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[ASL 5] 3rd Place Match: HerO vs Mini - Page 6

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nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15845 Posts
May 13 2018 12:19 GMT
#101
It was weird, both players had no clue what the other was doing for a long time and eventually the better player won, gratz.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
xccam
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Great Britain1150 Posts
May 13 2018 12:20 GMT
#102
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.


It's almost like starcraft is hard, he's been playing for 2 hours, was in a stressful situation facing a possible reverse sweep and doesn't have the fog of war off!
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
May 13 2018 12:20 GMT
#103
goodbye hero. great job~ Hero is going military T_T
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
May 13 2018 12:20 GMT
#104
On May 13 2018 21:17 xccam wrote:
I know it's only the 3rd/4th place match - but if there was any doubt that HerO is THE zerg right now there shouldn't be.

Mini made mistakes, but HerO winning that superb match was just amazing.

Lets keep 3rd World next season please ASL - probably 3 or 4 of the top 5 sets this season were on that map.


Yeah he definitely showed his experience and confidence on game 5, it really shows the difference between seasoned pro vs upcoming ameteur

I feel like he gave up sparkle and did what he had to do on games 3 and 4


This also marks the first 0-2 comeback in all ASLs
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tanngard
Profile Joined April 2011
Norway1325 Posts
May 13 2018 12:23 GMT
#105
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.

You keep forgetting all the small brilliant moves Mini made in that game. Dont be like that. Mini played great under all the pressure. Otherwise he would never had survived as long as he did

Everyone does mistakes in bw. Its a game of priorities. If you choose to focus on only the mistakes, you are missing the other good things the player is doing often simultanously.

Also, you have to realize that Hero was dropping a lot of hydras over those reavers. How is mini going to micro that? Its impossible.

Ty2
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United States1434 Posts
May 13 2018 12:24 GMT
#106
Hero, you magnificent man, you. This was the perfect send off. Amazing! I freaking love HERO!!!!! Jo Il Jang forever!!!!
WriterI feel weird.
razorsuKe
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada2000 Posts
May 13 2018 12:27 GMT
#107
On May 13 2018 21:23 tanngard wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.

You keep forgetting all the small brilliant moves Mini made in that game. Dont be like that. Mini played great under all the pressure. Otherwise he would never had survived as long as he did

Everyone does mistakes in bw. Its a game of priorities. If you choose to focus on only the mistakes, you are missing the other good things the player is doing often simultanously.

Also, you have to realize that Hero was dropping a lot of hydras over those reavers. How is mini going to micro that? Its impossible.




I don't think anyone doubts that Mini played an incredible early game, but when it came down to crisis time and he moved to the 3rd world side his mistakes kept piling up.

I think if he took a moment to just collect his thoughts and focus on 1 goal at that point, he would have taken it with ease.
Instead, he tried to do way too much and ended up splitting up all his actions and letting zerg slowly slip into the 3rd world and take control.
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nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15845 Posts
May 13 2018 12:31 GMT
#108
On May 13 2018 21:23 tanngard wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.

You keep forgetting all the small brilliant moves Mini made in that game. Dont be like that. Mini played great under all the pressure. Otherwise he would never had survived as long as he did

Everyone does mistakes in bw. Its a game of priorities. If you choose to focus on only the mistakes, you are missing the other good things the player is doing often simultanously.

Also, you have to realize that Hero was dropping a lot of hydras over those reavers. How is mini going to micro that? Its impossible.


I'm with golgotha on this one, mini played poorly. To me it seems he rode the very protoss favored maps to a top4 finish and showed a lot of holes in his game. I hope he proves me wrong with a different mappool next season as we need strong newcomers.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-05-13 12:34:55
May 13 2018 12:33 GMT
#109
On May 13 2018 21:23 tanngard wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.

You keep forgetting all the small brilliant moves Mini made in that game. Dont be like that. Mini played great under all the pressure. Otherwise he would never had survived as long as he did

Everyone does mistakes in bw. Its a game of priorities. If you choose to focus on only the mistakes, you are missing the other good things the player is doing often simultanously.

