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EGMachine
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
United States1643 Posts
September 20 2008 06:31 GMT
#981
ohh yea greg, you think your so fucking smart? sometimes starcraft isnt all about outplaying your opponent, did you ever think of that? Fucking retard, Backho is a progamer, does he have micro/macro/multitasking? Yes but comperable to a 4 year old girl with no hands. He wins games, see greg this game isnt all about being a moreskilled/smarter player than your opponent, their are some gamblers out their whos who strategy is to have no strategy. Someday maby youll grow a fucking brain and figure out why Chile is ranked 2nd on overall nation's in gosugamers. Sometimes you gotta just roll the fucking dice.
I'm like, the coolest
ReiKo
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Croatia1023 Posts
September 20 2008 07:22 GMT
#982
@ Idra

I was quoting Nytefish , not you...next time pay more attention. Thanks.

And about "allin", it wasn't allin strategy, but I dont want to argue about that one with you because you will be hard nut to crack anyways, but if it was allin, don't you know that Protoss needs to gamble a littlebit to maybe...I don't know... win PvT? What do you want, him to sit at home and wait for your 2-2 200/200 metal?
Juanpe
Profile Joined May 2008
Uruguay283 Posts
September 20 2008 07:29 GMT
#983
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 20 2008 10:42 IdrA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 20 2008 02:23 ReiKo wrote:
On September 20 2008 00:07 Nytefish wrote:
On September 19 2008 23:07 ReiKo wrote:
And his mechanics were pretty decet, his overall use of DT's and shuttle, and macroing at home, and geting exp and spotting your reactions , I mean, it was enough to win vs you.



Honestly it's not difficult to appear to have good mechanics in a 10 minute game.


That's weird, because Idra started talking about his mechanics that he even didn't see (TvZ), basing his opinion from his PvT game... how come you didn't comment on that?

who said my comment was based off that game?

and yes, it was an allin. he was 2 base rushing arb vs 3 base, and he attacked. had the attack failed he woulda been left with less bases than his opponent pvt, which is pretty much instaloss, and he had less production than normal cuz he invested in temp and arb tech.
if the attack failed, he would lose. thats the definition of an allin.


On September 20 2008 15:31 Machine[USA] wrote:
ohh yea greg, you think your so fucking smart? sometimes starcraft isnt all about outplaying your opponent, did you ever think of that? Fucking retard, Backho is a progamer, does he have micro/macro/multitasking? Yes but comperable to a 4 year old girl with no hands. He wins games, see greg this game isnt all about being a moreskilled/smarter player than your opponent, their are some gamblers out their whos who strategy is to have no strategy. Someday maby youll grow a fucking brain and figure out why Chile is ranked 2nd on overall nation's in gosugamers. Sometimes you gotta just roll the fucking dice.


On September 20 2008 16:22 ReiKo wrote:
@ Idra

I was quoting Nytefish , not you...next time pay more attention. Thanks.

And about "allin", it wasn't allin strategy, but I dont want to argue about that one with you because you will be hard nut to crack anyways, but if it was allin, don't you know that Protoss needs to gamble a littlebit to maybe...I don't know... win PvT? What do you want, him to sit at home and wait for your 2-2 200/200 metal?




Btw, poor Fenix... hope he can still go to S. Korea...
C+ rank Terran training harder every day to be like ChinaTTTT :D~ Lee Jae Dong phan o(∩_∩)o <3 <3 <3
EGMachine
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
United States1643 Posts
September 20 2008 07:31 GMT
#984
Reiko i think what hes getting at is he should instead of playing 2 base protoss vs 3 base terran he should have maby, iono had more bases than a terran is a good start? Maby like 5 base protoss vs 3 base terran? that forces the terran to move out and then protoss just attackmoves cuz its all they have to do and they win. Btw greg im switching to protoss a week before usa finals O_O be afraid, be very very afraid.
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AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7454 Posts
September 20 2008 07:35 GMT
#985
Machine, if you play dino, don't lose.
Jaskwith
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States197 Posts
September 20 2008 07:39 GMT
#986
Really need to change your player...its so shitty. Its realy fucking annoying trying to watch your entertaining videos, and they keep crappin out becasue your player is a piece..I mean just youtube it for fucks sake..
sMi.jaSK
frs.
Profile Joined July 2008
Finland9 Posts
September 20 2008 11:15 GMT
#987
The Dan Duo has brought commentating to a higher level and I have never enjoyed watching VODs this much thanks
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
September 20 2008 12:20 GMT
#988
lol @ Idra.That you can win every single macro game will never mean that you are a better bw player. Wins are the only things that count, even in macro era, and by that only relevant measure, you lost, you didn't play safe enough or wasn't prepared for his strategy.


