The summer solstice is a special day for the entire nation, arguably even more important than Christmas or New Years, and he thought he’d made the most of it... while it lasted. It was about 3 o’ clock when the long walk home started.
The feeling of familiarity as he looked around himself was depressing in and of itself, but paying attention to what he took for granted made it even worse. A few flickers of light, in massive, half-decayed stone buildings, a man weeping on the pavement, curled up around what looked to be a bottle of cheap vodka, but not even a single car in the usually crowded street. He’d just left one of those apartment buildings, and it seemed the fall of the Soviet Union only superficially affected the populace. An average Estonian would stay introverted and miserable day in and day out, whether he was going to work in his fancy, soulless office building or in the lifeless beehives which stood as monuments to the Soviet mentality: If everyone is forced to live equally badly, the populace feels less envious and is thus easier to control. That extensive Soviet architectural work was now a curse; only 22 years of living in this town made this particular section of the city navigatable. He knew that the layout of the buildings was meant to confuse possible Western forces and to make it difficult to take the city difficult by establishing countless kill-zones, but the blatant disregard to the needs of the peacetime citizen was still infuriating.
Finally he finished navigating that concrete jungle, and he reached the artificial channel next to the river that he had to cross. The water was calm, and the trees next to it were beautiful, but the partying people next to it would make him check the newspaper the morning after. 5 people had drowned there this year alone, all drunk, all foolish, all on holidays, and today the death toll would probably rise to a post-independence yearly record. None of the people at the party seemed too concerned with drinking though; everyone drinks themselves to death here. The average Estonian drinks more than the average Brit, and twice as much as the average Swede. It was the best moment to think about relatively pointless things to momentarily forget about these depressing facts of life, get over that damn bridge, and get home. So he wondered about how his love of STX would treat him in the following month, and how he could humorously express his hatred of SKT once more, and for a while it worked. The bridge was just ahead, which marked the halfway point of his miles-long trip. The streetlights went out, but it didn’t matter. It started to rain soon after, yet that didn’t matter as well. The only thing that mattered was STX making it to the playoffs, that would make him happy. Out loud, he wondered, “Am I setting myself up for disappointment again?“ No answer. The only sounds he heard were the rain and the leaves in the rising wind, which, eerily enough, resembled the sound of slashing Dark Templar.
Did it have any meaning? He didn’t know. The only thing he knew was that the party in the Estonian Republic was over. + Show Spoiler +
On June 26 2011 11:12 Elefanto wrote: Hurts everytime i see a banner with Kal towering mighty over everyone, knowing he's slumping hard and probably gonna lose his game
Agreed. It should be Bogus cause he has stepped his game up.
I love when Mustaju makes LR threads. I read his easter eggs all the time.
OH MY GOD MOVIE Cannon behind Modesty's mineral line, at the nat Hatchery completes, Second cannon Force down 2 creep colonys Lings are out, creep colony gets cancelled, 2nd cannon gets canceled Sunken complete
Lair morphing Stargate is warping in, as is citadel Core spinning 4th hatchery at the nat choke 5th, hydra den, and evo are all morphing in Templar tech is up, DT moving out
First corsairs out, get at least 1 kill, Modesty opts for hydra den and fends off a few attacks to the front. DT accompanying some sairs to do some damage, but no ovies go down and it's forced to retreat. Modesty moving out with lots of hydras, movie taking down an ovie, forcing the hydra force to move back and kill the 3 kill DT.
Movie attacking the 3rd at 1, sairs trying to take out the OL's, DT trying to get some damage done, but DT is useless, and Movie loses a sair HT are out now DT taking out drones at the nat, 6 kills before death 4 sairs out, taking out OL's Hydras streaming down towards Movie's nat, 4 cannons total, robotics warping in
Thank you mustaju <3 Modesty has +1 ranged Robotics is up, not sure about what tech he has Shuttle out, problably a storm drop Stream skipping No, 2 zealots 1 DT drop into the main
Shuttle drops a HT at a ledge overlooking the nat, DT in the main, +1 attack not sure how many kills HT just waiting there, Goons being incorporated now 9 kills total, for DT Lurkers out
Shuttle flying towards Modestys main, boarding 2 lots and a DT. The DT takes out 3 drones in Modestys detectionless main. Storms massacre a few hydras near Movies natural.
