On June 26 2008 13:08 Ozarugold wrote: Go Tushin! We believe!
Lol believe what? It's not like he's been losing/on a slump. I think you've mixed him up with another successful Zerg player whom is in a massive slump -_-
Oh man, i know the GoodFriend vs July game on Forte by hard i think but after watching the highlight again. GOD, GOODFRIEND'S LOOK after the comeback, damn.
On June 26 2008 14:14 IntoTheWow wrote: Oh man, i know the GoodFriend vs July game on Forte by hard i think but after watching the highlight again. GOD, GOODFRIEND'S LOOK after the comeback, damn.
On June 26 2008 14:14 IntoTheWow wrote: Oh man, i know the GoodFriend vs July game on Forte by hard i think but after watching the highlight again. GOD, GOODFRIEND'S LOOK after the comeback, damn.
yeah, you can tell hes just absolutely crushed
poor guy
yeah he just looked utterly stunned a shell of a man but even so it was just awe inspiring by july
Best vs July on the finals would be awesome :D if that will happen i will not know who to root for 0_0 Best due to great performances but July for going the Golden Mouse that 5 players were trying to reach for before
On June 26 2008 17:32 iloveoil wrote: BackHo < July BeSt > July
Im not sure about that Best's pvz is really not that proven he has not played many games in that matchup and with the games he has played he has assembled a rather unimpressive 7-6 and one of those losses is from MUMYUNG. Now I know this is before his surge in skill but even since then he has only had 3 pvzs since april and before that none since february and in one of them he lost to Shark who is not exactly a cream of the crop zerg, while in the ones he won he beat rather unimpressive oponents in Child and Oversky. So given his lack of matchups against zerg, up until now he has had no real reason to focus on his pvz which makes me think he is unprepared, I really just dont see him making it past Luxury with his lackluster performance or rather untestedness of his pvz matchup.
EDIT: While as ive said I dont think Best will win but I hope he does because everything in me wants to see a July v Best final with july the old vet proving his iron against the rising newcomer and claiming his golden mouse.
EDIT again yeah: Upon further review I seem to have forgotten the Stork v Luxury bo5 that was the most horrendous piece of crap ive seen in months, but even so it did tell us hell maby even screamed that Luxury sucks v P but I am still betting on him to take his series against Best.
Look about 5 games down, july has beaten backho twice lol, he has this in the bag
well...at that time BackHo exited OSL with 0-3 streak...and in this OSL he managed to reach the semifinals...si that means that he improved a lot...we will see though
if July wins, it makes for a MUCH better finals no matter who he plays
P.S. has there ever been a ZvZ OSL Finals before???? I know there has been some MSL's with sAviOr / Silver / ChoJJa but I don't think there has been an OSL ZvZ before. Anyways, GO JULY!
On June 27 2008 04:16 G5 wrote: if July wins, it makes for a MUCH better finals no matter who he plays
P.S. has there ever been a ZvZ OSL Finals before???? I know there has been some MSL's with sAviOr / Silver / ChoJJa but I don't think there has been an OSL ZvZ before. Anyways, GO JULY!
There was. First osl ever freemura vs theboy [something around that].
On June 26 2008 12:17 Wizard wrote: One Onion Ring to rule them all, One Onion Ring to find them, One Bloomin' Onion to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
On June 28 2008 13:33 Jibba wrote: On June 26 2008 12:17 Wizard wrote: One Onion Ring to Backho, One Onion Ring to Best, Half an Onion Ring to Luxury, and I will eat the rest!
I think July was the second progamer I ever saw, Boxer being the first. I saw July at Blizzard's Mystery Map Invite in 2005. I wasn't familiar at all with the progaming scene, or the top foreign scene at the time, so everyone involved I had never heard of before (July, Pusan, Zelotito, Mondragon, Zeus, Fisheye, Eriador, Legionnaire, Breakdown, and Sen). And to me at the time, zvp was like impossible, I just couldn't win a game to save my life. And then, July goes and makes it look easy. He just, plays perfectly, and uses mutalisks to rape everything, but don't they suck!?
