time but 4-5 SCV as well...
Much did some really nice stalling on the ramp with his probe (like stalled 8 SCV with 1 probe for 1 sec) giving him that seconds he needed..
soon massdrop i guess... but upmagic is impressing me again... that was like do or die and he's good in game now, still disadvantage but not a huge one
Up is seriously great to watch. He plays with a preset build in mind and almost always prevails. I rarely ever root for a terran player but damnit, Up is awesome.
He gave me 3 liquibet points earlier in the season, but that was because he was up against mediocre opponents, and I've never seen FBH play a TvT so this was pretty much a 50/50.
Do you forget the horrible rape and humiliation up suffered on blitz against a zerg just a week or two? He was killed by lings due to crappy scv and marine early game micro.
On December 27 2006 02:34 Luhh wrote: Please.. upmagic bandwagoners..
He gave me 3 liquibet points earlier in the season, but that was because he was up against mediocre opponents, and I've never seen FBH play a TvT so this was pretty much a 50/50.
Do you forget the horrible rape and humiliation up suffered on blitz against a zerg just a week or two? He was killed by lings due to crappy scv and marine early game micro.
I don't know if you're including me in that but if you are..I've commented on a previous game he played and thought he really wasn't very good mid to late game where he made literally like 3-4 expos all at once. Also I didn't mean to compare him literally to boxer at all just the way he played that psrticular game reminded me of him with all the great harassment
The reason i like Up.magic because of the game between him and Yellow.arnc recently. As the camera showed his face during the game, man, he looked so calm and concentrate at the same time. This is exactly what i saw on his face before the match vs FBH. Gaming on the stage took more than just pure skills, psychological capabilities is critical as well and Up.magic seems to be that way to me.
On December 27 2006 02:38 Luhh wrote: Well, while he is a fresh breeze on the scene, I still think it's to early to draw any conclusions since he hasn't faced the best yet, only alsoruns.
I don't think anyone is drawing any conclusion. The guy just has a lovable style, whether he'll be able to impose himself as one of the very best is a whole another story.
well, almost everyone looks calm to me, except jju who shows everything in his face
On December 27 2006 02:42 STAYTHESAME wrote: The reason i like Up.magic because of the game between him and Yellow.arnc recently. As the camera showed his face during the game, man, he looked so calm and concentrate at the same time. This is exactly what i saw on his face before the match vs FBH. Gaming on the stage took more than just pure skills, psychological capabilities is critical as well and Up.magic seems to be that way to me.
On December 27 2006 02:42 STAYTHESAME wrote: The reason i like Up.magic because of the game between him and Yellow.arnc recently. As the camera showed his face during the game, man, he looked so calm and concentrate at the same time. This is exactly what i saw on his face before the match vs FBH. Gaming on the stage took more than just pure skills, psychological capabilities is critical as well and Up.magic seems to be that way to me.
dont know why but just the feeling that really he IS calm and focused not just he LOOKED that way..
Yes, the wraith of Light ushers Midas' tanks into the sieged tanks of Light and he manages to blow up one (or two?). Midas' wraith also attacks some sieged tanks of Light, but is saved by some scv. 3 wraiths for Light patrolling the map and Midas has goliaths now, 2.
Light made a big drop on Midas cliff with 5 dropship but it doesn't look like he can secure it.
Light breaks out of Midas contain at his 2nd nat. But he's behind. Midas has had the 3rd gas base for a long time and Light's was destroyed some time ago.
Light floats a cc to 9 main and his 2nd nat. And to bottom island! But Midas drops a few goliath for that one.
Midas been up +1 base a while. Light been dropshipping trying to hurt his economy. Midas defending nicely and now Light expands to 9 main and 5 island. Midas sees the 5 island and drops it with some golis.
Light's defense is 4 tanks. Midas's army is like "this is many tanks, yes?" style.
Light flew a CC from top island to 12 main where he's had an army for some time after killing Midas's base there. He's also flown another CC to bottom island. Light is expanding like a zerg O_O
Midas doesn't seem to want to expand just make more units. He has added 9 nat though.
Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
On December 27 2006 03:17 Luhh wrote: Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
On December 27 2006 03:17 Luhh wrote: Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
i'm wandering it too, just 1 scan and attack move, that's it
On December 27 2006 03:17 Luhh wrote: Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
Yeah. My point precisely.
he shutted down the gas there, which is like 70% shutting don te whole thing TvT
On December 27 2006 03:17 Luhh wrote: Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
Yeah. My point precisely.
he shutted down the gas there, which is like 70% shutting don te whole thing TvT
Agreed, but if you can kill 30 workers as well, why not?
On December 27 2006 03:17 Luhh wrote: Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
Yeah. My point precisely.
he shutted down the gas there, which is like 70% shutting don te whole thing TvT
Agreed, but if you can kill 30 workers as well, why not?
I think he didn't go for 9 knowing how many dropships light had, and the fact he shut down gas. massing units to that position probably wasn't important
On December 27 2006 03:30 GoBOXERgogo wrote: Even so..that map is just so insanely imba and Nada is 'still' a tvp god even if he's slumping. Seems like a really dumb vote imo
Slump + Much having a huge psychological advantage over him (4-1 recently) + Much being on an insane roll + Much knowing how to cheese if necessary.
On December 27 2006 03:30 GoBOXERgogo wrote: Even so..that map is just so insanely imba and Nada is 'still' a tvp god even if he's slumping. Seems like a really dumb vote imo
Slump + Much having a huge psychological advantage over him (4-1 recently) + Much being on an insane roll + Much knowing how to cheese if necessary.
I'd still pick Nada between them on that map if my life depended on it. And I don't even think Nada is slumping that bad. People are so quick to praise and to hate. This happenes to every single player
i dont think much was a stupid pick, he's only practicing one matchup + nada's confidence took a hit last week, the map is new and could go either way, anytime simple played it wrong last week.
On December 27 2006 03:30 GoBOXERgogo wrote: Even so..that map is just so insanely imba and Nada is 'still' a tvp god even if he's slumping. Seems like a really dumb vote imo
Please stop using aggressive words like "stupid", "ridiculous" or "dumb" when you don't understand something. It is really annoying.
On December 27 2006 03:30 GoBOXERgogo wrote: Even so..that map is just so insanely imba and Nada is 'still' a tvp god even if he's slumping. Seems like a really dumb vote imo
Please stop using aggressive words like "stupid", "ridiculous" or "dumb" when you don't understand something. It is really annoying.
I'll use whatever words I like, nor do I care if you think it is annoying. Please feel free to prove me wrong if you want
On December 27 2006 03:17 Luhh wrote: Can someone explain why Midas hasn't shut down the 9expo? If if did, the game would have been over quite a while ago. He has defended it and mined it out with only 2 siegetanks against an entire army. Ridiculous.
Yeah. My point precisely.
he shutted down the gas there, which is like 70% shutting don te whole thing TvT
Agreed, but if you can kill 30 workers as well, why not?
On December 27 2006 03:37 GoBOXERgogo wrote: I'll use whatever words I like, nor do I care if you think it is annoying. Please feel free to prove me wrong if you want
This clearly demonstrates my point. I do not criticize what you are talking about, only the way you are doing it. It is insulting and unnecessary and it doesn't help your point (whatever it is) to be understood by others.
On December 27 2006 03:34 GoBOXERgogo wrote: I'd still pick Nada between them on that map if my life depended on it. And I don't even think Nada is slumping that bad. People are so quick to praise and to hate. This happenes to every single player
He is slumping and just proved it again by making stupid decisions. His facial expression also clearly shows he doesn't really care about losing. You can't be motivated enough when you've just won the biggest thing that exists.
Man was I right about child's eco. He only has like 8 drones mining on his TWO bases for minerals. The drone kills plus all the zerglings makes for no power.
On December 27 2006 03:37 GoBOXERgogo wrote: I'll use whatever words I like, nor do I care if you think it is annoying. Please feel free to prove me wrong if you want
This clearly demonstrates my point. I do not criticize what you are talking about, only the way you are doing it. It is insulting and unnecessary and it doesn't help your point (whatever it is) to be understood by others.
