I'm expecting 3-0 for Hydra, but if he loses the first set I think he might go 0-3. Hydra doesn't have the ZvT lategame to compete with Fantasy mech in full swing (then again, other than Soulkey, who does?), but if he plays to his strengths with lots of early aggression and drags Fantasy out of his comfort zone, he should be able to just overpower him--Fantasy's early game hasn't looked remotely convincing for the past few months. On the other hand, Hydra's main weakness is that his ZvT isn't really "complete"; you don't get the sense from his games that he understands the matchup on a truly deep level like Jaedong does, so I feel like Fantasy's best course of action would be to keep Hydra guessing until his mech force is strong enough to force Hydra to commit to macro play. Either way, I think the games will be exciting, but I don't think the series will be close.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

September 02 2011 10:32 GMT

#262

Here we come, here we go, we gotta rock
Easy come, easy go, now we on top
Feel the shot, body rock, rock it, don't stop

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES51228 Posts

September 02 2011 10:32 GMT

#263

COME ON TEAMSPEAK!

Black[CAT]

Malaysia2589 Posts

September 02 2011 10:32 GMT

#264

On September 02 2011 19:31 gngfn wrote:
I'm expecting 3-0 for Hydra, but if he loses the first set I think he might go 0-3. Hydra doesn't have the ZvT lategame to compete with Fantasy mech in full swing (then again, other than Soulkey, who does?), but if he plays to his strengths with lots of early aggression and drags Fantasy out of his comfort zone, he should be able to just overpower him--Fantasy's early game hasn't looked remotely convincing for the past few months. On the other hand, Hydra's main weakness is that his ZvT isn't really "complete"; you don't get the sense from his games that he understands the matchup on a truly deep level like Jaedong does, so I feel like Fantasy's best course of action would be to keep Hydra guessing until his mech force is strong enough to force Hydra to commit to macro play. Either way, I think the games will be exciting, but I don't think the series will be close.

Zero.

HighTemper

Canada3867 Posts

September 02 2011 10:32 GMT

#265

What time is it?

IT'S BW TIME!!!!!!!!

Doraemon

Australia14949 Posts

September 02 2011 10:33 GMT

#266

i am so excited, haven't watched bw for a while

Sfumato

Italy23 Posts

September 02 2011 10:33 GMT

#267

hydra got this yo

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

September 02 2011 10:33 GMT

#268

Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

gngfn

United States1726 Posts

September 02 2011 10:34 GMT

#269

On September 02 2011 19:32 Black[CAT] wrote:

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Zero.

I thought about that, but I couldn't recall any actual games between the two that came down to a lategame slugfest. The recent games that come to mind all involve Fantasy doing no-units or one-of-everything and just getting smashed by Zero in under ten minutes. Zero definitely does have really strong anti-mech play in general, though.

Hyde

Australia14568 Posts

September 02 2011 10:34 GMT

#270

Ohh came just in time
Nice crowd tonight :D

sixfour

England11062 Posts

September 02 2011 10:34 GMT

#271

On September 02 2011 18:51 RowdierBob wrote:
How is Pathfinder still in the OSL map pool? I mean they've had precedent by axing Demon's Forest back in the day. Pathfinder is just an auto-loss for the Z unless the Terran does some drastically dumb.

this is fantasy we're talking about though, he could go bio or something