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Welcome to the HotBid FakeSteve Ultimate Running Diary and Chat for the Superfight 4. They’ve decided to play the earlier games simultaneously, so it will make for a somewhat hectic chat, but try to follow along.
Warning: It’s tremendously long, but a really easy read. Big thank you to everyone who participated in the chat and to Smurg for the banner.
[Blue Text is from the editors (either me or FakeSteve), so treat it as a sort of verbal announcement as to what is going on in the matches.]
Italics are either my thoughts or FakeSteve’s thoughts said to ourselves.
Everything else is chat text from our super chat room, organized nicely with the usernames bolded.
In case you’re wondering how I kept track of two simultaneous games, a big chat, and wrote a diary at the same time, go here for a screenshot of what my desktop looked like.
[Pre-Match Interviews of Savior, Ra, and Hwasin]
Hot_Bid: I bet they’re asking Hwasin right now how it feels to lose to a 6 minute ling rush on a map heavily in favor of his best matchup.
FakeSteve: Mani thinks he's on to something backing those hacks at Hanbit. They were glorious once, but they falter and stumble now. Now trash-talkin' fast-walkin' Manifesto7 has put five fucking bucks on the line, saying his Hanbit hosers will go farther than my MBC Mavericks. En Garde, Trevor Allen.
[Manifesto will owe FakeSteve $5]
FakeSteve: MBC Fighting!
[Commercials come on for the tenth time]
DJetterStyle: I forgot how hard CJ milks this shit, 45 minutes between the matches.
FakeSteve: I'm growing tired of watching the same six commercials over and over again.
dronebabo: ROFL I love this commercial, she rips her wig off.
kyari: How do we watch any of them? Somebody answer me.
Locked: Ok I’m ready, how do I watch? BARRAGE ME WITH LINKS.
dsh: Working on it. Install GOM, click randomly.
[mrmin123 enters the room]
mrmin123: The fuck? Superfight? Now?
Hot_Bid: Yeah, right now.
[mrmin123 leaves the room]
dronebabo: LOL
Locked: hahahaha
DJetterStyle: ^^
[The teams come out one by one in their stylish jackets]
Hot_Bid: When did they get rid of those dorky admiral suits with big wings that made them sweat like crazy? July needs a suit like that so he loses 10lbs per match or dies in the booth, whichever comes first.
dronebabo: HOT COACH. HOT GIRL HOLDING SIGN. HOT FAN.
Locked: You have to look past the hot girl.
dronebabo: At what, the acne ridden Iris?
DJetterStyle: HEEEROOOO
Locked: ESS TAY EXXX SOOOOLLUH
[Garimto is being interviewed onstage]
DJetterStyle: Is that Garimto?
Hot_Bid: It would be nuts if they used Garimto versus Savior and Garimto won, that would be the most ridiculous thing ever.
FakeSteve: Garimto isn’t in the lineup silly.
DjetterStyle: Garimto will not amount to anything, it’s a shame.
[Boxer is being interviewed onstage with the Air Force team]
Hot_Bid: If Boxer is in the lineup and they don’t use him and they lose to Soul, I’m going to kill someone.
Locked: I want to see Boxer vs SKT1.
mrmin123: Oh god, they asked him “How is life in the army?” and he’s like… BIG FUCKING PAUSE… “I’m doing well.” Did you see his eyes shift as he said that? Jesus Christ he must be getting ass raped every fucking night.
Hot_Bid: I hope they do some really fun stuff for Superfight 5, they can do anything they want. If they want 3v3 BGH the pro’s will still play.
intrigue: Superfight 5 should be TL.net vs BGHers so I can get face trounced on national television.
[eSTRO vs. KTF and OGN vs. Pantech simultaneous broadcast]
Hot_Bid: FS are you going to watch KTF or OGN? I want to watch Ra, I think we all do.
DJetterStyle: No one wants to watch Ra.
FakeSteve As long as I get MBC games I’m good, so I’ll watch the OGN/Pantech.
DJetterStyle: I'm watching KTF because I'm basically positve that OGN vs. Pantech will be a TvT.
[Player for KTF is revealed]
dronebabo: OH MY GOD NAL_RA?
kyari: Who is that?
dsh: That’s not Ra.
DjetterStyle: HERY? Jesus Christ.
[Player for eSTRO is revealed]
dronebabo: UPGMAGIC PLZ
DJetterStyle: Is that Up?
dsh: It’s Rocky Balboa.
Locked: Who is that? What the hell.
dronebabo: I think it’s a Zerg.
DJetterStyle: That’s Magma. Magma[s.g] or some shit.
