EPT1) I'm sorry for not called MarineKing a fuckwit for doing several heavy 1 base plays in a best of seven series. I'm sorry I didn't call him a talentless hack who couldn't even get second if it weren't for his clearly overpowered race. I'm sorry you guys wanted me to talk about how stupidly designed certain races are in this game and I decided instead to focus on the game at hand and accept it as it is. Sometimes I forget that in this community we rate a person's skill based around how many Command Centres they make and not doing intelligent things like build order variation between rounds and maintaining a very different set of styles to keep your opponent constantly guessing.
2) I'm sorry I ignored things I had already pointed out. Like Hero's expansion nexus in game 4? Yea, shit, I really should of talked about how he was going to get back into the game with a nexus that had 2 probes on it despite having his entire army smashed on the field. I'm sorry that in game 6 I remarked in a deadpan snarky way "jeez, I think Marine King should make ghosts huh" after marveling at Heros feedback micro destroying all the ghosts moments ago. I'm a bad person, but it's ok because I've accepted that and we can all move on.
3) I'm sorry I make observations on the game from a strategic and metagame sense. I'm sorry that I've played scores of ~900 Masters ranked Korean ladder TvP and noted that most of the time after their FE they generally don't do defensive robo play into colossus but generally prefer faster upgrade and gateway intensive and twilight council focused styles. From now on I shall no long try to understand the game and instead focus just on telling you what's on the screen and keep the strategic analysis strictly to worker and supply counts, remembering to open up the particular tab and draw attention to it.
4) I'm sorry that some things I said along the lines of "I think he might do this because I'd imagine it's a good idea" turned out not to be true. Because this never happens to high level players/commentators, like Incontrol-Gretorp or Day9 or Tastosis. Every time they think they know how a player is going to transition into something they'll let you know about it and they do so with a 0% failure rate. I shall strive to be as astute as they are. In addition, I'm really sorry that when I mentioned I wasn't entirely sure about how a certain style plays out against another style too well that I mentioned it using phrases like "well I've not really done this myself or seen a lot of it so I'm not entirely sure."
In addition, I'm sorry that I made predictions that were off. For example, I said that MKP was going for a stim timing on Dual Site because his build looked exactly like the stim timing I've seen him do several times before and instead he decides to get conc shells and shields. I also pointed out that Hero was probably going to add a few robo bays to get colossus/templar out on Daybreak because it was exactly what he did on Antiga Shipyards and because that combination is a very difficult one for an unprepared Terran to deal with but instead he kept expanding, adding gateways and just won with those. I tend to make a lot of predictions based off of observations I've made of these players and the playstyles of the races in general and after receiving this positive feedback I know now that this is a very bad way to acquire knowledge.
5) I'm sorry that on occasion Benji's streaming program goofed up, something that rarely happens for him and required a quick restart at parts of the game that were not dramatic at all. I'm sorry we saw there was an issue and quickly rectified it without too much issue. I'm sorry that it was even an issue in the first place. We have decided from now on that we will prerecord these games from replays, go over them several times to make sure everything is perfect, compress them heavily, copy them onto countless USB sticks, train a fleet of carrier pigeons and deploy them to every household. We believe this is an effective way to fix this issue.
6) I'm sorry I don't yell and get all excited when something exciting is going on. It's late here and there are people in this house other then me and I'm sorry I'm considerate to these people and decide to use my inside voice. From now on I'm going to rig a complicated megaphone to my headset so you can remain excited AT ALL TIMES. Because that's how E-sports is supposed to work, of course. I'm one of those weird people who thinks that Starcraft is best commentated when it feels like a pair of friends are both feeling comfortable and just talking about starcraft, not trying to force anything, but I'm sorry for feeling that way.
As for the games themselves I think SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT YOU'VE BEEN WARNED OH MY GOD
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mkp played quite strongly but he did manage to get quite a few build order wins. Like in the 6th game he went for 5 rax before gas for some aggressive marine pressure and this was a really good way to deal with Heros Warp prism play which he hadn't scouted. I think his 3 rax CC on Dual Site was a good way to play against Heros 3 gate void, especially since he got the reaper in beforehand but Hero easily could of proxied that stargate and he might not have seen it or he could of lost due to DT's. Hero didn't go DT's at all that series and there seemed like points in almost all those games where putting in DT's somewhere could just win the game.
I was really excited at Heros midgame phoenix usage and that dude looks fucking scary once he's allowed to get 3 bases up. I'm not too sure about hte XNF game, I don't understand how a lot of 1 base terran sort of works but I feel that there is something Hero can do about it. I don't know what it is though.
It was a pretty cool series though and I reckon you should watch it if you hadn't already.
I was really excited at Heros midgame phoenix usage and that dude looks fucking scary once he's allowed to get 3 bases up. I'm not too sure about hte XNF game, I don't understand how a lot of 1 base terran sort of works but I feel that there is something Hero can do about it. I don't know what it is though.
It was a pretty cool series though and I reckon you should watch it if you hadn't already.