I prefered zerg but played random, July is what convinced me to go full-time Zerg.
Ever 2005 OSL finals made me a believer, July stopped an invincible tank rush and again just dazzled me.
July is one of few players who I've always liked, never disliked, and actually been a true fan of, not just being part of the player's bandwagon simply because he's winning. July coming back, and even just reaching the semis of the hardest tournament in the world, coming almost out of no where after slumping for seemingly forever, is just the best thing ever. After seeing him play, he's playing as if it was 2005 again, he's just dominating and making fools of his opponents, I really believe he can win this OSL.
On June 30 2008 20:45 SilverSkyLark wrote: I wonder why its only BackHo who doesn't have his hype thread. Maybe no one expecting him to win against Best? Even a game? HAhha.
BackHo has his own thread. It's just a few pages down cause no one cares about him.
On June 29 2008 08:21 Atrioc wrote: he should get that dyed red hair and green outfit again, like he had when he crushed Reach watermelon zerg is unstoppable
I hope JulyZerg will crush BackHo. But I have a bad feeling, since they have pracc together BackHo is aware of Julys low-eco micro intensive aggressive play. So my hope goes that July will be innovative and suprise.
JulyZerg made me love StarCraft progaming very long time ago. His games against Goodfriend in OSL enlightend me a whole new world and since then he has been my favourite zerg.
On July 01 2008 07:19 InDaHouse wrote: I hope JulyZerg will crush BackHo. But I have a bad feeling, since they have pracc together BackHo is aware of Julys low-eco micro intensive aggressive play. So my hope goes that July will be innovative and suprise.
JulyZerg made me love StarCraft progaming very long time ago. His games against Goodfriend in OSL enlightend me a whole new world and since then he has been my favourite zerg.
Go July!
Everyone is aware of July's high aggression low econ play. LOL.
Unless BackHo goes uber gay, in a man to man faceoff, July should crush the bagaji haircut. And maybe if he wins the golden mouse, they can let him play some 1v1 in PL?
Finally, the seemingly era-spanning competition that is the KT-KTF Premiere League 2004-5 reached its climax on Sunday with the final between former OSL champion July Zerg and wave-riding swarm star GoRush.
Just to put this eon-bridging odyssey into perspective, since the start of this league Iloveoov has won an OSL and an MSL and subsequently gone out of both those tournaments attempting to defend his titles.
When the league started in September, July had not long come off his Gillette OSL victory over Reach and went into this new big money competition as one of the favourites, promptly losing on opening day to an in-form Sync. He nevertheless recovered to reach the final where he would play a pro whose star has been rising during the entire tournament, GO’s GoRush.
Game One on Nostalgia
With GoRush at five and July at one, both players opted for identical opening builds: second hatchery, pool, lair, spire, lings with their spire morphing, then finally the inevitable mutalisks.
The first action of the final came as GoRush made a futile attempt to break through July’s ramp. With the OGN cameras catching Gorush’s mother appearing to be praying in the front row, her son was opting for a risky expansion at his natural. Having spent his own precious resources on mutalisks, July took control of the skies and rained down fire on his opponent’s mineral line, severely setting back GoRush’s economy. GoRush managed to stay in the game with scourge, forcing the mutas to flee but in July’s main a third hatch was morphing as July signaled his intention to overpower his opponent before any possible economic advantage could kick in.
GoRush was massing scourge with no chance of challenging July in a muta showdown. He managed to prevent July expoing to 12, lings taking down the hatchery even as they were obliterated by mutalisks overhead. GoRush made a desperate attempt to level things by launching a mass scourge attack. However, July retained his air superiority, emerging from the battle with enough mutas to decimate the remains of his opponent’s economy and take the opening game.
GoRush 0 – 1 JulyZerg
Game Two on Requiem
Both players opened with pool, second hatchery then lair. GoRush (at 12) briefly found himself short of zerglings as July (at three) harassed his main but rebuffed the attack as both players morphed in their spires. As in the first game GoRush attempted to break through his opponent’s ling-defended ramp but this time he managed it. However, as his depleted force of zerglings entered July’s main the first mutalisks hatched out of their eggs to end the danger.