I hate people like you who are watching a replay, see one player win comfortably, but still shit talk about him because his minerals went over 4K in a game which he easily controled thanks to better strategy...
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
ReiKo
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Croatia1023 Posts
September 20 2008 12:31 GMT
#989
I supose White Ra's games were all all in's vs Idra...
NonY
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
8748 Posts
September 20 2008 15:01 GMT
#990
I think LemOn/ReiKo are forgetting what thread they're in when they say wins are what matter, not how you win. The Spirit VODs are about tryouts. Successful progamers must have a strong foundation of mechanics. Even your god DLee said that the reason upmagic didn't make it was because he was winning games purely off strategy and didn't have the S-Class mechanics to carry him when he needed them. Strategy can be fixed from one game to the next. Mechanics can take months to develop and perhaps they'll never come. If you are unable to spot good or bad mechanics, perhaps you should consider listening when a progamer tells you.

Now, if we could all let the celebration of Artosis's gr9 AMAZING VODs continue...
I'm very much looking forward to all the RO8 games

PS: + Show Spoiler +
Watch Fenix's game against IdrA and do this exercise carefully: Copy his build order up to the point when he makes the DT drop, and then just ignore the shuttle and continue to macro. Come up with the best build possible that continues to have the same amount of offensive/harrass units at the same time Fenix has, but create the best economy and any surplus units you can. I'd wager that in one practice session (~3 hours?) a C player could utterly destroy Fenix's macro in that game. A prospective progamer's macro shouldn't drop below C level just because he's controlling some offensive units at the same time. Now consider how often a TvZ player has to control his units and macro at the same time...
"Fucking up is part of it. If you can't fail, you have to always win. And I don't think you can always win." Elliott Smith ---------- Yet no sudden rage darkened his face, and his eyes were calm as they studied her. Then he smiled. 'Witness.'
ReiKo
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Croatia1023 Posts
September 20 2008 15:24 GMT
#991
Well, Fenix's build wasn't macro oriented, he was hoping that his DT drop will do enough damage to get some time and distract Idra and there get his chance to win a game. I don't see a point following his BO and then not using DT's and Shuttle, it has no sense, he put all his hopes on mechanics (that Idra spit on, because he lost ) and of factor of suprise (Sun Tzu said himself that suprise is sharper than any sword , so who are we to say it's "all in strategy").

Protoss must gamble. Most of Protoss "high win" openings are somewhat gambling. When I play Protoss I feel like gambling, because I know if i fail I will suffer bad from my mistake, but if I do it right, I know I will make good profit of it.

Let's just say that if one choses Protoss and goes strategy that is somewhat "suprise" ( even with that, if you are "progamer" you shoud scout it) and he executes it right and do well in other areas of game while doing it, there is no reason to insult his mechanics.
d1v
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Sweden868 Posts
September 20 2008 15:55 GMT
#992
I think that the Fenix vs Idra game showed the problems both players are having. While Fenix probably knew, that he didn't have the mechanics to outplay/match Idra in late game, Idra didn't sufficiently scout Fenix out. However, as Nony said, Fenix has to show more than "intelligent" strategies to get picked, because on another day, Idra might have scouted the strategy and then it would have been insta-GG..
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wswordsmen
Profile Joined October 2007
United States987 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-20 16:57:36
September 20 2008 16:50 GMT
#993
I was wrong. Idra didn't scout the DT tech. He still only lost because he forgot a couple turrets.
aTnClouD
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Italy2428 Posts
September 20 2008 17:29 GMT
#994
I think both tactics and mechanics are hard to achieve and are as difficult and important in practice. The evolution of the tactic is understanding the opponent and put as much stress and pressure you can on him using every single one of his flaws. Something which can't be done changing your build from one game to another.
I was the kind of player that would only feel comfortable with macro builds and practiced myself on the same solid builds over and over again without thinking too much at abusing opponents' builds flaws. Just maxing as fast as possible and roll my opponents over and over again while having the whole map. But this doesn't work against good players. When I began playing a little more smartly I started winning significantly against decent players.
In the end the conclusion I got from this is that if someone wants to practice seriously to have good results he just needs to work hard on every aspect of the game at the same time, trying to win every game in the fastest way he can. Of course some people could hit walls on certain things and stop their improvement because they have left behind some basic stuff while emerging in other aspects, but well not everyone is supposed to have the amazing learning abilities of Flash.
And btw I don't really think Fenix lacks mechanics. He can macro pretty good while attacking and expanding at the same time. He rather seems the kind of player who can't manage too well to integrate the thoughts into his standard play and vice versa. But well he is young and his multitasking has still plenty of room for growth, so I don't really get along with the Fenix bashing here, even tho I still think he is quite clueless pvz :p
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NonY
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
8748 Posts
September 20 2008 17:32 GMT
#995
On September 21 2008 00:24 ReiKo wrote:
Well, Fenix's build wasn't macro oriented, he was hoping that his DT drop will do enough damage to get some time and distract Idra and there get his chance to win a game. I don't see a point following his BO and then not using DT's and Shuttle, it has no sense, he put all his hopes on mechanics (that Idra spit on, because he lost ) and of factor of suprise (Sun Tzu said himself that suprise is sharper than any sword , so who are we to say it's "all in strategy").