ArcMan: Ok fuck, I’m not winning $100.
[Hery (KTF) vs. Magma (eSTRO) on Arkanoid
DJetterStyle: Smart build from Magma. Terrans are so scared of mutas after the fast expo that they turret like sluts instinctively. This gives the Z free reign to get many lurkers and abuse drop.
[Magma does not do enough damage with drops]
FakeSteve: Hery's control is really awful. Despite the fact that he's throwing units away left and right, Magma is still pretty fucked. If you're going to get lurkers quickly on Arkanoid, you'd better be dropping. His fast Hive is delaying the game for another ten minutes but I really doubt the game will be won this way. Especially since Magma seems to have a habit running his lurkers past his swarm and burrowing them.
DJetterStyle: Jesus, Magma, do *something*.
Locked: NO. Magma roll over and die, KTF ftw.
thedeadhaji: Lol no one’s reporting because no one cares about this game.
ArcMan: I hear lots of shit dying.
DJetterStyle: The fast hive was really dumb, got to drop if you get lurkers.
intrigue: Rofl Magma blows.
[Magma gets a defiler and pushes Hery back]
Locked: KTF coach looks like Hery is in for a beating.
DJetterStyle: Hery’s fine unless he lets Magma secure two more expos, which shouldn’t happen. So he can play the “trade units” game all night.
Hot_Bid: They just cut to a shot of Yellow and Reach on the KTF bench. I’d put the % chance we find Yellow or Reach homeless in 10 years at about 900%, burning their KTF uniforms for warmth and reminiscing about how Yellow won all those OSL titles way back when. Oh wait, he didn’t.
FakeSteve: Haha Magma, he’s losing so many units and accomplishing like nothing.
kyari: LOL all ultras irradiated.
Locked: He’s fucking bleeding units.
[Magma GG’s, KTF wins]
ArcMan: Now that that stage is past, KTF is free to win, because they sent their worst already so now they can send Kang Min 3 times in a row.
Locked: OGN vs Pantech was Silent_Control vs a Protoss? What’s going on?
[OGN beats Pantech and Boxer is revealed as the AF player]
dsh: Lim Yo Hwan!
kyar: LOL BOXER
ArcMan: OMGGGGGGGG SLAYERSBOXER
Hot_Bid: YESSSSSSSSS
intrigue: FUCK YES OH MY GOD
dsh: Who’s his opponent?
Locked: Park Jung Wook / Ever)T(SheIs / Terran
[Game Starts and Boxer spawns at 1:00 but fakes like he’s at 5:00]
FakeSteve: Boxer sending an scv off somewhere crazy. A barracks at 5? What's going on? God DAMN I miss this guy. I have literally no idea what he's planning, and I fucking like it that way. He has two marines blocking the ramp at 5 and I wish I could tell you what the purpose is.
dronebabo: a fake?
Locked: LMAO dude it works, oh god I love Boxer.
FakeSteve: SheIs’s vulture goes the wrong way hahahahaha
dronebabo: Overhyped. Boxer is way behind.
[Boxer gets in and harasses SheIs’s base with vultures and mines, killing many SCV]
intrigue: OH MY GOD FIRST GAME BACK AND ALREADY FACE TROUNCE
Locked: Fucking beautiful. What was it? “Boxer is behind”? Yeah he’s behind SheIs.
dronebabo: He was behind until SheIs didn’t block his ramp, he really deserves to lose.
Hot_Bid: Boxer is raping him so badly, this is so ridiculous.
[SheIs GG’s and Boxer is 2-0 since joining the Air Force]
intrigue: Oh I love Boxer so much what the fuck.
Locked: YES LMAO GG
DJetterStyle: I’m so confused by this reaction, Boxer does a retarded build and rapes and newbie and that’s impressive?
FakeSteve: Shut your fucking mouth Andy he made his rax in a weird spot, SheIs fell for it then Boxer raped him in a champion style, maybe the barracks thing was questionable but the rest of the game was absolute power.
DJetterStyle: The “build” wasn’t anything, it didn’t stop or do anything.
Hot_Bid: BOXER #1 POWER RANKINGS
FakeSteve: Boxer makes a lesser player look like a goddamned fool with killer micro.
Hot_Bid: That Soul guy looks like he just got hit by a brick.
FakeSteve: G FUCKING G SHEIS, NEVER COME BACK ON STAGE AGAIN.
[In the other game, Stork (Samsung) beats Jaedong (Lecaf)]
Hot_Bid: They are previewing the next CJ game, probably about how everyone is expecting CJ Entus to play Savior 3 times and rape. Watch they send Iris out as a “surprise,” lose in the first round, and Savior just snaps and kills everyone when they get back to the CJ house.
