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I was somewhat disappointed with Leta's mid-game transition. He was getting diminishing returns from his vult attacks, and I think he should have switched gears and taken his nat much earlier. I know hindsight is 20-20, and that almost any other zerg would have buckled to Leta's play... but denying zerg their cross map 4th is pretty easy with decently macroed 2 base T. If he had denied that 4th for even a little while things would have gone very differently.

it's the perfect example of why IdrA was so scared to fight a zerg on Outsider...pro Zerg on easy 4 gas is absolutely terrifying. HoGiL could afford to have guards, queens, and defilers everywhere and still have enough left over for a big ultra-ling army...HiyA was never even in this one.

Great performance from HoGiL - HiyA needed a better game plan. I'll remember this set as an indicator of Outsider's Z>T imbalance, though.

Okay, Jaedong had hacklike sense and caught leta's 8rax but other than that the game was a complete rape =/

I dno, I really disagree with that. The game was really fucking close and Hiya looked like he might take the game many times. I don't really think its indicative of any imbalance, while Zerg's get an easy 3/4 gas you have to keep in mind that in doing so they basically forfeit those hatcheries from producing any ground units (other than drones) until hive. Knowing that, the zerg is basically forced into making Mutalisks (exactly what Hogil did). Meanwhile the Terran gets an easy 2gas/4mineral which is enough to cook up a scary Terran army. (like going 3base Terran on andromeda, but with extra minerals!!) Hiya could have probably used his dropships a bit better but imo overall it was a really close entertaining game.

Because of jaedong's perfect play. Against any other zerg i think the outcome would have been different. Jaedong was so prepared for everything leta did. And leta's vult harass was entertaining to watch. It was pretty one sided for the majority of the game. Jaedong's sense of star that game was unbelievable.

I believe the game was close too in the sense that even though hogil blocked all of hiya's attack it was a very fragile game. One mistake and hiya would have won since he took both his nat and the 5 o clock main. But the game finisher was plague+irradiated ultra.

It's pretty one sided game, but the shuttle/reaver harass and some imba scarabs + one really cool mine drag were just amazing in that game I was like "wow! wow! wow!"

^ lol at first i was like man how many duds did that thing make! but persistence payed and multikills followed !

even though Jangbis reaver did a lot of damage it really isnt very impressive when Terran doesnt have a single turret, and when he finally has a wraith out immediately loses it to dragoons.. omg so bad..

The part I really liked was at around 16:30ish, when Jaedong was moving his lurkers away from Leta's nat. Note that he left one lurker burrowed, so that the tanks would automatically all target fire it - thus meaning he loses only one lurker, rather than the two or so he would have lost had he unburrowed all of them. That is quick thinking.

I didn't say the game was necesarilly good, I just liked the scarab hits at the end of the game and also the sneaky dragoon-drop minedrag

if baby had scanned the high ground expo before the held lurker incident I think he could have won. This is the 2nd time (that ive seen) baby has had epic wraith harass but couldn't pull out the win =/. I hope the build is feasible though, i love wraith micro lol.

yeah man. Baby keeps getting more and more awesome every time i see him play (even his losses like this one). he's gonna have to change his name to Beast pretty soon

Canata

The observer was pointing out Canata cut mad SCVs - I understand this is ultimately why he lost the game, but what inspired the cut? Did Up really gain such a huge advantage from his first attack with that tank + ~3 vultures?

TvT is really complex strategy-wise.

tbh I dont think it mattered that much even if the lurkers hadnt been on hold he still would have lost.

to me it seems like people often underestimate the damage you have to deal for 2 ports wraith to really be worth it