Protoss must gamble. Most of Protoss "high win" openings are somewhat gambling. When I play Protoss I feel like gambling, because I know if i fail I will suffer bad from my mistake, but if I do it right, I know I will make good profit of it.

Let's just say that if one choses Protoss and goes strategy that is somewhat "suprise" ( even with that, if you are "progamer" you shoud scout it) and he executes it right and do well in other areas of game while doing it, there is no reason to insult his mechanics.


It doesn't matter if a build is macro-oriented or not. It can still show good macro or bad macro. Here I tried Fenix's build and did much better macro while keeping the offensive attacks at least as fast: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=6389&name=k vs Delta Squadron.rep

2 DT drop + shuttle travel vertically: faster by 10+ seconds
2 HT drop + shuttle: faster by 10+ seconds
1 Group goons + 1 group speed z's + 4 HT drop attack at front: faster by 15+ seconds

And the main thing is that, on top of that, I fit another Nexus in (to the min only) and more probes. My supply is soaring above Fenix's. I could continue to make the same amount of units and have a surplus to expand, tech, upgrade, build cannons, etc. It is equally as good or better than what Fenix did in every way and that's because it had better macro.

So I was saying that any C player could have figured out the build I did in this replay without much effort (a few hours in single player, max). And any C player can macro like that, so long as they don't have to micro at the same time (the shuttles and templars). Therefore, Fenix's macro drops below C level when he has to control 1 shuttle for harrass at the same time. I don't know what Sun Tzu has to do with anything, but I can tell you who me and IdrA are to say it's an all-in strategy. We are MUCH MUCH better players than pretty much everyone on this forum, and IdrA is a PROGAMER.

It's fine for players to gamble once in a while, but that has nothing to do with this discussion of Fenix's mechanics. No matter what build a player chooses, he can make it better or worse with his macro/micro. Just because Fenix chooses a high-risk, gambling "strategic" build does not mean that his mechanics can't be judged.
"Fucking up is part of it. If you can't fail, you have to always win. And I don't think you can always win." Elliott Smith ---------- Yet no sudden rage darkened his face, and his eyes were calm as they studied her. Then he smiled. 'Witness.'
ReiKo
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Croatia1023 Posts
September 20 2008 17:46 GMT
#996
But it does means his mechanics can be insulted and spit on it, even if you lose from player and his mechanic that you spit on?

It's Idra's ridicilous explanation why he is lost, ofcourse it's hard to say that other player was just better that game... but I supose blaming on strategy is always OK. Even so, if someone on like Idra says it's "all-in" shoudn't it be littlebit contradicotry? I mean, if you think you are "very high level" and die from "all-ins" that bassicly all real progamers wait because they will scout it, defend it and then punish it?

It's like, when I play motw Luna the Final on iccup, PvP and player goes 3 gates vs my tech and I lost and after that I cry that he went "all in". No, I failed to scout it, I failed to defend it, he did exploit my tech, and he deserved to win. EOD.

Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-20 19:58:58
September 20 2008 19:58 GMT
#997
Reiko what are you on?

All Idra said is he didn't lose to the mechanics of Fenix, he lost to the build.
He didn't say he was "very high level" or even that he was better than Fenix.
All these posts about "all-ins are as good as macro wins"... Idra hasn't disagreed with that statement.
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violett
Profile Joined July 2007
Germany143 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-20 20:10:56
September 20 2008 20:08 GMT
#998
idra just played to risk, late scouting, not enough turrets, no unit split.
he only focused on his perfect macro

if he would had split some sieged tanks on cliff he wouldnt had lost the whole game on this attack, only some scv and maybe the natural expand.

u could also say,
that a C player could have defended better than idra.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
September 20 2008 20:13 GMT
#999
dinot vs nony next woo.
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
September 20 2008 20:36 GMT
#1000
I want what reiko is on

Just because you failed to scout it and screwed up defending it doesn't mean it wasn't all in. If I get 8 rax bunker rushed from the middle of python and lose to it because I didn't see it it doesn't change the fact it's an all-in strategy. However you justify your loss doesn't change anything. "EOD"
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