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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ks6C7mql.png)  Spotimes Starleague Semifinals Day 1Friday, Sep 04 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/wA1EYiT.png) ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/TkXLjD8.png) BSSCamp Afreeca
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/kYyRpMz.png) ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/581.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/players/92.jpg)  EffOrt vs  PianO
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/1cJypin.png) Best-of-five < New Heartbreak Ridge > < Circuit Breaker > < La Mancha > < Neo Jade > < New Heartbreak Ridge >
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/C7yDBIN.png) + Show Spoiler +Poll: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 1?Yes (6) 86% Maybe (1) 14% No (0) 0% 7 total votes Your vote: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 1? (Vote): Yes
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Poll: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 2?Yes (8) 100% No (0) 0% Maybe (0) 0% 8 total votes Your vote: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 2? (Vote): Yes
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Poll: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 3?Yes (5) 83% Maybe (1) 17% No (0) 0% 6 total votes Your vote: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 3? (Vote): Yes
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Poll: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 4?Yes (2) 40% Maybe (2) 40% No (1) 20% 5 total votes Your vote: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 4? (Vote): Yes
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Poll: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 5?Yes (3) 60% No (1) 20% Maybe (1) 20% 5 total votes Your vote: Recommend EffOrt vs PianO Game 5? (Vote): Yes
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/VFbIPih.png) Will be posted in Small VOD Thread
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Poll: Head?Yolo Terran = Master Race (6) 55% Windows Muta Pro = Master Race (5) 45% 11 total votes Your vote: Head? (Vote): Windows Muta Pro = Master Race
(Vote): Yolo Terran = Master Race
Poll: Heart?Windows Muta Pro = Master Race (8) 57% Yolo Terran = Master Race (6) 43% 14 total votes Your vote: Heart? (Vote): Windows Muta Pro = Master Race
(Vote): Yolo Terran = Master Race
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Really excited to watch this. Piano has been practicing a lot with Zero from what I've seen, and he's crazy good!
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Japan11286 Posts
If there's someone not named Hero who can beat PianO in a Bo5, it's winxp zerg.
PianO transitions into battlecruisers instead of mech.
Probably won't be able to watch live though. 
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expecting effort to take this 3-1 but dont gonna leave Piano so dead afterall Piano been collecting good results atm.
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Whether he wins or loses, PianOvZ is unique and very entertaining to watch (obviously bias zergs beg to differ)
few terrans can emulate his multiprong harass style to perfection which can completely bamboozle any noob or unprepared zerg.
EffOrt usually plays a very defensive 4 base style which run in direct contrast to PianO's hyperaggression that enable to maintain pressure from 2base while simultaneously taking 3rd and 4th, often onstream I see effOrt struggles to deal with his harasses effectively and do not do enough counterplay.
With two HBRs in the mappool it will be interesting to see if EffOrt can adapt in time to PianO's tactics, fighting fire with fire (2hatch muta?) or just simply defend perfectly against his drops/harass. Punish PianO expanding freely behind his aggression, EffOrt would be a step ahead as Piano's transitional mech play is relatively mediocre without the initial advantage
from recent competitive games ZerO has shown to be more experienced and comfortable at dealing with piano's style
personally i want PianO to win so we can avoid a drab ZvZ finals (and more punishment for EffOrt's "muh winXP" attitude)
On September 03 2015 11:37 c3rberUs wrote:
If there's someone not named Hero who can beat PianO in a Bo5, it's winxp zerg.
PianO transitions into battlecruisers instead of mech.
he doesn't really transition to BCs, the BCs are primarily to pressure and scare the zergs into producing excessive scourges/wasting defiler energy so that his dropplay becomes more effective. He can stop making BCs anytime and transition to standard SK or mech.
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Japan11286 Posts
I didn't mean it like that though oops. ^_^ I meant it in jest because it's his signature play haha.
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effort gets the scv,
first blood. 2 rax academy from piano
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wow early speed from effort
doesn't do much and lose all his lings to marines.
not sure if a fast speed was a good idea given the HBR tight entrance.
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2 hatch muta with 2 sunkens.
should stop this marine aggression from piano
piano playing rather safe with troops at home.
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lost 2 mutas cleaning up a squad of marine forces.
4 rax transition from the 2 rax academy
this smells like SK Terran late game.
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the extra rax makes sense considering the map HBR,
effort finds some holes, but piano comfortable with his turrets and wants to push.
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the 4 races are really delaying piano's fact tech.
piano's playing quite well
YES lifted fact, SK Terran hype!
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holy shit piano with 400apm
piano with the dropship elevator, but loses the dropship
effort abusing this map with his mutas
piano now getting mines, reminds me of fantasy style on this map
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defiler dies to 1 mine, delicious
piano with max saturation piano really wants this third base of effort
dark swarm is down with piano with the ylo walk through the dark swarm
third base for effort is drop, double dropships incoming to the main
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piano playing well, putting down his own 3rd CC
as long as he trades efficiently, e should be fine
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not the best goals for the drops, but at least mutas are cleaned up and piano still has map control with this constant aggression.
tank is out, need that AoE
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EPT
PianO in a couple of these games 
He rarely seems to switch to mech, but PianO's SK Terran and M&M drops are outrageously effective
