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Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
March 06 2014 14:30 GMT
#41
this is too high quality for my brain and eyes

gj again epox and hyde
ilsamsamchil
Profile Joined September 2010
155 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-06 23:57:21
March 06 2014 23:56 GMT
#42
Maybe it's because the observer doing the work is finally semi-competent (unlike the OSL one, my god..), but I am getting the feeling that the pros are making too many pub level mistakes and it kind of messes with my impression of starcraft pro players(something related to perfectness and massive 300~400 apm)

Also really loved top 10. I didn't have time to watch every matches and this will help me focus on watching matches that are ahead.
https://www.twitch.tv/ShowbuTV
Dazed.
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada3301 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-07 01:09:32
March 07 2014 01:08 GMT
#43
On March 06 2014 18:52 endy wrote:
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On March 06 2014 18:43 arbiter_md wrote:
On March 06 2014 18:25 endy wrote:
Great article as usual guys!

Bisu'd better watch out; Larva almost took him down with those early zerglings, and if anyone masters this playstyle it's Kwanro.

Please Bisu don't Stork yourself and build a second cannon when necessary!


The problem is he doesn't know when that second cannon is necessary. Yes, he could keep the probe alive as long as speed is not done for lings, but after that he has to either block better with zealot/probes or build the second cannon and hope that zerg indeed produced more lings.


It doesn't matter as Bisu is vastly superior in any other aspect of the matchup. He just needs to play safe and not lose as Stork did vs Jaedong in Korean Air Season 2 semis. At least Stork needed to be greedy in order to increase his chances of beating JD so it was understandable. JD was also amazing at mind games.

Also he can always keep a probe outside of his base to scout again when the first probe dies. Still much cheaper than getting run by or losing tons of probes defending the natural.
If it was as simple to beat Kwanro as "playing safe" than he would of never won any matches, let alone consistently go far in starleagues. People underrate Kwanros macro, his mind games and the variability of his play and then act shocked when he exceeds their wildly unrealistically low expectations.

If Bisu plays too safe, Kwanro will just win in a macro game. Thats the entire reason all progamers try to cut corners against even the most aggressive of zergs.

edit: And it should be noted that Bisu does worse against aggressive zergs, like hero and shine, than he does against more text-book players.
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JohnChoi
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
1773 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-07 02:49:00
March 07 2014 02:44 GMT
#44
On March 07 2014 10:08 Dazed_Spy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 06 2014 18:52 endy wrote:
On March 06 2014 18:43 arbiter_md wrote:
On March 06 2014 18:25 endy wrote:
Great article as usual guys!

Bisu'd better watch out; Larva almost took him down with those early zerglings, and if anyone masters this playstyle it's Kwanro.

Please Bisu don't Stork yourself and build a second cannon when necessary!


The problem is he doesn't know when that second cannon is necessary. Yes, he could keep the probe alive as long as speed is not done for lings, but after that he has to either block better with zealot/probes or build the second cannon and hope that zerg indeed produced more lings.


It doesn't matter as Bisu is vastly superior in any other aspect of the matchup. He just needs to play safe and not lose as Stork did vs Jaedong in Korean Air Season 2 semis. At least Stork needed to be greedy in order to increase his chances of beating JD so it was understandable. JD was also amazing at mind games.

Also he can always keep a probe outside of his base to scout again when the first probe dies. Still much cheaper than getting run by or losing tons of probes defending the natural.
If it was as simple to beat Kwanro as "playing safe" than he would of never won any matches, let alone consistently go far in starleagues. People underrate Kwanros macro, his mind games and the variability of his play and then act shocked when he exceeds their wildly unrealistically low expectations.

