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A loveletter to YoonJoong Part 2 [spoilers]

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Goosey
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States695 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-28 19:00:57
May 28 2008 18:56 GMT
#1
So today I had the opportunity, nay, the privilege to watch the Averatec-Intel Classic games with YoonJoong (Shuttle) vs Xellos.

As much as I already loved this magnificent beast of protoss I now find that my passion is burning white hot. I have never felt this way.. Is it.. Love? Can I really be in love with his daring aggressive style? With his ability to keep on constant pressure against the perfect terran while also securing an economic and tech advantage?

I can.. and I am. YoonJoong may be a new player, but mark my words you will be a seeing a lot more of him in the future.

On to the games. !!WARNING!! I must warn you to go take a quick restroom break because you may just shit yourselves when you see this shit.

Game 1: Xellos vs Shuttle [Final 32 Group D]
+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.gomtv.net/videos/176

Xellos walls in and then fast expos, Shuttle goes for a rush+tech build. The first zealot and dragoon do some standard aggressive wall-in harassment until they are repealed by tanks. Shuttle appears to be going for DTs and OMG Xellos spots it. Crap! Does not look good for Shuttle.. Xellos is already going for both turrets and scansweep.

But.. What's this? Shuttle is fearless and bum rushes the wall-in with his DTs and dragoons... AND BREAKS IN. Shuttle is in and this is bad fucking news for Xellos.

Shuttle keeps a steady stream of dragoons and DTs streaming in, focusing on keeping Xellos's tank numbers at Zero. Nitch.. Nada.. No not that Nada, the nada that means 'NO TANKS FOR YOU'.

Finally Xellos clears out the DTs and gets the wall-in built again. He has a moment of rest, but if we take a look at Shuttle's base you will see why I love this guy. He has been super aggressive the entire game, and this aggression has been paying off in dividends...

But he is also a macro monster and has put up his 3rd expo with his 4th warping in. He has multiple gateways on their way in, he has grabbed storm tech and a few high templars, Arbiter tech incomming; he is looking very strong on the macro/tech front.

A few quiet moments pass but Shuttle is not happy to sit on his hands forever. He loads a shuttle with some DTs and HTs and heads out to harass. The DT is repealed but the HTs get 2 storms off killing about half of Xellos's SCVs in his main mineral line.

Xellos knows his dire situation is only going to become more exasperated against a macro-monster like Shuttle. He attempts a last desperate push to reclaim the game, but Shuttle has way too many units. An epic clash occurred in the center and Xellos is crushed by the huge mass of slow zealots, dragoons, and psionic storms.

1:0 Shuttle. Tasteless calls it an upset; this might be true for most, but I never doubted Shuttle for one moment. This guy can fucking deliver.


Game 2: Xellos vs Shuttle [Final 32 Group D]
+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.gomtv.net/videos/177

Shuttle begins this game by showing us he is not a rush-only player by doing a 14nex build to his mineral only. He then decides 'fuck this not attacking shit' and tries to push his way in with 5 goons.

Surprisingly this doesn't work! I mean, this is the type of attack you might see in a USEast game right? Trying to force you way into the opponents base with 5 dragoons when they have 3 tanks sieged on their cliff? Well get ready for a conspiracy theory that might just blow your mind: SHUTTLE WAS METAGAMING!

Shuttle had some iiiinsane build planned that involved just sacrificing 3-4 goons in an attack so blunderful that it is practically obvious what he is going for: goad his opponent to attempt a timing push very quickly in retaliation. Notice how immediately after losing these goons he plops down 4 new gateways. Notice how he prepares his little reaver/zealot filled shuttle and pumps an insane amount of goons very quickly.

Most importantly: Notice how Xellos confidently strolls out with his timing push only to be completely smashed by Shuttle's forces.

This is gaming on another level people. Sacrificing troops to goad a terran into creeping outside his base just so that you can crush his army with a well timed macro-boost. Fucking A-Game shuttle, fucking A-Game. As Tasteless would say: you are a baller!

