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It was awesome really.
And i'm glad someone finally did this. I was really intrested in it. since i joined the scene(around the time Flash one the OSL) Terrans owned the zergs everywhere (+ZvT was my worst mu) which made me think TvZ is way easier than ZvT. I'm glad i have some stats to look at now. That 38% period is just insane, if you consider that starcraft is known as the most balanced RTS ever. Zergs are doing well against T for now, fortunately.
Altough i think you made a mistake:
Terrans achieve 71:57 (44.53%)
(probably you counted it as 57: 71)
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graet article, it's nice reading about starcraft history
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Awesome post! TY! Zerg ftw.
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Very interesting, thanks for the article!
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Thanks for the translation!
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WoW that is just insane.. thx for the translation =D
Nice read a little history for us.
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not even a mention that boxer brought back to valk ? 
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On May 30 2009 01:44 gophillies3939 wrote:not even a mention that boxer brought back to valk ?
Boxer didnt bring back the valk, it was just the build Terrans used on Plasma, where Terrans used valks to deal with 2hat muta. Midas or Mind were the first to use it, then Fantasy adapted the build to work on all maps by dship play and caused mech resurgence.
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On May 30 2009 01:54 samachking wrote:Show nested quote +On May 30 2009 01:44 gophillies3939 wrote:not even a mention that boxer brought back to valk ? Boxer didnt bring back the valk, it was just the build Terrans used on Plasma, where Terrans used valks to deal with 2hat muta. Midas or Mind were the first to use it, then Fantasy adapted the build to work on all maps by dship play and caused mech resurgence.
I remember the Boxer vs Baxter games in GOM where Boxer did that, and Tl had some LOL WTF posts. Then afterwards Fantasy used it in Starleagues to beat zergs down.
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interesting post. pvt pls?
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very nice work !
TvZ was and will always be the most interesting match up (boxer vs yellow ftw)
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Awesome post man! Really enjoyable to read and very well written.
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Valks have been used sporadically since late 2007. Light vs jaedong, nada vs jaedong and I believe 1 upmagic game also. Boxer used valks as a 1 base counter to mutas, I think that was new, but overall valks vs mutas isn't.
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There's a difference between using valks and standardizing valks, like how fantasy has done. Nowadays, every tvz game I can recall has use of Valkyries, even if only in the beginning to deter mutas while the m&m ball is strengthened and the tech tree is climbed. I can only think of casy vs roro on outsider and that's because he used old school one base play, rather than the 2 base macro style that has become the standard for modern tvz.
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you really can't think of any recent tvzs that don't include valks?
Do you need a list?
other then that I agree with you, fantasy brought out the ballerness that is valks.
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EPT
