Liquid Plays '09 - Page 5

Light vs Jaedong. Light had just snuck two dropships into JD's main, and then he promptly did this:

In case embedding the time doesn't work right, it's at 19:31. It probably had no effect on the outcome of the game as a whole, but Light managed to stim, and then kill his own marine. It could have been a misclick on a building, but the marine was in the middle of his own army.

Anytime vs HoeJJa on Destination. Anytime started with a normal FE on destination, and Hoejja went (i think) overpool gas. Instead of ling speed, Hoejja went for a burrow rush, and I think zergling speed as well.


(at 4:30)
Anytime already suspected something, because he had a cannon halfway completed. Even so, I think there were 3 probe kills, and mining time lost. Even when he could no longer reasonably attack probes, he had burrowed zerglings in Anytime's main, providing him with information, and probably altering anytime's building placement.

Even if the 3 probe kills didn't change the course of the game, having InfoLings(tm) in Anytime's base for about 5 minutes probably did. Additionally, at 8:52 the lings forced a cannon to cancel, and 30 seconds later got another probe kill (but sadly died in the effort).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwbd1UD1hbE#t=11m30s
(at 11:30)
Later in the game, Hoejja used the same trick again, but this time with lurkers, getting 2 lurkers into Anytime's main. Anytime still didn't have observers at the time, and lost a gateway because of it. While the initial burrow rush was surely the pimpest moment, Hoejja's use of burrow throughout the game was fantastic; killing probes, gaining 5 minutes worth of scouting information, canceling buildings, delaying Anytime's third, and destroying a gateway were all combined into an exceedingly clever strategy.

February 4th, 2009
Winner's League 2009 - Khan vs SKT T1 game 6
JangBi vs fantasy
Medusa

The score is 3 to 2. Khan is ahead. Best and Bisu had already been eliminated. Fantasy is the last hope for his teammates, and facing Jangbi; one of the six dragons whose strongest matchup is PvT.

The game starts without excitement. Jangbi fast expands before gateway to his mineral only natural, and fantasy puts down a factory, keeping 2 SCV's on gas. Shortly after Jangbi's scouting probe is chased out of his base, he puts down a second factory. The first factory researches spider mines and seige mode.

When fantasy's 2 factory push gets to the front of Jangbi's temples, he lays spider mines to protect his push. Without his robotics facility completed, Jangbi can't risk running forward to snipe tanks. Fantasy takes advantage of this and seiges up to start hammering on Jangbi's temples.



Because of the pylon on top of the temples, Jangbi is aware of this, and he moves 4 goons and a zealot up to intercept. While en route, the tanks finish off the stack of 10 temples, granting fantasy unrestricted access to Jangbi's backdoor.



The instant the temples are destroyed, fantasy unseiges, and moves. I drop my jaw in astonishment. Fantasy moved past the ramp! Only pausing to lay 2 mines at the base of the ramp, he moves forward to jangbi's natural with an overwhelming force.



When I saw this, I was stunned, as the full force of his brilliance hit me. He destroyed the temples for the purpose of not using the backdoor. Because Jangbi's dragoons were lured away, Jangbi had chance to stop fantasy's push at a choke point. Jangbi was forced to spend the next four minutes with fully upgraded vultures being rallied to his base.

VOD:


Easily one of the most exciting TvP's I've ever seen, and fantasy's pimp mind fakeout dictated the flow of the game.