On September 12 2017 23:49 chuDr3t4 wrote:
Big shoutout to FlaShFTW, I finally somewhat understand TvT tank/drop wars after watching your cast today.

I second that for sure, it was great ^^

Dante08

Singapore4128 Posts

September 12 2017 15:19 GMT

#227

So the TvT was good? I'm abit skeptical since Light's TvT from the last ASL lol

Immaterial

Canada510 Posts

September 12 2017 15:23 GMT

#228

On September 13 2017 00:19 Dante08 wrote:
So the TvT was good? I'm abit skeptical since Light's TvT from the last ASL lol

Definitely worth watching in my opinion, pretty crazy game.

PVJ

Hungary5221 Posts

September 12 2017 15:48 GMT

#229

Its better than a lot of war movies you can watch and shorter too.

FlaShFTW

United States10162 Posts

September 12 2017 15:53 GMT

#230

On September 12 2017 23:49 chuDr3t4 wrote:
Big shoutout to FlaShFTW, I finally somewhat understand TvT tank/drop wars after watching your cast today.

Much love and thank you gor the support!

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

September 12 2017 16:19 GMT

#231

What an utterly amazing final set. So worth watching.

okum

France5778 Posts

September 12 2017 17:13 GMT

#232

High level dropship TvT is so fun to watch.

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

September 12 2017 17:14 GMT

#233

Holy shit OMG amazing last game. Mind looked dead when Rush got that doom drop into his main and killed all his depots to supply block him but he persevered beyond belief. I was watching the resources/supply throughout. He was down what, 30-40 at least? However, he had a huge bank (talking about ~1.7k minerals and ~900 gas) and Rush also had something like 10 dropships which were eating into his army supply so Mind had enough money to rebuild then Rush did that second doom drop which seemed to hurt Mind badly but he cleaned it up and when factoring the dropship into the supply, he had a close army supply.

I feel bad for Rush. Guy played two fantastic TvTs and was so close to winning that game. Must hurt like mad but there can only be one winner and I personally wanted Mind to win. Should be interesting to see him and EffOrt in the group selection ceremony. Really hope Jaedong also wins his group and joins as well. Congrats to both players for some well played and hard fought games (well, EffOrt kinda cruished through due to Lazy's odd first game and Rush falling to hold lurkers twice and completely mistargeting = like my TvZ games haha)

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

September 12 2017 17:38 GMT

#234

Also, someone mentioned dropship play in TvT earlier. When late late game TvT became a matchup where it was a struggle for air supremacy, dropship play fell heavily and was eventually phased out in favour of getting a larger wraith/valkyrie force. After all, if you can control the sky, you can "easily" snipe at weakly defended position and constantly poke around etc... I think it's only in the last year or so that we've been seeing more dropship play though my memory is a bit hazy so I could be wrong here. Hopefully we see a combination of the two going forward. Wraith/valks wars are fantastic to watch imo and just as entertaining as dropship play.

FlaShFTW

United States10162 Posts

September 12 2017 17:45 GMT

#235

On September 13 2017 02:38 BigFan wrote:
Also, someone mentioned dropship play in TvT earlier. When late late game TvT became a matchup where it was a struggle for air supremacy, dropship play fell heavily and was eventually phased out in favour of getting a larger wraith/valkyrie force. After all, if you can control the sky, you can "easily" snipe at weakly defended position and constantly poke around etc... I think it's only in the last year or so that we've been seeing more dropship play though my memory is a bit hazy so I could be wrong here. Hopefully we see a combination of the two going forward. Wraith/valks wars are fantastic to watch imo and just as entertaining as dropship play.

I think what happened was people were like "hey i can kill dropships with wraith/valk! Let me use that instead" and then both players ended up in wraith/valk wars which quickly became a battle of cat/mouse until a big air fight in which one side would end up winning the game. Then it went back to goliath tech (Sharp vs Last i think was when it was shown) where copious amounts of goliaths spread out on the map could end up beating even large wraith fleets. So then players gave up on big air fleets and were back to the dropship game.

Qikz

United Kingdom12022 Posts

September 12 2017 17:55 GMT

#236

That game proved why I love TvT and it's my favourite match. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and it could've ended either way up until the very last mineral. Amazing.

Glioburd

France1911 Posts

September 12 2017 18:04 GMT

#237

On September 12 2017 23:07 The_Red_Viper wrote:
So was the last game actually worth the watch? The poll was a bit biased

Yes, totally

Heartland

Sweden24580 Posts

September 12 2017 18:59 GMT

#238

The last game was great

blade55555

United States17423 Posts

September 12 2017 19:08 GMT

#239

Man can't wait for some good zerg games lol, so far they have been one sided stomps one way or the other except for Larva vs Light 2nd game (which even then was one sided)

wussleeQ

United States3130 Posts

September 12 2017 19:13 GMT

#240

On September 13 2017 02:55 Qikz wrote:
That game proved why I love TvT and it's my favourite match. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and it could've ended either way up until the very last mineral. Amazing.

Grossss. This may have been the one time I have ever seen a tvt that was as epic as this but I almost always try to end my TvT's quickly just because they often times devolve into these and are just too taxing to play