Snow, why didn't you accept my Facebook friend request, I would've known if it was your birthday today then T.T Fact going up for BByong Marine inside of BByong main Loses the scv that was making the fact CC starting for Bogus I guess that was a forward rax? CC aswell for BByong
2nd fact for Bogus it looks like Add on for BByong, aswell as starport Two vultures for both players, BByong pulling scvs to repair his 2 vultures, 3rd for Bogus Bogus pulls out, 3rd fact for Bogus, machine shop spinning
Lots of vultures for Bogus Acadamy just started for for him aswell First wraith out, pew pew pewing away at a machine shop Vultures massing outside BByong's nat, 1 scv kill for warith, 2nd wraith out BByong has 2 tanks out, and is almost sealed himself in Golaith out for Bogus, first wraith had 1 marine kill, 3 scv Mines are complete 3 facts being added for BByong 4 total
Ebay complete for Bogus BByong manages to keep both wraiths alive Acadamy complete for him aswell Moving out with his vulture tank force, clearing mines Seige lines being setup for both players Bogus expanding to 12
Armory complete for BByong, he's added addon for Starport His vultures engage Bogus' army, he gets forced back Dropship, droped a vulture behind the mineral line of the nat, and 2 more at the main 2 facts being added for Bogus, total of 5 Vultures being annoying, 9 kills for one vulture
6 facts total for BByong, 2 with addon Also trying to expand to 9, Bogus pressuring the expo Bogus added 2 more facts aswell, he is ahead of BByongs count
Wraiths trying to pew pew pew at the tanks, doesn't work +1 complete for BByong No 3rd gas for BByong BByong with 7 facts, and expanding to 6, adding a 2nd starport aswell 4 tanks going to get over run by Bogus' army +1 for both players
Big push in middle crushes BByongs tank line. Where did all these tanks come from? First wraith out for Bogus, pewpews at a tank before a cloaked wraith takes it out. Even bigger push towards BByongs natural gets foiled, bogus forced to retreat.
Vessel tech out for both Wraith out for Bogus Wraith fight, BByong saves his nat SCVs maynarding, right into Bogus' push 141-105 supply Bogus to BByong Wraith of BByong goes down Bogus has 1 oclock, BByong trying to get 5 nat
Tank push towards 6. Both with equal numbers of tanks there, Bbyong expands to 5, Bogus expands to 2. Bogus has a lot biggger army, so BByong gg-s. Bogus highfives his teammates, looks distant.
Leta constructs a factory, SCV at 9. What shenanigans can we expect? With a CJ face, he puts down a starport. Classic spends his time building a factory, Leta moves out with rines and a vulture.
Leta proxying a starport at 9:00. Odd place imo, 6:00 would be better as the rush distance is similar and it's closer to his main in the event he needs wraiths to defend or needs to float it back after it's discovered.
Leta at the bottom of the ramp with vultures and rines Armory for Classic, as well as 2nd fact Add on for starport Scv drill Leta loses a vulture but gets a bunker up First wraith out
No machine shop yet for Classic, Leta builds a bunker and mans it, much to Classics dismay. Cloaking researched, Leta's wraith looks for trouble. No detection for Classic. CC useless.
Acadamy getting setup for Classic, CLOAK Goliath is out. for Classic 2nd wraith incoming Crap, spilt something Leta floats Staport away CC for Leta Bunker taking out a vulture and goliath 2nd fact for Leta
SCV-s building academy continually killed, now tanks under fire. Starport being floated away. Finally Classic builds a scan. destroys the bunker and puts down the natural.