If Bisu plays too safe, Kwanro will just win in a macro game. Thats the entire reason all progamers try to cut corners against even the most aggressive of zergs.

edit: And it should be noted that Bisu does worse against aggressive zergs, like hero and shine, than he does against more text-book players.

carry mentioned during hero vs movie a ton of times that "that greed protoss has to want to do everything on 1 cannon for faster tech" but like just not building that extra cannon means like faster gateways faster cores faster tech i think the commentators made it pretty clear its incredibly important to play the game to your pace or else zerg can be difficult to handle.
But last time bisu played vs kwanro on circuit in the winners match bisu was putting 2 cannon and a 3rd which he later canceled but he really played it safe but he said he just felt behind. I guess his response to taking on aggressive zerg was just to top the zerg on aggressiveness.

edit: i totally agree with you on kwanro's macro abilities though. kwanro is just the type who is like oh im floating 500? another hatch another base and he has that hand speed to constantly pump units. on top of that his larva management is fantastic. everyone seems to generalize kwanro as this only cheese only all in zerg but I think what ssak says about him holds fairly true: "its going to be all in or he's gonna greed like crazy"
and the mind games too. like that game on circuit vs mini to us it just looks like a 3 hatch hydra but lsw and carry were saying kwanro was using 1 larva at a time everytime the probe stuck its head into the natural to make mini wonder if its just standard or if he is going for a hydra bust. while mini did pull probes very late that game i feel like it was in part due to the fact that kwanro had this kind of mind game play going since the start of the game.
soujiro_
Profile Joined June 2010
Uruguay5195 Posts
March 07 2014 03:07 GMT
#45
just finished reading most of it, ty
its also nice to see some kwanroo love
ace hwaiting!!
miercat
Profile Joined November 2011
394 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-07 05:51:32
March 07 2014 05:37 GMT
#46
On March 06 2014 14:12 Dazed_Spy wrote:
I find it funny that no matter what Kwanro does, no matter how many years go by where he consistently shows quality results, the overriding consensus is that its mystifying, because hes bad. Reminds me of Kwark constantly claiming Jangbi was a mediocre protoss, whos gameplan was nothing but gratuitous error followed by gratuitous error--- winning through an odd mixture of luck, and the stupidity of his opponents.

Oh well, Kwanro fighting!


I haven't really noted what the over time consensus regarding Kwanro is (I watched almost all BW games in that time period, but I did not often visit this forum in previous years), but generally speaking, the consensus can often be inaccurate, for a variety of reasons.

In any case, I mostly considered him a relatively strong player (never among the strongest, but certainly never bad). Quite aggressive, great micro(especially drone) and tactical ability, and with a unique interesting playstyle - especially considering his success at the highest level of play. (There were a large number of "standard" macro Zergs who were neither as good/successful as, nor as interesting to watch, as Kwanro - although I never considered his macro as being particularly weak - perhaps a more relevant consideration being, his preferred choice of playstyle)
X-Men-Pickle
Profile Joined May 2006
United States60 Posts
March 07 2014 09:40 GMT
#47
So when is it? I don't see a match date.
aka Ireland
Epoxide
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Magic Woods9326 Posts
March 07 2014 09:41 GMT
#48
On March 07 2014 18:40 X-Men-Pickle wrote:
So when is it? I don't see a match date.

It was yesterday. Also there was a countdown in the intro and two dates as titles on both previews with countdowns.
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5478 Posts
March 12 2014 19:00 GMT
#49
Hoping that we get the finals preview soon, hopefully tomorrow.
http://i45.tinypic.com/9j2cdc.jpg Let it be so!
Epoxide
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Magic Woods9326 Posts
March 12 2014 20:21 GMT
#50
On March 13 2014 04:00 thezanursic wrote:
Hoping that we get the finals preview soon, hopefully tomorrow.

LiquipediaSouma: EU MM is just Russian Roulette. Literally.
thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5478 Posts
March 12 2014 20:56 GMT
#51
On March 13 2014 05:21 Epoxide wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 13 2014 04:00 thezanursic wrote:
Hoping that we get the finals preview soon, hopefully tomorrow.


. Can't wait
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