i am loving Nal_rA, yes? there are some pros who are good b/c through practice (99%), and some players who just have a certain genius for the game. rA is one. parallel lines recall vs GF. raid assault pvz vs July. savior is another (has anyone ever noticed how he always seems to have just the right mix in zvzs and how he always seems to have slightly more mins than his opponent? answer: drone micro OTL)

also, although he has his detractors, iloveoov is just a straight up man. tvp, ok i'll plant 2 tanks and a turret and resource whore, and when you come in, i'll have 8 factories just in time to pump units to defend your puny rush then i'll own you, and in the meanwhile i'll also make another hidden expo. tvz i'm going to 2 rax but make a CC after 1 marine (before FE wasn't standard). shit like that = balls of steel

Manifesto7

Osaka27154 Posts

September 09 2006 14:16 GMT

#82

I remember the first time I ever understood probe micro. I was with Teroru, and we had just smoked a huge amount of pot and beat the original bubble bobble. I had my laptop over and we watched a rA FPVOD. I couldn't believe what I was seeing at the beginning of the game, where he microed every probe to the closest possible mineral patch. It went on for ages, and was just ridiculous to watch. In my mind, he will always be the smartest player ever.

Insane

United States4991 Posts

September 09 2006 14:23 GMT

#83

On September 09 2006 23:16 Manifesto7 wrote:
I remember the first time I ever understood probe micro. I was with Teroru, and we had just smoked a huge amount of pot and beat the original bubble bobble. I had my laptop over and we watched a rA FPVOD. I couldn't believe what I was seeing at the beginning of the game, where he microed every probe to the closest possible mineral patch. It went on for ages, and was just ridiculous to watch. In my mind, he will always be the smartest player ever.

Did you not send your probes to the closest mineral patches or what? o_O

Also for some reason I initially read Teroru as Terato, and thought you were hanging out with him for some reason.

Manifesto7

Osaka27154 Posts

September 09 2006 14:28 GMT

#84

lol. No, I mean when he was mining, he would change the path of each probe so the closest one was ALWAYS being mined. Most people split their workers to the four closest mineral patches and just leave them to mine the same one. He was constantly changing their paths to optimize efficiency.

Insane

United States4991 Posts

September 09 2006 14:34 GMT

#85

On September 09 2006 23:28 Manifesto7 wrote:
lol. No, I mean when he was mining, he would change the path of each probe so the closest one was ALWAYS being mined. Most people split their workers to the four closest mineral patches and just leave them to mine the same one. He was constantly changing their paths to optimize efficiency.

Oh ok, it just reminded me of when somebody a while ago (I want to say Mynock, Mensrea, or Bill307, but I really don't remember who) commented on how )Is(City split his first four workers to the furthest spots, and it was sort of representative of why he was never really successful in progaming.

Also, I just saw this:

On September 08 2006 19:51 _PulSe_ wrote:
Testie [...] is one of the only top progamers u see that uses more than their straight up matchups. Random at that level just gets him a tip o the hat from me

o_O (and yes, I start at the end of threads and read them backwards

)

fallingdream

Romania452 Posts

September 09 2006 16:53 GMT

#86

yellow... argueably the second best pro of all time, his micro is just sick, i start yelling at the monitor when he does some stupid shi.t

... when he wins i go all happy and stuff, when he loses i don't feel like doing anything that day... i never post here ( maybe i posted one more time long ago and it was in a yellow related thread ) but when i saw this thread i just had to post and show my apreciation to him :D. ofc my words do not even begin to reflect the great player that he is. i remember the games vs cloud, he lost the first 2, but he looked so calm and like he knew what he was going to do, i never saw him panic, he ended up winning 3-2 and lol cloud was steaming

), games like those really reflect what yellow is really capable of

. [NC]...YellOw was is and will be the best zerg out there hands down. Hong Jin ho FIGHTING !
ps: i watched on youtube a documentary about him, 40 min long in korean, i didn't understand shi.t but i really enoyed it xD.

GTR

51500 Posts

September 09 2006 17:18 GMT

#87

Skywalk, who used to play BW long long time ago (when Gamei first started)

How good is 1800? He told me it took him 2hrs to beat ChRh and beat TheMarine.

He's on my CSS team btw.

KrAzYfoOL

Australia3037 Posts

September 09 2006 18:10 GMT

#88

On September 10 2006 01:53 fallingdream wrote:
yellow... argueably the second best pro of all time, his micro is just sick, i start yelling at the monitor when he does some stupid shi.t

), games like those really reflect what yellow is really capable of

lol i watched that documentary too, it was cool so much inside footage