GoRush went for muta and scourge as July stayed briefly with mutas only. Astoundingly tried the same dangerous quick expansion as in the first game. And once again the merciless July made him pay dearly. Massing quickly, July launched his superior air and ground forces at the enemy natural, ovewhelming the undermanned defenders. Taking down the natural and harassing the undefended main mineral line for the air, July sent reinforcements from his own untroubled main while morphing in his own expansion, ending the game and taking a stranglehold on this big money final.
GoRush 0 – 2 JulyZerg
Game Three on Luna
Every game was now possibly GoRush’s last as he attempted to come back from a two game deficit on Luna. Both players opted for expansion, lair and spire builds, with July (at seven) morphing in sunkens at his natural for defence. GoRush (at five) tried to take down the extractor at the enemy natural with his superior force of lings, with July’s sunkens just out of range, but July managed to repel the attackers.
The deciding moment of the game came as July sent his mutalisk flight out to the six position. GoRush was waiting with mutas and a whole flight of scourge, decimating the opposing air force and taking control of the skies.
July managed to save his mineral lines but was now way behind and desperately morphing in an evolution chamber to try to throw down spore colonies in an attempt to defend against imminent death from above. July built up a flight of scourge but they were brushed aside by GoRush’s ascendant air force. His mutas swooped into the enemy natural, obliterated the single spore colony in the center of the mineral line and brought GoRush back into the match.
GoRush 1 – 2 July Zerg
Game Four on Arizona
With GoRush (at 11) looking to level the match and force a deciding game, he found himself under fast attack as July’s slightly earlier lings raced up the map from the five position. A lengthy micro skirmish ensued in GoRush’s main, costing the GO team zerg two drones, as both players morphed in their lairs then spires.
GoRush appeared to be out-linging his opponent briefly but any minimal advantaged was irrelevant as the first mutalisks took to the air. Muta and scourge skirmishes decided nothing, as both players took expansions, July at three and GoRush at 12.
However, as the game progressed with predictable air maneuvers, GoRush started to slowly gain a unit advantage while at the same time picking off drones at the three position. More muta and scourge maneuvering culminated in a swooping airborne attack on July’s main, with the former OSL champion finding his air forces outnumbered and annihilated, leaving his base at the mercy of his opponent’s deadly mutalisks. July typed out and sent the match to a deciding fifth game.
GoRush 2 – 2 July Zerg
With the match all square the OGN commentary team brought the two players out onto the stage for interviews prior to the deciding game. GoRush told the audience that, having come from two games down, if he believed in himself he would complete his stunning revival and take the title. A calm July alluded to his OSL semi-final against Iloveoov last year, in which he has lost two in a row after leading 2 – 0 and then went on to win in style, predicting the KT-KTF final would go the same way.
Drawing for the map for the deciding game, both players declines Luna and saw Nostalgia drawn as the site where the final battle would commence.
Game Five on Nostalgia
The two players both opened with extractor, pool, second hatchery, lair and spire into the predictable mutas. GoRush (at five) tried to gain an early advantage as he pounced on July’s first flight leaving his main at the seven position. However, his air force came off worse and July immediately pursued the fleeing enemy remnants back to GoRush’s mineral line. With the game looking as though it may be over before it began, GoRush fought off the attacking forces with desperate defence and emerging scourge.
By the time July started expanding to the nine position Gorush had somehow erected his natural and soon set about expanding again to three.
However, as in the first two games GoRush had overreached himself. Having massed combat forces while his opponent gambled on securing an economic advantage, July set upon GoRush’s mutas, taking control of the skies irrevocably. GoRush desperately sent his zerglings towards the nine expo as July’s unchallenged air force set about obliterating every drone in sight. GoRush destroyed July’s expansion but as the OGN cameras swept across the Nostalgia landscape it became clear that every single one of GoRush’s drones had been destroyed, signaling the end of a hard-fought final.
GoRush 2 – 3 July Zerg
July exited his play booth and raised his arms in celebration of a well-earned victory against a worthy opponent.
