basically, at any point of BW progaming history (no SC2, duh), no matter how many times you watch or recall the game or part of it, you get chills from it. or in other words, what you think was the most epic moment.
mine would be the final part of Iris vs GGPlay game 5, where GGPlay makes a comeback from 0-2 to 3-2, and the commentators go: "COW HERDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!" "FINALLY, THE RANCH HAS BEEN UNLOCKED!" "To comeback from 0-2 to 3-2, you have to be a Dae-In. (Man of Virtue, GGPlay's nickname) If you are not, it's impossible." "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Something not even the Genius or the Bonjwa could pull off... not even the Emperor himself!" "GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!"
I swear to god, I get chills every time I watch this part. Even if it was like 5 times back-to-back. Just an amazing, epic moment of BW history.
End of the proleague regular season, both teams in a dead heat to see who gets the last playoff slot.
Hour long fucking TvT, Flash ends up dropping like 15 tanks behind a mineral line to take the last available expansion. Flash attacks firebathero's undefended main, firebathero lifts his remaining starports and puts them in the middle of his battlecruisers and tanks.
Who will go to the playoffs, Khan, or KT? Will we see one of the greatest FBH ceremonies ever? Will the Ultimate Weapon's tactics prevail, or will he lose it all at the end, assaulting a clump of tanks and BCs?
See for yourself. Flash is green, FBH is yellow.
edit: I even figured out how to start it at 59 minutes ^-^
Definitely seconding Iris vs GGPlay, watching that live was the most intense thing ever. Many chill inducing moments in Iris' career actually:
Game 5 vs savior on Arkanoid, when you realize savior is somehow going to win after all Iris was doing.
Game 5 vs Bisu on Byzantium, but this time it's Iris who somehow wins.
Honestly though, I had chills a lot of the time during the Flash vs Fantasy MSL semis recently. You also rarely get the commentators this excited during such long TvTs. Epic.
Honorable mentions:
- EE HAN TIMING, and actually all of Jaedong's wins that finals with Oz coach's wife-to-be cheering him on from the crowd all emotionally. The moment after the timing is great, where he walls off to prevent any zealot damage and they cut to the roaring crowd.
- Jaedong's drone+ling stop on the vulture in game 5 vs Fantasy in batoo (medusa). STARSENSE
- chrh vs Bisu on monty hall kills me. Seriously, the look on his face when he knows he's won, and the fans loving it, yeah that gets me every time.
- Similar to the last, Yellow vs Bisu on HBR... the crowd is just so into this game, it's hard not to feel it!
The first one that comes to mind, and I was going to link it right away but I ended up watching it again lol. This game is truly beautiful and the first time I watched it, it brought tears to my eyes because how exciting and amazing the game was with all of the screaming and yelling the fans / commentators made.
On September 18 2010 17:46 StorrZerg wrote: July vs Best osl, game 2 on Troy Drone drill, omg soooo good
actually i was just about to say game 3 of that same series, on andromeda where after a very hyper aggressive back and forth game, july was losing some momentum and just at that point the observer found mass cows at his rally, with which he proceded to win the game and the golden mouse. as the underdog in that match, it was really incredible to finally realize at that point that julyzerg was about to win the series.
On September 18 2010 16:49 Mortician wrote: Can't Find a VOD when OOV beat Boxer in the OSL finals, boxer cried..I cried too
I second this. It was Boxer on the verge of being the first Golden Mouse in history, and his star student Oov had the unenviable task of stopping his master. The stakes and emotions after were unreal, more than any ingame detail from that series.
Game 5 of Fantasy vs Jaedong OSL finals. When Fantasy slid the vulture through the temple on Medusa and Jaedong's insane star-sense to have a drone and zerglings show up at that exact time. Sooooo sick. Was my first time watching a live broodwar game.
Anybody has a video where boxer cries after he lost to iloveoov in the ever osl finals 2004? I heard from people it was the saddest thing they had ever seen...
On September 18 2010 16:45 Sephy69 wrote: The first one that comes to mind, and I was going to link it right away but I ended up watching it again lol. This game is truly beautiful and the first time I watched it, it brought tears to my eyes because how exciting and amazing the game was with all of the screaming and yelling the fans / commentators made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDGNBKplVw
That game was so epic! Thank you for link this match!
On September 18 2010 16:56 Rekrul wrote: nal ra vs goodfriend fast hallucinate + double recall build
makes my nipples hard every time
Exactly what I was going to say. Seriously, I had nothing more but a passing interest in StarCraft multi-player (I had played single player) when I saw that game, and I've been absolutely soaked up into the pro scene ever since. It's still my favorite game of all time.