Mines for Classic Leta has tanks setup outside 3 Classic has his around 6 Wraiths coming to poke about in Classic's main Both players on 4 facts Starport from Classic
Goliaths getting shots off on Leta's wraiths, but unable to kill them Out of energy it seems Classic wants to expo to 9 it seems, taking out the control tower tehre Leta taking 9 oclock First wraith from Classic, cloak researching
Classic has a scv at 6 Dropship out for Leta +1 for Classic, attack, as for Leta Engagement at 12 Leta seiges, and takes out alot of Classic's forces Only 2 tanks left Leta cleans up house 6 wraiths go pew pew epw to tanks
Wraith dogfight 6 vs 2 Leta kills of 2, before losing his own Classic with a valk Adding another starport, and 6 facts from what I can see CC at 6 now for him too, looks like expo at 11 aswell Leta taking 1
Wraiths take down the dropships, but Classic loses the main army in a large brawl in the middle. Leta looks decisively ahead if Classic can't do some magic with his wraiths.
A lot more machine shops out for Classic, yet all his wraiths seemingly got destroyed. Small push at 12 again while Classic replenishes his wraith numbers.
8 facts for both players Classic's wraith force gets taken out Engagement at 12 olcock Classic has fewer tanks, but is reinforcing 4 more wraiths coming to harass 1 oclock Goliath forces them away Leta has 1 nat aswell
Classic pushes at 12, takes down a lot of tanks with minimal losses. Dropships fly towards Classic barely defended 11. Goliaths take down a dropship, but losing 11 seems unavoidable. A dropship of Classics gets taken down, both opt for a huge engagement in top middle.
Vultures pressing into Leta's tanks Leta loses his forward seige line 4 dropships worth heading to 11 Leta killing all scvs at 11 2 dropships were lost, getting away CC is still up, floating away Dropship flys overhead of Leta's gols, gts picked off Siege line at 12 again, Leta gaining ground 5 dropships from him
More dropships for Leta to make Classics life a loittle harder. Wraith intercepts, but gets taken down before enough damage can be dealt. The dropships reinforce 11.
Leta used to have 69% tvt as recently as last year. Now it's at 60%, probably cause he's been Flash's whipping boy for the past year. I'd like to see him dominate in this match-up once more.
Wraith trying to snipe a dropship, gets one, wraith dies CC tried to get put up at 12, gets cancelled or destroyed More troops dropping at 11, Leta has no army at 12 though, very little Classic dropping the line, and Leta is pulling troops Classic getting into 1
Classic ignoring 11:00 and going for a breakthrough in the north, supported by 3 dships. He succeeds and Leta brings his forces from the center to try and defend.
1:00 nat under siege. Leta responds by putting 11:00 nat under siege.
154-153 supply Classic-Leta Leta has 4k minerals and 2k gas Classic with 1k minerals around 500 gas 2-2 for Leta Leta expanding to both right side mid expos, top right gets shutdown though Drop on Classic's clumped tanks 3 oclock in danger, almost mined out though
Leta forcing Classic to lift 10. Classic harasses just finished Mineral only at 2,5, Leta adds one at 4,5. Lots of tanks dropped, merely a fraction of Classics initial push remained. Lots of Tank reinforcements arriving to take down 3.
Okay, Leta devoted too much to 11:00. Now he's getting rolled elsewhere. He needs to recall his expeditionary force somehow...but his dropships are occupied defending.
CC at 11 nat goes down 11 is down, 1 is still running for Leta CC at 3 might go down Classic forces CC lift off at 3 More troops getting dropped over 1, Classic going to get cleaned up though it look slike Classic has top left centre expo 2-3 for Leta 1-3 for Classic Leta forces lift at 9
Vultures harass 11, and tanks push towards 3. Dropships nullified at that point because of goliath numbers. Classic apparently rather desperate to do damage.
