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Canada5062 Posts
A bit late on my part, but if you haven't done so yet, check out Nal_Ra's complete annihilation of terran master GoodFriend (Lee Byung-min) in game #2 of the recent MSL losers' bracket final (game #1 rocks, too). You can download the VOD here.
*SPOILER* (If you wanna be entertained, just DL the VOD and watch it first then come back and read this thread.)
OMFG, this is why Ra is still the most exciting Protoss player on the planet to watch. Ra prepares a one-shot finishing move that gets spotted early and appears to get countered by Lee - until Ra pulls off one of the surprise moves of the year. I can't think of very many players right now who would even try this in a big time competition when so much is at stake. Absolutely pimp. Pay attention to how speechless the MBC commentators get. Hilarious. They can only make choking/laughing sounds. Pure art. Pure entertainment.
Bow down mortals before the awesome power of Ra!!! :WS:
EDIT: Predictably, there are some who make comments like "hey, I could do that!" or "hey, I've done that before tons of times!" or "hey, I've seen stuff like that being done before! That's not original!"
These comments are uninformed, inappropriate and usually come from players who have never competed at the professional level, who probably never will, and who have no idea what playing on a stage on LIVE television entails. You can successfully pull off the weirdest moves imaginable in practice sessions with your Bnet friendds. I do it all the time. But, doing it in a do-or-die match in one of the most prestigious tournaments around is a completely different matter. Completely different. If you don't understand this, then you just don't know anything about how the world works.
Ra's "Arbiter Reloaded" move was special because it was done when the stakes were so high, because of its perfect execution, because it took balls of fuckin titanium to even think of doing it in the first place, and because his opponent is a world class Terran player against whom very few in the world would stand a chance of pulling off the same strat.
In other words, the true brilliance of the strat is in the context in which it was performed. Think about that.
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hahahaha mens freaking out made my day. Commence hailing. 
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Could you possibly PM me some more detail? Im on dial up and would like to know just whether its worth the(no doubt) huge download.
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Canada5062 Posts
What can I say, Ra's move was an orgasmic experience.
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Canada5062 Posts
On August 23 2004 01:02 Brett wrote:
Could you possibly PM me some more detail? Im on dial up and would like to know just whether its worth the(no doubt) huge download.
It's actually pretty small. Trust me: you won't regret spending a bit of time DLing this VOD. It's a keeper.
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yea, i agree ra executed that move very well. he's really the king of strategy and build orders, and great execution.
on the other hand, if you watch kingdom vs oov on parallel lines, kingdom's execution of unothodox build is really poor. although them being on the same team wouldn't help kingdom much either. kingdom probably never got a chance to practice it.
even reach is bad at unorthodox builds (vs July, OSL final). he should of sticked with his mass toss style in that final. even if he wouldn't have won, it's entertaining to watch.
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I am dling it now. It is only 21MB - not sure how long that takes on 56k (thank god). 
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Valhalla18444 Posts
downloaded and beginning to watch 
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Valhalla18444 Posts
much poorer quality vod than OGN vod T_T
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21mb on dialup should only be 2-3hour. not too bad
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United Kingdom2674 Posts
I have never seen anything like that. Absolutely incredible.
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Can't find the VOD 
Where can I download it?
Can you give us the actual link pls!
Thank you!!
Drazzzt aka ShortNotice
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Ups. Made a fool of my self. Just found it.
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Baltimore, USA22261 Posts
Heh, I nabbed this off Yaoyuan a couple days ago (the one I got is 30.6 MB but has a lot of talking at the beginning T_T), but yeah... it's art protoss. I really liked the VOD only because of the announcers reactions, they went completely nuts. 
In fact I'mma watch it again then go to bed.
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I'm gonna poop in my pants omg that was sweet!!
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What the my download is 700bytes/sec WTF??!?!?!?!?
Dang I'll try using school LAN tomorrow then -_-
Anyone care to explain meanwhile?
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Pure sex. I wished they had switched camera mode to Friend's face when Ra unveiled his plan.
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EPT
