EPTHaving just watched DRG vs Innovation, it becomes kind of apparent that casters seem to just not know what to say about Zerg. Yes, DRG played like an olympian vs Innovation but that's all they are saying. They are at no point actually commenting on what makes his play so great except creep spread.
Zerg actually has to micro, a small forgotten truth.
For some reason, casters never comment on Zerg micro excellence, almost never. Where every other Zerg falls to Innovation's vaunted biominepushes, DRG holds strong, why is that? In all those three games I counted one major mine hit on banes which was not even in an engagement, the banes were just running past a mine and boom. DRG's banes are always split into different directions, there are no 'clumps' of banelings in his army, there are banelings spread throughout it, one mine cannot take down his entire baneling force and he constantly baits them with lings, he targets them down with mutas, the lings wrap around the marines etc, but casters never comment on this.
We constantly see casters go wild about marines sniping banelings in the middle of engagements. Why can't casters go wild over mutas sniping mines in the middle of engagements?
We constantly see casters go wild about amazing marine splits, why can't casters go wild over amazing baneling splits?
For some reason, in almost every ZvT engagement casters only talk about what the Terran is doing in any detail. They leave the Zerg's part to 'And here DRG COOOMES!' No shit I can see that, point out to me that he focusses mines, point out to me how well split his banes are. Scarlett was performing some exceptional mine focussing against bomber with mutas and it barely got a mention. And this is focussing a 5 range unit with a 3 range unit, not a melee unit with a 5 range unit.
Most paradoxally, casters do remark on 'great fungals', which is more a mistake of the Terran than anything, anyone can land a 'great fungals' if T walks a clump of marines within range of an infestor and just sits there.
People have argued to me it's because Zerg micro is hard to spot because it's a clusterfuck of units, maybe, but I saw Wolf pointing out that Innovation was re-targeting mines against Leenock to stom them from wassting charge before he would go to the length of praising Leenock's mine focussing skills. I honestly have no clue why casters almost collectively seem to refuse to ever even discuss Zerg micro. Even when Zerg micros well they say 'The Zerg is getting a great engagement here', almost implying it was some kind of external factor so they don't have to use the word 'micro' in relation to Zerg. How often is the word 'micro' used to talk about a Zerg anyway? Is TumescentPie secretly the head of the illuminati who has replaced all casters with androids and pulls the strings?
A thing about Stephano which casters always neglected to mention was the excellence of his micro. Stephano at his height to me can be summed up with great star sense, great map awareness, and great micro. His macro mechanics actually were kind of flawed and he got supply blocked a lot but his micro was superb, he was always able to maximize the amount of units firing in his army. Back when most Zergs would not use ultralisks because they would 'derp', Stephano took his organic dragoons and forced them to not derp in ways no one understood back then.
ZvZ, more misunderstood than my 14 year old cousin and his fringe
Another thing is ZvZ. Casters seem to be completely not even trying to explain the thought process of the players in ZvZ. They do so fine in ZvT or ZvP wheren Apollo can talk for days on end how a Zerg player knows what timing is coming due to the time assimilators are taken. But in ZvZ casters seem to be particularly hestitant to even acknowledge the fact that high level Zerg players are contantly checking each other's mineral saturation with ovies to make their decision from it or from the time gasses are taken. THey barely ever point out that when 2 lings run into a base, the gas will always get clicked to see how much is mined. They don't seem to talk at all about in what ways Zergs know what attacks are coming in ZvZ and consequently a lot of people even on a pretty solid level on the ladder have no clue about ZvZ and treat it like a gamble because analytical casters never told them how to gather information like in ZvP and ZvT.
Not only casters, but also observers. Observers are always keen to point out overlord vision and if a scouting overlord has seen the twilight council being chronoed with player vision, but they never point out the vision of the ovie behind the mineral line pointing out to players 'Hey, he's checking if there are drones here, he sees there aren't, he knows a mass ling all in is coming, that is why he's starting two spines and morphing banes'.
Casters don't really highlight decisions like 'Oh, he has no baneling nest, that means I an get a quicker third', stuff like that is virtually never talked about in ZvZ,, casters seem to talk about it as f all these timings are completely random while ZvZ is an utter reactionary matchup whle they will go in great detail analysing the third timings in ZvT and ZvZ. I can't imagine it's ignorance why they don't do it. Apollo is a pretty high level Zerg player. Just like I can't imagine they aren't actually seeing that Scarlett is focussig down every mine. They just... don't talk about it for some reason. A reason I am bereft of understanding to.