Leta has a CC at 11 CC in base at 1, and is long distance mining from 3 9 is mining again Vultures get into 11 Classic pressing 3 oclock Leta's dropship fleet dropping over 2 tanks Classic pressing Leta into his nat 11 facts total for Leta, some are lifted though Leta force at 3, gets destroyed by fresh troops of CLassic Classic retaking 11 and 11nat
Classic exploits the fact that Leta didn't destroy his Upper right corner temple and drops lotsa tanks there. Leta looks hosed, Classic has the entire map now.
1oclock is running dry 3 oclock is almost mine dout Leta lost both his middle expos Drop at 1, Leta counter drops, and whatever he dropped was taken out Valk getting shots off on dropships, but goliaths take it out Leta dropped 11 oclock again, Classic counter dropping! Leta is done, gg
Leta's final desperate drop to 11 gets counterdropped and classic steps out of the booth victorious. I haven't seen the STX coach smiling in a long time, so happy to see it now.
Hyvaa's pool slightly slower, lair starts morphing later as well. Otherwise similar, yet Hyvaa gets an expansion down where as Hydra hides his hatchery in his main.
Hyvaa expanding Hydra forming a concave around his entrance Hydra forces Hyvva out Spire morphing for both players I think I saw hatch in base for Hydra
Ling stand off ends with Hydra's superior numbers leading into a breakthrough. Hydra needs to do some damage to Hyvaa's morphing natural or he'll be economically behind. Spire morphing for both, Hydra's slightly faster.
Hyvva got three lings into Hydra's base MORE RUNNING IN All but the original 3 get killed off Small mutas skirmish, within Hyvva's main Hydra's lings get Hyvva's, and the drones at the nat get killed off Hydra's got free reign over the drones
3 lings for hyvaa harass Hydra's droneline for a bit, 3 still remain. Hyvaa looks slightly ahead before Hydra takes down his overlord.Hyvaas's multitasking lacking as he struggles to keep up with Hydras mutamicro Drones go down, Hyvaa is hosed..
Robotics support is up for Snow Shuttle out for Snow, waiting for the reaver now Shuttle reaver out Snow pressing Shuttle's nat Goons coming from behind, Reaver goes down, as does shuttle Snow kills all of Shuttles forces though Probes pulled off the line
Shuttle gets caught severely out of position, but the shuttle goes down. Snows dragoons are more than enough to clean up the rest though, as fangirls go crazy. shuttle GGs.
On June 26 2011 15:30 DarkMatter_ wrote: So this is what it has come to for STX? Calm and Kal are no longer worth sending even for the regular sets, let alone the Ace match?
Don't know about Calm as he didn't appear in the last STX match but Kal was ace even when he lost the regular game last STX match.
On June 26 2011 15:30 DarkMatter_ wrote: So this is what it has come to for STX? Calm and Kal are no longer worth sending even for the regular sets, let alone the Ace match?
Probably saving Kal for Ace? Easier to practice for one match and all.