[The OGN vs. MBC players are revealed]
Hot_Bid: Is that yarnc?
FakeSteve: Face looks too round to be yarnc. Light vs. luxury
FakeSteve: Okay, MBC sends Light[Alive] and OGN sends... Luxury[GsP]. Hooooo boy, OGN sure likes to be forcefed large terran cock.
Locked: Light will eat him like Godzilla eats the choco monster’s brownies.
[Game starts and Light promptly sneaks mm into Luxury’s main]
ArcMan: This is over already.
Locked: Lol empty main of drones.
[Light pushes his advantage and Luxury is only delaying the inevitable now]
FakeSteve: As if the massive unkillable army outside Luxury's nat wasn't insult enough, Light drops Luxury's main and wreaks absolute havoc. That's the poorest ZvT performance I've seen in quite a while. Luxury flushes himself down the toilet and takes OGN team along with him. Now I get to watch MBC vs CJ, and I can't express how much I'm looking forward to it. Since Savior just played I'm not sure if he'll be the one to fight MBC.
[Savior (CJ) vs. Reach (KTF) on Arkanoid]
Hot_Bid: I’m the only one with the Savior/Reach game streaming so I did live reports in the chatroom.
Hot_Bid: They are showing the Reach FPV, he has his three bases at the top and I’m not sure how many bases Savior has. His hydras are trying to break through the neutral buildings and Reach is holding them back with cannons and storm.
Locked: Okay light has this, Savior vs. Reach time.
Hot_Bid: Savior… big drop, ultralisks, GG from Reach.
ArcMan: WTF?
kyari: WTFF
Locked: Wtf
Hot_Bid: JK
ArcMan: You dick.
Locked: Stop being gay.
[5 minutes later]
Hot_Bid: Reach has 1 mining base and is distance mining.
Hot_Bid: Savior has bases at 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, with 7:00 building.
kyari: LOL
Locked: LOLZ
dsh: lol
Hot_Bid: Reach attempts a recall and GG’s to 9 base Savior.
[Jangbi (Samsung) vs. Free (Hanbit) on Tau Cross]
FakeSteve: I love this matchup. Lots of people don't but it amuses me to no end. I'm trying to learn how to play Protoss so this is pretty informative at any rate. Free is a good player, but considering my blood oath with Manifesto over the progress of Hanbit and MBC, I'm definitely cheering for Jangbi. I will not lose to that red-headed monster again. I WILL NOT LOSE.
[Both players take their naturals and start macro]
Hot_Bid: Free lost a shuttle with two reavers in it and other than that both players have huge armies. Free also got screwed over by scarab AI on another reaver drop.
FakeSteve: Goddamned shitty placement on that reaver drop. Got the scarab off but it just danced behind the minerals and exploded as meekly as an iNcontrol orgasm.
[Jangbi wins the big fight and secures another base while denying Free]
FakeSteve: GG. Heroism triumphs over evil once again as FakeSteve stands victor over Manifesto7. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME KIDDO!
[Manifesto owes Steve $5]
FakeSteve: How insane would it be if Air Force somehow won Superfight 4. We can all hold onto the slim hope that Clon pulls out a victory here so we can get another dose of Boxer action.
[Canata (SKT1) vs. Clon (Air Force) on Peaks]
FakeSteve: Clon can’t beat Canata. Canata is a T1 protégé, Clon is an underachiever with significantly less practice time.
Locked: He managed to make it into OSL like twice or something.
[Clon’s hold lurkers kill most of Canata’s opening army]
Locked: Oh gay, hold lurker. So fucking gay. Go fuck yourself OMFG AHSDZF;LJK. You see that shit kyari, Protoss never have to deal with that.
kyari: LOL
[Clon has defiler but Canata has equal base count and superior macro]
Locked: Man, flawless macro, only six barracks, wtf. I can’t even do that macro on Team Melee
Hot_Bid: Canata is scary and Clon played well but he is dead. Haha Canata dmatrixed like 10 firebats and is raping with them
[Clon dies. CJ Entus vs. MBC HERO reveals their players]
dsh: CJ ENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTASSSSSS
FakeSteve: SEE JAY ENTUUUUUUUUUUUAAAASS
ArcMan: Sending Savior again? That’s not fair haha. Who will MBC send?
FakeSteve: I hope it’s Sea and I hope he wins
[Shark is revealed as the MBC HERO player]
ArcMan: Yeah that’s Shark
FakeSteve: Shark?!
