Apparently baby only had minefields and at 12 a non-cc building, so no mining base. Shuttle fled to 3 full bases at 789, so had a better econ. Baby should have pressured more after he took down the carriers perhaps?

ComusLoM

Norway3547 Posts

December 20 2010 09:51 GMT

#202

I would love for anyone to be able to explain to me exactly how Shuttle won that...

thopol

Japan4560 Posts

December 20 2010 09:51 GMT

#203

Wow. Serious props to Shuttle for sticking it out and winning.

That game was constant action. It certainly wasn't excellently played, but those long epics rarely are.

EDIT: I think I'd chalk the battles in the middle up to Shuttle bringing in huge amounts of zealots while a lot of the vultures were out of position jockeying around the map to snipe templars. After Shuttle secured the natural at the bottom right he was way ahead in terms of controlled minerals. The battle outside that nat was really close.

StorrZerg

United States13919 Posts

December 20 2010 09:51 GMT

#204

pretty sexy come back
He must have had a decent bank to re macro that army i think. Was pretty sick.

Xinliben

United States931 Posts

December 20 2010 09:52 GMT

#205

Wait shuttle won? I left like 10 minutes ago thinking "wow what bad GG timing from shuttle" and he comes back????
Wow.

KasPra

Estonia983 Posts

December 20 2010 09:52 GMT

#206

This comeback wasn't THAT epic. Shuttle had a large bank anyway and with that many gateways, any protoss could have pumped out a lot of units. After that, Baby just got caught out of position several times or he didn't really care, i dont know :S Looks like Baby didn't do anything after taking down those 3 expos.

infinitestory

United States4053 Posts

December 20 2010 09:52 GMT

#207

On December 20 2010 18:50 BLinD-RawR wrote:

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Waaaaaaay too early to say that.

i don't think so
even boxer vs joyo wasn't back from 5 base vs 1 base iirc

Ryo

8787 Posts

December 20 2010 09:52 GMT

#208

Really gutsy performance from Shuttle

xarthaz

1704 Posts

December 20 2010 09:52 GMT

#209

Woah what a slug fest. Just dishin it out hardcore the entire time

sleepingdog

Austria6145 Posts

December 20 2010 09:53 GMT

#210

I honest to god do not know where all these units where coming from....they were streaming in like from a parallel universe where shuttle had already taken the whole map

Geographer

United States185 Posts

December 20 2010 09:53 GMT

#211

I thought Baby had mining bases from the whole right side once he stormed Shuttle's main, but maybe not. And maybe Shuttle had a ton of minerals and gas stored up because he was able to reestablish a huge base at 7 in no time, then pump zealots for the next five minutes. Baby was slow to transition to vulture from goliaths and never got a good army going after a few huge battles that wiped him out.

Noxide

United States2870 Posts

December 20 2010 09:53 GMT

#212

Baby definitely got cocky and instead of using his full map control and taking over the map he tried to kill off Shuttle with what he had, underestimated Shuttle's macro/micro and lost all his troops there to storms plus the 4 mine daebak.

After that Shuttle got back decent bit of map control and got 3 bases easy and the macro kicked in.

Excellent game.

phosphorylation

United States2935 Posts

December 20 2010 09:53 GMT

#213

btw beautiful OP

hacklebeast

United States5090 Posts

December 20 2010 09:55 GMT

#214

UPS logo was blocking the corner of the minimap so I though for about 20 min "why is shuttle even here? just gg already" and then " WTF WHERE DID THAT ARMY COME FROM! Ahh, he cant win anyway" and then he just won. I don't think I could pick a point where Shuddle went from losing to winning, but I will say that I think his comeback was dependent on the storm+ minedrag on 4 tanks

Vanka

China1336 Posts

December 20 2010 09:55 GMT

#215

Shuttle evened that game by some really great storms (great because baby clumped his tanks...) while his last carriers were dying. He started getting ahead when he secured 3 fresh expansions while Baby was mining out, and great macro won the game from there.