EPTBest of luck to him and hope for his return!
EffOrt - Farewell to a Monstrous Zerg - Page 2
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Jaeyun
United States202 Posts
Best of luck to him and hope for his return! | ||
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LUCKY_NOOB
Bulgaria1513 Posts
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/caoZGnY.jpg) Will be missed... Its just what Zerg needs... The one person who CAN actually win... (and does sometimes...) Oh well.. Time for other top Zergs to put more EffOrt in their game and step up to face the ever dominant Terrans and the rising Protoss superpowers! ZERGS UNITE! | ||
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HerbMon
United States467 Posts
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Trozz
Canada3456 Posts
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/diIwmYo.png) TL vs GG, Effort off-raced as terran and played with us scrubs. ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/QBaxrq5.png) | ||
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Proko
United States1022 Posts
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Psychonian
United States2322 Posts
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RWLabs
Korea (South)273 Posts
Farewell Effort indeed. | ||
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Dante08
Singapore4139 Posts
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Nukid
United States240 Posts
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/TfjcAj2.png) + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/akQlnZ5.jpg) PS: Wow BigFan's back? | ||
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iFU.pauline
France1660 Posts
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Qikz
United Kingdom12024 Posts
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
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v1
Estonia796 Posts
nah, he was slacking for half of year | ||
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aRyuujin
United States5049 Posts
On June 16 2019 09:40 RWLabs wrote: ASL 6 was the ultimate storytelling victory rivalling that of JangBi's. A former champion who, despite being named the biggest competitor in each tournament, never got past round of 16. Just when everyone begins to ridicule him as a pigeon (Effort's nickname 'Mae' means hawk), and he too loses hope, he decides to try just one more time. Then he beats the three strongest players in Last (recently won KSL), Rain (recently won ASL), and Flash to take the championship in a time where ZvT is less balanced than PvZ. Farewell Effort indeed. best asl ever i feel | ||
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s_k_911
China362 Posts
fighting effort! | ||
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[GiTM]-Ace
United States4935 Posts
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mozzybw
Canada24 Posts
Burrow!... but hopefully unburrow | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
On June 16 2019 22:13 iFU.pauline wrote: I tried really hard to copy this zerg. How did you try to do it? How did it go? | ||
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Opposition1
14 Posts
www.youtube.com Truly great players use everything at their disposal, even the most minor overlooked resources. Especially after his ASL finals against Flash, I felt like effOrt really exemplified this ability more than other Zergs. From a description of the builds you'd think it was Shine playing five games on ladder. But the way effOrt played these games made me feel like he didn't even use a build order. He was just playing pure Starcraft, going as far as to shuffle drones on and off gas constantly to streamline his econ while blockading Flash's 12 o'clock main with lurkers. One other thing I love to see about great Zergs is their ling micro. I won't say microing ranged units is easy, but microing melee units in BW is not just a-move-win. Even in the smallest inconsequential engagements effOrt always surrounds with his lings. There's an aesthetic to his unit control that I've always appreciated. It's been said of countless past players that sometimes they play out of their minds and it looks like nobody could beat them, but they spend most of the time in human form. I could say the same of effOrt. Like ZerO, both of them seem to perform worse in tournament settings than their skillset would suggest. The ro16 curse in ASL was evidence of this. Especially effOrt's losses to other Zergs were painful, because we all *knew* he could beat Flash if he just go there. And get there he did, and play out of his mind he did. The one thing I wish I could have seen effOrt do was to win a Code S or Blizzcon in SC2. Unless I'm mistaken, Rain and Soulkey are the only two players to hold highest titles in BW and SC2 (code S and ASL championships). But neither ever won an OSL. It would have been cool to see effOrt be the only player in history to win an OSL, a code S, and an ASL. I'll be watching old effOrt VOD's back to back for the next few years if anyone needs me. | ||
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