Hot_Bid: Shark apparently didn’t take my advice and didn’t come out to the “Jaws” music with a cardboard fin on his head. He’s also not randomly not biting anyone. It’s a rematch ZvZ and on the same map too.
[Savior (CJ) vs Shark (MBC) on Arkanoid]
FakeSteve: CJ abuses the SuperFight setup and sends out Savior again. I can't help but love this guy, he honestly looks completely bored with everything that's going on. MBC sends out Shark.... Coach Ha, what are you doing?
[Savior scouts in the wrong direction for the first time in StarCraft history]
ArcMan: OMG SAVIOR IS SCOUTING WRONG
dsh: It’s like boxer, he’s faking it
FakeSteve: Good luck Sharky you’re going to need it
ArcMan: Lol killing spire
Locked: Spire might die a;sdlkjfz
[Savior kills Shark’s spire with lings just as it completes]
Locked: LOL MUTA MICRO. Savior is so sick.
ArcMan: If I was Shark I would’ve said “GG dickface” and then left
dsh: Savior is god.
FakeSteve: Savior utterly destroys Shark. Completely embarassing, and Savior doesn't even look please. He's the definition of platonic, and it makes him a total badass. Motherfucker just stomps around like he owns the place, doesn't smile when he wins cuz who has time for these newbs? Not Savior, that's for sure.
[SKT1 and Samsung’s Intros are shown]
Locked: TOO MANY BULLETS
ArcMan: SK Telecom TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ONE
dsh: TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WONN
FakeSteve: T1 sends out Canata again! They’re really riding this little guy, I’m pretty sure he can dismantle whoever Samsung sends out.
ArcMan: KHAAAAAAAAAN
dsh: KKKKKKKKKKKKKKHHHHHHHAAAAAAANNNNNNNN
FakeSteve: We’re renaming Samsung “TEAM JAMES T KIRK”
FakeSteve: “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN”
Hot_Bid: FBH is going to be Canata here
Locked: No, T1 is going to win. TOO MANY BULLETS.
Hot_Bid: Just watch, I picked Hanbit. I am right
[Hot_Bid is wrong]
Locked: HotBid, I have a lesson. Something I had once to tell Arc
Locked: And that is
[Locked leaves the room]
ArcMan: ROFL
Hot_Bid: Hahahaha
[Locked enters the room]
FakeSteve: Good lesson.
[Locked leaves the room]
Neo-Illusions: hahahaha
dsh: smooth lol
[Locked enters the room]
Locked: GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
FakeSteve: I want to be your student Locked, in the art of foot in mouth
[Canata (SKT1) vs. FireBatHero (Samsung) on Arcadia II]
dsh: The openings are so similar to Boxer vs SheIs
ArcMan: Except Boxer didn’t suck ass.
Locked: This is over.
[Canata kills some scvs early and pushes his advantage]
FakeSteve: Every time Canata performs at this level I’m forced to admit he’s not as bad as I think he is, in fact this is downright impressive.
Hot_Bid: It’s time for the FINALS.
dsh: Savior vs. who?
Locked: Savior vs Canata
[IntoTheRainbow is announced as the SKT1 player]
ArcMan: ROFL INTO THE RAINBOWWWW
FakeSteve: T1 sends out INTO THE FUCKING RAINBOW. If Rainbow wins... I have no idea what I would do. This is the ultimate fucking plot twist. Kudos, T1 coach. Let's hope it pays off. Rainbow fighting! I realize he's going to get his head smashed in, but come on this is at least a little bit funny.
Hot_Bid: LOL @ Savior in finals with a ZvP
[Finals: Savior (CJ) vs. Rainbow (SKT1) on Peaks]
ArcMan: Rainbow will proxy 2 gates again.
FakeSteve: IT IS INTOTHERAINBOW. HE IS PROTOSS SUPERSTAR.
Locked: Dude, don’t mess with the TECHNICAL PROTOSS.
Hot_Bid: Rainbow should just GG now.
ArcMan: Man what was I thinking voting against CJ.
FakeSteve: Fucking Savior aces Superfight 4. “Can I have cheque now?” “Do I actually have to go through the motions? We know what is going to happen.”
[Rainbow does a 1-Gate into Stargate and Archives]
Locked: He went 1-gate tech??
ArcMan: Lol storming the lurkers. Not that bad yet, but Savior got 4 gas now.
