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Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3191 Posts
August 04 2011 02:45 GMT
#321
Late to the party but that is the best write-up of any player I've ever seen.
SC is like sex. You should play often, but never too hard. And you should only try hard when it matters.
VGhost
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3616 Posts
August 04 2011 02:53 GMT
#322
On August 04 2011 11:34 Jragon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2011 03:19 xarthaz wrote:
On August 04 2011 00:34 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
On August 03 2011 13:34 Ideas wrote:
needs another bump in light of recent announcement of his retirement. truly one of, of not the greatest (considering his influence as a coach), force in brood war of all time.


probably the greatest in terms of thought, although as ver put, T has had some of the greatest thinkers of all time.

IMO Savior is biggest because he took the hardest match up, most gruesome challenge to overcome, and he did it, despite being mechanically handicapped compared to adversaries. But yes, Cheers ILoveOov


Yeah, now where's the great Protoss philosopher?


The closest is Bisu, but his "insight" only applies to one matchup (PvZ) and has proved essentially inimitable. PvT of course has never really been a problem, but PvP is now the flukiest of mirrors (since Jaedong, Modesty, Calm, Hydra, Killer, et al. have demonstrated that it's possible to beat "BO wins") - so we're still waiting.
#4427 || I am not going to scan a ferret.
moargas
Profile Joined October 2010
31 Posts
August 04 2011 03:20 GMT
#323
is he going to get a ceremony like yellow did when he left?
i would like to see boxer troll oov
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8148 Posts
August 04 2011 07:51 GMT
#324
On August 04 2011 11:53 VGhost wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2011 11:34 Jragon wrote:
On August 04 2011 03:19 xarthaz wrote:
On August 04 2011 00:34 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
On August 03 2011 13:34 Ideas wrote:
needs another bump in light of recent announcement of his retirement. truly one of, of not the greatest (considering his influence as a coach), force in brood war of all time.


probably the greatest in terms of thought, although as ver put, T has had some of the greatest thinkers of all time.

IMO Savior is biggest because he took the hardest match up, most gruesome challenge to overcome, and he did it, despite being mechanically handicapped compared to adversaries. But yes, Cheers ILoveOov


Yeah, now where's the great Protoss philosopher?


The closest is Bisu, but his "insight" only applies to one matchup (PvZ) and has proved essentially inimitable. PvT of course has never really been a problem, but PvP is now the flukiest of mirrors (since Jaedong, Modesty, Calm, Hydra, Killer, et al. have demonstrated that it's possible to beat "BO wins") - so we're still waiting.


nal_ra pioneered so many copying strategies for protoss :O. he is the closest there is to an oov or savior for protoss IMO
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TwoToneTerran
Profile Joined March 2009
United States8841 Posts
August 04 2011 08:22 GMT
#325
Reach basically invented protoss macro and used it to thrash Oov a couple of times. Nal_rA invented a lot of PvZ stuff and was like the first PvP master.
Remember Violet.
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-15 04:15:33
January 15 2014 04:11 GMT
#326
Good writeup. Reading Plexus' article on oov then this, they went hand in hand pretty well and tell the tale of a legendary player in BW. Surprisingly enough, I've always thought that macro was oov's specialty seeing as I've always heard he would just win by pure macro, guess that wasn't the complete case lol.

edit: expanding when the opponent least expects it, brilliant strat and it's a good idea(I've done this before with mixed results lol). Didn't realize this was in the BW section and not final edits lol oops XD
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Morbidius
Profile Joined November 2010
Brazil3449 Posts
January 16 2014 07:15 GMT
#327
"When you play, you have to start off with a mind to turn the game into a rape"
Words to live by.
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