This match put me on the edge of my seat and still does every time I watch it. There are just so many of those moments that could go either way. The game swings back and forth so much.
But, the particular part of the game that really gets me is from around 20 mins onwards.
or Air Force ACE reverse sweep vs MBCgame HERO in 2007 (including H.O.T-Forever/Sunnny over Thezerg/910 on DMZ, ChRh over Bisu on Monty Hall, and Boxer over Bisu on Nemesis + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7KUH_-Xgw
or Air Force ACE vs KTF Boxer vs Flash on Python + Show Spoiler +
Yeah it's this one for me too. Boxer returning, SKT exiting its two-year slump, Fantasy getting revenge, Jaedong carrying his team all the way but failing to win when it mattered the most, and on a personal level SKT is my favorite team and JD one of my favorite players. Not to mention the stakes which were amongst the highest ever.
All of that concentrated in five minutes of incredibly intense cheese.
I really don't think I will ever watch another game like that.
PL finals have always felt more intense to me than SL finals. SLs create champions, legends, and bonjwas - but PL just has something that moves me more than any SL ever has. I really don't understand all the SC2 fans who say that since SC is mostly a 1v1 game it means team leagues are stupid and there should only be individual tournaments. They're missing out on some serious epicness. I would really love to see team leagues in SC2 too.
On September 18 2010 21:18 Kashll wrote: Savior vs Iris on neo arkanoid. I'm to lazy to find the vod.
Iris is my favorite player... it's so heartbreaking to see him lose in game 5 of all these Bo5s, but they're still sick games.
My favourite game of all time still. I used to only care about Zergs when I first started BW, but then slowly appreciated other races as well. Goddamn do I love Iris. His games vs Savior in the semis and GGplay in the finals are some of the best series I've ever seen. I really feel bad that Iris has never won a title still =( He's come so close so many times, but falls short in the end to a Zerg usually.
This game, because it's like the equivalent of PokJu vs Bisu, only in the finals... and it's not even like Jangbi microed poorly.. watching this live was like holy crap, I can't believe he's doing this! And winning! Ahhhh.
this was so fucking insane, probably the most awe-inspiring micro I had ever seen in all the bw I have watched
The whole video is crazy, but 0:40-:50 especially. Look at where Flash's mines were being placed, and where Bisu's dragoons were. You would expect at least ONE to go off, but Bisu doesn't let a single one hit them.
Flash v Jaedong on Rush Hour III: The game overall was insane, but towards the very end we get a shot of Jaedong streaming a ton of ling/hydra to tie the knot in finishing off Flash and combined with the gasps of the commentator's and audience, it felt as if Jaedong was a god among men in the progaming world.
Leta v Guemchi on Tau Cross: This game was so clutch and probably what defined Leta as the "miracle boy."
Zer0 vs Bisu in 2008 on HBR. Zer0's use of queens was absolutely amazing. I believe Husky also casted this game and it had a pretty good english commentary but it was deleted from his youtube page.
the power outage game of JD vs flash (before the power outage lol).
after losing the 2nd set with a really good build, and then losing his 1st 3rd base, it looked like flash might really be invincible. and then somehow JD comes back with incredible play and keeps bottom left alive through pure determination almost. i was never so proud to be a zerg player.
Iris vs GGplay were the best times of bw for me. I played a lot, I watched proleague, nobody dominated to the extent flash and JD do now. Amazing days.
Also when Savior just came up. Watched everything live at 5 in the morning rofl.
most of the games were mentioned already jaedong fantasy on neo medusa, osl game 5 yellow bisu on hbr proleague july best on troy, osl game 2
other than that, nony idra tsl2 qualifier round 3. Idra the big favourite, practically invincible, easy 2-0 up and in a decent position in game 3 when nony pulls out a jangbi (17.25 plus)
and nony idra R8 game 3 on outsider was also pretty amazing.
I never would have thought it would be possible to kill a progamer with 4 tanks and a wallin having 1 rvr and a few goons t.t. Nony is so awesome, damn
And this too, definitely an incredibly close runner up. Such a great moment, especially cause i'm a T1 fan and fantasy is my favorite player. just awesome.
I love Boxer's wraiths against Midas. He makes like 15 starports and attacks with 4 control groups of wraith.
I love almost every pimpest play (the one which were compiled in a yearly video)
I also remember how epic was the Bisu vs SaviOr MSL finals. I remember watching it and talking about it on msn with a very good friend, we were hysterical everytime a dt would kill a drone.
What else ? Iris vs GGplay ? Stork vs Gorush ? There are so many epic games that thrill me...
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