Horang2 pressuring with his first goon, trying to get a scv Almost gets it away, but a mine kills it Robotics being added Last expanding again to 4, is that mineral only? Yeah it is Obs first
2 gates being added (4) Observer is out CC is complete at the mineral only Citadel is complete, archives just finished warping in now, stargate on the way Ebay is up, turrets being placed everywhere around Last's bases He's on 2 facts and armory is almost up
observer spots the 3rd, arbiter tribunal spotted shuttle picks up some units
Last getting his academy up, he has his armory already
shuttle moving out, heading towards the nat, takes fire from a turret but drops the 2 dts anyway dts kill off the turret, 1 scv down too, comsat being added to the CC
Tribunal is on the way DT loaded up into a shuttle Acadamy is building, Turret gets a shot off, and is in sight DT's get the turret Scanners not yet complete 2 facts being added (4) Marines get the shuttle, with the DT inside Horang2 has a 3rd at his mineral only, 5th and 6th gate being added, forge up and spinning
Starport complete at the 3rd Arbiter is out 3 more gateways on the way, total of 9 Vulture gets into the 3rd, cannon microed to hit the mine as it was being placed +1 for mech, and +1 for toss both attack Horang2 looking to expand to 1, sending a probe there
a train line of speedlots narrowly avoiding 2 mines, they make their way towards Last's third
arbiter flies in and does a small recall, zealots warped in but they don't last long against the tank fire and vultures. goons run down the ramp, they take out some scvs and turrets
tanks shell the goons and they run back up the ramp horang2 taking his 4th and 5th at the NE corner of the map (1 and 2 o'clock)
goons once more assaulting that 3rd, vessel it out, zealots getting into the tanks, but there's not enough of them, goons trying to take out a few more scvs, they're forced back up the ramp though
Did the arbiter get the recall off? Goons and zealots pressing down from the ramp, but get forced out after killing several scvs Nexus at both 1 and 1nat Vulture scouts it 3 forges Horang2 pressing the 3rd again Vessel is out Horang2's goon force getting driven out Last has a scv at 6
horang2 on 12 gateways now with 2 more warping in (his base is very neat lol) bringing the count to 14
last trying to secure that 6 o'clock by building some turrets there emp his the arbiter just as it's about to lead an assault on 3 o'clock again!
zealots walking in, scvs being killed once more, tanks do a flank on the goons though! wow a lot of goons down, looks like Last is hoping to trap this force, and he does, goons are trapped against the wall
14 gateways total for Horang2 1-2 for Last EMP on the arbiter +1 on shields for Horang2 Dropship sniped that was trying to get up to 1 Last brining forces from behind 19 total gateways 123-144 supply Last-Horang2 132-154 Too many gateways to count 1-1-2 for Toss
6 more gates warping in, 19 gates in total for horang2 he's dealing with +2 weaps +1 armor metal
stasis goes off! a large clump of tanks are stasis'ed along with another arbiter wow tanks firing everywhere goons dying! but the zealots are pulling through!
Stasis on the high ground tanks Tons of them On the other side of the high ground, reinforcements getting taken care of 113-142 supply 4 forges? o.o Zealots are in the mineral only WOO fan?! Everything is just rallied down towards Last's corner of the map 67-143
I think horang2 is now on 20 gates, he sends a special task force of zealots to raid Last's 3rd, scv dying there
meanwhile more units are meeting up under the arbiter as they prepare to assault the natural, but it's heavily fortified stasis over 1 tank, horang2 still pumping out large volumes of units
Last losing control of his 3rd base
nat is about to be assaulted Last doesn't have many units he types out Well done Horang2
lol hey man I'm T but seriously you can't fucking blame Protoss for doing that. That Terran(Last) never fucking pushes out of his corner until he killed a few units.
On June 26 2011 15:48 Tenhou wrote: Even though last got 3 early bases but he decided to turtle in his corner of the map.
This game reminded me of Flash's last vP games, especially the one against Best. It seems that if toss doesn't get successfully harassed, they can just macro a terran to death.
On June 26 2011 15:48 Tenhou wrote: Even though last got 3 early bases but he decided to turtle in his corner of the map.
This game reminded me of Flash's last vP games, especially the one against Best. It seems that if toss doesn't get successfully harassed, they can just macro a terran to death.
or if the terran doesnt macro any better. 200/200 terran army is unstoppable
I still can't get used to CJ depending on protoss for most of their wins. T1 zergs are starting to do well all new talent in OZ seems to be P, madness.
On June 26 2011 15:49 Kenpachi wrote: Tiger Toss: the next BeSt?
Best already talked about the differences in style between them. But I still feel Best is more like pure strength and power, he's just a beast esp.in PvT.
EPT
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Modesty
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