Your favorite Nal_rA moment :( - Page 2

On September 12 2008 11:47 Pressure wrote:
Nal_rA
Nal was his clan and rA is... the name he picked (sun god)

i'm pretty sure thats how things worked

On September 12 2008 14:55 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
나라 fly?

On December 11 2002 02:44 mensrea wrote:

- Nal_rA (@8) won the final and deciding match v Jinsu (@2) on Neo Bifrost, a grossly biased Zerg map (at least v P) and a map on which a certain soon-to-be-Korean-pro player from the Netherlands told me P cannot beat Z with forward gates [EDIT: Nazgul now tells me, in very spirited words, that he actually said the OPPOSITE - that you NEED forward gates to win on Neo Bifrost. I, uh, believe him...]. Well, Nal_rA did it with a forward gate zealot/probe/cannon rush. Sets it up with lots and cannons taking care of Jinsu's second hatch, and finishes with a 3 cannon rush on the hill overlooking Jinsu's main min patch. It was GG for Jinsu almost as soon as the cannons starting pounding his drones. To his credit, Jinsu desperately tried to control the situation, but couldn't even reverse ling rush on the Protoss main because of (is anyone surprised?) cannon defense.

- To be fair to Nazgu - uh, I mean, a certain soon-to-be-Korean-pro Dutchman, (and this was pointed out by OGN), the forward gate BO employed by Nal_rA on Neo Bifrost was very unique and wasn't really as much of a gamble as it first seemed. Most forward gate strats on Neo Bifrost are do-or-die affairs: if it doesn't work, you're toast. But not this. Very safe, all things considered. The highlight moment came when Nal_rA PERFECTLY timed his SECOND probe (the 1st was long camped out in front of Jinsu's main and busy warping in pylon/gate/forge/cannon) to cross the middle bridge just as Jinsu's scouting ovie was crossing it - making it look like it was the 1st probe and not the 2nd (and thus signaling a standard Protoss BO at home)!!! I mean, this is ART, folks, ART. The fake worked perfectly and the OGN commentators were laughing their heads off when the camera showed the placid everything-is-normal expression on Jinsu's face, like they were saying "poor bastard, doesn't even know what's coming!" They were right.