EPT[OSL] Round of 16 - Day 1 - Page 30
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Chimpalimp
United States1135 Posts
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ella_guru
Canada1741 Posts
I was hoping he would win the first game for cushion's sake, but I feel pretty good about his chances against the others. | ||
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QuickStriker
United States3694 Posts
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hyst.eric.al
United States2332 Posts
man's a master of carriers | ||
OneOther
United States10774 Posts
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darktreb
United States3019 Posts
On July 28 2010 22:16 purpose wrote: It feel like it did not matter if Fantasy would have gone for a base trade. If he had done so the carriers would have destroyed the main even faster and those goons would have removed his top expo. Stork had the Island and that would have been to hard for Fantasy to take out before Stork took him out. I agree, there's no way a base trade would have worked out. It almost never works in TvP (try doing a base trade on iccup some time and you'll see how bad of an idea it is), and it especially won't work when P has an island + Carriers (literally impossible to attack something like that after a base trade). Ugh, I really wanted Fantasy to win this. Sadly it turned out to be one of those showcase "Flash would never ever ever ever ever have lost this (from the midgame position) but Fantasy did" games. Fantasy's on the fly decision making is just so many levels below Flash's, oh well. | ||
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OneOther
United States10774 Posts
On July 29 2010 05:43 darktreb wrote: I agree, there's no way a base trade would have worked out. It almost never works in TvP (try doing a base trade on iccup some time and you'll see how bad of an idea it is), and it especially won't work when P has an island + Carriers (literally impossible to attack something like that after a base trade). Ugh, I really wanted Fantasy to win this. Sadly it turned out to be one of those showcase "Flash would never ever ever ever ever have lost this (from the midgame position) but Fantasy did" games. Fantasy's on the fly decision making is just so many levels below Flash's, oh well. yeah, i agree with you. the commentators actually had an interesting discussion about flash and fantasy vs protoss. they were saying that fantasy usually kills the protoss before he actually gets a threatening fleet, but he's weak once protoss gathers a certain number of them. not many protoss dare to go fast carriers (relatively) vs fantasy since his mid-game vulture harass is arguably the best in the world and has an incredible sense of timing. on the other hand, flash doesn't really mind if protoss gets carriers. nobody is better than him at simply crushing the protoss with superior army/macro/upgrades. on a final note, i don't think not one single protoss can use carriers as well as stork does. it's not just his micro, but rather how he manages his carrier fleet in combination with the ground army. he makes the most optimal decisions, always attacking the right places at the right times. it's pretty nuts. | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
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boesthius
United States11637 Posts
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DemiSe
883 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/PtYkH.jpg) Yugioooooooooooooh! Watching Stork eat grapes in action was really classic. I missed that, did that actuall happend? What game? Happy to see Stork doing so well. Stork fighting! | ||
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Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
On July 28 2010 20:36 Emon_ wrote: There were two probes and a shuttle there when the carriers killed it. Maybe Fanta was looking elsewhere. LOVE the two base carriers!!! Sick control, GL in the future Fantasy! STORK FIGHTING!!! I'm pretty sure there was a PYLON already made when Fantasy's barracks was killed. Huge failure if he didn't see that. | ||
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Megalisk
United States6095 Posts
On July 29 2010 08:15 DemiSe wrote: I missed that, did that actuall happend? What game? Happy to see Stork doing so well. Stork fighting! + Show Spoiler [GMS] + | ||
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amazingoopah
United States1925 Posts
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GoodRamen
United States713 Posts
hiya is awesome | ||
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InDaHouse
Sweden956 Posts
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dl2agon
United States473 Posts
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LunarDestiny
United States4177 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/PtYkH.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp103/shmokay/42-youve-activated-my-trap-card.jpg) cheesy. | ||
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purpose
Sweden1017 Posts
On July 29 2010 05:58 OneOther wrote: yeah, i agree with you. on a final note, i don't think not one single protoss can use carriers as well as stork does. it's not just his micro, but rather how he manages his carrier fleet in combination with the ground army. he makes the most optimal decisions, always attacking the right places at the right times. it's pretty nuts. This is so true. What makes Storks Carriers so amazing is his abillity to always make the correct decision at the exact right time. Many other players use their ground force to try and make a brake, and that often fails and they are stuck with only carriers. But Stork dont give away his ground army for free and always use them perfect. Poke when the army is occupied by his Carriers and vice versa, use them to harass expos while his Carriers doing something els etc. Must be so damn hard to decide what to do when your playing vs Storks carrier. Perhaps Flash is the only one who can handle it. | ||
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Cr4zyH0r5e
Peru1308 Posts
Also... just found this stupid thing on youtube and it isn't necessarily accurate (golis shooting missiles @ gateways lol) but it sort of sums up how Stork vs Fantasy went... | ||
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yeti
United States259 Posts
Stork won 5 TV games that night | ||
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