My guess is that they wanted to use the KSL and ASL5 map pool. Given, I would've also liked some more standard maps to showcase how amazing late game TvP can be.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21243 Posts

November 03 2018 05:14 GMT

#104

they never panned to my sign so i took matters into my own hands

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21243 Posts

November 03 2018 05:25 GMT

#105

On November 03 2018 12:47 repomaniak wrote:
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Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21243 Posts

November 03 2018 05:30 GMT

#106

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bovienchien

Vietnam1152 Posts

November 03 2018 06:47 GMT

#107

Why this is the ASL vs KSL but they used maps that belong to ASL. Two of them have 2 maps Terran couldn't win. They are Third World and Sparkle?

RowdierBob

Australia13106 Posts

November 03 2018 08:19 GMT

#108

Pretty BS map pool. Last never really had a chance. Third world and sparkle are pretty free wins PvT.

asel

Germany1599 Posts

November 03 2018 10:18 GMT

#109

Disappointing choice of maps.

Ziggy

South Korea2105 Posts

November 03 2018 10:20 GMT

#110

went to sleep before rain v last, so happy to see they got to play on sparkle and third world :DD

De4ngus

United States6533 Posts

November 03 2018 10:21 GMT

#111

Who chose the maps for this event lol

ne4aJIb

Russian Federation3209 Posts

November 03 2018 10:33 GMT

#112

rain still abusing these maps

ortseam

996 Posts

November 03 2018 13:29 GMT

#113

Meanwhile Sparkle was 58% TvP in sponmatches while it was in rotation... guess people just want to whine

Lorch

Germany3684 Posts

November 03 2018 13:44 GMT

#114

I personally really enjoyed the concept of mixing ASL & KSL maps from the respective seasons that those two won. We'll probably never see Sparkle again, but imo Third World is such an underrated map. I'm really glad we got to see another game on it. I'd personally love to see a Neo Third World at some point. Such a cool concept. The only thing I found odd was that they had two ASL maps back to back with Third World and Sparkle. I really enjoyed Season 5 of ASL, even though it was far from well balanced. However, if you look throughout Starcraft's 20 years of competitive history, you'll find a lot of seasons with map pools that heavily favor one race or another. This was just a show match between ASL & KSL so I think the map choices were pretty good for what it was supposed to be, I just think a KSL map should have been Map 4 instead of Sparkle after Game 3 on Third World.

I really don't think that it's maps that lost Last the series. I think Rain was sooo happy to be back in front of a foreign crowd again and it seemed like it was kind of a trip back to his sc2 days on myinsanity for him. Last on the other hand looked like being outside Korea for the first time in his life was really hard for him.

Also lol @ Rain playing in 640x480 in window mode. I guess that's one way to make sure that the old graphics still look like they did on 1.16.

Rodya

546 Posts

November 03 2018 21:52 GMT

#115

On November 03 2018 22:44 Lorch wrote:
\Last on the other hand looked like being outside Korea for the first time in his life was really hard for him.
\.

What? He left Korea during SC2 days.

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

November 04 2018 01:04 GMT

#116

On November 03 2018 14:14 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
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