On July 01 2012 16:10 jaQi wrote: I don't know much about sc2, can someone explain to me why Stork lost? He had 3 bases, so do Zero. His army lookes really strong, but Zero defended it easily with some lings and roaches?
Zero got to take four bases and rush to hive completely unmolested, and made a bunch of spines. By the time Stork broke the spines, Hero had ultras, cracklings, and neurals. Neural parasite is a really good spell against Tripods without templar or immortals backing them up. But Stork had lost before he even moved out. Even if he killed the base and Hero's army, Hero could've just made another army and killed Stork's, then retake the 4th and get a 5th while he was at it. He was so far ahead that the battle was practically a formality.
He did handle the battle pretty well, though.
Meh, both sides didn't handle the battle great. Zero shouldn't have led with his banes instead of the ultras and stork should have never allowed that many banelings to get close to his army. If he forcefielded properly he could have shot down a lot more before the ultras broke the FFs.
In the oOOoOphidian stream, they showed the engagement that likely inspired that build from Zero.
But Symbol/Parting was a long, back-and-forth and very even game up until that point. That game was Stork playing NR15 and wondering why he lost so bad. Lame.
damn that looked sick as shit. wow. ima try this next time i see mass toss deathball!
Note the clock and the creep spread, too. Parting literally could not take a 4th because it was creeped up, and couldn't attack because Symbol had 100% map vision. Symbol completely out-played Parting in every way, even though Parting played really well himself. I think he reinforced with like 150 lings at one point. I didn't think you could have much better macro than other pros in SC2, but Symbol does.
Note too, that Zero didn't have half that much creep despite not be pressured at all. SPL is improving, but still has a ways to go to catch up to GSL players (though Symbol is really good, he ended that day on a 14-game winning streak).
zero was poking fun at sk for being a hotshot despite zero having a close or better winrate as zerg in sc2 and mostly about sk's inability to give good postgame interviews
also the commentators made fun of flying's theme song
No queens, no third... blue zerg is fucked. Is he building a spire in his nat? He shouldn't have fought there, he just gave the hydras an excellent concave for free :/
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