FakeSteve: Savior does everything all backwards and its still fucking protoss up. He's got a den, then a lair, then lurker, then a spire. Goofy. He'll be up to four bases in a minute, that hatchery is almost done. Rainbow is in for a shitkicking soon, I think. No discernable advantage, and Savior almost sniped his second expo. Rainbow missed a few storms, that shit is critical. No map control at all for Rainbow. He's walking around with zealots/ht/2 archon but its not enough to do anything major. This isn't looking good at all.
FakeSteve: Savior is getting pretty far ahead, Rainbow needs to make some noise.
Locked: Savior is about to have an unstoppable econ.
dsh: Queens nest. 15 kill dt o.o
ArcMan: Lol Savior a-moving.
FakeSteve: Rainbow's army micro is really strong, but there are too many lurkers sitting around. For every bit of damage Rainbow does, Savior has twice the amount of troops in reserve. Somehow Rainbow manages to warp another Nexus, and holds off a massive assault by Savior in champion fashion. Great storms.
ArcMan: Wow. He’s able to hold that.
Hot_Bid: Rainbow is playing out of his fucking mind.
FakeSteve: Rainbow is playing so well, too bad it doesn’t matter.
dsh: Rainbow is still in this, lots of gas.
ArcMan: If Rainbow had KM like micro he would win, he’s losing reavers too fast.
FakeSteve: Savior is losing a LOT of money here, but he has so much coming in that I don't know if it matters.
FakeSteve: Rainbow keeps stopping Savior's assaults over and over again. he even managed to transfer a bunch of probes into the expo thats being attacked all the time. Savior is certainly still far ahead, but the way he's throwing units away he could be putting Rainbow back in this game. RAINBOW WITH A REAVER DROP! Drones retreat, Rainbow lifts and runs, then turns around and comes right back and rapes like eight drones. Savior tries a massive drop on Rainbow's expo but HELL NO, Rainbow destroys it!
Locked: Reavers baby.
Hot_Bid: It’s really smart of Rainbow to mix reavers into his army, it’s just too bad that all his other shit died so fast that the reavers themselves are taking the brunt of Savior’s army.
ArcMan: Rainbow needs that last expo on his side to be even. Not that many ultras.
dsh Hive tech is here.
FakeSteve: Savior has ultralisks now, this is bad! Savior snipes the shuttle but the reavers land safely! UTRALISKS IN THE BATTLE, Rainbow gets crushed. This is the beginning of the end.
ArcMan: Nevermind, there they are. Oh shit.
Locked: When you can go hydra-ultra you know it’s like wtfgas.
dsh: Dude, still no defilers.
FakeSteve: Flashing to Savior's army confirms the inevitable; Rainbow is utterly fucked. Somehow he managed to kill that obnoxiously large attack force of hydras, zerglings, and ultralisks... I can't explain that one. Savior has another army just as large, unfortunately. Rainbow somehow kills that too! Rainbow doesnt have the means to kill this third massive army, unfortunately, and this is going to be the game. Dark Archon shows up, but that's got to be just a last kick at the can before he gives in. Rainbow's expo, the center of the game so far, finally falls to guardians, and Savior's army besides that is massive. He's got to be maxed at this point, and Rainbow does not have the army to combat him. A final confrontation in the middle, and its over.
Hot_Bid: ZvP late game production imba.
Locked: GG.
ArcMan: Wow. Savior actually took a deep breath.
dsh: GG. I must say, Rainbow lasted pretty damn long.
FakeSteve: So this is the end of over five hours of wacky commercials and destructive starcraft prowess. My MBC Homeboys didn't make it, but that's all right. The real Hero today is Savior, acing the entire tournament with seemingly so little effort. Though, he certainly did look a little relieved after Rainbow said GG.
ArcMan: Lol lets see who the MVP is -.-z
Locked: Lmao ORLY ITS SAVIOR, HOW UNLIKELY.
thedeadhaji: Did anyone get the bracket right?
ArcMan: Nope, everyone either messed up on Pantech vs OGN or Samsung.
Locked: Only CJ would be smart enough to send Savior all 3 times.
ArcMan: I thought KTF would send Ra 4 times in a row.
thedeadhaji: Yeah I voted Pantech knowing it was a shitty lineup. That was rough.
ArcMan: LOL the boxer game is up already.
[Conclusion]
Hot_Bid: Hope you enjoyed this ridiculously long, annoyingly hard to format but hopefully entertaining running diary and chat. Maybe we’ll do it again, maybe not. Until then!
FakeSteve: . I'm about ready to collapse at this point. Fantastic games tonight, entertainment in every single one. Some twists, some turns, and a hell of a fun night. Thanks to CJ and everyone who make things like this possible. Here's to SuperFight4 champs CJ Entus, and their ultimate battle machine, Savior. Goodnight.