So the game settles down a little and when the dust clears Shuttle is both engaging in some reaver harass and setting up both a 4th and 5th base. Jesus-h-christ Shuttle, yo Micro/Macro is getting scary.

Xellos tries a little vulture harass but Shuttle will have none of it, easily flanking the vultures and sniping off the spider mines like a fucking machine. A quick glimpse over to Shuttle's main: 3 more gateways and 3 stargates going up. Tasteless puts it well: "Who are you?"

Some more skirmishes between vultures and goons follow until Xellos realizes his dire situation and pushes out. The timing is pretty good as well: all 3 stargates are flashing with carriers, but not a single one has emerged yet. What will happen to our hero? :O

Shuttle tries to break the push head on. I mean, what else would he do? Stall the push? This is fucking _Shuttle_ we are talking about here. Shuttle is not afraid of nuking his goons and zealots into a beastly terran super-ball. Shuttle is not afraid of anything!

Xellos rolls in and easily sieges Shuttle's natural expo, but the carriers are able to hold Xellos off from his main. Xellos has to back off.. But returns with a lot of Goliaths pretty shortly. Things looks very grim for our hero Shuttle.

Xellos directs his evil gaze in the direction of Shuttle's 4/5th expos and begins marching over.. In a move that turns the game right back around Shuttle goes for the counter. Nick is not sure if this is a good move, but it becomes clear pretty quickly Shuttle's micro is good enough to pick off tanks before they squish the goons with carriers and the goons survive just fine being surrounded by goliaths. It is a beautiful battle from which Shuttle emerges victorious, reclaiming the vital map control.

Shuttle switches into 'annoy the terran with carriers' mode, flying around and picking off command centers easily disappearing over cliffs whenever goliaths show up.

Finally Shuttle moves in with his newly massed goon army and bangs down the front door while flanking with his carriers.

GEE GEE Xellos

Favorite Tasteless quote from this game, "Shuttle is going to be so happy if he wins this. I mean, in all honesty he is practically humiliating Xellos." Indeed Tasteless, IN-FUCKING-DEED.



Game 3: Xellos vs Shuttle [Final 32 Group D]
+ Show Spoiler +

Shuttle is not interested in 'losing games' to former 'OSL champions'. No game 3 following the 2-0 sweep.


Shuttle is this crazy new generation Protoss who is able to combine great hyper-aggression with amazing macro to keep pressure on his opponent the entire game. Add in his audacious meta-game to simply pull veteran players into traps and you too may fall in love with YoonJoong aka BoraDi aka Shuttle aka your new fucking god.

*****
#1 Shuttle Fan.
allowicious
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States972 Posts
May 28 2008 19:15 GMT
#2
hmm, interesting, i quickly glanced over these games the first time, but after reading this, i'm gonna go back and watch them closely to see just how "great" this shuttle guy is
lalalalala~~~
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
May 28 2008 19:16 GMT
#3
man you love this guy :D. It's infectious I better watch this play.
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
Folca
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
2235 Posts
May 28 2008 19:17 GMT
#4
Shuttle RAPES FACES
Dea : one time when he was playing vs the comps he asked me "how do I make that flying unit that makes the other stuff invisible" and I reply "ur playing terran zomg"
Goosey
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States695 Posts
May 28 2008 19:18 GMT
#5
On May 29 2008 04:16 HamerD wrote:
man you love this guy :D. It's infectious I better watch this play.


The shuttle infestation will spread :D

I have to admit I am inspired by Kwarks awesome post "Why I love BackHo". Something about these types of posts I find really fun to read and write.

Only difference is the BackHo love was sarcastic (i think?) and mine is genuine. Go Shuttle!
#1 Shuttle Fan.
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
May 28 2008 19:41 GMT
#6
these games were sick imo

I couldn't believe the 3 expos in the first game

what an amazing strategy for the second :O
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
Kwidowmaker
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada978 Posts
May 28 2008 19:56 GMT
#7
This sounds like a badass toss.

