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So, I 6pooled.

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GregMandel
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
France822 Posts
November 07 2012 18:18 GMT
#1
I was at a LAN in my town last weekend, it was a small thing, 10 players for SC, 5 teams for LoL and 3 teams for CSS.

I arrived on early saturday and started playing my games, It was 2 groups of 5 people, with 2 bronzies and 2 masters per groups, plus a gold-plat player ( that would be me ! ).

So I came out of the group in loser's bracket after taking 2 games 2-0, and losing two games 2-0 against a Zerg and a Protoss, both masters, but I was SO CLOSE to taking 1 game to both of them, by 10 pooling the Zerg and Nydus rushing the Protoss.

Anyways, I was in LB against a bronze from the other group, I won 2-0 and then I had to wait 3 hours to play another Zerg master who lost in the WB 2-1 to the Protoss.

I go out, light my cigarette and think about good ZvZ strats, go to the nearest Mc Donalds that's like 5mn away and eat my meal in front of ZvZ replays of pros. The announcers call my name : 30mns left.
i have another break, come back in, go in a ladder game, ZvZ, I lose.

Well, fuck me. I have to play right now.

The game starts, 1st map is entombed, I get rolled over because I fail my build so hard it's ridiculous. I take a deep breath and when he asks me :
-"map ?"

I have a brilliant idea :

-" Tal'darim Altar"

The game starts, I 6pool.

It's a blind 6 pool on the biggest map of the LAN's map pool, and it has multi spawns, my lings pop, i send them north, they reach the middle of the map and I realize he's at the 7 o'clock position. Well, fuck.

My lings enter the nat, hatch first ... good
Gas second ? Pool third ??? PERFECT
He microes, I micro, 4 drones left, his lings are killed by my sick Plat-level micro and the incoming reinforcements.

GG.

I pull off my headset, punch the air with my fist and smile.
Damn that felt good, I took a game off of a master !!

Then i proceed to lose Game 3 to a stupid decision error, but still !

He comes up to me, says " GG dude, that 6 pool, that was crazy, you're good man ! "
He lost 4-2 to the protoss in the grand finals but mad props to the guy, xShogo, for being so good and so mannered !

That was the highlights of my 1st lan, for those who read this I can leave you a link to the replay if you appeared to care

****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8QLNiolfk - Racing with the sun
Sagamantha
Profile Joined September 2011
United States339 Posts
November 07 2012 18:41 GMT
#2
Entertaining story! Glad someone is having some good success these days :D.
trueCOMEHfan [16:21] <Qbek> hey sagamama [16:21] <Qbek> you ain;t targe bad
radscorpion9
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada2252 Posts
November 07 2012 18:43 GMT
#3
Hopefully he wasn't being sarcastic, but I guess you can tell . I guess even 6 pools take some skill to pull off well, right?
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
November 07 2012 18:53 GMT
#4
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Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
November 07 2012 19:01 GMT
#5
You're going to hell.

(joke)
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
November 07 2012 19:02 GMT
#6
Manner-level: White-Ra
I think esports is pretty nice.
GregMandel
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
France822 Posts
November 07 2012 19:08 GMT
#7
Nah the guy lost the finals and he looked so damn happy with his second prize, that was pretty baller, and yeah 6 pool doesnt take skill, but I think what's really nice is the way I mind-gamed him with my TDA pick :D

thanks for the feedback guys, feels really nice for a first blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8QLNiolfk - Racing with the sun
Bojas
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands2397 Posts
November 07 2012 20:02 GMT
#8
I wonder if that comment was genuine :D.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10213 Posts
November 07 2012 20:09 GMT
#9
id probs have took off my headset, walked over to you, and punched you in the face xD im borderline-idra level. (smashed my comp once from getting cheesed like 5 games in a row in BW)
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GregMandel
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
France822 Posts
November 07 2012 21:09 GMT
#10
@FlashFTW, The protoss who won the LAN was totally like you, and when he took second game vs me ( after losing his main nexus to my nydus rush ) he said that I was just really lucky and I had no skill XD

I had to win, I was in plat, he was in masters, it wasnt even supposed to work XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8QLNiolfk - Racing with the sun
Calm
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada380 Posts
November 07 2012 21:13 GMT
#11
Haha what a manner move by him. That's awesome.
Zealos
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom3576 Posts
November 07 2012 21:14 GMT
#12
Gosh, this reminds me about beating a top8 hopeful at i46 using a cannon rush, loosing game 2, switching races for game 3 and 9pooling Ohana, then he complained it wasn't clear enough that I had switched races, so I had to play another game on cloud kingdom and I proxy 2-gated to win.

lol.
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NoMicroWin
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States688 Posts
November 08 2012 01:59 GMT
#13
On November 08 2012 06:14 Zealos wrote:
Gosh, this reminds me about beating a top8 hopeful at i46 using a cannon rush, loosing game 2, switching races for game 3 and 9pooling Ohana, then he complained it wasn't clear enough that I had switched races, so I had to play another game on cloud kingdom and I proxy 2-gated to win.

lol.


You, are indeed, going to hell good sir. lolol
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