I'm sorry, I forgot this was 2nd grade and people got offended by the word stupid. Which I didn't even call him personally, just saying that bet seemed stupid.
On December 27 2006 03:34 GoBOXERgogo wrote: I'd still pick Nada between them on that map if my life depended on it. And I don't even think Nada is slumping that bad. People are so quick to praise and to hate. This happenes to every single player
He is slumping and just proved it again by making stupid decisions. His facial expression also clearly shows he doesn't really care about losing. You can't be motivated enough when you've just won the biggest thing that exists.
That might be true with a lot of people but I don't see Nada as someone who is mentally weak and couldn't motivate himself, but maybe I'm wrong. I personally don't carry over each game like it's the sole determination of someone's skill so him losing a few games lately doesn't mean much to me.
On December 27 2006 03:51 M2 wrote: does casy did a lot of damage with his fiorst 6 marines, becaue I did not understood why child had such a low drone count
probably child made too many lings. He used lings to kill the first group of mm, that's lots of lings
On December 27 2006 03:51 M2 wrote: does casy did a lot of damage with his fiorst 6 marines, becaue I did not understood why child had such a low drone count
What a painful rape =.= Child was a little bit ahead after Casy early failed attempts but his macro+micro is just.. absurb. Plus Casy's micro is well, Casy's.
Lesson learned: never ever try a slow drop against micro machines..
A Game 1: Aqua > IriS @ Tau Cross A Game 2: Child > Jjando @ Tau Cross A Winner's: Child > Aqua @ Arcadia 2 A Loser's: IriS > Jjando @ Arcadia 2 A Tiebreak: IriS > Aqua @ Shin Peaks of Baekdu
A Game 1: Aqua > IriS @ Tau Cross A Game 2: Child > Jjando @ Tau Cross A Winner's: Child > Aqua @ Arcadia 2 A Loser's: IriS > Jjando @ Arcadia 2 A Tiebreak: IriS > Aqua @ Shin Peaks of Baekdu
when he wins, its never an accomplished win or anything, its just a flat out stupid win. i don't mean a sexy early cheese, or some really nice early game micro that went for a short victory. We're talking like, terran tries to bunker rush, accidentally cancels his bunker, child counters and wins
seriously, this last game is a PRIME example of why child blows. Once Casy did some early damage, Child did not try to recover, he went for the insta-allin counter attack. This shows no sophistication or mastery of zerg. When someone fucks w/ Savior early on, sure you can kill off half of savior's drones and his spire, but my god he'll rebuild everything and be right back in the game with sick macro and half the map.
Child, on the other hand, sucks. You fuck w/ child early, and he tries to slow overlord drop w/ 3 lurkers.... on a map where you can see outside your main....
On December 27 2006 04:07 Day[9] wrote: when he wins, its never an accomplished win or anything, its just a flat out stupid win. i don't mean a sexy early cheese, or some really nice early game micro that went for a short victory. We're talking like, terran tries to bunker rush, accidentally cancels his bunker, child counters and wins
Still this guy can be awesome, like his game vs Bifrost quite a while ago, on RoV. Extremely rare though, and it's not like Bifrost = Casy.
On December 27 2006 04:07 Day[9] wrote: god child is just so third rate
when he wins, its never an accomplished win or anything, its just a flat out stupid win. i don't mean a sexy early cheese, or some really nice early game micro that went for a short victory. We're talking like, terran tries to bunker rush, accidentally cancels his bunker, child counters and wins
seriously, this last game is a PRIME example of why child blows. Once Casy did some early damage, Child did not try to recover, he went for the insta-allin counter attack. This shows no sophistication or mastery of zerg. When someone fucks w/ Savior early on, sure you can kill off half of savior's drones and his spire, but my god he'll rebuild everything and be right back in the game with sick macro and half the map.