Watching games now.
Kk.
city42
Profile Joined October 2007
1656 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-28 20:34:18
May 28 2008 20:06 GMT
#8
Boradori once tried to start a macro war with iloveoov. This is what happened:

[image loading]


He's not a "new" player, he's been a pro for around two years and has yet to do anything. A guy you should really watch out for is organ[3.33]. You'll find no better mechanics than his and hanbit is starting to put him into the regular proleague rotation.



for the guy below me:

http://rapidshare.com/files/118391452/Intro_boradori.rep.html

I know rapidshare blows but I couldn't think of any other upload sites, sorry!
ii.blitzkrieg
Profile Joined November 2006
Canada1122 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-28 20:53:56
May 28 2008 20:19 GMT
#9
Can you upload that rep please? I remember seeing it a year or so ago and now I can't find it

edit:TY city
iloveoov / Flash / Fantasy / Midas / Boxer -BW forever
._.
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
1133 Posts
May 28 2008 20:54 GMT
#10
On May 29 2008 05:06 city42 wrote:
Boradori once tried to start a macro war with iloveoov. This is what happened:

[image loading]


He's not a "new" player, he's been a pro for around two years and has yet to do anything. A guy you should really watch out for is organ[3.33]. You'll find no better mechanics than his and hanbit is starting to put him into the regular proleague rotation.



for the guy below me:

http://rapidshare.com/files/118391452/Intro_boradori.rep.html

I know rapidshare blows but I couldn't think of any other upload sites, sorry!


I don't get how this works.
It says to put in letters for which the cats are attached to, but I try putting the first four in chronological order but it does not work.
Neither does any other combination in a different rotation in a new set.

I must be stupid, someone explain how to do it?
:D
city42
Profile Joined October 2007
1656 Posts
May 28 2008 21:02 GMT
#11
Sorry, rapidshare is a piece of shit (no one masters the cats, ever). Yousendit is probably better: http://download.yousendit.com/29FB640631F43B58
drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
May 28 2008 21:05 GMT
#12
i started watching over organ[3.33] aka Ever)T(PianO some time ago before he joined hanbit.
now he is doing great in their 2v2 team but i do hope that soon enough we will see him pulverizing the starleague.

One must feel chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
sanftm00d
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Austria73 Posts
May 28 2008 21:34 GMT
#13
YoonJoong i want your babies!!!!!
Fucking NOW!!!

gogo
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
May 28 2008 21:37 GMT
#14
i thought he wasnt shuttle.
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6771 Posts
May 28 2008 22:07 GMT
#15
Wow what the hell
Graphics
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
May 28 2008 22:39 GMT
#16
the cats are easy
Graphicssavior[gm] : What is a “yawn” rape ;; Masumune - It was the year of the pig for those fucking defilers. Chill - A clinic you say? okum: SC without Korean yelling is like porn without sex. konamix: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
May 28 2008 22:40 GMT
#17
btw nice post goosey i have'nt really been paying attention to him since he got raped so hard in msl or whatever by flash and the others
Graphicssavior[gm] : What is a “yawn” rape ;; Masumune - It was the year of the pig for those fucking defilers. Chill - A clinic you say? okum: SC without Korean yelling is like porn without sex. konamix: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!
Goosey
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States695 Posts
May 28 2008 22:48 GMT
#18
On May 29 2008 07:40 alffla wrote:
btw nice post goosey i have'nt really been paying attention to him since he got raped so hard in msl or whatever by flash and the others


Yea but everyone gets raped by Flash right now.
#1 Shuttle Fan.
drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
May 28 2008 23:18 GMT
#19
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/games/9313_Flash_vs_YoonJoong/vod

haha...he didn't even survive the 1st push
One must feel chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
May 29 2008 00:45 GMT
#20
I would come here with another love letter but meh. Bored.

Yeah he is awesome. So is organ[3.33]/EveR)T(PianO
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