Also, you have to realize that Hero was dropping a lot of hydras over those reavers. How is mini going to micro that? Its impossible.



nah man I ain't hating on mini.He was in a dominant position and he dropped the ball big time. he lost 3 shuttles with reavers inside and he couldn't hold a narrow choke with 5+ reavers and 5+ cannons. Mini completely destroyed Hero when hero tried busting through with drops and mass hydra. slaughtered. mini had time to prepare for the 2nd wave of hydras and the 2nd wave didn't even come with drops. mini gave hero enough time to bring up his 2nd wave and run over the 4 reavers. the 2nd wave was a lot less than the 1st, but that led to a base trade. and then Mini has a chance to kill Hero's base with the most drones, but instead he surrounds a base that is on a ramp where ALL o fhero's hydras are. he goes up and dies. he should have shifted his army to the exposed hatch when he saw all those hydras.

I ain't saying Mini is some sort of idiot or a loser, hell no. He's a great player and definitely deserves top 4. but he objectively made glaring mistakes in this game when he had the dominant position. imo, he was tilted.

edit: he actually lost more shuttles, but the shuttles I am speaking of are the shuttles where he flies over a bunch of hydras...
[sc1f]eonzerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Belgium6505 Posts
May 13 2018 12:34 GMT
#110
On May 13 2018 21:31 nojok wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 13 2018 21:23 tanngard wrote:
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.

You keep forgetting all the small brilliant moves Mini made in that game. Dont be like that. Mini played great under all the pressure. Otherwise he would never had survived as long as he did

Everyone does mistakes in bw. Its a game of priorities. If you choose to focus on only the mistakes, you are missing the other good things the player is doing often simultanously.

Also, you have to realize that Hero was dropping a lot of hydras over those reavers. How is mini going to micro that? Its impossible.


I'm with golgotha on this one, mini played poorly. To me it seems he rode the very protoss favored maps to a top4 finish and showed a lot of holes in his game. I hope he proves me wrong with a different mappool next season as we need strong newcomers.

we have 3 protoss players in the top 4. what do you think ?
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
May 13 2018 12:41 GMT
#111
but damn great game. i love how the crowd reacted when they finally saw the obs.
oxKnu
Profile Joined December 2017
1155 Posts
May 13 2018 13:18 GMT
#112
Man Third World is like the opposite of Fighting Spirit, every game is unpredictable/crazy and sooo entertaining in the end. Mistakes, genius moves, just everything was in it.

Great job on Afreeca for choosing Third World and also Transistor (more tactical map but still awesome).
arbiter_md
Profile Joined February 2008
Moldova1219 Posts
May 13 2018 13:36 GMT
#113
This felt like two separate games played in one. Really nice, although it felt at times like mini was one level bellow. But well deserved victory for Hero.
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Esp1noza
Profile Joined September 2003
Russian Federation481 Posts
May 13 2018 14:02 GMT
#114
Cool games, also want to see theese maps in next ASL seasons, though it looks maps are protoss favoured. But to me games in this ASL more entartaining compared to previous seasons.
BroodWar forever
Jackal03
Profile Joined October 2009
Brazil7469 Posts
May 13 2018 14:05 GMT
#115
What an amazing game, I believe mini did so many small blunders that allowed hero to crawl back and win
BW is back
tanngard
Profile Joined April 2011
Norway1325 Posts
May 13 2018 14:08 GMT
#116
On May 13 2018 21:33 Golgotha wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 13 2018 21:23 tanngard wrote:
On May 13 2018 21:18 Golgotha wrote:
that game was good because mini kept fking up. hero busted through 6 fking reavers behind a choke with like 6 cannons defending. mini somehow lost all his shit to that crap. then mini loses shuttles full of reavers. then mini attacks up a ramp when another base a screen away is wide open. 4 zealots could have taken it out.