Child, on the other hand, sucks. You fuck w/ child early, and he tries to slow overlord drop w/ 3 lurkers.... on a map where you can see outside your main....
ahaha how did I forget about that, makes it so much funnier/sadder
On December 27 2006 04:07 Day[9] wrote: god child is just so third rate
when he wins, its never an accomplished win or anything, its just a flat out stupid win. i don't mean a sexy early cheese, or some really nice early game micro that went for a short victory. We're talking like, terran tries to bunker rush, accidentally cancels his bunker, child counters and wins
seriously, this last game is a PRIME example of why child blows. Once Casy did some early damage, Child did not try to recover, he went for the insta-allin counter attack. This shows no sophistication or mastery of zerg. When someone fucks w/ Savior early on, sure you can kill off half of savior's drones and his spire, but my god he'll rebuild everything and be right back in the game with sick macro and half the map.
Child, on the other hand, sucks. You fuck w/ child early, and he tries to slow overlord drop w/ 3 lurkers.... on a map where you can see outside your main....
Gorush sees the tanks and he has a spire building.
He quickly adds up to 5 sunk and counters with speedling. Iris has some firebat/marines in his base though so they don't do much damage. Now we see how good GoRush's muta micro is.
Gorush took like 20 lurkers and flanked Iris army in the middle taking most of it out. Then Iris took the remaining MM and tried to attack 12 but GoRush killed them and lost only a few drones.
If GoRush gets his defilers to Iris nat quickly he can end this.
fast tank push is a TERRIBLE idea on this map, not necessarily because its a bad build, but because it doesn't exploit anything that makes the map good for terran, it simply tries to counter a fast expansion
iris repositioning his troops so that he can get surrounded more easily... it WORKS iris gets surrounded REALLY badly and is losing troops extremely fast
I don't think he played that bad though. His defiler/lings/lurkers micro was very very good most of the time, it's just that he made lots of little mistakes here and there and didn't sunken up 12 soon enough to be safe.
To me what was so frustrating about the game was that GoRush was at times brilliant, making perfect flanks that just owned Iris's army in every way and other times losing lots of lurks and dozens of lings for no reason at all.
He was never in big danger of losing the game but the way he kept taking his huge advantage and throwing it away returning the game to balance was just O_o
He didn't need those lurker any more, ultralisks were in mass production
On December 27 2006 04:52 nova_442 wrote: To me what was so frustrating about the game was that GoRush was at times brilliant, making perfect flanks that just owned Iris's army in every way and other times losing lots of lurks and dozens of lings for no reason at all.
He was never in big danger of losing the game but the way he kept taking his huge advantage and throwing it away returning the game to balance was just O_o
On December 27 2006 04:52 nova_442 wrote: To me what was so frustrating about the game was that GoRush was at times brilliant, making perfect flanks that just owned Iris's army in every way and other times losing lots of lurks and dozens of lings for no reason at all.
He was never in big danger of losing the game but the way he kept taking his huge advantage and throwing it away returning the game to balance was just O_o
Hwasin with a big 3 dropship drop right over Yooi's nat cliff, this time closer to the minerals. He has stopped Yooi from mining there and added another expo at 12. Yooi lost a lot of units clearing it too.
On December 27 2006 05:23 iOi wrote: 5/6 i'm disapointed at NaDa T_T
same here. and for gorush's game... the map was not a matter at all. the only thing mattering was gorush's motivation and will (from his last interviews)
3/6 This was a pretty easy week too. I shouldn't have gone with any upsets. Seeing Much win was so awesome though.
I gotta say, Nada's "counter" to the proxy of pulling SCVs was pure shit. Even if he got the gateway before the zealot (which was a loooooooong shot) he still wouldn't have been ahead. He pulled almost every SCV! That's hundreds and hundreds of minerals lost for a single gateway that was easily replaced at home.
I guess when you're as good as Nada at the mechanics of the game the OSL curse turns your decision making skills to shit.
On December 28 2006 00:53 ManaBlue wrote: I gotta say, Nada's "counter" to the proxy of pulling SCVs was pure shit. Even if he got the gateway before the zealot (which was a loooooooong shot) he still wouldn't have been ahead. He pulled almost every SCV! That's hundreds and hundreds of minerals lost for a single gateway that was easily replaced at home.
I guess when you're as good as Nada at the mechanics of the game the OSL curse turns your decision making skills to shit.
A turret wouldn't have done anything for him. What he needed was siege and a properly placed army. Much had perfect timing and a killer instinct. Man that kid is good.