I need to stress, only to avoid accusations of being blind by the outcome of this match: BoxeR was not perfect. He is probably first to know that all mechanical skills, agility and reactions are deteriorating from age 25 onwards. That is how he lost first Wraith and more Marines than any modern-era pro would waste after falling into Lurker ambushes.
However
This man is strategical monster! Do you remember best football goalkeepers when they were getting older? Everyone watched over them, predicting spectacular failures, since their moves were getting slower and slower so as everyone thought he can fool them easily. Not so. At the age of 35, great goalies like Oliver Kahn or Peter Schmeichel had already tons of experience and never needed to move that fast: they could just wait for a ball exactly where it's was going to appear.
That is how BoxeR computes these days. Playing against slight advantage in terms of mechanics, he maximized his strategic edge over Killer - and punished him for spreading too thin. Watch this replay again, and catch these little details of brilliancy:
- 1st Marine cancelled after Overlord goes out of sight. - 2 Wraiths not being lured by vulnerable Drones at Zerg natural and instead going for Baxter's third, since it was much more exposed to harass. - Nuke Silo being destroyed AND rebuild in the same place, when noone could expect such stubborn move from player whose intentions were scouted already.
And that's not enough.
To tell the truth, Boxer's game wasn't perfect also because he mindfucked his opponent. To continue football analogies: he was like old goalie winning penalty shootout by diving all the time in one direction just to change it in critical moment. Boxer played exactly this way: when everyone expected he will abandon air harass (1st Wraith went down), he persisted to make it happen. When Nuke Silo was gone, he replaced it. So, in fact, the point is: by doing strategically weird things he overcome tactical bloopers; no, he even TURNED these mistakes into advantage.
If anyone still wonders why it's Lim Yo-Hwan who became No.1 superstar of progaming, despite NaDa won more titles: watch that game. Boxer makes more mistakes than Bisu, is slower than Jaedong and macroes worse than Flash. But he knows how to dominate opponents; he knows how to destroy their minds so they would just sit still and ask themselves what's going on. And my final point is, that he does it by being imperfect, being erratic, being against the principles.
Wow just watched the game. Boxer is amazing. His plays are so genius. I love how he goes nuke in so many of his games. He definitely still knows how to entertain a crowd.
unecessary to boast about some old school guy who can never compete with the modern day players
psssssttttttttttttttt......he won.
Also if boxer beat a mediocre player doesn't that make him good?? Of course he's not at the top of the list right now because the game has changed so much since he was in his prime. I think its awesome that he can still play in his entertaining style and still be pretty damned good. Seriously haters gonna hate.
to be honest: this game wasn't that special. if a player like iris or leta would have played that game instead of boxer (what could be absolutely possible if you ask me), no one would have taken note of it. it was still a good watch i always love to see boxer win though.
On October 26 2009 06:14 Itachii wrote: Not only Killer got owned and mind fucked, but his team was also morally destroyed, i mean look at this haha
All these little things which OP has pointed out are obviously harder for you to spot and understand , so no wonder you prefer watching Flash over our Emperor.
EPT
BoxeR vs 
Killer on Tornado.
Bisu, is slower than 
and good VOD.
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