As the dust finally settled, July thanked his delighted parents, and his teammates at POS for helping him train for the final. Reflecting on the final he said he had refused to allow the back to back defeats to affect him and played his true game in the decider. A devastated GoRush said he was intensely disappointed. He mused on how close he had come to achieving an amazing comeback but said he had just been unable to grasp victory at the finish.
And so July Zerg proves once again that he is one of Brood War’s dominant forces as he adds the KT-KTF Premiere League title to his Gillette OSL win in 2004, taking two of the big three Starcraft titles within the space of 12 months.
For GoRush, it was a case of so near and yet so far, as the aura of invincibility he has been projecting for the last couple of months seemed to have faded at just the wrong moment.
With that, this is Arbiter[frolix] signing off from the KT-KTF Premiere League 2004-5. Mani, this one’s for you. [lol mani had "left" teamliquid a couple weeks earlier]
On July 02 2008 00:47 STiKxSx96 wrote: I pity pro gamers...
Why is that?...
They make a lot of money playing games and they can take it easy after they retire.
not to mention how much ass they can get ... (valid?)
Ya sure the TOP ones do....
but they sacrifice their health and well.. social life? But if thats what they want...!!
Social life? Being out drinking and getting drunk is maybe the one only thing that maybe don't happen so often for these progamers, but having fun with the 30 other people living in the same house together with almost no alcohol involved playing one of their main hobby's (Starcraft) sounds like a dream and a real "Social activity", but then again you are the master of social life so you have to decide.
And health? I've read from guys like Rekrul and other progamers that when they started playing Starcraft in a proteam they actually got a better health and exercised a lot more then what they did before. Seriously, if Idra is telling the truth of 2.5 hours of physical exercises 6 day a week, he is training more then me...
1) Golden mouse! 2) To be the first zerg to prove the old guys can still rock! And the second guy overall, the other one was Nada. 3) To break the bonjwa curse! (kinda)
On July 05 2008 02:55 TrentLane wrote: Man, 3 reasons why he must win!
1) Golden mouse! 2) To be the first zerg to prove the old guys can still rock! And the second guy overall, the other one was Nada. 3) To break the bonjwa curse! (kinda)
4) BECAUSE HE IS A FUCKING BALLER BAD ASS THAT WILL OWN BEST!
I am utterly delighted in his performance versus BackHo. Ridiculous, it's the July from his first golden mouse. I'm so excited, especially in the wake of Luxury's epic fail from 2-0. This at least takes some of the sting away. HWAITING
Ah this is an OSL Final i am actually excited about. The last one was anytime vs nada and we all know who won the golden mouse there. I can't wait to watch july giving his golden friend a nice kiss.
I've heard that he used to be a zvp monster in the old days, but how does he cope with the bisu build? Is there a VOD of him playing against a FE -> Corsair opening?
On July 05 2008 02:55 TrentLane wrote: Man, 3 reasons why he must win!
1) Golden mouse! 2) To be the first zerg to prove the fat old guys can still rock! And the second guy overall, the other one was Nada. 3) To break the bonjwa curse! (kinda)
we know the old guys can win, this is a whole different story here.
I'm actually somewhat concerned about July vs. Best.
When July beat BackHo, it felt more like BackHo was loosing games than July was winning them.
With Best vs Luxury, it seemed more like Best was using amazing play against a very skilled opponant to eke out wins (ok, not in the last game, but in 3 and 4).
Best's play just looked a lot more impressive, even though July won his series more easily.
Still, if July can use harass to prevent Best from really macroing up, I think he has a good shot at winning the golden mouse.
And if he can't, he's screwed.
Edit- why isn't best affected by TLPDizing the post?
Well back in the group stages, July was able to go through his whole group undefeated and Luxury was in his group. Where as BeSt defeated and played very well, Luxury put up a fight and the games weren't nearly as easily won by BeSt as they were by July. And needless to say, BackHo has been playing very well as of late. But i will admit, BeSt's play was very good, just praying for a awesome play in return from july