You keep forgetting all the small brilliant moves Mini made in that game. Dont be like that. Mini played great under all the pressure. Otherwise he would never had survived as long as he did

Everyone does mistakes in bw. Its a game of priorities. If you choose to focus on only the mistakes, you are missing the other good things the player is doing often simultanously.

Also, you have to realize that Hero was dropping a lot of hydras over those reavers. How is mini going to micro that? Its impossible.



nah man I ain't hating on mini.He was in a dominant position and he dropped the ball big time. he lost 3 shuttles with reavers inside and he couldn't hold a narrow choke with 5+ reavers and 5+ cannons. Mini completely destroyed Hero when hero tried busting through with drops and mass hydra. slaughtered. mini had time to prepare for the 2nd wave of hydras and the 2nd wave didn't even come with drops. mini gave hero enough time to bring up his 2nd wave and run over the 4 reavers. the 2nd wave was a lot less than the 1st, but that led to a base trade. and then Mini has a chance to kill Hero's base with the most drones, but instead he surrounds a base that is on a ramp where ALL o fhero's hydras are. he goes up and dies. he should have shifted his army to the exposed hatch when he saw all those hydras.

I ain't saying Mini is some sort of idiot or a loser, hell no. He's a great player and definitely deserves top 4. but he objectively made glaring mistakes in this game when he had the dominant position. imo, he was tilted.

edit: he actually lost more shuttles, but the shuttles I am speaking of are the shuttles where he flies over a bunch of hydras...

Mini did defended the choke with his reavers. He did it despite the overlords dropping over his reavers, with good probe block and reaver pickups. And how could he have prepared for the 2nd wave when it came only 20 seconds later? By ferrying units over to his own natural? Well maybe, but why not just go for a base trade? He had already bulilt all his gateways on the other side. His gameplan was to dominate there, not to spend half his apm on ferrying units just to defend his natural and main when there are more resources to be taken on the other side of the map.

About those two shuttles he lost by flying them over a returning group of hydras in the middle of the map. They probably had some dark templar in them because Mini was similtanously clearing the overlords in the last remaining base for Hero in the down right corner. He also was microing a reaver at Heros natural. This is multitasking protoss style. Its very unforgiven when it goes wrong, but it is what you have to do.. Hero also did mistakes, but it doesnt cost you that much to lose some hydras vs the cost of losing reavers and dark templar does it? You have to make decions at the fractions of a second. Which means that you cannot just stop up and think too hard about what you should do. Intuition has to take over and you have to, as they say in speed-chess - "play with your hands, not with you head". But sure Mini a did bit more mistakes then Hero. And its why he eventually Hero won the game. But if you were to analyze all the micro decisions that were made by Mini throughout that game, the mistakes get outdrowned by all the good ones. This is why i get triggered by your comment that the "only reason that the game was good because of Mini fking it up". Thats literally what you said.
tanngard
Profile Joined April 2011
Norway1325 Posts
May 13 2018 14:15 GMT
#117
And btw, those two shuttles was sent to an area on the map where hydras could not have reached them. Had they been sent a fraction of a second later they would have been totally fine. Instead of watching over them flying over that small corridor where they are under threat, he instead focuses on microing his reaver at Hero's natural. Its a calculated risk.
Alpha-NP-
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1242 Posts
May 13 2018 14:25 GMT
#118
Who you guys think is gonna win Snow vs Rain?
tanngard
Profile Joined April 2011
Norway1325 Posts
May 13 2018 14:40 GMT
#119
Hero did mistakes too with hydra groups, losing a lot of them kind of unnecassary. But its more unforgiven losing costly protoss units, so that gets more attention when it happens.

Jangbi once said that pvz is like walking on a razors edge all the time. You are playing against the idea of losing, which is scientifically proven to be much harder mentally than just playing to win. Wish more people could appreciate that.
orvinreyes
Profile Joined June 2007
577 Posts
May 13 2018 15:54 GMT
#120
What a great series! One of the best in ASL.
http://youtu.be/LfmrHTdXgK4
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